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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 413
Died Monday, August 20, MRS. SARAH NEELY (40 in Tennessee, nee HAGEY, widow of JAMES NEELY), the venerable mother of MESSRS. G. M. and J. H. NEELY. She was buried from her late residence on Green Street yesterday afternoon, services conducted by REV. JOHN A. THOMPSON. The deceased came to this country in 1820 and had reached the green old age of 74 years; she joined the Methodist Church at 12 years. (Death Certificate: SARAH NEELY, born in Tennessee, aged 72, died August 20 at Huntsville--a widow.) Died Saturday August 18, COL. J. VAN VALKENBURG; burial was from the Church of the Nativity Sunday afternoon, REV. J. M. BANISTER officiating. COL. VAN VALKENBURG was an officer in the Federal Army and came to Huntsville after the War...Mason, Knight of Honor, Knight of the Golden Rule. (Death record: JOHN VAN VALKENBURG, born in Pennsylvania, aged 60, died in Huntsville August 18. Married.) August 29, 1883 Athens Courier. MRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON FOWLER was killed by lightning Tuesday, also a little girl two years of age. MRS. FOWLER and her two children had been visiting a neighbor; on the way home were overtaken by a storm and took refuge under a tree. The 3 months old child in her arms was unhurt. Decatur News. JOHN PROCTOR, digging a well near Brooksville last week, died from the effects of foul air. September 12, 1883 Decatur News. MR. GEORGE BLEVINS of Cedar Plains has made a second attempt at a suicide...so far, he has failed. Scottsboro Citizen. MR. McGUYNN, aged 80, living on Sand Mt. was struck by lightning and killed last Monday (sitting under a tree). Died at the residence of CAPT. HUMES, GEN. W. Y. C. HUMES of Memphis, Tennessee, a distinguished member of the Memphis War. The remains were taken to Memphis for interment. (An earlier paper said he was taken ill in Virginia; CAPT. HUMES, finding him able to travel, had brought him as far as Huntsville.) Died on the 10th at Bell Factory, WILLIAM H. AYRES, about 60. His family have the sympathy of the neighborhood, where he has lived for a number of years. September 19, 1883 New Hope, Alabama. September 4, 1883. Death took our little friend AZUBAH DICKEY, third daughter of J. B. and MRS. C. B. DICKEY, aged 11 years, 1 month. Decatur News. MRS. WALLACE and MR. PENN of Huntsville, daughter and son of the late MR. PENN, of great culture and much fame as a ripe scholar, great authority as a Mason and one of the founders of that order in Alabama, are teaching here. September 26. 1883 Mounton Advertiser. MR. REASON YOUNG was bitten by a furious hog on one of his arms; will have to be amputated. October 3, 1883 MR. WM. FACKLER and wife have gone to Hot Springs, Arkansas where he has employment. October 10, 1883 Account of the murder of WILLIAM J. STREET, policeman, in attempting to arrest WES. BROWN and CHARLES ADAMS, (COL.) BROWN was lynched, ADAMS escaped. October 17 1883 MR. JOSEPH JONES died very suddenly last week. His remains were taken to his old home at New Market. October 24, 1883 Married last Tuesday, the 23rd instant MR. WILLIAM LOVE and MISS MARY LOVING, at the residence of the bride on West Clinton Street, by REV. J. A. B. LOVETT ("a lovely affair.") 413 - (3713)