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From: "~~Leslie~~" <>
Subject: [Mo-Absts] 6 Aug 2001
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 08:15:56 -0700

6 Aug 2001 MO-ABSTRACTS READ-ONLY LIST
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Today's post is an abstract by Kathy Bowlin. It contains
information from Elliott, Renick, Moberly, Texas, and
Illinois, to name but a few of the places. Enjoy.

Leslie
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4 Sep 1903--
The wife of John Wilcox, col, near Elliott, who has had
typhoid fever for the past two months, died yesterday,
aged 21 years.

4 Sep 1903--
Died, on Sunday, August 30, the 2 year
old son of Anderson Hanners and wife.
The remains were buried at Armstrong Sunday.

4 Sep 1903--
WM. SORRELL DEAD--
Refused to Taste Food for Fifty-Seven Days--Was
Reduced to a Skeleton.--Huntsville, MO, Sept 1
--William Sorrel, the inmate of the County Farm at
Huntsville, who has fasted since July 6, died at 3 o'clock
this morning after having fasted fifty-seven days. He was
a man of medium height, and when in the prime of life
weighed about 200 pounds. He was very strong prior to
his fast, but at his death was little more than a skeleton.
Sorrel was born and raised near Renick, Mo. He was
graduated at Mount Pleasant Baptist College. He taught
school for a number of years and made a splendid
record as a teacher. He devoted his spare time from
school hours in studying law, and was admitted to the
bar in this county, soon after which he went to Texas,
where he practiced his profession successfully until his
mind failed him about eleven year ago, when he was
brought back to his home in Randolph county, MO, and
sent to the Insane Asylum at Fulton. After it developed
that he was hopelessly insane he was sent from there to
the county farm at Huntsville, where he has been kept in
the insane ward for the last nine years, during which
time he was morose and melancholy. When crossed he
became violent and dangerous. For the first few years
of his confinement he was a willing worker about the
place, but three years ago he began a series of fasts
which reduced him almost to a skeleton and he was
obliged to take to his bed. Since he began his last fast
he took nothing but water. All efforts to induce him to
take food were unavailing. A religious mania is said to
have been the cause of his fasts, but this he would never
explain to any one.

4 Sep 1903--
Mrs. Martha Harlow is having a new roof put on her residence.

4 Sep 1903--
Born, on the 28th, to Aubrey Humphrey and wife, a daughter.

4 Sep 1903--
Born, on the 3rd, to J. O. White and wife, a son.

4 Sep 1903--
Born, on the 29th, to Lee Wright and wife, a son.

4 Sep 1903--
Born, on the 29th, to W. P. Webb and wife, a daughter.

4 Sep 1903--
Born, at Springfield, Ill, Sunday, August 30, to David
Reese and wife, a son.

4 Sep 1903--
Died, on the 22nd, the one year old daughter of L. P. Murry
and wife. The funeral services were conducted at the
residence Sunday evening, after which the remains were
laid to rest in the city cemetery.

11 Sep 1903--
John Lloyd is here from Pittsburg, Ks, visiting his mother,
who is quite sick.

11 Sep 1903--
R. R. Jones returned Saturday from a visit with his brother
at Chillicothe.

11 Sep 1903--
Born, on August 31st, at Ninnekah, I. T, to B. F. Maxfield
and wife, a daughter.

11 Sep 1903--
Marshall Huston, aged 19 years, son of county judge
J. J. Huston, died at his home near Cairo on the 5th
of appendicitis.

11 Sep 1903--
Mrs. A. C. Tatum, mother of Mrs. E. M. Whitmore of this
place, died at her home near Fayette on the 9th, of
general debility, aged 77 years.

11 Sep 1903--
John Acuff, a Wabash brakeman of Moberly, was killed by his
train at Brunswick Tuesday. He was formerly a compositor on
the Moberly Democrat and had been in the employ of the
Wabash about a year.

11 Sep 1903--
Uncle Mike Basey of near Myers left here Tuesday for
Jefferson City to attend a reunion of the Mexican War veterans.
Though 78 years old he gets around as well as many men at sixty.

