In Memory Archives - Wordy, She Wrote

Alabama Type, In Memory

Sad Death of Lawrence Journey, Jacksonville, 1903

/ No Comments

SAD DEATH OF YOUNG BOY

Lawrence Journey Killed in Accident Saturday.

Lawrence Journey, son of Mr. John W. Journey, who was killed in an accident Saturday afternoon, was buried in the Jacksonville Cemetery yesterday afternoon.
Young Journey was employed in a planing mill, running a moulder. In some manner, a piece of molding was broken and hurled back toward him. The missile struck him in the left side of his abdomen going entirely through his body. He lived only a few minutes.
Journey was about sixteen years old, a brother of Mr. Ed Journey of this city, and a nephew of Circuit Clerk I.E. Watson.

THE ANNISTON REPUBLIC, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 1903

Read More

wordyshewrote

Related Posts

Passing of Kiziah Hudson, Jacksonville, 1879
May 28, 2026

Heroic Act of Emmet Calhoun, age 9, 1905
May 29, 2026

Mad at Breakfast| Thinking Out Loud
May 29, 2026
Alabama Type, In Memory

Catastrophe Strikes Twice, 1871

/ No Comments

Mrs. John Brock of Cleburne county, was struck by lightning and killed some says ago. She had gone out to a well to draw some water, and while there, the electric current run down a small tree near by, and thence to her body.It was nearly an hour after the occurrence before her family found out that she had met her death. There was no mark of lightning on her.

SHOCKING ACCCIDENT. –Frank Starr, a negro living with Butler Green, above this place, was run over by the down train of the Selma Rome & Dalton Railroad, and horribly mangled. He was literally cut all to pieces. He was at some negro houses near the Railroad the night of the accident. Some time before the train came along, he had gone out to meet another negro. It is supposed he sat down on the track and fell asleep.

JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN SATURDAY AUGUST 19, 1871

Read More

wordyshewrote

Related Posts

he had lived hard and in his own view had deserved all his fields, if not more
May 31, 2026

Mad at Breakfast| Thinking Out Loud
May 29, 2026

A Horse Scrape, 1889, Oxford
May 28, 2026
Alabama Type, In Memory

Passing of Kiziah Hudson, Jacksonville, 1879

/ No Comments

DIED–On the 26th inst. after an illness of but four days, of congestion of stomach and lungs, Kiziah, relict of Samuel B. Hudson deceased.
The sudden death of this good woman has cast a gloom over our entire community. Her Christian virtues, her sorrows under the Providence of God, begat for her a sympathetic friendship in every heart. She was a most devoted mother, and lived in and for her children alone, and her last prayer was to be spared, God willing, to live for them longer. They have lost in her the best friend they will ever look upon again this side of the grave.
But a few days ago she was in the bloom of health to all appearance. Now she is dead. What a lesson to the living, to remind them of the uncertainty of Life! Let us all so live, that when our summons comes, we may, like her, be fully prepared to meet it calmly and with perfect trust.

JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN, SAT JUNE, 1879

Read More

wordyshewrote

Related Posts

One Man’s Retirement Signifies End of Era, Possum Trot, 1968
May 22, 2026

he had lived hard and in his own view had deserved all his fields, if not more
May 31, 2026

Overheard, Out of Context | Buggy Rage + The Truth Matters
May 21, 2026
Alabama Type, In Memory

A Young Lady Selects the Spot on Which she is Buried, Jacksonville 1890

/ No Comments

A SINGULAR INCIDENT.

A Young Lady Selects the Spot on Which she is Buried.
Anniston Hot Blast.

Miss Mattie Skelton, the 18 year old daughter of Mr. Green B. Skelton, died on Sunday and was buried at Four Miles Church, yesterday, near which is located her home.
Measles have been prevailing in the vicinity for some time. One afternoon, a couple of weeks since the young lady carried several of her intimate friends to the cemetery, told them that she would soon take the measles and die, and pointed out the spot upon which she wished to be burried. She also stated that she wished for Rev. F.M. Treadaway to conduct the funeral services over her remains.
Within a week she had taken the disease, and within another was a corpse. Out of respect to her wishes the chosen minister conducted the services and her remains lie interred in the identical spot chosen.

JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY, JULY, 1890

Read More

wordyshewrote

Related Posts

Sad Death of Lawrence Journey, Jacksonville, 1903
May 29, 2026

News about Brother Edmond Roberts, Spring Garden, 1889
May 21, 2026

1902 | The Duke of Merrellton, Jason Scott, suffered from granulated eyelids
May 24, 2026
Alabama Type, In Memory

Death in the Water, Jacksonville, 1904

/ No Comments

An Agonized Mother Witnesses The Drowning of Her Little Child

MRS. SKELTON IS WELL KNOWN IN ANNISTON

Gadsden, March 31. A distressing accident occurred at Guntersville Saturday morning resulting in the death of a bright little three year old girl. A Mrs. Skelton of Alabama City was en route to Jackson county on a visit to relatives and had her three year old child with her. The mother and child alighted from the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis train and boarded a barge in order to get to the boat. Both had walked nearly the length of the barge and Mrs. Skelton stopped while the child continued to go forward and was looking backwards, when she stepped off into the river and sank from sight. The river at Guntersville is rising rapidly and all efforts to recover the body proved fruitless. Up to the latest reports from there, the body had not been recovered.
Mrs. Skelton and her little girl formerly resided in Anniston and are well known here.

THE ANNISTON STAR FRIDAY APRIL, 1904
DEATH IN THE WATER

Read More

wordyshewrote

Related Posts

1902 | The Duke of Merrellton, Jason Scott, suffered from granulated eyelids
May 24, 2026

Catastrophe Strikes Twice, 1871
May 28, 2026

Cotton Thieves, Jacksonville 1890
May 28, 2026
Alabama Type

News about Brother Edmond Roberts, Spring Garden, 1889

/ No Comments

THE COOSA RIVER NEWS, AUGUST, 1889

SPRING GARDEN, ALa., July 28.

WHEREAS, it has pleased the Supreme Architect of the universe to call from labor, to refreshment, our esteemed and worthy Brother, Edmond Roberts, and, whereas, we feel that we should pay some tribute of regret to his memory.
Therefore be it Resolved 1st, That in the death of Brother Roberts the cause of Masonry has lost one of its most zealous and earnest workers, the church one of its most faithful members, his family a devoted husband and loving father, and the community at large a true citizen.
2nd, That we bow in humble submission to this sad dispensation of Providence and while we feel that the death of Brother Roberts is an irreparable loss to us we also feel that it is his eternal gain.
3rd, That we wear the usual badges of mouring for 30 days.
4th, That these resolutions be spread upon our Minutes, a copy be furnished the county papers for publication, also a copy be furnished the family of deceased.

W.M. GRAHM, W.H. BURNETT, J.D. STEWART, com.

Read More

wordyshewrote

Related Posts

I Heart the Internet | I didn’t have one anyway.
May 28, 2026

Child Snake Bitten, Roy Webb 1937
May 29, 2026

Mrs. Mae Ford, Jacksonville 1977
May 29, 2026