NEWS: Notices in the Maysville Eagle, June & Oct 1881, Mason Co., KY ************************************************************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. Submitted by: Jan Gillespie gillespie1949@yahoo.com Date: 25 June 2000 ************************************************************************************* Maysville, Ky., Weekly Maysville Eagle, Oct 19, 1881 Married At Mt. Carmel, Ky., October 5, 1881. Miss M. P. Norwood to Mr. J. R. Summers. At Aberdeen, O., October 3, 1881, Miss Lydia Barnes to Richard Carr, both of Bath county, Ky. At First Presbyterian Church, Maysville, Ky., October 12, 1881, Miss Sallie P. Phister to Mr. Basil Duke. At Quicks Run., Lewis County, Ky., Miss Maggie Fry to Mr. Wm. Vance. At Augusta, Ky., Miss Mattie Laughlin to Dr. Marshall McIntyre of Illinois. Personal Pharis T. Throop, of Flemingsburg, has removed to Carlisle to locate. Van Buren Young will soon remove from Owingsville to Atlanta. R. J. Samuel has removed his family from Poplar Plains to Hazel Green. Harry Duke, after an absence of years in Salt lake City, returned to Maysville last week to attend the wedding of his brother, Basil Duke. Her brought his wife with him and both are the guests of Dr. John M. Duke. Harry is Cashier of a Bank in Salt lake, and is succeeding well. ____ A little son of Martin Grimes ran a rusty nail in his foot a few days ago and lock-jaw setting in resulted in his death on Wednesday. The funeral services took place at St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Thursday. __ Suicide - Archibald J. Alexander, a well known citizen of Dover, committed suicide on Friday last by shooting himself through the heart with the largest sized pistol ball. He had been sick and paralyzed for many years. The deceased was about fifty years of age, and left a wife and one child. ============================= June 15, 1881 Married At Aberdeen, Sunday, June 5, 1881, by Massie Beasley, Esq., Mr. Charles Harper and Miss Alice M. Anderson., of Bath County. At Aberdeen, Monday June 6, 1881 by Massie Beasley., Esq., Mr. Edward Watson and Miss Lena Schawb., of Bracken County., Ky. At Aberdeen., Monday., June 6, 1881 by Massie Beasley., Esq., Mr. Wm. Vanhook and Miss Alice Gatrell., of Harrison County., Ky. _____ Died Died, near Maysville, on the morning of Saturday., June 12th, in the twenty- second year of her marriage and the forty-first of her age, Mrs. Nannie Butler Green, only daughter of the late Pierce and Eliza S. Butler, of Louisville, and the beloved wife of Thomas M. Green, of this city. ______ We regret to announce since our last issue the death of another veteran of the war of 1812, John Ambrose Thompson, at his residence in Germantown., in this county. Mr. Thompson was born in Dauphin county., Penn., February 3, 1791 and on the breaking out of war of 1812 volunteered to re-enforce Gen. Hull, but reaching Fort Erie after Hulls, surrender, was discharged. Shortly after this he volunteered under Capt. Jas. Cochran, uncle of Robert A. Cochran., of this city., and marched to defend the shipping at Erie, Penn., and in response to a call of Co. Perry for volunteers manning to assist the fleet, again volunteered and was assigned to duty on the Caledonia., and participated in the memorable battle which gave the Americans supremacy over Lake Erie. He afterwards removed to Mason County and his been living in Germantown for several years, and at a good old age passed quietly away. ================================== June 8, 1881 Henry Morris, of the JOURNAL was married to Miss Alice N. Brown, at Millersburg, last Wednesday. The employees of this office return thansk to H. V. Morris, of the Journal, for a very liberal supply of cakes, etc. _______ Marshal Heflin will remain in Maysville for some weeks before making another raid on the moonshiners. He is no longer accompanied by Col. George W. Symonds as a "historian".