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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 559
Died on 25th of croup, WILLIE, in his 4th year, son of WM. ROLLSTON. editor of Tuscumbia North Alabamian. CAPT. GEORGE STEELE was bom in Virginia, Beford County, on 1st day of April 1798, removed to Huntsville in 1818 where he resided up to his death on 21 instant in his 58th year...kind hsuband and father.... (long obituary) November 7, 1855 Married on 16th by REV. M. H. BONE, MR. SAMUEL W. SANDFORD to MISS ELIZA J. MORROW, all of this county. Married in Eastport, Mississippi on 17th by SAMUEL LEWOODY, Esq., MR. BENJ. GLEADALL of Tuscumbia to MRS. CORNELIA HICKMAN of Eastport. (1850 Census shows him aged 50, bom in England) Died at her residence in this county on Tuesday the 9th, ELIZABETH ASHWORTH, consort of JOSEPH ASHWORTH, aged 37 years 5 months. (1850 census shows her aged 32, bom in Virginia; him 29, bom in Tennessee) November 14, 1855 Married on 16th at residence of PAUL J. WATKINS, Esq., JAMES H. BRANCH, Esq. of Arkansas to MISS MARY E. WATKINS, daughter of PAUL J. WATKINS of Lawrence County, Alabama. November 21, 1855 Married on 1st by REV. T. A. MORRIS, MR. R(OBERT) S. McREYNOLDS of New Orleans to MISS MARY HOGAN, daughter of COL. JOHN HOGAN of Bellmont near Tuscumbia, Alabama. (in 1850 census shows JOHN HOGAN aged 65, born in North Carolina; her 14 in Alabama) Married on Saturday morning, St. John's Church, by REV. MR. GEORGE CLARK, MR. THOMAS B. CLARK of Knoxville, Tennessee to MISS ELIZA JESSIE CRISP, elder daughter of MR. WM. H. CRISP of Savannah (Hardin County). Married on 8th by REV. G. W. CARMICHAEL, MR. ZACHARIAH R. PETTY to MISS REBECCA A., daughter of COL. W. F. WHITMAN, all of this county. Married in Selma on 6th, by REV. MR. PLATT, MR. A. E. BAYAL of Greene County to MISS KATE BLEVINS of Selma, daughter of the late JOHN BLEVINS. Married on 11th at residence of THOMAS SNODGRASS, Esq. by HON. J. G. DIXON, MR. WM. L. SHELTON to MISS ELIZABETH J. SNODGRASS, all of Jackson County. Married on 12th by REV. W. C. JOHNSON, REV. J. B. McFERRIN, D.D., editor of Nashville Christian Advocate to MISS CYNTHIA TENNESSEE, daughter of JOHN McGAVOCK, Esq. of Edgefield, Tennessee. Died in Cass County, Texas on 14 October 1855, MRS. LUCY C. THOMAS, wife of the late JAMES THOMAS of Madison County, Alabama aged 45 years. Woman of strong sense, kind feelings and lived in and for her family. She has many friends and relations in this county.... Died at his residence in Greene County on 6 November of hemmorhage of the bowels, MR. CALVIN B. SNEED aged 34 years. Died at residence of COL. H. H. HIGGINS in Athens on 12th, JOHN B. ELLIOTT, about 90 years of age. (1850 census shows one JOHN ELLIOTT aged 72 bom in Ireland.) November 28, 1855 Married on 13th by REV. P. B. ROBINSON. MR. JOHN H. MILLER to MISS MILDRED JOHNSTON, all of this county. Married on 23 October MR. ALEXANDER JORDEN of Marshall County to MISS MARY L. THWEATT of St. Clair County. Married on 15th by REV. WM. GREEN, MR. WM. COBB to MISS TABITHA RUBY, all of this county. Married on 21st by REV. W. D. F. SAWRIE, MR. A. D. LIGHTON to MISS ELIZA ALLEN, all of this place. Married on 13th by REV. F. P. SCRUGGS at residence of REV. J. P. MOSELEY. MR. WILLIAM MOSELEY to MISS MARTHA PRIOR KIMBLE, all of Morgan County. Married on 20th by ELDER J. GUNN, MR. W. H. DAVIS of Decatur to MISS MARTHA JANE MATKIN, all of Madison County. Married on 30th in Hopkinsville (Christian County), Kentucky by REV. . DR. RIDLEY, DR. ALBERT G. LONG of Tuscumbia, Alabama to MISS JOSEPHA STURDIVANT of Montgomery County, Tennessee. Died on 2nd, THOMAS REUBEN, son of JOHN M. and MARGARET SCOTT aged 2 years 3 months 2 days. 559 - (3859)