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1837-11-18; Paper: Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, published as: The Portsmouth & Great-Falls Journal of Literature & Politics

Marriages
In Kemper Co., Miss Mr. Moses HUBBARD, of Springfield, Greene Co, Alabama, formerly of this town to Miss Sarah S. DUNLAP, daughter of Mr. Robert DUNLAP, of the former place.

1854-09-09; Paper: Texas State Gazette

Arrivals at the “Metropolitan Motel”
L. B. MCKEE, Kemper co, Miss.
N. W. CHRSISHOLM, do [ditto]

1857-06-26; Paper: Liberator, published as: The Liberator

Murder in Mississippi – A man named Stephen RODGERS was killed near Scooba, Kemper county, Miss. On the 24th ult.. by one Beverly GREENWOOD. They had an altercation the day previous, during which Greenwood threatened to kill RODGERS the next morning. He was a good as his word. Approaching RODGERS with a double-barrel shot gun, GREENWOOD presented it, calling upon the other to draw his pistol, and immediately firing, putting whole load of turkey and buck shot through his body. RODGERS made but a single exclamation fell and died instantly. GREENWOOD was arrested and committed to jail.

1857-10-23; Paper: San Francisco Bulletin, published as: Daily Evening Bulletin

Conviction For Murder – Beverly GREENWOOD, indicted for the murder of Stephen RODGERS, at Scooba Depot, Kemper county, Miss. Last spring was tried at Dekalb, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung on the 23d of October.

1858-03-05; Paper: Sun, published as: The Sun

Robert RIGBY, a young man living near DeKalb, Miss was killed on the morning of the 10th ult. by D. C. MCLAURIN.

1850-03-22; Paper: Daily Alabama Journal

The St. John – We learn from the Camden (Wilcox Co) Mirror that some nineteen bodies have been discovered of those lost on the ill [illegible] that county as follows:

Mrs. MCRAIN, Dr. MCKAIN [MCRAIN?], Mrs. S. VAUGHAN, Mrs. SIZER, Camden, S. C.; Lady, name unknown, supposed to be of Irish blood; 2 ladies reported to be found at Yellow Bluff; Miss HALL, a little girl nine or ten years old, Augusta, GA; Dr. C. SMITH, Bennettsville, S.C., recently from DeKalb, Miss; Mr. CARMACK, Perry County, Ala; Hon G. F. LINDSEY, Mobile; little son of Thos. CARSON, Dallas county, Ala; a man found the wreck, name unknown; a man found at Canton, unknown.
Seven colored persons, among whom were recognized Peter UPSON, steward of the boat, and Sandy and Charley, cabin boys. The remaining three men supposed to be firemen, and a little girl.
The people of Wilcox deserve much credit for their untiring exertions, night and day, for weeks, to rescue the remains of those who have perished.

1863-10-06; Paper: Portland Daily Advertiser

Cairo, Oct 5 – H. D. GULLY, of Kemper Co, Miss, has announced himself as a candidate for Representative to Congress on the reconstruction platform.

1866-11-29; Paper: Memphis Daily Avalanche, published as: The Daily Memphis Avalanche

The DeKalb, Miss. Flag announces the death of Dr. WETMORE of Scooba, a young physician of a highly cultivated mind.

1859-12-16; Paper: Daily Confederation, published as: The Daily Confederation

Alabama Methodist Conference
Appointments of the Preachers of the Alabama Conference for 1860
Macon District
…. Scooba – A. MCBRYDE

1853-02-04; Paper: Barre Patriot, published as: The Barre Patriot

Gov Foote, of Mississippi, has offered a reward of $300 for the apprehension of John J. EDWARDS, who murdered Col James H. SIMMS recently in Kemper County.

1854-09-15; Paper: Barre Patriot, published as: The Barre Patriot

A Father Killed by His Son – The Lauderdale (Miss.) Republican records another deed of blood in Kemper County. Mr. LOCKLAIR, a man who was generally respected by his neighbors while sober, was last week killed by his own son. LOCKLAIR was a habitual drunkard, and lately removed from Kemper county to the western part of the State, leaving his son behind him. After some time, Mrs. LOCKLAIR was compelled, in consequence of his brutal treatment while drunk, to leave him. She arrived at her son’s after having walked nearly one hundred miles. The son dutifully bought and presented her with a piece of land, upon which she moved, and also furnished her with necessaries, and supported her afterwards by his daily labor. Some time elapsed when LOCKLAIR returned, behaved himself well for a time, but soon became intoxicated, and seizing a knife, attempted to take the life of his son. The young man tried to avoid him, but all in vain. The wretched father was upon him the deadly weapon uplifted, when the miserable son was compelled to take the life of his wretched parent in order to save his own, which he did by shooting him through the head. LOCLAIR immediately expired, a victim to intemperance, leaving his wife and son to drag their weary lives along the path of life; a fate more wretchedly miserable than that of the unfortunate, yet abandoned father.

1867-08-02; Paper: Memphis Daily Avalanche, published as: The Daily Memphis Avalanche

The DeKalb Mississippi Flag says Captain H. B. CUNNINGHAM, a good Confederate soldier, lives near Wahalak, in Kemper county. He is the brother-in-law of John A. LOGAN, who was to have joined the Confederate cause at the same time the former did, but after helping a good many others on their way, backed out, and is now a Radical member of Congress, from Illinois.

1852-12-16; Paper: Sun, published as: The Pittsfield Sun

The DeKalb (Mississippi) Gazette announces the death, in Kemper county, of a Choctaw chief, HOPIAH SKETENA (Little Leader) over 100 years old. This veteran, says the Gazette, with his followers, was at the Battle of New Orleans, under Gen. Jackson.

1868-07-21; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer, published as: The Philadelphia Inquirer

The body of a murdered young lady has been [found?] in the road in Kemper county, Miss.

1867-12-14; Paper: Memphis Daily Avalanche, published as: The Daily Memphis Avalanche

James W. HULL, a native of Connecticut, long resident in Kemper county, died last Thursday, aged about fifty-four years. He was recently removed from the office of Circuit Clerk by General ORD.

1853-07-09; Paper: Trenton State Gazette, published as: State Gazette

The Police Court of Kemper county, Mississippi, has raised the fee fro license drinking saloons to $1000. One of the two establishments of the kind in DeKalb has already been closed, and the other will share the same fate in August.

1867-08-31; Paper: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, published as: The Cincinnati Daily Gaz

Of the Kemper county crop, the DeKalb Flag says: “on the low lands cotton is doing well, but the long continued dry weather is causing it to “shed” considerably on the uplands.”

1870-09-06; Paper: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, published as: The Cincinnati Daily Gazette

The boll worm has made its appearance in the cotton in Kemper county, Miss.

1852-10-25; Paper: Daily Alabama Journal

… To give you and idea what devastation they are making, I passed a night at a gentlemans house by the name of THURMOND, in Kemper county, Mississippi, he informed me that 100 acres of his richest land in cotton was not worth picking, having been entirely destroyed by the bowl-worm.

1868-06-23; Paper: Memphis Daily Avalanche, published as: The Daily Memphis Avalanche

Miss Martha WILLIAMS, a lovely young lady, was found hung by the neck dead in her room, last Thursday week, four miles north of DeKalb in Kemper county. Marks of violence led to an examination, when the shocking discovery was made that she had been brutally outraged. The hanging was a ruse by the fiend who murdered her to convey that the idea that she committed suicide. No clue to the author of the damnable deed.

1868-06-26; Paper: Memphis Daily Avalanche, published as: The Daily Memphis Avalanche

The Clarion of the 23d has the following election returns: …Enon, Kemper county – Democrats, 38, Radicals, 17.

1839-04-11; Paper: Emancipator and Republican, published as: The Emancipator

Public Sales
From the Selina, Ala. Free Press, Feb. 9, 1839. A Whig paper
Notice – Will be sold at Newbern, Greene Co, Ala. Under deed of Mortgate of John FITTS, for Cash, Two Negro MEN named Harry and Ned – Also will be sold under said deed of Mortgage on the 4th day of March next in the Town of DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi, Six Negroes, namely, Pleasant, Old Abram, Robert, Frances, Maria, and Peggy.

1866-06-30; Paper: Memphis Daily Avalanche, published as: The Memphis Daily Avalanch

The Kemper, Miss Flag says that Mr. James H. BRITTAIN, of that place, recently killed three deer with one shot while out hunting.

1858-09-17; Paper: Liberator, published as: The Liberator

Desperate Fight – The Kemper (Miss.) Democrat gives an account of the stabbing of a Mr. DOUGHTY, of that county, by a man named HERRON. It appears that HERRON drew a large bowie-knife, and rushed upon his victim, who was armed only with an ordinary pocket-knife. The Democrat says: ‘The conflict is described as awful. They stabbed each other in the head, face, breast and side. HERRON broke of the point of his bowie-knife. It is supposed it is in DOUGHTY’s body somewhere. Mr. DOUGHTY would have been killed, it is thought, had HERRON”S knife not broken. The first thrust he made with it, DOUGHTY caught it by the blade, which cut his hand severely. They could not be separated until HERRON fell from his wounds, when DOUGHTY desisted. No hopes are entertained of HERRON’s recovery. DOUGHTY, it is thought, will get well. Our informants all state that DOUGHTY acted purely in self-defence’.