Rusk Co, TX - Wills Point Chronicle

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Submitted by: East Texas Genealogical Society
        Date: 25 Feb 2003
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From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, September 6, 1894:

While Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Still were going to church recently at 
Overton, Rusk county, their horse ran away and threw Mrs. Still 
out of the buggy, breaking her arm and dislocating her wrist.

From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, October 4, 1894:

Privates H. P. Abnew, F. W. Bonner, H. C. Guinn, J. W. Francis, 
O. M. Jernigan and John W. Wightman of the Rusk Rifles, Texas 
Volunteer Guard, having been dishonorably discharged by their 
company commander for non-payment of dues, non-attendance at 
drills and not providing themselves with regulation uniforms, 
the motion of the company commander has been approved and 
sustained by Adjutant General W. H. Mabry.

From the Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Dec. 6, 1894:

At Overton, Rusk county, recently, while Gloster Marble, an 
old colored man, was digging a well the rope used to draw up 
the dirt broke and let fall a heavy bucket of dirt upon him, 
fracturing his head and shoulders and otherwise injuring him. 
The box feel (sic) about forty feet.