William Pritchett and Brother, H. E. Pritchett, of Lothair, Georgia, Organizational Meeting, 1895, Savannah

William Pritchett and Brother, H. E. Pritchett
of Lothair, Georgia

[Subject]: William Pritchett of Lothair in “To Be Their Own Factors: Naval Stores Producers Dissatisfied with Middlemen,” /The Morning News/(Savannah, Chatham, Georgia), 1887-1900, Thursday, 16 May 1895, page 3. 

Another subhead: “They Do Not Think the Best Results Possible Ae Obtained Under the Present System, and Propose to Become Factors on Their Own Account—An Organization Perfected.”

Meeting of Naval Stores Operators

Organizers:

1) Mr. Albert Pridgen, Chairman

---of Pitts [Wilcox, Georgia] 

---“a prominent naval stores man”

2) Mr. G. W. Varn, Secretary 

---of Luraville, [Suwannee], Florida

Meeting Place: Masonic Hall, [Savannah, Chatham, Georgia] 

Date: “yesterday” (est. Wed., 15 May 1895)

Result: new organization formed, “the Turpentine Operators’ Protective Association” 

---Capital Subscribed: $10,000 

---Membership: (of those present) “several did not unite” with the new organization, but “about a dozen operators who were unable to come to the city have taken stock in the association”

      ---par value of share: $100

Attendance: lower than expected; about 25-30 present 

---Present: “D. T. Doughtry of Cordele; J. P. Coffee, Coffee; E. L. Vickers, Arabi; E. H. Vickers, Hybert; A. Pridgen, Pitts; E. S. Gaulden, Oldtown, Fla.; E. W. Bullock, Seville; J. K. Young, Valdosta; D. C. Newton, Pooler; P. H. Carter, Offerman; F. B. Collins, Cairo; F. E. Breen, Doctortown; G. W. Varn, Luraville, Fla.; William Pritchett and H. E. Pritchett, Lothair; W. C. Alford, Daisy; E. P. Rentz, Covena; H. E. Pritchett, Willingham; H. C. Carr, Claxton; W. H. Page, Lyons. Mr. Gignilliat of Gignilliat & Stubbs, was present as legal advisor.”

Chairman’s concerns: “unsatisfactory condition of the naval stores business from the operators’ standpoint” ; low prices (past 2-3 years); poor market ; needs, to obtain better results; need “some concerted action by the producers….” ; need cooperation, protection of business interests; made reference to previous meetings at Cordele, [Crisp, Georgia] where a charter had been formed (submitted here for consideration of adoption; to be explained by Gignilliat. 

Speakers: “Messrs. Doughtry, Carter, Vickers and other operators” (“Some were not as mild as the chairman.” They were dissatisfied with the perceived manipulation of the Savannah market (low prices). “One operator ventured the suggestion that the factors were speculating in spirits.” Other concerns: methods of product disposal (complaints of factors in error, non-specific facts); suggestion of having an agent to handle “their stuff” in the market, to protect their interest with “the factors.” [Quote by a Member]: “It’s the middlemen we believe are considerably to blame for the present low prices,” said one of the operators to a Morning News reporter. [End Quote]. 

[Editorial Quote]: “There is hardly any doubt, judging from the statements made to the News reporter by a number of the operators, that the real intention of the association is to establish another cooperative factorage house in Savannah, modeled somewhat after the Savannah Naval Stores Company.

“Some of the operators who came up for the May week festivities and who did not take part in the meeting expressed the opinion that nothing would come of the new movement and that no efforts to bring the great body of operators together in a cooperative scheme such as this association contemplates would ever succeed.” (Promotors disagree, feeling it will succeed).

Result: Charter unanimously adopted (about 20 voting; some had left); by-laws adopted; elections made. 

Elections: 

President, D. T. Doughtry; First Vice President, K. M. Patterson; Second Vice President, J. W. West. 

Directors: R. L. Bush, J. W. Callahan, P. Rentz, H. E. Pritchett (doesn’t say which one; probably the one from Willingham); P. H. Carter, J. K. Young, D. C. Newton, and E. L. Vickers.

---Remarks: “Directors have large powers, and will lay out the line of action for the association.” Also, “directors were chosen from widely separated points in order that each might have a considerable field to work on for new members.” 

Final Remark: “The Savannah factors, while declining to discuss the movement, do not appear to be at all disturbed by the prospects of having their business diminished through its agency.”

[Source Citation]: H. E. Pritchett of Lothair (and brother, William) in “To Be Their Own Factors: Naval Stores Producers Dissatisfied with Middlemen,” /The Morning News/ (Savannah, Chatham, Georgia) 1887-1900, Thursday, 16 May 1895, page 3 (digital image 3), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (GALILEO). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn86063034/1895-05-16/ed-1/seq-3/print/image_642x817_from_1567,598_to_5053,5028/ (clipping; full page accessed 12 December 2020 by D.K. Pritchett).

Mrs. E. W. "Granny" Sanders of Bartow County, Georgia, and Texas - Two Obituaries, 1896

Elvira Wright (Franklin) Sanders 

Two Obituaries

Obituary of Granny Sanders
The Courant-American

Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia, 13 February 1896, page 1 

[Extract]: 

Name of Deceased: Granny ??? (Franklin) Sanders 

Age: 79 years 

Residence: Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia 

Date of Death: 07 January 1896 

Place of Death: n/a [originally inferred as Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia, but a second, separate obituary clarifies the place as Texas; see below]

Burial: January 1896, Oak Hill Cemetery, [Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia] 

Birth: 01 December 1916, Warren County, Georgia 

Moved to Cartersville: about 1835 

Father: Mr. Felix Franklin [inferred deceased] 

Husband (deceased): Mr. E. E. Sanders, (died a few years after moving to Cartersville with his bride; buried at Oak Hill Cemetery) 

Year of Marriage: approx. 1835 (or not long before then)  

Daughter (surviving): Mrs. Slaughter, a teacher, residing in Palestine, , Texas 

Son (deceased) [Mr. Sanders], a lawyer, died at the Second Battle of Manassas [est. 1860s, Civil War] 

Brother (deceased): Mr. A. M. Franklin ("died several months ago")  

More: generally praising her good character and kind nature and expressing Christian sentiments 

Author of Obituary: "A Friend" 

[Source]: "Mrs. Sanders--A Tribute: Granny Sanders is Dead!" (obituary), /The Courant-American/ (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia) 1889-1901, 13 February 1896, page 1 (digital image 1), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (GALILEO). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054137/1896-02-13/ed-1/seq-1/print/image_566x817_from_3144,4076_to_5511,7490/ (clipping; full page accessed 09 November 2020 by D.K. Pritchett).

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Further research of the facts in this obituary show some slight discrepancies. Here is another obituary: 

Second Obituary

Mrs. E. W. Sanders in Obituary

The Courant-American

Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia, 16 January 1896, page 5

[Quote]:

"The friends in this community of Mrs. E. W. Sanders will regret to learn of her death, which occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. R. Slaughter, at Palestine, Tex., a few days ago, after an illness of only seven days. Mrs. Sanders was a sister of the late Mr. A. M. Franklin and was 79 years of age." 

[External Research: Deceased had been a long-time resident of Bartow County, Georgia; it is not stated whether she had been living with her daughter in Texas for very long at the time of her death.] 

[Source]: 

Mrs. E. W. Sanders (untitled death mention) in "Affairs in the City" (column 3), /The Courant-American/ (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia) 1889-1901, 16 January 1896, page 5 (digital image 5), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (GALILEO). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054137/1896-01-16/ed-1/seq-5/print/image_566x817_from_1759,160_to_2591,1361/ (clipping; full page accessed 09 November 2020 by D.K. Pritchett). 

Marriage Announcements from North Georgia Citizen, August 17, 1899

Marriage Announcements from the North Georgia Citizen
Published in Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia
August 17, 1899

[QUOTED ARTICLE]: 

Love Laughs at Locksmiths.

Cupid Cuts Many Capers and Gives Parents the Ha Ha.

   As was hinted at in last week's Citizen another series of Gretna Greens took place since last we went to press. 

   Judge Bogle has issued License to several parties, who lost no time to avail themselves of the opportunities expressed in his commissions. 

   Sunday afternoon the W. & A. train coming down from Chattanooga brought "two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one"--Mr. Will Dilbeck and Miss Alice Langston who gave the parents of the bride the grand oriental shake, and accompanied by Messrs. Pritchett and C. H. West drove hastily over to Judge Bogle, who furnished the license and tied the Gordian knot. The bride is sister to Mr. Langston, who married Miss Nancy Perry Wednesday night.

   Sam Finley and Miss Mae Moulton came next, and at 9 o'clock Sunday night sought the kindly offices of Judge Bogle, who endowed them with the holy bonds of matrimony. 

   Walter Springfield went down to Lindale Sunday and married Miss Carrie Phillips. 

   Last Friday night Mr. R. W. Manning married Miss Florence Wilson in North Dalton, Rev. J. V. M. Morris performing the ceremony. It was a week of marriage and giving in marriage, and reminded the scribe of Hellena's couplet in Midsummer Nights Dream: 

 "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; 

  And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind." 

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SOURCE OF PUBLICATION:  

Database: Georgia Historic Newspapers 

Archive Period: 1868-1924

Library: Digital Library of Georgia (GALILEO) 

Publication Title: North Georgia Citizen

Publication Place: Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia

Publication Date: Thurs., 17 August 1899

Page 1 (corresponds to digital image 1) 

Subject: Marriage Announcements (Humorous, Elopements) 

Article Title: "Love Laughs at Locksmiths"

Subtitle: "Cupid Cuts Many Capers and Gives Parents the Ha Ha." 

Clipping URL: https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034046/1899-08-17/ed-1/seq-1/print/image_574x817_from_1947,834_to_6085,6713/ 

Full page accessed 03 October 2020

Transcript by: D.K. Pritchett 

Citation: 

"Love Laughs at Locksmiths," North Georgia Citizen (Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia) 1868-1924, Thurs., 17 August 1899, page 1 (digital image 1), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (GALILEO). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034046/1899-08-17/ed-1/seq-1/print/image_574x817_from_1947,834_to_6085,6713/ (clipping; full page accessed 03 October 2020 by D.K. Pritchett). 

Surnames: Dilbeck, Langston, Pritchett (witness), West (witness), Bogle (judge), Perry, Finley, Moulton, Springfield, Phillips, Manning, Wilson, Morris (Reverend).

Death of Ambrose Lockabee ; Imminent Death of Roland Bearden, 1897, Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia

Newspaper: North Georgia Citizen
Place of Publication: Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia
Date of Publication: 19 August 1897
Page: 3 (begins at column 2, bottom of page)
Title of Article: "Bearden Killed Lockabee."
Subtitle of Article: "Son of the Dead Man Wounds His Father's Slayer."
Contributor (of this extract): D.K. Pritchett
Date of Extract: 12 July 2018

"Ellijay, Ga., August 18.--
"Roland Bearden killed Ambrose Lockabee Sunday afternoon about fifteen miles east of here by cutting his throat and was knocked in the head by the victim's son, who was present, receiving wounds from which he will die.
"Bearden was drunk and Lockabee was trying to get him home. They quarreled, and Bearden jerked out a knife and almost severed Lockabee's head from his body with one stroke.
"Lockabee's boy, who saw the fight, hurled a stone at Bearden, crushing his skull."

Trammell - Pomeroy Wedding Announcement, 1896, Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia (Marriage in Marietta)

Database/Library: GALILEO (GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online)
Subject: Trammell-Pomeroy Wedding Announcement
Publication: North Georgia Citizen
Place of Publication: Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia
Date of Publication: Thursday, 25 June 1896
Page: 1
Headline: "Trammell-Pomeroy."
Contributor of this extract: D.K. Pritchett
URL: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ngnewspapers/id:ngc1896-0134 
Access Date: 08 June 2018

Extract of Details: 
Date of Wedding: (not stated; "Tuesday")
Estimated Date of Wedding: 23 June 1896

Bride: Miss Margaret Trammell
Groom: Mr. William Pomeroy
Location: Methodist church in Marietta (Georgia)
Descriptions of dress and decor included

Attendants:

Maid of Honor: Miss May McAfee of Dalton (Georgia)
Mr. Edward Pomeroy, Best Man

Bridesmaids: 
Miss Berta Armstrong
Miss Linda McKinney 
Miss Lena Sessions
Miss Hattie Dunwood
Mrs. Mills McNeel
Miss Sallie Langet
Miss Helen Barclay
Miss Nell Earnest
Miss Margaret Niles

Groomsmen: 

Mr. L. N. Trammell, Jr.
Mr. Lewis Russell
Mr. Dee Cole
Mr. George Anderson
Mr. Wilder Glover
Mr. George Sessions
Mr. Hary Leake

Ushers: 

Mr. James Legg
Mr. Wallace Buttolph
Mr. John Brantley
Mr. Glenn Marchman

Reception: at the residence of the bride's parents

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Citation:

"Trammell-Pomeroy" in |North Georgia Citizen| (Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia), 25 Jun. 1896, pg. 1 (via GALILEO). http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ngnewspapers/id:ngc1896-0134 (accessed 08 June 2018, by D.K. Pritchett).

Elijah Petty, Fannin County, Georgia: Will - 1899

W.D. Petty, Executor of Elijah Petty Will (duty complete)

Transcript of the petition to relieve
W.D. Petty of the duties as executor of the will of
Elijah Petty, following completion of his duties. (1899)

[Transcript begins]:
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Georgia Fannin County }

To the Court of the petition of W.D. Petty Executor or administrator of the last will and testament of Elijah Petty deceased showeth that he has or will fully discharged all the duties of such executor or adm that he has paid all the debts of his testate presented to date has turned over or will the residue on his books to the lawful heirs of the said Elijah Petty decd as provided in said will he therefore prays the usual citation may issue requiring all persons interested to show cause if any they can why he should not be discharged from his administration and while such citation is running his proceedings as such Executor or adm may undergo a through revision by this court

            W. D. Petty  Adm

To the Court of ordinary March term 1899  the above petition having been read and considered ordered that the prayer of petitioner be granted and that the petition be entered on the minutes of the Court

            Thos. J. Wilson  Ordinary

Georgia }
Fannin County }

Whereas W.D. Petty adm executor of Last Will of Elijah Petty represents to the court in his petition duly filed and entered on record that he has fully administered or will [on?] Elijah Pettys estate this is therefore to [lit?] all persons concerned kindred and creditors to show cause if any they can why said Executor should not be discharged from his administration and relieved letters of dismission on the first Monday in June 1899

            Thos. J. Wilson
                    Ordinary
    ____________________

[End of transcript]

Transcribed verbatim insofar as I could read the handwriting. The writing itself is fair, but there is a heaving blurry, smudged quality in the copy that I used to do the transcription. Misspelled words (such as “through” for “thorough”) left as they were in original.

Transcript by D.K. Pritchett, from the files of Southern Muse. Previously published on my Family Tree Documents blog on Tumblr.