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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 418
May 18, 1892
MR. JOHN P. TURNER of Texas, just out of Medical College at Louisville, is visiting his brother MR. A. H. TURNER, whom he has not seen since boyhood days.
About ten o'clock Monday morning MR. DAN SCHIFFMAN passed peacefully away; was a few months over 50. He was born at Hoppstadton C. H. Oldenburg January 1, 1842, and moved to Huntsville in 1868. Odd Fellow--merchant; leaves a large family circle.
Fatal Shooting at Tuscumbia. JOHN GOODWIN killed by THOMAS STEELE... was an effect of a shooting affray about two years ago when JOHN STEELE, JR. lost his life, and THOMAS STEELE and JOHN GOODWIN were wounded. (THOMAS STEELE is also dead) Both parties are highly connected and both were single.
Below we repeat an article from the Calvert (Texas) Courier, on the death of JUDGE THOMAS MARTIN, brother of MR. JOSEPH MARTIN, Cashier of the First National Bank.... "occurred at his home in this city (Calvert) April 25th last. He had passed more than 60 milestones on the journey of life.... To the sorrowing family, the Courier expresses sympathy."
May 25, 1892
On Sunday morning last MR. JAMES M. HUTCHENS breathed his last at his home on Henry Street. MR. HUTCHENS came to Huntsville from Tennessee in 1851 and for years was engaged in the contracting and building business. The deceased was a soldier in the late war. The funeral took place at the residence Monday afternoon, REV. J. W. CALDWELL officiating. (Pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.) Peace to the ashes of the lamented dead who, if during more than fifty years of life, had an enemy, we never heard of it.
MR. W. R. HUMPHREY, editor of the Platt City (Illinois) Republican is guest of his cousin, DR. J. D. HUMPHREY.
June 11, 1892
Your correspondent was at the wedding of H. B. LANSDEN to MISS CAMERON, at Flintville, Tennessee (New Market notes.)
Yesterday a telegram was received by W. J. POTTS from Helena, Arkansas, informing him that TOM E. AUSTIN had been killed at that place the day before, particulars not given. MR. AUSTIN was a brother of MRS. A. L. BLUNT.
June 15, 1892
Death of an aged lady. Last Saturday at the home of MR. 0. B. LAXSON, MRS. BINEY PEEBLES breathed her last... interment in the Pettus graveyard.
From New Market. We partook of dinner with our venerable soldier friend COL. JACK NANCE and his genial and courteous wife, where we met REV. MR. PERSINGER, mother and AUNT POLLY HAMBRICK who will soon pass her four score years is hale, hearty and vivacious. (note: something seems omitted. "AUNT POLLY HAMBRICK" is quite evidently mother of MRS. NANCE, RUTH, daughter of BRADFORD and MARY HAMBRICK. KPJ)
Whitesburg. MRS. MAGGIE MORTON, wife of DR. J. W. HORTON, died at her home Friday evening... consumption.
MR. HENRY McGEE is dead; born in Perryville, Pennsylvania 1836, moved to Huntsville 1866, proprietor of the McGee Hotel; left one child, MISS MOLLIE. (note--she never married. KPJ)
June 29,1892
MESSRS. W. T. and ROBERT DUNCAN of this city received the sad intelligence of their mother's death at her home in Buckingham County, Virginia, in the 70th year of her age. She left four grown sons to mourn her loss.
Friday a telegram from New York informed friends of the death of MRS. KRAUS. Her husband, with his eldest son, was in Louisville and left immediately for New York. Last January she went to that city for treatment.
J. W. C. STEGER, JR., prescriptionist, from Franklin, Kentucky will arrive Saturday to spend a few days with his mother, MRS. F. E. M. STEGER, and his sister MRS. J. S. HUNT of Brownsboro.
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