NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for JUNE 1929 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, June 6, 1929 ACCIDENT VICTIM BURIED FRIDAY; HANSON FATALLY INJURED MONDAY F. Hanson, age 67, of Hightower, died Thursday in a Roanoke sanitarium of injuries received Monday morning when the automobile in which he and Elder T.J. Parish were riding turned over near Union church, about nine miles north of Wedowee, Monday morning. It is said that Elder Parish was driving the car when a tire punctured and immediately the auto ran off a high bank and turned over. Hanson received a fractured skill and other injuries. Other than being badly shaken up, Elder Parish was unhurt, it is said. Mr. Hanson, a pioneer citizen of the Hightower community was widely known and will be greatly missed, not only by his loved ones but the whole of east Cleburne. Surviving are the widow and the following sons and daughters: Jimmie, George and Blake Hanson Mrs. Millie Estes Mrs. Julia White Mrs. Elzie Haynes Mrs. Theman Lipham Mrs. Lela Lindsey Mrs. Vera Beam; and sisters, Mrs. Tealie Whitley of Randolph county; Mrs. Emma Wade adn Mrs. Ada Cavender of Heflin; Mrs. Julia Cavender of Hightower; and Mrs. Ida Ashley of Birmingam. Mr. Hanson was born in Cleburne County, May 15, 1862. Was married to Margaret Amstrong in 1883. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist church having joined 21 years ago. Funeral services and burial were held Friday afternoon at Ranburne. ____ MAY MARRIAGE LICENSES J.N.T. Allen and Mrs. W.V. McCrary Chester Monroe and Arilla Hinson Oscar Fordham and Minnie Lee Taylor Walter Green and Inez Creel Pierce D. Ballard and Eula Crews Emory O. White and Gladys Mathews Edgar F. Babb and Daisy Allgood Sam Sherrell and Wedell Johnson Emmett Parker and Mrs.Nora Floyd James W. Buchanan and Jenice Morris Major Cates and Lois Lowery Elmer McNeese and Annie Payne Walter L. Raburn and Christine E. Brumley ____ EDWARDSVILLE News Mrs. Grace Roberts and son Lee Roy of Oak Level were the guests of her sister, Mrs. Wilson Laminack last week. __ Mrs. Ethel Bell has been visiting her mother who is sick in Tallapoosa. __ Mrs. Lue Ella Gilmore and daughter Grace of south Georgia have been visiting her brother Wilson Laminack. __ Luther Tranham and family have moved to Chapel Hill, Tennessee. __ PLAINVIEW News Mrs. Russell Norton is spending some time with her mother Mrs. Henry Johns at Lecta who has been seriously ill. __ LOCAL News Mrs. S.L. Wood of Abbeville is the guest of her brother Col. E. Burns Parker. __ MRS. MERRILL BURIED HERE Anniston, Ala., June 4th Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Merrill, age 82, prominent Alabama woman, died Tuesday morning at the home of her son, Judge Hugh D. Merrill, at 1206 Leighton Avenue. Funeral services will be held from the residence Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and interment will take place at 3:30 o'clock in the family lot in the Heflin cemetery. Rev. J.T. McGlothlin, pastor of the Parker Memorial Baptist church will conduct the services. Mrs. Merrill was sick only a short time before her death. She has lived with her son here since 1912, moving to Anniston from Heflin with Judge Merrill and family. Mrs. Merrill was born in Franklin, Georgia Sept. 28, 1847, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sanders Favor, a prominent Georgia family. She married James B. Merrill and the couple moved to Edwardsville Feb. 1, 1887 and from there to Heflin where Mr. Merrill later died. She was a member of the Heflin Baptist church and an earnest and consecrated religious worker until her death. She did not move her membership when she came to Anniston but attended services here. Mrs. Merrill is survived by two sons and three daughters, Judge Walter B. Merrill and Judge Hugh D. Merrill both of Anniston; Mrs. J.W. Abercrombie of Mongtomery; Mrs. J.T. Rood of Madison, Wisc., and Mrs. N.W. Burgess of Summit, N.J. All of the children with the exception of Mrs. Rood, will attend the funeral services. Pall bearers will be Ralph Merrill, Pelham Merrill, Walter Merrill Jr., Hugh Merrill Jr., R.E. Jones and W.T. Morton Jr. ___ LOCAL News Oscar Skinner, of east Cleburne is free on $500. bond after being arrested last Saturday, charged with distiling. Officers on Tuesday destroyed a still near Arbacoochee. ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, June 13, 1929 ACCIDENTAL SHOT KILLS J.W. WAITS Anniston, Ala., June 10th Funeral services for J.W. Waites, age 54, who died in a local hospital early Sunday from a bullet wound in the abdomen, which is said to have been accidentally inflicted Friday night, were held at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at Green's Chapel in Cleburne county. Waites and a man named Bennett were said to have been negotiating a trade for an automatic pistol. When the weapon was handed to Waits, it is said to have been accidentally discharged. The accident occurred at Silver Run in Talladega county. Surviving are Mr. Waites wife, one daughter, Laura, one son Joe, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Waites; four sisters, Mrs. G.J. Harvey of DeArmanville; Mrs. Dessie Mize of Merrillton; Miss Bertha of Anniston; and Mrs. Mollie Breedwell of Guntersville; six brother, J.M., Walter and C.J. Waites of Heflin; Henry of Milstead, Ga; Tom of Texas and Tillman of Anniston. ----- Mr. Waites, a cripple, was known to a large number of our people in Cleburne, having canvassed the county for the nomination of tax collector. The funeral and burial services were conducted by Rev. Palmer D. Taylor. ____ ROY STARR CRITICALLY ILL The condition of Roy Starr was unchanged Wednesday morning. He has been seriously ill at his home here for several weeks. ___ RAKESTRAW IS GIVEN FIVE YEARS Burton Rakestraw pleaded guilty in Circuit Court on Monday to manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Rakestraw and Mellie Cheatwood were charged with the murder of Newt Williams last April. The state nol prossed the case against Cheatwood. ___ GOOSE NECK News T.J. Riddle and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Rosa Hammond and family. __ A "honey-bee" robbing occurred at Ed Hammond's Saturday and some choice honey was "borrowed." __ Word was received here Sunday morning of the tragic death of J.W. (Will) Waits of Oxford who was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of an automatic pistol. He was formerly a resident of this place. __ A swimming pool has been built on the farm of E.T. Hammond. It affords the community much pleasure and lots of excitement. __ LOCAL News Ab Thrower, Tom Prestridge and Terrell Daugherty spent the latter part of last week in the Blue Ridge section of north Georgia, capturing and bringing back to Cleburne county, Junior Weaver who is alleged to have skipped his bond here several months ago. __ Dr. F.R. Wood accompanied John Cheatwood, World War veteran of Chulafinnee beat, to the government hospital in New Orleans on Sunday morning. Cheatwood is said to be in serious condition and was admitted to the veterans hospital through efforts of Cleburne Post of the American Legion headed by post commander Walter L. Verge. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, June 20, 1929 PIONEER CITIZEN DIED TUESDAY The Rev. William J. Campbell, age 79, pioneer Baptist preacher, died at his home here at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning after an illness of several months. He suffered a stroke of paralysis last year and had been almost helpless since that time, and a second stroke last Friday hastened the aged man's death. Mr. Campbell was a Missionary Baptist minister and had been preaching in Cleburne county for more than 50 years. He was a Mason and Grotto and as a last request, Heflin and Chulafinnee Masons had charge of the services at the grave, the funeral being held at New Harmony church, with the interment in the cemetery there. Surviving are his two sons Martin and John F., and his wife. The Cleburne News deeply sympathizes with the bereaved family. ___ DEATH COMES TO MRS. HAYES After more than seven months of intense suffering, Mrs. H.M. Hayes passed away at the family home, five miles east of Heflin early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Hayes, who was in her 60th year, is survived by her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Mollie Holdbrooks and Mrs. Emma Norton; six sons, Walter, Cicero, Oliver, Walter, Bud and Lenox Hayes; four brothers and six sisters besides many other relatives. The death of Mrs. Hayes removes from the community a christian woman and a good neighbor, affectionate mother and devoted wife, whose passing is mourned by a large circle of acquaintances over the county. The funeral and burial services were conducted by Rev. L.S. Wessinger and Rev. DeWitt Stovall on Tuesday afternoon, with interment in the New Harmony Cemetery. To the bereaved family, the Cleburne News extends sincere sympathy in their hour of sorrow. ___ MRS. LAMINACK DIED THURSDAY Anniston, Ala., June 15th Anniston relatives and freinds of Mrs. Mary I. Laminack, age 84, who died at her home in Cleburne County, have returned after attending the funeral services on Thursday morning. Rev. Mr. Ernest conducted the services and interment was at St. Michael's cemetery. Mrs. Laminack had resided in Cleburne county for many years and had friends in that county. Surviving are two sons, Cleve and T.T. Laminack, two daughters, Fannie Laminack of Cleburne county and Mrs. W.B. Phillips of Anniston; 23 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. The Anniston Star ___ LOCAL News Mrs. Henry Lambert of Stellacoom, Washington is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Vise of near Beason Mills. __ Mrs. Fannie Lemaster from Oklahoma is visiting her sister, Mrs. H.M. Vise near Edmondson's Bridge. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, June 27, 1929 BENNEFIELD IS SLAIN IN TEXAS Beaumont, Texas June 24th (Special to the Birmingham Post) The body of T.J. Bennefield, age 29, former resident of Birmingham, who was shot and fatally wounded here Saturday night as he left a theatre with a woman he soon was to wed, was being returned to Alabama today. Funeral services will be held at Hopewell, Ala., where his father W.J. Bennefield lives. A.D. Covin, divorced husband of the woman who was with Bennefield when he was shot, awaited the couple outside the theatre and fired upn them as nearly 2,000 theatre goers looked on. Bennefield died Sunday morning in a hospital, while Mrs. Covin was only slightly wounded. Covin and his wife were divorced March 9th on the woman's complaint. She and Bennefield intended marrying early next month, she told police. She is the mother of three children. A formal complaint charging murder in the first degree was to be filed again Covin today. ___ LOCAL News E.T. Mathis was painfully hurt a few days ago at a saw mill of the Thacker Lumber Company in Trickem Valley when he was hit by a rolling log. It is hoped he will be soon able to return to his post as a sawyer. ___ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.2.0 - Release Date: 5/27/2005