Miscellaneous Alabama Death Notices
Montgomery Advertiser
Submitted by Larry E. Caver, Jr.
lecaverjr@aol.com


Miscellaneous Alabama Death Notices, Montgomery Advertiser

April 3, 1881:

The colored woman who killed Jerry McKAY in Honey Cut beat, 
Macon County, last Sunday, was playing with him, but got mad, 
said she would shoot him, went into the house, procured a 
gun and put her threat into execution. -Union Springs 
Journal


James WILLIAMS, colored, drank seven beer glasses of 
whiskey within half an hour Saturday evening.  He was 
carried home, and died in half an hour. -Gadsden 
Times

April 7, 1881:

An old crazy colored woman by the name of Dicey STAPLES, 
who was drowned in Staples' mill pond, on Hatchett Creek, 
a week or two ago, was found several miles below last Monday.  
The remains were buried by the colored people in the 
community last Wednesday.  -Rockford Enterprise

We learn that Ben SPEIGHT, a well known colored man of 
this place, was shot and killed by a white man at 
Shuqualak, Mississippi, one day last week… 
-Livingston Journal

April 10, 1881:

April 10, 1881:

The last issue of the Monroe Journal gives the following 
particulars of a tragedy that occurred at Perdue Hill, 
in that county, on Monday night: Mr. Terry LOCKLIN, 
a bright and promising young man, son of Captain Charles LOCKLIN, 
one of Monroe's most worthy and esteemed citizens, was shot and 
killed while attempting to arrest a colored man named Fred ANDERSON… 
(Lengthy article on 
murder)