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Thursday, January 10, 1861
MARRIED.
By Rev. T.W. Jones, Dec. 27th, 1860, Mr. ROBERT D. BLACK to Miss MARY CLAYTON, all of this county.
On Tuesday, January 1st, 1861, by Rev. Andrew J. Owens, Mr. JOHN M. LEMON, of Knox county, Ind., to Miss SARAH E. McKINLEY
of this county.
On the 8th inst., by the Rev. Wm. Mason, Mr. GEORGE W. RIGGS to Miss ANN M. ELLIS, both of Haddon township.
--Accompanying this last notice we received a present of some of the wedding cake, for which we are thankful.
DIED.
On Thursday morning last, Jan. 3d, of Pneumonia, Mr. BURR H. MCGREW, aged 52 years.
With feelings of unaffected sorrow do we make this announcement. Mr. McGrew was one of our oldest citizens. We have known
him intimately since we came to Indiana, and have always found him upright and honorable, and truly an honest man. Peace to
his ashes!
[Communicated]
It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of JAMES M. WOLFE, son of Joseph W. Wolfe, of this place. He died on the
evening of Friday, the 28th of December, 1860 in the morning of life, having attained to the age of 24 years and 9 months.
He was a young man of true moral worth, having been a member of the Christian Church for the three years last preceding his
untimely death. Having lived for that time a zealous and devoted follower of Christ, he died triumphantly, (?)ing in the hope
of a glorious immortality. His disease was consumption, in its most illusive and flattering form, which pursuaded the victim
that he would recover until within a few days of his death. While his numerous friends and widowed companion bow in humble
submission to an over ruling Providence, they can not but deeply mourn that he was cut off in the spring time of life, ere
he had fairly assumed the (?) of manhood. He was a young man whose exemplary walk won for him the admiration and respect of
all who knew him. His passing words to his friends around his dying bed were such as to encourage them in the faith that he
died with Christian fortitude resigned to meet his God.
“Victorious over death to him appears,
The vista’d joys of Heaven’s eternal years;
Weep not for him.”
>If any of our citizens desire nice spare ribs, back bones, or sausage meat, they can obtain them at Capt. HINKLE’S
Pork House, near the Depot.
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Thursday, January 17, 1861
Terrible Deed of Blood
Our community was startled on Monday last by the announcement of a shocking tragedy, which was enacted the night previous
at Groveland, a small village in the northeastern part of the county.-- The revelations disclose a double, if not a triple
murder, and exceed in hardened villainy and cold blooded crime anything we have yet been called to record. As near as we can
learn the particulars, they are briefly these:
A young man named Tilghman Hanna and his wife, both under years of majority, and whose marriage dates back about a year, were
found on Monday last, at their residence in Groveland, with life extinct. The disfigured appearance of their persons, and
pools of blood upon the floor, plainly indicated that they had met with a violent death, at the hand of some midnight assassin.
A window in the rear of the house was found open, through which it is supposed the murderer effected an entrance. An axe bearing
the marks of blood was found in the room, and seemed to have been used as the instrument of death. The husband apparently
received a death blow upon the back part of the head, near the left ear, as if inflicted by the pole of the axe. The face
of the wife presented a frightful gash. When found, the couple were lying upon the bed, yet the bloody appearance of the floor
induces the belief that the death struggle occurred away from the bed, and that the bodies were afterwards placed upon it.
Not the least melancholy feature of the affair, and one which imparts to it a triple degree of crime, is the fact that Mrs.
Hanna was rapidly approaching confinement. She was a daughter of Mr. Williams, residing near Carpentersville.
The murder was not discovered until near noon on Monday. Young Hanna was engaged in the mercantile business at Groveland,
in company with his father, Jos. W. Hanna. Not appearing at the store on Monday, his friends repaired to his house, when the
frightful scene of death met their eyes. The motive which prompted the fiend incarnate to the commission of the crime is,
as yet, unknown. Hanna was in possesson of some three or four hundred dollars on Saturday, of which he gave all but one hundred
to his father, and it was first reported that he had been robbed for this sum. We have since learned from a reliable source
that the missing money was found on yesterday, having been unmolested.
The only trace discovered of the murderer was an inscription in a memorandum book found in the house, consisting of an unmentionable
oath and ‘catch the murderer if you can.’ The bodies of the two unfortunates were interred at Groveland yesterday.--
[Greencastle Press, Jan. 9.
DIED.
On the 11th inst., of Consumption, at the residence of her father near New Lebanon, Miss ELIZABETH ANN KNOTTS, aged 23 years
and eight months.
>A young man named Evans has been arrested in Greencastle on suspicion of being the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Hanna at Groveland,
Putnam county.-- The circumstances against him are quite strong. Among other facts is this: He was asked to copy the writings
which he left, in bravado, at the house of his victims, and, upon his compliance, not only the peculiar chirography, but the
mode of his spelling corresponded in both original and copy with most convincing exactness. Evans is in jail and the affair
causes intense excitement in Putnam county.
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Thursday, January 24, 1861
CHURCH BURNED-- We learn that the church building, known as Friendship Meeting House, located near the line between this
county and Vigo, was burned down a few nights ago. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary, as an attempt had been
made to burn it once before. Some young men who had been prosecuted for disturbing a meeting there are suspected of the crime.
ARRESTED.-- Richard Nagle and John Murphy, charged with killing a man at Decker’s Station some time last summer,
were arrested in Terre Haute this week and brought down and delivered to the Sheriff on Thursday. They are Irishmen, and we
are informed the killing was done in a general row of fellow countrymen..--
[Vincennes Gazette.
