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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 426
MISS SERENA BRONAUGH, known by those to whom she was endeared as AUNT SI, died at the residence of HON. G. C. SAUNDERS at Meridianville yesterday morning. The remains were interred Sunday in the family burying ground. (Anderson Cemetery buried April 1963 by W. F. SPARKMAN--west of HAMMUND graveyard; in memory of CYRENIA M. BRONAUGH July 3, 1815 - September 2, 1893; GEO. C. SAUNDERS 1827-1903; OCTAVIA SAUNDERS 1834-1915 (nee ANDERSON) see Volume 76).
The many friends of the late THOMAS L. SEAY will learn with regret of his death yesterday morning... consumption. MR. SEAY lost his wife a few years ago. He leaves a family of young children. Methodist; Knight of Pythias. (Death record: THOMAS SEAY born in Alabama, aged 47, died September 5, 1893, in "Alabama". Widower.)
October 12, 1893
Three columns on death of WALTER H. RHETT, of Atlanta; son of R. BARNWELL RHETT and JOSEPHINE HORTON of Huntsville; baptized in the Episcopal Church by his uncle REV. JOSEPH WALKER, D.D. at Beaufort, South Carolina... lost his mother before he was 3 l/2--father was a widower 7 years; as a child he lived with his grandfather RHETT. In 1888 he married MISS ANNIE RAYMOND REID, daughter of DR. REID and granddaughter of DR. CALDWELL...when he died was boarding with MRS. JOHN H. JONES, his mother-in-law.
From the Charlotte (Virginia) Gazette: JUDGE R. H. MARSHALL left Friday for Chicago in the interest of the heirs of the late ELISHA E. HUNDLEY...2000 feet on Lake View Shore claimed by the City of Chicago is also claimed by the HUNDLEY Estate. The wife of our old friend COL. D. R. HUNDLEY, was a daughter of ELISHA E. HUNDLEY and one of his heirs.
Yesterday morning just as the eastbound train was pulling out of Belle Mina Conductor ALEX PERRYMAN was siezed with a violent hemmorhage of the lungs and expired in a few minutes. The funeral will take place today in Tuscumbia.
On Friday morning MR. GEORGE W. BRYANT breathed his last; formerly an employee of the M & C Railroad, then in business in Madison County.
On Sunday, October 16 the soul of ESTELLE ADLER slipped from its earthly prison...funeral from the Synagogue.
Suddenly, at the home of her daughter MRS. AMELIA DILLARD, MRS. MYERS passed away. (Death record: MARY E. MYERS, born in New York, aged 55, died October 16, Huntsville, Alabama. Married.)
October 26, 1893
MAJ. B. W. TIPTON, well known hotel manager of Guntersville, died Friday...he is to be buried at Scottsboro.
November 2 1893
THOMAS MADISON WHEELER, the reverend and venerable father of DR. W. C. WHEELER died yesterday at the ripe age of 84 years. The deceased was a native of Kentucky and moved to Tennessee with his parents when quite young, and came to Alabama when about 21. He was married in Colburt County and four children blessed his union, two of whom survive, DR. W. B. WHEELER of this city and MRS. BENSON of Cherokee. For over 50 years he was a member of the Methodist Church. (Death record: THOMAS M. WHEELER, bom in Kentucky, aged 83 years, 10 days, died in Huntsville October 30, 1893. Widower)
November 9, 1893
Yesterday evening MR. C. G. SPELLMAN died at his residence on Washington Street aged 62. A bereaved wife and daughter mourn their loss. MR. SPELLMAN was born in Virginia January 12, 1831 and came to this city in 1857. He was a carpenter and builder. Shortly after coming here he married MISS MARY, daughter of THOMAS 0. GILL. Of two children only MISS LUCY is living. Methodist, Knight Templer....
The funeral of the late CHURCHILL GORDON SPELLMAN took place yesterday.... (Death record: born in Virginia... aged 62 years, 9 months, 20 days).
On Friday, November 3rd MRS. MARY A. COLLINS, mother of IRA F. COLLINS of this city, died at the residence of her son, DR. G. M. COLLINS in Tipton, Indiana in the 84th year of her age. - (3726)