Copied from the History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County, by Eddie Mikell, all rights reserved. Now available on CD and hard copy. E-mail mikell@virginia.edu for purchasing information. You can also bid for this cd on e-bay! April 28, 1892 One Dollar gets a good fur hat at the Racket Store. Mr. Gus Porter of Lexington was in town this week. Mr. Thos. Brady of Tryus was in town last Saturday. Good ladies' shoes at Racket Store at 75 cents and $1.00 per pair. Sheriff Lee visited Hebron and surrounding country last week. Mr. Roland Hall, Jr., of Silver Creek visited our town last week. Rev. R. W Hall will reach in Baptist Church next Saturday and Sunday. Hon. T. A. Dickens of Westville was a welcome visitor to our town yesterday. Our townspeople are patronizing Mr. Hopkins, the photographer quite liberally this week. Today and tomorrow will be the last chance for those failing in the teachers examinations heretofore today. The Silver Creek Racket Store is the cheapest place in Lawrence county to buy shoes. Try it and be convinced. Dr. James B. Magee passed through town yesterday afternoon enroute to Brookhaven, where he will be united in marriage tonight to Miss Ada Chrisman. The Pearl River Singing Association will meet at Crooked Creek church - instead of Silver Creek church, on Saturday, before the second Sunday of July. The Pearl River News is requested to make note of this. To the people of Lawrence county: Mr. Gus Porter, the popular fruit tree man, will be around to see you in a few days. He has a first class Nursury at Lexington, Miss., where only the best qualities of trees are handled. Reserve your orders. OVER A CENTURY "UNCLE" BOB WHEELER, LIVING NEAR BLOUNTVILLE, THIS COUNTY, PASSES AWAY AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 116 YEARS. "Uncle" Bob Wheeler has been a familiar figure to the people of Lawrence county for over half a century and every Circuit Court for years, until very recently, always found him upon our streets; not that he ever had any business in that tribunal, but he came just to see the people. He walked the 15 miles without any sign of fatigue and generally remained until the last witness and juror had left. He was always in robust health and in fine humor and the agility he showed would never lead one to suppose had had passed the Century mark. But all men and all things are destined to pass away, and Uncle Bob, the humble colored man, breathed his last on Friday night, the 15th inst., after an illness of only a few hours. The circumstances relating to his death are rather pecular and superstitious people might regard it as some kind of an omen. Almost immediately, he was taken violently ill and died in a few hours. He was born in Africa in the year that the Declaration of independence was heralded forth to the people of the American Colonies, and before the great struggle for liberty began. He was brought over to thei country before George Washington took his seat and therefore, lived under every president. He was carried to South Carolina, and there lived a number of years. His owners, Martin and Sharp, finally sold him to John H. Oatis, of this county, and he was brought here 61 years ago being then an old man, and having left a large family in South Carolina. He was twice married in this county and claimed to be the father of over fifty children, his wife at one time giving birth to triplets. He was afterwards sold to Rafeal Simmons and when emancipations was declared he was owned by Richard Berry. There is no doubt that he was the oldest man in the State at the time of his death, and it may be possible that he was the oldest in the United States. Peace to his ashes.