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MYRTLE daughter of W. R. and Mary S. ROBERTS born Nov. 1882; died Nov. 30, 1883.
JAMES SAMUEL son of R. N. and Eliza UTLEY born Sept. 28, 1878; died Oct. 29, 1883.
January 12, 1884
LUCINDA ALICE daughter of A. J. and Nancy B. BURUM born Roane Co., Tenn., Sept. 22, 1854; died there, Oct. 5, 1883.
Capt. T. R. HUGHES died Clifton, Tenn., Nov. 21, 1883 aged about 59 years, from injuries sustained in a runaway buggy situation; "a man of means;" Cumberland Presbyterian. Lt. -Colonel in Confederate army (POW, Johnson Island); freemason.
Miss CORNELIA LIVINGSTON, an orphan, died Dec. 2, 1883.
GEORGE C. son of Rev. Isaac and J. R. MILNER born Lauderdale Co., Ala., Dec. 19, 1852 and soon taken to live in Maury Co., Tenn.; married Fannie Cooper (died Nov. 9, 1881), 1873; three children; died [date not given] in Mexico in house of Mr. McCarthy "an American miner and was given by him a decent burial."
ELIZABETH R. PHILIPS, nee Alexander, born Lauderdale Co., Ala., Oct. 22, 1846; married William A. Philips, Oct. 10, 1867 (six children); died July 15, 1883.
Tribute to memory of MAGGIE RHODES by fellow members of the Clopten Methodist Church and Sunday School, where she had been a teacher; dated Dec. 11, 1883.
Tribute to memory of RICHARD B. MOORE born Jan. 1838; died Oct. 2, 1883; by 4th Quarterly Conference, McKenzie, Tennessee, Memphis Annual Conference, dated Dec. 8, 1883.
SARAH FRANCIS RIGGS died Dec. 2, 1883 aged about 35 years; wife of John Riggs and mother of six children.
BETTIE ANN ELIZA CORNELIUS born Alcorn, Miss., July 20, 1868; died Lamar Co., Texas, Oct. 19, 1883.
LIZA DANELA daughter of Rev. C. W. and Mary F. PRICE born Morgan Co., Ala., Feb. l9, 1856; died Dec. 9, 1883; joined Methodist Church, 1870. "She loved the songs of Zion and the Bible."
ROBERT T. PHILLIPS died Taylor Co., Ky., Dec. 2, 1883 in 30th year of his age, typhoid fever; married Lizzie Nelson, Dec. 25, 1879 (one daughter, one son); professed religion at Union Band Methodist Church, Nelson Co., Ky., 1880; husband and father.
MATTIE daughter of Samuel R. and Fannie W. HARRILLE died Newnansville, Fla., Oct. 12, 1883 aged ten years; three other of their children predeceased her.
MORGAN ROYSTER born Marshall Co., Tenn., Aug. 12, 1858; moved with his father, J. W. Royster to Texas, 1877; died Nov. 29, 1883.
N. H. PREWITT died Dec. 25, 1883 aged about 22 years; notice of his death sent in by Dr. T. E. Prewitt.
MARY wife of Rev. Henry HANESWORTH born New Madrid, MO, Aug. 17, 1852; alumna, Howard Female College; married Aug. 10, 1875; died Piedmont, MO, Nov. 8, 1883; three children.
P. L. daughter of Rev. Henry Speck, North Carolina Annual (Meth.) Conference; born Stokes Co., N. C.; married Rev. W. L. WILSON, July 7, 1876; died Elyton, Ala., Dec. 7, 1883.
MARY VIOLET wife of William CARR born about 1848; death date not given; wife and mother (four children).
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AUSTIN SIMMS son of Charles W. and Mattie S. McKNIGHT born Aug. 1, 1881; died Nov. 1883.
January 19, 1884
Miss BETTIE RAITT died Big Spring, Ky., Nov. 5, 1883, typhoid fever.
W. A. COLEMAN born Va., Sept. 2, 1828; died Nov. 22, 1883, Mt. Zion, Tenn.
JOHNNY T. son of Daniel R. and Mary A. WRIGHT born Greene Co., Ala., May 19, 1858; died Nov. 16, 1883 on the way to visit his sister, Mrs. C. B. Cook, Pickens Co., Ala.; buried in Gainesville, Ala.; joined Methodist Church, July 1883.
MARY JOSEPHINE daughter of P. Nealey and Jane Anderson born Nov. 10, 1858; married G. B. BARNES, Jan. 24, 1877; died Franklin Co., Ark., no date given; mother of Virgil Barnes.
JOSEPH W. son of Alfred and Helen ROSS born Sept. 2, 1837; died June 1, 1883; husband and father.
Mrs. LUCINDA CAPSHAW born June 2, 1839; died Smithville, Tenn., Dec. 19, 1883.
AMANDA L. GRIGSBY died Mt. Washington, Ky., Sept. 16, 1882 in the 51st year of her age; wife and mother (six children).
ARABELLA DEMARIUS HOLLAND, nee Cowzert, born April 11, 1858; died Sept. 14, 1883; wife and mother.
LILLIE daughter of Dr. J. S. and A. M. PURSLEY born Cornersville, Tenn., July 31, 1872; died Lewisburg, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1883.
EUGENIA A. daughter of James E. and Narcissus NORTH born Dec. 3, 1867; died near Broken Arrow, Ala., Nov. 25, 1883.
WILLIAM GUFFEY son of G. W. and Lucinda L. TROTTER born Hopkins Co., Ky., Sept. 12, 1882; died there, July 21, 1883.
Mrs. MAGGIE HALL born July 9, 1846; died Oct. 28, 1883; wife and mother. Cumberland Presbyterian.
FRANKIE son of F. M. NORFLEET and wife died Sept. 22, 1883 aged 4 years. Senatobia, Miss.
BRADEN ALVIN son of G. T. and Lula BAGGETT, formerly of Tenn., born Mar. 14, 1883; died Hill Co., Texas, Dec. 11, 1883.
GEORGIA ANN wife of Judge H. M. EVANS, Ashland, Ala., died Nov. 25, 1883 aged 37 years; seven children.
MARY E. daughter of Captain and Mrs. Jimison born Cooper Co., MO, Mar. 16, 1848; married Middleton F. WILSON, Dec. 16, 1881; died Eldorado, Miss., Nov. 13, 1883.
January 26, 1884
Mrs. SUE A. COKE born July 13, 1857; married James T. Coke "of South Side," Dec. 20, 1882; died Dec. 13, 1883.
ALLEN MERIWETHER son of Dr. H. B. and Ella MORER, Henning, Tenn., born Jan. 6, 1880; died Dec. 21, 1883.
Sisters: Mrs. MOLLIE COLLIER died Dec. 1, 1883; wife and mother (two children); Miss JEMIMA CHAPMAN died Dec. 24, 1883.
JOHN C. BEATTY born Sept. 28, 1861; died Dec. 17, 1879; middle Tennessee.
JOHN F. FOSTER born Macon Co., N. Carolina, July 16, 1861; married M. A. Curtis, Oct. 22, 1882 (one child); died Nov. 25, 1883.
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F. E. SMITH born Christian Co., Ky., July 18, 1837; married (l) John W. Boyd (died 1859), Nov. 5, 1855; (2) Arthur Smith, Mar. 1, 1863; one daughter; two granddaughters; died Ballard Co., Ky., Dec. 29, 1883.
MARY ELIZABETH daughter of Rev. William S. and Mary S. Johns born Aug. 1, 1857; married Charly HATTOX; died Dec. 23, 1883; two children.
LILLY FLORENCE daughter of D. H. and M. E. RUSSELL born Macon Co., N. Carolina, Dec. 12, 1876; died Oct. 29, 1883.
February 2, 1884
Dr. BRANCH W. B. WALTON born July 25, 1859; alumnus, Vanderbilt University; died Shelby Co., Tenn., Dec. 25, 1883.
S. D. FOSTER born Aug. 6, 1868; died Nov. 14, 1883.
LEILA IRENE daughter of W. W. and Annie E. GRAVES born Aug. 29, 1879; died Nov. 28, 1883.
JULIA CATHARINE daughter of Thomas M. and Cynthia CARTWRIGHT born Oct. 21, 1861; died Nov. 28, 1883.
LEONORA CUSTIS daughter of W. L. and Mary Charlton born Davidson Co., Tenn., Aug. 27, 1846; married C. J. Ellis, 1866 (eleven children); died Nov. 5, 1883.
Mrs. EMMA DOUGLASS ANDERSON, nee Wallace, born Nov. 21, 1859; died Sept. 27, 1883; no children.
JENNIE P. daughter of D. C. Edmondson born Williamson Co., Tenn., Feb. 28, 1861; married George LEAMAN, Oct. 24, 1882; died July 7, 1883.
ELIZA EMALINE daughter of I. S. and Sarah Rogers born Calhoun Co., Miss., Dec. 11, 1854; married Rev. C. V. OSWALT, Nov. 23, 1879 (two children); died Bell Co., Texas (to which place she had moved in April 1882), Dec. 26, 1883.
LILA daughter of R. M. and Mary Richardson LESESNE died born Mar. 1879; died Centerville, Texas, Dec. 20, 1883.
DORA ELLEN daughter of Thomas A. McMURRY and wife, born July 4, 1879; died Dec. 27, 1883.
EDWIN B. son of James G. and Louisa ALEXANDER born Jan. 12, 1859; died Greene Co., Tenn., Sept. 18, 1883; a little deceased brother named Bobbie mentioned.
ADDIE PURNELL died Pleasant College, Nantiziany, China, Nov. 14, 1883 aged 8 years.
LAURA JOHNSON daughter of Major William Johnson, Franklin Co., Tenn.; born in that county, Dec. 8, 1845; died Waverly, Tenn., Sept. 21, 1883; wife of Hon. T. L. LANIER.
Tribute to memory of Mrs. ELLEN CATHEY by the Marvin Circle, Methodist Church, Jackson, Tenn., dated January 4, 1884.
ERNEST BRIGHT son of W. T. and F. E. JOYCE born Tarrant Co., Texas, Nov. 9, 1878; died Jan. 2, 1884, meningitis. His grandfather was I. W. Royster.
THOMAS MURRAY son of Rev. T. J. TAYLOR, North Miss. Annual (Meth.)Conference, born Ripley, Miss., Feb. 16, 1878; died Egypt, Miss., Dec. 8, 1883.
February 9, 1884
Mrs. MARY S. HITE "Grandma Hite", member of Mt. Holly Methodist Church, Ark.; recently deceased.
Mrs. MARY S. FILHIET died Little Rock, Ark., recently; a daughter, Mrs. England.
Mrs. MARY DUNN died Little Rock, Ark., recently.
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Hon. W. L. WEATHERS born Nelson Co., Ky., 1846; moved to Todd Co., Ky., 1854 and then to Clarksville, Tenn., 1866 (a merchant); to Mayfield, Ky., 1869 (lawyer); served in Kentucky Senate, 1882; married Lizzie daughter of Hon. John I. Irvan, Jan. 16, 1878 (one daughter, two sons); died Calloway Co., Ky., Nov. 30, 1883.
KATE daughter of John W. and Malinda Hite born Guyandotte, Va., Sept. 3, 1844; married Judge Ira McGINNIS, Sept. 1881; died in childbirth (child stillborn), Jan. 2, 1884.
Rev. THOMAS FRANKLIN son of Timothy and Sallie LASSITER born Jan. 12, 1833; married Nancy Walling, June 11, 1852; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, 1867; died Nov. 3, 1883. A Masonic tribute to his memory, Goodlettsville Lodge 271, undated.
JOSEPH N. POOL born May 12, 1847; died Lauderdale Co., Ala., Oct. 22, 1883; member of Salem Methodist Church; husband and father (three children, one, OLEE JOE, born Jan. 6, 1883; died Jan. 24, 1883).
IDA daughter of H. R. and Mollie MINNICK born Seymour, Ind., Dec. 25, 1877; died Obion Co., Tenn., Sept. 16, 1882. Another daughter, LIDA, born Jan. 18, 1883; died of meningitis, Nov. 23, 1883.
EDWIN BROWN only child of Charles H. and Jennie K. ADAMS born Nov. 5, 1880; died Montague, Texas, Nov. 21, 1883; nephew of R. K. Brown.
CLARENCE RIVERS son of Dr. H. C. MORRISON died of accidental gunshot wounds, Jan. 1, 1884.
ARTHUR MARCUS SIMPSON born Jan. 1855; died Nov. 2, 1883. Huntsville, Alabama.
February 16, 1884
Rev. ROBERTSON L. son of Robert FAGAN born Rutherford Co., Tenn., Jan. 22, 1823; served in Methodist ministry, Tennessee Annual Conference; twice married, father of an only son, Rev. F. F. Fagan, dec.; died Pulaski, Tenn., Feb. 2, 1884. [additional notice, he was licensed to preach in 1850; joined Tennessee Conference in 1851]
S. H. ACOX, Henderson Co. Tenn. married MARY ABERNATHY, in residence of A. Austin, Henderson Co., January 17, 1884.
BETHENY ADALINE wife of Rev. Wilson WILLIAMS, North Alabama Annual (Meth.) Conference; born Jasper Co., Ga., Nov. 25, 1823; married April 16, 1840 (nine children, including a son, Thomas); died Morgan Co., Ala., Jan. 4, 1884.
MARY E.. daughter of Dr. Daniel A. and Martha J. Reeder born Lauderdale Co., Ala., Mar. 24, 1849; married J. M. POTTERFIELD, Jan. 13, 1869 (seven children); died Jan. 13, 1884 (her wedding anniversary).
ELLEN COATES, nee Moore, born Madison Co., Tenn., June 15, 1849; married W. C. Coates, Jan. 8, 1866 and moved to Greene Co., Ark.; died August 30, 1883. Her husband died in his father's home, Bolivar, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1883.
Mrs. [DENETIA H.] HAMILTON wife of Frank Hamilton, daughter of W. R. Walsh, died Jackson, Tenn., Jan. 5, 1884; four children, the youngest 2 weeks old. [Her tombstone in Riverside Cemetery, Jackson, provides her dates: Dec. 2, 1850-Jan. 6, 1884.]
ROBERT LIGGETT BOYD born Shelby Co., Ky., Sept. 16, 1828; died Louisville, Ky., Jan. 2, 1884; moved with parents to Hancock Co., Ky. when he was 14 years old; married Margaret McClarty, Hardinsburg, Ky.; located on a farm near Owensboro, Ky., 1858; joined Methodist Church, 1860; wife died 1874 leaving 1 dau., 3 sons; he married Mrs. Mattie Vaughn (died Aug. 1879), 1878; married, thirdly, to Maggie E. Skeen, Dec. 1880. Louisville, Ky.
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WILLIE MURPHY born in Ill., June 16, 1863; died Robertson Co., Tenn., Jan. 5, 1884.
WILLIAM ELDRIDGE MORDIS born Nov. 17, 1865; died Obion Co., Tenn., Dec. 20, 1883; formerly of Marshall Co., Ky.
ELIZABETH wife of Travis LONG born 1847; died Sept. 28, 1883; four children. Kentucky.
EDGAR son of James E. and Rosa BAKER born Sept. 1879; died Jan. 3, 1884.
MARY A. daughter of Rev. M. C. Martin, dec., born DeKalb Co., Ga., May 14, 1833; died near Rome, Ga., Oct. 19, 1883; married Robert Lindsey BRINSFIELD; several ch.
Tribute to memory of WILLIE FRANK McFERRIN born Dec. 9, 1867; died Collierville, Tenn., Jan. 9, 1884; by Collierville Methodist Sunday School, undated.
GEORGE W. STEELE born Feb. 5, 1839; died Johnson co., Ark., Dec. 26, 1883; married (1) Adaline Dewese, Sept. 13, 1857 (three children, all deceased); (2) Mahala J. Kilgrove, Nov. 23, 1862 (nine children). Methodist.
MARTHA T. wife of H. W. STRATTON born Jan. 12, 1842; died Jan. 15, 1884.
WILLIE FRANK JOHNSON born July 20, 1874; died Dec. 24, 1883. Dickson Co., Tenn.
HOMER son of J. H. and M. E. CAMPBELL born Sept. 25, 1883; died Jan. 8, 1884.
FRANK ROBINSON born Nov. 15, 1881; died Jan. 17, 1884. Grand Junction, Tenn.
Dr. A. H. JONES died Florence, Ala., Feb. 8, 1884.
March 1, 1884
Judge B. S. [BENAJAH SMITH] BIBB, Montgomery, Ala., died Feb. 17, 1884.
MARTHA A. MOURNING, nee Collison, born Adair Co., Ky., Mar. 2, 1828; married Judge J. D. Mourning, Mar. 4, 1847 (two sons, four daughters); joined Methodist Church, 1841; an invalid; died Dec. 6, 1883. Columbia, Kentucky.
GEORGE BUTLER son of Capt. J. G. and Virginia CRAWFORD, Macon Co., N. Carolina, born Dec. 21, 1860; had worked in Atlanta, Ga.; died at home, Jan. 12, 1884.
FOUNTAIN E. PITTS son of H. R. and Frances SHORES born Franklin Co., Tenn., about 1859; moved to Grayson Co., TX, Oct. 1880; died Jan. 20, 1884.
SALLIE FLORENCE oldest daughter of Rev. J. W. and M. A. LUTER born Ripley, Miss., Nov. 15, 1867; died from burn injuries, Jan. 19, 1884 and buried in Grenada, Miss. Tribute to her memory by fellow pupils at Grenada District High School, undated.
REBECCA JANE COKE, nee Crowe, born Nov. 26, 1831; married L. T. Coke, Nov. 23, 1856 and moved to Dickson Co., Tenn., Feb. 1857 and to Montgomery Co., Tenn., Feb. 1865 where she died from erysipelas, Jan. 17, 1884; wife and mother.
DORA JENKINS born in Tenn., Oct. 1, 1856; moved with parents to California, 1874; died Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 5, 1884.
FRANCIS WRIGHT born Jefferson Co., Kansas, April 4, 1860; fell 81 feet from Duck River bridge, Hickman Co., Tenn. and died Oct. 21, 1883.
BERENICE daughter of R. R. and Hinion ROBERSON died Oct. 20, 1883 aged "a little over" four years old.
JOHN S. son of Anderson and Sallie STANLEY born Nov. 19, 1881; died LaFayette Co., MO, Jan. 19, 1884, "the angels took their dear little boy to heaven."
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MOLLIE wife of John PARSONS born Sept. 10, 1861; died Dec. 2, 1882; surviving her was a two year old daughter; buried in Burns Cemetery, Bedford Co., Tenn.
FRANK KENNER VAUGHAN born Sumner Co., Tenn., June 20, 1859; died near Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 14, 1883.
CATHARINE wife of Josiah D. WILLIAMS, formerly of Memphis; born Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov. 25, 1829; married Mar. 30, 1848; died Crawford Co., Ark., Jan. 12, 1884.
MOODY C. son of Thomas and Martha Porter KING born near Tarboro, N. Carolina, 1823; at 4 years of age moved with his parents to Gibson Co., Tenn., then to Smith Co., Tenn., and went to California, gold-rushing in 1850; married Mattie McMurray, 1856; died near Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 6, 1884.
Mrs. M. E. REID, near Trenton, Tenn., died Nov. 22, 1883 "near" 60 years of age in the home of her son, M. M. Reid; buried Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
Tribute in memory of Rev. ROBERT FORESTER who died Nov. 16, 1883; by 4th Quarterly Conference, Whistler Street Methodist Church, Mobile, Alabama Dist., Alabama Annual Conference; undated.
CHARLIE son of John W. and S. S. CROWNOVE born Feb. 1882; died Lawrence Co., Ala., Jan. 15, 1884.
KITTIE daughter of Capt. S. J. and Susan Rollow born Conway Co., Ark., Jan. 21, 1860; moved to Hope, Ark.; married Dr. W. C. MARBERRY, 1879 (two children); died Jan. 8, 1884.
MARY C. wife of Joseph HICKS born Henderson Co., Ky., Jan. 27, 1847; died Jan. 10, 1884; married in 1862.
MARTHA ELIZABETH (Bettie) daughter of J. R. and Mary L. Orr born July 10, 1858; married J. Houston POTTS, Feb. 5, 1880; died of malarial fever, Jan. 22, 1884. Granddaughter of W. M. Shaw.
RICHARD FRANKLIN son of W. B. and Rena F. WILSON born Nov. 30, 1882; died Jan. 22, 1884, pneumonia; buried in old Unionville Cemetery.
ANNA S. daughter of G. W. and Mary E. POOR born May 19, 1870; died Feb. 3, 1884.
Mrs. LOUISA M. WILLIAMS born Mar. 27, 1841; died Prentiss Co., Miss., Dec. 24, 1883; wife and mother.
JOHN ROBERT son of Samuel C. and Frances C. PORTER born Dec. 30, 1881; died Oct. 10, 1883.
Rev. JAMES W. STAHL born Baltimore, Md., 1828; moved to Galena, Ill. (a merchant); thence to California, 1862 where he was a Methodist preacher; died in Oregon, June 30, 1883; buried in Roseburg Cemetery.
Rev. WILSON C. son of William J. and Margaret C. HENDERSON born Madison Co., Tenn., Oct. 16, 1860; joined Methodist Church, Sept. 1877; died Jackson, Tenn., Oct. 5, 1883. Methodist preacher.
BESSIE M. daughter of Judge GRAY; granddaughter of Rev. Thomas J. Fisher, a Baptist preacher; died Dec. 25, 1883 when "not quite 13 years of age "
MARY wife of James M. DENNIS born McLean Co., Ky., Jan. 20, 1825; married Nov. 2, 1843; died Jan. 25, 1884.
WILLIAM SMITH HERVEY born Greene Co., Tenn., Aug. 3, 1833; moved with parents to Sullivan Co., MO, 1851; married Honar Bowman, 1856 and moved to Oregon, 1864 and died there, June 13, 1883; husband and father (five children).
ELIZABETH wife of James JONES born Fayette Co., Tenn., Aug. 18, 1839; married Dec. 21, 1865; joined Methodist Church, Aug. 3, 1883; died Poinsett Co., Ark., January 23, 1884; no children.
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HIRAM son of Samuel and E. APPLETON died Jan. 26, 1884 aged 11 years.
ANNIE E. daughter of William and Eleanor Smith born Sept. 22, 1826; married A. J. WISEMAN. Mar. 11, 1860 (five children); died Nov. 5, 1883.
WILLIAM HUGHES ROSS. JR. born Jan. 21, 1882; died Feb. 11, 1884.
March 15, 1884
Dr. A. B. STARK died Altoona, Ala., Feb. 22, 1884; his daughter wrote, "We buried him under the pines."
JOHN L. WALTON born Hiseville, Barren Co., Ky., Nov. 10, 1836; died Dec. 1, 1883; married Sophia daughter of Colonel Henry Royalty, Dec. 23, 1858; member of Smith's Grove Methodist Church; son of Rev. George Walton, local Methodist preacher in Louisville Annual Conference.
FLORA A. daughter of Colonel H. O. and Julia Alien born Marshall Co., Miss., June 14, 1847; wife of P. B. JONES; died DeSoto Co., Miss., Dec. 18, 1883; wife and mother.
ROSCOE son of A. P. and R. A. GILMER died recently, a year after his brother, Tanner Gilmer, had died.
ALLIE E. daughter of Thomas and N. E. LOGSDON born Jan. 1883; died Pulaski Co., Ark., Feb. 2, 1884.
NANNIE LEIGH wife of Dr. William DINSMORE. nee Nert, died Town Creek, Ala., Nov. 1883 in the 29th year of her age; married May 25, 1880; her parents lived in Moulton. Alabama.
GILL HENRY died Springfield, Tenn., Dec. 17, 1883 in the 31st year of his age; brother-in-law of C. C. Bell.
HARVY LINN youngest son of Dr. Ed. A. MARTIN died Milam Co., TX, Jan. 12, 1884 aged 14 years.
CLINTON STAMPER born May 16, 1870; died Jan. 5, 1884, "an amiable girl."
WILLIAM W. son of William and Margaret S. KENNEDY died Clay Co., Ala., Jan. 30, 1884 in 23rd year of his age; brother of J. C. Kennedy.
MARY EMILY MARTIN, nee Spivey. born Aug. 2, 1859; married James Martin, 1881 (one child); died Dec. 7, 1883.
NANCY ANN NEWSOM born Rutherford Co., Tenn., Dec. 29, 1861; died Oct. 7, 1883; married James G. GLIMP, Nov. 23, 1882.
Mrs. NANCY JANE HUNT born Feb. 20, 1862; died Jan. 23, 1884.
