Dr. W.P. Allen - Chattanooga, Tenn., April 30 – Dr. W. P. Allen of Dayton,
Tenn., who last December was acquitted of the murder of Eurch C. Gardenhire, member of a well-known Tennessee family,
after one of the most sensational murder trials ever staged in Rhea County, tonight killed his 3 year old son,
W. P. Jr., attempted to kill his wife and committed suicide.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, May 1, 1922 – transcribed by Amanda Jowers
Mrs. Alice Brooke died at 51 Linden street yesterday, at 11 o’clock a.m., of consumption.
She was thirty-five years of age and Knoxville is her native place. Undertaker Zeigler embalmed her body and the
remains were accompanied by her husband to their home at Dayton, this state, today.
Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune (2 Feb. 1892) – transcribed by Marla Zwakman
George Washington Everett , 90, of Dayton died Monday, Nov. 5 (1979)
in a Bledsoe County hospital. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Ola Mae Brown, Dayton; two son, John and Roy
Everett, both of Dayton; thirteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Penny,
Soddy and Mrs. Tremmie Sims, Graysville; four brothers, Joe Everett, Pikeville, Otto Everett, Graysville, Kenneth
and Roscoe Everett, both of Battle Creek, Mich.; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Wednesday,
Nov. 7 at the chapel of Sawyers Funeral Home in Dayton with the Rev. Allen Winkler officiating. Burial was in Rigsby
Cemetery. Sawyers Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
The Herald, submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy
Wallace Galloway
Draft Dodger Takes Own Life
Spring City, Tenn. - Wallace Galloway, 28, son of a well-to-do retired merchant here and under federal indictment
on a charge of evasion of the selective service act, was found dead in his car near here Saturday.
Police chief Bert Ladd said young Galloway committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Galloway, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Galloway, registered in October, 1940, under the selective service
regulations, but refused to report to the Rhea county draft board upon notification, U. S. District Attorney J.
B. Frazier in Chattanooga said. He was arrested by federal officers and was under $5,000 bond awaiting trial in
federal district court in Chattanooga.
The Kingsport Times, November 24, 1941 - transcribed by, AJ
Dr. J. B. Regester, brother of Mrs. J. H. Groseclose of Dallas, died
Friday night at his home in Spring City, Tenn. Dr. J. H. Groseclose, superintendent of Dallas Methodist Hospital,
was informed Saturday. Funeral services and burial were held Saturday.
Dr. Regester spent last winter in Dallas. He was a physician with an extensive practice at Spring City. Mrs. Groseclose
has spent the last month in Spring City and was with Dr. Regester when he died.
Dr. Regester is survived by his wife, a son, J. G. Regester of Dallas, and another sister, Miss Jennie Regester
of Erie, Pa. J. G. Regester also was a the bedside when Dr. Regester died.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, November 15, 1931 – transcribed by Amanda Jowers
