Iowa Old Press

The Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa

Jan 4, 1849
Married
On the 28th ult., by Rev. J.B. Taylor, Mr. Henry Gabbert to Miss Eliza Jane
McGarvey, both of Buffalo towship, Scott county, Iowa.

On the 22d ult., by Elder James Brownlee, Mr. John Robertson to Miss Mary
Ann Neil, all of Long Grove, Scott county, Iowa.

On the 28th inst., by Rev. Z.H. Goldsmith, Mr. John Piersall to Miss Julia E
Higgins.

Jan 11, 1849
Ho! For California
The Dubuque Tribune says that Messrs. S.M. Hammonds (firm of Hammonds &
Markle) Wm. H. Merritt (late editor of Express) E. Mobley and ___Mc Coy,
left that city for California via new Orleans and the Isthmus, on the Monday
evening of last week. Also, that a second party intended starting on Monday
of this week.

Jan 18, 1849
Died
Near Davenport, on 28th Dec., John G. McCullough, late of Holmes county,
Ohio.


Jan 25, 1849
Died
In this place on Sabbath 21st inst., Mrs. Susan Rea, wife of Rev. Geo. S.
Rea, aged 26 years.

On Wednesday, 10th inst., of Consumption, Mr. George Moore, aged 41 years.

Casualty
Killed on Thursday morning last, by the explosion of a boiler attached to
the steam mill of Messrs. Burrows & Prettyman, Mr. William Fudge, aged 41
years. An old and respectable resident of this place.



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