Death Notices from the Montgomery Advertiser (April 21-30, 1881), 
Montgomery, AL
Transcribed and Submitted by Larry E. Caver, Jr.


Death notices From the Montgomery Advertiser
-Transcribed by Larry E. Caver, Jr.

April 21, 1881:

(Lauderdale County) Uncle Webb COFFEE, a clever old 
colored man, one of our oldest citizens, died on Tuesday 
night, of dropsy, aged about 85 years.  He died where he 
had lived for about 60 years, at the old COFFEE homestead. 
-Florence Gazette


April 22, 1881:

The friends and acquaintances of Mrs. Annis and 
Charlie NAFTEL, Jr. are respectfully invited to attend 
the funeral of the latter from the Adams Street Baptist Church 
this morning at 9 o'clock.

(Winston County) We regret to learn that Willie PARSONS, a 
little twelve-year-old son of the Widow PARSONS, who lives 
near Kelly's mills, in this county, was stricken and instantly 
killed by lightning Tuesday last.  Only recently Mrs. PARSONS 
lost her husband, and the death of her oldest boy is indeed a 
terrible blow. -Winston Herald

Mr. H. PENNINGTON died last week, at Farriorville, in 
the 82nd year of his age.  He was born in Edgefield, 
South Carolina, and had been an honored and useful citizen of 
Bullock and Pike Counties for years…

Mr. William McLEOD died near Greenville recently.

Died, at Boligee, Greene County, Mr. James B. COOK.


April 23, 1881:

The friends and acquaintances of Mr. E.J. NEWBOLD are invited 
to attend his funeral from the residence of Mr. Mike DUFFIE, 
on Jefferson Street, this afternoon at 4 o'clock.

Mrs. Emily L. CUNNINGHAM, wife of Col. James L. CUNNINGHAM, 
for many years of Chunnennuggee Ridge, and mother of Judge 
John D. CUNNINGHAM, formerly of Montgomery, died at Atlanta recently…

Died, in Starkville, Mississippi, on the 10th of March last, 
Miss Maggie P. WHITSETT, formerly of Marion.

Died, on the 7th instant, Richard Preston, son of 
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. YEATMAN, aged thirteen months.

Died, in Green Hill precinct, on the 12th instant, Mr. Wes STUTTS.

Died, on last Monday, Mrs. HAWKINS, mother of Col. Hiram HAWKINS, of 
Hawkinsville, near Eufaula.

Died, in Bullock County, last Saturday, Mr. John CROW.

Died, at Henderson, Pike County, the 17th, Mr. Elisha SHAW, 
aged 19 years.


April 24, 1881:

(Autauga County) Mr. Goin MOTLEY, who is 83 years old, 
is quite sick.  There is but little hope of his recovering.  
He is one of the oldest, if not the oldest citizen of Autauga, 
having lived in his present home 57 years. -Southern Signal

Died, at Lowndesboro, recently, Major James BEASLEY, aged 62 years.

Died, at Collirene, the 18th, Mr. Walter ST. CLAIR, aged 23 years.

Died, near Wacoochee Valley, Lee County, recently, Mr. John B. PRICE.

Died, in Demopolis, recently, Mr. Sterling HILTON, one of the oldest of 
Marengo's citizens.

Died, on the night of the 15th instant, near Gainesville, 
Mr. Richard CARTER, aged about 25 years.

The interments in the City Cemetery for the week ending 
last night, April 23rd, were as follows:

[White]
April 19            Miss Dollie C. BRIDGELAND, tubercular pneumonia.
                    A.J. COTTON, hemorrhage.
April 20            Child of Robert and M.H. THOMPSON*, dysenteric fever.
April 22            Charles NAFTEL, typhoid fever.
April 23            E.J. NEWBOLD, congestion of the brain.

[Black]
April 18            Winnie ADAMS, heart disease.
                    Thomas McCREA, catarrhal fever.
                    Child of Mary WILLIAMS, trismus.
April 19            John DIGGS*, consumption.
April 20            Wesley WILSON, pneumonia.
                    Child of Susan REESE, cause unknown.
                    Tom WALLER*, pneumonia.
April 21            Adeline JACKSON, pneumonia.
                    Child of William McLENDON, dentition.
                    Reuben SHORTER, old age.

