---------------------------------------------- 1/16/1903 BAD ACCIDENT NEAR LANE Thursday forenoon about nine o'clock Tinney BLAKE, aged 13, met with what will probably prove a fatal accident. While he was engaged in trying to scare a rabbit from a brush pile, by poking the butt of a shit gun into the brush, the gun was discharged, the load entering the right side just above the hip. After meeting with the accident the boy walked about a mile to home, holding his hand tightly over the wound to stop the flow of blood. R.D. BIRD a neighbor, who happened to be passing the house, was notified and hastened to Lane for a doctor. The case is quite serious and probably will prove fatal, as the entire discharge, including wads remain in the wound. He is the son of James BLAKE, living two miles sound of Lane. ------------------------------------------- 1/16/1903 ( obit has picture included as well) DEATH OF YOUNG LADY Lived in Clinton Most of Her Life - Brought to Clinton For Burial - Funeral Held Monday Miss Flora B. NIXON, died New Years night at 11 o'clock and the remains arrived in Clinton Sunday accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Maggie NIXON and sister, Miss Isadore. The remains were taken to the home of Dr. J.H. TYLER, and funeral services were held Monday at 10:30 in the M.E. church, conducted my Rev. CANADY. Deceased was born near Weldon and her mother moved to Clinton about 18 years ago. She graduated from Clinton high school and was a teacher in the Clinton schools before her mother moved to Bloomington six years ago, where they lived five years, deceased teaching in Bloomington schools during that time. In the summer of 1901 the family moved to Maywood, five miles from Chicago where Miss Flora NIXON had engaged to teach. Late in the fall she took a severe cold, on account of the heating plant in the school being out of order, from which she never recovered. Last August she went to Imperial, Nebraska and remained seven weeks, growing worse all the time. The last of September Miss Nixon went to Imperial and they went to McCook, Neb., but she gradually grew worse. Her mother remained with her and did all possible for her. She was a estimable young lady and in teaching was very successful. She aspired to teach in Chicago schools. So satisfactory was her work that she was always reengaged until she resigned to accept another position. In Maywood when she resigned on account of sickness, it was not accepted and the position was to remain open for her when she was able to teach. --------------------------------------------------- 2/27/1903 GONE AFTER PRISONER Deputy Sheriff CAMPBELL left Tuesday for Russellville, Kentucky where he went to bring to Clinton Winster MARSHALL who is wanted here on charge of jumping board bill of $18 and stealing an overcoat. Requisition papers were secured from Gov. YATES Tuesday. Sheriff HOFF received a telegram stating that MARSHALL had been arrested in Russellville. It is thought that Mr. CAMPBELL will arrive in Clinton today with his prisoner. ------------------------------------------------------ Obit sent to me by Judy Simpson with permission to send to the list. Thanks Judy MRS. ANNA MEISKELLY DEAD --------- Pioneer Woman Dies at the Age of 91 Years---Coroner's Verdict Calls It "Old Age" --------- The coroner's jury Saturday morning decided that Mrs. Anna Meiskelly, 91 years of age, and for over sixty years a resident of Dewitt county, had come to her death by old age. The deceased died suddenly Friday night at 11:30 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Hall, three miles northeast of Clinton, as noted in The Journal of Saturday. She had apparently been in the best of health for some time past and was up and around the house as usual on Friday. She went to bed about 7 o'clock in the evening, and at 10:30 her daughter stated that she heard someone walking around and upon investigation found her aged mother dressing with the intention of getting up, as she thought it was daybreak. The aged lady was induced to return to her bed, according to her daughter's testimony before the coroner's jury, and peacefully passed away while lying on the bed within a half hour. A coroner's inquest was necessary as there was no physician present at the time of the death. Coroner H. A. Moore empanelled the following jury Saturday morning at 9 o'clock and they returned the verdict as given above after hearing the testimony of the daughter. The jury were as follows: Samuel Cobb, Peter D. Williams, William J. McCumber, A. R. Stewart, Drew Barnes and Thomas E. Taylor. Mrs. Meiskelly was born in Maryland on October 27, 1824, and came west with her husband shortly after their marriage, arriving in Illinois in the early fifties. The couple resided on farms in this county all of their life, and made their home on the 160-acre farm where the death occurred for a long term of years. Mr. Meiskelly passed away on the farm twenty-three years ago. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Anna Hall, a brother, S. M. Simpson, of Harper, Kan., and sister, Mrs. Martha Cramer of Maroa, and six grandchildren, including Harley and Alvin Hall of Clinton. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 1 o'clock from the family residence. The deceased was known as one of the typical pioneer women of this part of the country. She came here when the country was young and lived to see it develop into its present prosperous condition and was the owner of a fine quarter second [section?] of land at her death. --------------- ANNALIZA SIMPSON was born Oct. 27, 1824 (Maryland) She married SEWARD MISKELLY Nov. 24, 1844 (Ohio) I have no date for this article, but if she was 91, it had to be 1915 or 1916. Have a Great Day :-) Lacinda [email protected] Page me on ICQ # 9870890 Family Tree Project http://www.geocities.com/~lacinda2 Join the Illinois Roots, Beckham, or Roth Mailing Lists http://www.geocities.com/~lacinda2/maillist.htm Post a Message in The Forum http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb220110