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emembrances of Our Past
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From: Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
201 HACKBERRY
March 24,1896--Thursday while Otto, the 9-year-old son of Hiram Morgan of the 18th District of this county, was playing around where sugar molasses was being made, he stumbled and pulled a kettle of boiling sugar water over on himself, scalding almost his entire body. It is thought his injuries are fatal.
From: Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
202 DISTRICT 16
June 5,1896--News of additional work of the elements is reported from the south side today. Several days ago, during one of the severe rain and thunder storms which have prevailed in this section, Planter H.P. Leftwich of District 16 of this county, sustained quite a loss in the shape of having five of his hogs killed by a bolt of lightning. The animals had taken shelter under a cedar tree, when the tree was struck, killing five fine hogs suitable for fall fattening. Strange to say, two of the animals escaped uninjured.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
203 ANTIOCH
August 4,1896--Parties from District 17 today report that Edward, son of Tobe Cocke, of that district, who was so badly injured on the head by being thrown from a horse into a gully, was thought to be resting better today, but the informant stated that the result of the injuries sustained by the young man were yet in doubt.
From: The Leaf Chronicle
204 CORBANDALE
July 2,1903--A strange mad dog appeared here a few days ago and bit several dogs and two calves before being killed by G.H. Carver. The dog passed through Mr. Carver�s tobacco patch and came too near his daughter who pushed it aside with a hoe. The dog snapped the hoe handle and passed on without molesting the girl.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
205 LOUISE
February 16,1917--Farmers are anxious to work but the cold and freeze block everything except fire.
Mr. Clarence Batson during the snowstorm Sunday lost his residence by fire. The roof was burning rapidly when discovered. The wind was high and not much could be saved. It�s understood there was no insurance.
The residence of Mr. Harrison near Cunningham was destroyed last week. All contents were burned. No insurance. People are burning plant beds.
We hear that the boys who created a disturbance at the Louise School have been arrested and fined. If the courts would compel these raiders to go to the chain gang and not let them off with fines they would learn to behave.
Well, I see the old veterans have tendered their services to President Wilson. Now if they could be gotten to the firing line, they would make things hot for the other side.
Now is about the time to take down smoked meat and wash it off and sprinkle borax on it and hang it up again. Flies won�t and can�t hurt it then.
From: Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
206 HACKBERRY
June 21,1895--There came near being a disastrous wreck on the Clarksville Mineral branch today. Heavy stones were rolled upon the track about a half mile this side of Lone Oak and the incoming Mineral struck the boulders and it is stated that four of the cars and the engine passed over the portion of the obstruction not moved out of the way by the cow-catcher. The tender was considerably wrecked and the brakes on the engine broken, besides minor damage wrought.
The spot selected to wreck the train was an admirable one, and had the cars left the track the loss of life, limb, and property would have undoubtedly been great. The would-be wreckers placed the stone on the track on a high hill, it being about 20 feet to the bottom. An examination of the surroundings was made by the train men and it is certain that the rocks could not have gotten where they were unless placed there through human agencies.
The Mineral train was somewhat delayed by the accident but arrived in plenty of time for the return trip this afternoon. All on board had a lucky escape. Why such an attempt was made to wreck the train on this branch of the L&N is not known-unless, perhaps, spite was at the mainspring of the murderously planned, but unsuccessfully executed, scheme on the part of the persons low enough to resort to such deeds of unlawfulness. Every effort will be made by the Railroad Company to discover the identity of the guilty parties, and if brought to justice, the severest penalty of the law will be meted out to them if possible.
See article #77 in Keeping the Peace
From: Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
207 SCHOOL ACCIDENT
October 11,1887--Edward Jones, 12-year-old son of S.P. Jones, while running down a hill in advance of two other boys, fell and tripped his pursuer and they all came to the ground in a pile. Young Jones� right leg was broken between the knee and the hip. The accident occurred at Richardson�s School House.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
208 SAILOR�S REST
January 28,1930--Little improvement is shown in the condition of Jerome Myers, who is suffering from a hand wound caused by a dynamite cap blast.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
209 FLOODING
December 28,1926--W.R. Fain, a magistrate of District 13, residing on the west side of the Cumberland River, suffered quite a loss when several stacks of hay in the river bottom land washed away and a number of hogs left in a pen too long were drowned by the rising waters. All along the river banks one can see at a distant stacks of hay showing only partially above the water.
Towns along the L&N Railroad have been isolated from the railroad services from Hematite to Cumberland City by the Cumberland River and from Erin to Big Sandy by the Tennessee and Big Sandy Rivers. Trains are detoured from Hematite to Pond Switch, where they are switched from the L&N to the NC & St. Louis via Dickson to Paris. The towns cut off from the railroad service by the overflow of the Cumberland include Palmyra, Corbandale, Sailor�s Rest, and Cumberland City.
Palmyra reports almost complete isolation with the river covering every road but one dirt lane leading in an eastward direction. However, but a short distance can be made along this road. The operator reports this morning that the bridge was submerged and were it not for the telephone communication the village would be marooned.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
210 MCALISTERS CROSSROADS
August 22,1885--Mr. Jerry Bulle fell on a board a few days ago and broke a rib.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
211 CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS
April 22,1911--Howard Manning, who lives on the opposite bank of the river from Clarksville, was seriously injured late yesterday afternoon by a vicious mule. He was attempting to pass the animal when it kicked, striking him with both feet on the face and shoulder. The worst injury was received on the right side of the head where one of the animal�s feet hit with great force.
The mule was one of a pair which William Attaway was leading. They were leaving the ferry at the time Mr. Manning attempted to pass. His injuries were dressed, but he suffered a great deal last night and today.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
212 SOUTHSIDE
February 25,1919--Yesterday at noon, while the family of John Mayfield were at dinner, their three-year-old child in some way overturned a tea kettle of boiling water, the contents of which descended on the little one scalding it very badly. The child�s condition today is very serious. It can�t be determined what its chance for recovery is.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
213 MT. ZION
October 4,1920--W.B. McCurdy of District 22 lost a tobacco barn and 1800 sticks of tobacco by fire yesterday. His loss on both barn and contents was partially covered by insurance.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
214 SOUTHSIDE
August 6,1918--Mr. Corbit Bartlett, a Southside boy, was home on furlough from the Army, and while returning to camp, was a passenger on the ill-fated train that was wrecked near Nashville a few weeks ago, he being the only surviving passenger in the coach he was in. How he escaped instant death is a mystery; he did not receive even a scratch or bruise. He was pinned down beneath the debris, but remarkable presence of mind and bravery in the thought of his comrades who were crushed to death and their life's blood flowing all around him, thoroughly saturating his clothing. When approached by a rescue party, he told them he was not hurt nor suffering--to help the suffering first. Corbit says that is one scene that will never grow old in his memory.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
215 CORBANDALE
June 14,1916--John H. Allen, carrier of Route 1, had a near accident Tuesday. His horse broke through a small bridge on the same route, broke both shafts and became entangled in the harness, but was gotten out without further injury.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
216 CORBANDALE
June 28,1916--Mr. George C. McCorkle had a good mule to get its leg broken in a peculiar manner. Young McCorkle was riding the mule out to the field when the mule stepped on a root, his foot slipping off, breaking the leg above the knee.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
217 SAILOR�S REST
March 11,1910--Ed Powers, living on Yellow Creek near Sailor's Rest, lost his house and contents except a sewing machine and two quilts, by fire Tuesday evening. A defective flue was the cause of the fire. There was no insurance on either the building or furnishings and the loss falls very heavily on Mr. Powers. Mrs. Powers became hysterical and it required the attention of her husband to restrain her and he was unable to assist in saving anything from the building.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
218 CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS
March 28,1907--Joe Neblett, resident of the 13th District and father of J. Mac Neblett of this city, was thrown from his buggy on Franklin St. Wednesday and narrowly escaped serious injury. His horse became frightened at an automobile and tried to run. The auto stopped and Mr. Neblett started to drive away, the horse still trying to run. One of the buggy wheels rubbed against the rail of the streetcar track and the buggy wrenched so violently Mr. Neblett was thrown out head first. He still held the lines however, and was dragged some distance before a spectator stopped the horse at considerable risk of being injured himself. Mr. Neblett was slightly bruised and had his back sprained but was not seriously hurt and was able to go about his usual work during the day.
