Mr. Wm Jones, who for the last twenty years has been employed in various capacities about the East Tennessee shops, died suddenly yesterday morning about 7:10 o’clock near the passenger shed. He was carrying two buckets of water from the … Continue reading →
Morristown, March 4 – A singular circumstance recently came to light at Ball’s Point, in Grainger County, this state. Mrs. Elizabeth Singleton, who was supposed to have been kidnapped during the war, when she was too young to remember much … Continue reading →
Morristown, January 17 – Mr. Thomas Reade one of Grainger county’s wealthiest and most prominent citizens and father of Mr. J S Reade, secretary and treasurer of Morristown mills, died at his home in that county yesterday. Knoxville Journal — … Continue reading →
The remains of Mr. Harry Aiken were brought to the city yesterday. The body was brought to the city in charge of Mr. George Aiken of Selma, Alabama, who is a brother of the deceased. The accident in which Mr. … Continue reading →
Tolliver Housewright and wife, aged respectively 82 and 83 were ticketed yesterday by C M Baker, to Texas, in the city of Wiley. A Journal reporter learned some interesting facts from the old gentleman while he and his wife were … Continue reading →
David Williams, a wealthy farmer of Grainger county, was killed yesterday morning at Dutch Valley, a small station on the K C G & L road, by passenger train No. 53 from Middleborough. Williams had flagged the train and was … Continue reading →
Robert Meek, a Grainger county farmer, was killed yesterday while driving his wagon home from Morristown. His team became frightened and ran away, Mr. Meek being dragged about three hundred yards. He was dead when found. The deceased was a … Continue reading →
Cal Thomas, who was struck on the head with a stone by Jim Banks, near Dutch post-office, in Grainger county, three weeks ago, died last night at his boarding house on Common Alley. The quarrel came up over a pocket … Continue reading →
Died February 18, 1891, at Dandridge, Tenn., Mrs. Mary J Bowen, widow of Reece Bowen, of Grainger county, Tenn., aged 72 years and 7 months. Deceased had been a consistent member of the Baptist church for over fifty years. Knoxville … Continue reading →
About 7 o’clock this morning, some persons who were on their way from Tate Springs, in Grainger County, to Morristown, discovered the dead body of a man lying by the roadside on Boatman’s ridge, about a mile from the springs. … Continue reading →
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