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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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
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