Runaway Negro List. Lincoln County. FRANK, very black, 5 ft 2 or 3 in high, 18 or 20 yrs old, thick lips, sour countenance, speaks slow and not distinct, hand on new brown jeans pants, coat of somewhat wor, old wool hat; to COL. SHED, Coffee Co., Tenn. Committed March
Committed to the jail of Lincoln County, on Wednesday, 7th inst., a negro man named Frank. He is of black color, is about twenty five years of age, about five feet four or five inches high, is heavy built, does not speak plain, has whiskers, had on a short cassinet
Lydia WILDMAN keeps a colored boarding house in Chattanooga, Tenn., and has ten young men boarders. An hour after dinner, at which tainted meat had been served all the boarders, Mrs. WILDMAN and her young daughter were taken violently ill, and at last reports were unconscious. The girl and two
A negro preacher by the name of Green TURNER indicted for horse stealing, in the Giles Circuit Court, was convicted last week and sentenced to be hung. Source: Whig & Tribune. 12 August 1871. Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
Esq. J.R. VANN is anxious to learn the whereabouts of the following negroes, all but one of whom recently left his place, after breaking into his house and taking sundry articles. The following are the names: Bill THOMAS, Geo. Washington BLOCKER, Pete, a weak minded boy, and three women, Kizzie,
The Pulaski Citizen says Mr. John JUDKINS, of that vicinity, one night last week shot and killed a negro man, Jim BONNER, whom he caught coming out of his crib with a bag of corn on his shoulder. Source: Whig & Tribune. 7 August 1871. Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American
Mrs. Sarah CRAWFORD, of Knox County, Tennessee, (whose husband was absent, and who resided with her three children, about one hundred miles from her father’s) was most inhumanely murdered on the night of the 28th of July, by negro Jack, the property of Stephen PATE. She was found the next
The following ad is for Dr. G.H. BANDY of 403 S. Cherry Street.
The following deaths were recorded in this issue: James WADE, 612 Ash street, 1 year Edwrd BENNETT, 1110 Pearl street, 8 years Andrew CONNELL, 15 Crutcher street, 36 years Jane HAYNES, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 63 years Jas. TAYLOR, Buchanon, 1108 Pearl street, 7 years Jno. NELSON, 911 Archie street, 50 years
Death of Mr. Kennard – Marshall Kennard, a much esteemed citizen, died Jan. 7, 1907, at the age of 37. His illness was extremely short, being only of a few hours, as this sudden death was the sequence of an operation performed upon his left hand. He rallied nicely from the
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