Carroll County GaArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for NOVEMBER 1880 November 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 March 26, 2007, 9:38 pm The Carroll County Times November 1880 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia for NOVEMBER 1880 NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 5, 1880 LOCAL News Sim Williams, the colored barber of this place, died last Saturday evening after a short illness of typhoid fever. ---- Old Mr. Joseph Wynn who was sent to the lunatic asylum several months ago from the eastern part of the county, was sent home last Tuesday. He walked from Whitesburg to his home, a distance of one and a half miles late in the evening, ate supper, retired early and in a short while he was dead. It is supposed that he died of heart disease. ----- Married on the 26th of October at the residence of the bride's father by Elder J.C. Burnham, Mr. J.F. Morris to Miss Fannie O. McLendon. ----- OBITUARY OF WILLIAM EGNEW William Egnew was born August 18, 1813 and died suddenly of heart disease in Carroll county, Georgia on October 12, 1880 aged sixty-seven years, two months and eleven days. He joined the Methodist church when a young man and therein lived a faithful member to the day of his death. For a long time he filled the office of class leader and steward as a faithful and efficient servant of the church. He was just and unpretending in manner but strong in the faith and had an amiable and cheerful disposition. He always had a word of cheer for his neighbor and especially for the despondent. His attention to the sick was one of his characteristics. No sick person in the bounds of his knowledge was ever neglected by "Uncle Billy". It was his custom to hold secret prayer at stated times and to those occasions he often referred as times of refreshment to his soul. His death, though sudden, was not wholly unexpected for in a conversation with the writer a short time previous, he said "I am expecting to drop off suddenly and it is all important that I be ready, and I am resolved, by the help of the good Lord, to be ready at any time." So he lived and so he died. The remembrance of him is a legacy to his friends. May we all emulate his good example and meet him in the better land. F.A. Roberson ------- SAND HILL News We regret to chronicle the death of the wife of John W. Carroll, who departed this life last Tuesday night after a short illness of four days. The writer was acquainted with her for 33 years and knew her to be a kind wife, affectionate mother and a good christian woman. J.M. Hamrick ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 12, 1880 LOCAL News A postal card from Mr. James H. Russell, formerly of this county, but now of Camp County, Texas, requests us to change his paper from Pittsburg to Leesburg in that county as he has bought a nice home and farm near the latter place. ----- Major West has on his plantation three miles north of town, two grape vines from which he has made as much as 50 gallons of wine in one season, besides having plenty to eat from the same. ----- Mr. Courtney Meadows, for the past year foreman of The Times office, left last Tuesday morning for Caddo, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory where he will go into business with his brother Mr. Felix Meadows, who has been located there for several years past. Our best wishes go with Courtney to his western home. We know that if industry, intelligence and integrity in business will command success, he will secure it. ----- DEAD We learn that Mrs. Wheeler of Villa Rica died at the residence of her husband last Sunday night. She has been sick for some time and her death was not unexpected. She leaves a bereaved husband and five little children, who have the sympathy of the community. ------ OBITUARY OF MISS JULIA BRYAN Miss Julia Bryan, daughter of Dr. N and Mrs. Bryan, died in Whitesburg, Georgia on October 13, 1880 after an illness of several months. Nothwithstanding she had been sick for some time, yet the family and community were not expecting her death until a very few days before she died, and were not prepared for the shock. She was converted and joined the Methodist church in August 1876. She was an earnest, sincere christian. Not demonstrative in nature, her blessings came in a quiet way, but were none the less precious and told none the less upon her christian character. Hers was like a spirit of childlike meekness. During this year she was able to attend church very seldom. I visited her often and she ever manifested the meekness and patience of a true christian. Never did she mumur or think hers was a hard lot. A few evenings before her death she called her sister Ludie to her bedside, told her she could not remain with them long, but said she was ready and not afraid to die. For several weeks before her death she seemed to be growing in christian grace and fortitude. When the hour of her dissolution came, she died without a struggle. She was conscious to the last. Just before she died she looked at the doctor who was sitting by her and at her sister near and cast her eyes upward; a bright smile passed over her face and while the smile was still playing upon her cheek, her spirit went to God. "Calmly sinks a weary soul to rest." She has gone to her reward and leaves an aged, afflicted father, a mother, brothers and sister, and many friends to mourn her departure. But while they mourn, she is, doubtless, realizing the truth of the bible that "eye hath not seen, nor ear haerd, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. " Jno. W. Quillian, Oct. 22, 1880 ------- Married, at the residence of the bride's father Mr. Daniel Jones, on the evening of the 4th of November by Elder Geo. M. Holcombe, Mr. Linsey M. Gray to Miss M.G. Jones, all of Carroll County. ----- IN MEMORIAM OF JOHN SMITH