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Tag: Smith

Personal Mention

Personal Mention – 17 Jun 1898

Posted on November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 by ML Williams

Personal Mention : Fruit jars at Ike’s. My Terms are cash.  J. C. Rogers. Jelly glasses at Ike’s. Hill’s Elixir of Ginger at Hill’s. Fruit jar rubbers 5c doz. at Ike’s. My terms are cash. J. C. Rogers. Cold soda water at Hill’s. Oil stoves at Ike’s. Go to Jacocks & Co. for the best…

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Patriotic Prisoners in the Tipton County Jail

Posted on October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 by ML Williams

Patriotic Prisoners in the Tipton County Jail: Covington, Tenn., May 1, 1898. To the High Sheriff of Tipton County, State of Tennessee: We, the undersigned, do hereby volunteer ourselves for the service of the United States of America to help in the struggle between it and Spain by going to war at our southern seaboard…

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Poorhouse Fire Claims Two The Covington Leader 22 Nov 1922

Poorhouse Fire Claims Two

Posted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 by ML Williams

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…

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Burns Prove Fatal to Poorhouse Inmate 7 Dec 1922

Burns Prove Fatal to Poorhouse Inmate

Posted on March 31, 2020April 1, 2020 by ML Williams

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,…

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Salem Leaflets – 15 Sep 1921

Posted on March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 by ML Williams

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…

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Commencement at the Brighton High School

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 by ML Williams

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…

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Mason Notes Nashville Globe 6 Jan 1911

Posted on March 11, 2020March 10, 2020 by ML Williams

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…

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Goforth, Tildon Suel

Posted on January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 by ML Williams

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…

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14 Aug 1959 - Mary Frances Nichols

Mary Frances Piercy Nichols’ Diary – Section 19

Posted on June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 by ML Williams

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…

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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. McClerkin, Earlie 3 May 1873 5 May 1877 Dau of J. K. and B. J. McClerkin, Died May 5, 1877, Aged 4 yrs & 2 days. Henrietta Jane “Betta” Smith McClerkin 1847-1874 Henrietta Jane “Betta” Smith McClerkin 1847-1874 Henrietta Jane Smith McClerkin 19 Jun 1847 4 Aug 1874 Wife of J. K. McClerkin, died Aug 4, 1874, Aged 28 yrs 5 days.; March 19, 1870 she married John Knox McClerkin. Miss Betta J. Smith was born in Tipton County, July 19, 1847, and they had two children, but both died. Mrs. McClerkin died August 4, 1874. Infant Son McClerkin 1872 Infant Son McClerkin 1872 McClerkin, Infant Son 22 Jun 1872 INFANT Son of J.K. & R. J. McCLERKIN Suffer little children to come unto me. Melton, Williams Benton 21 Nov 1874 3 Jan 1959 Son of L. A. & C. B. Smith; Father: Leonard Anderson "Buck" Smith; Mother:Claudia Bell Smith; Sibling: Daisy S Smith DeWese Smith, Athel 29 May 1908 25 Oct 1908 Smith, Augustus Washington Sr. 17 Nov 1824 1 Jun 1908 Smith, Augustus Washington "Tude" Jr. 22 Feb 1856 12 Jul 1933 Son of Augustus Washington Smith Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough Smith. Smith, Bruce 28 Dec 1899 27 Nov 1906 Son of R. L. & Fannie I. Smith Gone but not forgotten. Smith, Elizabeth Almeda Vashti "Lizzie" McLister 19 May 1860 30 Dec 1932 Daughter of John C. McLister Smith, Fitz James 23 Mar 1903 27 Dec 1922 AT REST Son of A. W. & L. A. V. Smith Age 19 Yrs. 9 Mos. 4 Days Smith, Infant 8 Jan 1901 8 Jan 1901 Son of W. A. and M. Smith Smith, Lelia E 28 Aug 1880 23 May 1964 Daughter of Augustus Washington Smith Jr. and Elizabeth Almeda Vashti McLister Smith Smith, Leonard 11 Jul 1781 18 Jun 1847 Husband of Susannah Holmes Smith, Mary E Yarbro (Yarbrough) 22 Sep 1829 23 Oct 1902 Our dearly beloved mother has gone before, to greet us on the blissful shore. He took her from a world of care, an everlasting bliss to share. Father: Edward Yarbrough; Mother: Jane Kulbreth Yarbrough Smith, Stanard E 24 Aug 1885 30 Apr 1904 Son of Augustus Washington "Tude" Smith Jr. and Elizabeth Almeda Vashti McLister Smith Smith, Susannah Holmes 16 Oct 1788 6 May 1844 Wife of Leonard Smith (Married March 9, 1805 in Rowan County, NC) Daughter of Reuben & M Holmes of NC Smith, William Alton 23 Apr 1876 5 Jul 1947 Son of Winfield Edgar Smith and Frances M. Kinney Smith; There is some question about the year of birth and death on the headstone.

A W Smith Cemetery

Posted on June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 by ML Williams

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…

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Mary Lynne Williams with Kenny Faulk at Bozos Bar-B-Q in 2018
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