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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 380
January 24, 1883 CAPT. WALTER a. GOODMAN died at his residence in Memphis on Saturday, January 20, after a brief illness; last year he was elected presiding Judge of the County Court of Shelby County. He was exemplary as a husband, father, friend, citizen and as a gallant Confederate soldier. January 31, 1883 Died in Memphis, Tenn. Jan. 25, 1883 MR. SAMUEL RIDGLEY CRUSE (20 A; SAM'L) in his 53rd year. MR. CRUSE was bom in Huntsville, Ala. December 23, 1829, and was married to MISS BESSIE NEWMAN (14 A), daughter of DR. FRAS. H. NEWMAN (48 MD) November 25, 1858. He entered the Confederate service as a First Lieutenant in CAPT. J. J. WARD'S Battery in 1861, and when his gallant captain was killed by his side in GEN. JOS. E. JOHNSTON's retreat from Dalton, Ga. he succeeded to the Captaincy and served gallantly till the close of the War. In 1865 he succeeded his father SAMUEL CRUSE, who died during the War, as Secretary and Treasurer of the Eastern Division of the M. & C. RR.... His body was removed from Memphis to Huntsville in a special car draped in mourning, and accompanied by his family, his wife and three sons, and a number of friends... funeral held from the Church of the Nativity, and buried in the City Cemetery. Married at the residence of the bride's mother by REV. A. L. DAVIS, on the 16th of Jan. 1883 MR. W. H. MITCHELL of Limestone County and MISS MAGGIE E., daughter of the late WYLIE F. BOULDIN (18 A; Morgan Co.). February 7, 1883 Died at her home in Big Cove, January 15_, 2883 after two years illness MISS MILDRED EVALINE SCHRIMSHER (18 A;'SARAH) in her 51st year. Died suddenly at Wheeler, Lawrence County, Ala. Feb. 3, 1883 COL. RICHARD JONES (57 V), aged 89 years. COL. JONES was father-in-law of GEN. JOSEPH WHEELER. February 7, 1883 Died at the house of his father, JAMES A. PAUL, in Madison County, Alabama, February 4, 1883, WILLIAM PAUL, aged about 26 years...a most estimable young man, a model son and brother. MR. JOHN F. MARTIN, agent of the M & C RR at Stevenson Alabama for 15 years was run over by a train from Chattanooga Friday night...he died on Saturday. February 14, 1883 Married February 6, 1883 in the City of New York by REV. H. H. WARTE, MR. J. H. GOODWIN, author and accountant of New York to MISS FRANKIE LAMBERT. The bride, a native of Huntsville will be remembered here as a sweet and sprightly lass, grown to womanhood since she left here. February 21, 1883 Died in Huntsville, Alabama February 19, 1883, MRS. MARY E. STEGALL, wife of J. R. STEGALL of this city...member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In memory of JOSEPH RICE, deceased. JOSEPH RICE, Esq. died at the residence of his brother-in-law W. R. JONES near New Market, Ala. of acute bronchitis on Monday, February 12, 1883 at 12:15 p.m. in his 86th year. The deceased was born Nov. 5, 1797 in Cooke (Cocke?) County, Tennessee, whither his parents removed to Buncombe, N.C., and in 1806 to the vicinity of what is now New Market in Madison County, which was organized as a County by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature in 1805. His father, SPENCER RICE, dying in 1808, his mother went back to North Carolina taking JOSEPH and his younger brothers LEVI and GEORGE with her. In a few months she died, leaving these little boys to the care of her sister, MRS. SARAH McCATHY. The subject of this sketch and his brother LEVI, young as they were, wishing to live in Alabama, set out on foot and in less than two weeks were again at the present New Market where JOSEPH RICE has since resided, except for six years when he lived in Dallas County, Ala. In 1813, when about 16 years old he served under GENERAL JACKSON as a volunteer in the Creek War and (a friend informs us) was one of a 380 - (3680)