Category Archives: Obituary

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.

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

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

08/31/13

PULLIAM, John M. – (d. 1859)

DIED — On the 27th ult., in Lagrange, Tenn., John M. PULLIAM Jr.,son of Dr. J. J. PULLIAM and Lucy F. PULLIAM, aged two years and three months.

Weekly Standard (Raleigh), February 23, 1859

05/25/13

WHITLOCK, Wm. H. (d. 1896)

Daily Journal and Tribune (Knoxville)
August 14, 1896

Wm. Whitlock Paid the Penalty for Murdering and Officer

Somerville, Tenn., August 13 — Wm. H. WHITLOCK was hanged here today in the presence of a large crowd of people. The crime for which WHITLOCK was hanged was the murder of Constable W.D. HOLLIDAY near La Grange, Tenn., on August 9, 1895.  WHITLOCK died proclaiming his innocence.

05/18/13

HOLLOWAY, Hinton (d. 1868)

Memphis Daily Avalanche
May 2, 1868

Died, at the residence of J.H. KEE, near Somerville, Tennessee, on the 27th day of April, 1868, Mr. Hinton HOLLOWAY, aged seventy years.  The deceased was a native of Wake county, North Carolina, and for many years a resident of Fayette county, Tennessee, and Dallas county, Arkansas, where he has many friends.

05/18/13

NESBITT, Robert N. (d. 1867)

Memphis Daily Appeal
October 25, 1867

Died, in Somerville, Tennessee on the 15th instant, after an illness of about ten days, Robert N. NESBITT, Esq., in the forty second year of his age.  He was the oldest born citizen of that place.  His father, Nathan NESBITT, was one of the first settlers of the town, and kept one of the first hotels, which was situation on the north east corner of the square, where now stands the brick hotel.  The building was burned down many years ago.

Robert was born on the 26th of September, 1826.  His father died while he was an infant, and his mother died some years afterward, leaving him but a youth.  He was a practical printer, having learned the business in the office of the Somerville Reporter, with John C. REEVES, Esq.  He afterward read law, and was admitted to the bar.  He filled several responsible positions of trust in the county; was for sometime Chairman of the County Court.  He was a man f fair order of intellect, quick perception, and possessed fine conversational powers.  He had many warm  friends who will regret his death.  He leaves a widow and two small children, and an only sister, to mourn his loss.

05/18/13

BOYD, Julian Wray (d. 1968)

Commercial Appeal
December 5, 1968

Retired Banker of Rossville Dies at Age of 69

Julian Wray BOYD of Rossville, a retired banker, died at 7:20 pm yesterday at Baptist Hospital after a long illness.  Burial will be in Memorial Park.  He was 69.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Lillian C. BOYD; three daughters, Mrs. Paul Madison WILSON of Colierville, Mrs. Walter E. PIPER of Pharr, Texas, and Mrs. John David PULLIAM of Rossville; and a sister, Mrs. Fred K. WEST of Rossville.

Memphis Funeral Home on Union has charge.