Dale County AlArchives News.....1885 Advertisement in The Southern Star by Dr. J.C. Holman August 26, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 2:02 pm The Southern Star August 26, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, August 26, 1885 Page Three To The People of Dale County Gratitude prompts me to return to you my thanks for your liberal patronage for the last 30 years and I feel pardonable pride in saying I have had the good fortune to have enjoyed a more liberal and extended share of your patronage than almost any professional man in your community. I now announce to you that I hope to continue to please you, and to that end I shall keep hereafter well up with the latest and most approved system of medication and shall be well prepared with medicine, means and appliances to treat properly and efficiently all diseases incident to our climate and at the same prices as for the last thirty years. I hope to merit your confidence and to extend my practice, as I feel an increasing interest in the profession. Respectfully, J.C. Holman P.S. No extra charges for night riding. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/newspapers/1885adve175nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb

Houston County AlArchives News.....1885 Article about William Thomley September 2, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 2:00 pm The Southern Star September 2, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, September 2, 1885 Page Two Wicksburg, Ala., August 19th, 1884 (typed as it appears in the paper) Old Father William Thomley is still living where he has lived for many years. He was married forty-one years ago and has seventy-one descendants with his sons and daughters-in-law, forty-five of whom are grandchildren, the age of the oldest being seventeen years. Only one of his family is dead. You see, from what I have stated that our young people are numerous. This is the first communication of a man who has inscribed for the STAR since 1870. A Friend in Beat 5 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/houston/newspapers/1885arti174nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb

Barbour County AlArchives News.....1885 article about W.H. Barrow September 2, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:59 pm The Southern Star September 2, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, September 2, 1885 Page Third Mr. W.H. Barrow who died some time since at Eufaula, is known to have had a number of valuable papers including a life policy, which he is believed to have deposited in some friends safe. It is also believed that he had some money that he carried with him. He left two little orphan girls, who need whatever he may have had. All papers in this Section, are requested to copy this paragraph, with the request that anyone who may have his valuables, will notify his son-in-law D.J. Hartzog at Geneva, Ala. This kindness could not be done by the press to the children of a more generous man, that W.H. Barrow was in his life time. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/barbour/newspapers/1885arti173nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Henry County AlArchives News.....1885 article about William Kelly September 16, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:57 pm The Southern Star September 16, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, September 16, 1885 Page Two Our long time friend, William Kelly, Esq., of Headland, is eighty-two years of age, since July last. He walks perfectly erect, reads without the aid of glasses, and as a Justice of the Peace, does nearly all the business of the populous and progressive precinct in which Headland is located. May he live to complete his hundredth year. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/henry/newspapers/1885arti172nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Macon County AlArchives Obituaries.....Owsley, Wiley J. October 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:56 pm The Southern Star, October 14, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, October 14, 1885 Page One A Deliberate Suicide An Alabama Farmer Stations His Gun and Pulls The String Wiley J. Owsley, a prominent and industrious farmer who lives at Notasulga, Ala., committed suicide Thursday. He, with his family, were all on the farm near his residence and as is always his custom, left them about an hour by sun to go and look after his flock. Instead of this he went to the house, took a quilt and went to the kitchen and made a pallet on the floor, then fixed a gun by the side of him, attached a string to the trigger, laid down and pulled the string. The contents of the gun entered close to his right ear and came out over his eye. His wife came home and found him dead. He left a note to his wife saying it was no fault of hers, that he was simply tired of life, and also gave instructions as to his burial and funeral. He was a good citizen, a kind and devoted husband. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/macon/obits/o/owsley539ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb

Barbour County AlArchives Obituaries.....Wilkinson, Matilda November 1, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:53 pm The Southern Star, November 11, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 11, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence Mrs. Matilda Wilkinson, widow of the late Samuel Wilkinson of Barbour, and daughter of the late Rev. Aaron Helms, departed this life on Sunday morning the 1st, inst. She was a good woman, and leaves many friends to mourn her untimely demise. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/barbour/obits/w/wilkinso538ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb

Dale County AlArchives News.....1885 Article about Dale County November 18, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:51 pm The Southern Star November 18, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 18, 1885 Page Two Dale County This county was created by act of the Legislature, as may be seen by examining the act of incorporation on the first page of the STAR, in December 1824, now about sixty-one years ago. It embraced all territory, except perhaps a few square miles on the east end of Geneva County, now embraced in the three counties of Dale, Coffee and Geneva. Although the act creating it was passed in 1824, the county was not organized and put properly in running order till about the year 1826 or 1827. It had settlers residing within its borders for ten or fifteen years before it was organized into a county, some of whom and their localities, will be mentioned hereafter. THE FACE OF THE COUNTRY If is hard for anyone who has never observed a new country, with an entire absence of what we denominate “undergrowth” to have a proper conception of the appearance of this county sixty years ago. Then there were few trees compared with the forests now, and there were no thickets or swamps as we now have them. The whole country presenting the appearance of a beautiful rolling, or undulating prairie, covered in spring time with the wild oats, nearly as beautiful and as we now have in the best cultivated farms, growing from six to ten feet high, and ripening in the fall season, affording bountiful entertainment for cattle and game. The ground adjacent to the streams and water courses now called swamps and marshes, and filled with trees, branches, undergrowth and the like, were then occupied by immense canebrakes, beautiful to behold, as a glimpse of the promised land to the gaze of the weary refugees from Egypt, but concealing within their fastnesses, the lair of the huge black bear, and the shrill screaming of the panther. The traveler o’er the country might strain his eyes and although his observation was unobscured for miles, yet he could see nothing offensive to the sight – every view was a pleasant one. The grasses, the flowers, the birds, the wild deer, and the roving cattle with the sunshine around, and the blue sky above, all made a picture to hang in memory’s gallery while life shall last, and to fill the heart with emotions of pleasure, to which the average man of to-day, is a total stranger. What a grand thing is the forest green carpeted and beautiful, wild and free as the deer which scamper over its bosom! The man of to-day, residing in his quarter section, confined in travel to roads, cramped by the conventionalities of what we term a higher civilization, shut off from the glorious freedom and pure air of a frontier life, compares with the settler of seventy years ago, like the lion in the cage, with his unconquered and untamed brother of the forests. But those old times are gone. The forests have given way before the advances of civilization and industry. The free wild life of the frontiersmen, with its hunts, its shooting matches, its dancing frolics, its unbounded generosity, its unselfishness, is gone; and the wonder sometimes is, which is the more desirable this or that, especially with the aged citizen who has come down from those times, and the youth, who is charmed with the stories of the past. The practical hard thinking man, who understands that “Life is real, life is earnest,” would not exchange the times of today for those of the “sweet long ago.” ITS NAME There are probably not one hundred persons in the county who know why it came to be called by the name of Dale. The people know that is its name, and has been for a long while. They have often heard of its being twitted as a cow country and the like, by small wits, but they have had no opportunity, especially the younger ones, of knowing how it came by its name; (paper torn) considered not amiss therefore to suggest for whom the county was named, and to give some account of the man for whom it was named. The county was named for Gen. Samuel Dale, who was born in Virginia in 1772, four years before the declaration of American Independence. In 1784, his father moved to what is now Greene County, Ga., where both the parents soon after died, leaving eight children to the care of the subject of this sketch – then only sixteen years of age. He was a farmer, but found time to engage frequently when yet a boy in the defense of the settlements against the incursions of the Indians. He became a trader and resided for awhile in Jones County, Georgia. He settled in Clarke County, Ala., in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at