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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 37 No. 2 — Friday, December 25, 1903

CHESTER CONNER’S FUNERAL. RIPLEY, TENN. DEC. 20 (SPECIAL) — The funeral of CHESTER CONNER, the young white man who was shot and instantly killed Friday morning at his home at Ashport, sixteen miles west of this place on the Mississippi River, by JOE DRAKE, colored, took place at Maplewood cemetery this afternoon. The remains were brought to the home of his parents, MR. & MRS. JOHN CONNER SR., in Ripley Friday afternoon. Deceased was 23 years of age. His father has been a resident of this county nearly half a century. His brother, JOHN CONNER, JR., is one of the largest planters in the Tennessee Delta.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

MISS LUCY PARRISH of Crockett County, and MR. JOE HANNA were quietly married at Halls, Lauderdale County last Sunday, H. W. AGEE, Esq., officiating.

MR. WM. W. LOVELACE and MISS LILLIE L. OVERTON were married at the residence of the bride’s parents in the 4th District.

MR. GEORGE BROWN and MISS IDA SIVINGOOD were married last Sunday at the bride’s parents in Wellwood. Esq. C. P. Pipkins officiating.

ANTHONY K. WILLIAMSON — a life-long resident of the Denmark neighborhood, died Tuesday, the 15th, at the residence of his brother, Troup WILLIAMSON, near Denmark, at age 60 years. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the noted Denmark company, the “Danes, ” Sixth Tennessee Infantry and was “present for duty” in all the battles that confronted that noted command from first to last. Peace to his ashes.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

At the residence of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. FORD on Dec. 21st, MISS ZELMA GREEN FORD and MR. ROBERT H. PARKE were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, Esq. HOPKINS officiating.

MR. W. D. WHITEHURST and MISS IRENE PINKNEY CARLTON were married at the district parsonage Wednesday at 7 p. m. by Rev. W. D. JENKINS. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Jasper N. CARLTON of the Lebanon community.

MISS PAULINE OWENS of Tunica, Miss., is the guest of her aunt, MISS MINNA WENDELL.

FRANK S. McELRATH of Alabama City, Ala., is spending the holidays with his sister, MRS. W. B. COVINGTON.

BEN D. WELLS — of Okla. City, Okla., territory, is in the city the guest of his cousin, MR. THAD SHIRLEY. Forty-four years ago, MR. WELLS was a resident of this county and this is his first visit here within that time. He served the Southern Confederacy as a member of the Third Kentucky Cavalry under Gen. Forrest.