18 Sep 1903--
Born on the 12th to Lon Hursman and wife, a son.

18 Sep 1903--
Bill Edwards, a Monroe county man, who has been living near
Mead, Kan, was shot to death by his sons, Ray and Doniphin,
last Wednesday evening. A letter from an attorney states that
Edwards had seduced his own daughter, Ada, and had threatened
to kill her and other members of the family when the fact became
known. The boys, aged 21 and 23 years, procured guns when
they heard the matter and put an end to his life. He was buried
the next day. The young men surrendered to the officers but will
probably never be prosecuted. Edwards finished a term of four
years in the Kansas penitentiary last January for some time. He
was always a bully abroad and a tyrant at home. The sons who
killed him are said to be first-class young men.
--Paris Appeal.

18 Sep 1903--
Mrs. Margaret Lilly, mother of circuit clerk M. J. Lilly, died at
her home near Levick's Mill on the 15th of pneumonia, aged
70 years.

18 Sep 1903--
Wm. Embree, aged 76 and Mike Basey, aged 78, returned
Saturday last from Jefferson City where they attended a
reunion of Mexican War Veterans. They informed us that but
twenty-three were present and that every courtesy was shown
them by Gov. Dockery and all the state officials.

25 Sep 1903--
Born, on the 18th to Robert Green and wife of near Burton,
a daughter.

25 Sep 1903--
David Carter, colored, died near town Wednesday morning
of pneumonia, aged 45 years.

25 Sep 1903--
Born, on the 26th, to Elsworth Little and wife a daughter.

25 Sep 1903--
Mrs. J. M. Denny of Armstrong, and Mrs. J. J. Bradley
returned Tuesday from Huntsville where they had been to
attend the funeral of James Alderson who died at
his home in Moberly Sunday.

25 Sep 1903--
The following went to Roanoke Wednesday to attend the
funeral of Geo. Newby, who died near Yates Tuesday:
A. B. Heathman and wife,
Mrs. I. J. Embree,
H.S. Haden and sister,
Miss Lucy Heathman,
Lessley Burton and sister,
Mrs. N. N. Dysart.

25 Sep 1903--
We learn that W. M. Burton, who has been living near
Harrisburg for a number of years, will move back to
his farm south of town soon.

25 Sep 1903--
Mrs. James Palmer and son, Audrey, will leave about the
first of October for Oklahoma to join Mr. Palmer, who
located there about a year ago.

25 Sep 1903--
While Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hagar were attending church here
Sunday their 6 year old son, who accompanied them, took
suddenly sick with congestion of the stomach. He was taken
home at once and a doctor called, but the little fellow continued
to grow worse until Tuesday morning when death ended his
suffering. The parents have the sympathy of all in their loss.

25 Sep 1903--
Wm. (Babe) Avery, living south of town, met with a painful
accident Tuesday, but in what manner he is unable to explain.
Early in the morning he took an ax and went to the woods to
do some chopping, but returned to the house in a short time
with a big gash cut in the left side of the head, evidently done
with the ax, and very weak from loss of blood. Dr. Nichols
dressed the wound which he pronounced quite serious.

25 Sep 1903--
D. W. Dillon, a cattle dealer of Wellsville, was killed on the
Wabash Thursday night of last week about three miles west
of Sturgeon, but how he came there no one knows. He had
been run over by a train and horribly mangled, and his clothing
torn from his body. Notes to the amount of $1600 were found
in his pockets, and his vest, which was brought into Moberly
next day on a coal car, contained a draft for $348.90 from the
National Stock Yards at Chicago. His death is shrouded in
mystery.

25 Sep 1903--
Mr. Edgar J. Palmer and Miss Edith Bryant, both of this place,
were married at the residence of F.J. Kellerstraus, 5961
Theodosia Ave., St. Louis, on Sept 22,1903. The groom is
one of Higbee's best young men, and the bride one of it's fairest
and most popular young ladies. The News joins other friends
in extending congratulations and wishing them a long and happy
life. They will make their home in St. Louis for the present,
Mr. Palmer being a baggageman on the Alton with headquarters
in that city.

"THE HIGBEE NEWS" as transcribed
from micro-film by Kathy Bowlin

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