01/20/14

ADAMS, Sarah C. – (d. 1866)

Died, at 8 o’clock on the 28th of January 1866, of Typhoid fever, at the residence of Dr. A.J. ADAMS, Lagrange, Tennessee, Miss Sarah C., daughter of Jeremiah G. and Emma J. ADAMS, of Desha County, Arkansas. How uncertain is life! Miss ADAMS had scarcely entered her 16th year ere the iron scythe of Death cut her down. The last groan is past; flesh fails! Her death was calm, tranquil and full of peaceful feelings. Miss ADAMS was absent from her parents when she died, and comparatively a stranger in our town, but during her sojourn with us she, by her kind attention, affable manners, good disposition and lovely attractive smiles won many warm-hearted and devoted friends. In conclusion, let her stricken hearted mother, kind, indulgent father and mourning relatives and friends bow with sacred reverence to the mandate of the skies, and remember that stricken mortality, the shroud, the coffin, and the pale corpse, shall, in God’s good time, be annihilated by the power of the sacred resurrection. — J.H. GARRETT.

Source: Bolivar Bulletin, February 2, 1866

 

12/25/13

MANLEY, John (d. 1867)

Title: Somerville Resident Commits Suicide

The Fayette Falcon, printed at Somerville, says:

We learn that John MANLEY, an old man upwards of sixty years of age, who resided near Oakland in this county, committed suicide on the 17th by shooting himself through the next with a shot-gun. It seems that he had been very much depressed in spirits for some time caused by the death of his wife, and on the morning of the 17th, he gave directions to his daughter as to what disposition he desired should be made of his property, telling her that he intended killing himself on that day, and in a short time afterward took up his gun and went out to a crib a short distance from the house, and placing the muzzle of the gun close to his neck, fired, inflicting a wound from which he died in a few minutes. The deceased leaves a large family to mourn his unhappy fate.

Transcribed by Jim Daniel. Published in The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 29 June 1867, Page 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

11/2/13

NEAL, Tom – Has an Unusual Cow (1911)

Tom NEAL, a respectable colored man living on the Jones place a mile west of Somerville, has at his place a very unusual freak of nature.  A cow belonging to him, on last Saturday night dropped a calf, that has no eyes and no tail.  In other parts, it is a well developed animal, as strong and healthy as the average calf of its age.  There is, as stated no tail, and no pretense to one, and the eyes are entirely void of balls.  The  youngster seems hearty and shows that he is determined to live a long life, and show the world more of his curiosity-hood.

Source: Fayette Falcon, March 10, 1911

10/30/13

Local & Personal News (March 10, 1911)

Select items from the Local & Personal news column of the Fayette Falcon

  • Junious HOBSON and Jno. WETZLER attended the Thirty Second Convocation, Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, several days last week in Memphis.
  • H.W. LIPSKY spent a few days in Memphis last week where he was carried through the mysteries of Scottish Rite Masonry.
  • W.C. EDMONDSON, of Memphis, visited his sister, Mrs. Will RHEA Tuesday of this week.
  • W.H. REAMES, of Oakland, was looking after business in Somerville last Friday.
  • S.F. LEWIS and J.S. GAITHER, both of the Williston neighborhood, were in Somerville Friday and called on The Falcon.
  • Will FOWLER, of Batesville, Mississippi, spent several days last week in Fayette county with his father, R.M. FOLWER who lives in the fourth district.
  • Mrs. Ora BURTON has as her guests this week, her daughters Mrs. C.B. PERRIN, of Memphis, and Mrs. Sam CASEY, of Batesville, Arkansas, and her little grandson Jack CASEY.
  • L.B. FARRIS of Whiteville, was in Somerville last Monday.  Mr. FARRIS was a resident of the fifteenth district of this county until a few years ago, when he moved to Whiteville. 
  • Mrs. Mattie DICKINSON returned to her home in Memphis last week, after a visit to her brother, W.E. CRAWFORD and family at their home in this city.
  • H.W. DAY, several years ago manager in this city for the Cumberland Telephone Company, was in town a part of the present week. He is now travelling inspector for the same company, and was here looking over the company’s lines and office.  Mr. DAY was very popular here, and his friends would be glad if his visits were more frequent. 
  • J.V. ALEXANDER, Esq., from the fourth district, was in town Monday, and was nursing a broken finger as the result of a fall sustained at his home a few days before.  While walking near the woodpile at his home one evening last week he fell and broke the forefinger of his left hand.  With characteristic forethought and nerve, he at once reset the broken finger, and without further medical aid, it is doing nicely. 

Source: Fayette Falcon, March 10, 1911

10/25/13

COWAN, John W. – (d. 1911)

Title: Fayette Countian Dead

Monroe PARKER, tyler of the Masonic Temple, received a message yesterday morning stating that his father-in-law, John W. COWAN, of Somerville, was dead.  Mr. PARKER and his family left on the afternoon train for Somerville to attend the funeral. – Commercial Appeal 

Mr. COWAN referred to has lived for many years in the vicinity of In<…>, in the second district of Fayette county.  He is a brother of M.P. COWAN and D.F. COWAN of Laconia. 

