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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 36 No. 12 — Friday, March 6, 1903

LOCAL HAPPENINGS AT REIN —

C. B. LOVELACE is on the sick list, and has been for several weeks.

E. O. WHITE has also been sick, but is able to be out and is now hauling logs.

Mr. Freeman JACOCKS has been sick this week, also his mother. Mrs. C. B. WHITE is reported quite sick also.

LOCAL HAPPENINGS AT HARVEY — Mrs. W. C. BARCROFT is quite sick.

FROM CEDAR CHAPEL — Mr. J. W. SAMMONS was married last Sunday evening to Miss Elnora HOWSE, of Eurekaton. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. C. SAMMONS, brother of the bridegroom.

LOCALS AND PERSONALS FROM RUDOLPH;  MARCH 3. 1903 —

Mr. Tom WILSON, of Cairo, IL., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Louise HOPKINS.

MRS. LEVY HARWELL has been quite sick with pneumonia for the past week, but is some better at this writing.

Mr. ALBERT BARCROFT, of Jones Station, visited his sister, Mrs. J. B. LEWIS, Sunday. ROBERT McDONALD went to Nut Bush Saturday to see his sister, Mrs. LANIER, who has been very sick for awhile.

MR. & MRS. J. W. WALL visited their mother, Mrs. Martha SIMMONS Sunday.

LOCALS AND PERSONALS FROM VILDO; FEB. 26, 1903 —

The post office here was removed from J. T. MOORE’s to J. R. ALLEN’s store, with Mr. Jess BOUCHER as postmaster.

We regret the serious illness of our neighbor, Mrs. A. E. WILKES, who was taken very suddenly at her son’s near Cedar Chapel, but at this writing is improving.

Our old friend, B. A. SIMMONS, who was wounded in the face during the war, has been in Whiteville several weeks under the treatment of a physician from Arkansas.

LOCAL NEWS —

Mr. J. H. FORD, a well known citizen of the First District, died at his home near Hillville, Sunday, March 1st.

OLD AUNT ANN TALIAFERRO, colored, said to be 120 years old, died at the home of her youngest child, who is 70 years old, last Friday.

HAL PEWITT, an aged colored man, was found dead in a cotton field of Dr. G. G. WARE, near Stanton, last Friday morning. The old man was alive late Thursday evening. He and his wife were picking cotton and she left him and went to the cabin to prepare supper, the old man remarking he would come in as soon as he “picked his row out. ” Search was made the next morning. Heart disease caused his death.

JUDGE R. E. MAIDEN, holding the circuit court at Ripley, sentenced Lee WATKINS of that place to six months in prison for unlawfully selling kilo. It seems that kilo is a malt beverage resembling beer very much. There are also indictments pending in the same court for the same offense against Mr. Jno CONNER and Capt. TICHENOR.

MRS. ELLEN WHITELAW BOND, relict of the late Thomas BOND, died in Denver, Colorado, on Friday evening last, of asthma, from which disease she had been suffering for 20 years, aged about 75 years. The remains were brought here on Monday and laid to rest in our cemetery, beside the remains of the loved husband, who preceded her in death some 15 years. She made her home with Judge Henry W. BOND, of St. Louis or in the city of Denver. She was the last of the children of her generation, and leaves three sons and four daughters, whom none are residents of the county.

MEMPHIS PAPERS of last week announced the death of the widow of the late Hal ROGERS, age 69 years, in that city. She was a daughter of the late Dr. ROSE, of Covington. Hal ROGERS, before the war came to Haywood County with his parents when very young, grew into manhood here, being a brother of Rev. J. W. and Dr. W. B. ROGERS. In 1856 he went to the Crimean War and took the part of Russia in the contest. Leaving the service, roamed over Europe at leasure for a couple of years. He practiced law in Tenn., until the outbreak of the civil war, although attaining the rank of major in the Sixth and Nineth Tennessee Infantry, but as a fighter he was never exceeded. After the war, Major ROGERS practiced law and lived in Memphis for several years, moving thence to Arkansas and thence to Galveston, Texas, where he died some 15 years since. May the memory ever be green of him and of the aged lady, who as a beautiful girl became his bride, so long comforted him as a wife, and so deeply mourned him as a widow. Peace be with both.

LAUDERDALE COUNTY NEWS; ENTERPRISE —

Mr. W. A. HINES, an old and well known citizen of the first district, died suddenly last Saturday.

JNO. MURLEY, aged 18, living six miles east of Ripley, was shot in the breast and probably fatally wounded Saturday while playing with an old pistol.

AT 7:30 O’CLOCK yesterday morning, the spirit of Mrs. Cora OLDHAM took its flight. Her death came as a suprise to a great many of her friends, who were not aware that her illness might prove fatal.

CROCKETT COUNTY CLIPPINGS; BELLS SENTINAL [sic] —

Miss Jimmie SENSING, who has been suffering for several months with an infection of the jaw bone is better.

DR. R. W. FLEMING, an old and prominent citizen of Alamo, fell on the ice last Friday and broke his leg just above the knee. On account of his age it is feared that he will have a serious time of it.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

At Rosebud College in Nashville last Wednesday, Mr. E. M. DYES and Miss Belle ESTES, of Orysa, were married. She is a daughter of the late Dr. Lewis ESTES. Mr. DYES is a freight agent of the Tennessee Central Railroad in that city.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT of interest to the people of Brownsville is the marriage of Mr. James WALKER, of Jackson and Miss Nannie NEWELL, of Paducah, Ky., which will occur on the 26th of this month at the home of the bride’s parents in Paducah. Miss NEWELL and Mr. WALKER have both lived in our community.

Dr. & MRS. F. T. GILMORE, of Tuscumbia, Ala., have issued invitations announcing the marriage of their daughter, Mary Louise, to Mr. Walter F. MILLER. Ceremony will be held at the First Methodist Church on Wednesday evening, March 25th.

THE NEWS of Thayer, Kansas publishes the marriage in that city on February 13th of Mr. John Lewis TAYLOR, formerly of this city and Memphis and Miss Inez Grace PALMER, of Thayer. They made their wedding trip to Memphis and then to this county to visit his parents, Mr. & Mrs. R. E. TAYLOR.

QUIET a pretty wedding was solemnized at the Baptist church at 1 p. m. Wednesday, of Miss Marie TALIAFERRO and Mr. J. C. WILLIAMS, of Montgomery, Ala.

MISS VERA LAMBRITH, of Corinth, Miss., and W. J. WILKINS, now of the same town, though reared in this vicinity, were married at the residence of Esq. R. G. HERRING on Wednesday last.

Lee LIVINGSTON left for Texas last Tuesday. He goes with intention of making his home in the Lone Star State.

Mr. B. Y. WILSON and wife of Paris, and Mr. Joel TURNER and wife, of Humboldt, were called here to attend the bedside of Miss Ethel TURNER.

ESQ. J. L. WEAVER and wife left last Tuesday on their annual trip for Texas and Indian Territory. They will be gone about a month and will visit their son, Dr. Rush WEAVER, at Sherman, also their daughter, Mrs. HARALSON, in the Territory.