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From: "Gerri Sutton" <>
Subject: EXCERPTS from the MOUNTAIN ECHO 1883
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 14:58:05 -0400


Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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FEBRUARY 1883

Greenmount: Rev. Riley McCowan has built a large and commodious new stable.

Jim Tacket has made, for his own private use a splendid new sleigh.

Amos Pearl, a colored man, known to nearly every resident of this county as
"Uncle Amos" died on Sunday last at his home three miles west of this
place. Uncle Amos was born a Slave in Fauquier County, Va., about 1791,
which would make him about 92 years of age, and was brought to this State
when 12 years old by William Pearl, grandfather of Judge Pearl of this
place and was in the family until duing the war, having been a dilligent
and faithful servant to four generations of the family. He had been a
member of the Baptist Church for about eight years. His funeral sermon was
preached at the Court House on Tuesday by Rev. J. Moren, at whose request
Judge Pearl gives us the facts embodied here in.

Messrs. W. H. Brown and Frank Sutton, have completed their building near
the depot, and laid in a stock of groceries.

Greenmount: The river has been on a high during the week.

A number of Booneville wagons were detained on this side of the river a
part of last week by the high waters.

Mr. Green McCracken drove into the river with 2 horses last Thrusday
thinking it was fordable, but it proved to be too deep. His wagon bed
floated off with him and he was compelled to swim ashore, leaving his team
which pulled out into the current and struck down the stream, he called Ed
Tackett who was working in a neighboring field and who owned one of the
horses. They got into a boat and rowed into their horses and cut the
______ ? from them so they could swim to the shore. The boys say Green
prayed for his life and Ed prayed for his horse.

Mershons X Roads: Chash Cornelius and Miss Nannie Branstutter of this place
were married a few days since.

Mr. Evan Jones and family who left here about two months ago to seek a
house in California or Oregon returned on the train last Monday. They only
went as foar as California where some of their children were taken sick,
and they became dissatisfied and returned.

APRIL 1883

East Bernstadt: The authorities at Altamont have established a quarentine
and will allow no person to pass either in or out and we think our town too
should follow suit, they should at any rate keep those away who come from
the town where the small pox is raging.

One of the small-pox patients at Pitman, Landon Andrews, died during the
week.

The Post Office at Pittman Station this county formerly known as Peacock,
has been changed to Pittsburg.

On last Thursday the body of a young lady, afterwards recognized as that of
Miss Nannie Bryant of Jackson county, was found in Rockcastle river near
Livingston, upon investigation it was found that her neck was broken and
other evidences of violence found upon her body. She was brought to Dan
Bales by Bill Dunnegan who was heard to threaten to kill her if he could
not get rid of her otherwise. She has been missing since April 6th and
Dunnegan left for Texas on the 9th inst.

MAY 1883

"We J. S. Griffin, Thomas Rice, Wm. Brummett, A. J. Sams, Henry Burton and
F. L. Lockard, having been this day summoned by A. J. Pike, JPRC. To hold
an inquest over the body of the girl that was found in Rockcastle river,
and this day took upon and held a post mortem examination, find that her
name is Nannie J. Bryant that her age is 15 years and that she came to her
death at the hands of Bill Dunnegan who had fractured her skull and broke
her neck and threw her in Rockcastle river on the 6th day of April 1883,
before the killing he had seduced her and killed her to get rid of her,
this 24th day of April 1883."

MAY 1883

A new plank fence has been erected around the Public Square where the fence
burned at the time the jail burned.

Mr. James Southard, of this place returned last Saturday from Texas, where
he had gone to make his home. After a short experience in the west young
men soon conclude that there is no place like old Laurel.

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