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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 427
November 16, 1893
CAPT. HENRY B. ROPER received a telegram yesterday from his brother-in-law, HON. WILLIAM H. CLOPTON of St. Louis, announcing the death of his wife. She leaves two sons and a daughter. (A fuller account is given on another page, taken from the St. Louis Republic; committed suicide while deranged on the subject of religion, and found by her daughter EMILY.
November 23, 1893
Athens. MRU. McWILLIAMS who died at Elkmont yesterday was the wife of WALTER McWILLIAMS, and eldest daughter of CAPT. DAVID PHILLIPS, one of our most wealthy citizens.
W. R. HANSARD, SR. who died near Elkmont a few days ago was one of our oldest and best citizens, and at one time a member of the General Assembly of Alabama.
December 7, 1893
MRS. D. W. TERRY died at her home in Marshall County yesterday. Her remains will be interred at Ebenezer Church at Whitesburg this afternoon. (Tombstone; ELIZABETH C., wife of D. W. TERRY, born October 6, 1850, died December 2, 1893.)
December 31, 1893
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas brings news of the death at that place, on the 13th instant, of JUDGE ALECK WHITE aged 78 years. This is our own "Bonnie Blue Flag White." JUDGE WHITE gained this appelation by his famous apostrophe to the Confederate Flag when the state seceeded... in the dark days of reconstruction he went against us being one of the leaders...in the Legislature of 1872. In 1874 he was appointed by GENERAL GRANT to fill an unexpired term as Chief Justice of the Territory of Utah. He afterward moved to Dallas and practiced law. He was a brilliant, but erratic, man.
EARLY ALABAMA NEWSPAPERS
Madison County, Alabama
1819-1824, 1862-1863, 1875, 1880 and 1882
HUNTSVILLE REPUBLICAN
(Madison County)
Printed and published every Saturday by J. BOARDMAN at Huntsville, Alabama.
January 9, 1819
Advertisement of MRS. M'CAY, mantua maker and milliner.
February 6, 1819
Died at the house of MAJOR WALKER on the 4th instant, CAPTAIN JOSEPH COLEMAN, long a respectable citizen of Nashville (Tennessee) and its neighborhood.
February 13, 1819
The Bell Tavern in Nashville has rented the Huntsville Inn, lately occupied by MR. CLAYTON TALBOT, now the property of JOHN M'KINLEY, Esq. The house has been fitted up and is ready for business. (Signed) E. BAKER
JOHN LAYMAN states he is not responsible for the debts of his wife, REBECCA LAYMAN, she having left his bed and board (1 REBECCA LAYMAN in 1820 was former widow of LEVI BYRAM).
February 27, 1819
REV. ROBERT DONALD will preach a funeral sermon at DR. PROUT's on the first Sabbath in March (probably SARAH (PROUT) as she died in January 29, 1819).
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