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The Roanoke Leader November 1912
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County,
Alabama for NOVEMBER 1912

NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 6, 1912

APPROACHING MARRIAGES

Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Park announce the approaching marriage of their daughter
Miss Clyde to Dr. Wyatt Avery of Birmingham, the ceremony to occur at their
home near Roanoke at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 19th.
--

The following invitation has been issued: "Mr. and Mrs. William Bartow Rogers
request your presence at the marriage of their daughter Annie to Mr. Albert A.
Lee on Tuesday, November 12th, 1912 at one o'clock at home, Roanoke, Alabama.
---

WADLEY News
Nov. 4th

The children of Mrs. James Pearson near Almond community, were called to her
bedside last week on account of her serious illness. She is thought to be some
better today.
---

H. McIntosh is moving his family to Dudleyville.
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ROCK MILLS News

Sunday afternoon, Mr. J.R. Whitaker and Mrs. Maggie Bonner drove down to
Evansville and were married. Also going to Evansville on Sunday to get
married, were Mr. E.J. Bagley and Miss Era Mathew.
---

Mrs. Green of Atlanta is visiting Mrs. Andrew Coats.
---

The little two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Yarbrough died Tuesday
morning.
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BACON LEVEL News
Nov. 4th

Johnnie Anglin is quite sick.
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LOCAL News

Mrs. Tom Yates returned from LaGrange Monday where she has been attending her
mother who is quite sick.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 13, 1912

J.M. PEARSON DEAD

J.M. Pearson, tax collector of Chambers County, died at his home in LaFayette
on Monday, following a stroke of paralysis. He was very popular as a man and
an official and was recently re-elected to serve a second term.
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C.C. EMBREY DIED TODAY

Rev. Charles C. Embrey died at 5 o'clock this morning at Newton in southeast
Alabama, where he was attending a denominational school. This information
came in a telegram from his brother H.R. Embrey. His father Mr. T.J. Embrey,
was also there, having been called to Newton on Friday by his son's illness.
The remains will arrive in Roanoke at 11 o'clock over the Central railway
tomorrow morning and will be taken to Macedonia for interment. The premature
demise of this fine young man will be widely lamented.
----

WEHADKEE News
Nov. 11th

A daughter was born to Mrs. J.L. Heard last week.
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A ten pound boy arrived at the home of Robert Young on Saturday.
---

Mrs. Malcolm Manning has gone to Chilton county to teach school. Mr. Manning
will move later.
---

Mrs. Jack Burson died this morning after a short illness. Funeral services
will be conducted by Rev. W.J. Layton at Big Spring tomorrow. The deceased
leaves a husband and eight children and a large number of relatives and
friends to mourn her death. She was a member of the Baptist church.
---

NAPOLEON News

We learn that Mrs. Mary Benefield's recovery is beyond hope.
---

Last week Ross Kirby had his horse fall on him, receiving a fractured leg.
---

LOCAL News

Mrs. Josie Dean is ill with the grippe.
---

Mrs. David Bagley returned to Birmingham on Sunday after a visit to her
parents Dr. and Mrs. Floyd.
---

J.A. Nall, an experienced artisan in the marble business has accepted a
position with the Roanoke Marble Works and will move his family here from
Americus shortly.
---

W.T. McDow, G.A. Sears, E.C. Driver, W.D., J.A. and J.T. Smith, representing
the lodge at Sewell, were in Roanoke Monday enroute to Lanett to attend the
district convention of the Odd Fellows.
---

W.J. and J.M. Ballard captured Minnie Belle Pike in LaGrange on Sunday and
returned her to the state convicts quarters near Birmingham. She was sent up
there from this county last summer on a charge of vagrancy but escaped a few
weeks later.
---

Land For Sale - - 1200 acres near Cusseta, Ala., known as the Vernon
homestead. Write or call M.H. Radney in Wadley, Ala.
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Mr. E.A. Lee, father of A.A. Lee, and his brothers Carl and Charlie Will Lee
and sisters Misses Mae and Fannie Will of LaFayette, attended the marriage of
A.A. Lee to Miss Annie Rodgers recently.
---

Mrs. Lacy and daughter Mrs. Strickland returned to Birmingham this morning
after a visit to the former's daughter Mrs. J.S. Robertson.
---

Mrs. L.C. Hardy of Eldodrado, Arkansas is visting relatives in Roanoke, her
old home.
---

