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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm Roll #101, Misc. — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 37 No. 21 — Friday, May 6, 1904

LESTER — the only son of Mr. & Mrs. North J. FORREST aged six years, died at the home of his parents, nine miles east of Brownsville on April 29, 1904 of pneumonia.

MR. WALTER S. BOND — died of his wounds Tuesday morning. His remains were interred in the family cemetery Wednesday morning, Revs. JENKINS, JOHNSON and KING officiating. His father, Mr. James BOND came to this state from North Carolina many years before the Civil War. Walter was the youngest of nineteen children and was only 33 years old when the summons from the grim reaper came.

CAROLINA — They celebrated May Day with a wedding at Mr. & Mrs. James HOLCOMBE’s, Mr. HENRY BRACKEN and MISS ELLA HOLCOMBE were united in the holy bonds of matrimony Sunday, Esq. BOND officiating.

REIN — A new dairyman arrived at Mr. T. O. LEA’s yesterday morning. Young Mr. John LEA, little Johnnie and mother are doing well and Oscar is all smiles.

QUICK AND SPEEDY JUSTICE — THOMAS SEARCY, a colored boy about fifteen years old was lynched in the Nut Bush neighborhood on Thursday of last week. Criminal assault on a little white girl only seven years of age, the daughter of Mr. James LEA, was the revolting crime of which he was guilty. The little girl was on her way home from school late in the afternoon when she was overtaken and assaulted on the public highway by the negro brute. Three unsuccessful attempts were made by the negro to accomplish his purpose. He was finally frightened away by the screams of the little child. W. T. DAVIS, deputy sheriff was taking the negro to Brownsville when they were overhauled by an armed band of disguised men. The prisoner was taken by force and in a short time his lifeless body was dangling from a limb.

RIPLEY ENTERPRISE — A telegram was received here Thursday evening of last week that Frank GLASS died at his home in Harrison, Ark., that afternoon of appendicitis. He was a son of H. D. GLASS and a grandson of the late ex-congressman, P. T. GLASS. Deceased was a brother of Mrs. Max C. WILLIAMS of Ripley and formerly lived here.