Download [Page] [Document]
mcc-pg1-420
Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 410
May 2 1883 Scottsboro citizen. THOMAS'NEWTON, SR. of Copenhagen, Jackson County writes us his son, THOMAS NEWTON, JR., aged 16, left his parents on the 16th instant. He was born in England, is small and very talkative. Should anyone meet up with such a boy his anxious parents would be greatly obliged by learning his whereabouts. May 9, 1883 Moulton Advertiser. The courthouse was honored with the stately form of MR. WILLIAM COOPER of Tuscumbia, now in his 82nd year. Died in Huntsville May 4, 1883, MRS. G. B. VANDEVENTER, wife of MR. J. D. VANDEVENTER, for years a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. May 16, 1883 Death of CAPT. R(UFUS) K. BOYD, on Thursday, the 18th. Week before last his friends in Huntsville were delighted to see him. Friday week he returned to Guntersville, and (fording Honeycomb Creek, buggy went in a hole, wetting him.) He was attacked by a congestive chill from which he died. Of North Carolina blood, CAPT. BOYD was born in Wilkinson County, Tennessee and moved with his parents to Missouri during his childhood. When a boy he travelled in Europe with his father. He left with the gray eyed man of destiny to conquer Nicaragua. Surviving that he sought the gold fields of California. He joined the Confederate Army of Missouri in 1861. In 1865 he came to Guntersville and married his attractive wife. In 1870 he was elected to the General Assembly of Alabama, and in 1878 elected Secretary of State. (Half a column.) (No Wilkinson County in Tennessee... either WILSON or WILLIAMSON) May 23, 1883 From the Scottsboro Citizen, account of the "foul murder of JOHN CARTER" about 21, son of W. A. B. CARTER; he leaves a wife and one child. Died in this county, Saturday May 19, 1883, MRS. WINSTON, aged wife of MR. ISAAC WINSTON, after a life of devotion and beautiful Christian deeds. (Died) Young MRS. CARTER, wife of MR. B. C. CARTER. MRS. GUNN, venerable mother of our townsman, MAJOR J. R. STEVENS, came up from Mississippi last week. May 30, 1883 Died May 26, 1883 MRS. ELIZABETH KELLY, aged mother of MR. POLK KELLY. Services were conducted by REV. J. E. CARTER and REV. W. F. KONE, of the Baptist Church. Died in this city, May 24th, MR. JAMES PRICKETT, a native of Indiana, a young man just entering on the duties of life. July 7, 1883 We have a wedding card of MR. S(AM) J. KENNERLY, formerly of this place, now of Gainesville, Texas, and MISS CALLIE BIRD. MR. JOHN M. CROWDER, a former citizen, is with us a few days from Talladega. MR. JOE BRADFORD, a former resident of Huntsville, now of Jackson, Mississippi (is visiting). MR. HENRY CLARK, an ex-Huntsville boy, arrived from St. Louis (for a visit). June 13, 1883 MRS. MARY MORRIS, perhaps the oldest woman in Jackson County, died at the residence of her son-in-law WILLIAM POTTER in Maynard's Cove the 21st of May last aged 96 years. She had been married 76 years and a member of the Baptist Church 76 years. Her youngest daughter, wife of WILLIAM HOTTER is 51. Decatur News? The family of HON. W. C. SHERROD arrived Monday from Mississippi. We hope they will settle in Florence permanently. A long account of the wedding of S. J. KENNERLY and MISS CALLIE BIRD, at the parents of the bride, MR. and MRS. GEORGE Y. BIRD, Wednesday evening last (from the Gainesville (Texas) paper). 410 - (3710)