July 3, 1880
NANCY "Nannie" HENRY who survived her husband and her two sons and a daughter, died Trousdale Co., Tenn., May 20, 1880 in her 102nd year of age; born in No. Carolina January 29, 1779; daughter of George Kuyzee and moved with father to Tenn. when she was a child; her sons, John and William were Methodist preachers.

Gallatin, July 21 - Carson Jones, deputy sheriff of Trousdale County, was dangerously shot through the bowels last evening near Lafayette, by a stranger from Kentucky, with whom he was playing cards in a tobacco barn.  Jones had won a dollar from the stranger, and as he started to pick it up he was shot.  His sister, who lives here, was telegraphed to come and see him.  He was not expected to live through the day.  Jones will be remembered as the officer who killed Woolard at Enon College, several weeks ago, in self-defense.  He was then seeking to arrest Woolard and to save his own life got the drop on him.  Jones was a quiet, peaceable man.  There was a woman with them in the barn, but she refuses to give the name of the stranger, who fled and cannot be found.

McCONNELL (1832 - 1915)

Hartsville, Tenn., Dec. 30. - A message was received here Wednesday from Topeka, Kan., announcing the death of Judge McConnell, who was formerly one of the most prominent men in Tennessee, had lived with his children in the West, part of the time being spent with a son, Odell McConnell, at Helena, Mont., and part with his daughter, Mrs. Annie Sweeny, at whose home he died.  Judge McConnell was born in this state May 22, 1832, hence was nearly 84 years of age. He was a graduate of the Pennsylvania College, and afterward was elected principal of Gerard Academy at Gerard, Pa. While in Pennsylvania he was married to Miss Nancy Elizabeth McCall of Meadville, Pa., who died some years ago at Helena. After returning to Tennessee he was elected principal of the Hartsville Female Academy in 1859, teaching here until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Confederate army and served with distinction throughout the war. After the war he again took charge of the school, later taking up the practice of law. In 1872 he was elected to the state senate from the Ninth senatorial district, then composed of the counties of Macon, Smith, Clay, Trousdale, Sumner and Jackson. In 1874 he was a candidate for congress from this district, the Democratic convention being held at Hartsville. Judge McConnell had a large plurality of the delegates, but could never quite reach the necessary two-thirds vote; so he finally withdrew his name, and Samuel A. Fite, who was then judge of the Fifth judicial circuit, was nominated. This created a vacancy on the bench, and to this vacancy Judge McConnell was appointed by Gov. James D. Porter. He was twice subsequently elected to the office by the people, and made a state-wide reputation as a judicial officer. In 1887 he was appointed chief justice of the Territory of Montana by President Grover Cleveland. Judge McConnell was not an applicant for the position, but his friends including Gov. Porter, then assistant secretary of state under President Cleveland; Benton McMillin, then in congress, together with other Tennesseans of influence, urged his appointment by the President, which was done. He held the office until March, 1899, when he resigned. The resignation was not accepted by President Cleveland, but was accepted a few days after President Harrison was inaugurated. Judge McConnell had moved his family from Hartsville to Helena, and after retiring from office he resumed the practice of law in that city. He was a member of the Masonic order, and during the year 1883 was grand master of the state. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a man of splendid qualities and of a brilliant mind. He is survived by two sons, Frank McConnell and Odell McConnell, and the daughter with whom he made his home. He had a large number of relatives in different parts of the state.