Just to remind everyone -- Charlotte's Pearls are now archived permanently at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/mo_newspaper.htm -------------------------------- Jefferson Democrat Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri WEDNESDAY, 1 OCTOBER 1884 DEATHS and BIRTHS - The following deaths were reported the past week: Date Name Age September 14 Joshua HERRINGTON, 84y, 3m, 17d (DOB 28 May 1800, calculated on PAF. C.M.) September 15 Bertha BRUHN 5 years September 7 Ellen HUNT 83y, 10m, 1da (DOB 6 Nov 1800, calculated on PAF.) BIRTHS Date Name of mother Sex September 22 Mrs. Kirtus RICHARDSON boy September 21 Mrs. Frank SWOB boy August 29 Mrs. John WHITE boy August 18 Mrs. Charles M. TAYLOR girl August 19 Mrs. August LEUTZINGER boy WEDNESDAY, 8 OCTOBER 1884 Ettie, daughter of J.C. FOX of De Soto, has been very sick with typhoid fever. Sheriff WEAVER took Charles COLE, col'd, to Jefferson City, last Monday, to serve a term in the penitentiary. Mr. and Mrs. Martin JONES of near Hillsboro, buried their oldest child, a boy of seven years, last Wednesday. Licensed to wed - Gerhard POEPPER and Caroline SPITZ, A.L. ESHBAUGH and Carrie LEE, Randal KEMPI and Melissa KENDRICK, John C. MARTIN and V.C. REEDER. The wedding we spoke of last week will take place this evening at the residence of the bride's parents, in St. Louis. The bride is Miss Loretta HAESSEL and the lucky groom is Mr. J.L. BUSSEY. We have a cordial invitation, which will probably be accepted. (A former Hillsboro belle will marry an Englishman in St. Louis, this week. To be continued next week.) (This item was printed 1 October 1884) John C. MARTIN - now of Marshall, Texas, but formerly of De Soto - and Mrs. V.C. REEDER of the latter place, were united in wedlock, by 'Squire SHEIBLE, at CLARK's hotel, on Monday. This was the 'Squire's first effort in tying the matrimonial knot, and had about the same effect on him as has the first deer on the youthful hunter. Mrs. Ellen HUNT died at the residence of her son, Wilson P. HUNT, near Kimmswick, on the 7th of September, 1884, after a short illness. She was 83 years, 10 months and 1 day old; born in New Jersey, November 6, 1800, and came to Missouri in 1818 and resided here ever since. She was the mother of eleven children, grand-mother of forty-seven and great-grand-mother of forty-one. At the German Lutheran church on Sandy, on the 5th inst., Rev. Ernst LEHMANN united in marriage John W. KEISKER and Miss Emilia M. NEUMILLER of St. Louis, in the presence of many witnesses. After the ceremony the guests repaired to the residence of Mr. KEISKER, and partook of a sumptuous feast. Numerous presents adorned the center table, showing the wishes of their many friends are that success and happiness will follow them as they journey through life. Charles COLE, colored, was found guilty by the jury of attempting to rape Mrs. Lou FINLEY, a colored woman of Charleston. The judge fixed his punishment at two years in the penitentiary. DIED - WATERS - At Windsor Harbor, this county, Monday, September 29th, Mrs. Letitia WATERS, in the 84th year of her age. On Wednesday morning a large concourse of friends from different parts of the county assembled at the residence of her son, L.K. WATERS, from whence they followed her, borne by her old-time friends- Col. L.J. RANKIN, A.T. HARLOW, Wm. CLARK, Col. C.A. NEWCOMB, J.L. DUNKLIN, Skelt RICHARDSON, Col. John O'FALLON and N.B. HARLOW - to the Windsor Harbor Presbyterian church, where the funeral services were held, conducted by Rev. Lyman ALLEN, pastor of the Presbyterian church of De Soto and formerly pastor of Windsor Harbor church, of which she was a member. An hour of precious remembrances and consecration was spent and the large assembly, which had crowded the church, followed the remains to the WATERS cemetery, three miles from Kimmswick, where deceased was interred under a most beautiful covering of flowers, arranged tastefully in anchors, crosses, pillows, etc., tokens from her sorrowing and loving friends. "Grand-ma" WATERS was one of the oldest residents of Jefferson county. She was born in Philadelphia in 1801, moved to Jefferson Barracks in 1830, was married to Capt. WATERS in 1832 at Ft. Leavenworth, before it was a settlement, being compelled to come to Missouri to a magistrate to be married. She and her husband came to Jefferson county in 1838, and built the old homestead on the river bank. For 43 years a wife, mother and widow - her husband died in 1846 - she has lived in the same house. She was the mother of Lewis, Israel and Freeman WATERS, well-known and influential citizens of our county. We need not speak her praises. Her life has been before us as a great sacred influence. Those whom she helped and inspired by her noble words, her fine impulses, her consecration, her cheerful and patient endurance of suffering, and her grand active work for Christ , are legion. they remain with us, scattered thickly over this county, memorials of her whom we all call "Our Mother" God help us all to follow in her footsteps. The remembrance of such a spirit is a sacred shield against temptation, and are enobling and consecrating influences through out life. A FRIEND.