John Jernigan, a young colored man, was shot and killed by an unknown party, near Ahoskie church, in this county, one evening last week.
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Friday, September 2, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 3]
Mr. Ben Merrimon, formerly a resident of this place, died at Branchville, this week of heart disease.
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Friday, September 23, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 6]
Mr. Rufus Maget, of Potecasi, died on Tuesday night of consumption, aged about thirty-five years.
He had returned on Monday from a trip of several weeks to the Red Sulphur Springs, Va.
He had been engaged in merchandising for several years, and was an upright and highly respected citizen.
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Friday, September 23, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 6]
Como Letter.
We are pained to record the death of Mr. Rufus Magett, a young man of sterling worth and high integrity.
He married, but lately, one of our most beautiful and accomplished young women.
To his young widow we extend our deepest sympathy and cordially invite her to make her home in our midst again.
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Friday, September 30, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 7]
Mr. Mills Lawrence, a very aged citizen, died at his home about three miles from town, on Monday morning.
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Friday, September 30, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 7]
Mr. Ebenezer Porter, aged sixty seven years, died at his home about four miles from town on Wednesday morning.
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Friday, September 30, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 7]
The wife of John Parker, colored, living near Mr. Carey's Parker's, was found dead in bed on Wednesday evening, having been in apparent good health an hour previous.
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Friday, September 30, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 7]
Essie, aged about fifteen years, daughter of Mr. James B. Parker, near town, died on Wednesday morning, after a lingering illness with typhoid fever.
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Friday, October 28, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 11]
The Patron says that Soloman Lassiter, a colored man living near Potecasi, walked out with his wife and her father Sunday evening, leaving their three children (all small) at the house.
They went back about four o'clock finding the house with its contents and the youngest child in ashes.
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Friday, November 18, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 14]
Death of Mr. H. H. Cooke
Our community was shocked on Friday morning last, about eight o'clock by the announcement of the almost sudden death of Mr. Henry H. Cooke.
For two or three weeks, he had been suffering with a small rising on his neck, but was confined to his room only a day or two before his death, and then his friends did not think of his condition as serious.
The rising on his neck turned out to be a carbuncle and excessive swelling in the throat and glands resulted in his death.
Mr. Cooke was born on a farm near Potecasi, Northampton county, in January 1841 and was in the 47th year of his age.
He moved to Murfreesboro, in 1876, and since that time, had been associated with Mr. J. L. Harrell in the mercantile business.
He was a member of the board of town commissioners and was one of our most useful citizens.
For a number of years, he had been a consistent member of the Baptist church.
He leaves a widow and several small children and a great many sorrowing friends.
His remains were interred with Masonic rites on Saturday evening.
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Friday, November 25, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 15]
Mrs. Annis Waddill Howard
Mrs. Annis Waddill Howard, wife of Dr. Wm. T. Howard, died at her residence in Baltimore, Nov. 22nd, 1887. ,
She was born in Hertford county, N.C., on the 17th of May, 1827.
Her father, John Waddill, was a man of fine mental culture, scholarly tastes and extensive acquaintance with classical literature, and to him, his daughter owed that love of learnin[g] with which she was imbued from early age.
While young, she became a pupil at St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N. J., then under charge of Bishop Doane, and the religious teaching imparted had its effect in producing in her a strong Catholic Churchmanship.
On coming to Baltimore, to reside after her marriage in 1867, she found the home and centre of her religious life at Mount Calvary Church, and was received as an outer sister of the English order of the Sisters of All Saints.
Compelled to live in seclusion, she was never [i]dle, but passed her t[i]me in planning for the good of oth[e]rs and in continual study and in the acquisition of knowledge.
Her mortal part reposes in Hollywood Cemetery at Richmond Va., the native state of her husband and her father, where surrounded by multitudes of the bravest and best of the Southern dead, she awaits the resurrection of the righteous.
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Friday, December 23, 1887 [Vol. III, No. 19]
