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MARCH 24, 1949
Sam McNeill’s Body Being Returned: The name of Sam J.
McNeill is listed as among 75 Alabama war dead who are being returned to this
country for reburial, according to an announcement issued last week from Atlanta.
The bodies are being returned to New York from the European Theatre of Operations
on the transport Haiti Victory.
Sam McNeill was killed in action in Germany late in 1944. He
was inducted into the service in June of 1943 and was sent to England as a
member of the Armed Forces early in 1944.
Before his army induction, he served Wilcox County as chief
deputy sheriff. Prior to that time, he was a popular young merchant of Camden.
The announcement of his death in the ETO in 1944 cast a pall of sorrow not only
over his hometown, Camden, but the entire county.
Methodists To Dedicate Springer Memorial Chimes: The Spencer
Springer Memorial Chimes, presented to the Camden Methodist Church by Mrs. S.G.
Springer, will be dedicated at ceremonies to be held at the church in Camden on
Sunday afternoon, March 27, at three o’clock. The set of Deagan chimes and an amplifying
system were presented to the church last month by Mrs. Springer as a memorial
to her late husband. The installation of the chimes has been made and concerts
along with the Hammond organ are a feature each afternoon.
Rev. Ovie W. Mathison, local Methodist minister, will
officiate at the ceremonies Sunday, and Mrs. Springer, will make the formal
presentation to the church.
85 YEARS AGO
MARCH 25, 1937
The Camden PTA has arranged with the Easter Rabbit to have him hide over 300 eggs on the Old Catholic lot in front of Mrs. Heustis Jones on Friday before Easter on March 26, our school district will be there to join at three o’clock. We hope every child is in the hunt. A small area will be reserved for the pre-school age. Admission 10 cents. Ice cream and candy for sale.
Mr. Henry Williams of Canton was seriously injured today while building a chimney. He was rushed to a Selma hospital for treatment.
Camden has had one resident to be presented at court in years gone by, the wealthy, beautiful, later charming, Mrs. Sam Matthews, later Mrs. John Forniss. Her beauty in advanced years was due, it was said, to enameling of her face which was done by experts in England for her court presentation.
LOST: One pole red milk cow, branded S on right hip, horns cut off. – Barney B. Sadler, Camden, Ala.
J.B. SESSIONS: The funeral of J.B. Sessions, 75, who died on Wednesday, was held at Bell’s Landing M.E. Church with burial in the nearby cemetery Thursday afternoon. Born in Mississippi, Mr. Sessions had lived 70 years in Wilcox County, where he was a prominent planter with a wide circle of friends.
Miss Eugenia Strother and Miss Betty Compton of Livingston Teachers College spent several days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hicks Strother and Miss Maggie Moore Strother.
96 YEARS AGO
MARCH 25, 1926
DEATH OF A.A. ACKER: Death claimed Augustus Albert Acker at
his home in Thomaston, Ala., at 11 o’clock p.m. on last Thursday. Bronchial
pneumonia was the immediate cause of his death.
For 19 years, he was an employee of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad and a track foreman at Thomaston.
He was born and reared in Sardis, Dallas County. Funeral
service was held at Sardis at four o’clock Friday afternoon by Dr. Seymore of
Selma.
Mr. Acker was well known in Thomaston, where he has a host
of friends.
The Wilcox County High School and the Camden Grammar School will be closed this week on account of influenza. Both schools will resume work on Monday, March 29.
Hon. Thos. E. Kilby of Anniston was in Camden Friday. He is an Ex-Governor of Alabama and is now a candidate for the Senate of the United States.
Prof. W.M. Jackson, principal of the Wilcox County High School, is attending the AEA in Birmingham this week.
Lt. Joseph M. Wilcox Chapter DAR did not hold the meeting on last Thursday as was expected on account of influenza.
PINE HILL: Miss Annie Laurie Byrne and Mr. Elred Bradford were unanimously elected pianist and chorister respectively of the Methodist Sunday School.
110 YEARS AGO
MARCH 28, 1912
Rev. Mr. Kimbrough, pastor of the Baptist Church here, was called to his old home in Kentucky Sunday by the death of his father and there was no service at the Baptist Church.
The friends in and around Camden and particularly the old Confederates will learn with much regret of the death of Mike Boltz some days since at Grand Cane, La. He was a nephew of Mr. Henry Boltz of Camden and a member of Co. H, 38th Alabama, CSA. He was a brave soldier in the lost cause and his death is regretted by many in Wilcox County.
The members of F.K. Beck Camp No. 224 Confederate Veterans are requested to meet at the Court House on Sat., April 13, for the purpose of electing delegates to the Reunion at Macon, Ga., May 6-8, and to transact any business that may come before the meeting. – J.N. Stanford, Commander; W.A. Dexter, Adjutant.
W.J. Stanford, “the Piano Man,” representing the Starr Piano Co., is temporarily located in Camden as headquarters. He sells more pianos in Wilcox and adjoining counties than any other man in the business due to the fact that he sells direct from the factory as his people manufacture the goods they sell, thus cutting out the middleman.
The peach and plum trees have put on their gorgeous spring dress and may yet have to call for heavy wraps to protect them from the unsettled weather conditions.
123 YEARS AGO
MARCH 22, 1899
Mr. George Boltz of the Steamer “City of Mobile” spent a few hours in the city Monday.
MR. J. EADES GULLETTE: After an earthly pilgrimage of four score years and four, the spirit of Mr. J. Eades Guillette winged its flight to its creator yesterday morning, March 21, 1899. In the death of this, the oldest citizen of Camden or vicinity, a form passes from our view, around which clustered the veneration of our entire community. He was a consistent member of the Baptist Church, and a true and loyal Mason.
Hon. K.A. Mayer of Peach Tree was in the city a few hours Monday.
Our councilmen are going to have a meeting soon, and the first and important duty they will discharge will be the selection of a marshal for the ensuing two years.
Mr. P.B. Maughan, who has been attending lectures at the Birmingham Medical College, returned home last Friday.
Judge J.E. Alford of Mobile is in the city this week and is being warmly welcomed and congratulated by his host of Camden friends.
Pasture your cattle with E.P. Boltz. He furnishes a boy to drive them to and from pasture and charges only 50 cents each monthly.
Improve your breed of chickens by raising the White Plymouth Rocks. Eggs sold at only 50 cents per dozen by Miss Lulu Cochran, Camden, Ala.
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