the battle of Burnt Corn, in which he commanded a company. He was engaged in what at the time was denominated the “Famous Canoe Fight,” a desperate hand to hand contest between three white men, Samuel Dale, Jeremiah Austill, and James Smith – and nine Indians, all in canoes, a negroe named Ceazar, belonging to the whites leaping into the river, and holding the canoes together until the fight was over. The battle was with clubbed guns, and lasted but a few minutes, and terminated by the death of the last Indian. During the fight the whites and Indians, on the banks of the river ceased their fighting to witness the desperate contest on the bosom of the river, where the three intrepid whites had gone out to intercept the nine Indians who were endeavoring to cut off the white posse scouting in that vicinity. After the wars with the Indians had ceased, Gen. Dale removed to Monroe County, where he resided till about the year 1830, when he moved to Perry County, and a year later to Lauderdale County, Mississippi. He was the first Tax Collector of Monroe County, and was eight times elected to the Legislature during his residence in that county. He was the first Representative of Lauderdale County in the Legislature of Mississippi in 1836. He died at Daleville, Miss., May 1841. Gen. Dale was the Daniel Boone of Alabama, and in many respects is said to have been superior to the great Kentucky Backwoodsman. Like most men of his type, he was a modest and quiet man, but when emergencies arose, he was remarkable for caution, coolness and courage, indispensable elements in true and successful manhood. This little notice of Gen. Dale, only touches some of the prominent features in his character, because it is impossible to notice his career more at length. He was comparatively an uneducated man, and is said to have felt keenly in his lack of education, nevertheless, he used the powers God gave him, and he used them well, energetically and perseveringly, and as a consequence, will live in the history of the country while thousands, his superiors in literary attainments, will be forgotten, with the days in which they lived. Thus the young people of this county will see that the man for whom their county is named, was one of the most remarkable characters in the early settlement of this State. His example is commended to them, not as an Indian fighter, but as one of nature’s noblemen, with a heart as gentle as a lamb and as brave as a lion. EARLY SETTLEMENT AND EARLY SETTLERS It is impossible, without greater research than the writer is able to make just now, to determine exactly at what time the county was first settled, but it was not far from the year 1814. Reference to a few of the settlements, and the earlier settlements, will nevertheless be made, as throwing some light upon the subject, and as tending to afford satisfaction to their descendants many of whom still reside in the county, as well to others not descendants of the early settlers. Old Richmond – now Wiggins Springs – eleven miles east of Newton on the Columbia road, and at one time the county site of Henry County, was one of the earliest settlements within the territory now embraced in this county. John Whitehurst and Philityre Whitehurst, his brother, were among the early settlers of the community. John lived near what is now Sylvan Grove, and Philityre at Richmond. Philityre went to Tallahassee, Florida and died there, long before the late war. John moved to Henry County, accumulated a fine property, and died at Lawrenceville a few years since, respected by all who knew him. John Walding Sr. and Benjamin and John his sons, were residing in the same community, at Walding’s cross roads at a very early day. Mossy Rogers a Baptist preacher lived on a little creek called the Mill Creek near the cross roads at the same time. His son James lived in the fork of the two Choctawhatchees, and raised a large family, most of whom went away to Texas thirty-five years ago. Judge Wm. Harper for a time Judge of the county court resided in the vicinity. He raised a large and respectable family, many of the descendants of whom reside in the county still. The first Church erected in the county, was at the old Walding’s cross roads, was built by the community, and was used in common by all denominations. It finally became a Primitive Baptist Church. The writer attended church there, more than forty years ago and for many years afterwards where he heard the late Elders Jesse Tomlin, Uriah Pellum, Daniel Locke, Aaron Helms, Moses Helms and others of that persuasion preach. Jesse Harlin, Isaac Ledbetter, John Austin, father of John A. Austin, Esq. Judge Wm. Loftin, father of John M., Charles and Henry Loftin, John Tindal, son-in-law of Isaac Ledbetter, David Jernigan, and Asa Alexander, Sr., all lived in the same settlement. Another settlement, was located west of the Block House, at the fork of the river, now in the vicinity of Mr. Lemuel Casey. There lived in the latter settlement, John Turner, Esq. William his brother, Shadrach Mills, Isaac Snell, Benj. Andrews and Daniel Windham. Another early settlement was on Claybank Creek, west of the present town of Daleville. Creed Collins, Merritt