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,
Rev. Giles Davis, formerly pastor of Baker’s Chapel C.M.E. Church, preached here last Tuesday night to a large and appreciative audience. Prof. G. W. Hynes made two exhibitions of his fine scene plays here last week. Mrs. Emma Dozier spent last Sunday at Edgefield Junction. Miss Anna L. Hendricks is
The whole number of voters registered in Sumner county up to the present time, foot up to one hundred and five. Before the war, the vote stood at three thousand. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 29 Sept. 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
Murder of a Justice of the Peace in Sumner County, Tenn. – John M. SMART, Esq., was killed on the 12th inst., while at work. He was a justice of the peace for the sixteenth civil district, Sumner county, Tennessee. Esquire SMART was elected in March, 1864, under the proclamation
Died, at Gallatin, Sumner county, Tenn., on the 25th of September, 1865, Olive BONHAM, aged eighty-six years, one month and ten days. Mother BONHAM was born in Loudon county, Va., whence she moved with her father, Isaac SAFFELLE, to Greene county, Tenn. She was united in marriage in the year
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