Genealogy and History
POORHOUSE FIRE CLAIMS TWO: BUILDING AND TWO INMATES BURNED IN FIRE Two Occupants Meet Death in Burning Building – One Blind, the Other Paralyzed – Third Occupant Makes Escape After Being Badly Burned – Overturned Lamp is Thought to Be Cause of Fire. Messrs. J. H. Byrd, age 76, and Clarence Hutchinson, aged 31 both…
Burns Prove Fatal to Poorhouse Inmate: Mr. Pressly Smith, aged 56 years, who was badly burned about the face and body on November 18, when the cottage on the poorhouse farm, occupied by him and two other inmates, was destroyed by fire, died at midnight last Saturday. Mr. Smith was a native of Hardeman county,…
Salem Leaflets: The farmers are somewhat disconsolate on account of the great devastation at present by the boll weevil and other insects. Never before in this immediate section of the country has cotton been so badly cut by the insects, and seldom, if ever at any time so badly cut by a drouth [sic]. It…
Commencement at the Brighton High School: The Brighton high school commencement was held this year on April 11 to 13. The exercises on Wednesday afternoon, the 11th, consisted of the presentation of certificates to those advancing from the 8th grade into the high school and the distribution of medals, of which there were seven offered…
Mason Notes 6 Jan 1911 – The annual sermon of the Palestine Masonic Lodge No. 35 which was preached by Rev. A. N. Stephens, presiding elder of the Grownsville district, was grand. It was filled with vim, hypothesis, benevolence and verification. He also gave the origin of Masonry. Rev. Stephens is a 32nd degree Mason…
Tildon Suel Goforth, 93, of Brighton, passed away on Thursday, March 28. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 30 at the Covington Funeral Home chapel with interment to follow in Morrison’s Memorial Cemetery in Brighton. The family will receive friends from 5 p.m until 7 p.m. on Friday, March 29…
Friday, July 3, 1959 (intermittent entries from Mary Frances Nichols’ Diary) – Margaret, Steve, your dad and I went fishing at Williams’ lake at Mason. We had a real nice day a the lake. Sunday, July 5, 1959 3 years ago today had left breast removed at Baptist Hospital. [Grandmother had breast cancer.] Monday, July…
A. W. Smith Cemetery is located in Brighton, Tennessee, on E. Kenwood Avenue. This cemetery was named after Augustus Washington Smith, Sr. The oldest headstone in the cemetery is that of Susannah Holmes Smith and is dated 1844. Susannah was the wife of Leonard Smith. They are the parents of Augustus Washington. There are 17…
Mrs. Anna L. Chapman Johnson Born in St. Louis, Mo. Descendant of Rev. Jedediah Chapman.Daughter of Newlin Chapman and Mary Dorsett, his wife.Granddaughter of Edward H. Chapman and Lydia Smith, his wife.Gr-granddaughter of Rev. Robert Hett Chapman and Hannah Arnett, his wife.Gr-gr-granddaughter of Rev. Jedediah Chapman and Blanche Smith, his 1st wife.Jedediah Chapman (1741-1813), a…
District No. 1 – John P. Boshers, Covington, Tenn.; Berry L. Cole, Route 1, Covington, Tenn.; Orren Rice, Route 1, Covington, Tenn. City of Covington – Mrs. Lola E. Beavers, Covington, Tenn.; Edwin D. Richmond, Covington, Tenn. District No. 2 – Thomas J. Lawrence; Route 2, Brighton, Tenn. District No. 3 – Albert A. Kelly,…