Source: Fayette Falcon, March 10, 1911

10/14/13

CHRISTIAN, Robert N. – (b. 1842)

Robert N. CHRISTIAN was born in Mississippi August 31, 1842, and is the son of Robert N. and Caroline (Suther) CHRISTIAN, natives of North Carolina.  Our subject received a fair education and was engaged in steamboating until the breaking out of the war.  At that time he entered the Confederate service as a private in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment and was afterward transferred to the Thirty-fourth Mississippi Regiment, where he remained till the close of the war.  He participated in all of the principal battles and was wounded five different times.  At the close of the war he came to Somerville and devoted his time and attention to mercantile pursuits, being engaged in that capacity ever since. 

He started in life with a fair education, a pair of stout arms and a willing heart.  He is now considered one of the substantial men of Somerville.  August 1, 1866, he married Valeria F. SHAW, daughter of A.M. and Ann L. SHAW of Somerville.  To this union were born nine children – five sons and four daughters: Annie L., Alsey B., Eddie L., Louis, Robert W., Mary E., Carrie V., Mary W. and Joe D.  Mr. CHRISTIAN is a Democrat in politics. 

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee, 1887. 

09/28/13

CHAMBERS, Daniel G. – (b. 1835)

Elder Daniel G. CHAMBERS, a well known minister of the Primitive Baptist Church, engaged in farming in Fayette County, was born in Robertson County, Tenn., January 5, 1835, and is a son of Gools B. and Rebecca (Gordon) CHAMBERS.  The father was born in Halifax County, Va., August 11, 1802, being of English descent, and died in Fayette County, Tenn., June 21, 1881.  The mother was born in Robertson County, Tenn., April 13, 1805, and was of Scotch-Irish descents and died in Fayette County March 26, 1878.  They married in Robertson County in 1823.  In 1836 they moved to Fayette County and settled in the Fifteenth District, nine miles east of Somerville.  In early life the father gave his time to farming. In 1844 he attended the Botanical Medical College at Memphis, Tenn., and after receiving his diploma he returned to Fayette County and practiced medicine there for seventeen years.  In 1862 he retired from the practice and again gave his time to farming. They were both Primitive Baptists. 

Our subject was the seventh of thirteen children; he had the advantage of a good education; he was still an infant when his parents moved to Fayette County and has always made it his home.  In 1860 Mr. CHAMBERS purchased a farm and has been a most enterprising farmer, now owning more than 500 acres of land in Fayette County.  October 3, 1859, he married Miss Mary F. TAYLOR, a cultured lady, born in Fayette County.  One son and three daughters were born them; Martha F., born May 1, 160; Margaret L., born October 5, 1862; Thomas G., born August 1, 1865, and Amanda C., born May 27, 1867.  In early life Mr. CHAMBERS professed religion and for seven or eight years past has been a popular preacher in the Primitive Baptist Church.  He is a good man and a most valuable citizen. 

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee, 1887. 

09/14/13

CHAMBERS, Marcus (b. 1833)

Marcus L. CHAMBERS, farmer and merchant of Chambersville, Fayette County, was born in Robertson County, Tenn., February 28, 1833, and is a son of Dr. Gools B. and Rebecca (Gordon) CHAMBERS, natives of Halifax County, Va., and Robertson County, Tenn.  The father was born in 1802 and died in Fayette County in 1881.  The mother was born in 1805 and died in Fayette County in 1878.  They were married in Robertson County, Tenn., in 1823 and in 1836 moved to Fayette County and settled in the Fifteenth District nine miles north of Somerville, where they lived until they died.  In early life the father was engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1844 he entered the Botanical Medical College at Memphis, Tenn., and after receiving his diploma returned home and was a successful practicing physician for seventeen years in Fayette County.  In 1862 he retired from practice and resumed farming.  Both parents were members of the Primitive Baptist Church. 

Our subject was the fifth of fourteen children. He received a good education, then gave his time exclusively to farming until 1884, when he established a store at Chambersville, and is now in the mercantile business in connection with farming, and besides a $4,000 stock of goods he owns 800 acres of land in Fayette County and is now erecting a handsome and unique residence in Chambersville. 

Mr. CHAMBERS has been married twice; first, October 25, 1859, to Miss Fannie E. WADE, who was born in Virginia in 1840 and died in January, 1864.  Three children were born to them, one dead.  He married again the same year Miss Mary E. CURLS, born in Mississippi in 1848, and by this marriage had eleven children – five sons and six daughters; one son and two daughters are dead.  Politically Mr. CHAMBERS is a Democrat. He does not belong to any church; his first wife was a Methodist.  He is an enterprising business man and in every respect a valuable citizen. 

Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee, 1887. 

09/5/13

PICKENS, John G. – (d. 1872)

Died, on the 30th of November, at his residence in Fayette county, Tennessee, John G. PICKENS, in the 28th year of his age. The deceased was for many years a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and died in the full triumph of living faith. (Note – there is a longer resolution as part of this article).

Source: Memphis Daily Appeal, January 1, 1872

08/31/13

PULLIAM, Amelia – (d. 1859)

DIED – Also, at the residence of her husband, in Fayette county, Tenn., on the 29th ult., Mrs. Amelia, wife of Mr. John N. PULLIAM, aged about sixty-one year.

Weekly Standard (Raleigh), February 23, 1859