Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles July 3, 1878
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MARYVILLE INDEX July 3, 1878
Wednesday, July 3, 1878



Rockford Correspondence---A drowned woman, wife of Harrison Badgett, colored,

was found by a party in search of her on the morning of the 28th inst., lying

on the shoals near the farm of Mrs. Dr. Russell, on Little River. The cause is

not exactly known, still it seems as if Badgett and his wife have not been at

a good understanding for some time. Badgett says he awoke during the night and

called for her, but got no answer. He at once raised the alarm and went in

search of the missing woman, with the result as above stated. It is a

suspicious looking case, and a mystery to be solved in the future. Mrs.

Blantin died at her residence in this place at about 6 o’clock on the evening

of the 28th and will be buried at 2 o’clock tomorrow evening.   W.

Rockford, Tenn.,  June 29, 1878.



We learn that Mr. R.B. Roberson and family are to leave Maryville for their

old home in Sequatchie Valley about the first of next week.



Mrs. Pruner, wife of John Pruner, who has so long been lying at the point of

death at Yellow Sulpher Spring, left this world on the 26th inst.



On the 27th inst., the infant son of G.B. and Nannie P. Ross having remained

with them for only one or two days, closed its eyes upon this world to open

them in a brighter and better.



Sheriff McReynolds informs us that Badgett, husband of the woman who was

drowned near Rockford, as told by our correspondent, has been arrested, and is

now lodged in the jail. From something that his little boy said, very grave

suspicions are entertained that he is the murderer of the woman.



Col. William B. Martin, a prominent lawyer of Gadsden, Ala., is here on a

visit to his daughter, Mrs. Dr. J.W. Hannum. The older citizens of the place

are well acquainted with the Colonel, as he was educated here by Dr. Anderson

and others, some 40 or 50 years ago, and was raised on Nail’s Creek, in this

county.



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