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MARYVILLE INDEX November 13, 1878
Wednesday, November 13, 1878



Clover Hill---Mr. John Wilkes concluded on last Thursday that married life was

preferable and he would take to himself a wife, so he went out on Six Mile,

taking with him Parson Jenkins, and was soon united to Miss. Nannie Gardner. 



Prof. T.J. Lamar and wife have been blessed with a little boy, who arrived

last week. May the new comer find this a pleasant world.



John D. Headrick, on Little River, raised 82 ½ bushels of rye this year. He

thinks it a profitable crop to raise, and has a large crop in for next season.

Mr. Headrick is a successful farmer.



Rockford---Was sorry to learn, from Dr. Cowan, that Mr. R.I. Wilson is still

in a critical condition; for several months Mr. Wilson has been paralyzed.



The Scourge. A Sad Yellow Fever Scene---The following is taken from the

Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, and shows how sad have been the experiences of

many living in the yellow fever districts of our land. Mrs. Mary Jane Reid was

a sister of our esteemed townsman, Dr. J.B. Williams. “Mrs. Mary Jane Reid,

wife of Rev. S.I. Reid, of Hernando, Miss., and sister of Rev. Aaron Williams,

D.D., died of yellow fever at Horn Lake, Miss., October 4th. Her husband

nursed her alone to the last. Two days after he wrote thus: “I got a bucket

and washed the black vomit away as well as I could, and then put on the body

only one of her dresses, and buttoned it. But the bed was saturated, and I

could do no more. I wrapped a sheet and my blanket around her and covered her

with a quilt Oh, it was terrible--alone with my dead; no words of sympathy, no

flowers; nothing but yellow fever. I took all our clothing from the room, and

with my satchel, went to the woods. I there made a big fire, and aired and

smoked every garment, occupying myself till morning, it being about 3 o’clock

when I left the house. I could not persuade anyone to go to Memphis for a

coffin, the fever was so bad up there, but a couple of young men went to the

railroad station and there made a rough box coffin of rough boards. It was the

best I could do. Dear brother, it was most distressing to me to have my dear

wife so badly dressed, put in so rough a casket. It almost broke my heart, but

I tried to take comfort in the knowledge that her spirit was clad in white

robes, and carried by angels to the bright world beyond. One night as I knelt

by her bed, and prayed for her, she laid her fevered hand upon my head and

said that “we had traveled liefe’s pathway together so happily, but now we

might be parted.” She never thought of such a parting as this. The doctor

came, with his big heart and helping hand, accompanied by a young man whom he

had persuaded to assist, and together we put her in the coffin. To show you

how fearful everyone is, I may tell you that when the young man came into the

room he scattered lime all over the floor, pulled off his woolen garments, and

lighting a pipe, filled the room with smoke. But for all that we were glad

enough to have his help. No one could be got to drive the spring wagon with

the coffin, so I got a horse to ride and led the horse hitched to the wagon.

Some friends had dug the grave at Edmiston Church Yard. Three men accompanied

me; the young man who helped at the house, the doctor and brother Hutchinson,

the good old man I have told you of, and he is 89 years old. He told me that

he had often thought of me, in my trouble, and that on the night she died, at

midnight, he got up from his bed and prayed for my wife. I remembered that

this was the hour when she grew easier, and breathed more freely. After the

funeral, my dear brother, came the struggle. Friends, who had been so kind,

and had visited us so warmly when we first came, were all afraid of me now. I

was as if bitten by a mad dog. I thought I must go mad. I did not want to

expose any of my friends, of course, and I could not go back to Hernando, for

that was almost certain death. I almost wished that I, too, had died and gone

with her. My clothing was yet out of doors, and I gathered them up and spent

the night in a corn crib. After a prayer for my darling little motherless

Willie, sleep came to my relief, and I did not awake till good Dr. Shaw came

and bade me go to his house. I slept that night in his parlor, and was about

to go away in the morning, I knew not where, but the doctor’s wife said no, I

should not be turned out like that, I should stay with them. So they took most

of the things out of the parlor, and took the carpet up. I made a bed out of

some old clothes, and they told me to stay there until it would develop if I

were to be sick: if I did they were to send to Memphis and get a nurse. Are

these not noble hearts? So here I am (instead of at church) today, in this

room. I feel as I have imagined a man must feel who is condemned, but knows

not the hour of his execution. I have written you in broken sentences, but

faintly expressing my grief. Pray for me, my dear brother: these may be my

last words to you.”



Tell Your Neighbors---That the Index agent is coming, who intends to visit

every neighborhood in the county, and offer them the news of the county at

lower rates than ever offered before. The following names have been added to

the county subscription list of the Index since the 3rd inst.: E.B. McKeehan,

T. Hart, John Hannum, J.H. Tedford, M.M. Irwin, J.A. Clemens, J.N. Mitchell,

I.N. Yearout, John M. Boyd, Dr. Charles A. Fulton, Jeff Kidd, John McCulloch

Sr, J.A. Porter, S.A. Patton, Jacob Henry, Alex Fagg, J.B. McKenzie, John C.

McKenzie, A.J. Brewer, A.C. Speer, P. Hill, J.P. Raulston, J.T. Long, David

Ish, Oscar Wilson, H.C. Kidd, Taylor Wilburn, S.F. Cowan, T.A. Mount, C.S.

Hughes, J.A. Means, William Wilson, A.J. Grindstaff, Jerry Henry, Samuel

Baker, Marion Rogers, D. Hollifield, Abram Wallace, J. Hillery Tedford, M.H.

Edmondson, E.D. Hall, Bart Young, J.G. Presley, J.L. Martin, J.B.Cothran, M.C.

Brown, H.B. McClure, Joseph Willocks, John McCulloch Jr, George Brown, Currier

& Son, J.W. Farr, J.R. Scott, Charles Hutton, George A. Toole, Syke Greer,

W.C. Chumlea, L.L. Ferrary, E.W. Tedford & Co, R. Taylor, A.P. Thompson, E.N.

Parham, William Hodge, M.D. Milligan, G.B. Ross, F.M. Hood, Dr. John

Blankenship, Eliza Coffin, J.D. Moore, B.F. Willard, B.L. Warren, J.W.

McDonald, J.A. Jackson, H.F. McTeer, S.B. McTeer, M.A. Huffstetler, Thomas J.

Miller, J.C. Hutton, M.A. Lane, Prof. J.M. Bowman, B.A. Orr, C.W. Cochran,

D.W. McDonald, Sam Linginfelter, W.C. Davis, L. Frazier, J.W. Sparks, John

McCampbell, W.W. Freshour, Thomas Riddle, Sam Whitehead, James Rollins, A.A.

Coulter, John D. Headrick, J.W. Nuchols, John Holland, Eli Rhyne, Peter Rule,

D.G. Wright, Alex Williams, Dr. R.W. Goddard, James Sams, John Wilkerson, M.

Hooper, J.C. Martin, Harrison Henry and Campbell Gillespie.



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