Died, at his home in Summit, Mississippi, April 4, 1911. Adam L. Allison - age 79 years and 10 months.
In the death of Mr. ALLISON, our town and community loses one of its oldest citizens, whose plain, simple and honorable life had won the esteem and respect of all who knew him. He was a native Mississippian, having been born in Brandon, [Rankin Co.,] Mississippi, where his first boyhood days were spent, and where he first engaged in newspaper work as a type-setter for the Brandon Gazette and subsequently as editor and publisher of that newspaper. Following this, he took work in Jackson where he met and knew many of the noted officials and politicians of ante bellam days, and was familiar with the noted contests and debates of the famous politicians of that time. His familiarity with the public questions of those days was remarkable.
Soon after the war broke out he entered the Confederate Army. During the latter part of the war was stationed here for a few months, and that, no doubt, influenced him to make this his home after the war was over. Before coming to Summit he lived in Hazelhurst, and was married there to Miss HATCH, who died here about two years ago.
When he first moved here he worked as a printer on the Summit times, edited by Co. F. T. COOPER; was postmaster for awhile; was night watchman for the town for a year or two. (During the time he was night watchman he did something that not many will remember now, that was that he rang curfew every night at 9 o'clock). He afterwards worked in the shops at McComb for something like thirty or thirty-five years, from which he was retired on a pension some ten years ago. About 30 years ago he was thrown from the railroad track by a moving train, one mile south of the depot, and sustained a fracture of the thigh bone, which always disabled him to some extent.
He was a man of strong convictions, and took a deep interest in all public, especially political questions, and it may well be doubted if there is a man in all this section of the country, who is as familiar with all the great political questions, which have agitated the public of state, as well as the entire country, for the last sixty years as he was.
His remains were carried to Hazelhurst on the noon train Tuesday, where they were buried beside his wife's.
[Summit Sentinel, Summit Mississippi, April 6, 1911]
In the death of Mr. ALLISON, our town and community loses one of its oldest citizens, whose plain, simple and honorable life had won the esteem and respect of all who knew him. He was a native Mississippian, having been born in Brandon, [Rankin Co.,] Mississippi, where his first boyhood days were spent, and where he first engaged in newspaper work as a type-setter for the Brandon Gazette and subsequently as editor and publisher of that newspaper. Following this, he took work in Jackson where he met and knew many of the noted officials and politicians of ante bellam days, and was familiar with the noted contests and debates of the famous politicians of that time. His familiarity with the public questions of those days was remarkable.
Soon after the war broke out he entered the Confederate Army. During the latter part of the war was stationed here for a few months, and that, no doubt, influenced him to make this his home after the war was over. Before coming to Summit he lived in Hazelhurst, and was married there to Miss HATCH, who died here about two years ago.
When he first moved here he worked as a printer on the Summit times, edited by Co. F. T. COOPER; was postmaster for awhile; was night watchman for the town for a year or two. (During the time he was night watchman he did something that not many will remember now, that was that he rang curfew every night at 9 o'clock). He afterwards worked in the shops at McComb for something like thirty or thirty-five years, from which he was retired on a pension some ten years ago. About 30 years ago he was thrown from the railroad track by a moving train, one mile south of the depot, and sustained a fracture of the thigh bone, which always disabled him to some extent.
He was a man of strong convictions, and took a deep interest in all public, especially political questions, and it may well be doubted if there is a man in all this section of the country, who is as familiar with all the great political questions, which have agitated the public of state, as well as the entire country, for the last sixty years as he was.
His remains were carried to Hazelhurst on the noon train Tuesday, where they were buried beside his wife's.
[Summit Sentinel, Summit Mississippi, April 6, 1911]
Died, at his home in Summit, Mississippi, April 4, 1911. Adam L. Allison - age 79 years and 10 months.
In the death of Mr. ALLISON, our town and community loses one of its oldest citizens, whose plain, simple and honorable life had won the esteem and respect of all who knew him. He was a native Mississippian, having been born in Brandon, [Rankin Co.,] Mississippi, where his first boyhood days were spent, and where he first engaged in newspaper work as a type-setter for the Brandon Gazette and subsequently as editor and publisher of that newspaper. Following this, he took work in Jackson where he met and knew many of the noted officials and politicians of ante bellam days, and was familiar with the noted contests and debates of the famous politicians of that time. His familiarity with the public questions of those days was remarkable.
Soon after the war broke out he entered the Confederate Army. During the latter part of the war was stationed here for a few months, and that, no doubt, influenced him to make this his home after the war was over. Before coming to Summit he lived in Hazelhurst, and was married there to Miss HATCH, who died here about two years ago.
When he first moved here he worked as a printer on the Summit times, edited by Co. F. T. COOPER; was postmaster for awhile; was night watchman for the town for a year or two. (During the time he was night watchman he did something that not many will remember now, that was that he rang curfew every night at 9 o'clock). He afterwards worked in the shops at McComb for something like thirty or thirty-five years, from which he was retired on a pension some ten years ago. About 30 years ago he was thrown from the railroad track by a moving train, one mile south of the depot, and sustained a fracture of the thigh bone, which always disabled him to some extent.
He was a man of strong convictions, and took a deep interest in all public, especially political questions, and it may well be doubted if there is a man in all this section of the country, who is as familiar with all the great political questions, which have agitated the public of state, as well as the entire country, for the last sixty years as he was.
His remains were carried to Hazelhurst on the noon train Tuesday, where they were buried beside his wife's.
[Summit Sentinel, Summit Mississippi, April 6, 1911]
In the death of Mr. ALLISON, our town and community loses one of its oldest citizens, whose plain, simple and honorable life had won the esteem and respect of all who knew him. He was a native Mississippian, having been born in Brandon, [Rankin Co.,] Mississippi, where his first boyhood days were spent, and where he first engaged in newspaper work as a type-setter for the Brandon Gazette and subsequently as editor and publisher of that newspaper. Following this, he took work in Jackson where he met and knew many of the noted officials and politicians of ante bellam days, and was familiar with the noted contests and debates of the famous politicians of that time. His familiarity with the public questions of those days was remarkable.
Soon after the war broke out he entered the Confederate Army. During the latter part of the war was stationed here for a few months, and that, no doubt, influenced him to make this his home after the war was over. Before coming to Summit he lived in Hazelhurst, and was married there to Miss HATCH, who died here about two years ago.
When he first moved here he worked as a printer on the Summit times, edited by Co. F. T. COOPER; was postmaster for awhile; was night watchman for the town for a year or two. (During the time he was night watchman he did something that not many will remember now, that was that he rang curfew every night at 9 o'clock). He afterwards worked in the shops at McComb for something like thirty or thirty-five years, from which he was retired on a pension some ten years ago. About 30 years ago he was thrown from the railroad track by a moving train, one mile south of the depot, and sustained a fracture of the thigh bone, which always disabled him to some extent.
He was a man of strong convictions, and took a deep interest in all public, especially political questions, and it may well be doubted if there is a man in all this section of the country, who is as familiar with all the great political questions, which have agitated the public of state, as well as the entire country, for the last sixty years as he was.
His remains were carried to Hazelhurst on the noon train Tuesday, where they were buried beside his wife's.
[Summit Sentinel, Summit Mississippi, April 6, 1911]
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