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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 394
Madison County. He leaves a widow and eight children. He was for many years a member of the Methodist Church. "A Friend." Madison County Journalism. In 1806 CAPT. JOHN HUNT erected the first log cabin and six years later the first newspaper was published, called the Madison Gazette and a MR. PARHAM who came here from Nashville, Tennessee was the Editor and Publisher. In 1816 MR. THOMAS B. GRANTLAND took over the Gazette and called it the Huntsville Republican. The Republican was merged in the Southern Advocate and the Advocate absorbed by the Mercury. In 1823 the Democrat was established by PHILIP WOODSON and the first issue appeared October 8th. MR. WOODSON was succeeded by J. WITHERS CLAY in 1849. The Huntsville Independent was established December 1, 1855 by JOHN J. DEW and JOHN J. YOUNG...MR. DEW went to Memphis and MR. YOUNG was forced to the wall, and it was then taken in charge by W. P. NEWMAN and FRANK COLEMAN. When the Advocate was absorbed by the Mercury MAJOR SLOSS attempted to start a new Advocate but was unsuccessful and sold the plant to CHARLES P. LANE who started a Republican weekly called the New South but it went down unhonored and unsung. Two decades ago MESSRS. CARUTHERS and WRENCH started the North Alabama Reporter but it was not a success. JAMES WESLEY FARLEY (20 in Alabama; son of MICHAEL and SARAH) died at Madison Station Tuesday. He was bom July 12, 1829 (59?), and was nearly 61. When only 16 he united with the Methodist Church. He leaves a wife and five sons. He will be buried this afternoon at the family burying ground on his place. (tombstone--JAMES WESLEY FARLEY born July 12, 1829, died March 11, 1890; FANNIE A. FARLEY bom July 19, 1834, died August 6, 1906; married FRANCES ANN CRUTCHER February 9, 1853) . Died--last evening, ALICE HARDIE SEAY at the residence of her mother on West Holmes Street, wife of MR. THOMAS SEAY... leaves her husband, and four children. March 19, 1890 In Memoriam. On the morning of February 12th in a collision of trains, E. P. DOOLITTLE, engineer for the A. C. S. Left a wife, father, sister... aged 38. Remains were carried to Madison, his father's home for interment. Monday, at his brother's residence on East Holmes Street, MR. JAMES P. WARWICK. He was bom in Philadelphia over 85 years ago, in which city he followed the avocation of merchant tailoring. He has been a citizen of Huntsville 15 years. He was a widower, and his children are all married and settled down, in the East. Madison, Alabama. The last issue announced the death of MR. J. W FARLEY. This week it is our painful duty to chronicle the death of his oldest son, MR. P. B. FARLEY, of pneumonia. He leaves a wife and five little children. On Sunday morning last his body was taken to the family burying ground. We regret to announce the death of MRS. HARRIET HARDIE at six o'clock last evening at the family residence on West Holmes Street. (Death Certificate: HARRIET HARDIE, born in Alabama, aged 59, died in Huntsville March 18, 1890; a widow.) March 26, 1890 In Memoriam. THOMAS GEORGE died March 19, 1890 on his plantation in Madison County, Alabama. He was 65 years of age and a lawyer by profession, a native of the state of Virginia. He graduated at the University of Virginia at the age of 21 and that same year married MISS MARGARET LEE, a daughter of CHAPMAN LEE of the renowned LEE family, and moved to New York; the same year two children were born, LAURA and HELEN. LAURA married your fellow townsman, JAMES H. BONE, late of the Federal Army. HELEN was a member of St. Mary's Episcopal Sisterhood of New York and with two other sisters, was sent to Memphis in the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 to assist stricken orphans in the Episcopal orphanage; a few days after her arrival she died with the fever. His wife died about 1873 and about four years ago he married MISS HAMMOND of Madison County and since has resided on the plantation where he died. He practiced in New York, served two terms on the bench in Orange County, and about fifteen years ago went to Denver. 394 - (3694)