100 and 75 Years Ago
March 28, 1930
Mrs. L. A. Ball, 68, died Tuesday night at a hospital in Meridian. Burial
was Thursday afternoon at the Masonic Cemetery. Survivors include: her husband,
six children: sons, John, Ben and Dee Ball, and three daughters, Mrs. Ira Braswell
of Kentucky, Mrs. Fred Ivy and Mrs. Claudine Ball.
Mr. Richard Jackson Boswell of Noxapater on March 23, 1929. He was born June
7, 1841 and married Miss Mary Elizabeth Stevens on January 25, 1861. This union
was blessed with nine children of which eight still survive. He united with
Liberty Baptist Church while young. He served in the Confederate Army from 1861
until 1865 when he was paroled. By J. D. Fulton
Noxapater: Funeral services were held here by Rev. B. L. McKee Tuesday afternoon
for Donehue Holder, age 6, whose death occurred after a weeks’ illness at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Holder, who live a few miles south
of town.
Noxapater: Frank Caperton, Rupert Glenn, Joe Wallace, Roy and Wheeler Farish
of A. & M. spent the weekend with home folks.
Noxapater: Mrs. L. H. Reed had as guests the past weekend her sisters, Miss
Kittie Mosely of Yazoo City, Misses Thelma and Docia Mosely of Starkville.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Richardson a fine girl on March 24th.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Coley moved into their handsome new home on Metts Street
last Saturday.
In returning from a trip to Yazoo County Monday night, Messrs. W. J. and
Garland Atkinson had the misfortune to get their auto turned over by meeting
a truck enroute. Fortunately they came out of the wreck with slight bruises,
the father suffering the most.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Fair had as their guests last week their brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Stewart of Charleston.
Miss Austin Johnston, who is teaching in Meridian, spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Johnston.
E. W. Reed made a business trip to Memphis last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dutch Tomlinson of Starkville visited in the home of Mrs. Clara
Kirkpatrick Sunday.
Misses Sue Sharp, Lillian Glenn Russell and Mildred Brown spent the weekend
with friends in Columbus.
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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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