Mrs. Elizabeth S. BRANHAM, wife of the late A.G. BRANHAM, of this city, died very suddenly Friday night at 12 o’clock at the home of her nephew, J.R. FERGUSON, in Montgomery County, four miles from Clarksville. Mrs. BRANHAM was on a visit to relatives in that section of the State,
Mr. Ed MARBLE is very ill Mrs. Addie SATIFIELD is very ill with pneumonia Mr. and Mrs. G.W. HARRIS celebrated the twelfth anniversary of their marriage, Jan. 12, 1907. The visitors were Mrs. Jannie BARKER, Jr., Mrs. Minnie BARKER, Miss Alice ELDRIDGE, of Indian, Md.; Mrs. Alice E. MOODY, Misses
Excerpted from the “Palmyra Notes” column: Master T.J. MOODY’s birthday party, celebrating his 17th year, was largely attended by his classmates and friends of Mt. Herman School. He received some handsome presents from parents and friends. Source: Nashville Globe. 18 January 1907. Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Small Pox Dr. Z. TAYLOR has accepted the appointment as physician to the Small Pox Hospital, in which he reports twenty-two cases, up to date. There are outside cases, here and there, but we know not the number. Dr. TAYLOR requests us to state that the precaution taken by him,
Senator PEART, of Clarksville, died of smallpox a few days since at his residence in that town, and on Tuesday both branches of the legislature adjourned to respect his memory. Source: Bolivar Bulletin, January 27, 1866.
In our last number we announced the success of the Tennessee Orphan Asylum Society, in purchasing the noble mansion of Thos. MUNFORD, Esq., near Clarksbille. We have now to record the munificent donation of $2,500 from the Ladies’ Southern Orphan Aid Society, of Boone county, Missouri. This is not the first gift from Mo.,
It is our painful duty to chronicle another terrible railroad accident, this time occurring on the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad. The train which leaves the latter city at 4:30 pm, and known as train No. 2, ran off the track two hundred yards north of Budd’s Creek. The engine
A locomotive and four cars were plunged into the Cumberland river at Clarksville last Friday week, by the giving away of a span of the railroad bridge. Fourteen or fifteen persons were on the train at the time of the accident, only one of whom was killed, although several persons
The venerable Cave Johnson, Senator elect from the counties of Robertson, Montgomery and Stewart, and who was elected without opposition, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Senator Peart, has been denied the right to take his seat. Mr. Johnson was born in the district which has just
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