Carroll County GaArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEBRUARY 1882 February 1882 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 April 4, 2007, 3:48 pm The Carroll County Times February 1882 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia for FEBRUARY 1882 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 3, 1882 NEIGHBORHOOD News The Franklin News says that on Tuesday, the 17th inst., Mr. C.W. Furlow, while feeding Mr. Isham Daniel's gin, attempting to remove the motes, got his right hand caught and terribly lacerated. ---- Mrs. Drucilla York, one of the mother's in Israel, died last week in Marietta in her 85th year. ---- Mr. W.R. Gignilliat of Darine died in Marietta in his 67th year. ---- Married in Cedartown on the 22nd ultimo, Mr. Geo. Bobo to Miss Mattie West. ---- LOCAL News Mrs. Fisk of Minnesota is on a visit to her sister Mrs. E.W. Grow and will remain South during the winter. ---- WHITESBURG News Last Wednesday morning, the 25th of January, Mrs. John W. Dunkin was as well as usual, when she got up and performed her domestic duties, but between breakfast and dinner, she was taken with something like heart disease. Dr. John Brown was sent for, but no relief could be given. She died in a few minutes. She leaves two precious little boys and a heart-stricken husband with other relatives and friends to mourn her loss. ---- On Saturday morning, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, wife of Rev. J.R.T. Brown, died after a long and severe spell of sickness. She was carried on Sunday to Coweta county and buried at Macedonia church. "If death my love and me divide, Thou dost not Lord my sorrow chide, Or frown, my tears to see, Redeemed from death and grief and pain, I soon shall find my love again, Within the arms of God." ----- STRIPLING'S CHAPEL News Mr. Hiram Hagan has bought a half interest in the saw mill of T.M. Chandler. ---- CURTIS News Mr. W.J. Reeves of Clayton county, who has been visiting his brother Mr. G.T. Reeves, left for his home Friday. ---- Married at the residence of Elder Isham Hicks, on the night of the 26th ultimo, Mr. M.T. Preast to Miss Lizzie E. Peace. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 10, 1882 STATE News Capt. W.A. Austin, an old citizen of Cobb county, is dead. ---- Dr. N.L. Angier of Atlanta is dead. He died suddenly at his home in that city on the 2nd inst. The immediate cause of his death is said to have been paralysis of the heart. ---- Wiley Ridding, the well known negro desperado, was killed at Fairburn on the night of the 2nd inst. by Joe Brantley. The first shot stopped him and the second killed him instantly. (note that this is later retracted) ---- NEIGHBORHOOD News Capt. John Hogg of Troup county is seriously ill. ---- From The Franklin News of the 1st, we learn that that Jackson Mills on the Chattahoociee, 7 miles south of Franklin, was burned on the night of the 29th. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The Mills were the property of the estate of Thomas Owensby, and valued at $1200. ---- Mr. Z.B. Blalock, a well known citizen of Fayetteville, died on paralysis on the night of the 26th of January. ---- LOCAL News Mr. M.J. Baxter has bought the J.J. Juhan place in the eastern part of town. ---- J.J. Juhan who has been confined to his room for several weeks and who has been suffering from a stroke of paralysis, we are glad to see is up and about again. He requires the aid of a crutch and stick to enable him to get about, but we trust that 'ere long, he will be able to dispense with these. ---- CURTIS News Grandma Kelly, mother of Capt. T.M. Kelly, is very low and it is not thought that she will live. She is very old, being eighty. ------ Mr. Isham Hicks, who is now 81 years of age, says that the freeze of last Monday night is greater than he remembers seeing in years. ----- At this writing, aunt Eleanor Hicks, wife of elder Isham Hicks is very sick. ---- BUFFALO News Mr. James Michael is very low. ---- Uncle Johnnie Wyatt is on the sick list again. ---- Allen Gay, colored, who got his leg broke at Rev. John Bonner's saw mill some two or three weeks since, is in a very bad condition yet. ---- Uncle Tommie Steed was married last Thursday night to a widow of 65 in Meriwether county. We wish Uncle Tommie may yet live a hundred years. (note that the marriage location is later reported to have occurred in Randolph County, Alabama) ---- DEATH OF AN OLD AND WELL KNOWN CITIZEN Died at his residence, five miles southeast of Bowdon, on the 7th inst., John B. Word Sr., aged 86 years, one month, five days. The deceased, more familiarly known as "Uncle Johnnie" Word, was one of the oldest and best known citizens of the county, having moved to Carroll in the year 1836. Since that time he has lived at the same place where he died, and was buried. For forty odd years, he was a regular attendant upon the session of the superior court and the writer heard him say some two or three years ago, that up to that time, he had never missed a single session. The deceased was a man of generous and noble impulses, and has many friends in this section of the state, who will drop a tear to his memory. For over 60 years he was a deacon and leading member in the Baptist church. While he has gone, according to the course of nature, his deeds, as all men's do, still live after him. He has living, more than a hundred children and grandchildren and they constitute some of our very best citizens. ------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 17, 1882 ED LONG INTERVIEWED "Do you know any news" said a News reported yesterday to Mr. Ed Long, mail agent on the Carrollton road. "Yes, I've got a good many stories I heard a few days ago which is being rolled beneath the tongues of the Carrolltonians just at present". "Good, let's have it." "Well, George Sharp is a very clever farmer living about five miles from Carrollton whom everybody knows and likes. About seventeen years ago he was plowing in his field, when it occurred to him that he had a bag of gold and silver on his person that he ought to hide to keep the Yankees from getting it. Accordingly, he went to an old stump near by and placed the bag in it, covering it over with rocks. Time went on and Sharp forgot all about having secreted the gold until a few weeks ago, when he had a dream one night about the occurrence, in which he saw the same stump and bag. Next morning, he bolted for the spot and there, just as he had left it seventeen years ago, the bright shining gold and silver loomed up before his astonished gaze. The bag had decayed, but tthe money was there, untouched. ------ STATE News A.J. Strond of Buchanan died on the 2nd ist. ---- The Franklin News of the 8th inst., announces the death of Dr. Joseph M. Lane, an old citizen of Heard county. Dr. Lane was of distinguished lineage, being a nephew of Gen. Joe Lane of Oregon and a brother of Gov. Colquitt's mother, thus being the uncle of the Governor. The News in noticing his death says: " He was worthy of his high lineage. He ever took a zealous interest in everything that concerned the public welfare and is fellow citizens have frequently shown their appreciation of his ability and his integrity by placing him in offices of trust. His voice will be heard in the public councils no more. But while the loss sustained by the public will be deeply felt, it is as nothing compared to that of those who knew him in the nearer relationship of home. Their loss is immeasurable, irreparable. We can but commend them to the source of all consolation. " ------ The report of the killing of the negro desperado Wiley Redding at Fairburn, turns out to be all a hoax. ----- COWETA County News Mr. John H. Hyde and Miss Victoria Mann are married. Parson H. Jones did the talking and now they are the happiest couple out. ---- Uncle Jeptha Davis had another paralytic stroke, which doubtless, will take him across the dark waters of death. ---- RANDOLPH County, Alabama News Married, at the residence of Rev. J.P. Shaffer in Roanoke, Ala. on the evening of the 2nd inst., Mr. Thomas Steed of Carroll county to Mrs. S. Truett of Roanoke, Jev. Shaffer officiating. ------- LOCAL News Married last Sunday evening, the 12th inst., at the residence of Judge J.C. Benson, Mr. George P. Camp to Miss Hassie Benson, Rev. W.W. Roop officiating. ---- Married on the 8th inst., near Villa Rica, at the bride's father's, by J.D. Stone, Esq., Miss Martha C. Dyer to Mr. John Hunter of Alabama. ----- As will be seen by a notice of Uncle Tommie Steed's marriage taken from the Randolph County, Alabama News, he was married in that county and not in Meriwether county, Ga. as one of our correspondents stated last week. ----- The many friends in this community of Ezra Curtis Garrison of Henderson, Texas, will regret to learn of his death on the 6th inst. at his home in that state. One of his friends in this place has written a beautiful tribute to his memory which we will publish in our next issue. ----- WHITESBURG News Married Sunday, February 12 by John Orear, Esq., Mr. Joseph Dunkin to Miss Sallie Moore. ----- Mr. John Houseworth has been quite sick for some days. Dr. Long of Newnan has been attending him and it is throught he has taken a change for the better. ---- CURTIS News That grim monster, Death, has been using his sickle in our community for the last few days. Grandma Bell, an old lady, who has been here for one century, died the 13th inst. at 6 o'clock a.m. She was the mother-in-law of our excellent citizen, James A. Boatright. --- Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley died on the 13th inst. at 1 o'clock a.m. of heart dropsy. ---- Being requested, I shall write a short obituary of Grandma Bell and Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley next week. They were both very old ladies. They were buried a the cemetery near Mr. T.A. Jordan's. ----- We have a large amount of sickness in this community now. Mr. J.M. Easterwood has two children very low with pneumonia. ---- Grandma Wilson, mother of Mr. Henry R. Williams, has been quite sick. ---- We regret to learn that Mr. Ezra McCalman, while working with a young mule at her brother George McCalman's last Tuesday, had his right leg broken just below the knee. Since the above was put in type, the sad news has reached us of the death of Mr. McCalman. He died Wednesday evening and Dr. Watkins, his physician, says his death was caused by congestion of the lungs. ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 24, 1882 STATE News From the Cedartown Advertiser - - - - A rather sorrowful visitation was that which came to old man Coffee Williams, living in Young's district in this county. Within the space of one month, he has lost by death every member of his family with him, which includes his wife and four grown children, one girl and three boys. They all died from the fever and when all were striken in so short a space of time, not knowing fully the nature of the disease, the neighbors became alarmed, lest an epidemic was about to seize upon the community. ------- LOCAL News Mrs. Ada Stone of Coweta county, one of the heirs of the Broadnax property near here, has petitioned the Superior court for a division of the same, and Judge Harris has appointed T. Spurlock, W.O. Perry, V.B. McClure, T.H. West and Jesse Robertson to survey and equally divide into five parts, the Broadnax plantation, just northeast of town. It is very likely that all the parts will be for sale, from what we can learn. ----- From Mr. John W. Tomlinson of Haralson county, we learn that the wife of George Goggin, living near Buchanan in that county, committed suicide on the night of the 13th inst. by hanging herself. Mr. Goggin missed her just before day and getting up and kindling a fire, the appalling sight met his eyes of her hanging from one of the joists of the room. She had not been regarded in her right mind for some time. Mr. Coggin was 45 years of age and has three grown children. ----- BUFFALO News Mr. Gabe Owensby's family has been sick for some time; we think out of six or seven, one or two were well. ---- WHITESBURG News J.M. Kendrick left Wednesday morning for Dallas where his brother Col. Geo. Kendrick has a contract on the Cole R.R. ---- IN MEMORIAM OF EZRA CURTIS GARRISON "His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that nature might stand up, And say to all the word " this was a man"." Died in Henderson, Texas on the 6th inst. of consumption, Ezra Curtis Harrison, son of P.G. Garrison. The news of this death will bring sadness and pain to many hearts in this place where he was so well known and so well beloved. The deceased was born in Carrollton on the 18th day of March 1849. His boyhood days were passed among us; here were formed his earliest ties, here he received his education and here when scarcely beyond childhood's years, he made a profession of religion and joined the M.E. church, of which he ever remained an active, consistent member. At seventeen years of age, he left home and located in Texas. There he taught school for six or eight years and then entered into the drug business in which he amassed quite a fortune. About a year ago, his health failed and since then he has been traveling in the hope of regaining strength. All proved vain and on the evening of the 6th, he quietly passed away. Such, in brief, was the life of whom whom the writer has known from his earliest memory. It was my great privilege to be intimately associated with him during his youth as a playmate and school mate and to enjoy the fullest confidence of his maturer years, and through it all, I have never known him guilty of anything unworthy a gentleman and christian. It is not to much to say, that he was all that a man ought to be; as a scholar, studious and obedient, as a teacher, kind, capable and energetic; in business, honorable; loving and generous to his family; brave and conscientious in the discharge of every duty; honest and fearless in his convictions; a friend without treachery and a christian without hypocrisy. His life was short and it seemed that he was taken away just when the light of his christian example shone brightest, yet, " How long we live, not years, but actions tell, That man lives twice who lives the first life well." Ezra lived long enough to endear a host of friends, to leave behind a brilliant example of honor, truth and christian faithfulness and to win a crown of immortality in the Great Beyond. A friend, Carrollton, Ga., Feb. 15, '82 ------- Married, at Joseph Entrekin's, the bride's father on Sunday the 18th day of December 1881, Thomas Walton and Rebecca Entrekin, Rev. C.W. Parker officiating. ----- Married, on Sunday, Feb. 5th, 1882, at Joseph Entrekin's, James R. Reid and Miss Esther Entrekin, by Rev. C.W. Parker. ------ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/newspapers/newspape2162gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 15.5 Kb