Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles March 27, 1878
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MARYVILLE INDEX March 27, 1878
Wednesday, March 27, 1878



Joseph and George Braswell are to be hung at Nashville on the 27th. Gov.

Porter refuses to interfere.



John. M. Larkins, a prominent merchant of Columbia, Tenn., committed suicide

on the 19th by shooting himself through the head.



A man named Cook was killed at Lead-Mine Bent, Union County, by the giving way

of a bank. A block of stone weighing 2,000 pounds fell on him, crushing and

mangling his body horribly.



Chattanooga Times: A most shocking death occurred on the farm of Mr. Latter,

just across the river from the Vulcan Iron & Nail Works. Master Augustus

Flood, a youth of ten years, was going to the field on a plow mule, when the

animal threw him off, the boy’s foot getting fast in a trace chain, dragging

him until his body was bruised into a jelly, as it were. He was dead when

found soon afterward.



Mrs. Polly Hamill, widow of the late Henry Hamill, died Friday morning, March

22, 1878, ten days after the death of her husband, and about the same time in

the morning. This aged couple had lived together perhaps fifty years on the

same farm. She was an exemplary member of the United Presbyterian Church, was

a very worthy woman, and at the time of her death was lamented by a great

number of friends and neighbors. She was buried beside her husband on the

farm.



Frank Asbury, supposed to be above eighty years of age, one of the oldest

colored citizens, died Saturday night, March 16th, 1878. He originally

belonged to a minister of the gospel in Kentucky, who liberated him, and he

came to Maryville perhaps forty years ago. He was perhaps the oldest colored

man in the place.



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