Source: Roanoke Beacon, 6 December 1889. Available online at DigitalNC.org.
Category Archives: Martin
ELLISON, Wm. J. I. and HYMEN, Frances – (m. 1836)
MARRIED
Source: Raleigh Standard, 21 January 1836. Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American Newpspaers
Mrs. A. Manning Visits Sister (1889)
Excerpted from the “City News” column.
Mrs. A. MANNING is tending to ill sister Mrs. J.N. ROBERTSON in Williamston.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 16 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Theodore Council Arrested (1889)
Theodore COUNCIL, the young man who killed his wife with “Rough on Rats” near Robersonville, Martin county, about two weeks ago, was arrested near his home on Friday last and committed to jail at Williamston to await trial. He is trying to get acquitted on a plea of insanity, but if guilty of the crime he should be given the full penalty.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 9 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Council, Theodore (Mrs.) – (d. 1889)
Poisoned His Wife
A special from Williamston, NC, of July 24th, to the News and Observer, contains the following horrible account of a man poisoning his wife:
On Thursday last one Theodore COUNCIL, a young man about 22 years old, white, went to the town of Robertsonville, in this county, accompanied by his wife. He called at the store of J.W. ANDERSON & Co., and bought a package of rough on rats. He asked at the time if it would kill a person. The clerk told him it would. he then procured some whiskey and deposited the rough on rats in it. On his return home he induced his wife to drink it and before getting to her home she was taken deathly sick. He took her home and pretended to go for a physician, but did not go and left her there to die, and has fled. She died very suddenly on last Friday morning. It was not till her father was sent for, and he went for a physician, that the above facts were brought out. Her remains are buried. Upon investigation the fact that a murder had been committed became so plain that a coroner’s inquest and post mortem examination was demanded. The lady’s remains were disinterred on yesterday, and a post mortem examination made by Dr. W.H. HARRELL, county superintendent of the board of health. The coroner’s jury has been on the case since Monday, and rendered a verdict today of murder. COUNCIL is still at large and strenuous effort is being made to arrest.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 9 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
BROWN, William R. – HYMAN, Ellen (m. 1836)
MARRIED – On the 7th inst. Mr. William R. BROWN of Martin, to Miss Ellen HYMAN of Edgecomb co.
Source: North-Carolina standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 14 Jan. 1836. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1836-01-14/ed-1/seq-3/>
JOHNSTON, Samuel (Mrs.) (d. 1801)
DIED– In Martin county, a few days ago, Mrs. JOHNSTON, wife of Hon. Samuel JOHNSTON, one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of this State.
Source: Raleigh Register and Weekly Advertiser, 10 February 1801.
BIGGS, Asa (d. 1878)
Death of Judge Biggs — Hon. Asa BIGGS, of the firm of K<…> BIGGS & Co.,died in Norfolk at 12 am of Wednesday the 6th inst. The immediate cause of his death was rheumatic gout.
Judge BIGGS was born in Martin county, North Carolina, on the 4th of February, 1811. he was licensed to practice law in 1831, entered public life in 1840 as a member of the House of Commons from Martin, was re-elected in 1842, and went to the State Senate in 1844. In 1845 he was elected to Congress from the First District, beating Hon. David OUTLAW, and in 1847 was in turn defeated by Mr. OUTLAW. In 1850 <.two sentences unreadable> the result of their joint labors, the Revised Code, would of itself, have been sufficient to have kept green the memories of each of the co-laborers.
In 1854 Judge BIGGS was again elected to the Legislature from Martin and by the Legislature of 1854 and 1855 he was elected to the United States Senate. This position he resigned for the purposes of accepting the United States District Judgeship, which position he held until he resigned and was at once appointed District Judge of the Confederate States.
At the close of the war Judge BIGGS pursued the practice of law with marked success and continued in the practice until 1909, when he, in company with Chief Justice SMITH went to Norfolk and opened a law firm.
Judge BIGGS leaves a family of three sons and three daughters. Capt. Wm. BIGGS, of the Oxford Free Lance, being the eldest of his sons.
Source: Roanoke News, 9 March 1878.