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EAST TENNESSEE NEWS June 4, 1883
Monday, June 4, 1883



From Rockford---An old lady by the name of Jane Keller died this morning near

Rockford. Married at the residence of Mr. John Henderson, at Rockford, June

1st, Mr. Marcus Brooks to Miss. Sarah J. Henderson, Rev. W.H. Hodge,

officiating.



Moses Elliott, Esq., a brief mention of whose death was made in our last

issue, was born and raised and spent his life on the farm on which he died,

four miles north of town. He served a considerable time as a justice of the

peace for the 9th civil district, and had long been a ruling Elder in New

Providence Church. He was about 69 years of age, and unmarried, he and his

only surviving sister living together, and she and a brother, Dr. Elliott, of

Mississippi, being now the sole survivors of their father’s family. Esq.

Elliott was a very quiet and orderly citizen and regarded as a good man, and

his remains were deposited in the Clark graveyard on the 28th ult. His disease

was consumption.



On the night of the 30th ult., Ake Henry, Esq., departed this life at his

home, in the vicinity of Clover Hill, aged about 53 years. Deceased had been

declining for several months, and the prime cause of his death was attributed

to a hurt he received a few years ago, but finally terminated in something

like consumption. He was a worthy, upright citizen, and had served one term as

a justice of the peace for the 6th civil district. His remains were laid away

in the Carpenter burying ground after funeral services conducted by Rev. P.H.

Henry, on the 31st ult. He leaves a widow and six children to mourn his

departure.



While in Athens last Thursday, W.G. Wilson, a citizen of the place, shot

Horace Cass for the alleged seduction of his daughter. Wilson had a

preliminary examination on Saturday, the 26th inst., and was discharged. Cass

is a boy about twenty years of age, and was not seriously hurt.  May 31, 1883.



Obituary---On the morning of the 30th ult., at about 3 o’clock, Mrs. Ann E.

Pope, a venerable and highly respected Christian lady, died at her home in

this vicinity, of ulceration of the stomach, in the 74th year of her age. She

was one of a family of eight sons and four daughters, of the late Col. James

and Elizabeth White, of Abingdon, Va., and was born July 21st, 1810, and was

married to the late Dr. Henry Hannum on the ----of June, 1827, and lived about

two years in Abingdon, Va., and from thence removed to Florida, where they

spent about five years, removing to this place in the year 1834, where they

spent the remainder of their days. Dr. Hannum in his day was one of the

leading citizens of the town, a prominent physician, and for many years a

Justice of the Peace and a very efficient Chairman of the County Court, and

was a man of great executive ability. He died on the 13th day of April, 1845,

and his remains lie entombed in the old New Providence Presbyterian graveyard.

His widow was again married on the 16th day of October, 1859, to Rev. Fielding

Pope, who was for a number of years a professor in Maryville College, and also

for several years President of the Masonic Female Institute at this place, and

for a long time Pastor of Eusebia Presbyterian Church. He died at Lumpkin,

Ga., on the 23rd of March, 1867. The deceased made a profession of religion in

the year 1847, under the ministrations of the late Rev. Isaac Anderson D.D.,

and joined the New Providence Presbyterian Church; and when the Southern

Presbyterian Church was organized she transferred her connection to that

church, in the communion of which she spent the balance of her days. Of her

father’s family she leaves only four brothers surviving, viz: Thomas W. and

Addison White, of Huntsville, Ala., and Milton H. and Newton K. White, of

Abingdon, Va. Deceased leaves the following children surviving her, viz: Mrs.

Eliza V.M. McGhee, Dr. J.W. Hannum, Capt. W.Y.C. Hannum and Mrs. W.M. Hood, of

Maryville; and Frank H. Hannum, of Unicoi County, Tenn., Mrs. Rev. W.H.

Vernor, a daughter, having recently died at Little Rock, Ark., and four

children died in infancy. The deceased passed away in great calmness and

composure, in the full assurance of a blissful immortality beyond the grave,

with her surviving children all around her dying bed. When death had done its

work, Rev. E.A. Ramsey, of Athens, her former Pastor, was summoned and

hastened to the sorely bereaved household, and at 10 o’clock A.M., on the

morning of the 30th ult., in the presence of the bereaved family and a large

number of sympathizing friends, conducted a very impressive and appropriate

funeral service, and the remains were then laid away in the old New Providence

burying -ground, by the side of her long deceased husband, Dr. Hannum. And

thus passed away one among our oldest and most highly esteemed citizens, and

one for whose many acts of tender kindness, and devotion and benevolence to

the poor and needy and afflicted, and others in need of sympathy and help,

will be very tenderly cherished for many long years---not only by her own

family and kindred (to whom she was greatly attached), but by a large circle

beyond the pale of kindred ship, who have shared her sympathy and kindness and

benefactions.



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