Here are a few small obituaries found in the Nashville Journal in 1871. The dates are as listed. W. C. Davis Belleville was shocked on Sunday afternoon, the 29th, to learn that Mr. W. C. Davis, an old and respectable citizen, had died suddenly at about one o'clock. He had eaten his dinner and was reclining in an easy chair when he was suddenly seized with hemorrhage and immediately expired. He had been suffering from consumption for a year or two, but had been better recently. Mr. Davis had been a resident of Belleville for forty years and had accumulated a fortune. He was sixty-two years and two months of age, and leaves a widow and numerous relatives in and around Belleville, but no children. The funeral took place on Tuesday and was largely attended, especially by the older residents of the city. - Feb. 9, 1871; Nashville Journal Samuel Remick A very sad and painful accident occurred at Trenton, this county, on Monday last. Mr. Samuel Remick, a young married man, aged about 30 years, was killed. When last seen alive he was driving a span of mules attached to a wagon. His lifeless body was afterwards found in the road about a mile south of Trenton, having marks of having been run over by a wagon. It is supposed the mules either became frightened, ran away and threw him from the wagon or that he fell. The deceased was a resident of Trenton and is a son of George W. Remick, a gentleman well known over the county. He was a very estimable young man, and his sudden and untimely death casts a gloom over the whole neighborhood. [Carlyle Union. - Feb. 9, 1871; Nashville Journal Isaac Pruitt's daughter – A daughter of Mr. Isaac Pruitt, of Bethalto, was brutally choked to death, at her home in Kansas, by her husband – one Livingstone. They were married in Edwardsville in 1864 by the Rev. E. W. West. The murderer was taken by the populace and hanged. - Jan. 26, 1871; Nashville Journal