Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles February 16, 1883
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MARYVILLE WATCHMAN February 16, 1883
February 16, 1883



Passon On---Last week we inadvertently neglected to mention the death of Hon.

James H. Donaldson, of Unitia, who passed from life into the valley of death

on the 3rd inst., at the ripe old age of 71 years. He was one of the honored

and respected citizens of this section, and represented Blount County in the

Legislature many years ago. The community will sadly miss him and his place

will be hard to fill. He was a good Christian, an elder in the Presbyterian

Church, and died in the full hope of Heaven. Peace to his ashes.



A few years ago there was an old man living in Happy Valley, in this county.

When young he was afflicted with a white swelling in the leg. His disease

weakened him, mentally and physically, as he grew older. When the war broke

out he was living in Carter County with a son who was his sole dependence. The

boy volunteered in the 13th Tennessee Cavalry, took sick and was taken away

from the command among strangers in a hospital and died. The boy’s mother died

also. The man married another woman who was of weak mental powers, but

industrious and honest, and the couple settled in Happy Valley. The old man

could do nothing, was helpless as a child. His wife climbed the mountains,

four miles across to Montvale Springs in the morning and washed for meal and

meat, which she carried back in the evening, and in this way kept the wolf

from the door for some time. This was a clear case where the old man was

entitled tp a pension. He applied. He made proof of the enlistment of his son,

of his dependence, of son’s death, of his own poverty and all, but the

department demanded the affidavits of persons who were present when the boy

died, of what disease he died, and questions of like nature, which proof could

not be directly made, but the secondary evidence was forwarded. This state of

affairs continued until the old man died, and it was ascertained that no meat

had been in their house for days, except a small portion some neighbors had

furnished a day or two before his death. He was back in the mountains, weak,

poor, demented and without political influence.



Score another murder for Knoxville. This time it is a woman who killed her

divorced husband, Bruce Bluebaeker.



Our fellow-citizen, Moses Burger, left Tuesday morning for Howard County,

Texas, where he proposes to grow up with the country.



Mr. George Brown, of the Long Hollow vicinity, who for a number of years has

been living in the Indian Territory, recently returned on a visit to friends,

and we are advised he will soon return to the Territory and will be

accompanied by his brother, Benjamin S., who will perhaps engage in teaching

the young Indian idea how to shoot.



Mr. John Wright, son of W.E. Wright, of the 10th district, died of consumption

on the night of the 13th inst., and was interred at Mt. Tabor on the 14th.



Prof. J. Calvin Boyd, having been making a short visit to kindred and friends

after an absence of 19 years, started for his Nebraska home by Wednesday’s

train.



Mr. R. Smith Cummings, an old-time citizen of Maryville and for a number of

years a wagon-maker of Louisville, but for 25 years past a resident of Texas,

arrived by Tuesday’s train on a visit to his old friends and kindred in this

county. He is now about 75 years of age. He was accompanied by his kinsman,

Mr. Huffaker, whose mother will be remembered by the older citizens as Miss.

Ellen Cummings and daughter of the late William Cummings, who for many years

occupied the house where Mrs. F.M. Hood now lives.





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