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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 520
Died on Sunday 22 August at the house of a near relation in Columbus, Ohio of pulmonary consumption, DAVID REEVE ARNELL of Columbia, Tennessee after a lingering illness. Died in Courtland August 31, MISS MARY A. (18 in Alabama) eldest daughter of MR. J(OHN) M. (52 in Virginia) and MRS. CYNTHIA A. SWOOPE (38 in Georgia) aged 31 years. Census of 1850 shows MARY A. aged 18, born in Alabama; JOHN M. SWOOPE aged 52, born in Virginia; CYNTHIA 38 in Georgia. Died on 23 August 1852 at his father's residence in Lawrence County. WILLIAM GREENBERRY ALEXANDER in his 23rd year. Died in Decatur on the 27th, CELIA MALVINA aged 9 months and 13 days and on the 3rd, DANIEL GRIFFITH aged 2 years 4 months 15 days, daughter and son of JOSHUA and MARY COLLIER. Died of measles and whooping cough. Died at his residence in Morgan County August -----, MAJ. JOHN ORR for many years a citizen of this county (Census of 1850 shows him 63, bom in Georgia) . Died in Decatur on 2nd, MRS. JULIA CRIDER. September 15, 1852 Married on the 4th in Centenary Church, Richmond, Virginia, by REV. JOHN EARLY, D.D., THOMAS H. HOBBS, Esq. of Athens, Alabama to MISS INDIANA E. BOOTH of the former place. (1850 Census shows THOMAS H. HOBBS aged 22, bom in Alabama) Married in Limestone County on 29 August by JOHN A. JOHNSON, Esq WILLIAM R. CHRISTOPHER to MISS LUCY VINSON. (Census of 1850 shows him 28 in Virginia; her 18 in Alabama; volume 205, page 57) Married on Thursday, 2nd. at the residence of MR. DONALD, Lawrence County, by REV. A. PENLAND, DR. A. W. BENTLEY of Court land to MISS JULIA B. PETERS of Litchfield, Connecticut. (Note: This is ALEXANDER WILLIS BENTLEY, son of EFFORD and ELIZABETH (GAY) BENTLEY; EFFORD BENTLEY was a Revolutionary soldier, who died in Madison County, Alabama. This was the second marriage of A. W. BENTLEY, his 1st wife being MARGARET NEWMAN. P.J.Gl) September 22, 1852 Married in Athens on 12 by JOHN A. JOHNSON, Esq.. JAMES B. STEWART to MISS VIRGINIA ANN STANLEY. (1850 Census shows him aged 39, bom in Tennessee; her 22 in Alabama; volume 205, page 58; Fayetteville (Tennessee) Observer) Married yesterday morning the 16th by REV. JOS. CROSS, H. K. WALKER, Junior editor of True Whig to MISS MARY JANE AUSTIN, all of this city (Nashville Banner). Married Tuesday morning August 24 in Cass County, Texas by REV. B. B. DYE. SAM F(OUNTAIN) MOSELEY. Esq. (son of JOHN and 1st wife ELIZABETH WAKEFIELD, grandson of GEO. MORE and 1st wife JONES LUCY M.) of Jefferson to MISS ELIZA J. (IRBY), daughter of SEABORN J. WILKINSON of Caddo Parish, Louisiana. (great-grandfather of FORREST M. SMITH, JR., 1960; SEABORN JONES WILKINSON married ELIZ. ANN JONES, daughter of IRBY and REBECCA BROWN EDWARDS JONES on March 19. 1828, Limestone County, Alabama. She was bom April 29, 1812 and her parents married February 20, 1810, he Surry County, Virginia; PHOEBE JOHNSON, great-grandson of SEABORN J. WILKINSON died June 6, 1826, Limestone County at 112 according to JANE BIBB) Died in Madison County at the residence of ALCUIN EASON, Esq., MISS MINERVA MARIAH POPE aged about 22 years. Born and raised in Limestone County but for some time previous to her death had resided at MR. EASON' s ... "as left an orphan1'... Died--MISS HELLEN G. WALL...at the residence of her mother on Monday evening. (Census of 1850 shows her 20 in Alabama, daughter of MARY) , Died in Athens on the 9tH. WILLIAM AVERY aged about 23 years. (1350 Census shows him 21, bom in Mississippi) Died in Athens on 14th, ROBERT H. CLARK aged about 20 years. September 29, 1852 Married on Wednesday evening the 22nd, at Church of Nativity by REV. HENRY C. LAY, MR. GABRIEL JORDAN, JR. of Virginia to MISS ELLEN, daughter of JOHN H. LEWIS, Esq. of this place. (volume 130, page 22; Fayetteville (Tennessee) Observer October 7, 1852) 520 - (3820)