March 22, 1884
Rev. R. N. FREEMAN son of Rev. Alfred Freeman, North Miss. Annual (Meth.)Conf.; born and reared in Marshall Co., Miss.; served as a Mexican missionary; married Lucy L. daughter of Rev. W. P. Barton; died recently in Mexico City. Tribute by Bethel and Springville, Tenn. Methodist churches, dated Feb. 3, 1884.
DEBBIE CORLIM daughter of Rev. A. B. WRIGHT, Holston Annual (Meth.)Conference, and his wife, Cynthia S.; born Fentress Co. Tenn., Feb. 22, 1863; died Morgan Co., Tenn., Jan. 13, 1884; an invalid for six years.
Rev. MORRIS CAUGHEY son of Jacob E. and Mary J. MILLER born Giles Co., Va., July 26, 1856; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, Aug. 1873; died Council Grove, Kansas, Jan. 3, 1884; married Viola J. Paterson. Albany. Oregon, Aug. 24, 1881; buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Professor GEORGE DILLARD HUGHES born Aug. 1, 1838; alumnus, Emory-Henry College; school teacher and for last three years president of Greenville Female College in Alabama; married Mary daughter of B. R. McKennie, Nashville, Tenn.; died Greenville, Ala., Dec. 17, 1883.
Mrs. CYNTHIA A. C. GLASSGO born Jan. 5, 1831; died Dec. 27, 1883; husband, G. W. Page, died in Confederate army; married a farmer, John Glassgo; no children but mother to two step-children. Shot and killed by Joseph Cook whose family she had visited to assist them.
SARAH wife of Esquire RAMSEY died near Gallatin, Tenn., Feb. 1, 1884 aged 51 years; wife and mother.
GEORGIA BLANKENSHIP. nee Strother, born Madison Co., Ala., Nov. 20, 1843; married W. B. Blankenship, Oct. 17, 1866; died Dallas Co., TX, typhoid fever, Jan. 11, 1884. Her husband died in June 1878.
OCTAVIA daughter of William and Sallie Taylor, Knoxville, Tenn., born near Huntsville, Ala., Mar. 23, 1843; married C. Y. MOORE, 1868 and moved to Shelby Co., Tenn.; died of malaria, DeSoto Co., Miss., Oct. 25, 1883.
FRANCES wife of W. D. FARMER born Apr. 30, 1836; married Dec. 1, 1855 (one son); died Jan. 27, 1884.
MARY daughter of Nig. and Rachel Robeson born Sept. 30, 1834; died Jan. 1, 1884; wife of Jacob DARBY.
WILLIAM ANDREW JACKSON (Jack) BOGGS born June 20, 1864; died Jan. 23, 1884.
JENNIE daughter of C. B. COOK and wife born Mar. 4, 1874; died Pickens Co., Ala., Dec. 31, 1883.
SAMUEL JEFFERSON son of James G. and Elizabeth THOMPSON born Harris Co., Ga., May 5, 1840; married twice (three children, first marriage; two children, second marriage); died Drew Co., Ark., Dec. 7, 1883, pneumonia.
NELLIE daughter of H. H. Curtis; wife of C. H. HUGHES died Jackson, Tenn., Feb. 3, 1884 aged 21 years; surviving was a baby, two weeks old.
MARGARET E. KIRBY, nee Hill, born April 17, 1854; died Feb. 7, 1884; wife of James Kirby.
March 29, 1884
WILLIE FRANK son of John H. McFERRIN, grandson of Rev. William McFerrin; born Nov. 30, 1868; died Collierville, Tenn., Jan. 9, 1884.
RACHEL ELIZABETH wife of James DIX died of apoplexy, Nicholas Co., W. Va., Nov. 28, 1883; a near relative of Stonewall Jackson; wife and mother (4 children).
SALLIE A. daughter of Elias M. DRAKE born Sept. 22, 1864; died Feb. 1, 1884.
Mrs. ORA GRAVES BOWDEN, granddaughter of Rev. R. E. Graves; her father, O. P. WEIGART, died when she was a child; born Weakley Co., Tenn., Dec. 25, 1860; married G. W. Bowden, Nov. 25, 1882; graduate, McTyeire Institute, McKenzie, Tenn.; died Martin, Tenn., Jan. 25, 1884.
WILLIAM HENRY son of James W. and Martha J. NANCE born in his grandfather Hunt's residence, Maury Co., Tenn., April 21, 1847; married Lou C. Rodgers, Jan. 8, 1872; died a mile from Cornersville, Tenn., Feb. 8, 1884; lived several years in Bolivar, Mississippi.
JOHN M. son of Rev. M. B. and Caroline HAVNER born Marion Co., Tenn., Dec. 7, 1858; moved with parents to Ark., 1869; died Dec. 2, 1883.
VANNIE J. daughter of Thomas W. and Elizabeth BRYANT born near Mooresville, TN, Sept. 21, 1883; died there, Feb. 11, 1884.
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JOANNA F. daughter of Uriah and Elizabeth SHERRILL born Jan. 22, 1848; married George M. ESTIS; died Coal City, Ga., Jan. 31, 1884.
FRANCES M. HINSON born Orange Co., N. Carolina, Nov. 22, 1841; died Fayette Co., Tenn. (date not given); wife and mother.
April 5, 1884
Rev. WILLIAM BOLLS son of Fletcher and Martha WHITESIDE born Hempstead Co., Ark., Feb. 20, 1853; married Mary Caroline Livingston, Nevada Co., Ark., Oct. 23, 1878; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, 1878; died October 21, 1883.
JAMES P. WILLIAMS born July 4, 1845; died Clay Co., Ala., Jan. 23, 1884.
ALTEZERA S. daughter of Devereaux JARRETT; wife of J. P. HOLLOWELL; died near Salem, Rutherford Co., Tenn., Feb. 11, 1884 in the 39th year of her age; wife and mother.
ROBERT LEE youngest son of Dr. J. A. and S. J. WESTERFIELD born Oct. 25, 1866; died of brain fever, Atkins, Ark., Feb. 2, 1884.
SOPHRANA wife of Ed. WILLIAMS, Lake Co., Tenn., born Graves Co., Ky., Oct. 29, 1861; married in 1881; died Dec. 2, 1883; a step-mother.
VICTORIA TRAVIS wife of I. N. McCULLOUGH born Aug. 3, 1846; married Nov. 22, 1871; died Feb. 18, 1884.
AMBROSE F. D. GOODWIN born Talladega Co., Ala., April 11, 1833; married Mary J. Haley, January 1855 (eight children); died recently; husband and father.
Mrs. JANE GAVIN. nee Mosley, born July 8, 1829; married John Gavin, Dec. 27, 1849; died Lebanon, Tenn., Nov. 19, 1883.
Mrs. CYNTHIA A. MILLS, Daviess Co., Ky., recently.
Tribute to memory of JOHN W. RAITT; by a quarterly conference, Cloverport, Ala., dated Jan. 21, 1884.
BEULAH FARACE daughter of J. A. BURTON born Feb. 16, 1877; died Feb. 15, 1884.
Miss NANNIE K. HAGGARD born Smith Co., Tenn., Apr. 29, 1862; died Dec. 16, 1883.
April 12, 1884
BETTIE W. wife of Rev. E. K. BRANSFORD, Memphis Annual (Meth.) Conference, died Hickman, Ky. March 21, 1884.
LUCY A. daughter of George H. and Jane Prince born Carroll Co., Tenn., Dec. 7, 1851; married R. A. BRYANT, Nov. 19, 1868 (two children); died Jan. 18, 1884.
W. B. son of B. F. and Sarah A. JONES born Carroll Co., Tenn., Sept. 9, 1861; died Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 25, 1884; grandson of Yancey Moore, who was one of the pioneer Methodists of west Tennessee; moved to Sharon, Tenn., 1880, where he clerked for his uncle, C. W. Moore (& Company), then went to work in Nashville about January 1, 1884; took measles and died; buried in family graveyard close to where he was born. [This was Willis B. Jones.]
JULIA CABLE wife of George LESTER died Jan. 18, 1884.
MARY CAROLINE youngest daughter of Rev. C. N. McLEOD, North Ala. Annual (Meth.) Conference, born Macon Co., Ala., July 8, 1868; died near Rome, Ga., Feb. 17, 1884.
MINNIE daughter of J. B. and Mary E. CARPENTER born Hart Co., Ky., Oct. 10, 1882; died Sept. 23, 1884.