From: Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf
219 CORBANDALE
March 30,1888--D.B. Shurdon's house caught afire from a defective flue last Friday but was saved by the prompt assistance of the neighbors.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
220 LONE OAK
February 16,1939--Martha Baxter, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T.T. Baxter of Cunningham is recovering from painful lacerations on her face and body suffered Tuesday afternoon when she and a companion, Corine Baxter, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Bill Baxter, fell from a speeding bicycle.
Martha was in the driver's seat of the bicycle and when the wheel began speeding downhill she was reported to have been unable to find the brake. The wheel overturned and both children were tossed violently on the road.
Corine escaped with only a few scrapes, but Martha, badly cut, was taken to the home of Mr. & Mrs. A.C. Harvey where first aid treatment was given. She was then conveyed to school but the teacher, Miss Sadie Harvey, seeing how painfully she was lacerated, took her to her home.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
221 SOUTHSIDE
December 5,1917--The many friends of Miss Buena Wall here were severely shocked when the sad news came that she had been drowned in a deplorable accident at the Seven Mile Ferry.
Not over two weeks ago a similar accident at the same place was narrowly averted and now it has cost a prominent young lady her life. Several horses have been drowned there also, so is it not high time our people were having a decent way to cross the river?
Is it possible Montgomery County, a county of wealth, is going to be satisfied with sacrificing human life and property for the sake of a few dollars that it would take to build a bridge?
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
222 SAILOR�S REST
April 9,1915--Little Allison Rowland, 2-year-old son of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rowland residing near Sailor's Rest, was painfully injured Tuesday evening when a little 5-year-old brother, who was carrying him across the room fell, breaking the baby's left leg between the ankle and the knee.
The parents did not ascertain the extent of the child's injuries at this time, but after a fretful, restless night the family physician was called but owing to his being out of town, the child did not receive attention until near noon Wednesday. The injured limb was very much swollen and the child suffered greatly before having the limb set.
The little sufferer is resting as well as could be expected when last heard from.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
223 SALEM
April 5,1925--Mr. W. E. Corlew is recovering nicely after being thrown from a disc harrow and it passing over his body.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
224 PALMYRA
May, 10,1934--Montgomery Broome, 13-year-old son of Mr. & Mrs. John Broome of Palmyra, entered the hospital this morning for treatment of a fracture of his left leg last Tuesday.
Young Broome was dragging some tobacco ground with the mule and log when he stepped across the log and fell between it and the mule. The mule pulled the log over the boy's leg causing the break. His leg was set at the time by a local doctor, but he was removed to the hospital this morning for further treatment.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
225 CORBANDALE
May 24,1918--Lemoine, the three-year-old son of H.Clyde Vickers, was severely gored by a cow this week. The child followed Mr. Vickers to the cowpen when his cow, which has a young calf, attacked him, knocking him down and made efforts to mash him into the ground. Fortunately, the child was rescued before he was severely injured.
From: Clarksville Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf
226 CORBANDALE
March 13,1888--Frank, a 5-year-old son of Gabe Fessey of Corbandale, while running in the yard with a stick in his hand several days ago, fell and the end of the stick entered the inner corner of one eye and penetrated to the back of the socket. Dr. Sam Marable gave the little fellow medical attention and thinks he can save the eye, though the wound is an ugly one.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
227 SAILOR�S REST
June 13,1910--Freight train No. 121, northbound, on which Hugh Jones was conductor and John Davis engineer, ran into the rear end of an extra freight, also northbound, at 5:00 a.m. Sunday near Sailor's Rest. Davis jumped and landed on his right knee, severely bruising it and probably to such an extent that may stiffen the joint permanently. The fireman says he was knocked from the cab in some way but was not hurt.
A wrecking crew was called from Paris and by arduous work, the track was cleared by 3:00 in the afternoon.
Passenger train No. 103 for Memphis arrived at the wreck at 9:30 and transferred the passengers to the Erin and Bowling Green accommodation, so that there was but short delay in their passage.
The train struck by No. 121 had gone in on the siding at Sailor's Rest, but two coal cars and the caboose could not get in the clear and the engineer on 121 did not see it until he was within four or five car lengths of same, when he reversed his engine and jumped. The caboose and three empty coal cars of the extra train were demolished and the engine of the other train damaged to the amount of several thousand dollars.
The wreck seemed complete. The track was torn up for fifty yards or more.
Robert Collier, who was conductor of the extra train saw the approaching train from the caboose and jumped, thereby escaping unhurt.
The accident involved considerable loss to the railroad. It is fortunate that no lives were lost.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
228 SHILOH
March 20,1900--One of Mr. Hugh Allen's little children was reported to be in a dying condition yesterday. Report said it was choked on something.
By C.A. Barnes
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
229 SHILOH
December 2,1930--Frank Buckingham, 12-year-old son of W.T. Buckingham, who was accidentally shot when he was hunting with his brother on Thanksgiving, is a patient at the local hospital and is reported to be improving favorably.
From: Leaf Chronicle
230 PALMYRA
December 15,1902--Sunday afternoon, a large stone of about 100 pounds fell from the bluff at the south end of the L&N Railroad tunnel near Palmyra. The stone was discovered by a track walker about half an hour before the time for the arrival of the northbound train.
Large rocks are frequently loosened along the bluff and an extra watch is put on to prevent any accidents. The rains of the past few days necessitated the employment of an added watchman and the track around the bluff between Palmyra & Corbandale is closely watched at all hours. Several other stones fell yesterday but were not large enough to cause any danger.
From: Clarksville Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf
231 SHILOH
February 28,1888--Jim Sinks, while trying to catch a young mule, was kicked but fortunately not seriously injured.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
232 SOUTHSIDE
August 4,1910--Miss Lillian Moore Powers, the 15-year-old daughter of Rev. W.F. Powers, was seriously injured in a buggy runaway near Southside last night and may die from her injuries.
Miss Powers and her father were returning from Chapel Hill Church where he had delivered a sermon last night when the accident occurred. In descending a hill, some part of the harness became disarranged and Mr. Powers got out of the buggy to fix it, when the horse gave a lunge and tore away, running several hundred yards and finally landing in a gully, piling the wrecked buggy on Miss Powers. The night was dark and some time elapsed before the injured girl was found. She has one leg broken and is suffering from internal injuries of a more serious nature.
The runaway occurred about 11:00 last night. Chapel Hill Church is four miles from Southside, and about 3/4 of the journey home had been completed when the accident occurred.
The father of the unfortunate girl is Pastor of the Southside Circuit of the M.E. Church South, and was sent to this place from Cumberland City by the General Conference last fall.
August 13,1910--Miss Powers is improving and her physician thinks she will ultimately recover. Within the past 24 hours, a change for the better has taken place.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
233 DISTRICT 17
November 27,1931--C.L. Waller, District 17 farmer, was able to sit up some today for the first time since he was dragged over a field by a frightened mule when the victim�s foot became entangled in a chain on the bridle. The accident occurred Monday.
The mule which belongs to Robert Wyatt, a neighbor, is a nervous and easily excited animal. Mr. Waller was in the act of hitching him to a post when the mule became frightened and dashed away. The chain from his bridle was wrapped about Mr. Waller�s leg and the victim was dragged over a considerable distance before his leg was untangled.
Painfully torn ligaments in the left side, lacerations and bruises about his body and legs are the extent of his injuries.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
234 MCALLISTER CROSS ROADS
The little one year old daughter of Mr. M.M. Daniel was badly scalded several days ago by pulling over a pot of boiling water. Her feet and one leg up to the knee were injured.
From: Daily Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
235 CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS
February 28,1895--Mr. Charles Arms, who lives just across the river opposite the Franklin House on the Barksdale Johnson place, happened to a insidious accident which might have resulted seriously a few nights ago. Mr. Arms, from the very nature of his name, should be familiar with firearms, and from long association with the old musket-barrel that played the principal part in the accident we are about to relate he ought to have known for certain �that it was not loaded.� He knows it is not loaded now.
It was a harmless looking old musket barrel of the revolutionary pattern, and of late years had been doing menial service as a fire poker instead of a fire arm. At the time mentioned, Mr. Arms picked up the old gun barrel as had been his custom for years and grabbing it at the muzzle stuck the breach end in the fire and began to �Chunk�. About two �chunks� and then there was a deafening report, a pair of black eyes, a burned face, and a neighborhood of alarmed people for a half mile around. Mr. Arms didn�t know that it was loaded, but it was. Like the tricky old mule, the old musket has, perhaps, been waiting all these years to draw a bead on Mr. Arms, and for the first time since the smoke of battle cleared away it belched forth like the roar of a cannon. Fortunately there was only powder in the charge, and the man�s life was saved. No doubt this will prevent him in future from monkeying with the business end of a musket, even if it can�t boast of lock, stock, or ramrod.
From: Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
236 HACKBERRY
July 6,1894--Mr. Shaw, the father of the Methodist minister at this place (Locust Grove), was seriously hurt Saturday night on the down train (Old Mineral Railroad). Soon after the cars pulled out from the Vernon Station, there was an explosion as if from a bomb under or near the seat on which Mr. Shaw was sitting. He was blown across the car and badly hurt. One of his legs is badly powder burnt, besides the hurt. Mr. Albritton was sitting on the next seat and was severely shocked, but not otherwise hurt. What caused the explosion no one seems to know. Some think an explosive might have been thrown in the window, and others that it was placed in the car by some unknown person and that Mr. Shaw struck his foot against it and discharged it.
By C.A. Barnes
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
237 HIGHWAY 48
May 13,1937--Nath Vance, first 1937 car victim when he died at 11:00 today. With the announcement of Vance�s death came the report that, aided by an eye-witness to the accident, a thorough investigation will be launched this afternoon in order to bring the automobile driver to justice.
Alfred Thomas of District 13 said this afternoon that he was walking along Highway 48 only a few feet ahead of Vance and Clarence Byard when the crash occurred. Thomas said he had been walking with them until a moment before the accident when he had walked across the highway to the left side. He said he was about 15 feet in front of the pair when they were struck.
Immediately after the accident he said the driver cut his lights off and he could not see the license number on the rear. It was an old model car and was traveling �pretty dog-gone fast: He said he saw that Byard was still alive and he left some other men to hunt for Vance who couldn't be found immediately. Byard is recovering at his brother's home, Sterling Byard.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
238 STEELE SPRINGS
September 16,1931--Mr. L.A. �Tobe� Heggie, 84-year-old farmer and veteran of the Confederacy, is being congratulated upon his fortunate escape from fire which totally destroyed the two-story seven room residence, the smokehouse, and a one-room tenant house and shed on his farm near Steele Springs in District 13 Friday afternoon.
Mr. Heggie was alone in the home when the fire was discovered about 4 p.m. and was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Neblett who shared the home with him were attending a funeral.
Clarence Thompson, working in a field of tobacco on the adjoining farm of Thomas King, discovered the fire and knowing Mr. Heggie was in the house alone and possibly sleeping, he rushed to the scene. He collapsed of fatigue after shouting a number of times for Mr. Heggie who awoke in time to descend the stairs to safety unassisted. Mr. Heggie is unable to say whether he was awakened by Mr. Thompson's shouts or by the crackling of the flames. The roof collapsed a few moments after Mr. Heggie got out of the house.
The fire is thought to have originated from the kitchen flu spark and to have developed slowly in the roof.
Mr. Heggie is now residing with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swift on a nearby farm. He built the house which was destroyed about 30 years ago.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
239 SOUTHSIDE
October 22,1920--The car in which Will Hunter of District 16 and his family were coming to town in some unaccountable manner missed the apron of the boat at Seven Mile Ferry this morning and ran into the river. The occupants jumped and were unhurt. The car was left in the river temporarily.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
240 SOUTHSIDE
October 22,1920--Miss Carolyn Bumpus of Southside received painful but not serious scalp wounds this morning when the buggy in which she was riding was struck by an automobile driven by Marshall Hunter, also of Southside in the Bend neighborhood. Two wheels of the buggy were torn off. Mr. Sam Brame, who was with Miss Bumpus, was unhurt. She was taken to Clarksville Hospital for medical attention.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
241 BAGGETT�S CHAPEL
May 15,1937--Caught beneath a log he was helping to load on a wagon when one of the skids slipped, Ed Kelly, a 19-year-old resident of Baggetts� Chapel Community and employee of Alex Underwood, was painfully hurt about 3:00 Friday afternoon near his home. The log badly mashed the youth�s left leg but did not break any bone. He is confined to his home from the injury.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
242 SALEM
August 22,1918--The ferry boat which operates at the Seven Mile Ferry was burned late Wednesday afternoon thus putting a stop for the present to crossing at that place. It is said that the fire originated in an effort to start the engine, which refused to work properly. This boat is the one that was built about a year ago, which makes the loss heavier than if one of the older boats had been destroyed. The greater loss is to those who cross the river at the Seven Mile Ferry.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
243 CUNNINGHAM
December 11,1918--Miss Ivy Batson was on her way to school Friday morning when her horse became frightened at something on the roadside, throwing her off backwards, spraining her arm and bruising her considerably.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
244 MCALLISTER CROSS ROADS
January 10,1918--Mr. Will Freeman was badly hurt by getting his leg mashed by his wagon.
Charlie Tatum lost a horse the day before yesterday by getting its hip broke accidentally. It was necessary to kill it.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
245 PALMYRA
September 20,1899--A few days ago, F.G. Lee, foreman of the stave works at Palmyra, was superintending the clearing up of a new yard for piling staves. The workmen were cutting some heavy trees that stood in the center of the space selected for the yard. Mr. Lee had his back to them when one of the trees toppled to its fall. In mid-air, a huge limb broke from the trunk, and flying outward with the force of its descent, struck him on the right shoulder. It was believed at first that he was very seriously injured, but later developments discovered the fact that only some of the processes of the shoulder bones are fractured, while the shoulder is dislocated. It makes a very painful but not dangerous wound, and in a short time the wounded man will have full use of the injured member once more.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
246 SOUTHSIDE
February 23,1937--Five men, one of whom was treated at Clarksville Hospital, were hurt painfully in an automobile accident on Highway 48 near Walter Minor�s garage about seven miles from the city at 5:00 Monday afternoon. Two automobiles were badly wrecked.
M.J. Scher, 46-year-old traveling salesman from Martin, Tennessee, was expected to be released from the hospital some time this afternoon. He was treated for a deep laceration down the center of his forehead.
The other four, all of Southside, were able to be out today. Doctors treated two of them, however, following the accident. They are Vernon Devers, 30, and his brother, Sterling Devers, 37. Vernon Devers had bad cuts under his right eye and across his nose and another one on his knee while Sterling Devers received a badly lacerated right hand.
Both of the men were riding in the cab of a small pickup, Sterling Devers was driving.
Another brother, J.T. Devers, 20, and Temur Hagewood, 41, who were riding in the bed of the truck were thrown out by the impact and sustained severe bruises. They did not require medical attention, however.
Highway patrolman M.L. Hogin said he investigated the wreck and that it was apparently unavoidable. He said he likely would not make an arrest.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
247 CORBANDALE
October 5,1899--Monday afternoon at Corbandale, Justus Sanders, a manly little fellow, was severely bitten by a dog and would probably have been killed but for the timely interference of some railroad hands who heard his cries and hastened to his assistance. They beat the dog off and it got away from them, making its way toward Hematite. At that place, it had a hard fight with the miller who operates Dr. Eldridge�s mill. He reports that he had all he could do, with feet and hands, to keep the infuriated creature from his throat. He finally succeeded in beating it off and tried to kill it, but the animal again escaped and is still at large. This afternoon, Justus Sanders, its first victim, is reported to be resting easy and doing as well as possible. Opinion is divided as to whether or not the dog was mad.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
248 STRINGTOWN
Jul. 19, 1926--Injuries consisting of painful bruises and cuts on the head and two fractured ribs were received early Saturday night by Henry Whitlow, about 35, of District 13, a meat peddler, when his small roadster with a meat box attached turned turtle on the road to the Cumberland Ferry bridge and pinned Whitlow for several minutes before he was extricated.
Reports today from Whitlow, a widower who lives with his two children in the home of his mother, Mrs. Nancy Byard, stated that his injuries were not as serious as at first anticipated and that in all probability he would recover after several days confinement to his home.
Whitlow, according to reports, drove too close to the curbing of a detour which encircles the Tennessee Central Railroad underpass and his car was overturned. First reports were that he was probably fatally injured.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
249 CORBANDALE
May 20,1908--Quint Bowen, a Negro man working in Hussey�s quarry, fell off the bluff a distance of 20 feet, striking on his feet on solid rock bottom and received only a good shaking up. He had an iron bar in his hands and it is thought it was that which held him upright and saved him from serious injury.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
250 HACKBERRY
October 12,1932--A large barn and 14 acres of tobacco belonging to W.G. Russell of Hackberry was completely destroyed by fire about 10:00 a.m. today. Mr. Russell had just left the barn and when the fire was discovered it was too late for it to be put out. The tobacco was almost cured.
A small amount of insurance was carried on the barn and tobacco.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
251 SHILOH
April 16,1931--A bullet from a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver, discharged in a suicidal attempt by James Britt, 60-year-old farmer of Shiloh Community in District 20, penetrated the left hand of his 16-year-old son Vernon Britt, who successfully blocked his father�s effort at self-destruction in their house about 6:00 this morning.
Mr. Britt had been despondent for some time because of crop failures and brooding over his financial straits is believed to have prompted his attempt at suicide. The son was the only one in the home with his father who suddenly seized his revolver and attempted to fire a bullet in to his brain. The son saw the act and leaped in time to seize the gun, his left hand being over the muzzle as the gun discharged. The bullet penetrated the palm of his hand and the flesh was badly powder burned.
W.S. Mickle, whose farm adjoins that of Mr. Britt, was at work near his residence at the time of the shot. He heard the pistol discharge but did not attach any significance to it. He then heard the large dinner bell ringing and neighbors called him.
He said this morning that Mr. Britt had been despondent because of financial worries and last Sunday he had told Mr. Mickle that he sometimes had a notion he would shoot himself. He told Mr. Mickle that when a man has no money or friends he has lost about everything worthwhile. Mr. Mickle offered to lend Mr. Britt enough corn with which to feed his mules while making a crop. Mr. Britt borrowed two barrels of corn on the following day.
At the time of the near tragedy, Mrs. Britt was visiting relatives in Slayden and Mr. Britt and his son were the only members of the family at home.
The youth was conveyed to Clarksville and the injured hand received medical attention. Unless complications develop, the injury will not be of a serious nature.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
252 ROUND POND
March 14,1921--Brown Harvey, a valued employee of the First National Bank, was the victim of a rather painful accident. He was returning to town on horseback Saturday afternoon and had reached the neighborhood of Round Pond when his horse stumbled and threw him violently against a tree. Mr. Harvey thought at first he had sustained either a dislocation or fracture of the knee. This fortunately was not the case, although he was very painfully injured.
He is attending to business as usual, although using a crutch.
From: Clarksville Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf
253 SOUTHSIDE
July 19,1887--John Bramlett, a young man living with William Roy, went into the corn crib to get corn to feed last evening and was bitten by a copperhead snake but Mrs. Roy had his arm very tightly corded and sent up for Dr. J.R. Felts who treated him, sending him home in a few hours all right.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
254 CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS
December 12,1900--A valuable family horse belonging to Mr. Allen Cook and Levi Meek�s young horse were killed by the train a few days ago.
From: The Weekly Chronicle
255 CORBANDALE
February 21,1880--The southbound freight train on Monday 9th inst. ran over and killed a negro boy named Henry Box, aged about 16 years, on the bluff between here and Palmyra. It seems to be unfortunate at this bluff from frequency of killings there.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
256 PALMYRA
August 30,1900--Yesterday afternoon, a one-legged man named Smith, from Palmyra, was coming down Franklin Street in Clarksville, when just below Wall�s Place, his crutch slipped through the iron grating, causing him to fall heavily to the pavement. His face is cut and his forehead badly bruised and he was somewhat injured in the right side. He was carried into Tilley & Russell�s Store and Dr. Hughes was called in. After having his wounds dressed, he got into his wagon and left for home.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
257 TOBACCO BARN FIRE
September 30,1924--About 10,000 pounds or possibly 1/3 of the crop of B.H. Dunbar and son, District 19 farmers, was destroyed with Dunbar�s barn Saturday afternoon. No one was near the barn while slow fires were being run. The barn was possibly a mile from the house and the fire was not discovered until the roof was caving in. There was no insurance.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
258 PREACHER�S LUCK
April 4,1899--Word is brought to us this morning of a serious loss that befell Rev. C.A. Barnes a few days since. Saturday night he was staying at the house of James Nail, on the south side, and during the night his horse got the gate open between the barn and the house, and in wandering about got on the cistern cover which broke under his weight precipitating the animal into the water a dozen feet below.
The noise made by the fall awakened the people in the house and an investigation was made. All hands at once set to work to get the unfortunate animal out. They labored from 1:00 until about half past two before accomplishing it. The horse lived about 20 minutes after being taken out of the cistern. He was a very valuable animal and one that Mr. Barnes will find it hard to replace.
April 20,1899--Five ladies have contributed each one dollar, and one a large ham, which sold for one dollar and ninety cents, to help me buy another horse. Many thanks for their kindness, which I appreciate very much. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
C.A. Barnes.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
259 PALMYRA
July 3,1899--One of M.M. Hussey�s teams ran away this morning and very narrowly escaped doing serious injury. The team was driven by Charley Glenn and becoming frightened, ran away, locking the wagon to which they were attached first to a buggy and then to another wagon. All the vehicles are more or less injured and the harness was pretty badly torn up. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
From: Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf
260 MCALLISTER�S CROSSROADS
October 11,1895--Milton Jackson, the conductor on the Clarksville Mineral Railroad who had sustained a narrow escape at Cumberland Furnace and then coming on down the road to Slayden View, at which place he got his foot so severely mashed that it had to be amputated.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
261 CORBANDALE
July 31,1902--A horse hitched to a buggy which was occupied by Bailey Williams and sister became frightened at a bicycle while they were on route to church near Corbandale last Sunday morning and ran away. The buggy was badly damaged but the occupants kept their seats and succeeded in stopping the animal before being hurt.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
262 HACKBERRY
October 19,1931--Damage estimated at between $800 and $1,000 was caused by fire Saturday afternoon in the destruction of a barn and approximately 2,700 sticks of tobacco in the Hackberry community. The tobacco, the yield from six acres was grown by Polk Davis, brother of Staton Davis of this city.
From: Daily Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
263 HEMATITE
April 1,1892--The incoming Mineral train last night lost a coupling and left the hindmost car standing on the track this side of Hematite. Captain Francis "Frank" Patton Gracey, Squire Ramey and a number of passengers and roadmen were on the car. A man was sent back to signal the northbound passenger train, then due, to avert a wreck. The Mineral engineer traveled some distance before he discovered the mishap. He hurried back and took up his car and passengers left in the wilderness.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
264 SALEM
May 19,1883--We regret to learn that Mrs. Adeline Swift, wife of Dr. George H. Swift on the south side, was paralyzed on Wednesday of last week. Doctors Bailey and Larkins were called in consultation last Monday. At last accounts, she was thought to be a little better and hopes were entertained that she would recover.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
265 SHILOH
Mar. 14, 1933--Mr. J.W. Baggett of Shiloh, who sustained a number of broken ribs and painful bruises about two weeks ago when a car in which he was riding overturned when struck by a truck, is improving satisfactorily and is able to be out visiting his daughter Mrs. R. L. Pruitte at Dotsonville.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
266 CORBANDALE
Mr. John R. Bird, a very old man, was seriously hurt by a tree which he was chopping falling on him a few days ago.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
267 BAD WEATHER
June 24, 1882--There was a very destructive storm of wind and rain on the South side last Sunday evening. The rain fell in torrents. Hurricane Creek, says one of our correspondents, was 3 feet higher than was ever known. Crops along the creek were ruined; every drift is full of wheat, the water flowing swept off the shocks along
the bottoms; corn and tobacco washed up. Our farmers, who were cheerful faces a few days ago, are now despondent.
Our Collinsville correspondent also reports considerable damage to fence, fruit trees, wheat, corn and oats. The corn that was of any size was lain flat on the ground. We also learn that a fine mule belonging to Collins Roberts Jr. was killed at the parsonage by lightning, and two sheep of Mr. Collins Roberts Sr. were
killed at his residence, some two miles from the place where the mule was killed.
William and Robert Edmondson's farm was considerably damaged by high water, the creek overflowing their meadow and ruining their hay, corn, etc., in its course.
Budd's Creek was also out of its banks and swept everything before it, doing immense damage to every farm on the creek.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
268 SOUTHSIDE
March 23,1915--Mr. Henderson Proctor of McAllister's Crossroads was taken suddenly ill at the tobacco factory here yesterday and had to be carried home in a buggy.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
269 CORBANDALE
January 27,1883--Mrs. Sallie Nolen's smokehouse, containing all her pork, was burned one night last week; supposed to have been entered by thieves and burned to hide their tracks.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
270 CORBANDALE
January 27,1883--Mr. Arthur Powers, living near Palmyra, had the misfortune to get his carpenter shop burned on the 23rd, losing all his tools. Caused by shavings catching fire from the stove.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
271 PALMYRA
October 28,1940--Mrs. G.D. McReynolds, wife of the pastor of Palmyra Methodist Church, was painfully but not seriously injured in an automobile collision on Highway 13 between Cumberland City and the Montgomery County line about 9:00 Sunday night. Mrs. McReynolds suffered painful bruises on her head but the skull was not fractured.
Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds were returning to Cumberland City where they reside from the Palmyra Church where Mr. McReynolds had delivered his first sermon as new pastor. Their automobile and the automobile of Kelly Walden collided. Mr. McReynolds was unhurt and Mr. Walden and Mont Hardin, student at Austin Peay Normal who was accompanying him, also escaped injury.
Both automobiles were badly wrecked.
Mr. and Mrs. McReynolds were conveyed to their home by Kenneth Roland who drove by soon after the crash.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
272 FIRE DESTROYS HOME
May 6, 1942--Despite the valiant efforts of the wife to save the contents, fire demolished the home and most of the household goods of Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Greene of Louise and Marion Road, while the husband and son were out in the field at work.
Mrs. Greene explained that she had just built a fire in the kitchen stove and had gone to milk when she looked back and saw the kitchen in flames. She dashed back into the house from the front entrance and began dragging out the household goods; saving the radio, sewing machine, one feather bed and clothing before the fire claimed full supremacy over the housewife.
Around $400 in insurance was carried on the house, but none was carried on the contents.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
273 SALEM
April 5,1925--Mr. W. E. Corlew is recovering nicely after being thrown from a disc harrow and it passing over his body.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
274 SALEM
January 2,1905--Squire C. C. Coke, wife and child had a narrow escape from being seriously injured Sunday in the 17th District. They were within a few miles of their home enroute to Southside when the accident occurred. The horse got its foot hung in a grapevine while going down an decline and the occupants were thrown out and the buggy overturned. Mrs. Coke and the child were not hurt but Mr. Coke was badly bruised about the face.
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275 SOUTHSIDE
From: Historical Sketches of Port Royal
276 PORT ROYAL
In 1903 a new bridge was built at Port Royal but collapsed before it was finished. The contractor was J.C. McMillan.
Will Wooldridge, a teenager who was on the bridge watching the work, was killed. Workmen Walter Jolly, John Henry Farmer and Les Bird were all hurt. Jolly and Farmer each had a broken leg. The men were taken to the home of H. Clay McMillan, brother of the contractor, for care. H. Clay McMillan was a photographer and took several pictures of the bridge before and after the collapse.
Maude Stacey, daughter of John Henry told this story:
John Henry Farmer was injured so badly that the doctors did not set his
leg, expecting him to die. After a few days, they wanted to set it but Farmer would not permit it, as it was so painful. The leg healed three or four inches shorter than the other.
Doctors called were: Dr. Waynick of Sango, Dr. Will G. Elliott of Stroudsville, Dr. Bradley of Sadlersville and Dr. Frank Sory of Adams.
From: The Clarksville Star
277 SOUTHSIDE
December 27,1927--Unable to make a thorough diagnosis until the swelling is gone, physicians today could not determine the extent of the eye wound suffered by Marvin Smith, 19 year-old son of Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Smith of Palmyra, who was shot accidentally late Monday afternoon while hunting with his brother-in-law, Cecil Harris, also 19, and a friend, Frank Shelton, 23, near Southside.
Two shots struck Smith, one just below the right eye, and the other about the center of the forehead. One of the balls struck the cheekbone and it is believed it turned upward, probably lodging in his eyeball. It is thought the shot in the forehead is only a flesh wound, no indications of injury to his skull being found by the physicians. Smith is in the local hospital.
The shooting occurred about 5:30 on the farm of Ed Harris where the three youths were hunting. It is not known whose gun inflicted the wounds. Harris and Shelton were together when it is said a bird flew up in front of them. Both fired and about the same time Smith screamed about a 100 yards in front of them. Smith had stepped out in range of the guns from behind a small knoll just as Harris and Shelton fired.
The community physicians could not be located and Smith was conveyed to the hospital. The wounds were badly swollen when he arrived and it is feared that complications may result from the delay in medical attention.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
278 GOLDENHORN
October 27,1883--Mr. Thomas Powers, living on Goldenhorn Creek, says his spring stopped running after the heavy hailstorm on the 5th. It was a bold spring and had never been known to go dry before.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
279 CORBANDALE
January 24,1880--Mr. Robert C. Hardin, a very old gentleman, while chopping wood recently cut his foot nearly off and is now confined to his bed.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
280 SOUTHSIDE
March 16,1933--Baxter Batson Jr., 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Batson, is under going treatment of a wound sustained when a watchdog of the family made a savage attack on him Monday afternoon at the home of his parents.
The youth walked out on the porch and the large hound dog, which was lying on a stack of straw, saw him and suddenly leaped upon him. An upper tooth was knocked out and the dog bit the child on the lower lip. One of the animal's teeth penetrated the lip.
The dog has been confined and is being watched for any symptoms of hydrophobia.
From: Clarksville Chronicle
281 DISTRICT 16
November 30,1872---We learn that on Wednesday morning of last week, the wife of Mr. Daniel Waller, who lives in the 16th District, while preparing breakfast for the
family, by mistake put arsenic instead of soda into the biscuits.
The result was considerable suffering to each member of the family, but no deaths occurred. There being some doubt as to the cause, the bottle containing the poison was examined by a physician and pronounced arsenic. This is another warning to housekeepers to use extreme care in handling poisonous drugs and medicines.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
282 SALEM
July 13,1885--Mr. Sterling Ussery was badly injured Monday afternoon while hauling saw stocks. The accident occurred near his residence on the south side of the river. He was thrown from his wagon and we suppose one of the stock fell on him. His right leg was broken above the knee and his head and left arm badly bruised. He was doing as well as the circumstances would allow at last accounts.
July 25,1885--The senior proprietor of this paper visited Mr. Sterling Ussery last Sunday. He found him pretty badly hurt, his right leg having been broken diagonally above the knee and being very hard to keep in position. He had two bad cuts on the head but they were doing well and he was, though suffering a good deal, getting on as well as could be expected under the circumstances.
From: The Tennessee Watchman
283 AWFUL CALAMITY!
April 27,1821--The Steam Boat General Robertson, Captain Smith, arrived at this place on Saturday evening, in 22 days from New Orleans with full freight.
About eight o�clock on the evening of the sixteenth instant, eight miles below Eddyville, one of her boilers bursted and by which unfortunate accident, Mrs. Stevens of this town was killed. Mrs. Davis, Miss Sally McConnel, Mr. A. B. McQuiz, of Kentucky, and a negro girl belonging to Mrs. Davis were so severely scalded that they lived but a few hours. Mr. Henry Bailey�s life is despaired of; Mr. Dawson of this county, Mr. Crenshaw, of Sumner and Mr. Whiteside of North Carolina were blown overboard, and were not found, two or three others were badly, though not dangerously scalded.
The remains of those died on the boat, were interred at Eddyville.
The injury done to the boat is inconsiderable�the cargo not at all damaged.
We are authorized to say that no blame is to be attached to the Captain or crew of the boat in consequence of this disaster, but to a flaw in one of the flues, which has the appearance of never having been sound. If the blame is attributable to anyone, it is to the Engine Company of Cincinnati, for putting a defective piece of iron in a part of the boiler which was not visible.
The General Robertson will leave here this morning at 11 o�clock for New Orleans.
From: Maury Democrat
284 SNAKE BITE
October 1,1891--Millie Marable, of Round Pond, Montgomery County, was bitten by a highland moccasin snake in a potato patch. The snake fastened its fangs in her leg; she ran a hundred yards with the snake clinging to her. She is in critical condition.
From: The Leaf Chronicle
285 Palmyra
It was on a Sunday morning during the summer of 1926 at about 9:30 or 10:00 A.M. when Marshal Yarbrough and Burton Cherry decided to cool off in the water of the Cumberland River at Palmyra. Many people were standing around waiting for the morning train. Marshal's father, Mr. Luther Yarbrough, was the ferryboat operator and was taking a model T Ford across to the far bank.
Mr. Yarbrough had told Marshal, who was about 10 years old, not to go out too far because he could not swim. The Cherry boy could tread water and swim a little bit, so out he went and hollered for Marshal to come join him. Marshal started, but in a flash he had stepped off into deep water.
The Yarbrough's lived in the ferry house across the river and there his mother was watching and heard it all from the other bank.
Young Marshal went down first. When he came up, he was grabbed by the Cherry boy. Both went down and came up twice while holding on to each other. When they came up the third time, they came up separated; then went down again. This made the Cherry boy's fourth time down and Marshal's fifth time down.
Mr. Wallace Dinsmore Sr. dived into the river and found Burton on the bottom. On the way up, he saw Marshal on the bottom and somehow kicked him in the face. This kick made Marshal turn loose of the bottom and Mr. Dinsmore brought them both up. Others were at the top there to help.
Marshal was rolled over a barrel to get the water out of him. He was carried unconscious over to his home where he was laid on a bed and covered up with a white sheet. There he lay until about 6 P.M.
When he awoke, he thought he was dead, laying there with the sheet over him. He didn't know where he was at because everything was so quiet. When his mother came to check on him, joy overflowed from both their hearts. Burton had survived also.
Now, 62 years later, Mr. Marshal Yarbrough is a commercial fisherman, located at the corner of 1st and Marion Street in Clarksville.
(Mr. Yarbrough passed away on December 2,1992 and is buried at Riverview Cemetery.)
From: Daily Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
286 PLEASANT MOUND
June 24,1893---Two boys met a horrible death last evening a few miles above the mouth of McAdoo Creek by drowning in the Cumberland. They were Henry Wilcox, son of Mrs. Jennie Wilcox of South Clarksville, and the twelve-year-old son of Pleasant Cocke, of the 17th District.
The Wilcox boy and a son of Albert Green were visiting at the home of Pleasant Cocke, and yesterday evening went down in the river bottom where a lot of hands were harvesting wheat. They spoke of going to the river, but were told not to go by some of the men. After awhile the boys were missed, and Thomas Cocke, who was superintending the work in the bottom, suspected that they had gone to the river. He started out to hunt them. When he arrived on the river bank he was met by Albert Green's son, who told him they were drowned. He hastened down the bank and soon found their clothing where they had left it, and saw their tracks leading into the water. This was all, but it told that the boys met a horrible death.
The alarm was quickly spread and every man who could be found soon joined in a search for the bodies. The drowning must have taken place about 3 o'clock, and at 4:30 neither body had been found.
About 5 o'clock last evening Charles Irby reached the city to bring the horrible news to Mrs. A.J. Green, who is a daughter of Pleasant Cocke and a sister of the unfortunate boy. Immediately upon receipt of the news, Mr. Green left with his wife for the scene of the drowning. H.F. Pearce went to work and got up a lot of men in South Clarksville to go over and assist in the search for the bodies. The men arrived there about night, and aided by fifty citizens of that locality, worked all night, some of them diving, and others dragging the river for their bodies. Several men who came into the city from the neighborhood of the accident this morning reported that the bodies had not been found at sunrise. River men say it will be very difficult to get them from the fact that the bodies are naked and drags will not catch them so readily as they would if they were clothed.
Squire Cocke, the father of one of the boys, is in Humphreys County, but has been telegraphed of the dreadful affair. There is no certainty about a telegram reaching him, however, as he is in the country.
Henry Wilcox is a son of the late J.E. Wilcox, who lived for a number of years in the Second District of the county. His widowed mother now resides in South Clarksville and is overcome with grief over the loss of her boy. He was about twelve years old and was a bright, handsome lad. His mother will have the deep sympathy of the people of Clarksville.
At noon today nothing had been heard of the bodies, though many men were working hard trying to find them. As a last resort a lot of dynamite was carried over about 10 o'clock this morning to use in the search for the bodies. It is said that the concussion from dynamite explosion, under water, will cause the bodies to come to the top.
This is one of the most deplorable accidents that has happened in Montgomery County for a long time and it should be a sad warning to boys who go to the river against the wishes of their parents. The boys were warned, but they heeded not.
BOTH BODIES FOUND
June 26,1893---About 1 o'clock Saturday evening the body of Pleasant Cocke, Jr., one of the unfortunate boys who was drowned Friday evening was found floating in the river at Edmondson's Ferry. Cullen Wall, the ferryman, found it and brought it ashore, informing the parents and friends of the fact as soon as possible. The body was taken to the Cocke residence, where it was prepared for the grave. The interment took place at Salem Church Sunday evening, with services by ___ W. Falres, pastor of the Antioch Circuit. The father of the boy arrived in the city Sunday morning from Humphreys County in time to attend the funeral services. There was quite a large crowd present at the grave, and much sadness was apparent.
In the meantime the search for the body of Henry Wilcox was continued all through Saturday night and up into the day Sunday. The men had almost despaired of finding it. Sunday afternoon, however, Joseph Sexton, who had been aiding in the search near the point where the boys lost their lives, was coming down the river in a canoe. When opposite the King and Queen Bluff he found the body hanging to a rock near the bank. It had evidently been forced to the bank by the steamer Rhea Saturday night, where it hung on a rock. The body was nearly entirely out of the water and presented a sickening sight. Mr. Sexton floated it to the Seven Mile Ferry where a crowd of men had been stationed to watch the river for it.
It was taken from the water there and shrouded before it was brought to the city. A crowd of friends left with the remains on the early train this morning for Guthrie, and the interment will take place this afternoon in the family burying ground in the first District of the county.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
287 NORA DRISCOLL
December 14,1899---Last night about 5 o'clock, Mrs. Nora Driscoll was knocked down and almost instantly killed by a couple of freight cars in the L&N freight yards just below Second Street, and within 100 yards and in plain sight of her own home. She was over 70 years of age and partially deaf and blind and it is supposed that the accident was due to her inability to plainly see or hear the approaching cars. Coroner Staton was immediately notified and, picking up a jury as he went, proceeded to her home whither the remains of the unfortunate woman had been carried in the meantime and held the necessary inquest.
Two witnesses only were examined, as the evidence was of a very conclusive nature. The first to testify was W.R. Dunham, yard master. He was on the switch train, composed of four cars pushed ahead of the switch engine, No. 425. He had not noticed the woman until he saw her on the ground beside the track dead. Asked if the train was all together when she was struck, he replied that it was not.
"We were kicking off a couple of cars up the side-track to the sand house," he said, "and had just cut loose the two forward cars, No. 5028 and No. 7178. They were going at a fair speed, not more than we ordinarily give them when we kick them off up that way. After the two cars had passed on up the track, I looked up that way and saw her lying on the ground."
Officer Dick Perkins was called and testified that he had been on the train and had seen the woman just before the accident and had called out to her, bidding her good evening and calling her by name. She didn't seem to understand him but raised her head as if she heard him. He climbed down from the train, meaning to wait until its engine and two cars left with it, should have backed past him and then he was coming on uptown. He was on the side of the track opposite from the woman. When the cars had passed, he looked up that way and saw something fluttering beside the track. Going up, he found it was Mrs. Driscoll, horribly injured and gasping out her last breath. She had not lived more than two minutes after the train struck her.
The jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the evidence adduced, finding that Mrs. Nora Driscoll came to her death by being struck and crushed by two freight cars detached from the switch engine about two hundred yards above the freight depot.
The woman was horribly hurt. The whole top of the skull had been crushed in and there was a deep gash dented into the forehead. The whole right side of the face was skinned and bruised and cut, and the right hand badly skinned and the fingers of the right hand mashed. The left hand was cut off and the left arm severed. There can be no doubt that she was utterly unconscious and suffered no pain after the first shock, until death mercifully relieved her.
She had one son, Tim. He was in the city at the time the accident took place and was soon notified and at the bedside of his dead mother. Her daughter, Julia, who was in Zanesville, Ohio, was immediately notified by telegraph, and is expected to arrive this afternoon. Her husband, Pat Driscoll, has been dead for about four years. She was quite well-to-do, owning a fine farm across the river, besides other property.
See Death Notices for Obituary.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
288 HACKBERRY
October 16,1928---The court of civil appeals Saturday affirmed Chancellor J.W. Stout's decision upholding the deed of Henry Davis, who died October 1925, in which he bequeathed his farm in District 18 to John Alvin, Lewis and Oscar Mixon. A brother of the deceased, Oll Davis had disputed the deed and filed suit in Chancery Court.
The case was heard by Judge Stout in February of 1928. Davis contended that the deed was not legal and that his brother had died "under peculiar circumstances". The Mixon brothers were represented by Collier Goodlett and C.B. Lyle, while the complainant had as his counsel G.L. Fryer of Paris and R.A. Gardner. The Chancellor, in his decision, ruled that the Mixon brothers had been made legal heirs of Henry Davis and had cared for him during his life.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
289 SHOOTING ACCIDENT
November 27,1899---A mantle of gloom has fallen upon this city in the tragic death of Henry Bryant, Saturday morning past at the camp of the Gracey Hunting Club on White River, Arkansas about 75 miles below Clarendon. The awful event took place about half past seven o'clock on the morning of the 25th inst. in the baggage tent of the camp. Only Paul Turney and J.P. Watson were with him at the time. The gun from which the fatal shot was fired was in the hands of the latter, and the shooting was purely accidental.
A few days before the party had been joined in the camp by Dr. J.M. Keller and Marshal Apperson and party, from Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Keller had a private steamboat which he anchored by the water's edge within thirty feet of the tents. He was going to leave that morning for Little Rock and Paul Turney, of the Gracey Club, was preparing to go with him to visit some relatives in that city. He had asked Mr. Bryant for the loan of his valise and had also asked Mr. Watson, who had a large chest in the baggage tent, to put his (Turney's) rifle in his chest to keep for him until his return. The three men had gone into the baggage tent together, Mr. Bryant to get his valise for Mr. Turney, Mr. Turney to carry his rifle and Mr. Watson to open his chest and put the rifle in it for Mr. Turney. In placing the rifle in the chest, it was discharged, the ball entering Mr. Bryant's body and causing his death within less than five minutes. He spoke but once after being shot. Turney saw him stagger after the shot and cried out,
"What's the matter, Henry?"
"I'm shot" was the answer.
"Where?"
"Right through the bowels."
Mr. Watson dashed out and gave the alarm. Someone ran down to the little steamboat where Dr. Keller was at breakfast, and called him, and he reached the dying man within two minutes after the shot had been fired. Mr. Bryant breathed several times after the Doctor reached him, but spoke no more.
It is under circumstances like this that the real nature of good men comes so nobly to the surface. Dr. Keller and Mr. Apperson immediately turned over to the Gracey Club their own steamboat and accompanied the remains themselves as far as Clarendon, where the funeral party took the train on the Cotton Belt Road for Memphis. They not only turned over the boat at a moment's notice to the funeral party, but they insisted upon bearing all the expenses of the trip as far as their boat went, maintaining the party of nine men and even buying the wood for fuel along the route.
The party left camp at 8:15 Saturday morning and reached Clarendon at 3:15 Sunday afternoon. A rain was pouring down and the town almost deserted at the time, and it was only by making the most strenuous exertions that they were enabled to effect connection with the railroad, after procuring a casket for the remains. Quick connection was again made at Memphis, and this morning the remains reached home accompanied to Memphis by E.G. Woods, Jack Wall, John Reed, Henry W. Bennett, J.P. Watson, Bob Baker, Clarence Baker and Mr. Harris.
At Memphis, J.P. Watson and the Bakers and Mr. Harris left the party for Gracey, the others accompanying the remains through to Clarksville.
It is comforting circumstance that Mr. Bryant had just risen from the breakfast table, over which he had, himself, just returned thanks to the God of his fathers for all His goodness to men. He was that type of Christian that believes in making the religion of Christ a matter of daily life, and considers even the pleasures of life a means of drawing closer to the Master instead of a separation from Him, as is so often the ____ ___men.
The death borrows an additional color of tragedy from the circumstances that lay back of the firing of that fatal shot. It is one of the specific rules of the Gracey Hunting Club, as of all such clubs, that there shall be no loaded guns kept in camp. A few days before, Mr. Turney, in hunting, had knocked the sight from his rifle and had brought it back to the camp and withdrawn the load, leaving it in camp and using another gun. The day before a Negro boy in the camp had a quarrel with the cook, and knowing that this gun was in the tent, had loaded it in the absence of all the members of the club, who were out hunting, and started out to kill the cook. The other Negroes about the camp took the gun away from him and hid it, and returned it to Mr. Turney when he came in that night. No one but the boy knew of the load in the gun, however, and all supposed it was an empty weapon which Mr. Watson was putting in his chest.
Mr. Bryant had just last May taken out $10,000 insurance on his life in the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia.
The Tobacco Board of Trade had a meeting called at 10:30 o'clock this morning at which the following committee was appointed on resolution: F. Norman Smith, T.L. Harvie, Theodore Gibson, William H. Randolph, Edward P. Turnley, C.P. Warfield and Capt. A.F. Smith.
The following committee was appointed to select an appropriate floral design: Jack Crouch, Dr. T.H. Drane and William H. Carsey.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
290 CLARKSVILLE
November 13,1930---The extent to which the sight of the right eye of Wilbur Thomas, three-year-old son of Wilbur Thomas, painter, will be impaired as a result of two painful cuts sustained at the home on South Seventh St. Tuesday morning, had not been determined, the attending physician said.
Shattered glass from a pop bottle which broke when the child fell against it, penetrated a considerable distance immediately below the pupil and also cut into the eyeball up to the point of sight.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
291 CAR ACCIDENT
November 13,1930---Sitting for City Judge Callis Tate Wednesday morning W.B. Corlew, Justice of the Peace, dismissed charges of reckless driving against a man named Miller, an Atlanta truck operator and the driver of R.W. Bogard's Ford coupe which were brought after a collision at Second and Franklin Street.
Mr. Bogard's car was considerably damaged by the crash which occurred as he was going south on Second. Miller pleaded for an immediate trial, stating that a delay for a regular hearing would damage him. The magistrate was called to the city bench in absence of Judge Tate.
From: The Weekly Chronicle
292 CORBANDALE
April 8,1876--We learn from our Corbandale correspondent that the Corbandale Flour and Saw Mill and the old depot at that place were destroyed by fire about nine o'clock Wednesday night, the 5th last, together with about 250 bushels of wheat and corn, 30 barrels of flour and some bran in the mill, and 3,000 feet of lumber in the yard.
The loss at the mill was about $4,000 or $5,000 with no insurance. The old depot was unoccupied. The telegraph wires, which pass over it, were burned in two.
Dick McKaskel, Parrish McClanahan and Mark Green, who live near Erin, are suspected of being the incendiaries. They were put off the steamer Eddyville at Corbandale about dark, very drunk and boisterous and said they were going to wait for the boat coming down. They got a chunk of fire from a Negro cabin with which to hail the boat, they said.
When the alarm was given, they could not be found and on Thursday morning were tracked to the ferry, where they stole a canoe in which they were seen by some fishermen below here soon after the fire was discovered.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
293 CORBANDALE
October 24,1928--Fear that the sight of his left eye will be lost completely as the result of the eye being punctured in the pupil, was expressed following an examination Tuesday afternoon by a Clarksville Specialist, of Paul Odis Eden, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Eden of near Corbandale. The child was trimming his pencil at school Tuesday when one of his playmates accidentally knocked against his elbow, driving the point of the knife into the center of his eye.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
294 CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS
October 27,1928---Kicked in the stomach by an old family horse, Leroy Trotter, 7-year-old son of D.B. Trotter, District 13, is in serious condition at the Clarksville hospital where he underwent an operation early Friday night for a broken spleen.
The child was playing with the horse on the farm of his grandfather W.H. Dean, District 13 Magistrate, and seized his tail when the animal kicked, the hoof striking him in the stomach. The accident occurred about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon.
The cries of the child attracted the attention of Mrs. George Jones, living nearby and she called his uncle, Fountain Dean. A physician was hastily summoned and suffering intensely, the little boy was conveyed to the hospital. While his condition is serious, it is thought he will recover.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
295 CLARKSVILLE
April 18,1885---Dr. B.W. Ussery, of the 17th District, met with a painful and serious accident in this city Tuesday afternoon.
While riding along Commerce Street almost opposite Williams Planning Mill, about 3 o'clock, he was struck by a large rock on the left leg just above the ankle. The rock was thrown out by a blast on the opposite hill about 75 yards away, and was hurtled with considerable force. It weighed 21 pounds.
The lick produced a comminuted fracture of both bones. Drs. McCauley and Bailey were immediately summoned in attendance and the limb set and bandaged. The patient was carried home as soon as his wound had been cared for and at last accounts was doing as well as possible under the circumstances.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
296 SOUTHSIDE
May 21,1918---Lightning struck the barn of Mr. Sid B. Harris a few days ago while he was stripping tobacco, setting fire to the tobacco in two places and knocking Mr. Harris down and rendering him unconscious for several minutes and severely shocking Reverend G.L. Hensley and Mr. Harris' little son, who were in the barn at the time. The fire was extinguished before any damage was done.
From: Daily Leaf Chronicle
297 HOMES BURNED
April 8,1918---At 1:00 Saturday afternoon, the home of S.E. Thompson in the Antioch neighborhood together with the contents of the house was destroyed by fire originating from a defective kitchen flue. The loss is estimated at between $1,000 and $1,500 with no insurance.
Mr. R.L. Ussery who lives in the Bend neighborhood, had the misfortune to lose his home and practically all the contents thereof by fire about 2:00 Monday afternoon. The fire, which was of unknown origin, was discovered by Mr. Ussery's family in the parlor roof just as they were preparing to attend the funeral of Mr. Paul Neblett. Mr. Ussery was in Clarksville, but the family worked courageously but was able to save only a small portion of the household effects.
It was said that about $7,000 insurance was carried on the building and contents.
From: Clarksville Weekly Chronicle
298 HOUSE FIRE
June 26,1886---The residence of Mr. Isham Davis at Palmyra, was burned at an early hour Tuesday morning. It was a four-room cottage and was entirely consumed. The greater portion of the household furniture was saved. It is impossible to guess the origin of the fire as it started in a portion of the house where there had been no fire for a week. Loss, $1,000; insurance, $500.
From: The Chronicle
299 CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS
February 19,1876---Not having learned the serious nature of the accident to Mr. G.W. Armstrong on the 5th inst. resulting from a saw cut until the very sad accident of a similar character to Mr. George Tompkins, we now give the particulars as reported to us by Mr. T.H. Hyman, who was present and gave such aid as he could in dressing the wound.
Professor Legare, T.H. Hyman, Dr. Larkins and Mr. Nailer, of the city, went on board of the Silver Spring to a point near Sailor's Rest to spend the day in duck hunting. When preparing to return, Mr. Armstrong, the engineer of the boat, noticed the irregular running of the woodsaw, and attempting to regulate it while in motion, was struck on the left hand, severing it nearly through the center from the back, the saw making not only one, but three cuts quite through the third and fourth bones, dividing them as well as the palmer arch, from which Mr. Armstrong would have bled to death but for the presence and prompt action of Dr. Larkin, who, without instruments, arrested the hemorrhage. We learn that Mr. Armstrong is doing well.
From: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
300 GRANDVIEW SCHOOL
January 4,1946---Fire caused when a cafeteria stove exploded, burned the Grandview School, a modern two-room building, in the 22nd District this morning shortly after 8 o'clock.
The 52 students and the two teachers escaped from the burning building without injury.
Starting soon after school had taken up, the fire spread rapidly, but the two teachers, Mrs. E.L. Smith and Miss Lorene Bumpus, succeeded in saving all of the pupils. A few of the larger children managed to save their wraps but most of the coats were burned and all the books destroyed.
Norfleet L. Carney, County Superintendent said today that the school was a total loss. The building was partially insured, he said. The loss was not estimated, but the superintendent said that the building could not be replaced at the present time because of the shortage in construction materials.
The 52 students will be transferred to other schools by Monday. The changes will be announced following a called meeting of the County Board of Education.
Reports from the community stated that the new oil stove used for cooking school lunches exploded soon after the fire was started this morning. Miss Ora Swift was serving as substitute for the regular hot lunch director, Mrs. Johnson. Miss Swift was not hurt by the explosion.
Hot luncheon for the students have been provided this winter by members of the Parent-Teacher Association who gave their services in the lunchroom.
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