MARRIED – In Wilmington, on the 1st inst., Mr. Wm. F. ALDERMAN to Miss Anna Maria, daughter of T.D. LOVE.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
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MARSH, James & FERRELL, Leonas (m. 1857)
In Clinton, Feb. 5th, by Rev. H. McALPIN, Mr. James MARSH to Miss Leonas FERRELL, all of Clinton.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
BISHOP, Sidney & ALBRIGHT, Sally (m. 1857)
MARRIED — In Chatham county, on the 1st inst., at the residence of Daniel SMITH, Esq., by Rev. John HINSHAW, Dr. Sidney BISHOP to Miss Sally ALBRIGHT, daughter of the late John ALBRIGHT of Alamance.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
CANADY, Wm. E. & REPITON, A.P. – (m. 1857)
MARRIED — At Wake Forest, on the 29th ult., by the Rev. J.K. KELLY, Mr. Wm. E. CANADY, of Granville, to Miss A.P. REPITON, of Wilmington.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
PERKINSON, Benj. F. & McCULLERS, Mary (m. 1857)
MARRIED — On the 4th inst., by Rev. Mr. SKINNER, Mr. Benj. F. PERKINSON, of Raleigh, to Miss Mary McCULLERS, daughter of Mr. M. McCULLERS, of Johnston county.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
GIBSON, Wm. (d. 1857)
The Hillsborough Recorder states that John SHAW killed his son-in-law, Wm. GIBSON, in Alamance county, on Saturday last, by stabbing him twice and then breaking his skull with a stone. Both were drunk. SHAW was a peaceable man when sober. He is in jail.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
JONES, Willis S. (d. 1857)
Willis S. JONES committed suicide in Orange on Friday night, by cutting his throat and plunging into a mill pond. He was a young man about 23 years of age; was in good circumstances, but had met with some pecuniary losses which distressed his mind, and it is supposed was the cause of his committing the rash act.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
TAYLOE, (Lieutenant) – (d. 1856)
We regret to learn that Lieutenant TAYLOE, a son of Col. Joshua TAYLOE of this Town, was killed in battle, fought on the 21st of December last, between the Americans and Costa Ricans — Wash. N.C. Times
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
HODGIN, Elias (d. 1857)
Melancholy Death
Mr. Elias HODGIN, a miller residing near Greensborough, N.C., was caught in the machinery of his mill on Friday of last week, and so horribly crushed, that he died in about five minutes.
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857
SLADE Brothers Sell Crops (1857)
Profitable Farming
The Clarksville Tobacco Plant says; “Capt. A. SLADE, of Caswell, N.C. and his two brothers, have sold their entire crops of Tobacco, lugs included, to a Lynchburg manufacturer, for the extraordinary price of $35 per hundred lbs. Capt. SLADE, estimates his crop at 18,000 or 20,000 lbs. It is the product of the labor of some ten hands. If it should turn out to be 20,000 lbs he will realize from each laborer the unprecedented sum of $700. Can the cotton fields of Louisiana, the sugar plantations of Cuba, the rice fields or the turpentine districts of the Carolinas, boast of larger profits?
The Tobacco which commands these prices is of a very fine texture, but its chief claim to superior excellence is attributable to the mode of curing. Of this mode we can give the public no more satisfactory exposition than that charcoal is the fuel used.”
Source: Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857