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Results from the Republican primary, a new Miss Johnson City crowned, a family killed on the interstate and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

March 9, 1866: The East Tennessee Union Flag, a newspaper in Jonesborough, reported about a recent marriage. “At the residence of the bride’s father, on yesterday evening the 8th inst., by the Rev. Nathan (indecipherable), Hon. J.H. Gaut, of Cleveland, Tenn., to Miss Ella, daughter of Judge S.J.W. Lucky, of this place.” Jonesborough was spelled that way at the time. “The 8th inst.” was a way of writing March 8, with the “inst.” Indicating the present month. March 9, 1910: The Herald and Tribune, a newspaper in Jonesboro reported on church news from Johnson C...

Feb. 28, 1868: The East Tennessee Union Flag reported on the death of an infant. “At the Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage, near Johnson’s Depot, on the 15th inst., Clinton Fish,