100 and 75 Years Ago
December 23, 1904
There will be a Christmas tree at the courthouse tomorrow night.
Rev. W. D. McCollough, the newly appointed pastor of the Methodist Church,
and family arrived yesterday and our people extend a hearty welcome to
them.
We are glad to hear from our old friend, F. M. Shields, who has arrived in
Los Angeles, California and is highly pleased with the country and says he is
improving in health very fast.
Hon. J. L. H. Strait and his favorite son, Jim Madison, gave our office a
call Tuesday. Mr. Strait is one of our county’s most fluent
conversationalist and always has a store of knowledge to bestow upon his
friends, which shows he is a man of thought.
The first deer we have heard of being killed in our county for several years
was killed by Ed Metts and the Hull boys east of here one day last week.
The Journal extends heartfelt sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Bennett in the
sad death of their infant of three weeks age, which died suddenly last Saturday
the 19th.
Dr. Kirk informs us that Lester Clark, son of J. B. Clark, was thrown from a
horse last Sunday and seriously hurt.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Belk of Bunevista, Ga., are on a visit to the formers
father, Mr. W. D. Miller.
Judge M. B. Dempsey purchased of W. J. Wood his farm one mile west of town
last week.
Obituary: Mrs. R. V. Watson was born January 4, 1849 in Winston County,
Miss., and died September 20, 1904 at her home in Louisville, Miss., and was
buried in the Masonic Cemetery of the same place. She was the daughter of
Colonel Jessie and Mrs. Sarah G. Patty and was a descendant of the illustrious
old French Huguenot stock, who landed at Charleston, South Carolina in the
early settling of the country and from whom have descended some of the most
distinguished persons of the nation—among them the late Dr. James
Pettigrew Boyce, the founder and president, until his death, of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, first located at Greenville, South Carolina and
now at Louisville, Kentucky. In young womanhood she joined the Baptist Church
of which she remained a worthy member till her death. She was married to Major
O. C. Watson on November 18, 1869. She became the mother of five sons and four
daughters, all of whom survive her. The writer knew about forty years, married
her, and was her Pastor for six years, and was often a welcome and happy
visitor in her hospitable and enjoyable home, which was ever a home and a joy
to him. Written by her friend, brother and pastor. H. J. Vanlandingham
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Louis Taunton
For more newspaper excerpts, please see the book by Louis Taunton of Taunton Publishers,
Winston County, Mississippi Newspaper Excerpts from 1880 through
1893.
This book has material from the Winston Index, 1880 (list of over 500 Civil
War Soldiers of Winston County who died from wounds, on the battlefield, or
disease, or as POWs in Northern Prisons), and excerpts from The Winston Signal
(newspaper before the present day Winston County Journal) for the years of
1883, 1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. It is indexed by surname.
This publication follows his first volume that included excerpts from The
Winston Signal for the years 1882,1885, 1886, 1889 and some issues of 1890 and
which is still available from the author.
Louis Taunton has published
several other books. He has also
published similar columns about Choctaw and
Webster
Counties.
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