Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles June 23, 1905 ************************************************ 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, 3:52 am THE MARYVILLE RECORD June 23, 1905 Friday, June 23, 1905 Mrs. A.A. Coventry died Wednesday morning at the hospital in Knox County where she had been about a year. She was a native of Ohio, but had been in Tennessee a number of years, first in Morgan County and lately of Blount. The remains were brought to this city and laid to rest in Magnolia Cemetery Thursday. She leaves a husband and four little girls to mourn her death. The following from Elkanah, Carter County, a station five miles north of Elizabethton on the V. & S.W. Railroad is found in the Bristol Herald of last Wednesday. “News last night from Elkanah is to the effect that Mrs. Thomas Jones, who last Saturday night gave birth to triplets, and the two little girls are doing quite well. The third of the triplets, a boy, died Sunday morning, but the remaining two are expected to live. About two years ago Mrs. Jones presented her husband with twins and both of these children are now husky, thriving youngsters. Along with these particulars, comes a strange story, a coincidence, which taxes credulity to its utmost, yet which is vouched for by Elkanah’s leading citizens. It is said that about four months ago the Joneses possessed a hen which laid no less than three eggs per day and kept this performance up for seventeen consecutive days. The unfortunate fowl paid with her life, however, for her remarkable industry, as Mrs. Jones convinced that there was something uncanny in this hen’s unnatural thriftiness in the matter of producing hen fruit.” Mentor---Friends were very sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. W.B. Taylor which occurred last Saturday morning. The remains were taken to Clark’s Cemetery for burial Sunday morning. Louisville---Mrs. Sarah O’Connor, the widow of the late Granison O’Connor, died Wednesday morning, June 21, at her home at Middlesettlements. The remains were laid to rest at Salem Thursday. The body of Roger Leonard, the 17 year old boy who drowned at Knoxville Sunday afternoon, was found about four miles above Louisville by some fishermen Tuesday evening. His parents lived here in Louisville before moving to Knoxville this spring, and many friends mourn his untimely death and deeply sympathize with the parents who are bereft of their only child. Big Springs---Mrs. William Harp who recently moved from this place, died at her home in Friendsville last Tuesday and was buried at Union Grove Wednesday. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/blount/newspapers/newsarti173gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb