Wilkinson County, Ga.
News Articles 1870's
January 7, 1870
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Postponed Adminstratrix' Sale
Will be sold, on the first Tuesday in February
next, between the legal hours of sale, Lots Nos. 11 and 5, in the fifth
district, and fraction 212 in the twenty-seventh district of Wilkinson
county, belonging to the estate of John
Fitzpatrick, deceased, the same having been sold to W. M. Whitehurst,
who has failed to comply with terms of sale. Terms cash. Elizabeth
G. Fitzpatrick, Administratrix John Fitzpatrick, deceased. dec 6
January 11, 1870
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
COTILLION
PARTY AT GORDON. - We acknowledge thankfully a card of invitation to a
cotillion party to be given at the Gordon Hotel next Thursday night - W.
A. Ryle, L. Butts, R. Nelson and E. A. Walker, Committee of
Invitation; S. Simons, W. A. Ryle, D. M. Pope, F. S. Barclay
and
R.
G. Solomon, Floor Managers. In this party, we rejoice to see, we are
not required to go in white satin tights tied up with blue ribbons - a
spangled red coat with a very short tail, and a comical hat with a long
feather, to enact Mr. Tracy Tupman under similar difficulties - nor to
wear a yellow hat, a green cloak and a huge butcher knife as the Jew in
the Merchant of Venice, and frighten the ladies with horrid scowls. We
shall be neither Nicholas Bottom, Francis Flute, Tommy Stout, Sir Walter
Raleigh, the Duke of Richmond or a Spanish Cavalier. Some years ago, the
writer attended Shaker worship, and after sitting while in silence, the
old Elder got up and says he "Let us praise God in a Square Dance,: and
he spoke our mind exactly. When we get to Gordon we shall go in for a square
dance, and in spite of all the reverend doctors say, there'll be no harm
in it, unless the ladies should be so unfortunate as to get their toes
under one of our heels, when we shall not be responsible for the consequences.
By no means, John. So look out for Gordon and a square dance, next Thursday
night.
January 25, 1870
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
State of Georgia, Wilkinson county
Superior Court, November Adjourned Term,
1869
Present His Honor Philip B. Robinson, Judge
Susan
Denard vs. Wm. N. (M) Denard
Libel for Divorce, Rule to Perfect Service
It appearing to the Court by the
return of the Sheriff, that the defendant does not reside in this county,
and it further appearing that he does not reside in this State; it is ordered,
on motion of counsel, that the said defendant appear and answer at the
next term of this Court, else that the case be considered in default and
the plaintiff allowed to proceed. And it is further ordered that this Rule
be published in the Telegraph & Messenger once a month for four
months.
By the Court. Jones & Hall, for plaintiff
Georgia, Wilkinson County-Clerk's Office,
Superior Court.
I certify that the above is a true extract
from the Minutes of Wilkinson Superior Court, November adjourned Term,
1869. Given under my hand this 18th November, 1869
Geo. W. Tarpley, Clerk
March 8, 1870
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Bible
Society Meeting in Wilkinson County.
Irwinton, Ga., February 27, 1870. A portion
of the citizens of Wilkinson county met in convention this day, for the
purpose of organizing a Bible Society. Religious services by Rev. W.
N. Parks. Bro. T. N. Beall was elected temporary Chairman and
A.
L. Barge temporary Secretary. Rev. W. H. Parks, Agent American Bible
Society, then delivered an address in support of the Bible cause full of
pathos and chasteness, reflecting honor upon the speaker and delighting
and chaining his audience. If we know what "the right man in the right
place" signifies, we are certain that in Bro. Parks the American Bible
Society has an able and efficient agent. After the address, collections
were taken up, resulting as follows:
Cash received.............$95.00
Amount subscribed.......40.00
Total.........................$135.00
The Constitution of the American
Bible Society was then read, and with some few exceptions adopted.
The election of officers was then
proceeded to, which resulted as follows: President, Rev. Ellis Harville;
Vice President, T. N. Beall; Secretary, A. L. Barge; Treasurer,
H.
E. Hyman. Upon the Executive Committee the following gentlemen were
elected: Rev.
B. E. L. Timmons, Rev. E. J. Coates, R. J. Cochran,
F. Chambers and John Methvin.
Resolved, 1st. That the Executive
Committee of this Society be authorized to fill all vacancies that may
occur in its body by death, resignation or otherwise.
Resolved, 2d. That the Executive
Committee be authorized to add its number an advisory member from each
militia district, or from each church in the county.
Resolved, 3d. That the Executive
Committee be authorized to appoint four call meetings of this Society during
the year, at such times and places as it may see proper.
Resolved, 4th. Than an abstract of
the proceedings of this meeting be published in the TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
T. N. Beall, Chairman. Allen L.
Barge, Secretary.
May 20, 1870
Southern Christian Advocate
Married. On the 5th May 1870, by Rev. J.
J. Morgan, Mr. Thos. M. Tarply,
of Wilkinson co., to Miss Anna
Linder, of Laurens co., Ga.
June 21, 1870
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
State of Georgia, Wilkinson county
Superior Court, April Term, 1870
Present His Honor Philip B. Robinson, Judge
Carry
M. Richardson vs Richard Richardson
Libel for Divorce, Rule to Prefect Service
It appearing to the Court by the
return of the Sheriff, that the defendant does not reside in this county,
and it further appearing that he does not reside in this State; it is ordered,
on motion of counsel, that the said defendant appear and answer at the
next term of this Court, else that the case be considered in default and
the plaintiff allowed to proceed. And it is further ordered that this Rule
be published in the Journal & Messenger, weekly, once
a month for four months.
J. D. Jones, Plaintiff's Attorney
Georgia, Wilkinson County-Clerk's Office,
Superior Court.
I certify that the above is a true extract
from the Minutes of Wilkinson Superior Court.Given under my hand
and official signature, this 2d day of May, 1870.
Iverson H. Fleetwood, Deputy Clerk.
May 4
July 26, 1870
Southern Recorder
DIED. In Gordon, Ga., on the 18th Feb.,
1869, Mrs. Julia B. Palmer,
aged
73 years 2 months and six days.
At the same place, Lillian,
infant
daughter of S. H. and Annnie E. Palmer, born Aug. 21, 1869,
and died Oct 12, 1868, aged 1 month and 21 days.
Also, at the same place,
J. M. Palmer, on the 17th July, 1870, aged 62 years 8 months and 29
days.
August 11, 1870
Atlanta Constitution
The lightning struck the brick
warehouse at Toombsboro, on the Central Railroad, a few days since, splintering
the doors and windows and knocking down a white man and colored boy. The
latter was not hurt.
September 23, 1870
The Atlanta Constitution
Judge Rawls of Wilkinson
county, states that about two weeks ago he and two or three of his neighbors
killed twenty-six rattlesnakes all in one den. One of the serpents supposed
to be the mother of the other twenty five, was unusually age, and the others
some eighteen inches in length
August 23, 1870
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Died, in Gordon, Georgia, August 8th, Ida
M., infant daughter of F. S. and Mary Barclay.
October 5, 1870
The Atlanta Constitution
Crawford Dorsey (colored) has for
the past three years brought the first bale of cotton to Irwinton, Wilkinson
county. He is living on
George Carswell's plantation farming on
shares, and will make this years twenty-five bales of cotton, 800 bushels
of corn, twenty bushels of peas, and 100 bushels of potatoes. He also raised
twenty-eight head of hogs this year.
November 1, 1870
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Administrator's Sale.
Will be sold before the Court house door
in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, on the first Tuesday in December
next, within the legal hours of sale, the following Real Estate to wit:
Fifteen hundred and thirty-nine (1539)
acres of land, more or less, lying in the 23 and 26th districts of said
county of Wilkinson, known as the Lucinda H. Wright place, adjoining
lands of W. E. Carswell, Sr., A. McAllum, estate of William Todd,
Mrs. Eliza Whipple and others
About one-half the place is
in a good state of cultivation and under fence.
There is a good two-story house
on the place, with all the necessary out-buildings, cribs, stables, etc.
., two good wells of water and a good gin house and screw.
Also, the Plantation known
as the Parks place lying in the 23d district of said county, containing
six hundred and thirty acres, more or less, and one hundred acres adjoining,
know as the "Hays place", adjoining lands of Mrs. Eliza Whipple,
George Carswell and others.
There are on the place a dwelling
house, gin house and screw, and the necessary out buildings, cribs, stables,
etc. and a good well of water.
All of these lands are well known
as the Porter's Creek land and the best cotton lands in the county.
Also, will be sold at the same
time and place, a Store-house and Lot in the town of Irwinton. The house
is new, 50 feet long by 2? feet wide, and two stores high. It is directly
in front of the Courthouse, and one of the best business stands in town.
All of the above
and foregoing property sold as the property of
B. A. Whipple, late of said county, deceased, for the benefits of heirs
and creditors. Sold by authority of an order of the Ordinary of said county.
Term of sale, one-half
cash and the balance at twelve months, with mortgage on the property as
security, and interest from date if not punctually paid. Possession, 25th
December. S. B. Whipple, Administrator.
November 25, 1870
Southern Christian Advocate
Married. On Nov. 13, 1870, by Rev. B. E.
L. Timmons, Mr. Milton Davis and Miss Emily
Freeman, all of Wilkinson co., Ga.
November 29, 1870
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Gordon Hotel On the Central Railroad,
For Sale. By virtue of an order in Chancery at the last term of Wilkinson
Superior Court, will be sold at Irwinton, on the First Tuesday in January
next, the remainder interest after the dower of Serena A. Jones,
widow of Josiah H. Jones, deceased,
in the noted Hotel at Gordon, Ga., known as Solomons' Hotel, and
the same interest in two hundred and twenty-four (224) acres of land, adjoining
the said Hotel Sold by the undersigned for the purpose of place the
estate of said deceased in condition for distribution among the creditors
of the same. Terms
cash-purschaser to pay for stamps.
Junius Wingfield, L. H. Briscoe, F. Chambers,
Commissioners
November 29, 1870
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Administrator's Sale
GEORGIA, WILKINSON COUNTY - In pursuance
of an order from the Ordinary Court of said county, there will be sold
before the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on
the first Tuesday in December next, during the legal hours of sale, a good
Cotton Plantation, of four hundred acres, well improved, and lying eight
miles south of Irwinton. Sold as the property of the estate of William
W. Collins, deceased, for the purpose of division. Terms of sale cash.
F. C. RUTHERFORD, Adm'r. oct 19
December 16, 1870
Southern Christian Advocate
In Marshallville, 1st Dec., by Rev. B. F.
Breedlove, Mr. T. M. Tarpley of Irwinton, Ga., to Miss A.
F. Vanlandingham of the former place.
January 18, 1871
Southern Christian Advocate
Married. On Dec. 11th 1870, by Rev. B. E.
L. Timmons, Mr. Isaac O. Bower to Miss Olive
E. Bishop, all of Irwinton, Ga.
January 24, 1871
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Valuable Real Estate for Sale
Will be sold before the Court-house in Irwinton,
Wilkinson county, on the first Tuesday in February next, five hundred and
fifty seven acres of land, more or less, in the fifth district of said
county, numbers not known, but being known as the mill place formerly owned
by Joel Rivers, deceased, for distribution.
W. M. WHITEHURST, A. O. FLEMISTER, E. S. MASSEY, Commissioners.
February 7, 1871
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County
Isaac H. Watkins, adm'r ofLucinda
H. Wright, vs. Mitchell Watkins et al. Heirs at law of Lucinda
H. Wright.
In Equity, Bill for direction. In the Superior
Court of said County. October Term, 1870.
It appearing to the Court that the children
of Levin Watkins, deceased, Sarah Cottonhead, deceased (formerly
Sarah
Watkins,) Tabitha Brown, deceased, (formerly Tabitha Watkins)
and a portion of the children and grandchildren of Wealthy Fountain, formerly
Wealthy
Watkins, who are heirs at law of the said Lucinda H. Wright,
do not reside within this State, and it further appearing that their names
and residences are unknown to the complainant in the above state cause,
it is therefore ordered by the Court that they and each of them and all
others claiming an interest in said estate, do be and appear at the next
term of this Court to be held on the first Monday in April next, then and
here to make known and establish their identity and relationship to the
said Lucinda H. Wright, and the nature and extent of their claim to participate
in the distribution of the estate of said Lucinda H. Wright. And it is
further ordered that service of this order be perfected upon all and each
of them by publication of the same weekly for four months previous to the
next term of this Court in the following public gazettes, to-wit: Weekly
Telegraph and Messenger, published at Macon, Ga.; Federal Union, published
at Milledgeville, Ga., and the Central Georgia, published at Sandersville
Ga.
Georgia, Wilkinson County - Clerk's Office
Superior Court, October 25th, 1870. I hereby certify that the within is
a true extract from the minutes of said Court. October Term, 1870. Geo.
W. Tarpley, Clerk.
February 28, 1871
Macon Weekly Telegraph
DIED. At his residence at Cool
Spring, Wilkinson county, Ga., at 6 o'clock A.M. on the 21st inst., Willis
Allen, 55 years of age. An old and much loved citizen of the county.
His place in the county can never be filled. Peace to his ashes. H
April 11, 1871
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Information Wanted, Of my son, G.
W. Cannon, 16 years old, abut five feet high, fair complexion, blue
eyes, auburn hair-cut close. He left home on Saturday night. Last heard
of him, was on the Central Railroad train for Macon. Address Mrs. Leah
Cannon, Toombsboro, Ga. apr9
May 10, 1871
Southern Christian Advocate
Brother James
Hatcher was born in Wilkinson co., Ga., March 18th 1832, where he died
April 18th 1871.
June 7, 1871
Federal Union
Bloody Affray. On Friday afternoon
last, a difficulty occurred at Davis' Store, in Wilkinson county, near
the Baldwin line between Messrs. William Davis and Daniel H.
Tucker on one side, and Robert and Jack Parker, brothers,
on the other. Robert Parker
was killed and William Davis was shot three times, two of the balls passing
through his body, inflicting mortal wounds, it was thought, but he is still
living; D. H. Tucker was shot in four places, in the face, shoulder and
arm, and is seriously wounded. Dr. Herty who is attending him is hopeful
of his recovery. Jack Parker is thought to be only slightly wounded.
We are not informed as
to the causes which led to the above shocking results. It may, however,
be proper to state that politics had nothing to do with the matter, as
we believe all the parties were of the same political faith. The unfortunate
difficulty is greatly to be regretted, for, as far as we know, the men
engaged in this desperate rencontre have always borne the character of
being peaceable, law-abiding citizens. Their worse passions must have been
fired by artificial stimulants. WHen will me learn to avoid this Great
Enemy which leads his victims to ruin an death?
P.S. Since writing the above we are
informed that a previous difficulty occurred between Mr. Jack Parker and
Mr. Tucker, and at the time of the shooting took place the attack was made
by the Parkers on Mr. Tucker. Mr. Davis came to his (Tucker's)
assistance and became involved in the difficulty. We learn an inquest was
held over the body of Robt. Parker and a verdict of justifiable homicide
rendered in the case of Tucker and Davis. We also learn that Mr. Davis
is better and hopes are entertained of his recovery.
July 4, 1871
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Closing
Exercise of the Irwinton High School
Correspondence of the Telegraph and Messenger.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: After many weeks of busy preparation,
brightly dawned Tuesday, 27th ult, the day for examination. By 8 o'clock
the teachers and bright-eyed students, together with a few patrons of the
school, and visitors, had gathered themselves within the walls of the schoolroom,
there to anxiously await the events of the day. Soon thereafter the examinations
were commenced. Some were conducted by solicited members of the audience,
but more by the youthful though worthy principal, Mr. J. C. Wilson,
and
his assistant, Miss J. Wilson, both of whom, by their questioning,
exhibited a willingness to display only that which had been taught. The
audience, which continually swelled in size, preserved commendable decorum
throughout the day's exercises; the pupils, numbering more than seventy-five,
showed marks of satisfactory improvement, and the anxious hopes of all
seem to have been realized.
Although a want of time and space
forbids my dwelling as lengthily as I wish on the examination of the several
classes; the elegantly composed essays of the young ladies, and their appropriate
and graceful reading of them, as well as the tastefully selected declamations,
and the admirable deliver of them by the young men and boys of the school,
yet I am constrained to make mention of the address by Mr. Warren D.
Nottingham who though youthful himself is also an instructor of youths
of our county. The forenoon exercises of the school being concluded he
was introduced to the audience, and taking for his theme, "Composition
Writing," he for twenty minutes successfully exposed the folly of almost
utterly neglecting so important a branch of study in many of our common
schools and colleges, and came off the state amid the loud applause of
the delighted audience.
An entertainment, which I will call
a school-theatrical-exhibition, was intended to be given on Tuesday evening;
but owing to the apprehended weakness of the underworks to the Academy
Hall; and the inconvenience, trouble and expense which would necessarily
have attached to having it in the new courtroom, in its stead, was substituted
a "sociable;" which was largely attended, and which, in every respect,
was all that could have been desired. Visitors from Twiggs, Laurence, Washington,
Baldwin and Bibb counties, were in attendance.
THE CONCERT
Held in the capacious new court-room, on
Wednesday evening, was a complete success. To Prof. F. A. Guttenberger,
who is instructor in the musical department, praise is due for the accomplishments
of his students. He was aided in the concert performance, however, by several
ladies who were not his pupils. The concert hall was crowded to its utmost
extent. During the latter part of the afternoon of the day, the streets
of Irwinton were perfectly alive with fine steeds, drawing at a rapid rate
fast beaux and beautiful damsels, flushed with pleasure and excitement.
Until the light of day sunk below the western horizon, seekers of pleasure
came in from every direction; being doubly attracted by the grand concert
and the grand ball which was to follow in the wake of the concert after
its brief performance were concluded. Yes, the crowd was large, and although
the entertainment lasted little more that a couple of hours, it was capitally
enjoyed by all this massive and mixed assembly. Conspicuous among the performers
were Mrs. Dr. Peeples, Mrs. Guttenberger, Misses Josey A. Breazeal,
Matilda Baum and Emma Guttenberger.
Shortly after 10 o'clock, the concert
closed. Those who wished to remain, either to participate in or witness
the dancing, were respectfully invited to do so. But the anti-dancing party,
as well as some others, seemed to think "put me in my little bed," and
retired; while a large and respectable crowd remained to prolong their
sport. I, myself retired, therefore will not comment.
And now in conclusion, I believe
that I speak only the universal impression, when I say for myself, that
high as my expectations were, with reference to the "sociable." and the
progress of the students - both literary and musical- they were by no means
disappointed; but on the contrary, surpassed.
I am authorized to state that the
fall term of the school will open on Monday, 31st July, next. RespectfullY
CORRESPONDENT. Irwinton, June 29th.
July 18, 1871
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
OBITUARY
-excerpt~Died, in Wilkinson county, Ga.,
on the 6th inst., little Fannie
Marion, only daughter of R. H. and Pennie Carswell, about fifteen
months of age.
August 15, 1871
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
excerpt
black man named Green
Porter, and the other a white man named Thomas McRae, who got
the negro dead. Our Coroner has informed me that the verdict of his jury
is "Willful murder". It seems that McRae had employed the negro's services
for the year: but that about two months ago he refused to work longer,
when McRae then and since then, endeavored to drive him from his premises.
he, with his family remained, however, until his death. It is presumed
that this was the cause of the affray.
September 9, 1871
Columbus Ledger Enquirer
A FLAGRANT
OUTRAGE. A Wilkinson county correspondent informs us that a body
of disguised mounted men rode into the village of Irwinton about 11 o'clock
on Monday night, 11 inst., and at once proceeded to the residence of the
jailor, from whom they by force obtained the keys of the jail, which they
entered. They then removed a negro prisoner by the name of Harry Lowther,
and after securing him, they conveyed him about two miles from the village,
and mutilating his body in a mot demonical manner abandoned him to await
the coming of he grim monster. He was found in an insensible condition
the following morning, and taken back to the jail, where h is now in a
very precarious condition. This negro bears a notoriously bad character,
and at the time of the unfortunate affair was in jail awaiting trail for
one of the many crimes with which he is charged. There is a law for the
punishment of offenders, which, if not sufficiently adequate for the suppression
of crime, can be made so; and we regret that the people of Wilkinson county,
among whom we number some of our dearest and most cherished friends, should
have allowed the baser passions of their nature to obtain the mastery over
their judgment and lend them into the commission of a graver crime than
that with which their victim was charged. Macon Citizen, 7th.
September 11, 1871
Daily Gazette and Bulletin
MORE KU-KLUX WORK
Washington, Sept. 10. Information has just
been received here of a dreadful tragedy in Wilkinson county, Georgia,
about midnight on Wednesday last. A part of unknown men gagged and killed Matthew
Deason, sheriff of Wilkinson county, and also a negro woman in his
employ, and threw their bodies into a mill pond near by. The bodies were
recovered on Friday morning. The sheriff had a gun shot wound in his head
and the remains of the woman gave evidence of having been badly mutilated
with a knife. No arrest have been made so far.
October 6, 1871
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY - We learn from
a reliable gentleman the following particulars of a terrible tragedy that
occurred near Toomsboro, in Wilkinson county, on Sunday afternoon last.
Our informant states that Mr. Joel Dees,
an old and highly respected citizen of the county above named, was foully
murdered by some person or person unknown, and his body secreted in the
woods near his residence. Mr. Dees was a peaceable, inoffensive old man,
and his untimely taking off by the hand of an assassin cannot be accounted
for, inasmuch as he was known to have no enemy who would perpetrate such
a coward and infamous crime. We are glad to know that the killing of Mr.
Dees cannot be attributed to political matters, as it is well known to
the friends of the deceased, ourselves among the number, that he was never
a partisan and was generally inclined to eschew politics altogether.
Macon
Citizen, 3d.
October 10, 1871
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
General Presentments. State of Georgia, Wilkinson County
We, the Grand Jurors selected and sworn
for the county of Wilkinson, beg leave to make the following report:
We very much regret the causes for
the adjournment of our court, viz: The illness of Col. Cumming, and
the family affliction of F. Chambers, Esq., who was so recently
bereft of one of his children. Under the excellent charge of His Honor
Judge
Robinson, all of which we highly approve, and which we should have
been able to have ferreted out all the offenders of the law in our county,
and brought the same to as strict account and trial, and thereby dissipate
all the false rumors afloat in our borders, and which until, and at our
adjourned term we shall endeavor ceaselessly to ferret out and bring to
trial. We do feel, and therefore this expression, that our own people are
law abiding and that justice can and will be done to every offender of
the laws, white or colored, and to every party or suit in the court, of
any citizens whatever, and above expressed shall do everything to effect
that rule. We therefore do hope all the false reports and rumors will be
entirely discredited and suppressed by all the good citizens, under the
assurance from this body that all will be done speedily to bring the offenders
to the justice of that punishment the offenses justify. And we request
the publication of this in the Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
Wm. A. Hall, Foreman
Isaac Lindsay, Isaac W. Davis, David
W. Rutland, Alfred J. Willis, Jesse J. Green, Miles M. Bloodworth, Thomas
Lister, Wm. E. Carswell, Jr., Oliver H. P. Rawls, Thomas J. Jordan, Wade
H. Green, Thomas H. Rutland, Samuel Rutherford, John R. Green, John Taylor,
Jesse R. Arington, Solomon Ward, Bennett King, Thomas W. Dupree, William
H. Hall, Jr., Henry F. Rutland.
Wilkinson Superior Court,
October Term, 1871
Upon hearing the above General Presentment,
ordered that a copy of the same be furnished the editors of the Telegraph
and Messenger of Macon, Georgia, for publication By the Court. A true copy
from the minutes of this Court October 4th, 1871. Andrew J. Porter,Clk.
October 12, 1871
Savannah Morning News
Mr. Robert Solomon of Gordon, died recently.
October 25, 1871
Southern Christian Advocate
Ira Story, only
son of Col. R. L. Story
of Wilkinson co., died on 16th ult., aged
8 years and 7 months.
November 7, 1871
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
GUARDIAN'S SALE -By virtue of an order of
the Court of Ordinary of Wilkinson county, will be sold before the Court-house
door, in Irwinton, in said county, on the first Tuesday in November next,
within the legal hours of sale, the following lands, to wit: Lots Nos.
257, 258, 267 and 268 containing 810 acres. On this place is a dwelling
house, gin house and screw and all necessary outbuildings.
Also, lots Nos. 259, 266 and 100
acres of lot No. 230 and 92 acres of lot No. 241. Containing in all 5,971
(note: should be 597) acres, known as the Hicks places.
Also 110½ acres of lot No.
241, and 92 acres of lot No. 242, known as the Nelson place.
These places are all under a good
fence, and the most of the open land in a fine state of cultivation, the
remainder in original forest. To those who desire to combine stock raising
with farming, no better opportunity will ever be offered in this county
for obtaining a place so well adapted to this purpose. The other lands
are very productive, as can be seen from the crop grown this year, and
the stock range cannot be surpassed by any place in the Oconee Swamp.
For further particulars apply
to F. Chambers, at Irwinton, or to John Hooks, on the place
or the undersigned, at Clinton, Ga.
The above property sold for distribution
among the children of D.N. Smith,
dec'd. ROBT. HARDEMAN, Guardian.
November 15, 1871
Southern Christian Advocate
Married. By Rev. C. W. Smith, October
31st, in Wilkinson co., Ga., Mr. Jas. B. Stevens to MissSue
Brewer.
February 13, 1872
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Notice To Debtors and Creditors - All persons
having claim against the estate of Joel Deese,
late
of Wilkinson county, deceased, will please present them and persons indebted
in said estate will make payment of the same to the undersigned.
T. M. FREEMAN, J. B. DUGGAN,
Administrators.
February 27, 1872
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Horrible Murder in Wilkinson County
We received, yesterday, the following
details of a horrible murder, perpetrated last Sunday night, in Wilkinson
county, and of which brief mention was made in our local columns yesterday.
Our correspondent writes:
Joel Burke,
a young man in Wilkinson county, owned a plantation, and on it he had a
store about one mile from his father's, Mr. Nimrod Burke. He boarded
with his father and slept at his store. Last Sunday night, about seven
o'clock, he left for his store, but, Monday morning, he did not come to
his breakfast. His brother went to hunt him, but returned at twelve o'clock
and reported the store closed, and that he saw no sign where Joel had come
out and gone off or into the plantation. His father and several of
the family went and broke the store open, but he was not in it. Diligent
search was then made, and he was found near Providence Church about half
way between his father's and his store, murdered in the most shocking and
brutal manner. His skull was broken and being in pieces on one side of
his head, his throat cut open and his purse, money and knife taken, as
were the store and iron safe keys also. On breaking open the store, it
was found that the iron safe had been robbed and the money drawer cleared
of change, and also about a dozen pair small size ladies' shoes, two bolts
of calico and some other goods taken, the murderer carrying the keys off
with him. It is not known how much money the murderer got but
it is thought some $40 or $50 - about $4 in silver and $1 in gold, and
the most of the other in greenbacks.
Joel Burke was regular
in his habits and went to his store every night; and being a cripple having
but one leg-the one that killed him had not much to contend with, as he
was weakly and small. Young Burke served during the whole of the
late war and was twice wounded, losing his leg in the last battle around
Richmond. He was quiet and attentive to his business, and is the last man
that I would have expected to be killed. W. Twiggs County,. February 21,
1872.
March 26, 1872
Macon Weekly Telegraph, Page 4
The Dyer Homicide
An intelligent friend from Twiggs
says that the account of the Dyer homicide, in yesterday's edition, was
erroneous in some particulars, and did injustice to the officer in whose
hands the warrant of arrest was placed. When Dyer started home in an intoxicated
condition and overtook the party on the Twiggs road, it consisted of a
negro man and three women. Dyer hailed them in a gossiping way and asked
the old woman where she was living. She made no reply. He then asked her
"who do you belong to?" Her reply was "Don't belong to you, yer rebel."
He then asked her to take a drink, which she refused very curtly. He said
"you appear to cut me up might short." She replied, "Good enough for a
rebel." He, then, having his pocket knife in his hand, rode towards her,
when she commenced a vigorous defense with her umbrella. The rest of the
party ran off, and the killing occurred as described.
Our informant says that it was late
at night before the coroner's jury made up their verdict and Dyer's house
was six miles off. The arrest would have been made next morning, but Dyer
received notice that the negroes would be after him during the night. They
did call at the house during the night, in an armed party of fifteen, with
very sanguinary threats, if they had found him. He was at home the next
night prepared for defense if he had received a similar visit. But for
this occurrence the arrest would have been next morning after the homicide.
Our informant thinks Dyer will surrender himself for trial, but does not
mean to be lynched.
Dyer is reported by this gentleman
who has know him from early youth, to be ordinarily a very quiet, peaceable
person, who never had a difficulty with anybody until this lamentable occurrence.
March 25, 1872
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Page 6. The Dyer Homicide.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I propose
to set the seeming discrepancies in the statements regarding the Dyer homicide
in the issues of the 19th and 20 inst., at rest. I give the facts as derived
from the coroner and examining surgeon, and from the evidence as elicited
before the jury of inquest.
Dyer had been to Gordon and had become
intoxicated, and was returning to his home in Twiggs county. The testimony
of Caroline Brantley
is that she was on the road with her mother, Jane
Johnson, the deceased. Dallas Dyer overtook them; he ran his
horse against her mother, who pushed the horse with her umbrella, at which
time Dyer commenced cutting her with a large pocketknife before he had
gotten off his horse; Dyer afterwards got off his horse and gave her many
licks with the knife; she fell down before he quit cutting her.
Georgianne Lingo, another witness
before the coroner's jury of inquest, corroborates the statement of Charles
Brantley.
Martin Fitzpatrick, another
witness says he was with
Dallas Dyer and Henry Parker and
overtook Jane Johnson, the deceased, and other women, when he (Fitzpatrick)
and Parker stopped and Dyer rode on. He saw Dyer cutting at Jane Johnson
many times and ran to them and took Dyer away from her.
The verdict of the coroner's jury,
composed of good and intelligent men, was murder.
The murder was committed on
Saturday last at about 3 o'clock P.M. That same evening Andrew Choate,
a son of the deceased, went to Justice Tharpe and procured a warrant
for Dyer's arrest and carried it to Constable Dickson for execution. Dickson
refused to take or execute the warrant, but promised to meet Choate in
Gordon on Sunday morning following. Choate went to Gordon at the time proposed
but failed to see Dickson, whereupon he took some six or seven colored
men and went to the house of Dyer, but failed to find him at home. Choate
then returned to his home with the others.
The inquest was held at about
2 o'clock P.M. on Sunday. The coroner was not notified of the occurrence
of the murder until between 9 and 10 o'clock A.M. on Sunday
The colored man, Andrew Choate, who
went with others to arrest Dyer on Sunday, morning, stands very high in
the estimation of the most prominent citizens in and around Gordon, and
stated to several persons present at the inquest, that he did not aim to
injure Dyer in any way, but merely wanted to place him in the hands of
the officers of the law, the deceased being his mother.
The warrant issued by Justice Tharpe
was on Sunday night placed in the hands of Sheriff Ethridge, who,
early on Monday morning, went to the house of Dyer, to arrest him, but
failed to find him, or to discover his whereabouts. If Dyer wants to give
himself up, there would be no difficulty about doing so. There has been
no disposition on the part of any one to lynch him, that we have heard
of.
From neighbors of the murderer we
learn that he is a hard-working clever gentleman, and it is to be regretted
that in a luckless hour he has brought upon himself and family this shocking
calamity. I am requested to state that the statement of the affair contained
in your Tuesday's issue was entirely correct.
These are the facts of the case.
Anybody questioning the same are referred to Coroner Bush. Respectfully,
JUSTICE. Irwinton, GA, March 21
March 25, 1872
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Page 8, A Horrid Murder
We are sorry to learn from various
sources that one Dallas Dyer, of Twiggs county, perpetrated on Saturday
last one of the most inexcusable homicides we ever hear of. Dyer went to
Gordon on Saturday and got to drinking. He started homeward from
Gordon in a drunken condition on Saturday afternoon and on the road overtook
a negro woman named Jennie Brantley, about seventy years old, who,
with two younger women, had started for Twiggs to attend church on Sunday.
Dyer accosted the old woman with
a proposition to drink, which she declined. He then demanded "who she belong
to." and receiving an answer at which, in his drunken condition he took
offense, and attempted to ride over her. The old woman fended off the horse
with her umbrella, and then Dyer, dismounting-drew a knife and cut her
almost into pieces. The old woman was conveyed to Dr. Massey's house, where
she died in about two hours.
A coroner's jury was immediately summoned
and a verdict of willful murder returned. A warrant was issued for Dyer,
but for some reason unknown was not attempted to be executed by the officer
into whose hands it fell till Sunday morning, when it was reported that
Dyer had fled. Dyer is the son of a peaceful and worthy citizen
of Twiggs county, and a quiet and well disposed
man when sober, but a demon when drunk. The event has excited much indignation
and regret among the people of the neighborhood of all classes.
April 9, 1872
Macon Weekly Telegraph
A Proclamaton. Georgia: By James M. Smith,
Governor of said State.
Whereas Official information has been received
at this Department that, on the 16th day of March, last, a murder was committed
in the county of Wilkinson, upon the body of Jane Johnson by one
DALLAS
DYER, of Twiggs county, and that the said Dallas Dyer has fled from
justice and is now at large.
Now, therefore, I have thought proper
to issue this, my proclamation, hereby offering a reward of Two Hundred
and Fifty Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of the said Dallas
Dyer to the Sheriff of Wilkinson county, in order that he may be
brought to trial for the offense with which he stands charged.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the State, at the Capitol in Atlanta, this 1st day of April, in
the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and of the Independence
of the United States of American the ninety-sixth. James M. Smith.
By the Governor, David G. Cotting, Secretary of State
DESCRIPTION: The said Dallas Dyer is about
23 years of age, five feet eight inches high, light complextion, blue eyes,
thin visage and weighs about 130 pounds.
April 30, 1872
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Attempted
Robbery and Murder in Wilkinson County.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
As I have seen nothing in your paper in regard to the attempted robbery
and murder of Mrs. Chambers, by Jonah Stinson, I will try
to give you a correct statement of the facts. Stinson is a young man about
22 or 23 years of age, and has for several weeks past been in Irwinton
doing nothing from which anyone could see that he could make a support.
On Thursday the 11th of this month,
he approached Rack Bell, a negro living on the plantation of Col.
Eli Cumming, with the proposition that if he, Rack, would assist him
he knew where there was $1,000 in gold and silver, and that he could get
it by his assistance, and would give him a good share of the spoils. Rack
did not give him an answer then whether he would or would not, but came
to Irwinton to tell Col. C. of it who was not at home at that time. He
then went to Mr. T. N. Beall, in whose family he had been raised,
and disclosed to him the the arrangement proposed by Stinson. The next
day Stinson went to Rack again with the same proposition, and told him
that he would hire a mule from Jake Wheeler, another negro on the
same place and for Rack to take the horse he was plowing, to which Rack
assented, telling him that he could not go that night, but would go the
next (Saturday) night. Stinon would not agree to go Saturday night because
there was too much passing and they might be detected, so they put it off
until Monday night. Sunday evening Rack came to Col. C. and told him of
the proposed arrangement but did not know who the one to be robbed was,
but that Stinson would be over to see him the next morning when he would
tell him all about it. Col. C. doubted the truth of his statement, but
decided to look out and see if Stinson would go to Rack's the next morning.
Early the next morning (Monday) Col. C. saw Stinson coming from Rack's
and then spoke to other men in the town asking their advice. They thought
it best to send for Rack in order that he might be questioned by different
men, and see if his statements to these, separately, would correspond.
Several different men heard him, one after another, and were satisfied
in their opinions that he was telling the truth. He then said that Stinson
had told him that the old lady Chambers, between 80 and 90 years of age,
was the one to be robbed - that she lived about nine miles from Irwinton,
and no one lived with her but a cripple grandson, a cousin of Stinson.
Stinson told him that he would get a pistol from some of the boys in town
- would disguise himself as a Ku-Klux, for he said that he belonged to
them and had a disguise - that they would burst in and kick up a row -
make the old lady hand over the money, and if she did not he intended to
kill her. After that statement had been considered it was thought best
to get a crowd who would go and take him at the place appointed for the
robbery. A party was formed consisting of H. E. Hyman, A. A. Beall,
Thos. Rutland, Eli Peacock and Wesley King, Jr. These, after having
watched his movements through the evening, trying to borrow a pistol from
different ones, saw him leave town about 8 o'clock going in the direction
of Rack's. They then waited until 9 o'clock when they went to within 400
yards of the house where they hitched their horses and walked up to the
grave yard, 40 or 50 yards from the house of Mrs. Chambers where they concealed
themselves. Waiting there about three hours they crossed the road and were
speaking of going back when the proposition was made to wait one hour longer
to which all assented. Tow of the party then went to see if the horses
were standing, and had not been gone two minutes before Stinson and Rack
passed the remaining three, who were lying about ten steps from them. Stinson
disguised, Rack was not but was following close after Stinson who was walking
rapidly toward the house. The two who had gone to see after the horses
having been sent for and coming up, the whole party moved on behind them
until they reached the gate, where they concealed themselves behind the
fence. Stinson was in the yard at the back end of the house working a window,
a white sheet thrown over his body and handkerchief tied over his face.
He then walked back in the front piazza, ordered the door to be opened
three times, and the third time told the inmates of the house to open the
door or it would be broken down, that they were Ku-Klux and had to be obeyed,
changing his voice so as to make them think that there was several. In
answer to his demand he was told to go the other door where he could open
and come in, for the front was fastened in such a way that he could not
get it open. He went round the other side into the piazza and up to the
door where he was arrested, having partially opened the door. He and the
negro both dropped the clubs they had in their possession when arrested.
That it was their intention to kill the old lady, was believed by all who
was there. They were brought back to town upon the horses of Col. C. A
warrant for burglary and one for horse stealing was taken out, an he was
arrested upon the first, and after trial before a court, of commitment
was ordered to jail until he could give bond, which he has yet failed to
do the bond being only $500, and if he should give it, he will be arrested
immediately upon another. Respectfully. EYE WITNESS. Irwinton, April 25th,
1872
April 21, 1872
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
How to MAKE LIGHTWOOD. -Mr. Bloodworth
of
Wilkinson county, gives us the following plan for making lightwood, and
assures us it never fails:
In the Spring, when the
sap is up, skin the pine trees all around, except a small slip up the northside,
just enough to keep the tree alive, and in a few years they will be good
lightwood. Mr. Bloodworth says the skinning can be accomplished, (unreadable)
expense, and one hand with an axe and a skinner (which any blacksmith can
make), fastened on the end of a pole, can skin a large number of trees
in a day. In this way he thinks any pine forests near railroads (even old
field pines), can be greatly increased in value. -Federal Union.
July 12, 1872
Augusta Chronicle
Death of
Hon. E. Cumming, of Irwinton. This gentleman died at his residence
in Irwinton, Wilkinson county, on the 29th ult. Col. Cumming was a native
of Washington
county, and a lawyer by profession. For
twenty years he had lived in Wilkinson county, from which county he had
been elected to the Legislature and State Convention.
July 17, 1872
Union Recorder
~excerpts~ Wilkinson Sheriff Sale...sold..first
Tuesday in August next....:
One black mare;
levied on as the property of James
Batson, to satisfy one fi fa in favor of C. M. Lindsey, Ordinary...
Also,...six hundred
acres of land, more or less...fifth District...place on which V. W.
Tharp now lives; ..agent of Willis
Epps.
Also, at the same time
and place,,one house and lot near the town of Gordon, ..property of Jesse
B. Carroll..two tax fi fas..L. L. PEACOCK, D.Sh'ff. jUNE 3,
1872
Wilkinson Sheriff's Sale......
Ninety-two acres of land
lying in the 5th District of said county, known as the Thomas Fountain
place, whereon Pet Dkyes now lives, and adjoining lands of S.
J. Fountain, Jerry Dixon and J. I. Fountain..property of S. J. Fountain..fi
fa..Mrs. M. M. Reid, adm'rx of G. H. C. Reid, against Seaborn
J. Fountain
Also at the same time ...twenty acres of land...adjoining lands of E. Harvile, Elizabeth Bruner, E. J. Gilbert and others..property of E. J. Gilbert, ..in favor of Nelson Murphy, for the use of Rose Gilbert against said E. J. Gilbert...WM. B. ETHRIDGE, D. Sh'ff W C.
One hundred and fifty-six (156)
acres of land, lot No. 8; one hundred and eighteen (118) acres of lot No.
9; seventy-three (73) acres of lot No. 18; two hundred two and a half (202
1-2) acres of lot No. 14; all lying and being in the fourth district...containing
in all nine hundred and fifty (950) acres,..part of plantation known in
said county as the G. B. Burney plantation...in favor of Nathaniel
Myrick vs. J. F. & G. E. Burney, ex'rs of Green
B. Burney, deceased....W. B. ETHRIDGE, D. Sh'ff. July 5, 1872.
July 24, 1872
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Old Mr. Hyman,
an aged and much esteemed citizen of Glascock county, died at Toomsboro,
Wilkinson County, on Thursday night last. He was on a visit to his sons,
in Wilkinson, retired to his usual health Thursday night and was
found dead in his bed Friday morning.
August 6, 1872
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
DIED. In Wilkinson county, on
the 2d of June, Mrs. Arabella
Brown, wife of Matthew E. Brown and daughter of Francis M.
and Sarah Gibbs; aged 32 years.
She was a great sufferer for nearly
four months, but amid all that she was never know to murmur. She bore her
afflictions with Christian fortitude. She attached herself to the Baptist
Church twelve years ago, and lived an exemplary member up to the time of
her death,. About a week before her departure she said death was her portion,
and only a few more days on earth for her. At times she would professor
a desire for her wonted health and energy again; but on the morning before
she expired at night she had a calm and consoling conversation with her
companion, and exhorted him to live right, and said that death was close
at hand but she knew not exactly the hour; though at the close of that
day the hour of death made its full appearance, and she said to her weeping
companion that she was dying fast, and told him to prepare to meet her
in Heaven. She then bid him an affectionate farewell, and soon closed her
eyes in death. Her task was done; the work which she came to earth to do
was finished; her mission had ended; the appointed hour had come. As a
wife she was ever faithful and affectionate, endowed with all the
good qualities to make her husband and home bright and happy. She was admired
by all who knew her for her many virtues and high tones of morality. She
was a most obedient and dutiful daughter, and had always been the pride
of her bereaved parents' heats. She was a devoted and loving sister and
has left a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. All
who knew her loved her, and those that knew her most, but now her poor
earthly garment is laid in the cold grave, and her generous, loving, truthful
spirit, with its mind of unwrought wealth, can be with us only the the
eye of faith. If tears and prayers could avail Bell would be here now,
but they cannot; though hearts may be riven with mortal anguish and bleed
and break and die, it cannot alter the decrees of Providence. God's only
appointed will is done, and the only hope is, now though seen no longer,
that she may be a ministering angle in the homes of her bereaved ones.
M.Y. R.
October
23, 1872
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Arrest Under the KuKlux Law
Enraged at the result of the recent
election in this State, Grant seems to have put Georgia under the ban and
has instructed his myrmidons to commence the work of hounding down and
incarcerating her citizens.
This warfare was inaugurated night
before last by a raid upon the people of Wilkinson County. From a gentleman
who came in yesterday on the Central Railroad we obtained the particulars
of the affair:
On Friday night the train from Macon
brought down a strong detachment of soldiers - detailed for duty from the
Atlanta garrison. The party was accompanied by a number of colored guides.
At Station No. 16, which is near
Irwinton- the county site of Wilkinson, a squad of soldiers, and three
of the negro guides left the cars and sallied into the country. At Station
No. 15, the remainder of the soldiers and two negro guides disembarked.
At the dead of night, these troops marched from house to house, arresting
citizens, dragging them from their beds and carrying them away from their
families.
During the night they arrested ten
citizens: Dr. T. A. Simmons, E. A. Hyman, W. C. D. Carwile, Geo. Gilbert,
Eli Peacock, William Dickson, Jethro Vanlandingham, Charles Peacock and
Milton Lindsay.
The prisoners were taken on the train
yesterday and were taken to Savannah under guard.
The charges against the parties are
not definitely known. It is supposed that three of the gentleman are being
accused of implicating in the killing of Deason, the sheriff of
the county which occurred more that a year ago. The others,
it is believed, are charged with having mutilated some colored men.
Note: Carwile should be Carlisle
October 24, 1872
Atlanta Constitution
South Carolina Atrocities Inaugurated
in Georgia. The Game of Intimidation Begun. Grant's Minions at Work
From the Macon Telegraph
From Mr. W. Cannon,
a highly respectable citizen of Toombsboro, we gathered last night the
following particulars of one of the most high-handed outrages that has
ever been perpetrated upon the soil of Georgia:
It seems one Morris, the negro
candidate from Wilkinson, has been up to Atlanta for some time, operating
upon H. P. Farrow and A. T. Akerman, and fabricating the
most absurd and preposterous Ku-Klux charges against many of the best citizens
of that county. These worthies believing, doubtless, that a bold coup de
main in behalf of Grant, on the eve of election, might alarm and demoralize
his opponents, it is said, lent a willing ear to Morris, and and assisted
him in procuring from the United States Commissioner Swayze warrants for
the arrest of a large number of citizens upon negro affidavits.
On Monday night, this man Morris
came down from Atlanta at the head of a large detachment of United States
troops, under the command of a Lieutenant, and proceeding to Toombsboro,
Irwinton and other points, seized in their beds and arrested the following
gentleman: Dr. T. A. Simmons, Messrs, Henry Hymans, R. Hymans, W. Dickson,
J. S. Vanlandingham, George Gilbert, Milton Lindsay, D. Carlisle and two
brothers Peacock. These unfortunate individuals were then hurried off
to Savannah, there to be tried for their lives upon the accusation of ignorant
negroes, who more than probable, neither know nor care for the obligations
of an oath.
Our informant had been sent to Macon
to procure counsel for the prisoners, and had obtained for them the services
of Colonel W. A. Lofton, who left for Savannah by the night train.
Other arrests, as will
be seen in another column, were also made in this city yesterday. We are
not posted as the precise nature of the charges against any of the Wilkinson
parties, but learn that some of them date back one or two years, and all
are of the Ku-Klux description.
A considerable number of soldiers
are still encamped near Toombsboro, and will doubtless continue to harry
every peaceful citizen who many happen to incur the ire of any vagabond
negro.
October 25, 1872
Atlanta Constitution
Grant's Tyranny In Georgia. Bayonet Outrages
in Irwinton. The Soldiers Drag Undressed Women from their Beds to Pilot
Them
The Climax of Wanton Lawlessness
We have obtained some information
about the Federal soldiers who went down below Macon. The facts make out
a case of atrocious interference with personal right that should stir a
fever of indignation in the hear of every true man against an administration
that oppresses a peaceable community with the violence of the rude soldier.
If anything should spur the people to vote down such an administration
it seems to us this is calculated to do it.
A gentleman from Irwinton informs
us that the United States marshal, accompanied by armed negroes picked
up in the neighborhood, appeared in the village to make arrests at the
hour of 2 o'clock a m. They went to the house of Mr. Gilbert and
inquired for his son. They impatiently went to the room occupied by his
daughters , and aroused them and did not allow them time to dress, but
caused them to show the way to their brothers room in their night dress.
They also did the same at Mr.
Peacock's At one house the first notice the ladies had was the peering
of negroes through their windows. Great alarm was caused.
October 26, 1872
Telegraph & Messenger
BEFORE UNITED STATE COMMISSIONER A. W. STONE
- Yesterday at noon, Messrs. Robert Hyman, Jerthro Linningham (VanLandingham),
and "Buck" William
Dickson, of Wilkinson county, brought
to this city Tuesday night under arrest by the United States authorities,
were arraigned for a preliminary hearing upon the charge
of violating the Enforcement Act, on the
29th day of August, 1871 - more than a year ago - by attacking in disguises
and murdering Matthew Deason, white, the then
Radical sheriff of Wilkinson county. Mr.
Isaac Beckett appeared for the Government, and Captain George A.
Mercer, of Savannah, leading counsel, with Colonel W. A. Lofton,
of Macon, Major J. N. Gilmore, of Sandersville, and Colonel John
W. Lindsay, of the local bar of Irwington, responded for the defendants.
After consultation of the attorneys and their clients, it was agreed between
the counsel for the prosecution and for the defense, that the case be set
down for a hearing on next Friday at 10o'clock A.M., before the Commissioner.
District Attorney H. P. Farrow has been telegraphed for and will
be present to conduct the examination for the government. The man Deason,
the
sheriff alleged to have been murdered as set forth in the affidavit above,
is said to have been a middle-aged man, who had long lived in Wilkinson
county,and had had a there a family, consisting of a wife and several grown
children. This family, living in comfortable and respectable circumstances
at the time, he had deserted, after grossly abusing and mistreating every
member and repeatedly brutally beating his wife, and had taken up and was
living in open concubinage with a notorious negro woman, near the village
of Irwinton. The black harlot he is said to have dressed up in the costliest
and grandest array, and more than once, in open
daylight and in defiance of all decency
and propriety, carried in a carriage to church - himself sitting on the
seat beside the woman - when his wife and family and
neighbors were attending services at the
sanctuary at the time.
The second warrant alleges that three
citizens of Wilkinson therein nominated, committed mayhem by castration
upon the person of one Henry Lowther, a colored man,
during the summer of last year. The first
of these is Doctor Thos. A. Simmons, a popular and influential physician
practicing his profession at Irwinton, and at present
the presiding officer in the Masonic Lodge
at that place. The second is Mr. Henry Hyman, a prominent merchant
of Irwinton, and the third is Mr. Milton Lindsay, a
young man employed as clerk in Mr. Hyman's
store. The third warrant, alleges that two citizens named in the warrant,
shipped last summer, a lewd negro woman named
Harriet Calhoun, who now lives in
Macon, Ga., where she has resided for the last fifteen or twenty months.
The first of these, so accused, is Mr. W. C. D. Carlisle, a
most respected merchant of Irwinton, and
the second is Mr. George Gilbert, a youth at that time going to
school, and this year farming near that town. The fourth
warrant, charges that three citizens of
Wilkinson county, about August, 1871, and seized and castigated a colored
prostitute, name Jane Bush. This woman and the one
alleged in the foregoing warrant to have
been whipped, to-wit: Harriet Calhoun, are said to be sisters, and
Jane,
like her sister, has been living in Macon for the past
year and a half. The first party charged
in the warrant is Mr. Eli Peacock, a merchant of long standing in
Irwinton; the second is Mr. Charles Peacock, a youth of
seventeen, going to school in Irwinton;
and the third is Mr. Carlisle, accused similarly in the third warrant
we have mentioned.
The last three warrants will scarcely
be heard, as we are informed, until the first warrant, the partied to which
were yesterday before Commissioner Stone, is again
brought up on Friday and disposed of.
October 26, 1872
Atlanta Constitution
Among the ten prisoners from Wilkinson
county now confined in the Chatham county jail under the Enforcement Act
are six Free and Accepted Masons. One of them is a Royal Arch.
October 29, 1872
Atlanta Constitution
GRANT'S GRACE.
Unparalleled Outrage. Ladies Insulted
by United States Soldiers and Officials- More Citizens Dragged from their
Beds and Carried to Prison
A gentleman from the vicinity of Gordon
called at this office yesterday and made the following startling disclosures:
On Wednesday night, about
2 p.m., a band of ten United States soldiers, led by some brevet official,
appeared at the dwelling of Dr. J. B. Terrell in quest of the Doctor and
his son, who were from home. They entered the house and searched the premises
in the rudest manner, violating with their ruffian presence the sleeping
chamber of two young ladies, and even tearing from persons the bed covering
which protected them. Disappointed at not finding their prey, they then
visited other domiciles and arrested and bore away with them Messrs.
Wm. Fountain, Wm. Califf, Wm. Bridges, Frank Kennington, Edward Walker,
railroad
agent, and James Fountain. Not content with thus outraging the houses
and persons of their victims, these exemplary representatives of Radical
law proceeded to rifle the pockets of one of their prisoners, Mr. Wm. Fountain,
of about fifteen dollars. For the truth of this latter characteristic set
our informant hs the authority of the brother of Mr. Fountain.
We are told the whole demeanour of
these emissaries of Grant and his henchmen, Akerman and Farrow, was rude,
insolent and overbearing in the extreme. -Macon Telegraph.
EIGHT MORE PRISONERS FROM WILKINSON COUNTY
reached Savannah by the Central train last
evening, in custody of two Deputy United States Marshals, a Federal Lieutenant
and squad of soldiers, and were lodged in the county jail of Chatham to
await the tardy progress of the law for their vindication and deliverance
from prison. The military guard in charge, on the route down, robbed these
citizens of their money, knives and pistols-taking this property on pretense
of returning it on reaching Savannah , but failing to do so when they turned
them over to the custody of the civil authorities.
These citizens were arrested at their
peaceful homes in and near Gordon, Wilkinson county, before day yesterday
morning, having been captured in every instance in bed beneath quiet and
once hallowed roofs. Aroused at the dead hour of night, by a posse of armed
men, who in some of the arrests roughly broke open the doors and windows
of the apartments and rudely entered unannounced with drawn pistols and
cocked guns, violating the privicies of homes and in one instance disregarding
the sanctities of a sick chamber and dragging a weak and enfeebled man
from his couch while three little motherless children in vain cried as
their only remaining parent was unexpectedly and quickly hurried from them,
these eight citizens of Georgia have been brought to Savannah
and vilely incarcerated in felons' cells, buy the strong arm of the Federal
power.
Of these citizens Mr. William
T. Fountain, nearly fifty years old, was born and reared in Wilkinson,
and is planting in a miles and a half of Gordon, in which place he has
a store; Mr. James M. Fountain, son of the preceding gentleman,
is a young man unmarried and farming near his father's place; Mr. J.
Frank Carroll, a young married man of twenty-two, is a farmer, living
in a mile or so of Gordon (was arrested over at his father's); Mr. Frank
Kennington, a single farmer of twenty three, lives in two miles of
Gordon (was arrested at his brother's in Gordon where he was staying that
night); Mr. William J. Bridger, a young merchant of twenty, in doing
business in Gordon (was arrested at his room in the hotel;) Mr.
William H. Calef, a young married man, is merchandising in a Gordon
(was arrested in his bedchamber, door broken open before he could unlatch
it, and officers and soldiers and negroes entered with drawn weapons;)
Mr.
James T. Kirkpatrick is a mechanic in Gordon (was arrested in his sickbed,
window broken open before a friend staying with him could unfasten it,
armed men rushed in and hurried him off, leaving his young children whose
mother is just dead unprotected and crying;) and Mr. B. F. Sanders,
a young man of nineteen is a clerk in a store in Gordon (was sleeping in
back room of the store and was knocked up and arrested.)
the soldiers who constituted the
guard hailed from Atlanta, and the two Deputy United States Marshals were
one Blacker from Atlanta, and an officer named Martin.
There is, we learn, a separate
warrant against each prisoner, although the charge is the same against
each. The warrants were issued by United States Commissioner J. Clarke
Swayze, of Macon, and respectively allege a criminal violation of the Enforcement
Act, in the beating for his political opinions sake of one Henry Charlton,
colored,
during the past summer of 1872.
The negro is about thirty years old,
is married, and had become notorious in that section of the country on
account of his bold, undisguised and illicit communications and commerce
with a degraded and abandoned white woman, about twenty-five or thirty
years old, living in the neighborhood, named Caroline Myers. Savannah
Republican
November 6, 1872
Union and Recorder
~excerpt~Wilkinson County Sheriff Sale.
....on the First Tuesday in December next.....
Two hundred two and one-half acres of land, known as the Absalom Jordan lot in the __ district of Wilkinson county...in favor of the Tax Collector of Wilkinson county vs. Eli Cumming, Adm'r for the tax of 1871 of the estate of R. F. Rozar, late of said county deceased; bounded on the east by the place of Joseph Davidson and on the north by the John Ganey place.
.....will be sold fractional lot of land No. 115 containing one hundred acres more or less, in the 4th District of Wilkinson county...in favor of the Tax Collector of Wilkinson county vs. A. J. Cumming for the tax of 1871; bound on the southeast by F P Crutchfield and on the east by R. A. Carter and others.
..one hundred and fifty-six acres, in the 4th District of said county, part of lot No. 210...in favor of the Tax Collector of Wilkinson county vs. Mills Lord for tax for the year 1871...adjoins the lands of Jackson Holland and Peyton Clay, et al.
...one hundred acres of land in the 4th District of Wilkinson county, being parts of lots 18 and 19; in favor of Tax Collector of Wilkinson vs R A Carter for his tax for the year 1871. Land adjoins Mrs. Holder, Sarah Herndon and others.
.....one hudred acres of land, part of lot No. 207...27th District...adjoining the lands of Jackson Fountain, Mrs. Reed and others;...in favor of the Tax Collector ...vs. Jerry Dixon for his tax for the year 1871.
....sold lot of land No. 141 in the 27th
District of Wilkinson county containing 202 1/2 acres. more or less, levied
on as the property of Jefferson
Sanders ..in favor of the Tax Collector of Wilkinson county vs M
N Murphy for taxes for the years 1869, 1870, 1871..
L. L. PEACOCK, Dep. Sh'ff. Nov 1,
1872
December 4, 1872
Union and Recorder
~excerpt~ sold..first Tuesday in December
next:..One hundred and thirty-two (132) acres of land more or less, being
parts of lots No. 144 and 145 in the 27th District of said county, being
the place whereon C. T. Green deceased
resided at the time of his death; adjoining lands of B. Fountain, Charles
Johnson and Rebecca Valentine. Levied on as the property of
C. T. Green dec'd, by virtue of a fi fa, David Welch vs. Nancy
A. Green, administratrix of C. T. Green......
Also at the same time and place,
two acres of land more or less....town of Irwinton..on road leading from
the Court house to 16 Central R. R., in front of what is known as the Wm.
O. Beall place, adjoinng lands of Ellis Harville, the estate
of G. B. Burney and others..property of J.
T. Hughs..mortgage...in favor of B. W. Todd and James Pittman..L.
L. Peacock, Dep't Sheriff. Oct. 15th, 1872.
December 18, 1872
Union and Recorder
Wilkinson Sheriff's Sale. Will be sold before
the Court house door in the town of Irwinton on the first Tuesday in January
next within the legal hours of sale the following land to wit: Twenty acres
more or less known as the Harrison land, being part of lot number
forty-two, in the fifth District of Wilkinson county, levied on as the
property of James W. Branan
to
satisfy a laborer's and mechanic's lien fi fa, by virture of said fi fa,
which was issued from the Justices Court of the 331st District, G. M.,
in favor of Daniel Myers vs said J. W. Branan. Levy made
by Jerry Dixon, Constable of said District, and returned to me for
sale to satisfy said fi fa. Deed paid for by purchaser. Terms cash.
This December 34d, 1872. W. B. ETHERIDGE, Deputy Sheriff
January 15, 1873
Southern Christian Advocate
Benjamin
F. Kemp was born Feb. 19th 1851, and died in Wilkinson county, Dec.
2, 1872.
February 28, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
ACCIDENT AND LOST OF LIFE - The Milledgeville
Union
and Recorder
says an accident occurred at Stevens' Pottery, on the
Eatonton and Gordon Railroad-on Saturday last, resulting in the death of
a Mr. Byington, and the seriously
wounding of a son of Mr. Henry Stevens
and two negroes. The party
were removing scaffolding from a kiln prepared for burning fire brick,
etc., when it fell and precipitated them to the ground. Mr. Byington was
a young man of eighteen or nineteen years of age, and son of the late Mr.
Charles
Byington. We are pleased to learn that young Stevens and the colored
men will recover. (James Byington)
March 5, 1873
Union and Recorder
DIED in Wilkinson county, after a lingering
illness of Consumption, on the 10th of February,
Rev. B. B. Shepherd in the 60th year of his age. He was a Baptist minister
and had preached the gospel for the past thirty years.
May 6, 1873
Macon Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Died, on the 11th day of April, 1873, Dr.
Thomas A. Simmons, in the thirty-seventh year of his age.
May 6, 1873
Macon Weekly Telegraph
WILKINSON SHERIFF SALE - Will be sold before
the Court house door in the town of Iwinton, between the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in July next, the following described property,
to-wit:
One pale sorrel ball faced mare,
nine or ten years old. Levied on as the property of James
M. Batson to satisfy one mortgage fi.fa. issued from the Superior Court
of said county, in favor of Salle Herndon vs. J. M. Batson. Property described
in said mortgage fi. fa. J. K. BRANAN, Deputy Sheriff.
May 16, 1873
Telegraph & Messenger
~excerpt~After a protracted illness,
died, at his residence in Wilkinson county, O.
H. P. RAWLS, in the fifty-third year of his age.
The subject of this sketch was born
on the first day of October, 1820, in the State of North Carolina, and
came to Georgia in early life. His home has been in Wilkinson county thirty-five
yers. He was well known to the citizens of the county as an upright man
and a consistent Christian. He has been a member of the Baptist church
twenty-eight years. ..........
....At ten o'clock P.M., 29th April,
1873, he closed his eyes calmly and peacefully in death, and his spirit
returned unto God who gave it. J. L. DUPREE.
June 5, 1873
Atlanta Constitution
Macon. On Sunday morning as the express
passenger train was coming up from Savannah to this city, the engineer
discovered a man lying partially across the track. He promptly blew down
the brakes, reversed his engine, and made every exertion to stop the train.
But his efforts to stop were unavailing, and the cars passed over him.
It proved to be Larkin Parker,
of
Wilkinson county. Both legs were severed above the knee. He lived three
hours after the accident, if accident it may be called, for the story which
comes to as runs, that he was intoxicated to a sufficient extent to be
desperate, but still had a vague idea of the responsibility of railways
as "common carriers." Enterprise
July 8, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County. - On the first
Monday in August, 1873, I shall apply to the Court of Ordinary of said
county for leave to sell all the lands of the estate of Henry
Chambers, late of said county. James Pittman, Administrator
de bonis next.
July 15, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson Sheriff Sale. - Will be
sold before the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton, on the first
Tuesday in August next, during the legal hours of sale, one hundred and
fifty acres of land, more or less, lying in the Fourth District of said
county, known as E Cumming's Nelson
place, lying on Commissioners creek, near old No. 16 Central railroad,
adjoining the lands of John Nelson, Martin J. Carswell, John C. Mackey,
et,
al. Levied on to satisfy one fi fa in favor of G. W. Payne,
Tax
Collector, vs. E. Cumming, for the year 1873. Levy made and returned
to me by a Constable, June 28, 1873.
James K. Branan, Deputy Sheriff.
July 23, 1873
Union and Recorder
~excerpt~ DIED. In Wilkinson count,
on the 5th of July, Mr. Allen Rains,
in
the 82nd year of his age. The deceased was a native of South Carolina,
was born in 1791 emigrated to Georgia, while very young and settled
in Warren County, afterward removed to Baldwin County. He was a member
of the Methodist Church..
August 5, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County. - On the first
Monday in September next, I shall apply to the Court of Ordinary of said
county for leave to sell all the lands of the estate of D.
F. Brown, deceased. James Pittman, Adminstrator.
August 5, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff's Sale. Will be
sold, before the Court house door, in town of Irwinton, in said county,
on the first day of September next, within the legal hours of sale One
hundred acres of lot of land No. 259, in the 23d district of said county;
levied on by W. D. Kemp, constable of the 352d district G.M., as
the poperty of Elbert J. Davidson,
the
defendant, to satisfy fourteen fi fas issued from the Justices' Court of
the 352d district G. M., seven of which are against said E. J. Davidson,
and seven against said E. J. Davidson, as security. Property pointed out
by plaintiff. Levy returned to me by said constable.
T. M. Freeman, Sheriff.
August 5, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson Sheriff Sale - Will be sold, before
the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, within
the usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in Spetember next, the following
described property, to-wit:
Forty acres of land, being part of
lot No. 118, in the 5th district of said county, adjoining lands of Charles
Ivey and Joseph Youngblood. Levied on as the propertyof
Wilson Galloway by virtue of one morgage fi fa in favor of Ira Chambers
vs.
Wilson
Galloway. J. K. Branan, Deputy Sheriff. july 4
August 5, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff's Sales - Will
be sold, before the Court house door, in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson
county, on the first Tuesday in September next, within the legal hours
of sale, the following property, to-wit:
Lot No. 167 in the town of Gordon,
in said county, now in possession of E. A. Walker; also, one house
and lot in possession of a colored man, Hamp Massey, lying north
of the W. J. Solomon lot, and west of the lot No. 167, cornering
on said No. 167-both of said lots containing three acres, more or less:
levied on as the property of James
M. Folsom,
to satisfy a morgage fi fa in favor of James S. Graybill,
said James M. Folsom. Property pointed out in the fi fa,
Also, at the same time and place,
one rone mule and one large two horse wagon, as the property of R.
L. Story, to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of John Gardner
vs
King
Story and Jolly. Terms of sale cash. Property pointed out by
plaintiff's attorney.
Also, at the same time and place,
three hundred and ten acres of land, more or less, number not known, adjoining
lands to
R. H. Carswell, Mrs. Paulk and others;
levied on as the property of John Smith,
to
saisty one Superior Court fi fa in favor of Lighfoot & Flanders
vs
John Smith. Property now in possession of J. J. L. Smith. J. K. Branan,
Deputy Sheriff. aug1
August 12, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Georgia, Wilkinson County. - Whereas John
McArtha and J. W. Branan, executors of the last will and testament
of
Sarah Hudson,
deceased,
have applied for dismission from said executorship of said deceased. August
5, 1873. W. F. Cannon, Ordinary
August 12, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Whereas, George W. Lord, executor
of the estate of Wm. Lord, deceased,
applies to me for letters of dismission.
8th day of July, 1873. W. F. Cannon, Ordinary
August 19, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County - Whereas, the
estate of E. J. Rozar, late of said
county, deceased, has been represented to the undersigned as without representation.
These are therefore, to cite and
admonish all persons concerned to be and appear at my office, on or before
the first Monday in September next, and show cause, if any they have, why
letters of administration should not be granted to the Clerk of the Superior
Court, or some other proper person.
Wittiness my hand and official signature,
this, August 5th, 1873. W. F. Cannon, Ordinary, Wilkinson County.
August 28, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Killing of Major Kelley at Gordon
Gordon, August 22, 1873
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I
noticed in your paper of the 17th instant and account of the killing of Major
Chas. Kelley by Silas Sanders, which is a very incorrect account
of the difficulty. In the first place Sanders started the difficulty with
Kelly - Kelley all the time trying to avoid Sanders, by saying he wanted
no difficulty, and, in fact, was not able to fight a man so much his superior
in strength' Kelley being almost an invalid. In spite of Kelley's pleas
Sanders kept on after him, slapping Kelley's face several times, and then
knocking him down. Kelley not being able to resent any of the above inanities,
and seeing there was no chance to avoid a difficulty, went off and armed
himself-Sanders doing the same. They met again, and after passing a few
works Sanders knocked Kelley down, and as Kelley rose he fired at Sanders.
Sanders then commenced firing on Kelley - Kelley trying to get our of the
way all the time. Sanders shot him four times - twice in the back and twice
in the side. After Kelley commenced giving way under the first three shots,
and was in the act of falling, Sanders done shot him again in the back.
As for the characters of the two
men, they were both drinking men. Though Kelley was never known to raise
a difficulty with anyone -unless forced on him. Whereas, Sanders was always
getting into difficulties - in not with his enemies, with his friends.
I am sure Kelley never had aught against Sanders. Sanders had an old army
grudge against Kelley, Kelley having refused, as an officer, to sign a
furlough for him. the above is a plain and true statement of an eye witness
and can be proven by fifty witnesses. JUSTICE.
September 2, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Application For Leave To Sell Land. Four
weeks after date application will be made to the Ordinary of Wilkinson
county for leave to sell all the real estate belonging to the estate of
Romulus F. Rozar, late of said county, deceased. A. R. Rozar, administrator
de bonis non. Aug 6 30 d
September 2, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Application For Leave To Sell Land. On the
first Monday in September next we will apply to the Court of Ordinary of
Wilkinson county for leave to sell a portion of the real estate of William
Dickson, late of said county, deceased. Hansford A. Hall, John A.
Dickson, Administrators.
September 2, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~extract. Whereas Joel J. Brewer, administrator
of the estate of Sarah Brewer, late of said county, deceased, has
filed his application for dismission from said administration. this August
5th, 1873. W. F. Cannon, Ordinary, Wilkinson County
September 9, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County - On the first
Monday in October next I will apply to the Court of Ordinary of said county
for leave to sell the lands of the estate of
Jacob Shepherd, of said county, deceased. John J. Shepherd, Administrator
September 9, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Whereas, Samuel H. Palmer, administrator
on the estate of James Palmer, late of
said county, deceased, has filed his application for letters of dismission
from said administration.
August 26, 1873. W. F. Cannon, Ordinary
September 9, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Whereas, Nelson Stuckey applies to
me for letters of administration on the estate of William
A. Stuckey, late of said county, deceased. August 26, 1873. W. F.
Cannon, Ordinary
September 12, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson Sheriff Sales - Will be sold,
before the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county,
Georgia, between the usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in October
next, the following property to:
One hundred and eighty-seven acres
of land No. 58 in the 4th
district of said county. Levied on as the property of Love Herndon
to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of G. H. C. Reid vs
James
W. Herndon and Love Herndon.
Also 405
acres of land No. 50 and 51
in the 4th district of said county. Levied on as the property of Love
Herndon to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of Abner Abbot
and wife vs Love Herndon, and one Superior Court fi fa in favor
of John W. Fears vs Love Herndon, and one Superior Court
fi fa in favor of Mary Ann McCullers, by her next friend for use
of Mary Hicks vs Love Herndon. Also 187 acres of land, lot
No. 58 in the 4th district of said county.
Also at the same time and place,
136 acres of land, more or less, in the 5th district of said county, as
the property of James A. Davis,
to satisfy one County Court fi fa in favor of Henry Temples vs James
Davis. Land now in possession of Daniel McCook. Property pointed
out plaintiff's attorney.
Also at the same time and place,
one lot of land No. 58 containing 187 acres, more or less, in the 4th district
of said county, in favor of C. Cumming vs. James W. Herndon
and Love Herndon.
Also at the same time and place, 50
acres of lot of land No. 142 in the 4th district of said county, adjoining
lands of J. T. Smith and the places where David Herndon now
lives, to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of J. L. Brannan,
administrator, vs. Griffin Miller, Lawson Criswell and John Wheeler,
securities.
Also at the same time and place, 107
acres of land, more or less, No. 91, in the 5th district of said county,
in favor of Joel Butler
vs Wiley Weaver.
Also at the same time and place,
300 acres of land, more or less, as the property of the estate
of E. J. Rozar in the 23d district of said county, to satisfy one
Superior Court fi fa in favor of John Smith vs E. J. Rozar,
and R. F. Rozar, and one County Court fi fa in favor of G. W.
Butler, executor, vs E. J. Rozar.
Also at the same time and
place, one lot of land No. 61 in the 5th district of said county, as
J. W. Brannan; also 300 acres of land, more or less, in the 5th district
of said county. No. not known, lying on the north side of Commissioner
Creek, and on both sides of the Milledgeville road, as the property ofC.
H. Brannan, one of the defendants. property pointed out by both the
defendants to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of Richard W.
Bonner, guardian, etc., vs James W. Brannan and Caswell H.
Brannan, principals, and David Solomons, security.
Also at the same time and place,
the reversionary interest of theestate
of Thomas H. Parker, deceased, in the land assigned to Mrs. Nancy
Parker, widow of said Thomas H. Parker as dowers, being the
place whereon the said Thomas H. Parker resided at the time of his
death, consisting of 380 acres, more or less, in the 4th district of said
county, to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of Isham W. Walters
vs Robert N. Parker, administrator. Property pointed out by plaintiff's
attorney.
Also at the same time and place,
one lot of land No. not known, adjoining land of J. T. Parker, Dr. Taylor,
James Stephens and others on the Oconee river swamp, in the 4th district
of said county, to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of A. H.
Kennan vs Julius W. Evans. Property
pointed out by defendant.
ALso at the same time and place,
one large bay horse mule about 12 years old (Wiley), on dark bay mule,
(Mary), one gray mare mule (Pete), one light bay horse mule (Brit), one
work ox and fourteen cows and yearlings, more or less, as the property
of John G. Carswell, to satisfy one Superor court fi fa in favor
of Charles Hooks, trustee, vs John G. Carswell, and one County
Court fi fa in favor of George W. Butler vs John G. Carswell
and Rufus J. Cochran.
Also at the same time and
place, 100 acres of land in the 3d district of said county, No. not known,
adjoining lands of B. W. Todd, T. J. Jordan, Mrs. Stephens and others.
Sold to satisfy one Justice Court fi fa in favor of A. Baum vs G.
M. Pittman, one Justice Court if fa in favor of Ira Chambers,
survivor, vs. G. M. Pittman, one Justice Court fi fa in favor of
Brigham,
Holst & Co. vs G. M. Pittman, and one tax fi fa in favor
of the State vs, G. M. Pittman. Levy made and returned to me by
constables.
Also at the same time and place,
the Wheeler land, No. not known, in the 4th district of said county,
being the place on which
J. K. Patterson now lives, adjoining the
lands of J. P. Brannan, J. C. Shepherd and others. Sold to satisy
9 Justice Court fi fas in favor of W. C. Parker vs John
Wheeler and Asa Downing. Levy made and returned to me by Richard
snow, constable.
Also at the same time and place 200
acres of land, No. not known, adjoining lands of A. H. Cumming.
Sold to satisfy 8 Justice Court fi fas in favor of Wm. C. Parker
vs F. P. Crutchfield and Joseph
Parks. Levy made and returned to by
Richard Snow, constable.
Also at the same time and place,
400 acres of land, part of No. 114, 115, 125, the place upon which F.
P. Crutchfield now lives. sold to satisfy two County Court fi fas in
favor of Wm. C. Parker vs F. P. Crutchfield, and E. Cumming,
endorser
and two County fi fas in favor of Wm. J. Chambers vs Francis
P. Crutchfield.
Also at the same time and place,
172½ acres of land, No. not known, adjoining lands of Joel Coney,
A. J. Kingery and others in the 3d district of said county, one County
Court fi fa in favor of Wm. C. Parker vs.E.
Cumming and Jno. M. Garrett, administrators, and one in favor
of E. Cumming and Jno. M. Garrett, administrator vs
Julius
W. Evans, administrator.
Also at the same time and place,
328 acres of land, more or less, belonging to the estate of
Daniel McNair, deceased, whereon Ashley White lives except the
dower adjoining lands of Rufus McNair, Nimrod Burke and others.
Sold to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of Samuel R. Methvin,
administrator,
etc., vs. Henry Gainey, administrator, and John Burke. Property
pointed out by plaintiff's attorney.
Purchasers to pay for deeds, etc.
J. T. Smith, Dept'y Sheriff
September 30, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County. Whereas, Ezekial
McNair having applied to me for exemption of personalty and setting
apart and valuation of homestead, I will pass upon the same at my office
in Irwinton, at 11 o'clock A.M., on the 6th day of October next. W. F.
Cannon, Ordinary
September 30, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Whereas, Jonah G. Pearson applies
to me for letters of administration de bonis non on the estate of
Jonathan Pearson, late of said county, deceased. September 2,
1873, W. F. Cannon, Ordinary
September 30, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
WILKINSON SHERIFF SALE - Will be sold, on
the first Tuesday in October next within the usual hours of sale, before
the Courthouse door, in the town of Irwinton, the following described lands,
to-wit:
Three hundred and fifty-five acres
of land, more or less, being 202½ acres of lot No. 99, and 152½
acres of lot No. 98, in the 23d district of said county. Sold as the property
of John Allen to satisfy one
Superior Court fi fa in favor of Sarah R. Allen, executrix on the
estate of Willis Allen, deceased, vs. John Allen. Purchasers
to pay for deeds, etc. J. T. SMITH, Deputy Sheriff.
September 30, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
WILKINSON COUNTY SHERIFF SALES. Will be
sold, before the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, in the county
aforesaid, within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in October
next, the following lands, to wit:
Sixty-three (63) acres of land, of No. 246,
in the twenty-sixth district of said county, adjoining lands of Larkin
McConnell, Seaborn Fountain and others. Levied on by virture of fi.
fa. from the Superior Court of said county, on a judgment obtained in the
County Court of said county in favor of William R. Pixley, against
Richard
Taylor, as the property of said Richard
Taylor.
Also, will be sold at the same time
and place, seventy-five acres of land, of lot No. 28, in the 5th district
of said county, adjoining lands of Peter Roach, as the property
of James Stevens. Levied
on by virtue of a fi. fa. from the Superior Court of said county, in favor
of Jones & Hall, against said James Stevens.
Also, at the same time and place,
four hundred and two and one-half acres, more or less, of land known as
the Bloodworth Place, being all of lot No. 123, 100 acres of lot
No. 115 and 100 acres of lot No. 116, all in the 4th district of Wilkinson
county, adjoining lands of Thomas Temples, F. P. Crutchfield and
others. Levied on as the property of A.
H. Cumming under a fi. fa. of T.N. Beall, Receiver vs said A.
H. Cumming, issued from the Superior Court of said county. This August
20, 1873. J. K. BRANAN, Deputy Sheriff
September 30, 1873
Macon Weekly Telegraph
GEORGIA, WILKINSON COUNTY - Whereas, Mrs.
S. A. R. Sanders, wife of S. J. Sanders, having applied to me
for exemption of personalty, and acting apart and valuation of homestead,
I will pass upon the same at my office in Irwinton, at 11 o'clock A.M.,
on the 6th day of October next. W. F. CANNON, Ordinary.
October 28, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County, - On the first
Monday in November next, I will apply to the Court of Ordinary of said
county, for leave to sell all the lands belonging to the estate ofNicey
Anderson, late of said county, deceased.
Thomas D. Etheridge, Administrator
October 28, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~extract
Georgia, Wilkinson County - Whereas, G.
W. Payne, Administrator of the estate of P.
F. Payne, last of said county, deceased, has filed his application
for dismission from said administration.
25th day of September, 1873. W. F. Cannon,
Ordinary
October 28, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Administrator's Sale - Agreeable to an order
of the Court of Ordinary of Wilkinson county, will be sold before the Court-house
door in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, on the first Tuesday in
November next, within the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
Three hundred and fifty-five acres
of land, more or less, being parts of lots No. 122, 123, 144 and 145, in
the 27th district of said county, being the place whereon Thos. Valentine
resided at the time of his death. Sold as the property of Thomas
Valentine, deceased, for the purpose of distribution among the heirs
at law. Terms on the day of sale. John M. Sheffield Administrator
October 28, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sale - Will be
sold before the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton in said county,
on the first Tuesday in November next, within the usual hours of sale,
the following described property to-wit:
Lot of land No. 146 in the 4th district
of Wilkinson county, containing 185 acres more or less, and known as the
"Guilford
Miller place." Levied on as the property of E.
Cumming, deceased, to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of
Wm.
E. Carswell, vs. A. H. Cumming, and E. Cumming security.
Property pointed out by plaintiff's attorney, and now in the possession
of Harry Napper, a tenant of the said E. Cummings, administrator.
J. K. Branan, Dep'ty Sh'ff.
October 28, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sale - Will be
sold before the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton in said county,
on the first Tuesday in November next, within the usual hours of sale,
the following described property to-wit:
Fourteen hundred and sixty
acres of land, in the 4th and 5th districts of said county, adjoining lands
of John Council, Lovey Council, William Johns and others. Levied
on as the property of the estate of Rebecca Jones, deceased, to
satisfy twelve fi fas issued from Wilkinson County Court in favor of Wm.
C. Parker vs. James Jackson, administrator on said estate of Rebecca
Jones, deceased.
Also, at the same time and
place, five hundred acres of land, more or less, including a grist and
saw mill on the place; said land and mill lying in the 5th district of
Wilkinson county, and known as the John Eady mill and place. Levied
on as the property of John Eady to satisfy
a fi fa issued from the Superior Court of said county in favor of Eugenia
Cochran, adminstratrix vs. said John Eady.
Also, at the same time and
place, one hundred and forty acres of land, more or less, lying in the
27th district of said county of Wilkinson, being parts of lots Nos. 99
and 200, lying south of the road leading from the Gordon spring branch,
extending to Dr. E. J. Massey's line of land southeast, and adjoining
lands of the Arch Smith place and D. Solomon on the east;
also, ten acres, more or less, lying is said county, near the creek, on
the road from Gordon to E. J. Massey's adjoining Dr. Massey on the south.
Levied on as the property of Eli Fraseur
to
satisfy a mortgage fi fa issued by the Superior Court of said county in
favor of Charles H. Rogers, survivor of the late firm of George
T. Rogers & Son vs. said Eli Fraseur. Property pointed out
in mortgage fi fa. T. M. Freeman, Sheriff.
November 4, 1873
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson Sheriff's Sale - Will be sold
before the Court-house door in Irwinton, Wilkinson county, on the first
Tuesday in December next, the reversionary interest of the estate of Thomas
H. Parker, late of said county, deceased, in the land act apart out
of said said estate to the widow, Mrs. Nancy Parker, as dower; supposed
to be lot No. 198 and 177½ acres of lot No. 199, in the 4th district
of said county, being three hundred and eighty acres, more or less; well
known as the home-place whereon said Thomas H. Parker lived at the time
of his death, adjoining lands of John R. Rains, M. M. Bloodworth, Augustus
Pennington and Daniel McCook, Sr. Levied on as the property
of Thomas H. Parker, deceased, to satisfy a fi fa from the Superior Court
of said county in favor of J. W. Waters vs. R.N. Parker, administrator
of Thomas H. Parker, deceased. Resold at risk of J.N. Parker, to
whom the same was knocked off on 1st Tuesday in October, 1873, he failing
to pay his bid. John T. Smith, Deputy Sheriff.
November 11, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson Sheriff Sales - Will be sold,
before the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on
the first Tuesday in December next, during the legal hours of sale, the
following property, to-wit: One hundred acres of land, being part of lot
No. 57, in the 4th district of said county, and known as theCumming
Brewner
place, near Irwinton. One house and lot in the town of Irwinton,
know as the place whereon Mary Beall now
lives, containing 4 acres, more or less, as the property of E. Cumming;
302½
acres of land, known as the A H Cumming Bloodworth place, in said
county, adjoining lands of Crutchfield, Jas. Temples, et. al, and
14 acres, more or less, sitatued near Irwinton, adjoining lands to M.
J. Carswell and the D. A. Moore place, on the road leading from
Irwinton to No. 16 Central Railroad. Sold as the property of A.
H. Cumming to satisfy one County Court fi fa in favor of W. C. Parker
vs John T. Branan, and E. Cumming, principal, and S. J. Stubbs
and A. H. Cumming, securities. Property pointed out by plaintiff.
Legal notice served as law directs.
Also, at the same time and place,
650 acres of land, more or less in the 26th district of said county, in
the possession of Wm. Whitehurst; 115 acres, more or less in the
possession of Jas. Stevens, of said county; 120 acres, more or less,
now in the possession of Jasper Aycock, of said county; 50 acres
of land, more or less, now in the possession of
Riley Shepard; 300
acres of land, more or less, now in the possession of
V. W. Tharp, of
said county. All levied on as the property of V.
W. Tharp to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa from said county, in favor
of Garner Mercer vs V. W. Tharp. Legal notice served upon the parties
as required by law. Property pointed out by plaintiff. JAS. K. BRANAN,
Deputy Sheriff.
November 12, 1873
Southern Christian Advocate
Married. By Rev. W. S. Baker, October 23d,Mr.
Columbus M. Brannan to
Miss Hellen
A. Tarpley, all of Irwinton, Ga. By Rev. W. S. Baker, October 28th,
Mr.
S. F. B. Lester, of Savannah, to Miss E.
J. Stubbs, of Irwinton, Ga.
November 18, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
WILKINSON SHERIFF SALES - Will be
sold before the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton, in said county,
on the first Tuesday in December next, within the legal hours of sale,
the following property, to-wit:
Four hundred acres of land belonging
to the estate of R. N. Parker,
and being all the the land owned by said Parker at the time of his death,
adjoining lands of A.J. Stubbs, Willy Holland, John Mackey and others,
to satisfy one County Court fi fa in favor of Wm. C. Parker vs .
W.
L. John and R. L. Parker. Property pointed out by plaintiff's
attorney.
Also, at the same time and place,
one house and lot in the town of Irwinton, known as the J. T. Hughes
lot,
now occupied by Capt. G. W. Bishop, as the property of A.
C. Hooks to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of J. Holmes
& Co. vs. A. C. Hooks. Property pointed out by plaintiff's attorney.
Also, at the same time and place,
______ acres more or less, adjoining John T. Branan, Carswell Branan
and others, whereon James A.
Davis now lives, to satisfy one County Court fi fa in favor of Henry
Temples vs James A. Davis. Property pointed out by plaintiff's
attorney. Also, one bay mare, as the property of James A. Davis
to satisfy one County Court fi fa in favor of S. J. Stubbs vs James
A. Davis.
Also, at the same time and place,
one buggy and harness, as the property ofJohn
Kemp to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of James C. Boron
vs John Kemp. Property pointed out by the defendant. Also will be
sold one cart and oxen as the property of Starling
Stuckey to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of M. D. Mooney
vs
Starling
Stuckey.
Also, at the same time and place,
will be sold one hundred acres of lot No. 85 in the 4th district of said
county, adjoining the land of Tho. Hooks, Nesbitt and others, as the property
of the estate of S. B. Murphy to
satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of John Breedlove vs S.
B. Murphy, M. M. Murphy, Wm. O'Bannon, John O'Bannon and John Lady,
securities. Property pointed out by transferee. John T. Smith, Deputy
Sheriff.
November 23, 1873
Macon Telegraph
~excerpt~Departed this life, on the 8th of November at hhis residence in Perry, Ga., after a short illness of pheumonia. ROBERT W. BASKIN.
He had reached the age of 71 years. He was one of the first settlers of Houston
county, having moved here from Wilkinson, his native county about the time
of the removable of the Indians from this part of the country.
As a business man he was sucessful,. and a good financier. He
was remarkable for stong common shense, which controlled him in all his business
transactions. He was punctual to all his engagements, and eminently a honest
man. He He was a man of extraordinary decision of character, and of
natural and moral courage. He dared to do right and to reprove an evil doer.
He was three times married, and leaves an affectionate wife and six children-all
the daughters of his first wife-to mourn his loss. He was an excellent father
and husband, and shared largely in the affections os his family.....
November 25, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~extract
Wheras, Caswell H. Branan, of said
county, has applied to me for letters of administration on the estate of Mary
Wood, late of said county, deceased. W. F. Cannon, Ordinary
nov 22 30d
November 25, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sale - Will be
sold, before the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county,
on the first Tuesday in December next, within the usual hours of sale,
the following described property, to wit:
Forty acres of land, being part of
lot No. 118, in the 5th district of Wilkinson county, adjoining lands of
Charles
Ivey and Joseph Youngblood. Levied on as the property of Wilson
Galloway to satisfy one mortgage fi fa from Wilkinson Superior Court,
in favor of Ira Chambers vs Wilson Galloway. Property described
in said mortgage fi fa. J. K. Branan, Deputy Sheriff.
Adminstrator's Sale - Agreeable to an order of the Court of Ordinary of Wilkinson county, will be sold, before the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, on the first Tuesday in December next, within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: 75 acres of land, more or less, being the place whereon Nicy Anderson resided at the time of her death, in the 4th district of said county, adjoining lands of Peter Youngblood, estate of S. J. Stubbs and B. B. Shepherd's estate. Sold as the property of said Nicy Anderson, deceased, for the purpose of distribution among the heirs at law of said deceased. Terms cash. Thomas D. Etheridge, Administrator.
Adminstrator's Sale - Agreeable to an order
of the Court of Ordinary of Wilkinson county, will be sold, before the
Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, on the first
Tuesday in December next, within the legal hours of sale, the following
property, to-wit: 392 acres of land, more or less, being lot No. 72 and
part of lot No. 73, in the 4th district of said county, being the place
whereon Jacob Shepherd resided at the
time of his death. Sold as the property of said Jacob Shepherd, deceased,
for the purpose of distribution among the heirs at law of said deceased.
Terms cash. John I. Shepherd, Administrator.
December 2, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~extract
Whereas, Mary W. Holder, of said
county, has applied for letters of administration on the estate of George
W. Holder, late of said county, deceased. W. F. Cannon, Ordinary.
December 3, 1873
Southern Christian Advocate
Martha Emma
Cates was born Sept. 22d, 1847; married to Jno. D. Outlaw, Feb.
1873, died Nov. 14th 1873, in Wilkinson county, Ga.
December 16, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Whereas, Thomas Hooks has applied
to me for letters of administration on the estate of Charles
Hooks, late of said county, deceased. nov 22 30d W. F. Cannon,
Ordinary
December 16, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson Sheriff Sales. Will be sold, before
the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on the first
Tuesday in January next, during the legal hours of sale, the following
property to-wit:
Lots of land Nos. 149, 150,
151, 152, 153, 156, 190, and 17 acres of Lot No. 163 and 15 acres of a
lot the number of which is unknown, all lying in the 26th district of said
county of Wilkinson, and all lying in a body, and being the lands and premises
on which Wesley King now lives, containing
1,450 acres, more or less, on which are valuable improvements, such as
dwelling house, gin-house, screw and out houses. Levied on as the property
of Wesley King, to satisfy one fi fa in favor of Lucinda H. Wright,
against Wesley king, issued from the Superior Court of said county. Terms
cash.
Also, at the same time
and place, part of lot of land No. 58, in the 4th district of said county,
containing 180 acres, now in possession of defendant, adjoining lands of
Ellis
Harvell, Mrs. Cuzza A. Hall and others. Levied on as the property of
Love
Herndon to satisfy one fi fas issued from the Superior Court of said
county in favor of Green B. Burney against Love Herndon. Property
pointed out by the defendant, Love
Herndon. Terms cash.
Also, at the same time and place,
35 acres of land, more or less, of lot No. 80, in the 5th district of said
county, it lying on the Gordon and Milledgeville railroad, adjoining lands
of Daniel Brewer, Sr., and George McCook and others. Sold
as the property of J. K. Paterson (Patterson)
to
satisfy a tax fi fa against the said Paterson for his tax of 1872. Levy
made and returned to me by a constable. Property pointed out by defendant.
Also, at the same time and place,
25 acres of land, more or less, being part of lot No. 92, in the 4th district
of said county. Levied on as the property of James
L. Branan
to satisfy a tax fi fa against said Branan for his tax for
the year 1872. Levy made and returned to me by constable. Property pointed
out by defendant.
Also, at the same time and place,
128 acres of land, number unknown, it being the place whereon Jeremiah
Dixon now lives, in the 26th district of said county, adjoining lands
of I. J. Fountain, G. H. Hatfield and others. Levied on as the property
of Jeremiah Dixon to satisfy one
County Court fi fa in favor of J. Bloodworth vs Jeremiah Dixon.
Legal notice served on defendant of levy.
Also, at the same time and place,
one house and lot in the town of Gordon, in said county, now in possession
of James T. Kirkpatrick, containing one acre, more or less. Levied
on as the property of John S. Stephens
to satisfy a fi fa issued from the Superior Court of Baldwin county, in
favor of M. Sanders vs John Roberts and John Stephens. Legal notice
served on James T. Kirpatrick, in possession. Terms Cash
December 16, 1873
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff's Sale. Will be
sold, before the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton, in said county,
on the first Tuesday in January next, between the usual hours of sale,
the following described land, to-wit:
Two hundred and
two and oneself acres of land, more or less, as the property of Julius
W. Evans, (number not known( adjoining land of J.T. Parker,
Stephens and others, and the place where Julius W. Evans now lives,
in the 3d district of said county. Sold as the property of said Julius
W. Evans to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of E. Cumming
and John M. Garrett, administrators, vs. Julius W. Evans
and A. J. Kingery, security.
Purchasers to pay for titles.
J. K. Brannan, Deputy Sheriff.
Wilkinson County Sheriff's Sale. Will be
sold before the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county,
on the first Tuesday in january next, within the legal hours of sale, the
following property, to-wit:
Two hundred acres of land, more or
less. Sold as the property of Julius
W. Evans, of said county, lying on the Oconee river, adjoining lands
of J. T. Parker, Dr. Wm. Taylor and others, to satisfy one Superior
Court fi fa issued from said court, in favor of James C. Bower vs
Julius
W. Evans. Property pointed out by defendant. Legal notice served on
defendant of said levy.
Also, at the time and place, 6 oxen,
40 head of cattle, 65 head of hogs, 1 carriage, 2 six-horse wagons, 1 two-horse
wagons and 2 ox-carts. Sold as the property of M. J. Carswell to
satisfy one fi fa issued from the Superior Court of said county, in favor
of Peyton Clay vs Mathew
J. Carswell. All of said property is now on the plantation known in
said county as M. J. Carswell's old plantation, at which place the
same will be delivered to purchasers.
Also, at the same time and place,
202½ acres of land, more or less, being lot No. 216 in the 3d district
of said county, which land is now in the control of M. J. Shepherd.
Sold as the property of the estate of W. Garrett to satisfy one
fi fa issued from the Superior Court of said county, in favor of Sarah
Russel vs. E. Cumming and John M. Garrett, administrator
of Wm. Garrett, deceased, and one fi fa issued from the County Court
of said county in favor of Wm. C.Parker vs E. Cumming and
John
M. Garrett, administrators of Wm.
Garrett,
deceased.
Also, at the same time and place,
will be sold 202½ acres of land, more or less, in said county, being
lot No. 135, in the 5th district. Sold as the property of Peter
Roach to satisfy one fi fa issued from the County Court of said county,
in favor of
J. C. Shepherd vs
Peter Roach.
Property pointed out by defendant. Legal notice served on defendant. John
T. Smith, Deputy Sheriff.
Georgia, Wilkinson County - On the first Monday in January next I will apply to the Court of Ordinary of said county for leave to sell all the lands belonging to the estate ofW. A. Stuckey, late of said county, deceased. Nelson Stuckey, Administrator.
Administrators Sale - Agreeable to
an order of the Court of Ordinary of Wilkinson county, will be sold, before
the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, Wilkinson county, on the
first Tuesday in January next, within the legal hours of sale, the following
property, to-wit: 190 acres of land, number not known, but known as the
Pearson place, in the 4th district of said county, adjoining lands of Mrs.
Hicks, Paton Clay and others. Sold as the property of Jonathan
Pearson, late of said county, deceased, for distribution among the
heirs of said deceased. Terms cash. Jonah G. Pearson Administrator
de bonis non.
Wilkinson Sheriff Sale - Will be sold before
the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on the first
Tuesday in January next, within the legal hours of sale the following property,
to-wit
One lot of land, No. 252, in the
fourth district of said county, containing two hundred two and half acres,
adjoining lands of Joseph T. Jones, the Jessop mill tract
and others. Levied on as the property of
John Council, to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of John
I. Shepherd vs Jesse Millirons and John Council. Property
pointed ut by defendant, John Council. T. M. Freeman, Sheriff.
January 6, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sale
Will be sold before the Court-house
door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on the first Tuesday in
March next, within the legal hours of sale, the following land as the property
of Eli Fraseur, to-wit:
One hundred and forty-five acres
of land, more or less, lying in the 27th district of said county, being
parts of lots Nos. 99 and 200, lying south of the road leading from the
Gordon Spring branch, extending to Dr. E. J. Massey a line of land
southeast, and adjoining lands of the Archy Smith place and D
Solomon on the east. Also, ten acres more or less, lying in said county,
near the creek on the road leading from Gordon to Dr. E. J. Massey's,
adjoining Dr. Massey on the south. Levied on as the property of Eli
Fraseur to satisfy a mortgage fi fa issued by the Superior Court of
said county in favor of Charles H. Rogers, survivor of the late
firm of George T. Rogers & Son vs Eli Fraseur. Property pointed out
in mortgage fi fa, and property in possession of defendant, Eli Fraseur.
Terms cash. J. K. Branan, Deputy Sheriff. dec28
January 13, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
WILKINSON COUNTY SHERIFF SALE. Will be dold
before the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on
the first Tuesday in February next, the following property to-wit:
Two timber carts, three stave carts
and harness, and a lot of axes, wedges, etc. Levied on as the property
of C. B. Warrand and J. R. Lasseter to satisfy a laborer's lien
in favor of Mills J. Lord vs.
C. B. Warrand and J. R. Lasseter. T. M. FREEMAN, Sheriff. dec 28.
January 13, 1874
Atlanta Constitution
Married, at the residence of the
bride's father, Col. J. D. Harris on the 1st instant, Mr. Perry
Smith, of Wilkinson county, to Miss Jenny
Harris of Perry.
January 21, 1874
Southern Christian Advocate
In Sumpter county, Ga., Jan. 13th, 1874,
by Rev. Geo. C. Thompson, Mr. J. W. Bower, of Irwinton, Ga., to
Miss Maggie
Kitchens, of Sumpter county, Ga.
January 27, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson Sheriff Sales - Will be sold before
the Court-house door in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on the first
Tuesday in February next, within the legal hours of sale, the following
property, to-wit:
Lot of land No 259, lying in the
329th district G.M., of said county, containing 202½ acres, more
or less. Levied on as the property of R.
B. Hardeman to satisfy a tax fi fa against said R. B. Hardeman for
his tax for the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
lot of land No. 143, in the 4th district of said county, containing 202½
acres, more or less. Sold as the property of J.
T. Smith to satisfy a tax fi fa against J. T. Smith for his tax for
the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
127 acres of land, more or less, being part of lot No. 207, lying in the
23d district of said county. Levied on as the property of John
Burk
to satisfy a tax fi fa against John Burk for his tax for the year
1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
150 acres of land, more or less, being part of lot No. 154, lying in the
4th district of said county. Sold to satisfy a tax fi fa against J. T.
Smith, administrator of E. Cumming, for
his tax for the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
lot of land No. 364, lying in the 23d district of said county, containing
202½ acres, more or less. Sold as the property of F.
Wimberly to satisfy a tax fi fa against F. Wimberly for his tax for
the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
lot of land No. 149, lying in the 23d district of said county, containing
202½ acres, more or less. Sold as the property of
W. P. Phillips to satisfy a tax fi fa against said Williams for his
tax for the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
100 acres of land off of lot No. 144, lying in the 23d district of
said county. Sold as the property of A. M. White, agent forElla
McNair, for her tax for the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
70 acres of land, more or less, being part of lot No. 178, lying in the
328th district, G. M. Sold as the property of
Nicey Anderson to satisfy a tax fi fa for her tax for the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
lot of land No. 100, lying in the 2d district of said county, containing
202½ acre more or less. Sold to satisfy a tax fi fa against W. F.
Canon, agent forMrs. M.N. Butler,
for her tax for the year 1873.
Also, at the same time and place,
177 acres of land, more or less, of lot number not known, lying in the
4th district of said county. Sold as the property ofJ.
L. Branan to satisfy a tax fi fa against J. L. Branan, and one tax
fi fa against J. L. Branan, agent for wife, and one tax fi fa against
J. L. Branan, administrator of J. H.
Jones, for their tax for the year 1873. Levies made and returned to
me by John T. Hughes, constable. Terms cash.
Also, at the same time and plae,
150 bushels of corn, more or less. Levied on as the property of V. W.
Tharp to satisfy a mortgage lien fi fa issued from the Superior Court
of said county in favor of Cleghorn, Herring & Co. vs V. E. Tharp.
Said property is nailed up on the premises of V. W. Tharp, at which place
the same will be delivered to purchaser. Terms cash. J. K. Branan, Deputy
Sheriff .
February 2, 1874
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
A Narrow Escape. - The "balloon man,"
of Wootten & Andrews Managerie, came very near losing his life at Toombsboro.
As the balloon was ascending, the "machine" took fire and when up in the
air some distance split and fell. In descending it struck a top of a tall
chimney, the man falling upon the roof of a two story building and thence
to the ground. How he escaped with whole bones, or even with his life,
is remarkable.
February 17, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE - I will sell, before
the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, in Wilkinson county, on
the first Tuesday in April next, within the usual hours of sale the following
described property, to wit:
Lot of land No. 287, in the 2d district
of originally Wilkinson, now Laurens county, containing 202½ acres,
more or less; also, fractional lot No. 294, in the 2d district of originally
Wilkinson, now Laurens county, containing 147 acres, more or less, adjoining
lands of J. M., B. Hall, Lewis Metts and others; also, Lot No.
241 in the 2d district of Wilkinson county, containing 202½
acres, more or less, adjoining lands of
Mrs. Kettles and the lands
of Joel Deese, deceased. Sold as the property of Joel
Deese, deceased, under an order of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
of Wilkinson for the benefit of creditors. Terms cash.
Thomas W. Freeman
J. B. Duggan
Administrators Joel Deese, deceased.
February 17, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sale
Will be sold, before the Court-house
door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on the first Tuesday in
March next, within the legal hours of sale, the following property to-wit:
Part of lot of land No. 48, in the
4th district of said county, of Wilkinson, containing 180 acres, more or
less, now in possession of Love Herndon,
adjoining lands of Mrs.
Cuzza A. Hall, Ellis Harvill and others.
Levied on as the property of Love Herndon to satisfy one fi fa issued from
the Superior Court of said county, in favor of Green B. Burney, against
Love Herndon. Property pointed out by defendant. Terms cash.
J. K Branan, Deputy Sheriff
February 17, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sales
Will be sold before the Court-house
door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on the first Tuesday in
March next, within the usual hours of sale, the following described property
to-wit:
Twenty-five acres of land
of Lot No. 192 (district 4), in the corner of said lot, adjoining Mrs.
S. J. Stubbs and
W. C. Parker, being the lot on which Malinda
Smith now lives. Levied on as the property of Malinda
Smith to satisfy a fi favor of G. H. C. Reed vs Malinda Smith, and
James Jackson, trustee.
Also, at the same time and
place, one house and lot in the town of Irwinton, known as the Fleetwood
Hotel, now kept by
S. W. Hatfield. Levied on to satisfy one
fi fa in favor of Wm. C. Parker vs. Martin Easom, Jasper N. Wall and
Leroy Fleetwood, securities. Levied on as the property of Leroy
Fleetwood.
Also, at the same time and
place, 56 ¾ acres of land, adjoining E. J. Holland and
Peyton Clay. Levied on as the property of Mills
J. Lord to satisfy one Justice Court fi fa in favor of E.
W. Clay vs Mills J. Lord. Levy made and returned to me by a constable.
Terms of sale cash. Purchasers
to pay for deeds, etc.
J. T. Smith, Deputy Sheriff
February 17, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sales
Will be sold before the Court-house door,
in the town of Irwinton, in said county, on the first Tuesday in March
next, during the lawful hours of sale, the following described property
to wit:
One house and lot in the town of
Irwinton, known as the lot where M.V.B. Eason now lives, adjoining
the lot of the estate of
J. A. Simmons, M. E. Fisher and the academy
lands, containing two acres, more or less. Levied on as the
property of M.V. B. Eason to satisfy a Superior Court fi fa in favor of
W. C. Parker vs Martin V. B. Eason,
principal, Jasper N. Wall and Leroy Fleetwood, securities.
Also at the same time and place,
one vacant lot in the town of Irwinton, in said county, adjoining the lots
of Morse Paulk, Haroll, et al, and lying immediately in front of
the dwelling of J. W. Lindsay,
containing
two acres, more
or less. Levied on as the property of the estate of Green
B. Burney
to satisfy the cost due upon a fi fa issued from the Superior
Court of said county, in favor of W. C. Parker vs M. E. Boatwright
and John F. Burney, and Guilford E. Burney, executors of G. B. Burney.
Also at the same time and place,
76 acres of land, more or less, No. not known, but containing and being
the lands heretofore known as the Lee old mill tract, lying on Black
creek, now owned by Lawson Creswell.
Levied on to satisfy fourteen Justice Court fi fas issued from the justice
Court of the 328 district, G.M., of said county, in favor of W. C. Parker
vs Lawson Creswell and Leroy Fleetwood, security. Levy made and returned
to me by constable.
Terms of sale cash-purchasers to pay for
deeds.
J. T. Smith, Deputy Sheriff
March 10, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sales
Will be sold before the Courthouse door
in Irwinton, in said county, on the first Tuesday in April next, within
the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit:
Part of lot of land No. 58, lying
in the 4th district of said county of Wilkinson, containing 180 acres,
more or less, now in possession of defendant, Love Herndon, adjoining
lands of Mrs. Cuzza A. Hall, Ellis Harvill, and others. Levied on
as the property of Love Herndon, to satisfy one fi. fa. issued from the
Superior Court of said county, in favor of Green B. Burney against
Love
Herndon. Property pointed out by defendant.
Also, at the same time and place,
will be sold, 202½ acres, more or less, of lot No. 200, 21 acres
more or less, of lot No. 190, 50 acres of land reserved wherever John
R. Rains may select; said land lying in the 4th district of said county,
adjoining lands of
A. A. Pennington and others. Sold to satisfy
a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court of said county of Wilkinson, in
favor of Bryant O. Banon (sic) vs. J. F. Branan, J. T. Branan
and John R. Rains; said land is now in possession ofJohn
R. Rains. Property pointed out by plaintiff.
Also, at the same time and place,
will be sold, 202½ acres of land, lot No. 70, 6½ acres of
lot No. 144, 65 acres of lot No. 143, 173 acres of lots Nos 45 and 45,
120 acres of lot No. 67, 207 acres of lots Nos. 72 and 73, lying in the
3d district of said county, and 175 acres of lot No. 45 in the 4th district
of said county, adjoining lands of Rufus Carswell and others. Sold
as the property of John Smith, to
satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court of said county in favor
of Lightfoot & Flanders vs. John Smith. Property pointed out
by plaintiff's attorney.
Also, at same time
and place, will be sold, 35 acres of land, more or less, number not known,
lying in the 5th district of Wilkinson county, lying near the Milledgeville
and Gordon railroad, adjoining lands of D. Brewer, Sr. and George McCook
and
others, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court of said county
in favor of Thomas Johnson vs.
J. K. Patterson.
Terms cash. J. K. Branan, Deputy Sheriff
March 10, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Wilkinson County Sheriff Sales. Will be
sold, before the Court-house door, in the town of Irwinton, in said county,
on the first Tuesday in April next, between the usual hours of sale, the
following described property to-wit:
Three yokes of oxen, one two-horse
wagon, two six-horse wagons, two ox-carts and one carriage Levied on as
the property ofM. J. Carswell
to
satisfy a fi fa issued from the Superior Court of said county in favor
of Peyton Clay vs M. J. Carswell.
Also, at the same time and place,
will be sold what is known as the Burney old carriage shop, situate
in the town of Irwinton, containing two acres, more or less, adjoining
lots of Lasseter, Mrs. Reed, et al. Levied on as the property of
G. B. Burney to satisfy the balance due on a fi fa issued from the Superior
Court of said county in favor of Wm. C. Parker vs M. E. Boatright,
John F. Burney and Guilford E. Burney, executors of Green
B. Burney, deceased.
Also, at the same time and place,
one dark bay horse. Levied on as the property of A.
C. Hooks to satisfy one Superior Court fi fa in favor of John F.
Burney vs A. C. Hooks. Terms of sale cash. Purchasers to pay
for deeds. JOHN T. SMITH, Deputy Sheriff. mar6
March 10, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Georgia, Wilkinson County. Whereas, Braswell
Wynn has made application to me for letters of administration on the
estate of N. J. L. Kittels,
late of said county, deceased.
2d day of March 1874, W. F. Cannon,
Ord'y
March 10, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt
Georgia, Wilkinson County. Whereas,
George
W. Bishop has made application for me for letters of administration
on the estate of Thomas S. McCarty,
late
of said county deceased.
this 2d day of March, 1874.
W.
F. Cannon, Ordinary. mar5
March 12, 1874
Chronicle and Sentinel
Rev. Mr. Car (Carr) of Wilkinson
county, while endeavoring to prevent a young mule from running away last
week, had his thumb pulled off at the first joint, carrying away the sinews
as far up as the elbow.
March 13, 1874
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Closing Out Hughes and Vickers
Two or three of additional sales of the
plantations of Hughes and Vickers have been made since the last
report. A Wilkinson County place belonging to A.E. Vickers, and
which cost him $20,000 before the war was knocked down to $4,299. A plantation
in Laurens containing 1,500 acres brought only $1,200. Not much more
of the estate remains to be disposed of by the receiver. When all is wound
up the debts remaining to be paid will foot up at least $140,000. Selah!
Check!
March 17, 1874
Macon Telegraph & Messenger
The Irwington Southerner says
the farmers of Wilkinson county have sown a larger area of land in wheat,
oats and rye this year than any year since the war, and the
prospect for an abundant yield is promising.
The same paper says that "botanic
wonder, the bonnet gourd or dish-rag plant" has been grown for years in
that county. Miss Rebecca Hughes the accomplished
daughter of Mr. N. C. Hughes, obtained
in 1873 a premium at the Washington county fair for a bonnet made from
the pulp of one of them, grown by her father. The
outside shell resembles in appearance raw
hide and is easily indented, while the inside has the properties of a sponge.
They attain a length of eighteen inches and a
diameter of two or three, and if not obstructed
grow perfectly straight.
Mr. JAMES SPEARS, of Wilkinson
county, caught eighteen foxes and thirty wild cats last fall. In 1873 Mr.
John
Dixon of the same county, caught 69 grey foxes.
April 29, 1874
Southern Christian Advocate
Newton Bullock of
Wilkinson county, Ga., died at the house of Jasper Bullock, Bibb
county, Ga., on 13th of April 1874 in the 47th year. His Brother
May 27, 1874
Southern Christian Advocate
Married. May 6th, 1874, by Rev. W. S. Baker,
Rev.
J. J. Methvin, of Cleveland, to Miss E.
L. Beall, of Irwinton, Ga.
June 2, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The
Sandersville
Herald and Georgian says that Lt.-Gov. Hyman, of Nevada, was
in that place last Tuesday. He lived and did business in that place twenty-five
years ago, whence he went to California. The Rev. J. J. Hyman, of
Sandersville and the Messrs. Hyman, of Toomsboro, are his brothers.
Submitted by R.
Elizabeth Brewer
June 3, 1874
Southern Christian Advocate
Died. At Gordon, Wilkinson county, Ga.,
May 12th 1874, Minnie Georgia, daughter
of J. F. and Sarah A. Stevens, aged on year, one month and fifteen
days.
June 9, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
DEASON'S HOTEL, TOOMBSBORO, GA. The
travelling public will be entertained with comfortable rooms and the best
fare that the market affords. Porters will be in attendance upon the arrivals
of all trains. In connection with the Hotel will be found a Livery Stable,
From which hacks will run to Dublin on Tuesday and Fridays, leaving at
7 A.M. and returning at 4½ P.M. the following days. The patronage
of the public is respectfully solicited.
W. A. DEASON.
July 7, 1874
Macon Weekly Telegraph
~extract~ Georgia, Wilkinson County - Whereas,
Daniel
Burke, administrator on the estate of Joel
Burke, late of said county, has made application for letters of dismission
from said administration.
30th day of June, 1874. W. F. Cannon,
Ordinary
July 7, 1874
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County - By W. F. Cannon,
Ordinary. Whereas, D. J. Ryle has
applied for exemption of personalty, and the setting apart and valuation
of homestead, and I will pass upon the same at my office, in Irwinton,
on 6th day of July next by 10 o'clock, A.M. W. F. Cannon,
Ordinary.
June 26
July 15, 1874
Southern Christian Advocate
William
Pace was born September 28, 1788 in Kershaw district, S. C., and died
at Gordon, Ga., June 9, 1874. When yet a boy, his father's family moved
to Georgia. He returned to Charleston, S. C., to receive his education.
C.
W. Smith
July 14, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County. Thirty days after
date application will be made to the Ordinary of said county for leave
to sell the real estate in said county belonging to the estate of T.
A. Simmons, deceased. D. C. Simmons, Administratrix. Jun 20.
July 28, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
~extract
Mrs. Mary M. Reed, administratrix
on the estate of G.H.C. Reed, late
of said county, deceased has made application for letters of dismission
from said administration.
30th day of June, 1874
July 29, 1874
Union and Recorder
~excerpt~ Died on Monday night, July
20th, 1874, very suddenly at her residence in Wilkinson county, Georgia, Mrs.
LEAH CANNON, aged sixty-four years, four months and twenty days. The
deceased leaves three sons and six daughter and a large circle of relatives
and friends to mourn her death.
November 27, 1874
Cuthbert Appeal
DIED, At his residence in Quitman county,
Ga., on the night of the 21st last, of old age and a complication of diseases
Mr. JAS. A. P. METHVIN, who
at the time of his death was sixty-eight years, ten months and twenty-one
days old. Deceased was born in Wilkinson county, Ga., on the second day
of January, 1806, and lived there until December, 1846, when he removed
with his family to Randolp county, where he resided till the time of his
death. Mr. METHVIN married the daughter of Daniel Burk and began
life in poverty, but by indomitable energy and frugality, acquired a handsome
competence. He was an honest, upright and intelligent gentleman, a valuable
citizen, an affectionate father and husband, and beloved by all who knew
him, and such a man as any county can ill afford to lose; yet such are
the inscrutable always of an all-wise providence. Deceased was a member
of the Baptist Church for the last thirty five years of his live. Peace
to his ashes.
October 28, 1874
Union and Recorder
Married. At the residence of the brides
father in Wilkinson county, the 22 inst, by the Rev. Jas. M. Hall, Mr.
Jas.
A. Easy and MissE. F. Blood
worth
all of the former county.
December 15, 1874
The Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal
& Messenger
We find these items in the Wilkinson
Appeal:
LOST.- Mrs.
Barrow, an aged lady from Indian Spring, arrived last Thursday, on
her way to visit her sister, Mrs. John Thomas, of Lauren's county.
Judge
Cannon and Mr. T. D. Smith forwarded her to Stephensville on
the edge of Wilkinson and Lauren's counties, where she became the guests
of Mr. O. H. P. Rails, until preparations could be made to forward
her to her destination. She showed at the supper table unmistakable signs
of derangement, which increased to such a degree that she fled from the
house after supper into the swamp of Big Sandy creek, without bonnet or
shawl. Ineffectual pursuit was made, which continued the entire night and
next day. She, however, managed to elude her pursuers, and fears were entertained
that she had destroyed her life. Her brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas,
aided by the people in the vicinity, scoured the swamp and the adjacent
country in search of her, and hopeless and dejected they had given up the
search, when Saturday afternoon she emerged from the swamp and going to
the residence of Mr. Robert Fordham, asked for a potato, which was
given her, when she again fled but was overtaken and captured, offering
a stout resistance, and carried to the residence of her sister, where she
was quietly domiciled at last accounts.
December 23/30, 1874
Southern Christian Advocate
Married
In Irwinton, Ga., Nov. 26, 1874, by Rev.
A. M. Williams, Mr. W. S. Van Landingham to Miss Fannie
Rutland.
February 2, 1875
Union and Recorder
CAUGHT AT LAST - Mr. John L. Johnson,
formerly
of this city, now of Savannah, was married in Irwinton on the evening of
the 28th ult., to Miss Joe Fisher.
Our
friend and his bride have our most sincere good wishes - may a full measure
of happiness be theirs. We learn they are at present on a bridal tour to
Florida.
February 3, 1875
Southern Christian Advocate
Miss Nancy J.
Ross, daughter of Rev. John Ross,
died near Gordon, Wilkinson county, Ga., December 19th 1874, in her fifteenth
year.
February 16, 1875
Macon Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southener says
officers " Pool and Peacock
executed a writ of ejectment on Mrs.
John D. Bostick, of this county, on Wednesday last, removing his wife
and furniture from a house belonging to the estate of the late Joel Deese.
The writ was issued sometime ago at the instance of the administrators
of Joel Deese, and several attempts had been previously made to
execute it, but owing to the stubborn resistance of the parties the officers
had retired before the indignant remonstrances of the lady. Officers Pool
and Peacock carried the good and chattels from the house to the road, after
which, the lady refusing to go, they picked up the chair in which she was
sitting, and place it by the side of her household goods."
The same paper says the lien law
has done the farmers more harm than any ever placed upon the statute book,
and in Wilkinson county many of that class have been so completely ruined
by it that they have abandoned their farms and are trying to earn a living
at some other occupation.
March 17, 1875
Southern Christian Advocate
William R. Stevens,
my brother, was born near Jeffersonville, Twiggs county, Ga., July 16th
1853, and died at Gordon, Ga., January 29th 1875. J. F. Stevens
March 21, 1875
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
TERRIFIC CYCLONE
Monday, March 15 witnessed a fearful tornado
that swept portions of Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Bibb, Twiggs and Wilkinson
counties, leaving a scene of rain along its tract.........
The cyclone also
appeared along the line of Laurens and Wilkinson counties. The gin house
and store of Nelson Stucky
was completely demolished; the barn of
Jackson
Cook was blown over; the roof of the dwelling of Wm. Crumley
was carried away. All ___ around the place of Mr. Jas. Slaughter
and others were blown away and scattered in every direction. Trees were
torn up, and the destruction was great for many miles. ..........
April 2, 1875
The Atlanta Constitution
Irwinton - Mr. Ethel Ogburn,
of Wilkinson county, 70 years of age, was ejected by a United States marshal,
and his goods thrown into the road. The land was sold by the marshal, and
Ogburn refused to give possession. --The prisoners open the jail
for the grand jury to inspect it. --About four miles from this town,
in a southwestern direction, the skeletons of two human beings were found
some time since, in a situation and a position, which convinced all who
viewed the bones, that they were the victims of vengeance of Judge Lynch.
They were found some distance from the road on a small stream of water,
in a thicket, and one of them when found had a rope around his neck, and
was lying under a tree, which was probably used for a gallows. The other
one was probably shot. Persons who have examined these skeletons are of
the opinion that they are the mortal remains of two negroes, who four or
five years ago committed an assault upon a widow and her daughters by the
name of Kemp, living near there, inflicting injuries upon one of them from
which she has never recovered. He struck her on the head with a stick which
so injured the nervous system that she now frequently has fits. These negroes
were arrested by and officer, and on their way to jail were intercepted
near this place by unknown parties, and the negroes taken from him. Since
that day nothing has been heard of them, and the finding of these
bones probably explains the mystery that has enshrouded their fate. -Southerner.
April 2, 1875
Savannah Morning News
Irwinton "Southerner" We lean that about four miles from this town, in a southwestern direction, the skeletons of two human beings
were found some time since, in a situation, and in a position, which has
convinced all who have viewed the bones that they were the victims
of the vengeance of Judge Lynch. They were found some distance from
the road on a small stream of water, in a thicket and one of them, when found,
had a rope around its neck, and was lying under a tree, which was probably
used for a gallows. The other one was probably shot. Persons who have examined
these skeletons are of the opinion that they are the mortal remains of two
negroes, who four or five years ago committed and assault upon a widow and
her daughter by the name of Kenny, living near there, inflicting injuries
upon one of them from which she has never recovered. He struck her a severe
blow on the head with a stick, which so injured the nervous system that she
now frequently has fits. These negroes were arrested by an officer, and on
their way to jail were intercepted near this place by unknown parties, and
the negroes taken from him. Since that day nothing has been heard of them,
and the finding of these bones probably explains the mystery that has enshrouded
their fate. Crimes like this, in a country where our families are frequently
exposed to the brutility of the negro, have, it is well known, subjected
the perpetrators to the swift and sure vengeance of the exasperated people,
and while we are opposed to the mob law, we must say that under some circumstances
it is excusaable.
April 6, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
ACCIDENT AND CURE - The Wilkinson
Appeal prints the following, under that head:
Mr. W. J. Wood, of this county,
informs us that on Thursday, the 25th of March, while his little son
Benjamin, only six years old, was in the field, where Mr. Wood's other
children were burning logs, he accidentally fell into a burning heap of
logs, and was terribly burned. All of the left side of his head was burned,
his right hand and arm and both of his feet were burned and blistered,
and his left hand and arm were so badly burned that they seemed almost
cooked to the bone. Mr. Woods says it was the worst case of burning he
ever saw, and it seems wonderful that the child escaped alive. Its suffering
was so great that it came near producing spasms before any relief could
be afforded. What is most remarkable, however, is the successful treatment
and cure of the child so terribly burned. Mrs. Woods says that he took
one handful of green wheat, a handful elder bark, one tea cup full of lard,
and about three cups full of water, and boiled all together down to about
one cup full when strained. He then strained the mixture carefully, and
added to it one tablespoon of mustard _uiment. The mixture thus prepared
was applied to the burns, and, strange to say, the child was considerably
relieved by it in five or six minutes. The child, he says, was burned on
the 25th ult., and that on the 27th, two days afterwards, it was running
about at play with the other children, apparently suffering very little
inconvenience from the burns. This was certainly a very remarkable cure,
and deserves to be carefully remembered.
April 9, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
Married in Georgia. W. H. Hatcher to Mrs.
Sallie Parker, of Wilkinson county.
April 14, 1875
Union and Recorder
W. F.
Brantly, of Gordon, died suddenly the other day.
April 18, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
Irwinton - The kitchen of Mr. William
Pool partially destroyed by fire- Appeal
April 27, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Southerner also tells this story:
A few days ago a couple of young
men desired to make a visit to that classical spot known as Bloodworth's
Courtground. One of them borrowed from a doctor a double buggy and harness,
and the other furnished a couple of
mules to draw it. The visit was made, and although generally correct and
sober, they met so many old friends and took so many drinks with them that
twilight found them jovially proceeding home with a bottle of Pike's Magnolia.
Nothing occurred to mar the festivity of the occasion until they approached
a house where the owner of the mules desired to make a call. The borrower
of the buggy objected, and a fierce war of words commenced, which ended
by the mule owner taking one of the animals from the vehicle and leaving.
His friend remained in the buggy, and waited, Micawber-like, for something
to turn up, being determined to carry the buggy home. Finally a gentleman
mounted on a mule came up, and learning the condition of affairs cheerfully
agreed to harness his animal in the place of the missing one and proceed
on the journey. A few miles were rapidly and agreeably accomplished by
them, when they were overtaken by the owner of the mules who demanded the
other mule. This was resisted by the borrower of the buggy and in the fight
which occurred the mule owner came off victorious, captured the mule, and
left, leaving the buggy a second time with only one animal. The borrower
of the buggy swore that the buggy should arrive at home at the appointed
time, and he took the place of the missing mule and triumphantly carried
the buggy home. The gentleman who handled the ribbons is something of a
horse-jockey, and says he has some as fine points about him as any jackass
he ever saw, and with the exception of an occasional profane imitation
of the animal which Balaam rode, was a better buggy nag than the quadruped
by his side.
May 24, 1875
Macon Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southerner
says the"Bethel ghost" is still on the
rampage in that county. The last scare was of a married man who "says the
thing was as large as an ox and as long as a fence. In his efforts to escape
from the monster he knocked down three panels of fence, destroyed a thrifty
plum orchard, and reached home badly bruised, prayed a long and fervent
prayer, and spoke not again in three days."
June 1, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The cat fish crop of the Oconee
river this year is very fine. The Irwinton Southerner speaks of
a blue cat caught in that stream that measured forty inches in length,
was seven inches between the eyes and weighted thirty-five pounds. It also
says nine cat fish aggregating 120 pounds were taken last week in a basket
at one haul.
June 1, 1875
Macon Weekly Telegraph
STORM AT IRWINTON - HOUSE
STRUCK BY LIGHTENING
We learn from Mr. C. E. Carnes,
of
he Irwinton Southerner, that a severe storm of wind and rain passed
over that place on Monday afternoon, during which the chimney of Professor
J.
R. Glenn, of Talmage Institute, was struck by lightning. The electric
fluid passed from the chimney to the comb of the house, and ran down a
post between the wall and the weatherboarding, tearing off planks and covering
a cradle and a child lying in it, about three feet from the wall,
with boards and splinters, and knocking down Mrs. Glenn, who was in an
adjoining room. The child was also severely shocked.
June 8, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Miss Annie
Hall, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Hall, young, beautiful
and accomplished, died of typhoid fever at Irwinton, on the 30th of May.
The above we glean from the Southerner.
June 15, 1875
Augusta Chronicle
STARTLING TRADEDY
A Highly Respected Citizen of Wilkinson
County Killed by His Son-in-Law.
[Toomsboro Appeal, June 11.]
The sad news reached us from a reliable
source yesterday morning of the deplorable death of Mr. John
H. Freeman, a peaceable, prosperous and highly respected citizen, who
resides about six miles from here, in this county. He is about fifty-five
years of age, is a cousin and brother-in-law of ex-Sheriff T. M. Freeman,
leaves a wife, five children and numerous relatives and friends to mourn
his untimely death. Mr. H. H. Watkins, the son-in-law who shot the
fatal balls, also enjoys the reputation of being a peaceable and respectable
citizen.
An old feud has existed between them
for some time. Mr. Watkins and family for several years occupied a small
farm belonging to the deceased, free of rent charge, and everything went
on smoothly until recently. Watkins' wife, daughter of deceased, died a
few months sice, and afterwards, it seems, from various causes, a feeling
of animosity gradually engendered itself in the bosom of each against the
other. A month or two ago deceased demanded possession of the aforesaid
farm occupied by Watkins, but failed, for some reason, to institute legal
proceedings to recover the same, and leaves Watkins still in possession,
claiming under verbal contract of deceased. Only Wednesday (the afternon
obefore the homicide of next morning) the writ of habeas corpus was issued
by the Ordinary, at the instance of Watkins, for the recovery from the
possession of deceased of his son E. Thomas Watkins, a child about
three years old.
Thursday morning early Bob Smith,
another son-in-law of deceased, heard some one cry out as if in distress,
and proceeding hastily to the spot, discovered the deceased lying on the
ground pierce by three or four pistol balls, dead or in a dying condition,
and a short way off Mr. Watkins running away on a mule. Only Mr. Watkins
sister and son (four or five years old) were near the corpse. Mr. Watkins
proceeded at once to a baliff, gave himself up, and requested the issuance
of a warrant and a trial that he might be disposed of as the law directs.
This is an exceedingly sad misfortune,
and is rendered sadder when we consider the standing of the men and their
family connection.
June 15, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Masonic Lodge and the Irwinton
Grange bought the old Courthouse last Tuesday for $500.
The Irwinton Southerner
publishes the following unique document.
THANKS - A Few Dark and Gloomy Hours
never to be Forgotten. - On the 9th of January I rose with a firm hope
of a pleasant day's work. When Aurora mounted the horizon for the first
time it shaded itself in the year of 1875, I started to work, but completing
the job of cutting timber for 250 rails by half past 11 o'clock, I returned
home and at once started to Toomsboro, with a firm hope of being at home
by the time Aurora faded in the west. But being overpersuaded by comrades
and friends, as I thought them, I staid until dark, and by taking too much
of that poisonous drink I was insane part of my way home; and my horse
ran against a tree in front of Ebenezer Church, and broke my left thigh,
and I am due many thanks for the narrow escape and attention paid to me.
First to my Maker, and then to parents and kind sisters, and especially
to my mother, for I consider that I have been an infant for the second
time on her hands. I tender my thanks to Dr. A. H. Cumming, of Irwinton
for his promptness and tenderness towards me. I also render my thanks to
Dr.
J. B. Duggan, our able Representative for his advice the first night-the
night long to be remembered and never forgotten by me. I really think I
owe all my visitors many thanks, especially E. W. Smith, and many others
whose names are too numerous to mention. And to J. S. Hilton
of
Toombsboro, I owe some thanks for his attention to me the night of remembrance,
as I will call it, but not any for his bust head or rather (break leg).
I also ask pardon of the officers and members of the U.F.T. for the past,
and hope that they will _________ for I intend to walk the path of a man
to the end of my row. Very Respectfully, J.
L. Kemp
June 18, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
Mr. Webster Paulk has carried
the mail between Irwinton and No. 16 station for the past 11 years and
has never missed the morning's mail train.
Mr. Daniel Brewer, Jr.,
of Wilkinson county, has a pig eight months old weighing 40 lbs, that has
six perfectly developed feet. His four legs branch and the extremities
are ornamented with cleven hoofs.
Died in Georgia
-
Mrs John Smith, of Wilkinson county, aged 78
July 1, 1875
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
the Irwinton (Ga.) Southern relates
the following parallel experience: "In the battle of Hatcher's Run, in
1864, Green Pittman, of Wilkinson county, received a wound in the
face, the ball entering the upper portion of the nose on the left side.
The wound was probed and dressed by an army surgeon, and finally healed
up, and although the surgeon stated that the ball was still in the head,
Mr. Pittman had almost forgotten it, never having experienced the least
pain or inconvenience from it. In 1869, one Sunday morning in February,
five years after receiving the wound, as Mr. Pittman was making his toilet
to attend church, it fell out of his mouth. Mr. Pittman was combing his
hair at the time, standing perfectly erect, and came near swallowing the
ball after it fell into his mouth. Strange to say, no hemorrhage followed
its exit nor was there any pain felt. The ball weight one ounce and two
pennyweights. It is now in possession of Mr. Pittman, who was a gallant
member of the Third Georgia Regiment during the war."
July 6, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
TOOMSBORO
_Jesse Metz (Metts) brought in a
muskmelon weighing 28½ pounds.
_A Sabbath school mass meeting will be held
at Antioch church on August 9. [Appeal.
July 27, 1875
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Dr. R. J. Cochran of Irwinton, has
resumed the practice of medicine.
The last number of the Wilkinson Appeal
contains
the salutatory of Rev. E. B. Barrett.
Jesse Mets of Wilkinson County raised
a muskmelon this year 36 inches in circumference, 18 inches in length and
weighing 28 1/2 pounds.
Deaths In Wilkinson County, 16th, Mrs.
J. F. Lindsey
July 29, 1875
The Constitution
Died in Georgia. Rufus
C. Bostick, of Irwinton, on the 11th.
IRWINTON
Messrs. Andrew and John
Porter killed last week seven alligators in a lake near Chapman's mill
pond.
Mr. I. N. Hall while
seining in Big Sandy creek last week, run his arm into the mouth of an
alligator about four feet long, He with his other hand pushed him
away before he had time to bit, and thus saved his arm.
August 5, 1875
The Constitution
IRWINTON
-Judge W. M. Whitehurst, of Gordon,
exported to Liverpool last season, through the direct trade union, six
bales of cotton which netted him 17 cents per pound.
-The Glenella threshing company threshed
out 2,372½ bushels of wheat.
-Work has been commenced on the new jail.
-The horse of Allen Dixon stepped
on a pole four feet long, which flew up and struck him in the flank inflicting
a wound from which he bled to death in a few minutes. Southerner
August 17, 1875
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Mr.
Jeremiah Walker, the last survivor of the war of 1812 in Wilkinson
county, died last Friday, aged 80 years.
September 1, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
IRWINTON. -Judge Bartlett declines
to hold a special term to try the insurrectionary prisoners, and they will
be tried at the regular October term.
-M.M. Bloodworth, Jr., is captain
of the Home Guards.
-W. W. Whitaker,
aged 57, shot himself with a rifle. Cause supposed to be a cancer on the
temple.
-Wilkinson county has 624 sheep, 340 dogs,
150 goats.
-The county tax of Wilkinson is $1.32 on
the state tax. -(Southerner).
September 5, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
MARRIED. G. F. Fossett of Gwinnett
county to Miss Celia Stevens
of Wilkinson county on the first.
September 7, 1875
Union and Recorder
From the Irwinton Southerner
Mr.
Josiah Whitehurst, one of the best citizens of Wilkinson county, died
last week.
Mr. Wm. Whitaker, a
well-to-do farmer of Wilkinson county, committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a rifle last Friday. He had suffered for years from
a cancer on his face.
September 28, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Mr.Elam Hinson,
an old citizen of Wilkinson county died recently, aged 74 years.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT - On Thursday
night last, Mr. W. G. Solomon, son
of Mr. David Solomon, of Gordon, was going to his father's house,
a short distance above the warehouse, he encountered the down passenger
train, and, blinded by the head-light or from some unexplained cause, failed
to get off the track, and was struck by the pilot, and thrown down with
his right leg on the track, which was run over by the truck wheels of the
engine, and crushed off at the ankle. The accident was discovered, and
the fireman ran back and found him lying in an almost insensible condition
by the roadside. His friends repaired to the spot and carried him to his
father's residence, and called in Drs. Massey and O'Brien, who
amputated the limb below the knee. At last accounts he was doing well.
A NOVELTY- Mr. M.
O. McMullen, an ingenious mechanic, who has considerable experience
in the construction of machinery for water mills is now building a mill
for Mr. T. Jeff. Jordan, of this county, on a principle, never before
employed in the propulsion of water wheels. The stream upon which the mill
is being constructed is a spring branch, and the wheel is an overshot,
twenty-five feet in diameter. Attached to the machinery of the mill is
a powerful pump, capable of lifting and conducting to the pond the greater
quantity of the water used in propelling the wheel. Mr. McMullen is so
well satisfied, from tests, that it will prove a success, that he has agreed
to forfeit all demands upon Mr. Jordan for the construction of the mill
if it should not work successfully. And if it does work successfully, it
will revolutionize the mill system of the county. Every mountain spring
will be employed in turning a mill, and as it works the same water over
and over again, some speculation spirit will no doubt try to employ the
principle in running a mill, depending upon carrying his water to a tank
by hand.
And when that mills runs people will
carry themselves in tubs to see it.
September 29, 1875
Macon Weekly Telegraph
HIGHWAY
ROBBERY IN WILKINSON - Mr. Wash. Smith, of Wilkinson county, was
assaulted a few evenings ago, while driving along the road in his buggy,
by a person dressed in woman's clothes, who sprang up behind his buggy
and attempted to cut his throat with a knife. He warded off the knife
with his hand and received a slight wound, and seizing his whip, struck
the assassin a blow with the staff, knocked her out of the buggy, and whipping
his horse, made his escape, the person running after the buggy some distance.
So states the
Appeal.
October 5, 1875
Macon Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southerner says
a"grass widow," who left her husband some time ago,
on account of uncongeniality, as she stated, has been playing with the
domestic happiness of several families in this county recently. About two
months ago she wove her spell around the heart of a married man, and so
fascinated him that he left his family and started West with her. Money
ran low, and they returned, and the wife took back the recusant husband.
Eight or ten days ago she left again with another married man, and the
two have not been heard of since.
Col. Smith, of Wilkinson county
was found dead in his bed last Thursday morning. He was in the 74th year
of his age.
October 6, 1875
The Constitution
DIED IN GEORGIA. -
J. Macon Smith, of Irwinton, on the 23th ult.
Summary of State News
TOOMBSBORO. -There are good sites
for a dozen factories in Wilkinson county.
-R. F. Crutchfield killed a rattlesnake
four feet three inches long, having in her stomach seven little rattlesnakes
each nearly a foot long. [Appeal
October 25, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Mr. Wm.
Solomon, of Gordon, who was run over by a passenger engine on the Central
Railroad about a month ago and had his right leg so badly crushed as to
require amputation, died on last Friday from his injuries.
October 28, 1875
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Incendiaries burned the store of Mr.
Robert J. Smith, at Allen's X roads in Wilkinson County, the other
night. A nephew of Mr. Smith was sleeping in the store at the time. He
was awakened by his incendiaries and allowed to take out his effects, and
also the more valuable books and papers of his uncle. The store was then
fired and entirely consumed. The building was a new one and contained a
new stock of goods. There were several bales of cotton in the store and
a wagon standing outside containing six bales, all of which was burned.
October 29, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
Married. In Washington county, Dr. J.
L. Linder, of Wilkinson, to Lina
Jordan.
November 4, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
IRWINTON
Mr. John Bostwick and wife were arraigned
last week before magistrates
Dean, Wright and Shepherd, charged
with setting fire to the fence around the premises of Rev. G. M. Prescott.
They were bound over in a bond of $50 for their appearance at the superior
court.
November 16, 1875
Telegraph & Messenger
A VALUABLE
HORSE - Under this head the Irwinton Southerner says:
Deacon Smith of Wilkinson
county, owns, or did own a horse, which one time in its life saved him
an incalculable amount of money by its horse sense. The deacon says himself
and wife, while partaking of their noonday meal, were very much surprised
at the actions of the horse, which was loose in the road near the house.
It would run up to the gate, neigh vigorously, and then run off again.
This was repeated several times, and the deacon arose from the table to
ascertain the cause of its strange conduct. He reached the door and looked
out, and saw away off in the direction the horse had run a dense smoke.
He seized his hat and ran to the place "Gentlemen," said he, "lightning
had struck a tree and set it on fire, and the flames had communicated to
my fence around my cornfield, containing about 300 bushels of corn. The
fire had consumed about a dozen panels of fencing and reached a branch.
My horse, when I arrived, was standing in this branch dipping her tail
into the water, and throwing the water on the burning fence." The crowd
looked incredulous. The deacon said, "gentlemen, if you don't believe it,
you ask Mahaly."
November 16, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch hears
from a reliable source "that Mingo
Baker, the daring burglar, has met his death. As one of the convicts
in the penitentiary chain-gang, he was leased by a gentleman in Wilkinson
county, and a few nights ago he attempted to make his escape with five
others. The gang was fired upon by the guard and two or three of the convicts
were wounded and captured. But Mingo, as usual, was too intrepid to submit
to arrest, and his daring caused him his life. His body was pierced by
sixty buck shot, and he fell to the ground and died without a moan."
November 17, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
IRWINTON
- Several young men killed 100 squirrels
within two miles from here.
-After running a fox twenty miles
John
Dixon and S. P. Thompson captured him.
-James Stuckey was thrown
from a wagon and had his thigh broken.
Southerner
November 25, 1875
Atlanta Constitution
IRWINTON
-Sheriff Branan has lost his horse
by blind staggers. By vigilant effort he could beat a tortoise in a slow
race.
-The editor received a bouquet containing
29 squirrel tails, a beaver's paw and dapper's foot.
-W. D. Carlisle caught 43 possums
in six weeks.
-The last of the goats has gone up.
-Mr. Samuel Lindsay, Mr. Tilman
Jones and Robinson, three young energetic and worthy citizens
of this county, will soon leave with their families for Texas.
MARRIED IN GEORGIA
Eli J. Davis to Miss Nancy
Elizabeth Sanders,
of Wilkinson county.
December 2, 1875
Augusta Chronicle
Negro KuKlux
Thrown Into the River for dead with a
Plow and a Wheelbarrow Around His neck -
A Brutal Murder in Washington County
of a Witness of the State
(Irwinton Southerner)
A party of negroes, with one white man,
visited the house of a colored man named Rack Beall, in Irwinton,
at 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning and took him off and carried him to Sand
Bed bridge on "Big Sandy" creek to drown him. When they got him in possession
they bound his hands behind his back, gagged him, tied an Allen plow and
an old wheelbarrow wheel around his neck, the whole weighing about thirty
pounds and in this manner took him to the bridge, a negro fired a pistol,
shot at his head, which fortunately missed him. He dropped as if dead,
and in this condition was rolled off the bridge into the water, which was
eight or ten feet in depth. By a favorable intervention of Providence he
contrived to get upon a sleeper that he felt as he sunk into the water
and was then saved from drowning. Immediately after they threw him in they
fled and left him, as they supposed, to his fate. He contrived to get to
the bank after a long and fatiguing effort, caused by the weight around
his neck, and not having the use of his hands. He made his way to a house
near by, and was released of his encumbrance; he then returned to Irwinton
and made his statement to the authorities. He recognized nearly every member
of the would be murderers. He then reported the names, but he refused to
tell the name of the white man, They arrested nine of the eleven negroes
on Wednesday, and have them confined in jail at Irwinton.
Rack Beall's Statement
I was in Irwinton on the night of
the 23d of November. A party of eleven negroes and one white man came to
the house where I was. I heard as I thought an unusual noise, and went
to the back door; there I encountered several men; they made an effort
to grab me; I knocked three of them down, but they overpowered, gagged
and put an old bag over my head, carrying me through the streets of Irwinton.
When we arrived at Mr. Nat Hughes they got and old wheel barrow
wheel and an old plow which they attached to my neck. I heard them say,
"lets burn the town up." They then took me to the creek, when one of the
party drew a pistol, aimed at my head and shot; as he fired I fell, they
thought I was dead and rolled me in the creek; I sunk once and was going
under the second time when my knee struck a log, I made an effort to get
on it, which I did, any by several strong efforts reach the bank and began
to climb up, lost my hold and had it not been for the plow attached to
my neck would have fallen back in the water.-Fortunately I succeeded in
getting on dry land. I was still gagged and bound, and in that critical
condition when to the house of Mr. Toller's; arrived there about
day light. Mr. Toller extricated the weight from my neck, and cut the gag
from my mouth.
A Dark Deed
(Wilkinson Appeal)
On Thursday night last, 18th instant, a
most brutal murder was perpetrated on the premises of Mr. R. J. Moye,
in this county, about fifteen miles from this city on the Blackshear Ferry
road. The victim wasJordan Chambers,
a quiet, inoffensive negro. The circumstances as related to us by Mr. Moye
are these: About 9:15 o'clock Thursday night the report of a gun was heard
and a few minutes after a boy ran up to Mr. Moye's house and reported that
his brother was shot. Mr. Moye went down immediately and found Jordan lying
at the corner of his cabin, with seven buckshot wounds in his body and
two in his arm. Mr. Moye had him carried ton the house, and Dr. J. S.
Wood
was sent for immediately . Dr. Wood came, but could do nothing
for the wounded man. He lived until about 1 1/4 o'clock Friday morning.
He conversed with Mr. Moye and Dr. Wood, and said he did not know who shot
him, or for what purpose. The night was very dark, and he did not see the
person shooting. An inquest was held by Coroner Orr, and four negroes
examined.
They stated that they had been there
that night helping Jordan cover some corn that was in a pen. They had a
fire in the yard near the cabin. Witnesses went in the house and Jordan
stopped outside and was cracking some walnuts. A few moments after witnesses
got in the house they heard the report of a gun and upon going out found
Jordan shot. Jordan was one of the State's witnesses in the late insurrection
trials, and circumstances, not best here to state, point strongly to parties
deeply implicated in the attempted insurrection as the perpetrators of
this foul murder. For prudential reasons were withhold the names of the
party or parties suspected. Mr. Moye and the good people of the community
are determined to ferret the matter out and bring the guilty part to justice
if possible. This makes the third State's witness that has been mysteriously
killed since the attempted insurrection - two in adjoining counties and
one in this.
December 7, 1875
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
From the Irwinton Southerner:FOX
HUNTING - Messrs. B. Hall, Joel Pierce and David Watson,
of this county, have lately caught, just over the line in Laurens county,
three red foxes. They sent us on Friday the foot of the last one they caught,
and inform us that this fox was four feet and ten inches long. They started
it near Chappell's mills and run it from there to Cool Springs, in this
county; then back to Chappell's mills, and from there to Mrs. Knight's,
near Dublin, and then to the Oconee river, and then back to Chappell's
mills, when the dogs caught it. The distance run was over forty miles,
and Messrs. Hall and Watson being good riders and well mounted kept up
with the dogs and were in at the death.
December 17, 1875
The Constitution
IRWINTON
Two little children of Mr. H. W. Price
of No. 16 C.R.R., were poisoned Saturday night from eating cheese. They
were relieved by the medical skill of Dr. Fluker who was called
in.
This locality was visited on Saturday night with the rare phenomenon of a violent thunder storm with the thermometer below 50 degrees. Several trees were struck a show distance from town and fired, and burned the entire night.
Judge Wiley Holland, one of the county
commissioners, over 70 years of age, was, notwithstanding the rain of last
Tuesday, the first one of the board to arrive at the court house. For eight
years prior to the war he served the people as tax collector and was a
most efficient officer, and during that time never missed an appointment
to meet the people to collect the tax. - Southerner
January 11, 1876
Union and Recorder
The Irwinton Southerner makes
the following important discovery:
Mr.
Peter Youngblood, of this county, was 52 years old the 28th of last
November. He has never bought a pound of bacon or a bushel of corn, has
never had a lawsuit or a difficulty with one of his neighbors, does not
owe a dollar in the world, never was sued, and for the past seventeen years
has sold bacon and corn, and has now some to sell.
January 15, 1876
The Constitution
CUPID'S CENTENNIAL CROP
J. F. Porter to Miss Julia
F. Williams, of Wilkinson county.
Nathaniel Pace to Miss Fannie
Simpson, of Wilkinson county.
J. B. Hall, of Wilkinson county to
Miss L.I. Bender, of Laurens county.
January 18, 1876
Macon Weekly Telegraph
The Wilkinson Southerner,
of
to-day, furnishes the three following items'
Mr. J. W. Ussery, of this
county, raised the past years on six acres of land, three hundred and fifteen
bushels and eighteen pounds of corn, or fifty-two bushels and thirteen
pounds to the acre.
The negro Lish Coats, who,
a short time ago, murdered his cousin, Ellen
Coats, and left her body in Turkey creek swamp, has been arrested.
He confessed the horrid murder to his captors, but plead in extenuation
that it was not his intention to kill her, but merely to giver her a severe
whipping. He was lodged in Dublin jail to await his trial.
On Tuesday night, the 28th inst.,
a party of disguised negro Kuklux went to the house of Jake Coney, an
old, peaceable, law-abiding, well to do negro farmer of Laurens county-respected
by the whites for his honesty and his efforts to control the evil passions
of his colored friends- and shot a valuable horse belonging to him, and
fired several volleys through the window of the house where Jake was, with
the intention of killing him, but which fortunately failed. They then fled.
Suspicious parties were arrested, but not being identified were released.
January 21, 1876
The Daily Constitution
Irwinton. Mr.
and Mrs. A. Baum celebrated their silver wedding on Saturday.
January 22, 1876
The Daily Constitution
Marriages in Georgia
James McInnis to Miss Delpha
Chivers,
of Irwinton
January 27, 1876
The Daily Constitution
IRWINTON. The Rev. Albert Lockett, col.,
of the Southern methodist church, who was stationed on this circuit in
1875, has absconded, carrying with him funds of the Irwinton church, contributed
by friends and members to erect a house of worship. - Southerner.
January 29, 1876
The Daily Constitution
Married: T. K. Balcum of Texas to
MissK.C. Gainey of Irwinton.
J. T. Fordham of Laurens County,
to Miss Lucy Pierceof Wilkinson county
E. Fowler to Miss Susan
Chambers of Wilkinson county.
February 2, 1876
Southern Christian Advocate
Died. In Irwinton, Ga., January 8th 1876, Mary
L. Baker, daughter of Rev. W. S. and Mrs. M. A. Baker, aged
four years, four months, and thirteen days.
February 29, 1876
Union and Recorder
The Irwinton Southerner and Appeal
says that a vein of copper
ore was found some time ago permeating the rocky foundation of the mill
at Toombsboro. Specimens analyzed by Dr. Robinson and Mr. O.
Bower, showed beyond a doubt that the ore was pure copper. The vein
was small and the wonder of a day, and then forgotten. Last week, however,
Mr.
Slaughter, the overseer on Judge Cannon's plantation near by,
in sinking a well, came to a mine of metal supposed to be copper, and a
connection of the vein at the mill, from which he took specimens of ore
weighing several pounds, which are now being analyzed.
March 1, 1876
Southern Christian Advocate
David Solomon
was
born in Germany, June 13th 1792; and died at Gordon, Ga., January 23d 1876.
Wm.
J. Green
(Buried Gordon City Cemetery)
March 7, 1876
Weekly Constitution
MARRIED IN GEORGIA. W. H. Ashley of
Lawrence Co. to Miss Ella Butler
of Wilkinson Co.
W. W. Smith to Miss
Luly J. Holliman, of Wilkson county.
DIED IN GEORGIA: Mrs.
Elizabeth Yopp of Irwinton, aged 76.
March 12, 1876
Daily Constitution
A lot of land sold at sheriff's sale for
14 1-2 per acre....John Perry, sr., in his ninety-second year is
quite active
March 12, 1876
Daily Constitution
IRWINTON
_Mr. Joel T. Coney of Laurens county
has sown over 800 acres for small grain, which is now looking fine...Mr.
