Mrs. J.L. SMATHERS and children returned home last Tuesday from an extended visit to relatives in Swain and Haywood counties.
Source: Cherokee Scout (Murphy, NC). 10 September 1895. Available at ChroniclingAmerica: Historic American Newspapers.
Category Archives: Haywood
PENLAND, Clarence – (d. 1915)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 25 February 1915. Available online at the Internet Archive.
CATHY, William Kerr – (d. 1915)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 25 February 1915. Available online at the Internet Archive.
PENLAND, Charles and GLANCE, Ollie – (m. 1915)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 25 February 1915. Available online at the Internet Archive.
PALMER, Glenn C. and FERGUSON, Fannie – (m. 1914)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 7 January 1915. Available at the Internet Archive.
BOYD, Glenn A. and McCRACKEN, Estelle – (m. 1914)
Source: NC Christian Advocate, 7 January 1915. Available at the Internet Archive.
Hemby Sells Paper (1885)
Source: Asheville Citizen, 4 May 1885. Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American Newpspaers
KEENER, Jos. (d. 1885)
Yesterday, in rambling about Sylva, I paid a visit to the grave of a man once well known in the annals of Haywood and Jackson, a citizen of the last when it was part of the territory of Haywood.
Jos. KEENER was a man of mark in his day, a man of sound judgment, large practical common sense, a fine speaker, a man of keen wit and terrible powers of sarcasm, genial, yet feared, popular, influential and successful. He was a member of the House in 1844-5, and of the Senate in 1863, and may have been in the Legislature at other times. Few men of the county have left so deep an impression upon the memories of the people or the history of the county.
His family may boast of a kind of antiquity in Jackson. It settled on Scotts Creek when the Indian titles were scarcely extinguished, and where the savages must have been close and troublesome neighbors. I notice among the few legible tablets, the names of his maternal parentage, the Cunninghams the most frequent.
Mr. KEENER died at the age of 65. One son, Mr. J.P. KEENER, lives at the old homestead on Scott’s Creek, a place dear to the memories of the politician of antebellum days.
The Asheville citizen. (Asheville, N.C.), 22 April 1885. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020682/1885-04-22/ed-1/seq-1/>
Resurrected His Money (1885)
A few days ago while Zeb PARKER, the negro convicted at the recent court at Waynesville for robbing Mr. Charlie SMATHERS‘ store at Pigeon Valley, and sentenced to work on the railroad, was being conveyed to the works, soon after passing Pigeon Valley he asked permission to go a short distance and get some money he had buried. Supt. TROY, who was along, sent him, with a guard, and sure enough he resurrected $25 in silver, and several dollars in smaller pieces.
This Mr. SMATHERS also identified, but the negro claims it on the ground that having been convicted and undergoing punishment, he has absolved himself of any obligation to Mr. SMATHERS of a financial character and is entitled to all not taken from him at the time of capture or trial. Like the negro once who, while going to be baptized stole an axe and hid it in the sand; and after baptism, said his sins were forgiven and the axe was his property. Mr. SMATHERS will doubtless get his money.
The Asheville citizen. (Asheville, N.C.), 21 April 1885. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020682/1885-04-21/ed-1/seq-1/>