Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles June 25, 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glenn Teffeteller glennt@icx.net August 20, 2005, 3:21 am EAST TENNESSEE NEWS June 25, 1883 Monday, June 25, 1883 Died---On the 20th inst., Annie E., little daughter of T. Rudolph and Mary Potter, aged 1 year and 3 months. “The fairest chosen by the reaper.” Died---On the 19th inst., about 11 A.M., Walter Richardson, son of J.F. Richardson, of this place, aged 6 months. Died---On the 20th inst., Mrs. Brown, wife of L.B. Brown, of Miller’s Cove. Mr. John Goddard, of Maryville, says that he saw a little girl last week who had six living grandmothers---a grandmother, a great grandmother and a great- great grandmother on each side of the house. The little girl is a daughter of Mr. Henry Miser, of Miser’s Station, Tenn. A Man Drowned In Little River---Last Wednesday, about 2 o’clock P.M., John Simmerly, a young farmer who had been harvesting for J.M. French, was drowned while bathing in Little River, about two miles below Rockford. He swam out some ditance from the shore, and becoming cramped, he could not reach the bank and sank before assistance could reach him. The body was recovered. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/blount/newspapers/newsarti115gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb