In the News - 17 July 1913

Newspapers during the summer of 1913, reported many events of interest such as family visits in other states, new monuments erected in local cemeteries, marriages, deaths and church dedications. The events listed below appeared in the 17 July 1913 issue of the Crittenden Record-Press, published in Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.

Miss Virginia Blue is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. R.L. Orme in Evansville, Indiana.

Alonzo Agee of Hickman, Tenn. Is here on a visit to his father, Joseph Agee, who lives 2 miles east of the city near the Shady Grove road in the Pleasant Hill section.

Mrs. Sue Adams, of Decatur, Ala., arrived Saturday to be with her mother, Mrs. S. Hodge. (from Princeton Leader)

Henry & Henry, the tombstone firm, put up a fine monument to the grave of Mrs. Edgie Gregory of Tilline, Ky.

A huge Quincy granite monument, is now in the process of carving at the marble works of Henry & Henry in the concrete building on Carlisle Street, in this city, which, when completed, will be erected at the grave of Atha Head at Cedar Grove cemetery in Livingston County.

The Methodist Church at Blackford will be dedicated Sunday, July 27.

Mrs. Thos. J. Woody and two children, Master Lemon and Miss Clara, left Tues., for Washington, D.C. where they will reside in the future. They will stop enroute at Charleston, W. Va. To visit Roy Woody and family.

Hollis Franklin of Hebron and Clifton Threlkeld of Carrsville were in the city Tuesday on important business. They came to get a marriage license for the former who on Wednesday was united in marriage to Miss Nina Paris.

Recent Deaths:

Mrs. Vitula Asher, wife of John G. Asher, died 9 July 1913. She was a daughter of W.E. and P.J. Williams  and was born in this county 1858; twice married.

Ira B. Hughes, age 89, died at the home of his son, Allie Hughes. Buried at Crooked Creek Friday. Survived by five children; wife preceded him “across the bar.”

Madeleine Foster, 12 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Moses C. Foster, died Monday of diphtheria at the home of her parents on the J.N. Boston farm near Repton. Buried Good Hope Church.

Published 20 Oct 2020,  Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/