Capt. F.H. LEATHERWOOD wife and babies, of Webster, are in town visiting among friends. Felix is among the most enterprising of our Western merchants, and within a few years past has built up quite a good business.
Source: Cherokee Herald, 24 June 1874, page 3.
Married – At the residence of the bride’s father, April 1st, 1885, at Oxford, N.C., J. Burton SHERRELL, of Webster, N.C. to Miss Clyde, daughter of P.H. SMITH; Rev. Mr. BOONE officiating.
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/>
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/>
Chapter of Fatal Accident
Asheville, Oct. 26. – Jas. PRATT and Mrs. Dan SHEHAN, of Marion, were run over by a passing train near Nebo, a station five miles from Marion, last night, and instantly killed. Few details of the accident have been received, but it is stated that these two and Mrs. PRATT, wife of the victim to the accident, were walking along the track and failed to heed an on-coming train. Another account has it that the couple were killed. Both bodies were horribly mangled, and it is stated that fragments of the man’s body were scattered along the track for some distance. Both Mrs. SHEHAN and PRATT were elderly.
There was another fatal accident near Marion last night when Horace NICHOLS, aged 24, the son of a prominent McDowell county farmer, was run over by a local freight and had both legs completely severed from his body. He died at Biltmore hospital early this morning. It is said that NICHOLS was also walking the track when a train struck him and inflicted the injuries that resulted in his death.
Robert WILLIAMS, a section hand of the Southern Railway, was also struck by an engine yesterday near Balsam, Jackson county, but his injuries, while serious, are not thought to be fatal. His nose was broken and he was otherwise painfully cut and bruised.
Earle SMITH, an employee of a planning mill, at Marshall, Madison county, was yesterday caught in the machinery and seriously, if not fatally injured. He was attempting to make some repairs when he was caught in the belting, carried into the machinery and horribly crushed. One leg was splintered and he sustained other serious injuries.
Source: Kinston Free Press, October 27, 1905