{"id":1787,"date":"2026-01-14T00:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:35:22","slug":"abstracts-from-the-brownsville-states-graphic-newspaper-december-16-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/abstracts-from-the-brownsville-states-graphic-newspaper-december-16-1904\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (December 16, 1904)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transcribed by <strong>Sarah Midyett Hutcherson<\/strong> in 2000-2002 for the USGenWeb Archives.&nbsp; No copyright infringement is intended. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050512053401\/http:\/\/ftp.rootsweb.com\/pub\/usgenweb\/tn\/haywood\/newspapers\/graphic-1904.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the original page at the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n<p>Note:&nbsp; The TNGenWeb Project does not endorse the use of culturally insensitive language.&nbsp; On this abstract, please note certain original words are included for context.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Source:&nbsp; Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives Microfilm Roll #101, Misc. &#8212; <em>States Graphic<\/em> &#8212; Brownsville, Tennessee &#8212; Volume 38 No. 1 &#8212; Friday, December 16, 1904<\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL AND PERSONAL &#8212; Mr. &amp; Mrs. L. C. NEWMAN of Stanton announce the marriage of their daughter, Bettye to Mr. John Freeman BROWNE of Yum Yum, Tenn. Ceremony will be at the Presbyterian church on January 4th, 1905.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">TIBBS<\/span> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Miss Lula HARPER and nephew, Willie BURTON of Nashville are visiting their uncle, Mr. G. H. HARPER.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mrs. Maria WATERS of Hollow Rock is visiting her brother, Mr. G. H. HARPER.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">BELLS<\/span> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">J. D. HALL has sold the electric light plant to George BROOKS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">L. G. GOODMAN is going to move to Arkansas in a few days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">J. D. BRIDGES and family of the Cypress vicinity moved to Arkansas Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Amps WORRELL has sold his residence in Bells and will move to Memphis the first of January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mr. John BELL, formerly of Crockett county, died at Humboldt December 5th, aged 73 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Last Thursday evening, a negro cabin on Green HUGHES farm, north of town was destroyed by fire and a four-year-old child which was left in the house burned to death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mr. Fritz Nieman of St. Louis, formerly of Bells, died Monday and his remains were brought to Bells Tuesday and interred in Bellview Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>NUT BUSH &#8212; The report came today that Mr. James KIRKESS exchanged shots with a negro, the negro it is said drew a pistol and insulted him and Mr. KIRKESS got his shotgun to defend himself and the negro who was in Mr. KIRKESS&#8217; barn lot, brandished his weapon and dared Mr. KIRKESS to come out, which he did, he shot at the negro and the negro shot at him twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in 2000-2002 for the USGenWeb Archives.&nbsp; No copyright infringement is intended. &nbsp;Click here to view the original page at the Internet Archive. 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Source:&nbsp; Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives Microfilm Roll #101, Misc. &#8212; States Graphic &#8212; Brownsville, Tennessee &#8212; Volume 38 No. 1 &#8212; Friday, December 16, 1904 SOCIAL AND&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/abstracts-from-the-brownsville-states-graphic-newspaper-december-16-1904\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,17,28,55,47,16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-communities","category-families-individuals","category-migration-settlement","category-newspapers-periodicals","category-professions-and-professionals","category-vital-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}