Collins, John Kimmie, father of Mason Kimmie, late of Coffee County, and perhaps some others lived in this settlement. The next settlement was on Pea River, Lewis Hutchison, Absalom Russell, Redding Meeks, Lacy R. Meeks, Lewis Creech, Samuel Perryman, who was a United States Surveyor, all lived in this settlement. The Bowles and Hughes lived on little Choctawhatchee. John Hughes of this settlement was grandfather to Capt. Needham Hughes. The Bronon settlement was down on Big Choctawhatchee. The late Henry T. Wilkinson lived there and carried the first bushel of peas ever in the neighborhood from John Whitehurst’s on his shoulder, a distance of twenty-five miles. He was a man of great industry and energy, and accumulated quite a fortune before the war. He died a few years since, John and William Wilkinson, brothers of Henry T. also lived in this community. The Infingers (Enfingers?), Otts, Lezenbys, Judahs, generally dutch people, lived in a settlement on the fork of the Choctawhatchee and Judah. In the vicinity of the present town of Skipperville was a settlement where the Paynes, Metcalfs, John McDonald, father of R.A.K. McDonald resided. Mr. John McDonald was a scotchman, and a local Methodist preacher. He was a grandfather to Hon. J.W. Dowling, Rev. Angus Dowling, Simeon, Daniel, Y. Peeler and G.P. Dowling, all residents of the county still. PRESENT TERRITORY Since the organization of Coffee and Geneva counties, the territory of the county now embraces about six hundred and thirty-eight square miles and no more. 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Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Payne, Mrs. Elijah 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:49 pm The Southern Star, November 18, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 18, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence It will be remembered that Elijah Payne Esq., of Beaver Creek, died about five or six weeks since. Two or three weeks afterwards his wife followed him to the spirit land. On Sunday morning the 8th inst., Aunt Lottie Shiver, his mother-in-law, for years a member of his household, also went over the river to rest under the shade of the trees. A remarkable coincidence in respect to the death of those worthy people is, that they all departed on Sunday morning, and at about the same time in the day. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/obits/p/payne537ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Payne, Elijah 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:48 pm The Southern Star, November 18, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 18, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence It will be remembered that Elijah Payne Esq., of Beaver Creek, died about five or six weeks since. Two or three weeks afterwards his wife followed him to the spirit land. On Sunday morning the 8th inst., Aunt Lottie Shiver, his mother-in-law, for years a member of his household, also went over the river to rest under the shade of the trees. A remarkable coincidence in respect to the death of those worthy people is, that they all departed on Sunday morning, and at about the same time in the day. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/obits/p/payne536ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Shiver, Lottie November 8, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:48 pm The Southern Star, November 18, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 18, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence It will be remembered that Elijah Payne Esq., of Beaver Creek, died about five or six weeks since. Two or three weeks afterwards his wife followed him to the spirit land. On Sunday morning the 8th inst., Aunt Lottie Shiver, his mother-in-law, for years a member of his household, also went over the river to rest under the shade of the trees. A remarkable coincidence in respect to the death of those worthy people is, that they all departed on Sunday morning, and at about the same time in the day. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/obits/s/shiver535ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Head, John A. November 10, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:46 pm The Southern Star, November 18, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 18, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence Mr. Jno. A. Head, a young man residing at Newton, and engaged for some time in carrying the mail from Newton to Roeton, died in Newton on Nov. 10th, of typhoid fever, after an illness of forty days. Mr. Head was a well behaved young man, and leaves a young wife to mourn his death. He is said to have expressed himself as entirely willing, even anxious to go, because he knew himself prepared. Many persons who knew him but slightly, regret his death very much. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/obits/h/head534ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Schoeffer, John December 4, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:45 pm The Southern Star, December 9, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, December 9, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence Mr. John Schoeffer, an aged citizen of this place, died on the morning of December 4th inst., of old age and physical exertion. Mr. Schoeffer was of German origin, was born in Virginia, and was about eighty-three years old, at the time of his death. He was a hardworking industrious man; but now the hands that did so much labor are folded peaceably over his bosom while he rests calmly in death. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/obits/s/schoeffe533ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mizell, Hope Hull December 9, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 4, 2006, 1:43 pm The Southern Star, December 16, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, December 16, 1885 Page Two Hope Hull Mizell, son of H.H. Mizell and his sainted wife, was born near Pleasant Hill, Dale County, Ala., August 4th, 1863. During infancy he was dedicated to the Lord by baptism. Reared under the influence of a live church and trained by the example and instruction of truly pious parents, his character was formed and moulded into symmetrical beauty from childhood. Moral principles of purity and integrity were the foundations of his young and promising life. While yet a boy he realized the saving power of the grace of God, and joined the Methodist E. Church, South, at Haw Ridge, Ala. From that time forth he carefully and conscientiously observed and kept the rules and laws of the church. Besides, he intelligently obeyed “the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” which made him “free from the law of sin and death.” His life was a beautiful comment upon this glorious expression of the way of life everlasting. Thus, he was an epistle known and read of all men. He possessed the mind that was in Christ Jesus. He was a partaker of the divine nature. He was a child of God – an heir of God, and joint heir with Christ. As he grew in years he developed fine mental powers. His mind was fashioned and beautified by careful, painstaking, mental culture. His mental powers were capable of almost indefinite expansion and force. He was well trained in exact thinking and reasoning. Such was the apparent case of his mental processes, that they seemed as intuitions. Thus endowed by nature and culture he was in public demand. He had reached ascending positions as a reliable business young man. When disease began to show its symptoms in the body of this promising young man, he was occupying a paying position in a good and growing house in the city of Troy, Alabama. Slowly, disease gained a deeper and stronger hold upon his manly form. Forced by physical disability he gave up his position, and came home to his father’s house, in Haw Ridge, to suffer, linger and die. With patience divine, he endured to the end. No one ever heard a murmur of complaint escape his lips and yet no human power can express the depths and severe intensity of his suffering. Ready for the hour of departing, he looked beyond to the bright world of glory and loved ones. Among his last utterances, he bid his precious loved ones on earth to meet him in heaven. So he ascended to glory and home at 6 A.M. Wednesday, December 9th, 1885 – aged 22 years, 4 months and 5 days. Thursday at 3 P.M. his body was laid to rest by the side of his glorified mother, at Haw Ridge. His burial was attended by a large company of loving and weeping relatives and friends. The service was conducted by the writer. “Hope thou in God.” Angus Dowling The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, December 16, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence Hope Hull Mizell, son of H.H. Mizell, Esq. of Haw Ridge, departed this life on Wednesday Dec. 9, 1885. A more extended notice of him will be found in another place. We cannot refrain from saying that he was a very promising young man, cut down as he was verging upon young manhood. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/obits/m/mizell532ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb

Russell County AlArchives Bible Records.....Williams/Sasser Bible ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Dillard petfriends2@bellsouth.net July 4, 2006, 6:21 pm Children's Births Evie G. Williams was born Nov 3, 1872 Homer W. Williams was born June 6, 1874 Albert A. Williams was born April 3, 1876 Walter E. Williams was born Sep 6, 1877 Cary A. Williams was born April 10, 1879 Bertha Augusta Williams, Born May 22, 1881 Lee Roy [Williams] Born May 23, 1883 Alma Ophelia [Williams] Born Dec 1, 1885 Nonie Thomas Williams, April 30, 1890 Deaths Thomas J Williams July 23, 1890 William F? Sasser Sept 28, 1896 age 28 Sarah E Williams March 10th, 1930 Marriage Evie was married January 28, 1892 [to William Sasser] Births Roy Eugene Sasser, Born January 15, 1893 Clarence Caden Sasser, Born June 27, 1895 Additional Comments: This Bible belonged to Sarah Eugenia and Thomas Jefferson Williams. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/russell/bibles/williams103gbb.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb

Dale County AlArchives Military Records.....Bird, John October 4, 1832 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com July 4, 2006, 3:09 am Pension Application Of John Bird, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 243, Application # S10372 Dale County, Alabama, October 4th, 1832, John Bird, aged 77 years: “That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: “As militia under the command of Captain John Graves in Colonel Robert Gooden’s [Goodwin’s] regiment, commanded by General Andrew Williamson in the Florida expedition, the day of the month not recollected, in the month of June in the year 1776, and quit the service at the [inkblot] within a few days after General Gates Defeat at ___? Rather near Camden in the state of South Carolina. Was at the battle at Nassau Creek; also at Stono and then under command of General Lincoln. Was a volunteer when he entered the service. Marched through Georgia into Florida. Was afterward in General Thomas Sumter’s Defeat in the state of South Carolina near Rocky Mount. Was also at a Battle at Rocky Mount. Was also in the Battle at Eutaw Springs under the command of Thomas Sumter….” Dale County, Alabama, November 8, 1833, John Bird: “The he volunteered in the service of the United States under the command of Captain John Graves, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Kirkland, and General Andrew Williamson. I was then living in the state of South Carolina, Camden District when I volunteered under the above named officers. I was marched from the above named district to a place called the Dutch Fork [in June, 1778, see below], between Broad and Saluda, and rendezvoused at a Dutchman’s house, whose name was Ramsower [Ramsour?]. At this place we joined General Williamson, then Williamson marched us down the river to a place against Governor Wright’s plantation, and while we was stationed here, the sun was totally eclipsed. [Per N.C. Continentals, page 151, this was on June 24th, 1778.]” “From this place we was marched into the state of Georgia to Fort McIntosh near the seashore. Then we was marched for Augustine and on our march, probably on the third day, we come to Burn-footed Brown’s encampment where the said Brown commanded the Tories, Indians, Negroes and British. Here we had a battle and our troops gave ground till we were reinforced, and then we drove the enemy behind their breastworks. General Clark was wounded and lost his negro and horse. The next morning we was sent to take the breastworks and Brown and his men was gone. This place we called Kettle Creek [per Heitman, February 14, 1779], as there was the largest kettle there I ever saw. Here Williamson ordered us to turn back. On our return we burned our wagons and after we passed Fort McIntosh. I served this time four months.” “Secondly, I volunteered under the command of Captain Graves, and we rendezvoused near the High Hills of Santee [his six month tour began in October 1778]. Here we were commanded by Sumter and Kershaw and Frederick ?Kimbesal?. From this place we were marched to a place by the name of Dorchester, a mail? Dutch? Village. Here the northern troops joined us and they gave them horse beef to eat. From this place I was marched within six miles of Clarkestown at a place called the Quarterhouse. From this place I was marched to a place called Purysburg near Savannah. We was then marched on the way to the mouth of Briar Creek by the order of General Lincoln to join the southern troops at the battle at the mouth of Briar Creek. Here General Ashe was defeated [per Heitman, March 3rd, 1779]. Our troops were on the other side of the river from them in the time of this battle. After the defeat, we returned home. In this tour I served six months.” “Thirdly, I was drafted and was under the command of Captain Graves. We was then marched to the state of Georgia, at the town of Augusta. After we arrived there, we was stationed in a high hill called Purdue’s Hill on the east side of Savannah River at the mouth of a creek called Horse Creek. Was commanded by Colonel Kirkland and within a very short time after we arrived here, the siege of Augusta commenced [per Heitman, April 16 to June 5, 1781], and was retaken by our troops. At this time, Burned Foot Brown commanded the Tories at Augusta. Then we returned home. At this time I served one month.” “Fourthly, about this time General Gates and his army was marching for Camden on the east side of the Wateree River and General Sumter was marching down on the other side of the said river for Camden, and General Sumter sent an express to me to take the name of every good man and take them with me and meet him at the mouth of the Dutchman’s Creek by sunrise, which I done, but when we arrived at the creek, Sumter and his army had left there about midnight. We pressed after him and overtook him at Grave’s Ford on the Wateree River. Here Sumter received information that Gates was defeated [per Heitman, May 10, 1781] and at this place turned his army back. We then was marched up the river above the mouth of Rocky Creek. At this place the British dragoons fell upon Sumter and his army and defeated us. While I was in this battle, I swam the river on my horse and made my way to the Waxhaw settlements in South Carolina. Some time after this, I returned home to Camden District.” “In the next place I was called out under the command of Kirkland and Colonel Gooden [Goodwin] and we was marched for the Eutaw Springs [per Heitman, September 8, 1781]. In the battle at this place, I was left to guard the baggage wagon, which we turned back some distance for safety.” “I then served for short periods under different commanders and had many skirmishes with the Tories too tedious to mention. I have forgotten to mention in my declaration before this, that I was in the Battle at Stono[per Heitman, June 20, 1779] in South Carolina. In this battle, the British gave ground and we took their artillery. They then were reinforced from their shipping and retook the artillery from us. The British then took the advantage of the night and went off.” “I also was in the battle at a place called Rocky Mount [per Heitman, July 30, 1780]. At this battle, Captain Whitaker was killed. I have served not less than one year and nine months, with the exception of the above named services…I received a discharge and it was signed by Colonel Kirkland. I received this discharge at Purysburg. General Lincoln refused to sign it as he wanted to keep us and send us to a place called the Devil’s Elbow. The guard discharge I lost since I been living in Dale County…” File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/military/revwar/pensions/bird243gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 7.0 Kb

Pike-Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Kolb, Marietta Blackman December 4, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 3, 2006, 12:44 pm The Southern Star, December 9, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, December 9, 1885 Page Two Marietta Kolb, daughter of Green and Sarah F. Blackman, was born in Pike County, Ala., April 26, 1852. Brought up under church influence, and trained by a pious mother, she was noted for gentleness, kindness and sweetness of spirit from childhood. Arrived at young womanhood she professed saving faith in Christ Jesus and joined the Baptist church in Ozark. She was baptized by the Rev. Caswell Smith. October 5, 1879 she was married to Mr. Leonidas W. Kolb, of Macon County, Ala. For fifteen months they lived in that county in the full enjoyment of tender and loving affection. Thence they removed to Dale County and settled in Ozark and he engaged in mercantile business. In young womanhood Miss Marietta was admired and loved by a large circle of friends for her beauty and friendly affection. Wherever she moved she imparted sunshine and joy. She was the light and charm of the home circle. She was the idol of a devoted husband who lavished the wealth of a manly heart upon her, a pure, Christian wife. Her life as a church member was cheerful and blameless. She rejoiced in the work of the Church. Last July she realized the great pleasure of seeing her own loving father join the church of which she was a member. It gave her great satisfaction for her beloved husband to be a good and true member of the Methodist church. Although faithful in the church and useful in Society as a good neighbor and tender nurse of the sick, yet, in the wise and mysterious providence of God, she was subjected to great bodily affliction. During the last ten months of her life she endured much suffering with great fortitude and uncomplaining patience, as seeing him who is invisible; and realized the sufficiency of grace to comfort and sustain her. Amid affliction she would speak words of comfort and cheer to her sorrowing husband and relatives. For the past two weeks her bodily powers gave way most rapidly. As death approached she expressed herself as fully ready and entirely resigned to the righteous will of her Father in heaven. While dying, she said to the loved ones in the room, as they were weeping and sobbing in heart-breaking grief, “Weep not for me; but promise to meet me in heaven, where I will soon be at rest.” With the mind clear and calm, she gently passed from earth to heaven, dying in her father’s home at 2 p.m. Friday December 4th, 1885, aged 33 years, 7 months and 8 days. Saturday at 2 p.m. her funeral sermon was preached in the Baptist church in Ozark to a large company of devout people, by the writer, and then gently and tearfully her body was committed to the grave in bright hope of the resurrection morning. Angus Dowling The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, December 9, 1885 Page Three Local Intelligence At two o’clock on Friday last Dec. 4th, Mrs. Mollie Kolb, wife of Mr. L.W. Kolb and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Green W. Blackman, departed this life, after a lingering illness of many months. Miss Mollie, as she was called by nearly all her friends, was a good woman, esteemed and loved by all who knew her, kind, gentle and sunshining in disposition and manner, she won her way to the good opinion of all with whom she came in contact and so leaves a large number of friends to regret her departure hence. When the aged die it seems to be in accordance with the fitness of things, and in pursuance of a universal law of nature, but when those are taken from us, who like Mrs. Kolb, are in the very zenith of happiness and usefulness the sorrow which follows is one that is felt a thousand fold more keenly. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/pike/obits/k/kolb531ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb

Dale County AlArchives Marriages.....Crumpler, Joe - Crumpler, Jeff 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 3, 2006, 12:42 pm The Southern Star, November 18, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 18, 1885 Page Two Mr. Jeff Crumpler and Miss Joe Crumpler dodged relatives and friends a short while since, went to Elba and were married. Soon after they left for Rusk County, Texas. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/vitals/marriages/crumpler272mr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb

Henry County AlArchives Obituaries.....Sims, Cody L. 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 3, 2006, 12:41 pm The Southern Star, November 11, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, November 11, 1885 Page Two Mr. Cody L. Sims, son of the late Rev. Leroy Sims, of Henry County, was recently found drowned or murdered in the St. John’s River in Florida. Whether he was accidentally drowned, was murdered and thrown into the river or committed suicide are questions not yet decided. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/henry/obits/s/sims530ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb

Dale-Henry County AlArchives Obituaries.....Kirkland, Easter July 20, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 3, 2006, 12:36 pm The Southern Star, September 30, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, September 30, 1885 Page Two Death of a very Old Lady Mrs. Easter Kirkland, was born Sept. 7th, 1777, and departed this life near the line of Dale and Henry counties, July 20th, 1885 lacking one month and eighteen days of being one hundred and eight years old. Her father was Hezakiah (Hezekiah?) Kirkland. Her first husband was William Roebuck. She had some property which she inherited from her father, but her faithless husband took possession of it, and left the wife penniless, in a strange land. She returned to her people in Carolina, and subsequently became the wife of Benjamin Kirkland. She was the mother of eleven children, three of whom are still living. She and her husband, with many relatives of the same name, came to Henry County about 1820, and settled on the place where J.T. Lock now lives, and continued to reside there, till the death of her husband. Many years ago, under the ministry of Rev. R.E. Brown, she joined the Missionary Baptist Church and was baptized by Rev. Wm. F. Irwin. On the 20th of May last she had a fall from which she never recovered. For a great many years she lived a peaceable and quiet life, abiding for the most part with her relatives, but the best of all is, that she was truly pious, and for many years never entertained a doubt of her acceptance with God. We can only realize what a long life she lived, by scanning the past and noting the great events which transpired during her existence. She saw the revolutionary war, the rise and formation of the United States Government, the great wars which shook all Europe during the life of Napoleon the 1st, the last war with Great Britain, the invention of steam, its application to steamboats, the Mexican war, the late civil war, and all the mighty strides which progress and civilization have made in upwards of a century. Practically she was more than twice as old when she died as Methuselah. She left a large circle of relatives in Henry and Dale counties, mainly among the Kirklands and Brackins. Perry File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dale/obits/k/kirkland528ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb

Tallapoosa-Chambers-Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Johnson, Mattie R. September 1, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 3, 2006, 12:34 pm The Southern Star, September 9, 1885 The Southern Star Ozark, Dale County, Ala. Wednesday, September 9, 1885 Page Third In Memory of Mrs. Mattie R. Johnson The departed wife, mother, sister and friend, was born in Tallapoosa County Alabama, Jan. 17th, 1853. Her father removed to Milltown in Chambers County, where she was raised, when she was quite young. She removed to Dale County, at about the age of fourteen years. She became a member of the Baptist Church at Union, under the Ministry of Rev. Caswell Smith, in the summer of 1868. She was married to her now bereaved husband, on the 1st day of September 1870, and departed this life in great peace on the 1st day of September 1885, having lived with her husband fifteen years to a day. She was rational to the last of her life. A short time before passing away, she called husband, children and friends to her bedside, and bid them all a last farewell, exhorting her little children to live right and meet her in Heaven. She was happy beyond the power of expression, and has gone to the blessed immortality of the faithful, “where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.” She was the youngest of a large family, father, mother, three brothers and five sisters, preceded her to the grave – all victims of that dread disease consumption. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/tallapoosa/obits/j/johnson527ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb