BEARD,
ANDY
Kennedy, Ala - JORDAN BAINES, a poor though
respectable farmer, living nine miles south of Kennedy, in Pickens
county, on arising Sunday morning missed his eighteen year old daughter
LONA but thought she had gone on a visit to neighbors. About the same
time ANDY BEARD, a negro, 22 years of age, employed by Mr. BAINES,
disappeared, which caused the parents to become suspicious, and a search
was instigated, which raised the suspicion that LONA had eloped with the
negro BEARD. Parties were made up and are vigilantly searching for the
pair, and doubtless, if caught Judge Lynch will pass sentence on BEARD,
and the girl will be severely dealt with. The pair were seen some time
Sunday between Kennedy and Millport, going toward Columbus, Miss,
the girl traveling half a mile in advance of the negro. It is supposed
that a clandestine intimacy existing between the two is the cause of the
elopement. (Marion County News, March 18, 1897)
Kennedy, Ala - News reached here
Monday afternoon that the negro, ANDY BEARD, who eloped with the white
girl, LONA BAINES, who lived about ten miles south of this place, in
Pickens county, was killed Saturday evening in the public highway, near
Obney township in Pickens county. The couple were
over-taken by a body of twenty-five mounted men, and as soon as they
discovered that they were being pursued the negro began to run, whereupon
the pursuers opened fire, killing him instantly. The girl LONA
cried out to the slayers of her paramour to treat her in the same manner
that they had him, but the body rode away, leaving her near the scene of
the killing. Her father and brothers afterward took her back home,
and it is not known in what manner her punishment was inflicted.
(The Marion
County News, March 25, 1897 - transcribed and submitted by Veneta
McKinney)
HERITAGE, Daughter of HENRY
F.
Young Lady Burned to Death in
Alabama. The "West Alabamian" of this date says: We learn that a daughter of Mr. Henry F. Heritage, of this
county, was burned to death a few days ago, under the following sad
circumstances. The older members of the family were absent from home, and a
little son set fire lo a field of broom-sedge near the house; and the
daughter, to protect the fire from reaching the fence, attempted to extinguish
it. In the effort her clothes caught fire, and, no one being near to assist
her, she was unable to put them out until she was fatally burned. She at last
reached the spring, put out the fire of her burning clothes, and succeeded in
getting back to the house, but died soon after from the effects of the
burn.
Tuesday, February 14, 1860, Vincent's Semi-Annual
United States Register, by Frances Vincent, 1860. [Transcribed
by C. Anthony]
WILLETT, Major E. D.
Fell Dead in Church: MAJOR
WILLETT of Carrollton Died at His
Post
Columbus, Miss, March 17 –
Major E. D. WILLETT, a prominent attorney and citizen of Carrollton, Ala. died in that place yesterday morning of
heart disease. He had just
finished conducting the services of the Sunday School in the Methodist Church, and as he pronounced the “amen”
to the closing prayer he fell forward dead.
Major WILLETT fought gallantly through the late war and in the
confederate army and won his title by his bravery. He has occupied a prominent place in
Carrolton both as an attorney and as a citizen, and leaves many friends in
Columbus as
well as at this home to mourn his loss with his bereaved family.
(Vernon Courier (Lamar County, AL) March 20, 1890)
WILLIAMS, Judge T. G.
Judge T. G. WILLIAMS, Probate
Judge of Pickens County, died at Carrollton, Ala on the 19th inst from
apoplexy. (Vernon Courier, (Lamar County, AL), May 22,
1890)
