Death of Mrs. G. W. Pope

[Death of Mrs. Pope in News]: "Mrs. G. W. Pope died Sunday night after an illness of several days. She was a most excellent lady, and her death was a shock to her relatives and friend. The bereaved family have the sympathy of all."

[Research Note: The estimated day of death is Sunday, 20 January 1895.]

[Source]: Mrs. G. W. Pope in "Death in the Country," The Dawson News. (Dawson Terrell Georgia), Wed., 23 January 1895, Image 1 (Page 1),
Georgia Historic Newspapers (Digital Library of Georgia). 

Marriage of Murdock and Melton, Terrell County, Georgia, 1906

Transcript of Article: 

[Heading]: A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.

[Subheading]: Judge Roberts United a Couple Sitting in Their Buggy in a Street.

Sunday morning at eleven o'clock, standing on the sidewalk in front of his home on Lee street, Judge Roberts united in marriage Mr. William Melton and Miss Annie Murdock, a daughter of Mr. L. M. Murdock of the northern part of the county. The young couple sat in a buggy while the words that made them man and wife were pronounced.

     The bride and groom are both popular and highly esteemed young people, and have the best wishes of many friends.

[End of Transcript]

[Citation]: Murdock and Melton in "A Romantic Marriage," The Dawson News. (Dawson, Terrell, Georgia), 06 June 1906, Page 9 (Image 9), Georgia Historic Newspapers (Digital Library of Georgia).  

Lizzabel Saxon of Cartersville Wins Medal

[Summary of 1903 Article]: 

The News and Courant (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia), 7 May 1903, p.1.

Lizzabel Saxon, of Cartersville, received the medal for best declamation among the girls in the first State Declamation Exercise given by the Georgia Declamation Association. The contest took place Saturday at Southern Female College in College Park. Thirty-five local students and three chaperones, including R. L. Saxon, father of the local contestant, traveled from Cartersville to attend the exercise.

[Source]: “Lizzabel Saxon Wins the Prize” (State Declamation Exercise), The News and Courant (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia), Thurs., 7 May 1903, image 1 (p.1). Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia.

 

Smith Oyler Shot Irby Edwards — 1920 — Chattanooga News

"Fort Payne, Ala., Feb. 9.—Policeman, Smith Oyler who shot and killed Irby Edwards in a midnight duel recently, had his preliminary trial Saturday and was placed under a $500 bond to await action by the grand jury."

[Source]: Smith Oyler, "Policemen Under Bond," The Chattanooga News, [volume] (Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee), 09 February 1920, Night Final, page 10, digital image 10.   

D.C. Sutton arrested for Bigamy — Georgia — 1878

[Quote from The Field and Fireside (Marietta)]: 

"D. C. Sutton has been delivered up by his bondsmen to the sheriff of this county and is now in jail at this place."

[Source]: D. C. Sutton (untitled item), The Field and Fireside (Marietta, Cobb, Georgia) 1877-18??, 25 July 1878, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.

https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053962/1878-07-25/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_566x817_from_197,5012_to_942,6087/

 (accessed 23 January 2022). 

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[D. C. Sutton Back in Jail in Marietta]: 

"The Marietta Journal says D. C. Sutton, 'the alleged bigamist,' who married Miss Young, of this place, and having a wife and several children in Chattooga county, and who was out on a bond of $1,000, was delivered up by his bondsman (his father-in-law) last Monday, and lodged in jail in Marietta, to await trial in November."

[Reference]: D. C. Sutton in Columbus Daily Enquirer-Sun (Columbus, , Georgia) 1877-1886, 27 July 1878, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia.

https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn84024798/1878-07-27/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_592x817_from_37,4054_to_660,4914/

 (accessed 22 January 2022).