JINNIE daughter of George and Maggie VOYLES born Alcorn Co., Miss., Sept. 4, 1871; died Hardin Co., Tenn., Oct. 26, 1883.
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AMANDA J. wife of B. L. HAILE born Calloway Co., Ky., Feb. 27, 1865; married Aug. 22, 1883; died of congestive chill, Hickman Co., Ky., Dec. 19, 1883.
Sons of J. F. and Julia LEACH: PRINCE H. LEACH born Aug. 24, 1880; died Feb. 9, 1884. ARTHUR E. LEACH born Jan. 27, 1876; died Feb. 17, 1884.
J. ALBERT son of Burrell and Jane CHOWNING born July 3, 1856; died Clay Co., Tenn., May 4, 1883.
LENA M. daughter of Thomas and Mary JORDAN born Hickman Co., Ky., June 22, 1861; married Ben F. Shaw, Oct. 4, 1882; died Feb. 26, 1884; buried in Oakwood Cemetery.
Dr. D. M. EDMUNSON died in residence of his step-father, J. M. Barnett, near Claybrook, Madison Co., Tenn., recently, aged 48 years. Baptist. [4-6-1834 = 2-1-1884]
April 19, 1884
ROBERT G. GAINES born Dec. 11, 1837; died Feb. 24, 1884; joined Methodist Church in Green Co., Ky., Sept. 9, 1859; husband and father.
MARY daughter of Robert E. and Fannie NORTHERN born Nov. 6, 1859; died Davidson Co., Tenn., Feb. 19, 1884.
Mrs. HANNAH MOORE born Belper, Derbyshire, England, Feb. 1828; died in Larned, Kansas, Jan. 18, 1884 in her son's home.
ELLA V. daughter of W. S. and Rosa McBRIDE born Oct. 23, 1862; joined Methodist Church, Sept. 1873; died Feb. 24, 1884. Sisters of Rev's. H. S. and G. W. McBride, Tennessee Annual (Meth.) Conference. Buried at Nebo.
WILLIAM D. CONNOR born Noxubee Co., Miss., Aug. 19, 1840; died there, Dec. 16, 1883; married Dora E. Stringfellow (died 1882), Dec. 1867.
MARGARET E. HENDERSON born Jan. 9, 1832; married William J. Henderson, Dec. 19, 1850; died Feb. 1, 1884; wife and mother.
Tribute to memory of Capt. JOHN NELSON MARTIN born Athens, Ala., May 15, 1824; died Mooresville, Ala., Feb. 5, 1884; freemason; by Cumberland Presbyterian Sunday School, undated.
RUFUS C. son of John A. and Mary B. LUCY born Roane Co., Tenn., Dec. 20, 1847; moved with parents to Kentucky, Nov. 1862; joined Methodist Church, 1865; married Jane Story, Dec. 9, 1869 (seven children); died from head injuries when a cane mill fell on him, Oct. 19, 1883.
Tribute to memory of JOHN W. RUTLAND by a quarterly conference; undated.
FRANCES M. GARDNER born Jan. 14, 1827; married Dec. 16, 1841; died Nov. 21, 1883.
Mrs. HANNAH E. RUSHING, mother of Rev. J. T. Rushing, Louisville Annual (Meth.) Conference; born in 1827; died February 22, 1884.
April 26, 1884
ELIZABETH daughter of Charles H. and Mary SEAY born Nov. 22, 1836; died Feb. 19, 1884; her father now 84 years old.
Tribute to memory of W. S. MONTGOMERY, assistant superintendent of Methodist Sunday School at Winton's Chapel, Holston Annual (Meth.) Conference, undated.
JOHNNY MOSS born Robertson Co., Tenn., 1863; died Feb. 4, 1884.
SALLIE L. daughter of W. C. and Theodosia SMITH born Lincoln Co., Tenn., June 25, 1849; died March 1, 1884.
JULIAN son of Judge William M. and Julia SMITH born Brownsville, Tenn., Oct. 7, 1864; died in hospital at U. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, Feb. 24, 1884; admitted there as a cadet, Sept. 1883; buried Elmwood Cem. Memphis, Tenn., beside his brother, Paul, who died two years ago.
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MARIA E. daughter of J. W. and M. A. Phillips, Ashley, MO.; born Lincoln Co., MO, Dec. l3, 1852; married Charles W. PARKER, Mar. 7, 1883; died Kinmundy, Ill., Feb. 14, 1884.
FLORENCE E. wife of James GILLIAN born Orange Co., N. Carolina, April 1836; moved with parents to Bedford Co., Tenn., 1840; to Fayette Co., Tenn., 1845; married in 1851. Missionary Baptist. Buried in Stanton, Tennessee.
Dr. J. P. FISHER born in middle Tenn., Jan. 1, 1831; died Feb. 15, 1884; husband and father (three children, including a son, Willie).
NANCY THOMSON daughter of Robert N. and Mary Nichols, born Marion Co., Ill., Oct. 27, 1826; married John N. DUNN. June l, 1843; died Callway Co., Ky., Nov. 25, 1883.
CARRIE S. daughter of Alexander D. and Mary A. Tichenor; married Jere B. COLLINS, June 8, 1869; died Potland, Ky., Feb. 1, 1884 (a daughter, Kate, had died aged seven years).
SUSAN CORNELIA WARREN, nee Ragan, born in Va., Nov. 7, 1833; moved to Tenn.; married G. W. Warren at age 18 years; moved to Lynchburg, Tenn., 1869 where she died Feb. 12, 1884.
ADA MAY daughter of J. P. and E. E. WOODWARD born March 20, 1874; died Hickman Co., Ky., Jan. 8, 1884. Buried in Spring Hill Cemetery.
J. M. NEW born in Ga., Nov. 5, 1839; moved to Corinth, Miss. after the Civil War; married (l) Mary A. Phillips (died June l4, 1871), Oct. 20, 1869; (2 )Maggie E. Sary, Aug. 11, 1872 (two daughters); died Sept. 10, 1883.
JOSEPH P. A. CORK died Pickens Co., Ala., Jan. 12, 1884.
WILLIAM J. son of Sam. and Maria HOBSON born Cumberland Co., Va., Apr. 20, 1824; moved when young to Somerville, Tenn., having married in his native county to Polly Sims; moved to Memphis and mercantiled; married secondly to Mamie Capers. He died in Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 15, 1884.
Miss ALICE SPAULDING died Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Mar. 2, 1884.
LILLY MAY daughter of James T. and Adele TARPLEY born Cross Plains, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1881; died Abilene, TX, Feb. 16, 1884.
Young daughters of D. D. ROGERS, named JENNIE and ANNIE, died near Ripley, Tenn., Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, respectively.
Daughter of S. W. and Alice BEATTIE died Mar. 3, 1884, "not quite eight months" old.
May 3, 1884
ANTHONY B. STARK, LLD, born Robertson Co., Tenn., July 13, 1832; graduate, Cumberland College; established and edited the HAM MONTHLY, Nashville, 1866-1870; professor of languages, McGee College, Me., 1857-1861; held various educational positions, lastly president of Logan Female College; died Feb. 22, 1884.
Mrs. M. J. FERGUSON died in home of her brother, C. L. Strickland, Ripley, Tenn., Feb. 5, 1884 aged 57 years. She and her husband operated the Ripley Hotel and she continued doing so after his death but in Jan. 1883 the hotel burned. Five sons.
C. T. LEATHERWOOD born Sept. 1848; died Lincoln Co., Tenn., Dec. 17, 1883; married Ann Rowel (one son).
ANNIE E. daughter of J. M. and Martha J. PATTERSON born Adair Co., Ky., Nov. 29, 1853; moved with family to Cumberland Co., Ky., 1879; died Feb. 14, 1884. Buried in cemetery at Union Church, Adair County beside her mother and brother.
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E. CATIE, wife of P. P. EVANS, daughter of W. M. Stone, born Dec. 8, 1859; married in 1876; four children, the oldest 6 years, the youngest, 3 months old; she died Feb. 2, 1884.
CAROLINE wife of William A. WHATLEY born June 28, 1842; married Sept. 8, 1859; died in home of her father, Robert A. Hurst, Clay Co., Ala., Jan. 27, 1884; one daughter.
ROBERT NANCE born Madison Co., Ala., Jan. 30, 1850; married Fanie L. Binford (died Sept. 15, 1881), Nov. 1872; five children, the three surviving were being reared by Robert's mother, Mrs. M. D. Nance, he having been her only child. He died Feb. 12, 1884.
MAGGIE daughter of E. J. and Martha A. Dean born Fayette Co., Tenn., May 2, 1858; married McCalvin WEBB, July 14, 1872; died Jan. 24, 1884; wife and mother (four children).
SUSIE A. daughter of Rev. G. A. and Sarah E. Tierce born Walker Co., Ala., Jan. 8, 1858; died Fayette Courthouse, Ala., Nov. 24, 1883; honors graduate, Methodist Female College, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1879; married Daniel COLLIER, June 10, 1880; lived in Texas until spring 1883 when they moved to Ala. where she died.
HATTIE daughter of Rev. W. H. WILD, Alabama Annual (Meth.) Conference, born Bullock Co., Ala., Jan. 15, 1872; died Mar. 15, 1884; a sister named Mamie.
ALFRED H. PEOPLES born near Huntingdon, Tenn., Jan. 15, 1838; died Nov. 23, 1883.
SARAH AMANDA wife of J. R. T. WILSON born Dec. 14, 1838; died Feb. 25, 1884; three children.
SUE EVA daughter of W. D. and Sallie M. DONNELL born Aug. 5, 1882; died Mar. 7, 1884.
JOSEPH B. MORGAN born Marshall Co., Miss., Dec. 25, 1857; died Drew Co., Ark., Jan. 17, 1884.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL only child of John H. and Mary E. WOLFE born July 4, 1882; died Oct. 28, 1883.
GEORGE W. GOODIN born May 19, 1854; married Mary Burriss, Mar. 15, 1877; died Taylor Co., Ky., Jan. 14, 1884.
OTIS son of Rev. Thomas G. and Mary R. WHITTEN born Oct. 28, 1883; died of congestion in McKenzie, Tenn., Jan. 25, 1884. His middle name was ROBERTSON.
May 10, 1884
LIZZIE wife of Dr. John W. COLLINS born Sumter Co., Ala., Nov. 13, 1835; died Pueblo, Colorado, Jan. 25, 1884; born and reared in Ala., moved to Miss., Tenn., Ark., back to Tenn., and finally to Colorado where she died.
SALLIE E. daughter of Rev. L. J. and Mary SCHOOLER died Columbus, Miss., Feb. 5, 1884.
WILLIAM D. son of Daniel and Margaret McCOLLUM born N. Carolina, Oct. 2, 1855; married Emma Walker, Jan. 25, 1877; died July 27, 1883; husband and father (two children).
MARY ALICE daughter of G. W. and Melinda L. Roberts born July 10, 1856; married John G. JENKINS, Aug. l3, 1877; died Soddy, Tenn., Mar. 16, 1884.
LAURA oldest child of J. G. RHOADES and wife born Mar. 2, 1866; died Feb. 14, 1884. Alamo, Tenn.
JOEL son of Mrs. L. A. PIERCY born Oct. 9, 1870; died Feb. 20, 1884.
MARY daughter of Robert and Mary Pegram born Sept. 6, 1868; married Charles TERRY, Dec. 18, 1883; died Davidson Co., Tenn., Mar. 18, 1884.
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Tribute to memory of WILLIE ORMAN son of Rev. J. G. and Josie RICE, Tenn. Annual (Meth.) Conference; born Oct. 26, 1868; died Cedar Hill, Tenn., Feb. 22, 1884; by pupils at Cedar Hill Academy, dated Feb. 22, 1884.
SUSANNA youngest daughter of Josiah and Sarah MAYS born Lawrence Co., Ala., Dec. 29, 1828; married William P. SIMPSON, Jan. 19, 1847; died Noxubee Co., Miss., Feb. 22, 1884; moved to Miss. in 1853.
SUSAN WEBB born Guilford Co., N. Carolina, Dec. 10, 1823; married Andrew S. FLACK, Jan. 28, 1842; two daughters, Mrs. Hammerly, Jackson, Tenn. and Mrs. Susie Flack, Memphis, Tenn. She died March 7, 1884.
ANNA WILSON daughter of Rev. James E. and Martha A. CALDWELL born Dallas Co., Ark., Feb. 17, 1860; died Tulip, Ark., Feb. 16, 1884.
ELIZABETH BOYETT born Sept. 27, 1838; married J. C. KEEL, Oct. 11, 1864; died Jan. 18, 1884; wife and mother.
Tribute to memory of Rev. D. M. SOUTHARD by a first quarterly conference, undated.
May 17, 1884
MOLLIE daughter of Frank and Emeline FLYNN born Oct. 30, 1868; died Mar. 21, 1884.
JOYNER BAILEY, Crockett Co., Tenn., born N. Carolina, Mar. 8, 1825; moved to Crockett County in his fifteenth year of age; married L. J. Craig, Sept. 10, 1851; died Mar. 1884; husband and father (five children).
Dr. GRANVILLE F. SMITH born Granville Co., N. Carolina, April 3, 1833; moved with father to Fayette Co., Tenn. when young; married Nannie V. Flippin, Dec. 24, 1861; died Williston. Tenn., Dec. 23, 1883; husband and father (four sons).
Tribute to memory of Dr. A. S. WALKER by a quarterly conference, Scottsville Ct. (Methodist), undated.
W. R. COLVIN born Pike Co., MO, Sept. 19, 1855; died Chickasaw Nation, Feb. 16, 1884.
JOHN F. WILLIAMS born Marshall Co., Tenn., Aug. 10, 1824; married Mrs. M. O. Ellington, Feb. 17, 1848; moved to Obion Co., Tenn., Nov. 1857 where he died Dec. 25, 1883.
MARTHA ELIZABETH (Bettie) daughter of W. W. and Sallie EATON born Lawrence Co., Miss., July 16, 1858; died St. Louis, MO, Mar. 23, 1884; wife of John SAWYERS (two children).
W. H. RANDOLPH born Aug. 28, 1851; died Jan. 27, 1884; husband and father (3 children),
LEOLA CLAIR daughter of William and L. M. GARNER born May 14, 1883; died Feb. 14, 1884.
EMMET only child of John W. and Fannie Ransom WADE died Mar. 17, 1884 aged 13 years; an aunt, Annie, mentioned.
Tribute to memory of Rev. W. T. DEERE, Muskogee, Indian Territory, who died Jan. 31, 1884; by Vanderbilt students, undated.
JOHN son of Thomas B. and Sarah J. TROTTER born Apr. 4, 1856; died Sept. 11, 1883.
May 24, 1884
EMMA daughter of Thomas A. and Rebecca Moore born Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 23, 1850; married Rev. E. H. BOYLE, Holston Annual Conf., Aug. 4, 1870 (3 daus., 4 sons); died Franklin, N. Carolina, April 12, 1884.
Tribute to memory of Rev. THOMAS J. GOOCH, presiding elder, Mexico Dist., MO Annual (Meth.)Conference, who died May l, 1884; by Mexico Methodist Church dated May 2, 1884.
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SUSAN P. daughter of William Harrison and Loruhanna Lovell born April 16, 1834; married Rev. John A. COX (died Oct. 1873), six children; died Mar. 28, 1884.
CHARLES E. NEWKIRK, Bullitt Co., Ky., died Jan. 14, 1884.
LEWIS T., JR. son of Lewis T. and Emma COBBS died Feb. 13, 1884.
MARY LEONORA daughter of Capt. James I. and Mary L. KELLY born Apr. 1, 1882; died Mar. 17, 1884. DeSoto Co., Miss.
JAMES THORNWELL son of Robert W. and Margaret J. GABBIE born Sept. 6, 1858; died Drew Co., Ark., Sept. 6, 1883.
JANE R. wife of W. L. PROPS died near Nashville, Ark., Mar. 8, 1881 aged 32 yrs.
NANCY J. wife of W. T. NANCE born Mar. 23, 1828; married Jan. 8, 1859; died Oct. 7, 1883.
RHODA ELIZABETH daughter of John Folkner born Hardin Co., Tenn., Jan. 2, 1840; married George Alexander MILLS, Sept. 1860; died March 1, 1884.
WILLIE RICHARDSON only child of F. M. and Anna D. HOBBS died near Athens, Ala., Mar. 17, 1884.
BETTIE wife of Rev. E. K. BRANSFORD died Hickman, Ky., Mar. 21, 1884.
MARY S. daughter of Peter and Sallie Lowry born Fayette Co., Ala., Dec. 5, 1827; moved with parents to Winston Co., Miss., 1839; married J. B. McGEE, Dec. 14, 1851; died Choctaw Co., Miss., Feb. 21, 1884; wife and mother.
LOUISA C. daughter of J. M. and M. M. Chapman born May 16, 1852; married Robert LAMPKIN, April 16, 1874 (five children); died March 1, 1884.
May 31, 1884
Mrs. EMMA J. HUNT born Nov. 1852; died Feb. 1884; married in 1872.
MARTHA MAY daughter of Thomas and S. J. BAILEY born Jackson Co., Oregon, Dec. 21, 1879; died Feb. 12, 1884.
HELEN E. wife of J. B. BECKHAM born Benton Co., MO, Feb. 28, 1852; died Mar. 27, 1884; married May 15, 1872.
MARTHA ELIZABETH ANDERSON born S. Carolina, 1837; moved to Ark., 1853; died Mar. 8, 1884.
LIZZIE daughter of Dr. S. W. and Eliza CRANDALL born Jan. 27, 1869; died Feb. 18, 1884, pneumonia.
Tribute to memory of Rev. STITH M. HARWELL, Mt. Pisgah Circuit, Columbia Dist., Tennessee Annual (Meth.) Conference and local preacher for over fifty years; by quarterly conference at this place, undated.
JUDIE E. L. DYER, nee Searcy, born Rutherford Co., Tenn., Feb. 1, 1844; died White Co., Ala., Jan. 24, 1884; wife and mother.
SUSAN daughter of James and Rebecca Smith born Wilson Co., Tenn., Dec. 2, 1829; married Francis H. LOCKETT, June 10, 1847 (twelve children); died Mar. 19, 1884.
ALFRED BATTLE born Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 9, 1852; married Jennie Bealle, Oct. 3, 1873; moved to Sumter Co., Ala., 1874 where he died Mar. 18, 1884; husband and father (four children).
ALVIE MINNIE daughter of Wilbor and Alvie SIDWELL born Mar. 20, 1883; died Mar. 12, 1884.
JOHN D. BREWER born Robertson Co., Tenn., Jan. 5, 1860; moved with parents to Labetta Co., Kans., Nov. 1875; married Margaret Stagmire, Nov. 2, 1880; died Apr. 6, 1884.
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CYNTHIA ANN MILLS born Mar. 26, 1833; married (1) G. N. Forbes, Dec. 26, 1854; (2) W. H. Mills, Aug. 14, 1869; died Jan. 29, 1884.
REBECCA W. RIVES born July 27, 1854; married J. C. CREWS, May 18, 1881; died Oct. 1, 1881.
WALKER N. RIVES born Aug. 22, 1858; married Ida M. Shropshire, Lyon Co., Ky., Oct. 31, 1882; died Dec. 10, 1882.
CHARLES B. RIVES born Apr. 22, 1860; died June 18, 1883; a brother. Walker. His other brother, William H. Rives; sons of William V. Rives, Christian Co., Ky., with WHR born Sept. 14, 1852; died Sept. 6, 1883.
FANNIE wife of Willie DUNCAN married Nov. 7, 1883; died Daviess Co., Ky., Mar. 30, 1884.
SARAH S. wife of Caswell M. MILES died Rutherford Co., Tenn., Mar. 21, 1884 aged 56 years.
JENNIE PEARL GRAY born Nov. 2, 1881; died Nov. 28, 1883.
LESLIE son of Rev. H. B. and Lou McGOWAN born Nov. 2, 1863; died Mar. 6, 1884.
JOHN T. son of William W. and Lucy G. VEST born Davidson Co., Tenn., Aug. 26, 1854; died Williamson Co., Tenn., Jan. 14, 1884.
HENRY AUSTIN son of W. B. and Parolee McCOLPIN born Haywood Co., Tenn., Feb. 29, 1868; died there, Mar. 20, 1884.
FERNE ROWLETT HALL born Feb. 10, 1881; died Mar. 27, 1884.
MINNIE EUNICE MASON born Madison Co., Tenn., Mar. 19, 1865; died Apr. 4, 1884.
SARAH E. wife of Samuel HALL born Dec. 29, 1849; married Nov. 14, 1867 (eight children, one, Marion, predeceased her); death date not given.
Rev. ABRAHAM B. COKE born Sept. 1825; married twice; died Nov. 27, 1883; Methodist preacher; ordained elder, Oct. 16, 1853.
ELIZABETH A. wife of Decatur P. JONES died Mar. 8, 1884; five children.
KIRBY EWING son of Rev. J. T. RUSHING born Mar. 26, 1880; died Jan. 17, 1884.
CHARLES A. DAVIS born Nov. 18, 1881; died Crawford Co., Miss., Mar. 24, 1884.
June 14, 1884
BETTIE W. daughter of John T. and Margaret Fuqua born Hickman, Ky., July 3, 1854; married Rev. E. K. BRANSFORD, Memphis Annual (Meth.) Conference, Jan. 25, 1882; died in Hickman, Mar. 21, 1884.
Mrs. MARY T. HILL born Deepfields, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, July 8, 1825; married Rev. William H. B. Hill, Aug. 24, 1845; left England, May 1864 and settled in Louisville, Ky., June 1, that year; moved to Edgefield, suburb of Nashville, Tenn., April 1869; died June 2, 1884; wife and mother. Tribute to her memory by Woman's Aid Society, North High Street Methodist Church, undated,
Rev. JOHN HILLIARD SMITH son of B. F. and Josephine Smith born July 13, 1861; licensed to preach in Methodist Church, Sept. 1882; died April 6, 1884. Serving in the Lynchburg Circuit, during his illness he was cared-for by an older couple, the Bruces. Buried at Medium.
L. J. WITTEN, nee Emmons, born Aug. 9, 1837; married (l) Reese B. Higginbotham (died Feb. 19, 1878), Sept. 7, 1857 (seven children); (2) Dr. R. W. Witten, Apr. 29, 1880; died of heart disease, Tazewell Co., Va., Feb. 22, 1884.
TENNIE GORDON, nee BUTTS, born Bedford Co., Tenn., Mar. 14, 1856; died Wartrace, Tenn., Mar. 26, 1884.
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EMILY LOU C. daughter of Henry and Sarah Babb, Crockett Co., Tenn., born Sept. 22, 1847; wife of R. T. SMITH; died Jan. 21, 1884.
Miss ANNA S. LILLARD born Harrodsburg, Ky., Oct. 10, 1846; died in home of Mrs. Phebe George near Florence, Ala., Mar. 13, 1884.
THOMAS A. WILLIAMS born Pickens Co., Ala., Nov. 29, 1862; died Jan. 25, 1884.
HARVEY M. ATKINS born Mar. 11, 1849; married N. E. Porter, Paris, Tenn., Feb. 22, 1874 (one daughter, three sons); died Paris, Texas, Mar. 23, 1884.
MARY E. daughter of T. C. TARPLEY born Robertson Co., Tenn., May 10, 1852; died Abilene, Texas, Mar. 18, 1884.
J. L. RUSHTON daughter of George and Elizabeth Bratton; died Hickman Co., Tenn., Mar. 19, 1884; wife and mother.
ELLEN daughter of Claricy Dean, granddaughter of Young H. Griffin; wife of G. H. McCULLEY born McMinn Co., Tenn., 1850; married in 1867 (nine children); died Clark Co., Ark., Mar. 29, 1884.
MARTHA A. widow of George W. MARTIN born White's Creek, Davidson Co., Tenn., Aug. 31, 1823; married July 28, 1840; died Memphis, Tenn., Mar. 26, 1884; wife and mother.
LILLIE MAY daughter of William H. and Rowena M. CRUTCHER born Madison Co., Ala., Oct. 23, 1878; died Marshall Co., Miss., Apr. 9, 1884.
FLOYD SINGLETON son of R. K. and M. E. ERWIN born Oct. 12, 1883; died Apr. 14, 1884.
SALLIE ELIZABETH wife of J. A. MILLS born Hardin Co., Ky., 1840; married in 1860; died Decatur Co., Tenn., Mar. 1, 1884 aged 44 years and 58 days.
FEELAH only daughter of James J. and Niagara A. SMOTHERMON born Nov. 28, 1882; died Sept. 28, 1883; had moved to Texas, Sept. 9, 1883 but moved back to Tenn., Sept. 12, 1883.
Mrs. W. H. H. BUHRMAN died Botetourt Co., Va., April l, 1884; wife and mother.
BENJAMIN T. TOON born Washington Co., Ky., Nov. 24, 1848; married Mattie Hardestry, Nov. 24, 1871; died Feb. 22, 1884. Tribute to his memory by a quarterly conference in which he had been a Methodist steward, undated.
SUSANNAH A. WILLIAMS born Jan. 2, 1840; died Fayette Co., Tenn., Apr. 9, 1884; wife and mother.
ARTHUR HILLIN son of William H. and Siderah BRATTON born Aug. 19, 1878; died Mar. 30, 1884.
Tribute to memory of "little" GLENN RICE who died Apr. 8, 1884 aged 8 years; by Methodist Sunday School, Cedar Hill, Tenn., dated Apr. 20, 1884.
SEPHELONA T. McCOLLUM, nee McBride, born Dec. 10, 1850; died Mar. 1884; married Oct. 1873.
A. WATSON son of Samuel B. and Mary E. WILSON born Calloway Co., Ky., Oct. 5, 1859; died Feb. 10, 1884.
EATON S. son of Eaton and Delila GRISSOM born Sept. 24, 1829; died Mar. 22, 1884; buried "on Cypress Creek in Lauderdale County, Ala.;" married Angeline Pickens, Dec. 16, 1851 (eleven children).
JOSEPH A. HEATH born Rush Co., Texas, Jan. 1, 1855; died Benton Co., Miss., Feb. 4, 1884
JANIE ELIZABETH only child of George W. and Lila GUINN died Jan. 30, 1884.
NANNIE daughter of P. S. SIMMONS and his first wife, born Hardeman Co., Tenn.,
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Feb. 22, 1866; moved with parents to Ark. Co., Ark., where she died Mar. 6, 1884.
June 21, 1884
ORRIE PEARL MAXWELL died typhoid fever, Sept. 17, 1883 aged 14 years.
EUGENIA daughter of T. J. and S. W. McMULLEN born Henderson Co., Ky., June 30, 1862; died Oct. 31, 1883.
AGNES daughter of Rev. G. W. and A. S. NICHOLS born May 25, 1865; died Apr. 7, 1884.
MATTIE A. wife of Rev. M. M. TAYLOR born Apr. 13, 1836; married Aug. 7, 1856; died Milan. Tenn., Mar. 20, 1884.
W. B. SMITH born Franklin Co., Tenn., Jan. 2, 1834; married twice (ten children); died Mar. 31, 1883.
JIM LOWE son of J. M. and S. D. VINRETT born Mar. 11, 1883; died Feb. 7, 1884.
SARAH M. daughter of Peter B. and Annie Penick born Mar. 10, 1856; married William T. NORRIS, Dec. 18, 1872 (three children); died in home of her father-in-law, James H. Norris, Breckinridge Co., Ky., Feb. 11, 1884; she had been reared near there.
MINERVA daughter of Rev. F. M. ROBERTS, Collinsville, Ala., b. Apr. 1, 1860; died Tuscaloosa, Ala., Mar. 30, 1884.
MARTHA LOLA daughter of George and Claudia BOMFORD born Oak Bower, Ark., Aug. 23, 1880; died Mar. 30, 1884.
Infant Son of D. H. and M. J. CANTRELL born Jan. 1, 1884; died Jan. 13, 1884. Buried in Shiloh Cemetery.
JENNIE PEARL daughter of Mrs. Susan E. GRAY born Nov. 2, 1881; died Nov. 28, 1883.
B. F. THOMPSON born in middle Tenn., Nov. 16, 1827; died DeSoto Co., Miss., Mar. 28, 1884; married C. GRISSOM, Nov. 19, 1851.
SHADIE C. son of B. W. BAKER, Rutherford Co., N. Carolina, died Mar. 12, 1884, a few days short of his 16th birthday; buried at Cedar Grove.
CLINT son of L. A. and M. P. SMITH born Oct. 5, 1883; died McLennan Co., TX, Mar. 18, 1884.
JAMES R. NEWSOM born Mar. 15, 1834; married Mary A. Vaughn, Mar. 10, 1858; a steward at Lock's Methodist Church; died April 2, 1884.
ALEX son of Alex. and Bettie AKIN born Sept. 18, 1883; died Mar. 19, 1884; his father died a few months previously "in the prime of life."
HENRY EARLE son of R. H. and M. A. BLOW born Nov. 17, 1882; died Feb. 17, 1884.
AMANDA MALVINA wife of Joseph BROWN born Coffee Co., Tenn., Feb. 4, 1826; married Rutherford Co., Tenn., 1846; died Davidson Co., Tenn., Mar. 21, 1884; buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
VINY E. wife of C. C. WELLS born June 13, 1849; married May 26, 1878 (one son); died Mar. 31, 1884.
A MAY daughter of Rev. William N. and C. E. M. Marshall born May 1, 1864; married Jesse H. JOHNSTON. May 2, 1880 (one son, Oscar); died Erath Co., TX, Mar. 24, 1884.
MARY CAROLINE daughter of Rev. John F. and Mary HILL born Yazoo Co., Miss., Sept. 26, 1844; died Winston Co., Miss., Aug. 26, 1884.
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Senior Bishop MATTHEW SIMPSON, Methodist Episcopal Church, North, died June 19, 1884.
The death of the Rev. ELIJAH THURMAN was announced at the Owensboro [Ky.] District Conference in May 1884.
Hon. JAMES GORDON FRIERSON born Maury Co., Tenn., Nov. 5, 1837; Confederate veteran; married Emma Davis, 1868; elected to state Senate, 1871; elected judge of Second Judicial Circuit, 1882; died Jonesboro, Tenn., Mar. 8, 1884.
HELEN wife of J. H. COCHRAN born Bibb Co., Ala., Aug. 15, 1826; married in 1844; died Mar. 8, 1884; wife and mother.
VINSON GWIN born Oct. 18, 1839; died Dec. 18, 1883.
NANNIE E. daughter of William and Sarah Owen, Athens, Ala.; wife of John W. NESBIT; died Decatur, Ala., May 29, 1883 in the 38th year of her age.
JULIA A. daughter of William M. and Louvicy ENGLAND born Dickson Co., Tenn., Feb. 7, 1867; died Feb. 23, 1884; moved with parents to Franklin Co., Ark., Dec. 1881.
MARY E. daughter of I. N. and S. A. Payne born Mar. 13, 1854; married William D. PAPE, Oct. 26, 1876 (one son, two daughters); died Mar. 14, 1884.
JULIA ELIZABETH daughter of W. J. and Fannie P. WEBB died St. Francis Co., Ark., Apr. 10, 1884.
REGINALD RIVERS son of Andrew and Lelia NORQUIST born July 23, 1883; died Apr 27, 1884.
Mrs. JULIA STOWE born Nov. 1828; married at age 22 years; had been left a widow with four children; died January 1884.
CHARLEY A. son of J. J. and Jane C. BARNES born Limestone Co., Ala., Apr. 4, 1861; died Morgan Co., Ala., April 28, 1884.
NANCY FRANCES daughter of Joseph and Rebecca BRYAN born Jan. 24, 1849; married Reuben C. GARNER, Oct. 12, 1867; died Warren Co., Tenn., Feb. 19, 1884.
RICE MONROE son of Dr. A. R. SHADDER and wife died Mulberry, Tenn., Apr. 12, 1884 aged 8 months.
HALLIE daughter of R. E. and Octavia J. MANN, Wilson Co., Tenn., born Aug. 19, 1882; died Nov. 17, 1883.
AMMIE daughter of W. E. and Nellie CARTWRIGHT born Nov. 14, 1881; died Wingo, Ky., Apr. 26, 1884.
KATE wife of J. M. McCULLY born Oct. 25, 1841: married May 1860 (one daughter); died Fayette Co., Tenn., Mar. 20, 1884.
ANNIE PEARL daughter of Nick and Mary Jane SHAW born Jan. 20, 1882; died Mar. 28, 1884.
Rev. T. F. LASSITER born Feb. 1834; died near Goodlettsville, Tenn., Nov. 3, 1883.
HENRY H. HOOKER born Tyrrell Co., N. Carolina, Sept. 22, 1829; died near Aurora, Jan. 30, 1884.
MARTHA J. DICKINSON, nee Lowry, born St. Clair Co., Ala., Dec. 9, 1854; married Dr. William H. Dickinson, Oct. 5, 1873; died April 24, 1884.
