Title: Shot and Mortally Wounded His Cousin Newport, Tenn., June 19 – Another killing occurred in Cocke county last Saturday morning, in the southern part of the county, in a section called Grassy Fork, when Robert FORD shot and killed his second cousin, Horace FORD. It was another case of
Title: News from Clover Bottom Mrs. Maude ELLIS has recently been the guest of her father, J.N. DOLEN. Source: Kingsport Times, March 22, 1916
Mrs. Nannie KINGSLEY, whose residence until within the past few years was near Greeneville, died a the residence of a daughter on last Thursday. Her body will be brought to Greeneville for burial today. Miss KINGSLEY before her marriage, which was before the civil war, was a WORELY. She was
Title: Double Funeral Held at Greeneville Greeneville, Tenn., June 19 – The funeral of J.T. FITZGERALD and T.A. FITZGERALD took place at the M.E. Church at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon conducted by the pastor, W.R. OLIVER, and was very largely attended. In fact no funeral service in Greeneville in a
Title: Trouble is Expected Chattanooga, Tenn., Wednesday, 21 — The police fear the trouble of last night will be greater today during the funeral of Ed JOHNSON, but the city officers and militia believe they have the situation in hand, as the negroes seem to lack organization. Orders have been issued
We have received the first number of a new paper published at Trenton, by F.M. HOLBROOK, called the Trenton News. It is a neat eight page paper, with patent outside and appears to be well conducted. There may be room for two papers at Trenton, but in our opinion one good one would
A man named LYONS was killed by a negro man in Wilson county one night last week. He with twelve or fifteen others went to the negroe’s [sic] disguised, and demanded admittance. The negro fired, killing LYONS. Source: Whig and tribune. (Jackson, Tenn.), 02 Sept. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of
The Dyersburg Gazette of the 26th ult., chronicles the death of Lennie STOKES by drowning in a creek on the Chestnut Bluff road. She had been in bad health for some time, and it supposed to be a case of suicide. Source: Whig and tribune. (Jackson, Tenn.), 02 Sept. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic
Wm. H. WISENER Jr., of Shelbyville, some months since had a difficulty with an Express Agent name STAHLMAN, at Shelbyville, and shot him several times with a revolver. He has just had his trial at Shelbyville, and been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. He asks for Executive pardon,
Almond L. DAVIS, an old Cumberland river steamboat man – with whom the writier of this went to school fifty years ago – died at his residence, at Sligo, Dekalb county, last week. Source: Whig and tribune. (Jackson, Tenn.), 02 Sept. 1871. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033435/1871-09-02/ed-1/seq-2/>
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