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May 23, 1872: The Herald and Tribune reported sad news regarding the death of a small child. “On last Saturday morning in this place, of brain fever, little Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Shaver, in the fourth year of his age.”
Brain fever was very likely meningitis.
The Herald and Tribune was, and still is, a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way in 1872.
May 23, 1901: In a continuation of a story from the previous day, The Knoxville Sentinel reported on area flood damage. With a Johnson City dateline, readers learned, “This is the eastern terminal of the Knoxville division of the Southern Railway company for the present. Superintendent C.L Ewing and other officials of the road reached here Wednesday and spent the day planning to accommodate traffic. As the river is now too high, no mail or passengers are being transferred. Two large barges are being built here and will be taken to Watauga this afternoon and placed in the ....

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