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The Winterset Madisonian
December 18, 1880
Since last Saturday, the clerk has issued marriage licenses to the following parties:
C. D. Constable and Sarah E. Griffin; Alonzo Duncan and Ermina Lightener and L. W.
Mitchell and Martha Ella Young.
Births: Girls to , Charles Cade and wife; J.P. Steele and wife; Charles Fullheart
and wife; J. H. Miller and wife. Boys to, James Morgan and wife.
The Winterset Madisonian
December 22, 1880
Mr. Martin Griswold, of Penn Township, died last week, Tuesday, of Typhoid fever.
Mr. Griswold's family have all been very sick of the fever, but are now out of danger.
Elder H. Ellis, who married Mrs. Kendall of this place last winter, recently died
at his home in Bainbridge, Indiana. Mrs. Ellis will probably return to Winterset
to live.
The Winterset Madisonian
December 29, 1880
One death reported last week, that of Franklin Wight. (Son of James E. and Harriet
M. (Howard) Wight, was badly burned when his clothing caught fire and died several
hours later of those injuries)
Mr. Charles Thrift and Miss Della Harrell were married at the home of the bride's
mother in Monroe Township, Saturday night. Both are very worthy people.
Marriage licenses issued to: Charles Thrift and Della Harrell; J. A. Wilkins and
Maggie Jenner; M.A. Carthy and Luella Algier; F. B. Steel and Ida Nichol; C. J. Buchanan
and Mary C. McDowell; John Anderson and Fanny Stewart, W. H. Vance and Lucy M. Nichols;
E. G. Porter and Elizabeth Reither.
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