Wigglesworth
was
digging a well on the land of Judge Cannon, on the North side of
Commissioner creek, and had reached the depth of 54 feet without striking
water. A few days since he came out to eat his dinner, and remained out
30 minutes. When he started back he discovered that the well had 37 feet
of water in it. His work was done-the object for which he had been working
was attained, and he found himself out of work, with his shoes, hat, pick
and shovel buried under 37 feet of water, he having left these things in
the well when he stopped for dinner. Southerner
March 28, 1876
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Wilkinson County - All persons
indebted to the estate of David Solomon,
late of said county, deceased, are required to make immediate payment to
either of the undersigned, and those having claims to render them in terms
of the law. Mrs. Jane Solomon, Executrix, A. O. Flemister, R.
J. Massey, Executors.
April 9, 1876
Atlanta Constitution
Summary of State News
IRWINTON
-In accordance with law, the county commissioners
have appointed Dr. Wm. Taylor, Dr. Geo. E. Carlton and Judge
W. F. Cannon the board of health for Wilkinson county....On Wednesday
evening Sharper Solomon and Matt Kemp were sentenced by his
honor to ten years each at hard labor in the penitentiary for complicity
in the attempt to take the live of Jack Beall last November. -Southerner.
May 2, 1876
Daily Constitution
-Judge Wiley Holland was in Irwinton
last week selling home made syrup at 75 cents per gallon.
-Wilkinson county farmers are planting rice
and German millet largely.
June 04, 1876
Daily Constitution
- There are in Irwinton 21 little boys and
girls just shedding their front teeth- and they are not very handsome-and
there are 14 babies just cutting their stomach teeth.
June 4, 1876
The Constitution
-Mr. W. T. Knight, of Toomsboro,
recently caught 119 cat fish out of one basket, the aggregate weight of
which was 156 lbs. and they realized him the neat little sum of $15.,10.
-The average merchant of Irwinton spends
his time now fighting flies and cussing fleas.
-Mr. Richard Lavender, who resided
near Stephensville, in Wilkinson county, lost one of his eyes last Saturday
by the bursting of a percussion cap.
June 14, 1876
Chronicle and Sentinel
We learn that a destructive hail
storm occurred last Sunday morning in the upper edge of Wilkinson county.
The farms of Messrs. Meadows, Fountain and Jackson, and Mrs.
Bloodworth were badly damaged-the growing crops being completely
destroyed. The hail stones were as large as a man's fist, and split the
shingles on the roofs of houses.
June 14, 1876
The Daily Constitution
The Irwinton jail is haunted, and evil-doers
have found it out and avoided it. It has been empty since April court.
June 18, 1876
Atlanta Constitution
Mr. Webster Paulk has carried
the mail between Irwinton and No. 16 station for the past 11 years, and
has never missed the morning's mail train.
Mr. Daniel Brewer, jr.,
of Wilkinson county, has a pig eight months old weighing 40 lbs, that has
six perfectly developed feet. His four legs branch and the extremities
are ornamented with cloven hoofs.
Died. Mrs
John Smith, of Wilkinson county,
aged 78.
June 20, 1876
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
The bridge across
Commissioner creek at Toombsboro has been again swept away by the
water of Toombsboro mill pond, and no crossing there is possible.
Mr. Webster
Paulk has carried the mail between Irwinton and No. 16 station for
the past 11 years, and has never missed the morning's mail train. This
is promptness and faithfulness.
Misses Rebecca
Baum, Nellie Carswell, Fannie Easom and Mollie Hughes have succeeded
in raising a sufficient amount to purchase the material for a flag for
the Wilkinson Greys. It is now being made and will be flung to the breeze
on the 4th of July next.
Southerner and
Appeal: Several years ago, after a prolonged illness, Mr. Passmore,
of this county, died, leaving in worldly wealth sixty acres of land to
a wife and daughter. His prolonged sickness had exhausted everything else
except this, and it was almost worthless on account of the dilapidated
fences. After the death of Mr. Passmore,
Mr. Andrew Spence and other
neighbors offered his widow and orphan a home at their house, which was
refused. Mrs. Passmore went to work, she procured a horse and some
provisions, repaired the fences with her own hands, and herself and daughter
made a crop, and paid for the horse and provisions used. She was now independent,
and has since with the assistance of her daughter, made several crops,
and from the proceeds has purchased 100 acres of land; has over $500 worth
of stock; has provisions to sell and owes only $59.
June 25, 1876
The Daily Constitution
Crop Notes. Irwinton Southern.
Wilkinson
county has harvested her small grain crop, and we have made industrious
and diligent inquiry in regard to the quantity, and are satisfied that
the county has made over 75,000 bushels, divided as follows: Wheat 15,000;
oats 45,000, and rye 15,000. The harvesting of this crop has relieved
much of the distress that has prevailed this year.
Mr. James Stevens, of Gordon,
raised sixty-one bushels of oats on one and one eighth acres of land, and
Mr.
Wm. Stevens, of the same place, raised about thirty-five bushels to
the acre, after pasturing his cows on the patch until the first of March.
Mr.
Isaac Wheeler made thirty-five bushels to the acre on a large field,
and
Dr. J. N. Shinholser made 1,500 bushels on less that seventy-five
acres of land. The average product in the county is about eighteen bushels
to the acre.
June 27, 1876
Union and Recorder
Executive Officers. We visited, on business,
the different departments of our State Government in the capitol of Atlanta
recently, and found the incumbents of the carious departmental offices
at their posts, busily engaged in attending to their various duties.
The senior office of the corps is
the venerable Secretary of State,
Hon. N. C. Barnett. He is an aged, vigorous and well preserved gentlemen,
and fills his office with that dignity and promptness only acquired by
long experience. His long residence at Milledgeville as Secretary of State
under various administrators, has acquainted him with numbers of our people,
and identified him with our section of the State, and although he did not
say so, we thought we detected, during a half hour's chat, a desire to
see Milledgeville re-invested with her honors. The ashes of an affectionate
brother, who was a citizen of Wilkinson, repose in the Irwinton cemetery.
He informed us that he fled with some of the State's property in his custody
before the vandal army of Sherman, and traveled over a portion of Laurens
and Montgomery counties, seeking a place of safety for the State's property,
and after the passage of Sherman he returned to Milledgeville via Laurens
Hill, Cool Springs and Irwinton. The day before he reached Irwinton he
passed the night with the late Mr. Frank Rozar, and the next morning
mounted his horse and resumed his journey. He had not proceeded far before
he bet two gentlemen, one of whom was the late Col. John Smith.
They were looking for stragglers from Sherman's army and stopped him. The
man who accompanied Col. Smith was armed with a rifle, and appeared surly
and indisposed to accept any proofs of identity that Col. Barnett could
offer, and wanted to arrest him and carry him to some military personage
at a distance, but was prevented by Col. Smith, who examined his papers
and allowed him to proceed on his journey. Col. Barnett has spent the greater
portion of his life in the public service, and will no doubt retain his
present position until unfitted by age and infirmity for transacting official
business, which incapacity will be many years hence we hope. (Southerner
& Appeal.
June 27, 1876
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southerner says"
The warrants issued against Messrs. Wiggins, Pate, Nelson and Hooks
(the Georgia
Tigers) citizens of this county, by Judge Jones, of Twiggs county court,
for riotous conduct, having been dismissed, for want of evidence to sustain
the charges against these parties, Judge Jones issued warrants sometime
ago against the two
Taylor brothers and Mr. Lister on the
same charge, and they went to Jeffersonville last Saturday for trial. The
witnesses for the prosecution not being present, the case was continued,
and they required to give bonds in the sum of $100 each for their appearance
in the future to answer the charges. Judge F. Chambers of this place represented
the prisoners.
Note: See July 11, 1876 below
July 9, 1876
The Daily Constitution
Irwinton Southern
-Samuel Bently jailed for wife beating.
A new post office has been established at
Stuckey's store, called Cool Spring.
July 9, 1876
The Daily Constitution
MARRIED IN GEORGIA
Col. M. N. Murphy to Mrs.
M. J. E. Randall, of Wilkinson county.
July 11, 1876
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The "Georgia Tigers,"
who were arrested in Wilkinson county, some time since, have been tried
before the County Court, and the Appeal says Wilson Lister and Mac
Taylor
were sentenced to pay a fine of $300 each, or in default to
serve six months in the chain gang; and Tom Taylor, the youngest
of the trio, was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve two months in
the chain gang. The cases were taken to the Superior Court by a writ of
certiorari.
August 2, 1876
The Constitution
Irwinton Southerner. -While in Dublin
last week we saw Mr. Jackson Perry, a hale and hearty old gentleman,
who has reached the ripe old age of 93 years, and is the oldest citizen
of Laurens county. He is the father of Mrs. Edwin Perry, of that
county who is 69 years of age, and is the grandfather of Mr. Henry Rutland
of
Irwinton. Notwithstanding his great age, he is in full possession of all
of his faculties, and possesses sufficient bodily vigor to enable him to
walk a considerable distance without fatigue. The secret of his longevity
lies in a good constitution, an even temper, and the fact that he has always
attended to his own business, never run for an office, and always paid
the subscription price of his paper unmurmuringly in advance.
- A few days ago Mr. Wm. Butler and
his stepson, Mr. Frank McGowan, accompanied by several young men,
were bathing in Cedar creek in this county. Mr. McGowan plunged in
head foremost into the creek, and disappearing from sight for a longer
time than is usual with divers, his companions became alarmed and commenced
searching for him, and found him some distance from where he plunged in,
with his head out of the water and apparently suffering. They removed him
home and sent for Dr. Carleton who pronounced him hopelessly paralyzed
from concussion of the brain. The water was only four feet deep and his
head struck the bottom with sufficient force to produce the result. He
is paralyzed from his neck downward, and is unable to move hand or foot,
but is perfectly conscious and can talk fluently. His limbs and body are
insensible to pain and the pricking of the flesh with needles and pins
produces not the slightest sensibility. The only joint in his body which
can move is his right shoulder but the arm and hand attached to it are
complete paralleled. Mr. McGowan is a young man of great industry, sober
habits and correct deportment, and has the sympathy of every one in his
great affliction. All that medial skill can do to restore the suspended
animation to the lifeless limbs will be done and his friends can only hope
that the efforts of his physician may be successful.
August 15, 1876
Macon Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Appeal relates
the following: About seven years ago Capt.
Wm. Ryals,
of this county, died. His remains were enclosed in a mahogany
casket and consigned to the grave, where they remained six years, when
his wife had them took up and removed to a cemetery prepared for them near
the homestead. When they were removed the coffin was opened and his relatives
and friends who had known him in life were astonished to find that no decomposition
had taken place. The form, features, color, hair and clothes of the deceased
were as natural as they were the day he was buried, and his flesh was soft
and capable of resisting a good deal of pressure. A short time ago his
aged wife died, and before death placed his seal upon her lips she requested
her friends to bury her by the side of her husband. In digging her grave
the coffin containing the remains of Capt. Ryals was again exposed, and
again opened, and with the exception of a change of color the corpse was
found in a state of remarkable preservation. His face was changed to an
inky blackness, and the outside of his grave clothes were covered with
mildew. With this exception there was no change. His form and features
still retained their regular outline, and the muscles and flesh were still
preserved soft and elastic, and even the skin was unbroken. There was no
petrifaction, and the wonder is why he should resist the decaying influences
of the grave as effecutally as if embalmed.
August 28, 1876
Union and Recorder
Mr.
Louis Manderson, died at his residence in Wilkinson county on the 21st.
August 29, 1876
Union and Recorder
We are permitted by M. M. Bloodworth,
Esq., to make the following extract from a letter from his brother,
Mr. Timothy Bloodworth,
who now lives in Taylor county:
"If you see the editors of the UNION
soon, say to them that I have read their paper through over forty campaigns
and would like to read it through this. There are some things in my life
that my oldest friends do not think of, if they know. I am now in my 75th
year. I was a married man and had one child at the reception of Gen.
LaFayette. I blew the fife to escort the General to the dinner table,
and viewed the line of our revolutionary fathers. I am still living with
the same woman-both, as yet, able to pursue the same course we have for
nearly 54 years - I running a farm by own labor, she spinning our clothes.
I have never had a fight or lawsuit with any one in my life. I have attended
every important election and never cast any but a democratic vote."
August 29, 1876
The Daily Constitution
A monster alligator, measuring
10 feet 2 inches, was killed in Toombsboro millpond, by its proprietor,
Judge
W. F. Cannon, last week. For more than a year it has been seen and
shot at by various parties at different times. The shot that killed it
entered its brain from the neck. It was skinned and its stomach examined,
and a fine shoat weighing fifty or sixty pounds was found in it.
August 29, 1876
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Adventure By Rail, Full Particulars of
the Accident on the Central
Railroad.
The train from Savannah, due
at Macon 6:45 P.M., Friday, was detained by an accident until 1 A.M. Saturday.
The accident occurred at the 162 mile post, in Wilkinson county, about
a quarter of a mile beyond McIntyre station. The engine was the "Maryland,"
John Kell engineer.
The accident was caused by
the breaking of the front axle of the tender, close up to the wheel. All
the wheels of the front truck went apart, rolling along the line of road
for seventy-five yards. The rear truck of the tender was entirely demolished,
and the axles bent and twisted around each other in the bottom of the tender
and wrenching bolts and bars. All the trucks of the two front cars-a freight
box and he mail and express car-were carried away and the cars stretched
crossways on the track. Fragments of iron work and splintered timber strewed
the grounds upwards of seventy-five yards. One passenger coach was also
badly damaged and several passengers in the rear car thrown from their
seats.
The accident occurred at 5:10, and
the train and passengers were delayed at the scene of the wreck until 11
o'clock. When the accident occurred conductor James Marlow, after
examining the wreck and looking after the safety and comfort of the passengers,
started off for Gordon, eight and a half miles distant. After walking three
miles he found a hand ar and was polled to Gordon, where he got things
in readiness for the moving of the Milledgeville and Eatonton engine and
train for the scene of the disaster, which it was impossible to do, however,
until the arrival of the down regular 7:30 P.M. train from Macon, which
Capt.
C. E. Whiting followed from Gordon. Taking with him Mr. W. M. Stephens;
Supervisor and a full force of hands, with two flats loaded with cross-ties,
stingers, tools, etc. They arrived at 10½ and went to work at once
clearing the wreck. The passengers, express matter, mails, etc, were transferred
to Captain Whiting's train in a few minutes and brought to Macon. There
were about sixteen persons aboard, none of whom were injured except Mr.
E. Wall, express messenger, who was slightly cut on the head and bruised
on the left shoulder. He was thrown from his car amid the flying fragments
of wood and iron, and was only saved through miraculous good luck. Notwithstanding
his injury, he stuck to his post and his packages, until he got them into
good order. Mail Agent Lucius Belcher jumped from his car and was
considerably stunned but not hurt.
Engineer Kell, immediately
on the giving away of the tender, reversed his engine, blowed on the brakes,
and with his fireman,Tom O'Brien, ran out upon the boiler. The train
was stopped within 75 years, and had it not been that the engine had just
been shut off for McIntire station, and had been brought down to about
thirteen miles and hour, there is no telling how serious the damage might
have been, or what the loss of life. The accident occurred just after crossing
a ten-foot culvert, and the train was brought to a stand just a few yards
short of another of about the same length. Everything seemed singularly
fortunate, and Mr. Kell was voted by the passengers, after the excitement
had subsided, the right man in a tight place, and a real champion when
it comes to bringing an iron horse to a sudden stand.
President Wadley went up on
the train from Macon, and with Mr. Stephens, gave his personal attention
to the removing of the wreck and the replacing of the track.
The passengers were Prof.
W. D. Williams and son, of Macon; Mr. John R. Griffin, of Macon;
Mr. J. R. Stripling, of Jones county; Mr. J. F. DeLacy and
Joseph M. DeLacy, of Eastman; Mr. M. J. Divine, of the Atlantic
Coast Line, and Mrs. Henry Mess, of San Francisco.
Everything in the front cars
was piled up, scattered, etc. Many rumours in the neighborhood, greatly
exaggerated, soon brought numerous spectators to the ground, among them
Mr. E. W. Lingo, well known in Macon, who had heard several were
killed and a number wounded. He kindly placed his house and himself at
the service of the passengers, and invited them to his house for supper
and the night.
The passenger train from
Macon Friday night went through at 6:30 yesterday morning, and the Savannah
trains came in on time. The wrecked cars were turned over on the side of
the road and will be removed at once.
September
5, 1876
The Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Journal
& Messenger
The Irwinton Appeal says:
Mr. James Bush of this county killed, a few days ago, a rattlesnake
five feet two inches long and about five inches in diameter, with thirteen
rattles. He was killed with a stick and made no effort to escape or resist.
The destruction of Southern hogs has allowed these reptiles to increase
rapidly, and hundreds have been killed in this section the past year.
The same paper has this: A little
negro girl, about 12 years of age, was brought to Irwinton last Saturday
by Mr. Andrew Cowart, and lodged in jail, committed on a charge
of attempting to burn the house of a freedman, upon the plantation of Mr.
W.
P. Williams, on Turkey creek. She entered the house and set fire to
the bed in several places, and then started to leave but encountered the
man's wife near the door, and returned with her and helped subdue the flames
and save the house.
And this also: A large otter was
attacked a short time ago on Commissioner creek, in this county, by Messrs.
John
Davis and Frank Langford's pack of hounds, who were hunting
cats on the creek, and a lively fight ensued, which finally ended in the
killing of the amphibious animal, after a long contested and obstinate
defence, in which several of the dogs were severely wounded by the sharp
teeth of the otter. The dogs would have been vanquished if Mr. Langford
had not aided them by plunging his knife into the otter.
September 19, 1876
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Appeal says:
A group of six cattle took refuge under a shade tree during the storm last
Sunday evening in Bloodworth's district, and lightning struck the tree
and killed every one of them.
The same paper has the following: Joe
Temples, a turbulent and disorderly negro, in the employ of Mr. James
Jackson left his work last Friday evening and went to the field of
Mr. Bryant O'Bannon and assaulted a negro named Joe O'Bannon.
Joe
O'Bannon left the field and Joe Temples ran him to his house, threatening
him with a club which he carried in his hand. When they arrived with 200
yards of the house Temples returned to the field and waited for him to
return. O'Bannon came with a gun, and when Temples attempted to advance
upon him he warned him to stand back or he would fire. Temples paid no
attention to the warning and O'Bannon fired and shot him through the heart.
Joe O'Bannon gave himself up and had an examination and was released, as
he acted strictly in self defense.
The following item is from the same
source: A man named Mehaffey attempted on Friday to kill his daughter
at Toombsboro, in this county, near which he resides. Mehaffey, who is
a violinist, and accompanied by his daughter, had attended a ball at Gordon's
on Thursday night, and reached Toombsboro by the down morning train on
the Central railroad. Mehaffey was under the influence of liquor and left
Toombsboro with his daughter for home. In crossing the bridge below Cannon's
mill pond, he commenced to beat his daughter with his fists and to abuse
her in a most brutal manner. Finally becoming furious he drew his pistol
and aimed it at her hand with the intention of no doubt of killing of her.
She grasped the pistol and turned it aside and he fired it, and the ball
went through the first joint of the forefinger. Afterwards, when home,
he again attempted to shoot her, but was prevent by Mr. Sam Fleetwood
and
some one else, who came upon him and saved the girl. On Friday night he
was arrested on a warrant charging him with assault with intent to murder.
He was released by promising to drink no more liquor and not to abuse his
family again. A violation of this promise was to subject him to arrest
and trial for the crime he had committed. He left Saturday, it is said,
for Florida.
October 22, 1876
The Daily Constitution
Died in Georgia. T.
R. Porter of Wilkinson County
Married in Georgia
E. Daniel toBettie
Fountain, of Wilkinson county.
J T. Hatchfield (Hatfield), to
Ada Hughes, of Wilkinson county.
October 27 1876
The Daily Constitution
YELLOW FEVER
Savannah News, 25
The mortuary report for the twenty four
hours ending six o'clock yesterday gives the total number of interments
as seven of which five were of yellow fever. Of the total number, three
were whites and four colored, one of the deaths of the former being in
Wilkinson county, Ga., and brought to the city for burial.
Interments for October 24
LAUREL GROVE CEMETERY
Whites - Charlotte E. Gnann, aged 8 days,
yellow fever, *Lawrence T. Crosby,
aged 3 years, fever.
*Died in Wilkinson county
November 5, 1876
Daily Constitution
-Mr. J. K. Branan, the sheriff of
Wilkinson county, is making arrangements to go to Texas. There are nearer
routes to the cemetery than by way of Texas.
A negro boy was killed in a cane
mill in Wilkinson county recently.
The Baptist of Gordon have erected
a beautiful chapel.
November 7, 1876
The Daily Constitution
The Irwinton Southerner
and Appeal learns that Mr. J. N. Wall,
one of the best stock
raisers in Wilkinson county, has lost every hog he owned with hog cholera.
There were over a hundred head, and some of the were large and fine, and
the loss to Mr. Wall is serious as he was depending upon them for next
year's supply of bacon.
Capt. Lingo
says that charcoal, sulphur
and salt fed to the hogs in a trough with their food, has been found by
him to be a sure preventive.
November 7, 1876
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Wilkinson Appeal has these items:
MILKING
A COW. - Mr. E. Bullock
has an unruly cow. Her heels are very tight,
and she kicks as strong as Tump Ponder's roan mule. He milks her himself.
There is not a woman in the county that could perform that operation. A
gentleman informs us that he was present the other day and witnessed the
milking operation. Mr. Bullock took his piggin and went to the pen. He
walked up on the left side of the cow, regular dairy maid fashion, and
then with great vehemence began to scream "so! so now!" After repeating
this exclamation about a dozen times he stooped down and took hold of the
teat. In the twinkling of an eye the cow kicked and Mr. Bullock fell in
the corner of the fence. When he started for the corner he commenced the
exclamation, "So, you old heifer!" the last syllable of which was finished
while he was on his back. He picked himself up and procured a couple of
ropes. He put one over her horns and tied that end of the cow to the fence.
He then went to work to lasso her left leg, and succeeded after being kicked
down several times. He then stretched the cow across the pen and finished
his milking operation. That cow is stretched now twice a day.
INDIAN RELICS. We were shown a few days ago, by Mr. M. M. Bloodworth,
a stone relic taken by him from an Indian mound on Black lake, near Oconee
river, in this county. The stone is of a red brick color, so hard that
it successfully resists all attempts of our lapidaries to cut it. It is
shaped like a revolving fan, is about 3½ inches in length and 2
inches wife, thick in the centre and thin at the edges. Notwithstanding
its great hardness, through its centre a ½ inch round hole has been
drilled perfectly true for 3½ inches,. The mound from which this
stone was taken contained only stone relics. Two other mounds near by are
filled with human bones. These mounds are from six to ten feet high, and
one of them is now under cultivation, and by the action of the elements
its height has been reduced four feet. Mr. Bloodworth first saw these mounds
sixty years ago, and was one of a party who examined the largest after
the Harrison fresh, and he says it was completely filled with bones, and
the surrounding soil for the space of half an acres also contained them
in large quantities.
November 26, 1876
Macon Telegraph
A Double Homicide. The following dispatch reached us yesterday afternoon.
GORDON, GA. November 25. Two men were killed here this evening by W. H. Dykes, policeman, for whom two hundred dollards reward is offered. WILSON SANDERS.
From a gentleman who was in Gordon shortly after the occcurrence,
we obtain the following particulars: It seems that Mr. Daniel Sanders and Dr. W. Gibson had a fight, in which the latter was severely handled. Mr. W. H. Dykes,
Town Marshal, attempted the arrest of Sanders. A brother of Sanders interfered
to prevent the arrest, and Sanders drew a knife and advanced threateningly
upon Dykes, who drew a pistol and shot Sanders dead. A man named Barantine then drew his knife and swore he would kill Dykes, whereupon Dykes fired another shot, and Barantine fell dead. Dykes then fired two shots at the father of Sanders, but without effect.
Dykes was not arrested, but was generally understood to be still
in Gordon. He is a brother-in-law of Sanders, whom he killed.
December 3, 1876
The Daily Constitution
Irwinton Southerner: We learn that
on Tuesday night last the store house of Mr. P. C. Smith
of Toomsboro,
was robbed and burned. The fire was discovered in time for many of his
goods to be saved. The first parties who arrived discovered the money drawer
open and robbed of its contents. Nothing but the dampness of the night
prevented a general conflagration, as the house in the row in which the
house was standing are very near each together. The house of Mr. J.
L. Kinney, nearby was badly scorched. We have not been able to ascertain
the amount of Mr. Smith's loss but learn it was considerable. There was
no insurance and we deeply sympathize with him in his calamity. If the
incendiary can be identified we are satisfied that Judge Bartlett will
inflict the severest sentence upon him.
January 9, 1877
Union and Recorder
MARRIED, In Wilkinson county, on the 28th
of December, 1876, by Rev. Mr. Carter, Mr. Thomas Traynham
and Miss Emma,
daughter of Mr.
Mark Yates.
January 23, 1877
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southerner &
Appeal says: On Saturday the 23d day of December last, two
negro men, John Jackson and Allen O'Bannon, left their homes
in Passmores district, Wilkinson county, a few miles from the Oconee river,
intending to cross over into Washington county, for the purpose of visiting
some acquaintances. The weather was cold and rainy, and it is believed
that they got lost in the swamp and perished with cold. This conjecture
is almost made certainty from the fact that on Wednesday last, Mr. Wm.
Hoover, found in the swamp a body of a negro man, who had apparently
been dead some time, which is probably the mortal remains of either Jackson
or O'Bannon. The coroner will probably hold an inquest to-day on the body.
January 30, 1877
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Appeal says: Raben
Lewis, an old negro man, aged 108 years, died recently near Gordon
in this county. He was six years of age when the Declaration of Independence
was signed, and nineteen years old when Washington was inaugurated the
first President of the United States. He was the oldest living person in
the county before he died.
February 20, 1877
Union and Recorder
The Irwinton Appeal announces the
deaths of Mrs. James McInnis,
Mr. David D. Etheridge, Mr.
John T. Parker and Mr. George
W. Brown.
May 8, 1877
Southern Christian Advocate
Dr. A. C.
C. Thompson was born October 12, 1821, in Dorchester county, Maryland,
and died at Gordon, Ga., April 24, 1877. His son Rev. George C. Thompson
of the South Georgia Conference. His mother died in his infancy and left
him the only child of Dr. Absalom Thompson. Educated at St. John's College,
Annapolis, Maryland. He married
Miss S. A. Hadaway in his 24th year;
moved to Wilmington, Del, came to Burke co., Ga., in 1852. He leaves a
wife, two married daughters, a son and seven grandchildren. His remains
were buried in Sandersville, Ga., April 25, 1877. J. W. Burke
May 27, 1877
Union and Recorder
John
R. Bostick died in Gordon on Sunday 13th inst. aged 67. He was born
in Washington co. but had lived the last 20 years in Wilkinson co. -South.
& Appeal.
May 29, 1877
Macon Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southern and Appeal
is responsible for the following:
That panther
is still in the fork of Sandy and Clear creeks, frightening people with
its terrible shrieks, which is described by Mr. Johnson, who heard
it forty yards off hand, as similar to the wailing shrieks of a strong
lunged young woman who has lost her sweetheart, the concluding or lower
notes resembling a growl. Mr. Johnson did not, however, listen to the beast's
chin music with the calmness and particularity of a musical critic, but
was on the wing, making for home after the manner of a kangaroo, jumping
over six feet each bound. The startling cry assailed his ears while alone
replanting some swamp land with corn. He doesn't recollect crossing the
fence, and believed, when he got home, that he had not crossed it. Inspection,
however, proved that he jumped it. Mr. Johnson is a brave man, but what's
a Scovil weeding hoe against a panther's claws.
Mr. Brannan has heard it often.
He lives very near its promenade. He loaded his gun he other day and concluded
he would go and kill it. He was gone but a little while. He came home out
of breath, with the bosom torn out of his shirt. He had not encountered
the best but had run through a bamboo-brier thicket at the rate of fifteen
miles an hour. A bull frog singing basso profundo had given him start.
He says he saw where the beast jumped fifteen feet at one bound from a
stand.
June 7, 1877
The Daily Constitution
Irwinton Southern and Appeal: Farmers
who have employed the chain gang to labor on their farms are delighted
with their operations.Messrs Hughs
& Toler employed them to dig the canal that carries the water to
their mill, and say that they did twice the amount of work of other hands,
and work that other hands would not do, being a portion of the time up
to their knees in water. Dr. Fluker employed them last week to chop
his cotton to a stand and they average about two acres per day to the hand,
doing their work well too. Any one may go and look at them work and then
notice a lot of free negroes and they can very easily solve the vexed question
why farming doesn't pay now like it did before the war. A stern overseer
armed with a broad strap will get work out of a negro if it is in him.
These convicts are fed upon an ample quantify of wholesome food- corn and
wheat bread, meat, vegetables, syrup, milk, etc. - are comfortably clothed
and lodged, and when they go to work they are in a condition to do a plenty
of it, and if they don't keep up with the leader, they know exactly what
the consequences will be, and there is no lagging.
August 18, 1877
The Daily Constitution
THE MYSTERY SOLVED
John L.
Justice Alive - He Deserted His Wife- Arrested in Echols County-Brought
Back to Irwinton and Safely Lodged in Jail
Irwinton Southerner
It is with
pleasure that we announce that the missing man John L. Justice is
alive. The mystery that enshrouded his fate has been cleared away, and
it has been ascertained that instead of being the victim of a brutal assassination
that he is a fugitive from justice, and the heartless deserter of his helpless
family. The strong and commendable current of public sympathy for him as
the victim of a foul murder, has changed, and is now running against him
as a fugitive criminal. The feeling of public indignation against the gentleman,
who by the force of circumstances and the temporary advantage which falsehood
sometimes gains over truth, has abated, and generous men will seek to wipe
away the injustice done him by a complete vindication of his character.
The simple caption of this article is a complete and triumphant refutation
of every charge against Mr. James Wright in connection with Justice's
disappearance, and we hope that with the clearing up of the mystery of
his fate that all excitement, enmity, crimination and recrimination will
end, and that neighbors and friends who have been estranged by this affair,
will forget and forgive and be re-united in the bonds of friendship. Ever
since the sixth of June the excitement in Laurens and Wilkinson over his
disappearance has been intense, and every effort has been made to find
his body, as he was believed to be dead. Rumors and circumstances had convinced
many citizens that he had been foully dealt with, and on the 21st of July
when Mr. Wade Knight and James Vaughn came to Dublin and
swore that he was at their house in Telfair county on the 8th of June,
many were incredulous. So strong had the conviction of his death been impressed
upon their minds that they refused to receive as truth statements to the
contrary made under the solemn and impressive sanctity of an oath. Mr.
Justice's father, who had been unremitting in his efforts to discover the
remains of his son, went to Telfair and came back pretty thoroughly convinced
by the testimony of persons there that the statements of Knight and Vaughn
was correct.
On the 22d of July, Mrs. Justice,
wife of the missing man, received a letter from him postmarked Stockton,
Clinch county, whose contents convinced her that it was from her husband.
The letter was said to have been unfeeling and heartless, and to have been
an announcement to the poor, deserted wife that he had forsaken her forever,
and was going to Florida.
The address on the envelope was written
by a good pensman, and the letters were sloped from left to right. This
envelope was procured and enclosed in a letter to the postmaster at Stockton
asking for information in regard to the writer of the address on the envelope,
and also in regard to the whereabouts of Justice, who was under a bond
for appearance a the October term of our court for a misdemeanor. The answer
came promptly. The postmaster at Stockton stated that the address was written
by a gentleman named Cunningham, and that Justice-who had assumed the name
of John L. Johnson-was laboring on a farm in Echols county. The postmaster
also stated that he was a widower, and had a daughter going to school in
Wilkinson county. Col. John W. Lindsey received his letter, and
immediately sent word to Messrs. L. L Hall, Joel A. Smith and
Hamp
Green, Justices's bondsmen, in whose interest Col. Lindsey was working,
and on Sunday evening Mr. Hamp Green left for Echols county armed with
the warrant to bring him back.
He proceeded to Stockton,
had an interview with the postmaster and others, who satisfied him that
he was on the right tract, and that John L. Johnson and John L. Justice
were one and the same. He procured the services of a bailiff and a determined
and active man as a posse, and sent them after the prisoner, who was ten
miles distant in Echols county. They found him in a corn field pulling
fodder and stealthily and silently approached him. While in the act of
stripping the blades of fodder from a stalk, the strong and nervous hand
of the bailiff's companion was laid upon his shoulder and he was unresistingly
made a prison and carried back to Stockton, where he was guarded until
the train left, and he was brought on here by Mr. Green, who arrived Wednesday
night and lodged him in jail. He says he did not hear from home after he
left, and had no knowledge of the excitement his absence caused. he says
he will tell his reasons for leaving only when they are pulled out of him.
He earnestly requested Mr. Green to inform his family that he did not desire
to see any of them.
Thus ended one of the most remarkable
cases on record of the injustice and unreliability of circumstantial evidence,
or rather the powerful force of a chain of unfavorable fortuitous circumstances.
For two months unremitting search has been made for Justice's body by sincere,
honest and just men, who were mentally satisfied that Justice had been
murdered. And during that period Mr. Wright has been twice arrested for
murdering him, and although no legal evidence could be bought up to prove
that he committed the deed, he has been regarded as his slayer, shielded
from punishment by the insufficiency of the evidence. The excitement ran
high, and tattling mischief-makers have fed it by inventing stories and
telling them as truths to the credulous portion of our population, who
retold them as facts and thus misled many good men, who generally believe
nothing that cannot be proved beyond the shadow of a doubt.
August 21, 1877
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
AN EXPLOSION - We quote the following from
the Irwinton Southern and Appeal:
Mr. Lawrence Butts had one
of his hands burned, and made a narrow escape from a more serious injury,
if not from death itself, on last Thursday night, at his distillery
near Gordon by the explosion of a barrel,
into which he was pouring peach brandy. There was about five gallons of
brandy in the barrel, and he was pouring more in, when
it became ignited from the lamp that was
furnishing light for him, which was held by a young man, and the explosion
was instantaneous and terrific, the report being as
loud as if produced by gunpowder. The barrel
was in a horizontal position, and Mr. Butts was pouring the liquor into
it through the bunghole, and one of the heads was
blown through the side of a box made of
inch plank.
September 4, 1877
Union and Recorder
Married on the 27th ult., at the
residence of the bride's father, by Rev. J. M. Langford, Mr.
W.
B. Breedlove, of Baldwin county, to Miss
Aurelia J. Bell, daughter of Mr. J. Ross Bell, of Wilkinson
county.
February 1878
Southern Christian Advocate
Peter
Vanlandingham was born in Wilkinson county, Ga., October 21st 1821;
died in Decatur county, Ga., February 26th 1878.
February 5, 1878
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The same paper, through a correspondent,
tells of the capture of Washington
McDaniels alias Charles Heath, a notorious jail-breaker and felon under
sentence of death by the Sheriff of Screven county. He was taken to Augusta,
from whence he will be taken to Wilkinson county to expiate the sentence
of death passed on him ten years since. Judge George T. Bartlett issued
the arresting order.
February 5, 1878
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southerner
and Appeal announces the death of Mr. Bently
Outlaw, an old and respectable citizen of Wilkinson county.
The unloaded pistol is
still playing a leading role in depopulating the country. Witness the following:
Fatal Accident - We learn of another accident in Laurens County from the
carelessness of fire-arms.
Mr. Vann who lives near the line between
Wilkinson and Laurens was carelessly snapping a pistol which he thought
was unloaded, when it exploded the cartridge that was in it, the ball entering
the abdomen of his brother-in-law,Mr. Dean.
Medical
aid was secured and the ball extracted, but he died last Sunday.
March 5, 1878
Union and Recorder
MATRIMONIAL - At 7 o'clock last Wednesday
evening, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Jas. Dennard,
near Gordon, Mr. James T. Bragg was married to Miss Alice
Dennard.
March 12, 1878
Union and Recorder
Mr. Ira
Carswell, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Carswell, died at
his home near Irwinton Sunday morning at 7 o'clock, after an illness of
one week of pneumonia.
March 25, 1878
Dublin Post
DIED. Mrs.
Zenus Fordham, of this county, on
22. inst.
A little child
of Wm. Fordham, on 20.inst
March 19, 1878
Southern Christian Advocate
By Rev. J. W. Domingos, February 7, 1878,
Mr.
Andrew A. Cowart, of Wilkinson county, Ga., to Miss Carrie
E. Rutherford, of the same county.
April 9, 1878
Union and Recorder
RESENTENCED - Mr. Washington McDaniel,
the
Wilkinson county murderer, who has for the past three or four months been
in the jail at Augusta for safe keeping, was carried back to Wilkinson
county to be resentenced by Judge Bartlett.
About ten years since McDaniel murdered
a man by the name of Texas near
Gorden, on the Central railroad and was captured, tried and sentenced to
be hanged. A short time afterward he broke out of jail, and has been at
large ever since, until very recently, when having committed, an assault
on a party in Scriven county, he was arrested, and in some way it was discovered
that this was the same man who, ten years before, had committed the murder.
He was taken to Augusta for safe-keeping. In speaking of the case the Irwinton
Southerner
and Appeal says:
On last Tuesday, by order of the
court, deputy sheriff S. A. Hatfield and posse went to Augusta for
the prisoner, and returned with him on Tuesday evening. When brought into
court Thursday morning Judge Bartlett passed the sentence of death upon
him. McDaniel is to be carried to Fulton county and lodged in the jail
there until Friday, the 3rd of May next, when he is to be brought back
to Irwinton and privately hanged by the neck until he is dead. The prisoner
received the sentence in silence.
April 23, 1878
Southern Christian Advocate
Married. By Rev. J. W. Domingos,April
11, 1878, Mr. James S. Burke to Miss Lula
E. Sinquefield, both of Wilkinson county, Ga.
June 11, 1878
Union and Recorder
Irwinton Appeal:Jimmie
Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. James G. Hughes, aged 14 years,
died on the 4th.
June 22, 1878
The Augusta Chronicle
Irwinton witnessed the fall of a brilliant
meteor last Wednesday afternoon. The smoke of the burning serolite was
seen for ten minutes afterwards.
July 2, 1878
Union and Recorder
MARRIED. - In Wilkinson county, on the evening
of the 26 ult., Mr. Warren Edwards of this city, led to the altar
the lovely Miss Mary Miller,
daughter of Maj. A. J. Miller - Rev. G. T. Goetchius officiating.
The happy couple arrived in this city Thursday. We tender our congratulations
and best wishes.
July 11, 1878
The Atlanta Constitution
~extract
No candid man who reads the evidence
in this case, can resist the conclusion that commuting the sentence of McDaniel
was
not an arbitrary exercise of executive clemency, but was just and proper
under the circumstances. This, we have no doubt, induced the large number
of petitions, including the county officers of the county where he was
sentenced, to sign the petition for McDaniel's pardon or a commutation
of his sentence. If those who read this testimony still clamor for McDaniel's
death, and say he ought to be hung for other murders committed by him,
it is only necessary to put these rumors of his being guilty of those crimes
in the shape of evidence, lay it before the grand jury in the county where
the crimes were committed, if at all; have a true bill and trial, and if
he is adjudged guilty of murder, he can be hung; until then he is safely
confined for life, working out a sentence more terrible than death.
August 1, 1878
Dublin Post
Mr. U. D. Wynn of Wilkinson County
favored us with a call last week. He reports cotton suffering greatly for
rain.
Mr. W. C. Adams, of Wilkinson County
brother of the late Wm Adams of this county was in town last Friday.
August 8, 1878
Dublin Post
A little child of Hiram
Porter, colored, living on the place of Mr. R. H. Carswell, died
one day last week from the effects of Morphine. A small package of medicine
had been found in the road and carried home, the medicine was mistaken
for quince, and administered to the sick child. The child died, but not
until its death was it discovered that morphine had been given instead
of quinine. This adds another to the long list of deaths from ignorant
and careless use of medicine. - Southerner and Appeal.
August 6, 1878
Macon Weekly Telegraph
Death of Judge Whitehurst. On
the 2d instant, at his residence near Gordon,Judge
William M. Whitehurst, one of the old and most honored citizens of
that section, died of dropsy.
He was highly respected, and was
a very prominent man in his day in that portion of the State, having held
positions of honor and trust.
August 27, 1878
Union and Recorder
Mr. B.
H. Byington, son of the late C. A. Byington, died at the residence
of A. M. McMullen, in Wilkinson county, on the 20th inst., aged
18 years.
August 28, 1878
Dublin Post
Mr. O. H. L. Strubing of Toomsboro
was in town last Sunday. He tells of a remarkable death near Toomsboro
on last Thursday night. OldMr. Shinholster
and
his wife went to bed as usual and during the night some time Mr. Shinholster
died, but his wife did not find out till she rose the next morning.
September 3, 1878
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Irwinton Southerner and Appeal
says Mr. Joseph Hightower, of
that county, was bitten by his dog last Sunday, and since then has shown
symptoms of hydrophobia. On Tuesday he was reported to be in critical condition.
September 10, 1878
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Georgia, Jones County - Four weeks after
date I will apply to the Court of Ordinary of Jones county for an order
to sell all the lands, situate in Wilkinson county, that belongs to the
estate of John Barfield, deceased, the
same being encumbered with dower. John R. Barfield, Administrator,
August 20, 1878.
Nov. 6, 1878
Dublin Post
Advertisement
The Strubing House
Toomsboro, Georgia
O.H.L. Strubing Proprietor
Thank the public for their liberal patronage
in the past. I respectively ask a
continuance of the same. My home is near
the depot and first class in all it's appointments.
Good Conveyance
Always ready to accommodate the Travelling
Public who may wish to go
from Toomsboro to Dublin or any other point.
November 18, 1878
Atlanta Constitution
An accident occurred in Toombsboro
last week that resulted in the instant death of little Emma,
second daughter, aged about seven years, of Mrs. John D. Rawlins.
Miss Ella Clay, a neice of Mrs. Rawlins, had gone on horseback to
Toombsboro on a visit to her aunt, and when she was ready to return Emma
Rawlins was helped to a seat on the horse behind her. The horse was restive
and soon began running, and the little girl, losing her balance, fell to
the grown, her head striking against a stump. Her skull was broken, killing
her instantly. The horse continued to run, and, the girth of the saddle
breaking. Miss Clay was thrown off, but not injured saved by a few slight
bruises.
(Buried Jackson Family Cemetery)
January 1, 1879
Dublin Post
Married. On the 22d ult., Mr. Zenus Fordham
to Miss Mary Ann Hogan.
January 28, 1879
Union and Recorder
On Tuesday last Mr. John H. Hodges,
editor
of the Irwinton Southern & Appeal, was married to Miss Kate
V. Norwood, of Houston county.
February 18, 1879
Union and Recorder
Irwinton. Mrs.
Joseph Webb is death.
February 25, 1879
Union and Recorder
MR. JAMES
SHINHOLSER died suddenly, at his residence in Wilkinson county, on
Thursday night last. He was the father of our esteemed townsman, Dr.
J. N. Shinholser.
March 11, 1879
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
A MILD WAY OF EXPRESSING IT- Southerner
and Appeal: Mr. Wm. Cherry obtained a wife one night last week
with out the consent of her parents. The bride (Senia
Walters) is a (step) daughter of Mr.
Thomas Cass who lives about
three miles from town.
Runaway matches are seldom
happy.
(Note - Tom Cass was Senia’s stepfather.
Senia’s parent were Madison Walters and Letha Stevens. He was killed in
the Civil War,)
March 19, 1879
Dublin Post
Mr. Eason
Green, 72 years of age, of Wilkinson
County, just over the Laurens line, died suddenly last week of apoplexy.
March 26, 1879
Dublin Post
Dr. Forbes, who has recently moved
from Dooley County to Stephensville, Wilkinson County was in town last
Friday and Saturday.
April 2, 1879
Dublin Post
Information has reached here that Mr.
James Pierce of Wilkinson County was burnt out on last Sunday. He has
suffered severely from fire on Saturday.
April 9 1879
Dublin Post
"Lightwood Knot Bridge
(Irwinton Appeal.)
In the estimation
of the Dublin Post,
and "Critic" a contributor to the columns of
said paper, in this county, Lightwood knot bridge is a stumbling block
to the traveling and trade between Dublin and Toomsboro. Said bridge is
owned by a gentlemen in this county, and toll is charged all who cross
there over. The people of Laurens County, as per above, think the bridge
should be made free, and for toll to be charged is for Wilkinson County,
and especially Toomsboro to stand in her own light. Through the Post,
Dublin
threatens to remover her patronage, whatever that may be from Toomsboro
unless toll is removed from Lightwood knot bridge. The question arises
is the patronage worth the toll?
As a rule, we are
opposed to toll bridges but are sufficiently acquainted with the
facts to venture an opinion in this particular case. If the case is __
so grievous as the Post represents it to be common humanity
demands that something be done to alleviate the pain that said toll causes
the people of Laurens County. Let us hear from Toomsboro on the subject."
May 28, 1879
Dublin Post
"The Appeal gives
the particulars of the horrible death of Mr.Cass
Wood, which occurred seven miles from Irwinton a few days ago.
While riding a mule with plow gear on home from the field, the mule threw
him to the ground, broke his neck, and his foot getting entangled in one
of the traces, he was whirled and dragged around until the back of his
head was beaten to a jelly, one eye torn out, an arm broken in two places
and his face and body terribly mangled."
July 16, 1879
Dublin Post
Mr. Strubing of Toomsboro was in
town last week. It is said he is contemplating removing to Dublin. So as
it should be!
July 22, 1879
Georgia Weekly Telegraph
A HUSBAND AND WIFE DIE SUDDENLY - Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Wood, of Wilkinson county, died very suddenly on the 7th
inst., of brain fever, there being only five hours differences - the wife
dying at 2 p.m. and the husband at 7 p.m. Both were buried in the same
coffin.
July 22, 1879
Union and Recorder
Mrs.
___McCook died in this city last Tuesday. She had been in feeble health
for a long time. She came here from Wilkinson county, for medical attention,
and was unable to return.
August 20, 1879
Dublin Post
Mr. Richard Stanley of Wilkinson
County came down last week and thrashed out the oat crop of Judge Wolfe,
Judge Duncan and others of our farmers. He did the work in a jiffy.
Mr. I J. Fountain of this county has a mare and a colt in connection with which the natural order of maternal regard is reversed. The mare has made frequent attempts to kill the colt, and though quiet young it is kept separated from it's mother, and is only allowed to suckle when the mare is caught and held by two or three negro men.- Wilkinson Appeal
September 6, 1879
Atlanta Constitution
Mr. Charles Day, of Wilkinson
county has sold in the markets of Gordon and Milledgeville this season
over 2,000 watermelons, at an average of 8 cents per melon.
October 29, 1879
Dublin Post
Laurens County of Ordinary
October Term, 1879
Whereas, D.R. V. Smith, administrator
on the estate ofLaura Rozar, makes application
for leave to sell the west half of lot of land No. 238 in the 23rd district
of Wilkinson county.
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all persons concerned to show causes, if any they have, why said order
should not be granted the applicant on the first Monday in November next.
Given under my Official Signature
John T. Duncan
Ordinary
November 26, 1879
The Dublin Post
GLAD TIDINGS, GLAD TIDINGS!
TO ALL WHO WOULD SAVE MONEY. THE BEST GOODS
AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
J. I. DEESE & CO.
TOOMSBORO, GA
Have now on hand and are constantly receiving
heavy stocks of General Merchandise
Such as BACON, LARD, FLOUR SUGAR, COFFEE,
RICE, TOBACCO, CIGARS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS
Tin, Wood and Willow Ware, PLOWS, HOES,
SPADES, FORKS, SHOVELS, PLANTATION TOOLS, RAGGING, TIES, CALICOES, DOMESTICS,
BLEACHING
One Car Load Salt $1.00 Per Sack
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF THE OLD
BAY STATE SCREW FASTENED BOOTS AND SHOES
We are the only house in the place that
can keep this make of boots and shoes, and WE WARRANT EVERY PAIR. If not
as represented you have but to bring them back and we will return your
money or give you a new pair. $2,000 worth of this Celebrated Shoe now
in stock. TRY ONE PAIR.
We buy goods direct from
the manufacturing companies, and hence get better terms than smaller houses
that deal with middle men. The benefit of our advantages in prices we share
with our customers.
To our friends and the citizens generally
of Laurens we offer a cordial invitation to come and see up. We will make
it to your interest.
J. I. Deese & Co.
Toombsboro, Nov. 26, 1879
December 3, 1879
Dublin Post
Robbery in Irwinton
"Night before last,
Col.
O. Bower was knocked down as he entered his office, his key taken from
him, and his safe robbed of $1200. Col. B. is county school commissioner
and the money belonged to the school fund."
December 25, 1879
Atlanta Constitution
A Toombsboro Thief.
Some time since the residence
of Dennis Doke, of Toombsboro, was entered and a quantity of money
and notes stolen. We have been informed that the amount was about $250
in money and about $4,700 in notes. Circumstances pointed to a negro by
the name of "Bill" Hightower as the thief and Mr. Doke telegraphed
to this city authorizing the police to arrest the above named negro if
he should put in an appearance. Last night the police came up with Hightower
and succeeded in making the arrest.
Hightower
was carried to the station house and locked up for safe-keeping until otherwise
disposed of. The police, upon taking an inventory of his clothing, found
a few dollars in silver. An effort will be made to find out where he has
been living so that the house can be searched. We learn that there was
a reward of two hundred and fifty dollars offered for Hightower.
December 30, 1879
Union and Recorder
Mr.
Frank Strong of Gordon, and an employee of the Central railroad, died
a few days ago at the above place.