MISS SARAH FRITTS
On Wednesday, the 20th instant, during the thunder storm, Miss Sarah Fritts, of Meigs County, Tennessee, aged seventeen
years, while dropping corn in the field was struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Memphis Daily Avalanche - May 24, 1868
- transcribed by FOFG
MRS. S. J. MOSS
R. R. Moss, of Cumberland Gap, formerly of Morristown was in the city a few days ago en route to Pinhook, where
his mother, Mrs. S. J. Moss, died on April 28th. The remains passed through the city last Thursday, being taken
to Morristown where they were interred. Mrs. Moss was born near Morristown in 1836, and had lived in that section
of the greater portion of her life. She raised a large family of which there are two sons now living, one in Rhea
county and the second at Cumberland Gap. They also have a half brother who lives in Meigs county at whose home
the good woman breathed her last.
She was a devout member of the First Baptist church at Mount Zion, Rhea (the rest of the article was cut off)
Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune (5 May 1896)
- transcribed by Marla Zwakman
