Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in 2000-2002 for the USGenWeb Archives.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original page at the Internet Archive.

Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not endorse the use of culturally insensitive language.  On this abstract, please note certain original words are included for context.

Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm Roll #101, Misc. — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 37 No. 34 — Friday, August 5, 1904

JONES — J. A. JACOCKS and D. E. McNEILL have gone into the dairy business. Mrs. Sallie WELLINGTON is in Milan visiting her son, Frank.

CASTELLOW TOWN —

Mr. Larkin WILLIAMS spent Sunday with Mr. J. T. CASTELLOW.

Little Miss Flynn COBB and brother, Paul, are visiting their grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Lewis OUTLAW of Texas, visited Mr. & Mrs. L. D. COBB.

Mr. & Mrs. CASTELLOW and children, visited their sister, Mrs. Buck WHITE.

LOCAL NEWS —

Messers. Ed. ADAMS and Frank NUNN are in Hot Springs. Both of these popular young men were suffering from rheumatism and went there for relief.

Aunt Lizzie BENNETT, an old colored, wife of Bill BENNETT, died Wednesday. She was esteemed as a faithful woman by all who knew her.

Mrs. JEROME, an aged resident of the Salem Church neighborhood, east of town, died on Tuesday and was buried the following day. She was about 80 years old and had no relatives here, her only daughter having died about eight months since.

Mr. Will KIRK, of Guthrie, Ky., has moved to Brownsville and will on the 20th of this month, open a stock of dry goods, etc., in the store building one door north of B. CENTRI’s tailoring store on Depot Street.

MR. J. T. SMOOT — who resided with his parents at Nut Bush died on Sunday morning last and was buried at Trinity the following afternoon. Some three weeks since the young man was attacked with typhoid fever and after a period of intense suffering blood poison intervened to which he succumbed in a very short time. He was the third of four brothers and a youth of much promise, a member of the Methodist Church. He was a nephew of Mr. S. A. BAYNES and up to about a year since was a clerk in his store.

MR. JAMES M. COX — one of the oldest and best known citizens of Brownsville, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. W. CISCO in Bardstown, Ky., on yesterday a week ago, being the 28th day of July 1904. A few months ago he went to Kentucky to spend sometime with Mrs. CISCO and soon after reaching there his health began to fail and continued to decline until the end came. He was 81 years of age and had lived here for more than half a century. Soon after the Civil War he went into the undertaker’s business, which he conducted successfully until a few years ago, when he sold his interest in the business to his son, J. M. COX, Jr. All of his children: Mrs. W. R. HOLBROOK and James M. COX, Jr, of this place and Mrs. A. W. CISCO of Kentucky were present at the funeral which took place in Bardstown last Saturday morning, Rev. Charles ANDERSON officiating.

MYSTERIOUS GROANS PUZZLING NEGROES IN FAYETTE COUNTY — Somerville, Tenn., July 30. About nine miles northeast of town, on Mrs. D. V. MORROW’s farm, is a little strip of woods and near by a cotton patch and thereby hangs a tale. At the edge of the day, night or day, there can be heard a mourning and groaning as if someone were in mortal agony. The sound comes from the ground but what produces the sound is the mystery to be solved. Everyone who has visited the spot has heard the noise and some of our best citizens are among the number. It was first heard about six weeks ago by PRIMUS MORROW, a colored man, who rents the farm. The groans are not continuous sometimes several minutes will elapse and then it will come again, very distinctly. The colored population and some of the whites are talking in whispers of a murder that was committed about 100 yards from there several years ago. A young negro woman was killed by a negro man, RUFUS WILKERSON, who has never been heard from since. Possibly the spirit of the duskey damsel is causing the disturbance, but probably not. At any rate the groaning can be heard and there is as yet no solution to the mystery.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

W. R. WILLIAMS of Brownsville and Miss MAUDE HAST of Trenton were married in Jackson Sunday by Esq. David T. TURNER.

Mrs. Wm RICHARDS of Memphis stopped over a few days with her sister, Mrs. W. J. WHITEHEAD on her way to Epsom Springs.

Rev. N. M. TATUM, for two years principal of Woodville School and one year pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Newman, Calif., is stopping for a few days with his sister, Mrs. J. M. KIRBY of Brownsville. She will accompany him next week to the Golden State where they will reside.