    *Died outside of city limits.


Death Notices From THE MONTGOMERY DAILY ADVERTISER

April 24, 1881 (continued):

Died, in Gainesville, on the night of the 15th instant, 
Mr. J.W. BLACKWELL, lately of Macon, Mississippi, 
aged about 42 years.

Died, in Dadeville, on the 21st, Mrs. Mary J., 
wife of Thomas J. SMITH.

Died, in Henry County, recently, Mr. Michael MADDEN.

Died, near Romulus, on the 4th instant, Willie Oscar, 
son of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. CORK.


April 26, 1881:

Mr. Giles DEWBERRY, who died in this county recently, 
was one of the pioneer settlers of Randolph County, 
and was a soldier in the war of 1812.  He was very nearly 
a hundred years old at the time of his death. 
-Randolph County News

Died, in Stevenson, a few days ago, Mr. Francis Marion 
McMAHAN.

Died, in Jackson County, recently, Mrs. Tempy GRANTHAM.

Died, in LaFayette, recently, Mr. Jerry MURPHY.

Died, in Alexander City, on the 18th, Mrs. B.L. DEAN.

Died, near Ozark, on the 12th, Mr. James VAUGHAN, 
88 years old.

Died, near Ireland, Conecuh County, on the 19th instant, 
Mrs. Sarah STACY, aged 70 years.


April 27, 1881:

(Chattanooga, April 26) George H. BOYD was killed tonight 
by a Nashville & Chattanooga train, while coupling cars.  
He is an ex-sheriff of Hamblin County, Tennessee, which 
position he occupied for six years.  He was in the employ of 
the company but twelve hours.

(Sedalia, MO, April 26) On Saturday night Elijah HORTON 
was murdered by unknown persons on his farm near Brownsville, 
Saline County…

(Hale County) A very beautiful window, intended to perpetuate 
the memory of Mrs. Ann AVERY, who died in 1878, was put in 
the church two or three weeks ago, and unveiled on Easter Sunday.
-Greensboro Beacon

(Marengo County) The case of the State against 
Joseph W. BARLEY, for manslaughter, was tried last Wednesday 
and Mr. BARLEY was acquitted.  It will be remembered that 
Mr. BARLEY stabbed A.H. MARSCHALK, one of the founders of the 
Marengo Journal, in the year 1871, from which wound 
Mr. MARSCHALK died after lingering about two weeks. 
-Linden Reporter


April 28, 1881:

(Blountsville, April 27, 1881)  On Saturday night last, 
one of the foulest, most cowardly and dastardly assassinations 
which could blot the annals of our fair State occurred at 
Bangor… While Capt. Frank A. HANNA, an old citizen of the county, 
was sitting reading a newspaper, at his residence, with a light 
near him and the door wide open, the assassin slipped up within 
20 feet of him, with a rifle carrying quarter ounce ball, and fired… 
instantly killing him… His remains were taken to Hanceville on 
Monday, and interred by the side of his wife. He leaves three 
little children… Capt. HANNA was a man well known in the county, 
was about 50 years of age… and was formerly the proprietor of the 
Bangor Herald…

The friends and acquaintances of Dr. and Mrs. W.J. HOLT are 
respectfully invited to attend the funeral services of the former 
from St. John's Episcopal Church, at 10 o'clock this morning.

(Wilcox County) The sudden death of J.J. LEWIS, Esq., in our 
community on last Monday was a surprise and regret to all.  He rode 
in town that morning from his home eight miles south of this, in 
apparently usual health, but before 2 o'clock p.m., he was dead.  
He died in the back room of Mr. J.W. McCASKEY's store. It is 
generally supposed that some heart derangement was the immediate 
cause of his death. -News & Pacificator

Died, at Shelby Iron Works, last week, Mrs. Stephen HASEY.

Died, near Vienna, Pickens County, last week, Mrs. Mahala GIBSON.

Died, near Boligee, Wilcox County, the 17th, James B. COOK, aged 
60 years.


April 29, 1881:

(Galveston, April 28) Mrs. Cornelia DABNEY, of Richmond, Virginia, 
who is on a visit to this city to her sister, was found dead in 
bed yesterday morning … Death was caused by heart disease.

Surviving members of the 7th Alabama Cavalry are requested to 
attend the funeral of their late comrade in arms, Lieut. John A. 
CAFFEY, at the City Cemetery, this morning at 10 o'clock.

John A. CAFFEY died at the old homestead of the family, on the 
Mt. Meigs Road, on yesterday morning.  Mr. CAFFEY, like his father, 
Mr. Hugh W. CAFFEY, deceased, was highly esteemed by all who knew 
him. He was a Confederate soldier… Since the war, he has devoted 
himself to planting… He has kept on in the even but noble tenor 
of his way until stricken down by that terrible disease meningitis, 
and on yesterday morning, about 2 o'clock, he breathed his last.

F. M. DUNN, a well-known deaf mute, and more commonly known, 
on this account, as "Dummie", died in this city yesterday morning 
after a lingering illness of several weeks. He had been employed 
by this office in the capacity of telegraph messenger… As learned 
from himself, he was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and had lately 
entered his 58th year. His family were Presbyterians…

Died, in Birmingham, on Tuesday last, Lennie, aged ten months, 
infant daughter of H. SCHOLZE.

Died, near Tallassahatchie Church, last week, Mrs. STEWART, 
mother of Mr. Arch STEWART.

Died, near Belgreen, Franklin County, on the 20th instant, 
Mr. Calvin HACKER, an old and highly respected citizen.

Died, in Tuscaloosa, on the 21st instant, Mrs. Harriet JOHNSON, 
wife of Mr. W.H. JOHNSON, aged about 30 years.  

Died, in 
Tuscaloosa, on the 24th instant, Mrs. Fannie LEE, aged about 
26 years.  

Died, in Tuscaloosa, the 18th, Annie Graham, 
infant daughter of Prof. and Mrs. J.C. CALHOUN.


Died, in Butler County, recently, Mrs. Elizabeth BARRETT, 
in the 84th year of her age.

Died, in Monroe County, recently, T.M.G. TRAWEEK, Esq.


April 30, 1881:

While Ben BARLOW, a young colored man, was returning from the 
plantation of Mr. William H. LOCKE, to his home on the 
SHORTER Plantation, three or four miles north of this city, 
about one o'clock last Sunday morning, he received gun shot 
injuries, from the effects of which he died with 24 hours. 
-Eufaula Times & News

Whooping cough is very bad around Commerce.  Bennie, 
the infant son of M. SHAFNER, died with it on the 20th. 
-Evergreen News

(Macon County) On last Thursday, on the plantation of 
Mr. E. T. RANDALL, in the lower part of the county, in a 
difficulty between two colored women, Grace WOOLFOLK and 
Lucy CARTER, Grace killed Lucy with a knife.  After some 
dispute about a man, Lucy attacked Grace with a knife, 
wounding her in the neck; in the scuffle, Grave got 
possession of the knife… -Macon Mail

At Reeltown, in Tallapoosa County, on Saturday last, 
Seab ANDERSON shot and killed Gould WISNER… -Macon Mail

Died, at his residence, in this county, yesterday, the 
29th instant, of consumption, Mr. O.E. EKWURZEL.  He will 
be buried today.

The death of Col. Malachi DAVIS, a prominent Mason of 
Alabama, aged 72, is announced.

Two little boys, Thomas, aged 12, and Robert, aged 10, 
sons of Mrs. Robert FEARN, of Marshall County, obtained 
permission to go to the banks of the Tennessee to see a 
steamboat pass.  They were accompanied by a little son of Mr. 
Robert COLES, their uncle.  About an hour later, the little 
COLES boy came running up to where some persons were at the 
gin house and told them that Tommie and Robbie had gotten 
drowned… -Huntsville Independent

Died, in Perry County, the 20th instant, Mrs. Minerva, 
wife of Mr. J.D. HILL.

Died, in Hale County, the 18th instant, a child of 
Mr. Samuel SMITH.

Died, at Auburn, on the 22nd instant, Judge C.C. FLANNAGAN.

Died, in Hazel Greene, Alabama, the 19th instant (ultimo), 
Mrs. VAUGHAN, relict of the late Henry C. VAUGHAN, and mother 
of Mrs. A. D. RODGERS, of this place.


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