Oxford Free Lance: Dr. WINSTON, a prominent young physician, died in Franklinton on Wednesday of typhoid fever.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 3.
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Henry WILLIAMS Tried at Newton (1880)
Hickory Carolinian: Henry WILLIAMS, the negro who fatally cut Harrison KINDER (also colored) at this place on Saturday night, the 21st of August, from which wound he died on the following Wednesday, was tried at Newton last Friday and Saturday, found guilty and sentenced by Judge BENNETT to be hanged on Friday, the 22nd of October. This, we believe, is the first murderer ever sentenced from Catawba Court, and will be the first hanging at our court house.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 3.
Peter Leach To Be Hanged (1880)
Wilmington Review: Peter LEACH, who is sentenced to be hanged at Lumberton on the 24th inst., is of a murderous family. One of the brothers has already suffered the death penalty and during the trial of Peter another brother slew his victim. The second brother escaped, but Peter is now in jail so weak that he cannot stand up, and will be hanged lying down.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 3.
BATTLE, C.L. – (d. 1880)
Died — At Rocky Mount, NC, on Sunday, 12th inst. of gastritis, Dr. C.L. BATTLE, son of W.S. BATTLE, Esq., aged about 24 years.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 3.
F.W. PARKS Robbed (1880)
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 3.
PLUMMER, (infant) – (d. 1880)
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 3.
WRIGHT, Nancy (Mrs.) – (d. 1880)
Mrs. Nancy WRIGHT died near Witt Springs, Ark. a few days ago, at the age of ninety years. She was born in North Carolina during the period of the Indian troubles, and learned to handle the rifle with great dexterity. She chopped down trees, cleared fields, made rails, plowed, and did other out-door work. At the age of seventeen she married a Baptist preacher and removed to Tennessee. They had thirteen children.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 2.
N.B. TAYLOR Escapes from Jail (1880)
Carthage, NC, September 11, 1880 – N.B. TAYLOR, the murderer of S.W. SEAWELL, of this county, made his escape out of jail last night. He bored through the top of the house. He evidently had help from the appearance of the hole. The impression here is that some person got on top of the jail and picked a hole through the roof, directly over the cell where he was confined, and bored through where he was, cut the chains, and made a rope out of his bedding and swung down. He has been guarded several months; the guard slept on the first floor of the jail. There must have been money used.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 2.
Member from Columbus (1880)
Col. T.F. TOON has been chosen by the Democrats of Columbus as the candidate for the House in the next General Assembly. He is in the prime of life, a man of genial qualities, of fine sense, an attractive speaker, and of great popularity with his people. He has never been in public office. Of his record as a soldier it is sufficient to say that he was among the first to volunteer, and became the Colonel of the 20th North Carolina Regiment, than which a braver regiment never went to battle. He was commissioned a brigadier-general just before the war closed, but has been content with the title won and worn while he was the distinguished leader of his beloved regiment.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 15 September 1880. Page 2.
McEARCHERN, D.P. and McNEILL, Mary (m. 1880)
Married – In Cumberland county, on August 26, at the residence of the bride’s father, Hector McNEILL, Sheriff, by the Rev. Joseph EVANS, D.P. McEACHERN, Esq. of Robeson, to Miss Mary McNEILL.
Source: Raleigh News and Observer. 14 Sep 1880. pg. 3.