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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 404
8 months, died August 31, New Market...widow...married 1) HEZEKIAH, 2) JOSEPH VIER. She was the last wife and widow of JOSEPH HAMBRICK, father of BRADFORD and ALFRED.)
September 30, 1891
MR. MILSON G. YARBROUGH of Cherokee is a guest of his relative DR. J. D. HUMPHREY. MR. YARBROUGH, a native of this county, left here soon after the war.
September 23, 1891
HON. EDWARD CHAMBERS BETTS died September 18th at the residence of MR. TANCRED BETTS, aged 71 years on August 21st. In law, politics and literature JUDGE BETTS held for half a century the position of one of the representative men of the south. Admitted to the Bar at eighteen years of age, his fine legal mind having received the best culture of the North and the South.... Another item in the same paper: Died at the residence of his son, JUDGE TANCRED BETTS, ...he was born in June, 1819 and was in his 73rd year...was a Member of the Legislature from Madison County several times, Judge of Probate during the administration of GOV. CHAPMAN, first Commissioner of Agriculture. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Nativity Saturday afternoon.
In Memoriam. EMILY JOHNSTON BLAIR, daughter of DR. T. JOHNSTON married 11 months ago to MR. CAREY M. BLAIR.
October 14, 1891
News reached the city Saturday evening of the death of MRS. NANCY F. GRAHAM, an aged and much beloved lady of Pond Beat.
October 28, 1891
In Memoriam. Died in this city Saturday the 24th, MRS. ELIZABETH, wife of HON. WILLIAM RICHARDSON. (1/4 column)
MR. JOHN C. HAMBRICK and family of St. Louis are on a visit to relatives in New Market. MR. HAMBRICK formerly resided in this county.
November 4, 1891
Resolutions, Confederate Veterans' Association, on the death of ROBERT W. FIGG.
CAPT. ROBERT W. FIGG died suddenly of heart failure last Friday, in his 72nd year. He was born near Petersburg, Virginia and came to this state when a youth. A dentist by profession, he lost an arm in the army....
Died at his residence at Madison Station Wednesday the 7th of October 1891, HON. C(HRISTOPHER) G. GEWIN (39 in North Carolina, Lawrence County), aged 81 years, 2 months 9 days. He was born in Anson County, North Carolina July 28, 1810 and while a youth came to Madison County with his father. After reaching manhood he removed to Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama where on May 6, 1834 he married INDIANA PINKSTON. A few years later he was elected Sheriff of Lawrence County, and later to the General Assembly of Alabama. Losing his wife about this time, he married ARTEMISSA (21 in Alabama), daughter of WILLIAM BOYD of Moulton and half sister of his first wife. In 1857 he was appointed Probate Judge of Lawrence County to fill out the unexpired term of HON. CROCKETT McDONALD who had died in June of that year. In 1869 he returned with his family to Madison, Madison County, Alabama. Postmaster, magistrate, mayor.... In 1882 he was united with the Christian Church in which he was an Elder. God bless his widow and children.
November 11 1891
Sabbath morning last, at his home in New Market, MR. PETER MERTZ breathed his last, aged about 66 years. He had been a resident of New Market for a number of years and was an industrious worker at his trade, that of a shoe maker...a consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for the past ten years. The remains were brought to this city Monday and interred in the City Cemetery.
Died at the home of her father in Cherokee Saturday, MISS ELLA YARBROUGH; she had been on a visit to her aunt MRS. J. M. HUMPHREY of this county and had returned only a few weeks ago.
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