H.L. Kitchens returned Saturday from Harris County, Georgia where he had been
to attend the funeral of his brother T.J. Kitchens who died in Columbus on
Wednesday night.
---

Allen Ray left last week for Norfolk, Virginia where he will make his home.
---

NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 20, 1912

WADLEY News

Last Saturday evening, Mr. C.W. Clegg and Miss Ruth Wood drove over to Wedowee
and were married. Miss Wood, whose home is in Georgia, was on a visit to
relatives here.
---

Sunday morning, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M.W. Wood, in the presence of a
few friends, their daughter Miss Nannie was united in marriage to Mr. Lee
Thomason of Dickert. Rev. C.C. Godbey performed the ceremony.
---

WEDOWEE News
Nov. 18th

Charlie G. and Thomas L. Adcock of Roanoke were here yesterday visiting their
brothers and sisters. This splendid family has the sympathy of the entire
community in the loss of their mother Mrs. Winnie Adcock whose death occured
in Roanoke last Thursday.
---

At the home of her sister, Mrs. W.M. Holder in Roanoke, where she was making
her home temporaily, Mrs. Winnie V. Adcock died last Thursday night, after an
illness of some days. The interment was at Lebanon on Friday afternoon,
after services conducted by Elder J.M. Joiner. Several grown children who
survive have the sympathy of many friends in the loss of this good mother.
---

FUNERAL HELD FOR C.C. EMBREY FRIDAY AT MACEDONIA

A very sad occasion was the funeral of Rev. Charles C. Embrey, who died in
Newton last Wednesday and whose remains were carried to his former home near
Level Road. The services were held at Macedonia church Friday morning in the
presence of a large throng, and the interment was in the nearby cemetery.
Besides the father and brother of the deceased, his body was accompanied here
by two of his school mates, Otis Cooper and Ernest Jackson, and by Rev. S.E.
Burrows, pastor of the Baptist church at Newton. The funeral services were
conducted by Mr. Burrows, assisted by Revs. H.R. Moore and F.H. Farrington.
----

WEHADKEE News
Nov. 18th

A.J. Hester is confined to his bed with rheumatism.
---

Mrs. Turner Hester is quite sick at this writing.
---

F.E. Webb is quite sick at his home near Omaha.
---

Miss Katie Head was happily married Sunday evening to Mr. Pearce Hill.
---

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE

Under and by virtue of an order of sale granted by the Probate Court of
Chambers county, Alabama on the 11th day of November 1912, in the estate of
James A. Wise, deceased, the undersigned as administrators of said estate,
will sell on the premises of the late deceased James A. Wise, about two miles
west of Marcoot in Chambers County, to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described lands belonging to said decedent:

All of section 22 in Twp. 23 of R. 25 in Chambers County, Alabama, that lies
north of the public road that runs from LaFayette, Alabama to Chisholm's Ferry
on the Tallapoosa River, except from the above forty acres in the south E 1/4
section 22, being the forty acres on which said decedent resided with his
family at the time of his death. All said lands described as belonging to
said decedent containing 319 accres more or less; also five acres in the
southeast corner of section 22... P. Monroe Wise, Ida E. Wise,
Administrators of the estate of James A. Wise, deceased.
----

LOCAL News

Mrs. J.B. Gresham and child are visting the former's parents Mr. and Mrs. R.L.
Gillam.
---

R.W. Griffin spent Saturday and Sunday in Opelika, being called there by the
death of a relative, Tobe Summers.
---

MALONE News
Nov. 18th

Mrs. L.P. Mason of Knoxville, Tennessee, arrived last Wednesday to spend some
time with her mother Mrs. Malone, and other relatives.
---

Last week, R.E.L. Daniel and J.E. Malaris went to Winston County prospecting
for a home. These gentleman expect to move their families there soon.
---

CORBIN News
Nov. 18th

Mrs. Geo. Bradley was called to Roanoke last week to attend the funeral of her
mother Mrs. Winnie Adcock.
--

Mrs. Benefield, who fell some time ago and broke her hip, died last week at
the home of her daughter Mrs. Hoodie Johnson. Mrs. Benefield leaves a host of
relatives and friends to mourn for her.
---

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 27, 1912

DEATH OF W.F. HARRIS

Mr. W.F. Harris died suddenly at 8 o'clock Saturday night at the home of his
daughter Mrs. Louie White in this place. He had been in feeble health for
several years but had returned from West Point only the day before and a few
minutes before he died, he expressed himself as feeling better than usual.

