Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles December 9, 1904 ************************************************ 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, 3:45 am THE MARYVILLE RECORD December 9, 1904 Friday, December 9, 1904 Ross Wilson, a colored man living in the lower part of town, died Tuesday as a result of a paralytic stroke he suffered about two years ago. He has been entirely bedfast for a year. The funeral was conducted by the colored Masons Wednesday afternoon and the remains laid to rest on Methodist Hill. He was forty-seven years old and leaves a wife and seven children. Robert, the fourteen year old son of James Anderson, died Tuesday, December 6, 1904, after a short illness with acute brights disease. The remains were laid to rest in the Clark Cemetery north of town. Thomas Clark of Rutledge shot and killed Charles Mallicote Saturday because he was following Clark, who was driving with Mallicote’s sister. They continued on their drive and within two hours had secured a marriage license and were married. Clark is under arrest. He is a traveling man for a Knoxville house. Town Marshall Claude Wilson of Rockford was shot and killed by a hobo Wednesday evening as he was trying to arrest a gang near the depot. Big Springs---Minnie Crisp, a former resident of this place, died at her home in Knoxville November 30, of typhoid fever. The remains were brought here for burial. Louisville---Miss. Sarah Gillespie, aged seventy one died Saturday night at nine o’clock and her remains were interred in the Louisville Cemetery Tuesday. She was a good woman and leaves many friends to mourn her loss. Route 2---Jim Goff, a well-known boy who left about twelve years ago and joined the regular army, returned to his home at Clover Hill about a week ago. He recently suffered a stroke of paralysis which has partially disabled him and his many friends around here are sorry to hear of his misfortune. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/blount/newspapers/newsarti159gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb