Extracted chiefly from the newspapers, Egyptian Press (EP) and Marion Evening Post (MEP)
April
Will Patterson was killed at the Chicago & Big Muddy mine Saturday when he jumped from his machine to escape an accident, losing his life under the machine he had driven for years. In October he was married to Katie Dwyer of Scottsboro. He leaves a wife, some sisters and brothers and an aged father, Dick Patterson who has for days been at death’s door at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Billy McCluskey. EP Monday, 1 Apr 1912
Mrs. H.M. Baysinger died Friday at her home south of the Lincoln School building. She was about 35 years old and leaves a husband and four children. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. EP 1 Apr 1912
Benton Standard – Harry Stotlar and Mary Adele Cantrell were married Sunday at the home of the bride’s parents, Hon. & Mrs. W.S. Cantrell. They left for a honeymoon in Panama and will be home about June. EP 1 Apr 1912
Jim Price, a white resident of Gent’s addition, was arrested Thursday for bootlegging. EP 1 Apr 1912
Mrs. Dicy Woodside, 87, who slipped and fell 21 Feb and suffered a broken limb, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L.P. Yandle. She is survived by children: Mrs. Yandle and W.W. Woodside and grandchildren, Frank Woodside and Mrs. Geo. White. Burial will be at the old homeplace near Ozark. EP 1 Apr 1912
The body of Frank Morris, who was slain in a blind tiger at Whiteash, was exhumed and the bullet recovered. John Spiller contended from the first that he did not shoot him. He had a 32-20 revolver in his hand and the bullet recovered was a 38. EP 1 Apr 1912
The Williamson County jail, an institution already pronounced by the state board of health and the state charity commission as one of the state’s worst disgraces, is in bad shape again. Thursday and Thursday night’s rain sent many gallons of water through the old leaky roof onto the prisoners and notwithstanding that two and three trusties worked constantly catching, dipping up and mopping the water from the floor, much went through the cell room floors into the living apartment of the jailer’s family below, damaging furniture, etc. Tuesday night was a sleepless night for nearly all of the prisoners as well as the jailer and his family. A lady of the city who visited a prisoner Thursday at the jail was obliged to walk on her heels over the cell room. Think of keeping beings in such a place! Today there is no water on the floors but the whole place is damp and musty and in the right condition to cause sickness among prisoners. The prisoners were talking seriously on Friday of forwarding to the board of county supervisors a resolution resolving to get out of the unhealthy place if they can. Should the entire gang break jail and escape they could not be blamed (?) EP 1 Apr 1912
Joe F. Lauderdale and Frances Harrigan, both 19 and both from Shelbyville, were married Saturday. EP 1 Apr 1912
James Warren died of Bright’s disease Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Kate Holland. Burial was at Bethlehem, east of this city. EP 1 Apr 1912
A marriage licenses was issued Friday to R.E. Walker, 22 and Vessie Lee Sutton, 18, both of Creal Springs. EP 1 Apr 1912
A man named Williams died Friday night at his home in the rocks, bluffs and timber two or three miles east of Pomona. Coroner Forshee is holding an inquest, as the dead man refused to have medical attention during his illness. He slept under a shed attached to the shack he called home. His naked body was found Thursday on the bed on which he had slept for years. It is said that he never slept in the house, and always slept without any clothing on him. It is related that he often went out naked in the night and rolled in the snow, then went to bed. In the 25 or 30 years he lived there, nobody was ever able to learn anything about him. The native curiosity of the neighbors went unsatisfied to the end. The man wore long hair. He kept to himself. He had forty acres of land and when he first went out there he cleared a part of it and built his shack. He raised corn and garden truck, using a garden plow which he shoved without the aid of horse or other animal. On his place were a lot of tools of various kinds. “He had at least two wagon loads of books,” a neighbor related on Friday. He built a galvanized iron tank on a platform much resembling a water tower and in the tank the coroner found a large quantity of food stored. He had two shotguns and two revolvers. The old man never intruded upon his neighbors and rarely went to the village of Pomona. When he did go it was to buy food and supplies of which he would purchase an enormous amount at one time. He had a spring wagon he would load and pull by himself. When he received mail he would go to town and carry home a large tin bucket full of letters and papers. He had deposit slips on banks at Cobden and Alto Pass. A letter was found from his brother in Iowa telling him that $3,500 had been offered for a farm he owned in that state and the brother asked if he should se!! it. Letters showed he had a sister in Missouri. The curiosity of the Pomona people was roused to a great pitch several years ago when a handsome young lady whose bearing showed refinement, visited the old man. She did not remain many days and has never returned. It was believed that the young lady was his daughter. The old man had furnished fireside and fence side gossip for years. Some of the debaters wore out every plausible theory and they finally concluded that in his past he did something which caused him to hide from everyone who knew him. But the fact remains that his relatives knew his address all those years indicate that he was not hiding from the law. EP 1 Apr 1912
Rannel Manier of Crab Orchard and Miss Elsie Absher of Marion were married Saturday. EP Monday, 8 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Friday
Orvey Avey, 23 & Gussie Stroud, 18, both of Johnston City
Grover Hampton, 27, & Chloe Collins, 19, Carterville
Edward Collier, 39, Carrier Mills & Maude Lauderdale, 31, Creal
W.H. Quick, 19, Carrier Mills & Carrie Welborn, 18, New Denison EP 8 Apr 1912
Mrs. Maggie James Nichols, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Joel M. James of Whiteash, died Thursday at the Mount Vernon hospital where for two weeks she had been taking treatment for a tumor. She is survived by her husband and parents. Burial will probably be in Lake Creek cemetery. EP 8 Apr 1912
The first wedding to take place in the new $40,000 First M.E. Church in this city occurred Thursday. Johnston City people were the contracting parties, Ben H. Schule [Schull] and Miss Jennie L. Chapman. The bride is the daughter of W.E. Chapman. EP 8 Apr 1912
A boy was born to Mr. & Mrs. Earl Norman, the first child in the family. They reside at 818 West Main Street. He is in business on West Main Street with his father-in-law, Albert Mcnail. EP 8 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Wednesday
Chas. Ivananskas, 27 & Apolionia Paulanskiute, 21, both of West Frankfort
Elvas Waldron, 21 & Kate Phillips, 18, both of Carterville
T.W. Reynolds, 30, & Anna Profits, 19, both of West Frankfort
Neil Melville, 36 & Margaret Morton, 36, Marion EP Thursday, 11 Apr 1912
Willis Terry and Josie Osborn of Carbondale were married Wednesday. EP 11 Apr 1912
Elsie Dudley, the year old daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Joe Dudley, died Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Dudley’s mother, a short distance north of the Big Muddy mine. She had been suffering about three weeks with pneumonia fever which she contracted just when the family was packed and ready to move from here to St. Louis where the father had been holding a job as conductor on a street car. The body was taken to Scheller, Jefferson County, for burial. EP 11 Apr 1912
Merrett Hower shot and killed his father-in-law, Charley Farris, Saturday near Vienna. EP 11 Apr 1912
Oliver Gains Campbell, known as “Uncle Dick,” died Monday. He was born 24 Jan 1831 in Williamson County, near Bainbridge, at that time the county seat and at a time when there was no city of Marion here. He was the son of Cyrus Campbell who came to this country from Tennessee in the beginning of the last century. but his family was originally from Virginia and belonged to the earliest settlers of that state. Uncle Dick married Sidney S. Stewart 12 Jun 1851. To this union was born five children, all sons. Two died in infancy and a third, Theodore, a former Marion merchant, died eighteen years ago. The sons surviving are: Cyrus of this city and Arthur of St. Louis. He also leaves a sister, Clementine Stilley, now very aged and living at Crab Orchard. He professed religion when a young man and joined the First M.E. Church here when it stood on ground now jointly owned by Fisher’s blacksmith shop and the new telephone building. His wife died sixteen years ago. He donated to the M.E. Church the site where the new church has just been erected. This is the third church building which has stood upon the spot since it was deeded by Mr. Campbell. EP 11 Apr 1912
Rebecca P. Bishop, widow of Judge Jesse Bishop, the city’s oldest lady, died Tuesday. She was 85 years, 9 months and 10 days old. She was not a church member, nor had she ever made a confession of religion. She possessed her own peculiar ideas of religion and lived a life far more proper that that lived by so many church members. During the awful cholera epidemic here many years ago, she spent her time visiting and helping the afflicted ones. She did it at the risk of her own life. She was an angel of mercy. She was born 19 Jun 1826 in Philadelphia. Her maiden name was also Bishop. She and her husband came here in the spring of 1864. Eight children were born but all died in their early years. Her husband, a former county judge, died nine years ago. Burial will be in Rose Hill where lies the body of her departed husband. EP 11 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Monday
Chas. P. Holland, 27 & Graycie Scott, 20, Both of Johnston City
Wladslaw Kiwalla, 23 & Anna Marzarka, 23, Both of Clifford
Guy F. Strickland, 21 & Agnes M. Koenig, 18, both of Herrin EP 11 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Tuesday
Willis Terry, 23 & Josie Osborn, 21, Both of Carbondale Roy Williams, 19 & Flossie Franklin, 16, both of Halfway EP 11 Apr 1912
J.A. Moseley left Monday for Nashville, Tenn. on account of the death of his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Cain, who died there Monday morning. EP 11 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Saturday
Rennell Manier, 19, Crab Orchard & Elsie Absher, 20, Marion Bertie A. Fox, 26 & Minnie M. Hicks, 17, both of Crab Orchard EP 11 Apr 1912
Dedication of the new First M.E. Church will be held Sunday morning. Bishop William A. Quayle will give the dedicatory sermon and will lead in the dedicatory services. He will be assisted by the pastor, Rev. J.H. Davis and by two former pastors, Rev. J.H. Ford and Rev. O.H. Clark. EP Monday 15 Apr 1912
After suffering three years with tuberculosis, Miss Gertrude Sherer died Wednesday. Burial was in Rose Hill near the body of her mother who died a number of years ago. Had Gertrude lived until the first of next December, she would have been 20. She leaves her father, Fred Sherer, sister Mrs. Anna Killman of near Carbondale and brother, John Sherer of Herrin. EP 15 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Wednesday
Herbert Lewis, 23 & Pearl Tyner, 16, both of Cambria
Frank Williams, 31, Herrin & Lilly Pahke, 23, Chicago
Herschel Ashby, 24, Murphysboro & Orpha Biggs, 16, Carterville
James Boywles, 40, Dekoven, Ky & Hattie Rich, 40, Marion EP 15 Apr 1912
A marriage license was issued Thursday to Ed Melvin, 21 & Grace Wall, 22, both of West Frankfort and on Friday to John Tapatosh, 32 & Mary Halts, 18, both of Johnston City. EP 15 Apr 1912
Herrin News After an illness of three weeks, Rev. W.D. Musgraves, pastor of the Methodist Church in this city, passed away Tuesday of Bright’s disease. The body was shipped to Vienna for burial. EP 15 Apr 1912
A.A. Sisk left Thursday for St. Charles, KY., in answer to a message that his brother, E.J. Sisk, was at the point of death at that place with pneumonia fever. Another brother, Lee Sisk, died just one month ago at Greenville, KY., pneumonia being the cause of his death. EP 15 Apr 1912
The old Gent Hotel building will be torn down. This edict against the life of the old landmark was made when the owners of the valuable ground decided to erect a fine two-story modern brick. The brick in the hotel will be used in the foundation of the new building which is to be located on the hotel site and the site formerly occupied by the building in which C.L. Moseley’s store was located. Workmen are now busy tearing away the old frame addition at the rear of the hotel building and as soon as the building proper is vacated by the present occupant it will be torn down. EP 15 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Saturday
D.H. Purdon, 24, Stonefort & Nellie Moulton, 26, Marion
Ralph M. Jones, 30 & Frances W. Hendrickson, 22, both of Marion EP 15 Apr 1912
Lucinda Willeford, wife of Dr. William Willeford, died Monday of pneumonia fever. She was 58 years, 1 month and 23 days old. She was born 22 Feb 1854 on a farm west of this city about three miles. She was Miss Lucinda Wiley, All her life was spent in this county except for a few years spent in Montgomery and Washington Counties, Indiana, following her marriage 24 Sep 1876. She is survived by her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Laura Schubert of Seattle, Wash., and three sons, Dr. Geo. Willeford of Indianapolis, Ind. and LEO & William of this city. One son and two daughters died in their childhood. She leaves a brother, Isaac Wiley of Herrin. EP Thursday, 18 Apr 1912
Ralph Jones and Frances Hendrickson were married Sunday. EP 18 Apr 1912
William Oscar Johnston of Chicago Heights and Daisy Belle Walker of Marion were married Monday in St. Louis. EP 18 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Tuesday
Damirun Kadaovinoch, 30, Johnston City & Apolinounto Paulanskinto, 21, West Frankfort
Harry Bailey, 22 & Lillian Gala, 19, both of Herrin
Walter Copeland, 29 & Martha Sawgeman, 28, both of Herrin. EP 18 Apr 1912
R.D. Holland died Monday. He was born in 2 Oct 1847 Virginia and died 15 Apr 1912. His parents moved here when he was quite young. He married Adele Hundley, daughter of Robert L. Hundley, their marriage taking place 1 Nov 1871. He was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Holland. He leaves two brothers, Major Brice Holland and Justice C.T. Holland, his wife, three children, Robert Holland of Arlee, Montana, Mrs. J.C. Watson of Farmington, Mo., and John Holland of this city. A daughter, Mrs. Charles W. Hay, died here a few years ago. He was a druggist and for many years a grocer. EP 18 Apr 1912
A marriage license was issued Saturday to T.B. White, 23 & Alberta Monroe, 16, both of Herrin. EP 18 Apr 1912
Walter “Whitey” Lewis was shot and wounded Monday by a couple of Italians in front of the Harry Barlow saloon a couple of blocks south of the station at Johnston City. They have not been apprehended. EP 18 Apr 1912
William Wolfinbarger arrived in Carterville Friday after an absence of nearly 20 years and was arrested on a charge of attempt to murder. Nineteen years ago, he attempted to kill a man who had been his closest friend, John Bulliner, brother of Ex-Sheriff E.H. Bulliner. Wolfinbarger claims he has lived in Missouri and Arkansas since leaving here and is now a successful hotel man in Oklahoma. [A lengthy article.] EP Monday, 22 Apr 1912
Henry Jordan, a young man living in the north part of the county, was adjudged insane and ordered sent to the asylum in Anna. EP 22 Apr 19.12
Marriage licenses issued Thursday
Mike Grinewich, 43 & Anna Anresis, 33, both of Herrin
Ernest N. Burklow, 23, Menard & Gertrude Guagegy, 21, Chester
Wlayslaw Staboski, 24 & Anna Seasock, both of Spillertown EP 22 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Friday
James Williams, 22, Halfway & Gertie Angel, 18, Crab Orchard
B.E. Woods, 23 & Mabel Fish, 26, both of Murphysboro EP 22 Apr 1912
N.T. Turner and Orpha Horn, young people of Crab Orchard, were married Thursday. EP 22 Apr 1912
Bertha Phemister, daughter of Theodore Phemister, and Willis Rendleman will be married tonight at the bride’s home southeast of Carbondale. EP 22 Apr 1912
Murphysboro Independent J.N. Higgerson hanged himself on the front porch of his home near the county line four miles north of Anna Thursday night. He was 55 or 60 years old, a widower who had been living alone on the farm. EP 22 Apr 1912
Marriage licenses issued Wednesday
Willis Rendleman, 38 & Bertha Phemister, 28, both of Carbondale
Benjamin P. Spiller, 69, Crainville & Mary E. Smith, 67, Clifford
Frank Jenkins, 28 & Snowey P. Weaver, 18, both of Marion. EP 22 Apr 1912
Officers returned Thursday night from Anna where they took Bob Jordan to the hospital there. His condition is credited to continued ill health and the recent death of a mother to whom he was very much devoted. He is a victim of tuberculosis and has not too long to live. EP 22 Apr 1912
Elder L.L. Smoot was called to near Johnston City Saturday where at the Hartwell Baptist Church he preached the funeral over the body of Cleveland Grant, son of Mr. & Mrs. J.L. Grant of east Lake Creek, who died Friday morning at the home of Ed Pike in Whiteash. He was about 25 years old. He leaves a bride of two months, his parents, two sisters: Mrs. Fred Baker and Mrs. Charley Moake and two brothers: Lewis and George. EP 22 Apr 1912
A.A. Sisk returned Friday from St. Charles, KY., where Tuesday he attended the funeral of his brother, E.J. Sisk who died there Monday of pneumonia fever. This is the second brother Mr. Sisk had had pass away within about a month from the same disease. EP 22 Apr 1912
Jim Garret, Dewmaine’s crack colored officer, has gone to Alabama to bring back Will Black who shot and killed Andy Jones on March 3, when Jones came to ask him for his daughter’s hand. EP Thursday, 25 Apr 1912
The funeral for A.H. Whitney was held there Wednesday. He is the stepfather of Mrs. W.S. Burkhart of this city. EP 25 Apr 1912
Dr. V.A. Baker has purchased a bright new red automobile, a Maxwell runabout, which he is running about the streets these days. EP 25 Apr 1912
A six-month-old child of Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Blackburn, living near Hudgens, died Sunday of pneumonia fever. Burial was at Fountain. EP 25 Apr 1912
A boy was born to Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Fuller. EP 25 Apr 1912
William A. Gambill, living northeast of Freeman, was killed Sunday by the cyclone. He was fastening up his stock in the barn which was torn to kindling wood. His young son and a hired helper were with him and were badly and possibly fatally injured. The bodies of his two grown daughters were picked up in an open field fifty yards from where their home had stood. They were in the house when the wind had picked it up and carried it hundreds of yards away. They were carried in the air and thrown to the ground, each falling a distance of 100 feet. [A lengthy article.] EP 25 Apr 1912
City officers McGill and Carter arrested Charley Guess of this city Wednesday. Wes McCormick, an old man, charged he robbed him of $50 the night before. Guess denies it. It has been stated that McCormick was in a house of ill fame here Tuesday night and one report is he was robbed by a couple of the girls. EP Monday, 29 Apr 1912
Murphysboro Independent Bill Shelton, whose wife was killed in the Bush cyclone Sunday evening, came in this morning with his wife’s sister, Mrs. S. Beason, and her son, Proctor, both of whom are in a serious condition as a result of injuries suffered in the cyclone. Mrs. Beason’s back is broken and the boy is badly injured about the head, his eyes having swollen from their sockets. The Campbell girls who were killed were taken to Bush Tuesday for burial. A Mrs. Weiller was killed in Carbondale. EP 29 Apr 1912
Charley Parks, who went from Chicago to Kiowa, Oklahoma upon receipt of a message informing him of the death of his brother, Howard Parks, a well-known Marion boy, returned to this city Wednesday night. Howard died 18 Apr 1912, ground to death by a train two miles from Kiowa. It is believed by the people of that place that he was murdered. He had been in Kiowa six months and had charge of a restaurant there. He had given up the place and on Thursday left for Cheeatah, Okla., in response to a message regarding a deal for a restaurant he was trying to make. His mother died here a few months ago. Burial was in Oak Hill cemetery in Kiowa. EP 29 Apr 1912
A marriage license was issued Friday to Oliver Anda, 25, Belvidere & Marie Behrens, 25, Park Ridge. EP 29 Apr 1912
“A Friend” wrote a column about Wm. A. Gambill being killed in the cyclone. He mentioned him being at Chicamauga, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He also said Mr. Gambill was a “friend of my youth and a neighbor for many years as we wrung from the hills of Lake Creek our scanty living.” He also mentions Mr. Gambill settling on his farm with his Emily. EP 29 Apr 1912
May
A one-month-old son of Mr. & Mrs. Austin Perryman of Carterville, was found dead Monday morning. EP Thursday, 2 May 1912
A girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. Gus Egner. Also a girl to Mr. & Mrs. Charley Franklin. Mrs. Franklin was formerly Miss Bess Crain. EP 2 May 1912
Jesse Rush, living a few miles southwest of this city, died Monday. He was born 27 Jul 1842 in Monroe County, Ky. He came here when 22 years of age. He married Martha Thompson and the following children were born: Will, Joe, Willis, Oito, Beechard and Herbert. Mrs. Rush died August 9 three years ago. Burial was at Freedom. EP 2 May 1912
Inez Summer, Creal Springs, and C.E. Craig were married Friday. EP Monday, 6 May 1912
Oscar Williams, son of “Bud Williams, living on the Chanaberry farm north of Pittsburg, died Friday at the State Hospital at Anna. EP 6 May 1912
George W. Bradshaw, Terre Haute, Ind., and Daisey Maxey, Johnston City, were married Wednesday. Mr. Bradshaw is superintendent of the Faces Construction Company of Terre Haute and has been in Johnston City for over a year on a large granitoid walk job. The bride is the daughter of Jeff Maxey. EP 6 Mar 1912
A marriage license was issued Thursday to Henry Russell, 24 and Edna Byrd, 18, both of Southern Township. EP 6 May 1912
Marriage licenses
Tuesday — John Isaacs, 20 & Willie M. Smith, 16, both of Thompsonville Wednesday — Vincent Horning, 24 & Mollie Cunningham, 18, both of Benton
Geo. W. Bradshaw, 34, Terre Haute, Ind. & Daisy Maxey, 33, Johnston City
Thursday — C.E. Craig, 22, Marion & Inez V. Summers, 19, Creal Springs EP 6 May 1912
A girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. Charley Parks, their first child. Mrs. Parks was formerly Miss Lucille Crain. EP 6 May 1912
A boy named Joseph Nathan was born to Mr. & Mrs. Roy Aikman. Mrs. Aikman was formerly Miss Sarah Mead. EP 6 May 1912
Notice of probate of will by publication
Estate of E.C. Waters of Creal Springs. The deceased left surviving her Mrs. J.A. Whitesides, E.B. Smith, Mel Smith, William Smith, Edwin Smith, Horatio Smith, Mrs. Josie Griesmer, Thomas Smith, Walter Smith, George Smith, Omer Smith, Rills Smith, “Thelma Taylor and the unknown heirs of Samuel Smith, Horatio Smith and Mrs. Josie Griesmer, all deceased as her only heirs at law. EP 6 May 1912
Sheriff Duncan left Friday for Chester with Will Atess where he will be confined for one year to life for the slaying of Wm. Smith at Weaver. EP 6 May 1912
News of the death of Mrs. Patrick Gavin of Carterville at a hospital in St. Louis was received Wednesday in Murphysboro. The body was taken to Carterville. EP 6 May 1912
Mrs. Mahala Webber, 76, of Stonefort died Tuesday. She leaves daughters, Mrs. J.C.B. Smith of Marion and Mrs. J.L. Ridgway of Stonefort, [sons?] H.L. Webber of Galatia and John Webber of Woodruff, Okla. Burial was at Galatia. EP Thursday, 9 May 1912
Tile Argus, 25, and Bessie L. Riley, 20, both of Herrin, came over to the county seat hand in hand Wednesday morning and lost no time hastening to the county clerk’s office where the bashful young man made the purchase of a marriage license. Squire Samuels happened to be in the office getting himself a drink of water and he was called upon to perform the ceremony, which he did in his usual “collective” way. After the ceremony was performed the bride, turning her back to her new husband, said “Dear, I believe my dress is unbuttoned. Button it up, I want to start breaking you in.” The dear buttoned the dress. While witnesses were signing their names on the document the tickled bride interposed her gum chewing labors with the remarks, “Laws, I don’t feel no change since becoming a married woman.” They left the office and the city soon afterwards on their journey home. Thus ended the tale of another court house wedding. EP 9 May 1912
Card of thanks For assistance during illness and death of our darling little one, Fred Eugene, who passed away Monday. Mr. & Mrs. Dick Adams. EP 9 May 1912
Mrs. Ira Askew, living on East Jackson Street, is in a serious condition suffering from tuberculosis. She is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. A. Boles and a sister of the late Adolph Boles who died about three years ago from the same disease. EP 9 May 1912
A marriage license was issued Monday to Antonio Greco, 27, of Willisville and Giovunian Bruno, 16, of this city. EP 9 May 1912
A baby girl, the first in the family, was born to Mr. & Mrs. Will Carson. They recently returned to this, their home city, after living in North Dakota. The mother is a daughter of Grant Durham on his first chair at the West Side Barber Shop. EP 9 May 1912
William B. Odum, former deputy sheriff of Franklin County, was shot and killed Sunday at Benton by John “Pot” Smith, who was drunk. Odum is the son of former Sheriff Tom Odum of Franklin County, and was the regular night police of the city. [A lengthy article.] EP 9 May 1912
Marriage licenses
Saturday — John Isaacs, 19 & Ethel Welborn, 18, both of Attila. John is a cousin to the John Isaacs to whom a license was issued five days ago.
Andrew Nicholson, 20 & Lilla Thomson, 19, both of Marion
Sunday afternoon Harry Calvert, 25 & Alice Boles, 21, both of Marion hunted up Deputy Clerk Adams’ home and, chasing him to the office, bought of him a marriage license. EP 9 May 1912
In Memoriam In loving memory of our beloved father, James F. Gill, who departed this life one year ago, 6 May 1911. EP 9 May 1912
Mrs. Mary Blake, for many years one of Marion’s leading dressmakers, died Monday at the home of her only child, Mrs. James W. Holland on South Buchanan Street. Four weeks ago she suffered a stroke of apoplexy. She was attacked the second time Monday and lived but a few moments. Burial will be in Rose Hill cemetery. EP 9 May 1912
Fred Eugene Adams, seven-month-old son of Mr. & Mrs. Dick Adams, now of St. Louis, died Monday after an illness of two weeks. The little one sickened on the day of Mrs. Adams’ arrival here for a visit with her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Ben Gibbs on South Van Buren Street. Brain fever was the trouble. Burial was in Maplewood cemetery. The parents are former Marion people who moved a few months ago to St. Louis with Mr. Adams’ parents, Mr. & Mrs. L.A. Adams, where the father and son are in merchandising together. The parents have left to them one son, aged three. EP 9 May 1912
Three Dog Walk inhabitants of the feminine sex were arrested Thursday. Mrs. Oral Smith, Mrs. Charley Hill and Miss Norma Willis each entered a plea of guilty to fighting and were fined $5 and the cost. All paid up and left the courtroom — one at a time. It is stated the three got into their fighting habits and lit into each other Thursday morning. All resorted to hair pulling, scratching and screaming. When the dust of battle was settled, three vicious and tattered females were found to have been the victims. The cause of the misunderstanding has not been learned. It might have been chickens or kids or new spring bonnets. EP Monday, 13 May 1912
Murphysboro Rep-Era White haired Jesse Henson, of West Murphysboro, was arrested on complaint of Anna Callahan, a slip of a girl, on the charge of bastardy. Henson is past 70 years old, married and denies the charge. The girl is the mother of a six week old child. She is said to be an orphan and about a year ago worked at the shoe factory. EP 13 May 1912
Miss Louis Bate and John F. Roberts, of Creal Springs were married Sunday at the home of the bride’s parents, three miles west of Makanda. They will make their home at Creal Springs. EP 13 May 1912
Grand jury indictments
Clyde & John Spiller, assault to murder
Wash Graves, murder
Bun Davis, assault to murder & malicious mischief
Ernest Marshall, assault to rape
Logan Pulley, Fred Barth & Oscar Snyder, selling liquor in less than five gallon lots in wet territory
Charley LaSusa, the same
Ed Pulley, selling intoxicants in dry territory
Fred Sanders, malicious mischief
George Morgan, assault and battery
Slim Anderson, malicious mischief
Joe Mitchell, assault to rape EP 13 May 1912
A marriage license was issued Wednesday to Joe Yakuttis, 28 and Bertha Blusino, 17, both of Royalton. EP 13 May 1912
Carbondale Free Press Frank Bates shot Fred Steele Wednesday at Carbondale. Steele died at 8 o’clock this morning. They are both Negroes. EP 13 May 1912
Mrs. Charley Peyton, colored, died Thursday at her home on South Monroe Street. She leaves her husband who is a well-known house cleaner of this city and six children, three of them less than four years of age. The older ones are, Frank, Slondo and Beulah. She also leaves a brother, Hays Alexander. Funeral services will be at the colored Missionary Baptist Church on South Monroe Street and burial will be in Rose Hill cemetery. EP 13 May 1912
Joe Mitchell, a Herrin Italian, was sentenced to one to fourteen years in prison for trying to criminally assault his landlady’s ten year old daughter. [A lengthy article.] EP Thursday, 16 May 1912
Floyd Edwards, 25, of Johnston City and Letta Hogg, 18, of Carbondale were married Monday. EP 16 May 1912
Rev. J.H. Davis preached the funeral Monday at West Frankfort of Rev. Frank Pyles, an old time friend and local minister. EP 16 May 1912
Murphysboro Independent Ed Schrader died Monday of typhoid in St. Andrews Hospital where he had been placed Saturday. He is the man a cheap carnival company left sick on a cot under a tree on a vacant lot last week. EP 16 May 1912
Mrs. Charley Hill came in from Dog Walk Monday and to this paper denied she was included in the party of Dog Walk women arrested a few days ago. EP 16 May 1912
John M. Campbell, who was badly injured by the cyclone at Bush, has been adjudged insane and was taken to the asylum at Anna Thursday. Mrs. Campbell was instantly killed; their month-old baby and nine-year-old daughter were so badly injured they died on the relief train on the way from Bush to Murphysboro the night of the cyclone. Four other children were badly injured. EP Monday, 20 May 1912
Maria K. Christine Broeking, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. August Broeking, died Friday of dropsy of the heart. She was born 6 Jan 1881 at Edwardsville. Ever since her birth she has been an invalid. The death of her brother nine months ago had a serious effect on her. EP 29 May 1912
Marriage licenses issued Thursday
Elmer Cox, 18, Virdin, Ill., & Mary Leonard, 17, Johnston City Ralph Roberts, 24, Corinth & Maude Clark, 18, Johnston City EP 20 May 1912
Thomas Cluck, 21 and Ollie Levy, 26, both of Herrin, were married Wednesday. EP 20 May 1912
Put it down in your little notebook, “May 16, 1912, sleet.” It will be interesting to look up in after years and tell your friends about. Considerable amount of sleet fell in this section Thursday morning and all were reminded that winter has not yet passed. EP 20 May 1912
The family of “Booger” Graves, the Fordville man who shot and killed Charley Trout, is destitute. The wife and five children are still living at Fordville. The children are all small, the youngest one having been born since Graves was jailed here. When Graves went to jail, he owned a team, a cow and some hogs, besides a small handful of household goods. He lived in a rented house. Since indicted he has sold the hogs and cow and turned the money over to lawyers. Mrs. Graves has had children by him at the rate of one about every twelve months. EP Thursday, 23 May 1912
Richard Patterson, living with his daughter, Mrs. William McCluskey at Scottsboro, died Sunday of tuberculosis. He was 61 years old and leaves ten children. He was the father of William Patterson, who lost his life a few weeks ago at the Big Muddy mine. EP 23 May 1912
Fannie Aikman and Arthur Miller were married Thursday at the home of her parents, MR. & Mrs. Jerome Aikman. 27 May 1912
A three-month-old son of Mr. & Mrs. James Tippy, Jr., died Thursday night. It was one of twins. Burial will be at Shiloh. Also, a three-month-old son of Mr. & Mrs. Willis Treece, of Scottsboro, died Thursday. Burial will be in Rose Hill. EP 27 May 1912
Marriage licenses
Wednesday — Charlie Lithus, 27 & Kiesy Zilenskey, 26, both of Herrin
Thursday — Dug Williams, 35 & Anna Jacobson, 38, both of Herrin
Edward Carnaghi, 24 & Mari Biotto, 19, both of Herrin
Arthur Miller, 23, Southern Township & Fannie Aikman, 28, Marion EP May 27 1912
That a dream is responsible for the death of Arthur Warren who died Friday morning from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, is now the contention of his bride, who on Friday morning refused to testify before the coroner’s jury but who, before the inquest had been finished, voluntarily consented to make a statement to Coroner Russell, not under oath. Mrs. Warren states that a dream that her husband had a night or two before he committed suicide caused him to want to take his own life. A statement made by the dying man to his brother, which statement was repeated Friday morning at the inquest tells a different story. It tells of the unfaithfulness of the bride of less than four weeks and discloses a story in which another man figures as a sweetheart of Warren’s young wife. Warren died Friday morning at 2:35 o’clock from peritonitis which set up as a result of the powder burns throughout his intestines. He died within forty hours from the time he shot himself. The funeral will be held at the house where the tragedy occurred and the body will be taken to Bethlehem, three miles east of here, where it will be laid away by the side of his parents who are both resting there. John Warren, a brother of the dead man, is considered the main witness. He was working a few blocks from Arthur’s home the morning the shots were fired. He was soon on the scene. To him at the time Arthur stated he did not know why he shot himself. He said he did it on purpose, but at the same time it was an accident. He said he had the min in the bed with the intention of killing himself and that as he started to draw it upward under the cover in order to place it against his breast so he could shoot himself through the heart, the gun went off before he had placed it to his breast. That night, following the operation and after the surgeon had told the relatives that he could not recover, John, anxious to know the exact cause of the act, remained with the stricken brother all night. During the night he persuaded him to tell why he had shot himself. Others were told to leave the room and to John the statement was made. Warren said he wanted to kill himself because of trouble with his wife, to whom he was married April 29th. He stated that his bride continued to keep company with an old “fellow” of hers, Arthur Bennett, a married man and that she would not leave Bennett alone. He had given up in despair. The wife in her talk to the coroner stated that a dream caused her husband to take his life. She said a night or two before he shot himself he had a dream in which he saw himself separated from his wife because of her preference for her former “sweetheart” Bennett. She said it preyed on his mind and had made him act queer ever since two days before the shooting. John, in his testimony, also stated he detected the smell of whiskey on Arthur’s breath after he arrived and upon questioning Charley Guess, who was present, was told that Arthur had taken four drinks from a bottle of whiskey. The gun with which he did the shooting belonged to Charles Guess and Warren had it in soak. Warren and Guess are said to have had trouble towards each other for a few days previous to the shooting. However, Guess and his affinity, Joe Hitchins’ wife, were present when Warren fired the shot. EP 27 May 1912
A girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. Sam V. Aikman, the first in the family. The mother was formerly Miss Ethel Copher. EP 27 May 1912
A marriage license was issued Friday to Charles Bell, 21, Attila & Maggie Beers, 21, Corinth. EP 27 May 1912
Joe Caruso, a former blind tiger proprietor at White Row, the man whose business burned in a mysterious fire in September and but a couple of nights after his brother, Monte Caruso, was slain in a Sunday afternoon battle fought near his joint, has returned. Charley Cordoro, his brother’s slayer, was sent to the pen for the slaying of the two men at White Row. EP Thursday, 30 May 1912
Marriage licenses
Sunday — Henry Hampton, 24, West Frankfort & Vinnie Lentz, 22, Wolf Creek
Monday — John Laney, 22, Creal Springs & Clara Sulkins, 16, Marion
Tuesday — Willie Adams, 21, Carterville & Myrtle Taylor, 19, Crainville EP 30 May 1912
Mabel Winn, infant daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Winn, died Tuesday. The body was taken to Burnside for burial. EP 30 May 1912
Marriage licenses issued Saturday
Lath Thompson, 25 & Millie Baker, 19, both of Grantsburg
J.R. Bradbury, 21 & Nell Duston, 19, both of Marion
Walter L. Kennedy, 24, Herrin & Ethel Lype, 23, Marion EP 30 May 1912
The baby boy of Mr. & Mrs. Bert Stotlar, formerly of Mount Vernon, who now live in North Dakota, died Sunday, according to a message received by Mrs. Stotlar’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. WM. Reid on North Van Buren Street. The little fellow died from result of bad burns received in the Stotlar home two- months ago. Mrs. Stotlar’s sister, Mrs. Ella Austin of Benton, left Monday for North Dakota. Mrs. Stotlar is a former Marion girl–, Miss Nellie Reid. EP 30 May 1912
Roscoe Bradbury and Nell Dunston were married Sunday. The groom is he son of Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Bradbury. The bride has been making her home with her grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. M.W. Dunston. EP 30 May 1912
Mrs. Nannie Wester, surviving wife of a former Marion pastor, Rev. H.B. Wester, died Monday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ed Duke. Before her marriage, she was Miss Nannie Corder. She is survived by no children. She leaves several step children, among whom are: Mrs. Fannie Bills of this- city and Will Wester who. last season operated a motion picture show here. She leaves one brother, L.K. Corder of Carterville, two sisters., Mrs. Duke and another in Saline County.. She left carefully written instructions for funeral arrangements, etc. and wrote her own obituary. EP 30 May 1912
June
John W. Lee, 78, of Oklahoma, a visitor here, fell dead Saturday in the small suburban store operated on North Court Street by his nephew, John Lee. His home was in Missouri and he had been visiting his nephew for a month. He was laughing at the time he started to walk across the floor. Suddenly he dropped and was dead. The body was taken back to Missouri. [It says he was of Oklahoma and Missouri, both.] EP Monday 3, June 1912
Bill Smith, Herrin, died Friday from drinking carbolic acid at the Bradley Hotel where he and his wife had a room and where his wife was head cook. He was a painter and paper hanger who formerly was in the restaurant business there. EP 3 Jun 1912
DuQuoin, Ill. George Engel slew his sister-in-law, Anna Yost, last night and then wounded his wife. The former was stabbed in the heart with a butcher knife. His wife was stabbed in the back and physicians say she cannot recover. The lower portion of her body is paralyzed. The stabbing was the outcome of a family quarrel at the home of Engel’s father-in-law, Philip Yost, where his wife and children were staying. Engel fled and was captured near St. John. He has three small children who witnessed the act. EP 3 Jun 1912
A marriage license was issued Wednesday to Adolph Sharnovak, 27 & Barber Dielskies, 18, both of Herrin. EP 3 Jun 1912
Rob Davis — In Memoriam Our schoolmate who last summer so suddenly gave up his life. Marion High School EP 3 Jun 1912
Albert Davis, nephew of W.M., D.A. and C.T. Davis of this city, died Friday at a hospital in St. Louis. He formerly lived in this city, making his home with W.A. Davis. D.A. Davis will go to St. Louis and will accompany the body to the deceased’s former home in Eldorado. EP :3 Jun 1912
G.W. Morris and Grace Mayberry of Thompsonville were married Wednesday. EP 3 Jun 1912
Mrs. Anna Hamilton shot Walter Powell, a gambler, at No. 9 north of Dewmaine. The trouble was over the ownership of a suitcase. Both are Negroes but are as white in color as most white persons. He is thought to be mortally wounded and she is in jail. EP Thursday, 6 Jun 1912
Mrs. Rebecca A. Womachk of near Creal Springs was adjudged insane and ordered committed to the asylum at Anna. EP 6 Jun 1912
Marriage licenses issued Saturday
John M. Sisney, 21 & May Barringer, 19, both of Cambria
Albert Spears, 23 & Susie Grigsby, 23, both of Dewmaine
George T. Shumate, 30, Herrin & Victoria Brock, 19, Fordville
Roland Wilson, 21 & Nora Pulley, 21, both of Marion
Petite Colp, 22, Hurst & Nancy Clifton, 18, Osage EP 6 Jun 1912
Card of Thanks Although a stranger in this country, I feel it my duty to thank those good people of Marion for the assistance rendered during the sickness and sudden death of my father. T.A. Lee, Jasper, Mo. EP 6 Jun 1912
A marriage license was issued Tuesday to Edward Collison, 22, Pontiac, Ill. and Gladys M. Henry, 21, Crea! Springs. The wedding will take place tonight at Crea! Springs. EP 6 Jun 1912
The Carterville police Monday arrested Mrs. Lon Dalton and her daughter, Dovie Wilhelm, at first charged with running a disorderly house. After the arrest the police surmised the girl’s age was not of many years and by doing some good` sweating, caused the mother to confess a crime known these days as white slavery. They formerly lived in Harrisburg. The girl is fourteen years old. She was released from jail Tuesday morning and sent to the home of a relative in Carterville. EP 6 Jun 1912
George Sanders, Johnston City, was arrested Saturday night on a charge of wife beating and placed in jail. He wrote a letter to Dovie Wilhelm and passed it to her. As it passed from the women’s department to the men’s department, the jailer got it. It read, “Cutye I ast you if you remimber where you meet me tell me where it was I think I met you more than once I think me and a little feller at dorisvile was at your hose more than once tell me your rite naim and I will no tell tell me what you have don it wont go now father write on the other side I would like to talk to you but I cant.” She wrote back, “I don’t think you was ever at my house. Who was the little fellow there. Don’t you know Lonzo Dalton? He used to run a butcher shop threre. This is his wife and step daughter. My name is Dovie Wilhelm. Don’t you remember about two years ago I was going over home and met you at Parker? You told my aunt you would take me over. Excuse my writing. Yours truly, Dovie Wilhelm. EP 6 Jun 1912
A message arrived in this city Tuesday stating Harry Davis, nephew of W.M., D.A. and C.I. Davis of this city, had been found dead in the switchyards of Evansville, Ind. He had attended the funeral of his brother, Albert Davis, at Eldorado and was Albert’s younger brother. EP 6 Jun 1912
Marriage licenses
Thursday — Grant Franklin, 22 & Lillie Seets, 20, both of Herrin
Ed Mercer, 22 & Florence Doty, 18, both of West Frankfort
Friday — Leo 0. Strong, 30, Cobden & Fay Roberts, 23, Marion
Saturday — Floyd Hicks, 20 & Lora Council, 18, both of Herrin
Lee Chamness, 22 & Della Mcroy, 23, both of Creal Springs EP Monday, 10 Jun 1912
Mrs. H.A. Yewell, wife of a farmer living four miles south of Carterville, was adjudged insane Saturday and taken to the Anna hospital. EP 10 Jun 1912
A.R. King, Hosea Cagle’s driver, and L.E. Holmes when arraigned for trials in Justice C.C. Davis’ court, pleaded guilty to charges of being out after sunset without lights on their machines and were fined $10 and three cost. This makes three cases in the city within the last few days. Moral: Be of the seven wise virgins. EP 10 Jun 1912
A boy was born to Druggist & Mrs. Phil Cline, the first child in the family. Mr. Cline is the son of the veteran druggist, J.M. Cline and Mrs. Cline is the daughter of Mayor & Mrs. J.H. Burnett. EP 10 Jun 1912
DuQuoin Call Mrs. Rose Engel died at the home of her brother, Chris Yost, in this city, yesterday. She received the wound at the hands of her husband, George Engel. The crime which caused her death was the means of the sacrificing of two lives as she was soon to have been a mother. She was about 40 years old and leaves children aged 7, 9 and 10 years. EP 10 Jun 1912
Carmi Democrat While walking from Eldorado to Evansville, Harry Davis, 23, was struck by an L & N train three miles west of Evansville early Tuesday morning and instantly killed. A letter was found in his pocket with an Evansville postmark and was written to him by Miss Mattie L. Landreth, his second cousin. The receipt of the letter is supposed to have moved him to visit relatives in Evansville. The body was sent to his relatives at Eldorado. EP 10 Jun 1912
George Leamond of Carterville was arrested on a charge of rape. The complainant is a Mrs. Tippy, about 35 years old. Mr. Leamond says she has been living with him. He has a wife in Carterville. EP 10 Jun 1912
Marriage licenses issued Wednesday
A.J. James, 24 & May Chamness, 17, both of Carterville
Oval M. Fowler, 24 & Dellie Jones, 19, both of Pittsburg EP 10 Jun 1912
In loving remembrance of my dear husband, Amzi F. White, who departed this life three years ago today, June 12, 1909. Mrs. Amzi F. White EP Thursday, 13 Jun 1912
Evelyn Warder and Hosea V. Ferrell were married Wednesday at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Warder. EP 13 Jun 1912
Joe Trellkireolla, Sicilian, was shot to death Sunday at Whiteash. He was walking along the first street north of the village’s broadway with a couple of men he no doubt thought were friends. One pulled a revolver and shot him at short range. He was shot twice with a 38. EP 13 Jun 1912
A telephone message came from a Kentucky village Monday to Mr. & Mrs. Casper Davis stating that their seventeen-year-old daughter, Muriel, married at that place Sunday. She went to Kentucky about two weeks ago to visit a cousin, formerly Hazel Story. They are expected to arrive in Marion Tuesday. EP 13 Jun 1912
Marriage licenses
Saturday – Gill Rogers, 37 & Annie Grant, 27, both of Johnston City
W.T. Swinney, 27 & Lulu Sisk, 27, of Decatur and Marion
Monday — Ira M. Dooley, 22 & Daisy B. Martin, 19, both of Harrisburg
Tuesday — Hosea V. Ferrell, 31 & Evelyn Warder, 25, both of Marion EP 13 Jun 1912
W.F. Swinney of Decatur and Lulu Sisk of Marion were married Saturday. The bride is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Freeman Sisk. They will live in Decatur. EP 13 Jun 1912
Estes Newell and George Bogart both of this county, passed through here on their way to J.E. Finucane’s stock farm east of here with a load of fine registered Poland-China hogs. Mr. Finacune, the well-known railroad contractor, who is on a large job for the C.B. & Q at Christopher, is sending the swine to his farm with the expectation of raising some fine stock in the future. EP 13 Jun 1912
A boy was born to Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Spiller. Mrs. Spiller is the former Miss Mary Lines. EP 13 Jun 1912
Anna Dick, colored, was slain Thursday in a fight at No. 9. Sudie Gibson was arrested for the killing. Will Cook alias William Henry is held as accessory in that he is said to have held the Dick woman down while the Gibson woman stabbed her. EP Monday, 17 Jun 1912
Marriage licenses issued Friday
Blaintin Gamblin, 22 & Grace Talbot, 19, Johnston City
H.M. Moore, 26 & Minnie Sanders, 21, Both of Benton
George Waldron, 19 & Eva Butts, 17, Both of Carterville
Laura Winchester, 21 & Ora Childers, 19, Both of Herrin
H.F. Murphy, 22, Carterville & Lulu B. Hendon, 20, Wayside, Ill. EP 17 Jun 1912
A marriage license was issued Wednesday to Alex Richardson, 25, and Ethel M. Phillips, 21, both of Carterville. EP 17 Jun 1912
A boy, the third child in the family, was born to Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Awls. EP 17 Jun 1912
Cora H. Russell, wife of Coroner Samuel Russell, died Thursday at her home in Carterville. She had suffered many months with tuberculosis. She was before her marriage, Cora Orwin. Burial was in Russell cemetery. EP 17 Jun 1912
The graduating exercises of the Frederick Douglas school were held Thursday evening at the courthouse and a large number of school people and friends and patrons were present to witness the first colored school commencement exercises of the city of Marion. Rev. Frederick Douglas is the principal. The coincidence of his name being the same as the great Negro educator, in whose honor the building was named, has previously been spoken of. The Rev. Mr. ALSTON of Metropolis, minister, orator and publisher, made an excellent address. EP 17 Jun 1912
A marriage license was issued Thursday to Biagias Vagia, 37, and Anna Romeo, 37′, both of Herrin. EP 17 Jun 1912
Mrs. Matilda Hall of Fordville died Wednesday. She leaves a number of relatives, one being a brother, Cal Hodges formerly of this city. Burial was at Rose Hill. EP 17 Jun 1912
Does Blevins Remember?
Three years ago today at eleven o’clock, Newton Blevins, now a life termer at Chester, cashed at the Marion State and Savings Bank here, the $300 certificate of deposit which he took from the body of Jimmy Depalma, after he had murdered him in the Cache river bottoms, three days before or on the tenth. It is wondered if Beivins today, as he gazes at the blank stone walls or through the gratings that promise to keep forever from him the liberty, remember that morning three years ago today. He, on the tenth, had cause to remember the scene of that fatal tenth of June for by a degree of the court the tenth of each June is to be spent by him in solitary confinement where he is given a chance to think over the crime for which he is doomed to felon’s garb for life. EP 17 Jun 1912
Word has just leaked out that Mrs. Ella Perry, a former Marion lady and widow of the late Crab Orchard merchant, John Perry, has changed her name to that of Eubanks. She was married to Dr. Eubanks, an optician on Monday last. They are now in Creal Springs for a few days and will soon be leaving for this city where they will reside on her property in Thorn Place. The doctor will locate here. EP 17 Jun 1912
A girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. Will E. Lewis. The mother is the former Miss Maggie McIntyre. EP 17 Jun 1912
George Leamon, the Carterville citizen who was arrested on a rape charge, was taken before Justice C.C. Davis for a hearing Thursday. At the hearing, the woman in the case, the prosecuting witness, went back on the state’s attorney and there being no other evidence, the man was released. EP 17 Jun 1912
The matter of building a new jail was brought up Wednesday and discussed considerably. The Board of County Supervisors appointed a committee composed of Hartwell of Northern, Parks of Crab Orchard and Bradley of West Marion to visit modern jails in Southern Illinois and be ready to report back on June 20th. They will be accompanied by Sheriff Duncan who, by the way, will go on his own expense. They will gather prices and ideas. At the previous board meeting, a committee was appointed to take an option of the K.P. building lot located on South Van Buren Street in the block that corners the square on the southwest. The committee reported Wednesday they had secured the option, the price being $2,000. The matter of purchasing it was voted down, but hardly had the vote been counted when a motion was made to reconsider the question later. It was to be put to a vote again in the afternoon, but a delegation of people owning property in the vicinity of the proposed site entered a protest, pointing out the damage it would do to their property to establish a jail at this place. No vote was taken. EP 17 Jun 1912
A marriage licenses was issued Tuesday to Fred Beasley, 24, Harrisburg and Lillie Venus, 18, Crea! Springs. EP Thursday, 20 Jun 1912
The committee appointed to visit modern jails, went to Benton and looked the jail over. They found the finest county jail south of East St. Louis and a place where 100 prisoners could be as easily confined as 20 in the old jail here. The same committee will go to Harrisburg and a visit to Murphysboro may also be made. EP 20 Jun 1912
A baby girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Burks. EP 20 Jun 1912
Marriage licenses issued Saturday
R.W. Blades, 25, Johnston City & Gertie Edwards, 22, Thompsonville B.H. Floyd, 23 & Mary Willet, 19, both of Marion. EP 20 Jun 1912
Joe Hutchins was picked up on Tuesday and placed in jail on an execution. He is the one who got mad not long ago at Charley Guess when he thought he saw him with his (Joe’s) wife and tried to shoot him up for it. EP 20 Jun 1912
Joe Smith, a Weaver citizen, sat down on the I.C. railroad track Monday night near Herrin. Two hours later a switch engine came along and cut all the toes off one of his feet. He was taken to the Marion hospital where surgeons amputated the torn up part of his foot. A portion of the foot was saved, but he will be a cripple the balance of his days. It is not known if he was drunk or just simply tired and lazy. He is 29 and a man of family living at Weaver. EP 20 Jun 1912
Mrs. Joe Treolla and four children ranging in age from a few months up arrived Sunday night at Spillertown from their home in Sicily. They came to meet their husband and father here and with the intention of making their home with him. But they did not find him and will never again see him. He was murdered at Whiteash on Sunday night last by a couple of Black Hand men who made their escape. They were met at the station by a number of Italians and Sicilians who informed them immediately why Joe was not there to greet them. The shock made them mad and the scene which followed was credited by passengers who were on the train and who witnessed, very touching. In her anguish, the woman threw herself upon the ground and acted as though bereft of reason. The cries of the fatherless little ones touched the hearts of everyone. EP 20 Jun 1912
Carbondale Free Press Joe Kimmel, brother of Mrs. J.M. Scurlock, S.S. and John Kimmel of this city, was found dead in bed at the Scurlock home Sunday morning. The first of the week he had been robbed at Cairo and thrown in the river. His Cairo experience is thought to have led to his death. EP 20 Jun 1912
William Murphy was killed at the W.R. Rend mine at Rendville Sunday by falling slate. He was a single 26-year-old man whose home was in Coal City, Ill. His body was shipped to his parents up north. EP 20 Jun 1912
Lydia Elizabeth Sawyer, wife of George W. Sawyer, a Marion attorney, died Saturday. Her death was from cancerous trouble. She was born 24 Dec 1871 near New Hope Baptist Church in Massac County, the daughter of Robert C. and Mary J. Barham. Her father was at one time sheriff of Massac County. She married 31 Jan 1892 . One child was born, Robert. At fourteen months of age he was called from this earth to a home in Heaven. The Sawyers moved to Marion two years ago the 18th of last April. She leaves her mother who has made her home with Mrs. Sawyer the past ten years, a sister, Mrs. Geo. M. Clark of Paragould, Ark., a nephew, Walter T. Clark of Paragould, Ark., and a niece, Mrs. L.A. Beatty of Arkansas City, Kansas. Burial will be at [the?] Metropolis cemetery. EP Monday 24 Jun 1912
A three-month-old child of Mr. & Mrs. Joe Baldassano died Thursday. Burial was at Rose Hill. EP 24 Jun 1912
In loving remembrance of Mildred Hoy, daughter of Joseph and Maude Hoy, who departed this life June 23, 1911.
Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on his gentle breast,
There by his love overshadowed
Sweetly thy soul shall rest. EP 24 Jun 1912
It has just come to light that “Sandy” Thompson has become a benedict by taking unto himself a wife in the person of Miss Laura Lence of Marion. EP 24 Jun 1912
A boy was born to Mr. & Mrs. L.O. Caplinger, their first child. The mother is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. L.B. Pulley. EP 24 Jun 1912
Dr. C.H. Eubanks of Fairfield and Mrs. Ella Perry of Crab Orchard were married Monday. EP 24 Jun 1912
Telling friends they were going to Johnston City, E.C. Forbush and Mrs. Lucy B. Bryan went to Salem instead on June 14th and were married. They kept it a secret more than two weeks. The groom is manager of the Marion Pressed Brick Company. The bride has been one of Marion’s leading dress makers the last two years. EP 24 Jun 1912
Frank Roberts and daughter, Mrs. Claud Norman, returned from Anna, bringing with them their wife and mother who has been in the hospital there for the last nine years and whose condition is now so critical that it is not believed she will live many days. EP 24 Jun 1912
Holland Woods, aged 9 years, son and only child of Mr. & Mrs. Mitch Woods, died Wednesday at the home of his grandmother in Brookport, Ill. The death followed an illness of but a few days with typhoid, which illness was contracted soon after going to Brookport to make his vacation visit with his grandmother. The body will not be brought back to Marion, but will be buried in Pell cemetery at Brookport. EP 24 Jun 1912
Mrs. Cora H. Orwin Russell, wife of Samuel Russell, was born near Logansport, Cass County, Indiana in 1875 and died 13 Jun 1912. At the age of six years she moved with her parents to Kentucky and after living there two years, moved to this county. She married Samuel C. Russell in 1892 and four children were born: Ovan C., Norman H., Ruth and Susie G., Ivan C. [spelled Ovan, above] and Susie G. died in early youth. She leaves a husband, two children, an aged mother, four brothers and two sisters. EP 20 Jun 1912
Oscar K. Walston and Flora E. Proctor, popular Creal Springs couple, were married Tuesday. EP Thursday, 27 Jun 1912
Wash “Booger” Graves was sentenced to life at hard labor after pleading guilty to killing Charley Trout on February 17th. EP 27 Jun 1912
Uncle Samuel S. Vick was 85 years old Sunday. EP 27 Jun 1912
Mrs. Emily Gibbs, called “Grandma” Gibbs, died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M.E. Grogan. She was 82 years, 10 months and 4 days old. She leaves four children, all living in this city: Mrs. M.E. Grogan, Mrs. Queen Schaeffer, Ben Gibbs and William Gibbs. Burial was in Fountain cemetery. EP 27 Jun 1912
Mabel Sutherland and Harry L. Cox were married Sunday last in Mt. Vernon. They had went to Mt. Vernon and visited with Mr. & Mrs. J.G. Young, relatives of Mr. Cox. They attended church in the morning and, accompanied by Judge D.G. Thompson, remained after services and were married by Rev. McCammon, pastor of that church. Judge Thompson is a lifelong friend of the bride and the gentleman who officiated as best man at the marriage of her parents. The groom is the son of Mr. & Mrs. T.A. Cox and a junior member of the T.A. Cox and Son hardware company. EP 27 Jun 1912
Marriage licenses since Friday
Clyde Barton, 21 & Dora Huffman, 20, Both Of Tamms
A.E. Stallions, 32, Herrin & Bertha Walker, 27, Wolf Creek
Owen Endicott, 22 & Mary Barriceman, 22, Both Of Evansville, Ind.
Marion R. Ballard, 21 & Laura L. Sundy, 17, Both Of Creal Springs
Edmond Yancy, 30 & Minnie Payne, 33, Both Of Carterville
Ceary Owens, 29 & Martha Atwood, 30, Both Of Marion
Guy Hardin, 21, Murphysboro & Marie Howell, 19, Makanda
Joseph Hands, 21, West Frankfort & Della. Fuell, 21, Danville
Oscar L. Watson, 23 & Flora E. Proctor, 24, Both of Creal Springs EP 27 Jun 1912
Martha Ann Lane died suddenly at her home, which is the Bulliner place, 304 West Union Street, Saturday, just as she finished scrubbing the back porch. She was born 4 Oct 1852 in Saline County and died 22 Jun 1912. Her parents died when she was four years old and she found a home as an adopted child with Mr. & Mrs. S.V. Clark. She married A.J. Lane 27 Nov 1873 and four boys and two girls were born to them. Sally and John Oscar died early in life. These survive: Henry E., John 3., Arthur A. and Mary May, all of Marion. Her husband died in 1899. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove cemetery. EP 27 Jun 1912
Hallie Roberts Malone, 25, formerly of Crab Orchard, died Saturday at Pueblo, Colo. She was the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J.L. Roberts, formerly of Corinth. Her husband is a former Williamson County boy. He has for years been a traveling salesman for the Crain Supply Company and when Mr. Malone’s health failed so badly that it was necessary for her to go to a better climate, the company changed his territory for him and he has been working out of Pueblo. Mrs. Malone gathered her education at Jacksonville, Ill and her ability as a musician is shown in the fact that she now has two publications on the market. She leaves a husband, one daughter, two sisters: Mrs. T.M. Malone and Mrs. W.T. Tidwell, parents and brother Clarence. The body was brought back to the old home at Corinth and burial will be in the cemetery there. EP 27 Jun 1912
(Extracted from microfilm at Morris Library and/or Illinois State Library by Helen Sutt Lind, published in Events in Egypt, Vol. 10)