Carroll County GaArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JAN., FEB., MARCH 1880 1880 ************************************************ 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 November 24, 2006, 1:48 pm The Carroll County Times 1880 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia for JANUARY 1880, FEBRUARY 1880, MARCH 1880 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JANUARY 2, 1880 LOCAL News Married, December 25th, 1879, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Ezra McCalman to Miss Idela Wester, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. David Stripling, all of Carroll county. --- Married, at the residence of her brother-in-law Mr. J.W. Green, on December 28, 1879, by the Rev. W.A. Lane, Mr. Isaac E. Cobb to Miss Ellen H. Sikes, all of Carroll county. --- We learn that Mr. Felix Meadows of Caddo in the Indian Territory, was recently married to Miss Emma Richardson of Sulphur Springs, Texas, the eldest daughter of Maj. Jno. M. Richardson. Both Felix and his bride have many friends in Georgia and especially in Carroll county where they were reared, and who waft to them their best wishes for their future happiness. --- Grandfather Croft, as he is familary called, who lives with his son Capt. Dave Croft, was pretty badly kicked last Saturday morning by a horse. He had gone into the stable for the purpose of turning him out and the morning being cold and the horse in a playful humor, he kicked up as he ran out of the stable, striking the old gentleman in the face with one or both feet. The wound is an ugly one and it was thought at first he was seriously injured, but we are glad to know that his injuries are not so bad as thought at the time, no bones being broken, and that he is now getting along finely. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JANUARY 9, 1880 GEORGIA News THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS Georgia has produced a great many remarkable men but none, we dare assert, more so than Mr. Lewis Arthur who resides in Jackson county. According to the Jefferson News: He was born in Virginia and is now in his eighty-sixth year. He served in the War of 1812 and has been married twice. By his first wife, Miss Nancy Hartsfield of Clarke county, he had sixteen children. From a recent trip among his offspring, he found them all to number one hundred and fifty-six living and thirty-nine dead. Twenty- four of his grandchildren are married and he says thirty-one more are ready to marry. Seven of his daughters are grandmothers and one of his grand daughters is a grandmother. His great granddaughter is called "Greaty." Nine of his offspring were born in the present year. He says with great pride, and justly too, that all of his family are able to take care of themselves. Mr. Arthur has been a notable man in his time, being noted for his muscular powers and has had many a rough and tumble fight in the good old days, when everybody engaged in fist and skull fights upon muster and court days. We think the showing made by this gentleman rather remarkable and uncommon. It is not often that such large families are raised from one couple and that a man is allowed to see his offspring of the third and fourth generations before he is gathered to his Father. Mr. Arthur is still hale and hearty and says he can managed the most of his grandchildren. His present health promises many years of life still to this partriarch. ----- LOCAL News Married on the 31st of December 1879, at the residence of Mr. Wyatt McDaniel, Mr. J. McGarity to Miss Sarah F. Brown, the ceremony being performed by J.K. Roop, J.P., all of the Eleventh district of Carroll county. --- Mr. A.J. Garrison and family left the past week for Cleburne, Texas. Mr. Garrison is one of very best citizens and we regret very much to lose him from our community. --- At the residence of the bride's father the Rev. G.A. Gardner on last Sunday evening, Mr. Henry O. Roop was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Lizzie Gardner, the Rev. J.W. Lee performing the ceremony. --- At the residence of the bride's father Judge Thomasson last Wednesday evening, Mr. J.T. Sharp was married to Miss Ella Thomasson, the ceremony performed by Rev. J.W. Lee. ---- GEORGIA News Mr. H.M. DeLacy, an old citizen of Meriwether county, is dead. --- Miss Frances Andrews of West Point died Tuesday night of last week in that town, with paralysis. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JANUARY 16, 1880 LOCAL News Married on the evening of the 18th of December last, at the residence of the bride's mother Mrs. Sarah Miles, by the Rev. J.D.H. Robison, Mr. Wm. A. Holloway to Miss Nancy J. Miles, all of Carroll county, Ga. --- Married on the 27th of December last, at the residence of Rev. J.D.H. Robison, Mr. John A. Bishop to Miss Stella A. Jones, all of Carroll county, Ga., the Rev. Robison performing the ceremony. --- Married on the evening of the 30th of December last, at the residence of the bride's father Mr. James Durrett, Mr. John. T. Pirkle to Miss Julia A. Durrett, all of Cleburne county, Ala., the ceremony performed by Rev. J.D.H. Robison. --- Married on the 31st of December last, at the residence of the bride's mother Mrs. Nancy Pirkle, Mr. George D. Hanson to Miss Mahala Pirkle, all of Cleburne county, Ala., the ceremony performed by Rev. J.D.H. Robison. ---- Married on the evening of the 1st of January at the residence of the bride's mother Mrs. Sarah Miles, Mr. John M. Spruell to Miss Elizabeth L. Miles, all of Carroll county, Ga., the Rev. J.D.H. Robison performing the ceremony. ---- Married on Thursday, January 8th, at the residence of William Watson by J.K. Roop, J.P., Nelson H. Steed to Miss Susan Girthy. ---- GEORGIA News A well known citizen, Mr. John W. Humphries of Douglas county, was frozen to death on Tuesday, the night before Christmas. Cause, whiskey. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JANUARY 23, 1880 GEORGIA News The Rev. D.M. Poer, for a number of years a citizen of West Point, but who had recently moved back to Harris county, died on the 13th inst. --- LOCAL News Married on the evening of the 8th inst., at the residence of the bride's uncle Mr. J.H. Casey, Mr. William C. Baker to Miss Mary A. Kinard, all of Carroll county. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John Thurman. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JANUARY 30, 1880 GEORGIA News The Franklin News announced the sudden death of Mr. J.M. Drummond of that county. He died of heart disease, while on his way to his father's, who lives nearby. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 6, 1880 GEORGIA News Mr. James Abercrombie, one of the first settlers of Campbell county, is dead. He died on Wednesday of last week in the 94th year of his age. --- Mr. A.D. Abraham Sr., died in LaGrange last week at the residence of his son John W. Abraham, at the age of 73. --- The Newnan Herald has been shown by Mr. W.B.W. Dent, the muster roll of his father the Hon. W.B. Dent, who went from Heard county in 1836 as Captain of a company of 48 men, to protect our southwestern frontier against the Creek Indians. On the roll, the Editor of the Hearld says, of officers and privates, there are only two members thought to be living, Judge Featherston of Newnan and Robert T. Dawson, now residing in Louisiana. ---- LOCAL News Mr. Robert Parr, who has been for the last year or two an invalid, being a pray to that fatal disease consumption, died at his home in this place on last Wednesday morning, about 3 a.m. Notwithstanding his feeble health, his death was unexpected at this time, though it was generally thought he could not live long. We learn that he passed away peacefully and quietly, being conscious to the last moment. He expressed himself as being aware of his coming dissolution, some time before his death, and was resigned and ready for the hereafter. The deceased was a quiet and unobtrusive man, who tried to live up to the golden rule, to do unto others as he would have them do unto him. He was at the time of his death about 35 years of age. He leaves a wife and several children. ---- S.E. Grow will leave next Monday for Texas where he goes to locate. We wish Emerson success in the West and trust that fortune may smile on him. --- The Cleburne County Clarion is the name of a new paper that comes to us from Edwardsville, Cleburne county, Alabama. The Clarion is a neat 6 column sheet, Grant & Embroy proprietors and editors. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 13, 1880 GEORGIA News The following is from a correspondent of the Newnan Herald: As the death of Rev. John M. Key is not generally known, we learn from his son that his father died at his home in Douglasville of paralysis on the 25th day of last December. Mr. Key once lived in this county and was a Baptist minister, being a man of limited education yet possessing great natural powers. He was elected by the Republicans to the Constitutional Convention of Georgia in 1868 and in his own language voted with such men as Judge J.S. Bigby and Dr. Miller and for such measures as Hon. A.H. Stephens and ex-Gov. Brown, Linton Stephens and other distinguished Georgians drafted and recommended. A good man is gone to his reward where the wicked cease to trouble and the weary are at rest. --- Mrs. Mary Reese, a venerable and highly esteemed lady of West Point, died recently in that city. Mrs. Reese came of a family distinguished in the civil and ecclesiastical annals of America. Her grandfather, Dr. Witherspoon, a distinguished Presbyterian divine, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and also president of Princeton College. The Breckenridges of Kentucy were her blood lines. ---- From the West Point Press: Mrs. Hamilton Greene of Long Cane, died last week at her home, and was buried at that place, Rev. Mr. Wynne preaching the funeral sermon. She was a good woman, a member of the Baptist church. She leaves several sons and a daughter, the wife of E.R. Sharpe, Editor of the Carrollton Times. ---- A difficulty occurred in Newnan last week between S.L. Vineyard and Millard Pinson, in which Pinson received a severe stab in the neck and Vineyard two slight gashes, one of the face and the other on the side. --- Mr. G.A.T. Lands and Miss Katie Watts of Coweta county have been joined in the holy bonds of matrimony. --- LOCAL News Married at the residence of Capt. A.J. Laird on Monday evening the 9th inst., by the Rev. Wm. Dimmock, Mr. J.W. Benson and Miss Nettle Appling, all of Carroll county, Ga. --- Mr. Mathew Reid of Kansas district, one of the oldest citizens of Carroll county, died at his home on Wednesday the 4th inst. after along and painful illness, having been confined to his house for about two years. Mr. Reid had been a prominent citizen of the county, having represented Carroll county three different terms in the Legislature. If we can get up the necessary information we will give a fuller sketch of his life in our next issue. --- IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. ELLEN A. GREENE Departed this life on January 25th near Long Cane, Georgia, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Ellen A. Greene. Her maiden name was Gibson. She was born in Fairfield district, South Carolina, August 16, 1813 and with her parents removed to Troup county, Georgia in 1835. On December 17th, 1841, she was happily married to Hamilton H. Greene. She was bereaved of her kind, devoted husband seven years; but she realized the truth of the inspired penman who likened "children of the youth" to "arrows in the hand of a mighty man" and proclaimed him happy that hath his quiver full of them, for they, who had been "like olive plants round her table", were the staff and comfort of her declining years. As a mother, she was faithful, and strove to train her children in "the nurture and admonition of the Lord." As a neighbor, she was kind and affable. In all her walk and conversation was manifested a love of peace and harmony. It was the privilege of those who were with her in her last illness to hear her discourse freely and calmly upon death. On one occasion she said to a friend who had but recently come from a distance, " I have lived longer than I thought I should; have been very near death, but was perfectly willing to go; and now, I haven't a care in the world! But Oh, is it awful for one to feel that they are about the enter Eternity unprepared! Many years ago, I was very ill indeed and felt that if I died I was lost. My agony of mind, I cannot describe. Friends thought my restlessness, clammy perspiration and cold extremities, the result of disease or the icy fingers of death; but it was my mind! I felt myself a lost sinner and soon to be called from the world. Oh, it was awful!" But as she agonized in prayer, the door of mercy opened wide and her Savior revealed himself to her in pardoning love. Then no tongue, she said, could express her happiness. Not a cloud obscured her vision, not a doubt, not a fear! Death had no terror, she was perfectly willing to die. What a blissful experience! Oh, grace divine that enables a soul to look beyond the confines of time and sing to the angel band: "Lend, lend your wings, I mount, I fly; O grave, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?" Her afterlife verified a regenerated heart. She joined the Baptist church at Long Cane, was baptized by Rev. Asa Simmons and ever after led an upright, consistent life. As the rosiest beams of the sinking sun gilds his farewell, no more beautifully shone the light of Christianity in the declining years and last days of our departed friend. Her time was chiefly spent in Biblical and other sacred readings; her hand was not slack in scattering good seed by distributing among her neighbors and friends her religious journals. Those who ministered around her couch during her last affliction, and had so many evidences of her peace of mind, and heard her oft repeated expressions of deep abiding trust in her Savior, feel that she has been taken into the heavenly garner, a fully ripened stock. A Friend. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 20, 1880 LOCAL News Married, on the evening of the 10th inst., Mr. Jefferson D.Mote and Miss Emma R. Neal., Rev. J.M.D. Stallings officiating, all of this county. --- GEORGIA News The Marietta Journal reports that on last Saturday evening at a turkey shooting match, a few miles below Powder Springs in the county, Mr. Thomas Entrican accidentally dropped his gun on the ground; the hammer struck a rock and the gun was discharged, shooting three men. Mr. Wade Mozley had his left ankle shattered fearfully and amputation will be necessary, it is thought. Mr. Alec Grisham and a Mr. Holbrooks received painful flesh wounds. --- George Jackson, colored, was convicted of murder at the recent session of Paulding Superior Court and will hung on the 26th of March 1880. --- Col. Oliver of Franklin had his leg amputated. The operation was performed by Dr. Heflin on the upper third of the thigh. --- Mr. Bob Redwine and Miss Lula Powell of Newnan were lately married. --- Mr. H.H. Parks of Newnan and Miss Vesta McDaniel of Atlanta were recently married. --- Miss Ida Word of Newnan who was recently burned, has since died. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 27, 1880 GEORGIA News Benjamin Oliver of Franklin is dead. He was one of the oldest citizens of Heard county. He represented that county in the Legislature in 1859. He had recently had a leg amputated on account of white swelling and from the effects of this, he died. --- LOCAL News John Brantley, charged with the murder of a negro woman and child in Whitesburg, the latter part of last year, and who escaped at the time, was captured last week in Cleburne county at Lawler's Mills, by Sheriff Hewitt and is now in jail at this place. Yesterday morning he waived commitment trail and will remain in jail until his trial comes up in April. --- DEATH OF JOHN EARNEST On last Thursday evening, just after we had gone to press with the paper, a gentleman came into our office and said that Squire John Earnest of Turkey Creek district had just been struck down with apoplexy and was not expected to live. In an hour or two after, another came in and said that he had died. The circumstances attending his death as we learn them are about as follows: He had come to town on business and also to get a load of guano. About 1 o'clock his wagon was loaded by Mr. J.A. Rhudy at his warehouse when Squire Earnest sat down just above the warehouse to eat his dinner. It was while sitting here eating that he was stricken with apoplexy. He was moved just across the street to the residence of John Stewart where he died in a few hours, as has been stated. Squire Earnest was a man that stood well in the community in which he lived and his death is deeply regretted wherever he was known. He leaves a wife and several children, with whom we deeply sympathize in their sad bereavement. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MARCH 5, 1880 LOCAL News The Rev. Jas. Baskins of the Sixth district of this county, is, we understand, 80 years old. He officiated a short time since at the funeral of Rev. James Bryce who was 74 when he died, and he states on that occasion, that when he came to this county in 1828 he found Mr. Bryce here, the former having preceded him some four years. As will be seen from the above, Mr. Baskins has been living in the county 52 years, a long time to live at one place. --- The late Hon. S.C. Candler of this county, one of the brightest men that every lived in it, raised a family of eleven children at Villa Rica and we are told that they are all still living, as is also the mother who is quite sprightly for one of her age. This is somewhat remarkable and shows the healthiness of our climate. The family is remarkable in other respects. In statemanship, the Hon. M.A. Candler, the eldest son we believe, stands among the foremost men in Georgia while the Rev. Warren Candler is looked upon as one of the most brilliant young men, connected with the North Georgia Conference, and in commercial life, it would be hard to find two better business men that W.B. Candler of Villa Rica and Asa G. Candler of Atlanta. ---- IN MEMORIAM OF MATTHEW REID Matthew Reid was born in the year of our Lord 1806, the 25th of December, in Jackson county, Georgia. He moved to Carroll in 1828 where he lived till he died. He was always a prominent citizen of the county. He held the office of Justice ofthe Peace 16 years and represented the county in the Legislature three different terms. Socially, he was generous hearted, good and true, well beloved by his neighbors and all who knew him. In politics he was a straight-out Democrat of the old school. In religion he was a primitive Baptist, having professed a hope in the year 1851, and joined the Primitive church at Holly Springs in 1867 where his membership remained until his death. He died in the full triumph of a living faith in the Lord Jesus. He was a useful member in the church as well as a good, law abiding citizen. He departed this life on the 4th of February 1880, after a painful illness of over two years, most of which time he was confined to his house and bed. He leaves a wife and children, with many friends to mourn his loss. But their small loss is his great gain. His wife and children and friends have our deepest sympathies. May peace attend his ashes. P.H.C. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MARCH 12, 1880 LOCAL News Married, at the residence of the bride's mother on the evening of the 4th inst., by the Rev. W.A. Lane, Mr. Ahaz Bagwell and Miss Lenora Green, all of Carroll county. ---- GEORGIA News We learn from the Rome Tribute that a Mrs. York who lives between Van Wert and Cedartown, mysteriously disappeared some two weeks since, and up to date, no account of her or her whereabouts can be given either by her husband or any of her neighbors. Her disappearance is wrapped in deep and dark mystery and foul play, it is feared, has been done. ---- From the Douglasville Star: There died in this county on the 25th inst., last, quite a notorious character. We refer to W.B. Smith, more generally known as Doctor Smith. He lived to the old age of seventy-three. In his youth, he spent a large portion of his time among the Creek Indians and was quite intimate with their great medicine men. From these, like Edwin Eastman, he claimed to have learned the secret ingredients of many valuable remedies, and especially one for the cure of cancers. Although he was a very illiterate man, many people had implicit faith in his powers as a physician and as a conjurer, in the capacity of both of which he frequently practiced. Many people from all portions of Georgia and east Alabama have come to this county to be treated by him. Of his cures we know nothing. We know he had widespread reputation. He had been gradually failing for the last year and finally died from the effects of old age. During his last illness, he would take no medicine except of his own manufacture. ---- Miss Rebecca Hamrick of Coweta county died on the 20th of February. --- Col. J.M. Putnam of Fayette county is dead. ---- Col. W.Y. Atkinson of Newnan was recently married to Miss Susie C. Milton of Mariana, Florida. --- Mrs. Ellen Simril, aged 65, died in Newnan last Sunday evening. --- Rosa Porter, colored, found guilty of manslaughter last week in Coweta Superior court, was sentenced by Judge Buchanan to five years in the penitentiary. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MARCH 19, 1880 GEORGIA News Mr. O.W. McGee of Merewether county has a watch which his great grandfather carried as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. --- LOCAL News The Rev. Wm. Dimmock, who has been sick for some time, is not expected to live much longer, as we go to press on Thursday, 12 o'clock. Those who were with him Wednesday night hardly expected him to survive through the night, but this, Thursday morning, at the time we write, he is apparently about like he was Wednesday evening, though it is evidenced that he cannot last but a short while longer. ---- Tete Reese, son-in-law of Captain T.M. Kelly living near Sand Hill, formerly a citizen of this county, was killed recently in Texas by a cousin by the name of Davis. The difficulty grew out of a misunderstanding in some way about the renting of a piece of land. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, MARCH 26, 1880 GEORGIA News Mrs. James D. Waddell, wife of Col. J.D. Waddell of Cobb county, died on the 11th inst. --- LOCAL News DEATH OF THE REV. WILLIAM DIMMOCK From the brief notice which appeared in the last issue of The Times concerning the serious illness of the Rev. William Dimmock, pastor of the Presbyterian church at this place, our readers at a distance are no doubt prepared to hear of the death of this venerable man of God, which took place at his home on last Friday, March the 19th at 2 1/2 o'clock. The deceased was a native of England, having been born near Luton, Bedfordshire, England, July 25th, 1820 and hence was not quite sixty years old at the time of his death. He came to this country in 1856 and settled near Conyers, where he lived until he moved to Carroll county about the year 1872. Never of a strong constitution, he was the greater part of his life an invalid. In his last illness he was confined to his bed some three weeks. Being impressed with the near approach of his coming dissolution and being at times in great pain, it was his prayer, and he asked the prayers of those around him, that he might have a speedy dismission, if it was the Lord's will. Being planted upon the Rock of Ages he had not the least fear of death, but welcomed it, as the means of an entrance to that rest which remaineth for the people of God. During his last sickness, though his body was racked by pain, his chief concern, as it had been throughout life, was the salvation of the soul of others. He was a witness to the Spirit in his last moments and he wishes those in whom he was deeply interested, to see and know it, that it might be a means of grace to them. He desired to see all his congregation that he might speak to them, about those things, which pertained to their souls' salvation. Thus ended the last moments of him, whose life was devoted to the Master's business. Though his death, on account of his feebleness, had been anticipated a long time, it brought sadness to a great many hearts in this community. People of all classes venerated and respected him as a pure and holy man of God... In conclusion, while we extend our sympathy to the wife and children of our departed friend, in their bereavement, we can but feel that what is their and our loss is his eternal gain, and bow submissively to the will of HIm who doeth all things for the best. ----- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/newspapers/newspape2643nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 25.5 Kb