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Fairfield Weekly Ledger
Jefferson County, Iowa
Transcribed by:  Joey Stark

Note:  Typographical errors (followed by [sic]) and spelling variations in names in this document are intentional and reflect the actual newspaper articles.   Transcriber’s notes are occasionally included and are indicated with [Ed. note:….].  Surnames shown here are in UPPER CASE for easy location; not rendered as such in the newspapers.

December 24, 1868
 

Painful Death.--- On Thursday morning last, Dec. 17th --- at the house of John V. MYERS --- Miss Elizabeth HUNT was found in convulsions.  She was up-stairs at the time, and the noise made by her attracted Mr. MYERS’ attention.  Medical assistance was called in, but no relief was given her, and she continued in convulsions until death terminated her existence.  She was unconscious all the time.  Miss HUNT was about 28 years of age.  She has been here at various times during the last seven or eight years, and at the present was visiting friends.  We believe she contemplated opening a millinery shop in Fairfield.  The testimony of physicians at the coroner’s inquest went to prove that she had died from the effects of strychnine, and the appearance of the body after death condrmed [sic] this testimony.  No cause could be assigned why she should poison herself.  After a post mortem examination, and the examination of several witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of:  “Came to her death from causes unknown to the jury.”  One of Miss HUNT’s sisters came here and took the body to Chicago for burial.

   For the Fairfield Ledger.
DIED.--- At Fairfield, Iowa, Dec. 14, 1868, Sophia H., wife of Rev. A. S. WELLS, aged 63 years and 6 months.  Her disease was the second stroke of paralysis.

As she never recovered her consciousness, she was unable to give the parting salutations of an affectionate wife and mother or an assurance of her triumph over death in the last conflict, by the faith of Jesus.  But the latter we may draw from her life.  For more than forty years she has been a member of the visible church.  She chose the society of God’s people, searched the Scriptures daily, and loved God’s worship in all its forms.  Of late she had felt an unusual interest on the subject of personal religion, and in all the special means employed to promote the piety and fruitfulness of the church.

Although she was not as active a christian worker as she would have been if she had not been hindered by a mistaken apprehension of the text--- “Let your women keep silence in the church” --- yet we cannot doubt that she received and rested upon Christ as the Rock of her Salvation and her only foundation of hope, or that she died in the Lord, and therefore sleeps in Jesus.  Her death, although sudden and unexpected to all, was an easy one;  and she will be greatly missed, not only by her bereaved companion and her affectionate children, but by a wide circle of her acquaintances and friends.  May it lead us all to get ready to live only to the Lord, and then we shall be sure of a happy death and a glorious immortality. Com.

Real Estate Transfers --- The following deeds to lands and town lots in Jefferson county, have been placed on record at the Recorder’s office for the two weeks ending December 21, 1868:

W. S. BUTLER from Jacob BUTLER and wife, 40 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated Dec. 5, ’68.  150 00
Sam’l WISECARVE from J. B. HORN and wife, 60 acres in Fairfield township.  Deed dated March 12, 1867.  2,000 00
G. J. WEBSTER from Fred. and J. A. WEBSTER, 100 acres in Buchanan township.  Deed dated July 20, ’68.  80 00
Olive A. BIRNEY from D. L. MOREHOUSE and wife, 160 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated Dec. 18, 1868.  1,500 00
Alex. DUNLAVY from Geo. W. LORING and wife. 80 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated December 10, 1868.  1,900 00
Nancy A. PARK from W. G. COOK and wife, 48 acres in Blackhawk township.   Deed dated Nov. 3, 1868.  600 00
N. G. CHILCOTT from Daniel E. FORE and wife, 80 acres in Buchanan township.  Deed dated Nov. 30, 1868.  210 00
Owen HADLEY from Silas GREGORY and wife, about 24 acres in Blackhawk township.  Deed dated November 26, 1868.  537 50
John F. JOHNSON from Isaac F. LEE and wife, 40 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated Jan. 23, ’67.  800 00
William RANEY from W. D. WHITTAKER and wife, 80 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated December 11, ’68.  450 00
Eliza A. LORING from Jacob KREITZLER et. al., 160 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated Oct. 1, ‘68.  3,000 00
Nancy E. SMITH from John McCULLOCH and wife, 80 acres in Polk township.  Deed dated Dec. 14, 1868.  800 00
Joseph E. STEELE from Joseph STEELE and wife, 160 acres in Des Moines township.  Deed dated April 21, 1868.  1,200 00
Eliza A. WRIGHT from T. W. GOBBLE and wife, 1¼ acres in Polk township.  Deed dated Oct. 8, 1868.  180 00
Stephen WATKINS from Alex. DUNLAVY and wife, 60 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated December 10, 1868.  1,600 00
S. F. WATKINS from J. J. WEBB, 72 acres in Round Prairie township.--- Deed dated Dec. 10, 1868.  1,800 00
Elijah TOWNE from Ellen M. TOWNE and husband, 27? acres in Fairfield township.  Deed dated December 14, 1868.  678 12½
Henry FLAGLE from John CROSKRY and wife, 2 112-160ths acres in Walnut township.  Deed dated Oct. 24, ’68.  75 00
John COURTNEY from David COURTNEY and wife, 20 acres in Walnut township.  Deed dated Dec. 16, 1868.  300 00
A. J. COURTNEY from David COURTNEY et. al., 18 acres in Walnut township.  Deed dated Dec. 16, 1868.  300 00
J. R. HOBSON from I. H. CRUMLEY, Guardian, interest of Reubin GARDNER, in 20 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated December 14, 1868.  134 00
Larkin BOND from J. F. TEAGARDEN et. al., 40 acres in Locust Grove township.  Deed dated March 23, ’68.  500 00
John WILLIAMS from James EMRY and wife, 5 acres in Penn township.--- Deed dated August 18, 1868.  25 00
John NELSON from Geo. A. POLLOCK and wife, 5 acres in Des Moines township.  Deed dated Dec. 16, 1868.  600 00
John BISHOP from John J. SMITH and wife, 210 acres in Liberty township.  Deed dated July 1, 1868.  3,100 00
Robert PATISON from Alex. PATISON, 10 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated May 8, 1868.   200 00
A. W. LAUGHLIN from W. M. LAUGHLIN, 149 acres in Locust Grove township.  Deed dated Oct. 29, 1867.  1,368 88
A. G. ANDERSON from Jonah SHION, 240 acres in Lockridge township.  Deed dated Dec. 16, 1868.  3,350 00
Isaac N. BRYAN from James GOW, 6 acres in Locust Grove township.--- Deed dated May 19, 1868.   180 00
David L. COOP from W. G. COOP and wife, 56 acres in Penn township.  Deed dated Oct. 21, 1865.  1,000 00
W. D. EDWARDS from N. W. APPLEBY and wife, lot 2, block 5, Pleasant Plain.  Deed dated Oct. 7, 1868.  300 00
David GRAHAM from M. D. S. SPURLOCK and wife, lot 16 in Batavia.  Deed dated Sept. 16, 1868.  10 00
David HERON from Charles NEGUS and wife, west half of lots 4, 5 and 6, block 9, Railroad addition to Fairfield.  Deed dated December 7, 1868.  50 00
Jacob KREITZLER from Horace GAYLORD and wife, lots 4, 5, 11 and 12, block 4, Glasgow.  Deed dated March 24, 1868.  1,000 00