Departed this life on the morning of the 3rd inst. at his residence near Carrollton, Mr. John Smith, more familiarly known as "Uncle Johnny". The deceased was born in the state of North Carolina on June 4, 1806 and was in the seventy-fifth year of his age when the summons of death came. When 15 years of age he came to Walton County, Georgia. On the 10th of October, 1830 he was married to Miss Sophia Wood, who survives him and who now resides with her only son, Mr. G.M. Smith of Carrollton. The deceased had been for more than five years afflicted and much of that time confined to his room, but in all his suffering he was patient and his greatest desire was to be fully resigned to his Master's will. A short time before his death, he called to his wife and spoke of his early departure, asking her to meet him in Heaven. He was a member of the M.E. church at Stripling's Chapel. In obedience to the call of death, he has gone to reap his reward, leaving many friends who sympathize with the bereaved in their affliction and commend them to the word of God, the christian's sure support and only perfect consolation in time of trouble. W.W.R. ------ Married, at Whooping Creek church on Sunday the 7th inst., by Elder J.C. Burnham, Mr. William Robinson to Miss L.M.J. Scoggin. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 19, 1880 LOCAL News Maj. Coleman of the sixth district has sold a part of his farm to Mr. G. Crawford. The Major speaks of breaking up housekeeping and living with his son Mr. Jim Coleman. ---- DEATH OF REV. D.B. CRAWFORD That dreaded monster, death, whose mission it is to pay unwelcomed visits and whose glory it is to smite our friends, has again intruded his presence upon our community and with some of us, has actually entered our own household to rob us of our loved. This last time, he claims as his victim, one occupying in this community, the relation of friend, relative brother, son, husband and father in the person of Rev. D.B. Crawford. He died last Monday evening at about 10 o'clock at his mother's, six miles west of Carrollton, from the effects of a rising in his head, from which he had suffered untold agony, since about the first of last August. A deep gloom overshadows us all, a sorrow for our own loss, though our loss is his eternal gain. He was buried at the old Camp Ground cemetery on Tuesday evening, his funeral being preached in the church immediately beforehand by Rev. W.H. Speer, assisted by Revs. A.C. Reese, John Thurman, David Stripling and Cheney Garrett. Quite a large congregation were present to join in paying the last tribute of respect to him. He leaves a wife and two little boys, aged respectively 7 and 5 years, to whom is extended our sincere sympathies. J.A.R. ------ DEAD W.H. Word, of Tyler, Texas died on the 5th of November 1880 after an illness of three weeks of fever. Mr. Word was principally raised in Carroll county. He was a son of J.O.R. Word of Bowdon, Georgia and a brother of Mrs. A.C. Saxon of Carrollton, Georgia. He had gained the reputation of being a good lawyer and made many friends in Texas. He graduated at Bowdon College and assisted Major Richardson in teaching school at this place. The fact is, he was a noble, kind hearted, high toned gentleman in every respect and leaves many relatives and friends to mourn his loss. A friend, Nov. 16, 1880 ------ NEIGHBORHOOD News In Greenville at the residence of Hon. Henry R. Harris, the father of the bride, by Rev. W.R. Caidwell on Thursday evening the 4th of November, Thomas A. Atkinson and Miss Fannie R. Harris were married. ---- Died in Greenville on the 6th of November, Mrs. E.A. Harris, wife of Hon. H.R. Harris, aged 50 years, 9 months and 22 days. ----- Mr. S.L. Reeves of Campbell county was recently married to Miss Alice Johnson, daughter of the Rev. T.J. Johnson of Douglasville. ----- Mrs. Naomi Hugaley, lately deceased of West Point, left $100. to a colored woman who had been faithful in nursing her in her illness. ---- A man by the name of Prather living in Randolph county, Alabama was run over by the train cars at West Point last week while attempting to get on a moving train. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 26, 1880 LOCAL News Mrs. S.C. Dickson of Fairplay dist. has been quite sick for the past two or three weeks. ---- W.B. Smith, a son of Wesley Smith of Fairplay district, was tried for epilepsy before Judge Juhan last Monday. The verdict of the jury was guilty and the evidence went to show that he was a violent epileptic. He will be sent to the asylum as soon as admission can be gained. There are other parties in the county who have been convicted of lunacy but owing to the crowded conditions of the asylum, the Ordinary has not been able to get them admission. ----- NOTICE As I expect to move to Cedartown about the 1st of February, those wanting any gunsmithing or anything else in my line done, please bring it forward before that time. T.C. Barnes, Nov. 18, 1880 ------ GOOD FARMING Mr. George and Eugene Camp, who live some three or four miles north of Carrollton and who farm together, made this year, with the assistance of an old negro man, 28 bales of cotton on 40 acres of ground. Besides this, they made 200 bushels of corn, potatoes, etc. That is what we call good farming. We also are informed that Mr. Nathan Horton, living near the Camp boys, made 13 bales of cotton by his own labor. ----- Married, on the 18th inst. at the residence of the bride's father Rev. G.A. Gardner, Mr. T.C. Bledsoe to Miss Cappie Gardner. The ceremony by Rev. W.W. Roop. ----- Married, on the 21st inst., at the residence of the bride's father Mr. I.B. Perdue, Mr. C.A. Upshur to Miss Emma Perdue, the Rev. J.W. Lee officiating. ----- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/newspapers/newspape2661nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 12.3 Kb