Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles April 16, 1880
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THE MARYVILLE WEEKLY INDEX April 16, 1880
Friday, April 16, 1880



Mt. Emory School House Burned---A friend sends us an account of the fire at

Mt. Emory, etc., which we have been obliged to condense. The fire was thought

to be incendiary. Sunday night, sometime after twelve o’clock, the

neighborhood around Mt. Emery School House was aroused by the cry of fire:

Rev. R.L. Jenkins was the first to discover the fire, and aroused Moses

Willocks’ family, at whose house he was staying, it being only a few hundred

yards from the school house, but by the time they reached the place the back

end of the building was falling in. The barns of E.B. Young and the Widow

Means were in close proximity, but were providentially unharmed. On the first

Sunday in May, 1871, a Sunday School was formed by Rev. J.V. Iddins and John

Means. The school was moved from place to place, till at last it found a home

in a new house built by the people of the neighborhood and named Mt. Emory

after Rev. Isaac Emory, who had rendered the school substantial aid. The

school has been kept up ever since, several college students assisting, and at

one time a series of meetings were held, resulting in over 50 conversions, and

a church was formed which has since done much good.



Long Hollow---The grim monster, death, has again visited our neighborhood, and

taken from our midst one of our most valued and esteemed citizens. A.R. James

died very suddenly yesterday morning of apoplexy. He was a kind, industrious

man, and an exemplary Christian. He was an acting Justice of the peace for

twelve years. I can think of no one whose death would have caused so much

heartfelt sympathy, for he was well known by almost everyone. He was buried at

Middlesettlements by the Masonic Order.





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