MaryAnn (Carter) Schry passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Cumberland Times News on 2024-01-14.
Mr. William (Bill) G. Bradley, Jr graduated from this earthly life on October 29, 2023. He slipped away peacefully in his sleep with family at his side. He was preceded in death by his parents William Guy, Sr and Lucille Carter Bradley. His eldest child, daughter, Kathy Lynn Bradley Ross Powers, passed away in 2014.
May 23, 1872: The Herald and Tribune reported sad news regarding the death of a small child. âOn 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.â
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, âThis 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 river and u