100 and 75 Years Ago
February 10, 1905
George Berry died at the home of his son, Mr. Tom Berry on January 16, 1905.
He was born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala in 1828 and joined Big Creek Baptist
Church in 1851. He was a member of Hopewell Baptist Church when he died. He
moved to Mississippi in 1856. Burial was in the Steed Cemetery. Survivors
include his aged wife and five children.
Little Minnie Childs, seven year old daughter of Mrs. S. L. Childs, died on
January 18, 1905. Survivors include her mother and two little brothers.
Obituary written by her Aunt Florence.
Mr. Calhoun McQueen died at his home in Macon last Sunday. He was a native
of Winston County. He was Circuit Clerk of Noxubee County and stood prominent
in that county.
We regret to note the death of T. F. Lloyd who died at his home north of
town on the 7th inst.
The remains of Mrs. Bettie Barnes, wife of Mr. Wm. Barnes, was brought here
last Saturday and buried in the Masonic Cemetery Sunday morning. She died in
Meridian where she, with her husband, had only resided a few weeks, going there
from Bessemer, Ala. Mrs. Barnes will be remembered by many of our people as
having lived here several years ago, where her husband was one of
Louisville’s most prominent merchants for a number of years. She was a
sister of Mrs. M. A. Coleman and Mrs. Belle Thompson, both of this county. She
leaves an aged husband and several grandchildren, two of whom accompanied the
remains here – Will and Robert Shaw.
Mr. M. G. Alewine, writing us from Singleton a few days since, incidentally
informed us that 185 rabbits have been killed around Singleton since
Christmas.
We are informed that Mrs. Thomson, sister of Mrs. I. J. Smith, died one day
last week near Randalls Bluff.
The owners of the new brick buildings found their stores in a very wet
condition on last Sunday morning. These buildings, having flat roofs, held a
great quantity of ice and snow, and when the thaw came all of them except the
bank building, leaked badly. However, the damage to goods was not great.
The weather has been such this week that there have neither been any
outgoers or incomers since our local lines are few.
We have almost had a cession of mail service this week.
The physicians inform us there is a good deal of sickness now along the
pneumonia line.
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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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