Mr. Harris was a member of the Methodist church and of the Masonic fraternity.
The funeral services were conducted at the cemetery near Rock Mills Sunday
afternoon by Rev. A.S. Brannah. The remains were then interred by the Masons
with the usual ceremonies of that order. The deceased was a quiet,
inoffensive citizen. He leaves a widow and three grown children. He was a
brother of L.E. Harris of this place and Louis Harris of Birmingham.
---

A NEGRO KILLED SUNDAY

In the early part of Sunday night, Henry McMurray, a well known negro, was
shot by another negro named Lee Dickson at a house in Beat 2. The weapon used
was a shot gun, the load taking effect in the negro's stomach. He died at four
o'clock the following morning. Dickson escaped and has not yet been captured.
---

LOCAL News

Policeman John Daniel bloomed out in a new uniform and helmet a few days ago.
---

J.R. Hollinger arrived at M.W. Carlisle's Saturday in his large touring car
from Waynesboro, Pa. He was accompanied by his wife and aged mother. They
were joined here by Mr. R.J. Higgins and Monday the party proceeded to
Columbus enroute to Wewahitchka, Florida to spend the winter.
---

NAPOLEON News
Nov. 21st

Lawrence Townsend, an old Confederate soldier and an old resident of this
community, will be buried here this afternoon. He was in the Confederate Navy
and came here after the war from North Carolina. He taught school many years
in this county. He was a good citizen and respected by all who knew him.
---

MISS CAMERON TO WED

The Leader is in receipt of the following invitation: " Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lee
Cameron invite you to the marriage of their daughter Gabrella to Mr. Louis
Philip Harris on Wednesday, December the fourth, at three o'clock at home in
LaGrange." Miss Cameron, who is a lovely young lady, has frequently visited
her sister Mrs. R.P.Price in this place where she has many friends who wish
her much happiness in her married life.
---

SALE NOTICE

On Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, we will sell to the highest bidder at the old homestead
of N.T. Foster, 1 mile above Rock Mills, the following property:

Three good mules
Lot of Corn, Fodder and Hay
5 cows and yearlings
One Mower and Rake
1 Top Buggy and Harness
1 two-horse wagon
Set of blacksmith tools
Syrup Mill and Pan
Farming Tools
Four Head of Fattened Hogs

W.C. Foster, R.E. Foster, Executors
----

LOCAL News

Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Fails arrived Friday from Butler county to spend some time
with the family of the latter's father C.F. Birdsong.
---

T.J. Hearn and family moved yesterday to Decatur, Georgia, to the regret of
their friends here.
---

Henry W. Smallwood, while out hunting Friday with a friend, was accidentally
shot in the back of the head, inflicting a painful but not thought to be
serious wound.
---

Mrs. I.D. Nolen of New Site, after a visit to her brother Dr. Hooper, left
Tuesday to visit her parents at Albertville.
---

T.E. Mayberry of Datona, Florida, visited his brother-in-law E.P. Newman this
week.
---

Hugh West has been quite sick for several days but is convalescing.
---

J.E. Almon and A.E. Barnes with their families are looking to locate in
Cullman or Winston counties. S.J. Gladney, R.A. Burdett and Ade Albright also
went along on a prospecting tour.
---

MALONE News
Nov. 25th

While hauling logs last Tuesday, J.B. McGill happened to a serious accident of
getting badly hurt by a log.
---

Friday morning the families of R.E.L. Daniel and J.E. Malaris boarded the
train to Winston county to make their future home.
---

W.L. Daniel, having sold his home to Henry Fetner has gone to Winston County
prospecting for a home.
---

Mrs. Malone and daughter Mrs. L.P. Mason left yesterday for Macon, Georgia to
visit relatives.
---

WEHADKEE News
Nov. 25th

F.E. Webb continues very low and is not expected to live.
---

Woodrow Wilson Pittman, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Pittman, was born a
week ago Saturday night.
---

Travis Alsobrook is building a new dwelling house.
---

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Alsobrook Saturday night.
---

Aunt Mary Stitt who has been very ill is some better.
---

LOCAL News

Mrs. A.J. Langley and Mrs. W.H. Brittain are attending in LaGrange today the
marriage of their niece Miss Margaret Dollens to Mr. Marvin R. Ansley.
---

Louis Harris of Birmingham was called here the first of the week by the death
of his brother W.F. Harris.
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