SULLIVAN COUNTY, TN - NEWSPAPERS - Kingsport Times, 22 Jun 1916
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CAME TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF BROTHER
And Fell Dead Soon After Arrival In Greeneville Boarding House; Other
Greeneville Notes.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn., June 17.-
The statement in this morning's paper in regard to the death of a
brother of J. T. Fitzgerald is slightly incorrect. He did not die in
Washington, but being in his usual health, on hearing of the death of
his brother, left Washington and came to Greeneville to be present at
the funeral services. On arriving in Greeneville he went to the boarding
house of the -Misses Gammon, where his sister was boarding, and entered
a bath room to wash preparatory to dinner. He was heard to drop on the
floor and when parties entered the room he was found on the floor
unconscious but died shortly afterwards the cause of his death being
apoplexy or paralysis. It was another instance, as frequently given,
where twins perhaps living to old age, die mysteriously almost at the
exact time. The Fitzgeralds were natives of Greene county and were of a
prominent Virginia family. Mrs. Jas.H. Rumbough was an aunt and they
have yet surviving them two of the family in Washington and two more in
East Tennessee. Their sister, Miss Roby, is a popular teacher in the
Greeneville public schools.

Mrs. Nannie Kingsley, whose residence until within the past few years
was near Greeneville, died at the residence of a daughter on last
Thursday. Her body will be brought to Greeneville for burial today. Mrs.
Kingsley before her marriage, which was before the civil war, was a
Worley. She was raised near Bull's Gap in this county. She had several
children, some living in Florida. Some of them are here to attend her
funeral.

Great preparations are being made
to celebrate the Fourth of July in Greeneville. There will be a long
procession of decorated automobiles and the Sunday schools will take
part in the parade. In addition there will be orations from more than
one prominent speaker and, as is now usual, a baseball game in the
afternoon. It is believed, if the day favorable, that there will be
20,000 to 25,000 people at this celebration.

A serious accident happened this morning in tearing away the old
court house building. One of the hands named Mass was standing on
the wall over a window which being rotten gave way and he fell to the
ground, a distance of perhaps thirty feet, alighting on a pile of old
lumber. He was very much bruised but no bones were broken and unless
injured internally will recover. 

Mrs. Moore, who was reported as having been badly injured in an
automobile wreck, is reported as much improved, and on yesterday was
taken to her home, fifteen miles in the country.


Kingsport Times
Volume 1, Number 8
Thursday, June 22, 1916
Page 2, Column 2


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