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Explore YOUR GENEALOGY and GEORGIA'S REAL PAST, extracted from Georgia newspapers and other sources. These are excellent research books and make great reading. Contained in these books are newspaper abstracts that can help trace your lineage or give simple pleasure by transporting you to a bygone day. Civil War News - Heroes and Villains - Slave Trading - Lynchings - Deaths -Marriages - Legal Notices - Fraternal Lists - Jury Lists - Elections - all of which are indexed by name. Newspaper clippings books: All books are hard cover, 8 1/2 X 11 inches and color matched by county.
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In Frankford, Sussex County, New Jersey, on the 14th ultimo, Matthew Williams, at the advanced age of 124 years. He was born in Wales (Europe) in January, 1690--was a soldier during the reign of Queen Ann, and was at the taking of Minorca from the Spaniards and in almost all the most memorial battles in the last century, to the taking of Quebec under Wolfe; after which he settled in this county; but losing his wife, by whom he had two sons, he at the late revolution in America joined the service in which he continued until the close of the war, since which he has lived in this country until his death.
On the morning of the 24th ultimo, Mr. Wright Hilly, of Warren County, in this State, unfortunately put an end to the existence of his wife. His business required that he should go early that morning to a neighbor's house, and he concluded to take his gun with him. He took her and sat down by the fire to put a new flint in the lock--his wife was sitting the opposite side of the fire, and a negro fellow was standing nearly between them, putting wood on the fire. Mr. Hill turned round to get a piece of leather to put on the flint, and at the unlucky moment the gun fired, and the ball barely missed the negro and struck his wife in the right side; she died instantly without speaking. Whether a spark of fire where the negro was putting on wood, or snuff from the candle occasioned the gun to fire, it is impossible to tell. The position of Mr. Hill's body, turned as it inadvertently was, placed the muzzle of the gun in the direction he little expected--that is, pointing to his wife. She was the daughter of Col. Robourd, of Abercrombie District, Georgia, and has left three small children, a disconsolate husband and numerous acquaintances, to mourn her loss, and ever to lament the deplorable accident which brought her to her end. DIED. At his residence in Jackson County, on Tuesday last, Mr. Henry Stoneham, in the 52d year of his age. His complaint was a lingering dropsy, and attended with great pain and debility which he bore with considerable patience and fortitude. Mr. Stoneham was the soldier and the patriot. In our revolutionary struggle he bravely fought the battles of his country, and retained till his last hour the most ardent zeal for her prosperity. In his dealings with his fellow men, he was honest and upright. He has left a wife and 15 children to deplore his loss. |
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