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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 386
children--including ANNIE and'KATIE. "Democrat 6-3-96 MISSES ANNIE and KATIE HAY have received tickets from their aunt MRS. HADDICK of Sunderland, England to come to England to visit relatives." You remember MR. TOM HAY and MR. JOHN, who was CARROLL HAY's father. I can't think of #5, if ever I knew--may have died too)
MRS. ANNA BUTTERFIELD, formerly of this city, died recently in Montgomery.
November 28, 1878
Died in this city the 22nd instant of consumption MATTIE L. MASON, wife of JOHN R. MASON and daughter of JAS. W. POLLARD (22 in Alabama).
JOHN CARLTON died at Stevenson the 18th instant.
Married, in South Florence Sunday evening the 17th instant at the residence of the bride's stepfather C. P. CONWAY, Esq., MR. DeFORREST HYDE of Florence to MISS MARTHA R. DAVIS.
December 5, 1878
Died of congestion, in Madison County November 29, 1878 MRS. ELEANOR R. SCOTT, wife of SAMUEL SCOTT deceased, aged 46 years, 9 months, 12 days, leaving seven sons to mourn her loss. She was a native of Limestone County... professed religion in 1848. A Friend.
R. W. AUSTON, son of the late JOHN H. AUSTIN of Decatur, is a practicing attorney in Washington City.
MRS. MARYLAND HENRY, wife of the late postmaster of Decatur, who died of yellow fever, has been commissioned to take charge of the Decatur post office.
December 12, 1878
MR. CREED L. TAYLOR an old and respected citizen of Marshall County was adjudged insane last Monday and ordered sent to the asylum at Tuscaloosa. MR. TAYLOR was for many years a citizen of this county.
MR. W. B. GLOVER, JAMES I. HADEN and MAY I. BAKER from over in Big Cove have located in Cameron, Milan County, Texas. (Note--"MAY I" may be MAI. HPJ)
Married at the residence of the bride's father COL. JOSEPH W. NIX, MR. T. D. MITCHELL to MISS SALLIE NIX, at Talladega, Alabama November 26. MR. MITCHELL, formerly of Madison County is now of Waco, Texas.
Married at the residence of the bride's father REV. GEORGE W. CARMICHAEL near New Market on the 20th instant MISS BETTIE CARMICHAEL to MR. B. F. COOLEY of Knoxville, Tennessee.
On the 4th instant at the residence of DR. G. E. KUMPE at Leighton, Alabama MR. GEORGE E. KUMPE to MISS NINA BARCLAY.
DR. MONROE BANISTER was commissioned in the Surgeon's Department of the U.S. Army...is spending a few days with his father's family here...will soon enter on his duties.
December 26, 1878
Died, EDWARD ORR, formerly of Morgan County.
JAMES ARNOLD, formerly of Decatur, died suddenly in Limestone County last week.
W. R. TAYLOR, who went to Texas from the Paint Rock Valley, is dead.
CHARLES G. ROSS, son of DR. F. A. ROSS, was admitted to the practice of law.
Died at his residence near Russellville, Alabama 5th November 1878 DR. FREDERICK H. ANDERSON in her 76th year.
In Memoriam, MARY ELIZABETH NEWMAN, wife of the late DR. FRANCIS H. NEWMAN, was born in Hanover County, Virginia September 17, 1817 and died in Huntsville, Alabama December 19, 1878. The deceased was one of the only two children raised, both the same age, of CAPT. WILLIAM POWERS, who served his country in the War of 1812. The deceased came to Alabama in infancy, married young, and shortly after connected herself with the Methodist Church. She was the mother of thirteen children of whom there are eleven surviving.
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