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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 409
Died, Sunday evening at her residence, MRS. CLARA A. SIVLEY, of pneumonia. Funeral services were held from the Cumberland Church, by REV. J. A. B. LOVETT. Died at her home in Meridianville, MRS. JOHN STUART nee MISS SAUNDERS... she had been married only a short time. Resolutions of Respect, Monte Sano Lodge #1 Knights of Pythias, for B. E. BAILES, deceased. March 28, 1883 MR. JOHN W. SCRUGGS, one of our most excellent young men, is roughing it on a cattle ranch near Richmond, Texas. Success to him in his new enterprise. Died, Thursday, MR. JAMES T. ESSLINGER...consumption. MRS. ANNIE D. WHITAKER, daughter of MRS. J. E. LAUGHINGHOUSE died at her home near Fayetteville, Tennessee... buried in the Huntsville Cemetery Sunday...only a short year ago she was married.... April 4, 1883 HON. THOMAS H(ORD) HERNDON (21 in Alabama), Representative in Congress for the First Alabama District, died at his home in Mobile the 28th of March in the 55th year of his age. COL. HERNDON was bom in that part of Greene County, now Hale, in 1828, graduated at the State University at Tuskaloosa, and after studying a course in law at Harvard began practice in Eutaw in 1849. In 1857, having removed to Mobile, he represented that county in the Legislature, but returning to Greene, he went from that County as Delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1861. He was Colonel of the 36th Alabama Regiment. He returned to Mobile in 1878, was elected to Congress, and when he died, was on the threshold of his third term. Rep. March 29. It is with no ordinary sadness I chronicle the death of one of our most worthy young men, R. A. GOOCH, who a little over a month ago left here with wife and babe, for Hope, Arkansas (Hempstead County) where he died the 15th of menengitis. He leaves a widowed mother, brothers and sisters. He married the youngest daughter of your townsman, MR. RICHARD JAMES. Died, Thursday, March 29th, at the residence of MRS. JOSEPH C. BRADLEY, MARY ST. JOHN, infant daughter of W. E. and JENNIE B. STANAGE. Died in Huntsville, March 29, 1883, MRS. ACHEAH L. LAKIN, wife of REV. A(RAD) S. LAKIN (Methodist) and mother-in-law of CAPT. JOHN W. RAINES... member of the Presbyterian Church... fond mother, devoted wife. April 11, 1883 Gretna Green. MR. RICHARD COYLE led the fair MISS LORENA LEBOW over the border, into Pulaski, Tennessee where they were made man and wife. April 18, 1883 Tuscumbia Alabamian. (Died) On the 11th instant MRS. PRISCILLA YOUNG, wife of the late E. S. YOUNG, in her 68th year. MRS. YOUNG was one of the oldest citizens of Tuscumbia, and for many years a member of the Presbyterian Church. MRS. MANLEY and MRS. B. P. STINE are her nearest relatives, MRS. STINE having been adopted by her. Moulton Advertiser. MR. W. J. GIBSON, an old citizen of this county, died at his home near Courtland Monday last. Athen Courier. DR. RUFFIN COLEMAN of Clarksdale, Mississippi is visiting his mother in Athens. Guntersville Democrat. JUDGE WYETH moved to this county 47 years ago the 29th of this month and knows, perhaps, more of its history than any other one man. MR. GEORGE W. MORROW died last Sunday. He was an old citizen of Morgan County, and highly esteemed. April 25, 1883 Moulton Advertiser; There is a general demand for plow boys in this section. MR. REASONA LE YOUNG wants a half a dozen good boys to whom good wages will be paid. Another landmark has been wiped out by the Angel of Death, another mother, grandmother and great grandmother gone; MRS. MARGARET ELLIS (48 in Tennessee, wife of GEO, daughter of ANDREW NELSON, Respen), aged 81 years, died near Moulton on the 13th. 409 - (3709)