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Thursday, January 31, 1861
>Mr. Halloway has sold out one of his business houses in Commercial Row to Mr. Bridwell. It is the stand occupied by Mr. Lucas.
The drug store is being removed to the new store room two doors further north. Lucas will have a neat establishment in his
new quarters.
>Although the times are harder in this locality than they have ever been before, the spirit of improvement is not to be checked.
Mr. LAF. STEWART is about to commence operations on a new business house. It will be on the vacant space north side of the
public square, of brick, two stories high, 19 by 60 feet.
We understand, also, that parties comtemplate filling up the only remaining vacancy in Commercial Row, early in the spring.
MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., by Samuel Bonham Esq., JOHN A. JOHNSON, to Miss NANCY J. McPEAK, both of this county.
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Thursday, February 7, 1861
>The Shelbyville Banner says that a Mrs. Rupert, of that county, committed suicide recently by hanging herself with a skein
of yarn to a joist of her dwelling, while laboring under a fit of insanity.
DIED,
At his residence in this place, on Monday, 4th inst., of Congestion of the brain, Capt. JOS W. BRIGGS.
The announcement of this death sent a thrill of painful surprise through our community.-- We presume not more than a dozen
persons in town knew he was ill until he was dead. On Sunday evening last he was at meeting in the Methodist Church, and during
the exercises, at the request of the minister he offered up a very fervent and affecting prayer; and during the whole meeting
evinced the happiest state of feeling. He retired immediately after the close of the meeting, but soon awoke with a violent
pain in the head, which continued all night.-- No alarm was felt by the family until Monday afternoon, when his tongue became
paralyzed, and he sank into a stupor, and died about three o’clock.
The deceased was born in Harrisburg, Pa., in August, 1811, and was therefore in his fiftieth year at the time of his death.
He received an excellent education, studied law, and at an early age emigrated to this State, and located at Carlisle, Sullivan
county. Some four or five years ago he removed to this place, where he has resided ever since.
Captain Briggs was always an active politician, though with a heavy majority against him in this county. Notwithstanding this,
however, he filled the office of Probate Judge, and represented the county in the Lower House of the State Legislature one
term. On the breaking out of the War with Mexico, he was one of the first to enlist in his country’s service, and was
chosen by his comrades as their Captain. He has been frequently put forward by his party for public stations-- selected as
the gallant leader of a forlorn hope.
Several months ago he again connected himself with the Church, and since that event he has been very devoted to all its ordinances--
up to the last hour of his ability to do so, being engaged in the praise and service of his Divine Master. “Blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord.”
Capt. Briggs possessed numerous virtues to overbalance his faults. He had a large sympathetic heart, and never turned a deaf
ear to an appeal for charity. He was generous and kind hearted in the extreme; coming to this county with an independent fortune,
he was lavish with it in aid of his friends and in assisting public enterprises. He will be missed from our community, and
leaves hehind him very many friends, who sincerely deplore his death, and who deeply sympathize with his grief-stricken widow
and fatherless children in their irreparable loss.
In Leon, Iowa, on Monday Jan. 21st, of lung Fever, MARY ANN BOOTH, consort of John Booth, aged 20 years, one month and 10
days.
Administration.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has taken out letters of administration on the estate of Emily Chenoweth, late
of Sullivan county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. D. CRAWLEY, Adm’r.
FATAL AFFRAY.-- Our community was startled last Friday by the report that a man named William Henry Land had been murdered
by John Alsman, near Carlisle, in this county. From the evidence given before the Coroner’s jury we gather the following
particulars: The parties had been in Carlisle attending a law suit and were returning with two or three others. They had a
trifling difficulty last fall, and while on their way home, this old grudge came up, and they engaged in a fight over it,
at the outset of which Alsman plunged a dagger into the left side of the neck of Land, which resulted in his death in about
fifteen minutes. The killing took place about dusk on Thursday evening. Alsman made hs escape and has not been arrested at
present writing. Land was about 25 years of age, and leaves a wife and three children. Alsman is 18 and unmarried.
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Thursday, May 23, 1861
DIED
On Tuesday morning last, of Typhoid Fever, Mr. ROBERT SHERMAN, long a citizen of this place, aged 62 years, 4 months and 13
days.
Deceased was born in Orange county, North Carolina, on the 8th of January, 1799; came to Knox county in this State in 1815;
has lived most of the time since in Sullivan county. He was a worthy and respectable citizen, held for many years the office
of Justice of the Peace; became a professor of Religion in early life, and attached himself to the Christian Church whilst
a young man, before his first marriage; was ordained a Minister of the Gospel in 1833 or '34; has maintained a good standing
in the Church throughout life; was promoted to the highest office in the Church (that of Bishop, or Elder,) in 1860; filled
that office to the entire satisfaction of the whole church until his death. He leaves a wife, seven children, one brother
and one sister, together with many relations and a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. W.
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July 25, 1861
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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(ran through Aug 1st)
Executor's Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed executor of the last will of Robert Sherman late of Sullivan
county dec'd. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.
jy25. JOS. W. WOLFE
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(ran through Aug 15th)
Executor's Sale
Notice is hereby given that I will sell at public auction, on Friday, the 16th day of August next, at the residence of Robert
Sherman, late of Sullivan county, deceased, all his personal property not taken by the widow, consisting of household and
kitchen furniture, one cow and calf, one sow and shoats, a lot of lumber, &c., &c. A credit of eleven months will be given
on all sums over three dollars, the purchaser giving his note with approved security, waiving valuation and appraisement laws.
jy25td JOS. W. WOLFE, Executor
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