Deaths Reported in Newspaper 1899

Deaths reported in the Princeton Banner in 1899 Submitted by Richard Sheridan

These notes were taken from a summary of the county news for 1899 published in the Princeton Banner on January 5, 1900. A copy of that issue is preserved in the George Coon Library, Princeton, Ky.

    January

    3rd - Miss Gracie Adams died.
    8th - Thomas McLin died.
    14th - Flint Gore died.
    19th - Webb Throckmorton died.
    22nd - Guy Coon died.
    27th - Remains of Mrs. Albert McNeely interred here.
    28th - Mr. Jno. M. Higgins died, 77 years old.

    Feburary

    5th - Dr. M. J. L. Burchard died in 79th year.
    9th - John W. Stegar died
    9th - Mrs. M. L. Edwards died.
    25th - R. C. Sims died.

    March

    14th - Mrs. Tennessee Green died.
    21st - J.H. Dildine, of Lima Ohio, died at depot from drinking wood alcohol.
    21st - Jeff C. Asher died in 83rd year.
    25th - Death of Mrs. Annie E. Rucker.
    28th - Death of little Elsie Wolff.

    April

    1st- Death of John P. Rascoe, 81 years of age.
    3rd - Mr. Alfred Beckner died.
    14th - Mr. John C. Young died.

    May

    9th - Death of Mrs. Sam Presnell.
    9th - Mr. Robert Wilkerson died.

    June

    6th - Death of Mrs. Dr. Anderson.

    July

    1st - Death of Mrs. J. S. Buckner of Fredonia.
    16th - Dr. Anderson's death.
    19th - Mr. Nelse Dalton died.
    22nd - Mack Burgess shot by George Daniel at Quinn, Theodore Campbell and Kelly Lowery wounded.

    August
    5th - Death of Mrs. Granderson Guess.
    5th - Death of Miss Wynona Tucker.
    5th - Death of little Annie Adelaide Meyers.
    7th - Mrs. Dan Glover of San Marcos, Texas died at residence of Mrs. Pepper.

    September

    5th - Death of W. S. Clark, aged 69.
    6th - Mrs. Irene Cox died.
    20th - Death of Mrs. Alfred Beckner.

    October

    2nd - Mrs. Ben Martin died at Farmersville.
    4th - Death of Broad Todd.
    22nd - Mrs. A. F. Johnson died.

    November

    1st - Death of Wylie Dollar.
    10th - Death of Frank Adams.
    11th - Death of Mrs. Bethany Tyrie, 102 years.
    12th - Mrs. Ira Winstead of Farmersville died.
    19th - Miss Ira Irwin died.
    21st - boiler exploded on Eddy Creek, John Gray killed.

    No deaths were reported for the month of December