Births, Marriages & Deaths From The Carbon Advocate, 1884-1885 This is the sixth in a series of vital records extracted from the Lehighton Newpaper, The Carbon Advocate. Like the previous parts, in extracting the births, marriages & deaths, I have not included the following types of items: 1. Items that did not pertain to Carbon or the surrounding counties. I excluded anything west and south of Berks County, and south of Lehigh & Northampton Counties. I generally included anything north of Carbon county. 2. Estate notices. 3. Murder trials. 4. Coroner inquests when they are not part of the original death notice. In extracting these records, I have copied items as completely and exactly as possible. I have not attempted to correct any spelling errors. If I felt a need to add any text, I did so in brackets. Although most of the papers on microfilm were easy to read, there were some times where the image quality made things difficult. Because of this, researchers are advised to consult the original records. Volume 12, Number 7, Saturday, January 5, 1884 Our Neighborhood in Brief. O. J. Smith, aged sixteen, and Amanda Klaze, thirteen years old, both living near Allentown, ran away from their respective homes and were married to each other. Our Neighborhood in Brief. Two unknown tramps were found frozen to death in a deserted barn at Numedia, Schuylkill county, on Friday morning last. When found they were locked in each others arms. Our Neighborhood in Brief. Last week a large sleighing party had a dance at Philip Brengler's tavern, twenty four miles from Catawissa. Before midnight all hands were drunk. Elwood Strausser was dangerously stabbed in a quarrel with Nat Cope's notorious character. A free fight with pistols and knives followed Mary Amos, eighteen years old, was shot in the leg; Henry Snyder got three fatal knive stabs; Benson Irwin was shot in the thigh. Four others were slightly wounded. Cope and three other farmers, named Henry Swayer, Oscar Schultz and Isaac Hose have been arrested. Our Neighborhood in Brief. William Barrett, aged 11 years, living with his parents in Pittston, Friday night attempted to jump on a coal train on the Gravity Road, when he slipped and fell. He was dragged half a mile and crushed into a shapless mass. The body of the man found on Friday near Shickshinny, and supposed to have been killed by a bear, was Saturday identified as that of John Robinson, a stonecutter, of Clevelann, O. 1 Parryville Letter. And what interests everybody most is that next week "Dildine Schneider's party" will comeoff. He will celebrate his birthday and he hopes to see all his friends, whom he says are peaceloving, genial and jovial persons. Head Cut off by Cars. On Christmas night the head of Anthony Roley, a young man residing at Shoemaker's, Schuylkill county, was found near the station at that place and taken to his late home. Some hours later his body was found some distance off. Roley, was 22 years of age and unmarried. He had been to Mahanoy City on Christmas and left on the six o'clock train for his home. He was perfectly sober and the manner in which he met his death is not positively known. It is believed, however, that in jumping off the train, which did not stop at the station, he fell under the wheels and had his head and arm cut off, and that his clothing catching on the cars his body was dragged some distance further on. MARRIED. ZIMMERMAN-HILL.--On the 7th ult., by Rev. Ab. Bartholomew, Franklin E Zimmerman and Mary J. Hill, both of West Penn Schuylkill county. MARRIED. TROXELL-LONGACRE.--On the 11th ult., by the same, Pierce J. Troxell, of West Penn, and Emaline Longacre, of New Mahoning. MARRIED. KISTLER-GERBER.--On the 25th ult., by the same, John W. Kistler and Savina Gerber, both of West Penn. MARRIED. REDLINE-CREITZ.--At Tamaqua, on the 25th ult., by Rev. I. E. Graeff, John Redline and Lizzie Creitz, of Mauch Chunk twp., this county. MARRIED. KIMMEL-ROHRBACH.--At Hazleton, on the 25th ult., by Rev. E. A. Bauer, John Kimmel and Anna E. Rohrbach, both of Tresckow, this county. MARRIED. EDWARDS-PEARSON.--At Hazleton, on the 29th ult., by Rev. J. R. Shipe, Ed. W. Edwards, of Harleigh, and Miss Annie Pearson, of Lansford. DIED. SCHEIN.--At Tresckow, on the 26th ult., Cornelius Schein, aged 62 years. DIED. GALLAGHER.--At Tresckow, on the 26th ult., Mary Gallagher, relict of the late Patrick Gallagher. DIED. DOUGHERTY.--At Yorktown, on the 27th ult., Mary, daughter of Michael Dougherty, aged 9 years and 3 months. DIED. WATKINS.--At Audenried, on the 26th ult., of scarlet fever, Joseph, son of T. T. Watkins, aged 4 years. Volume 12, Number 8, Saturday, January 12, 1884 Mahoning squibs. Last Sunday Frank B. Steigerwalt was married to Miss Mary Delp, both of this place. 2 Our Neighborhood in Brief. Dr. John Romig, the oldest physician in Lehigh county, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. Our Neighborhood in Brief. Luke Clark, a veteran Fenian, at one time sentenced to death by the British Government, died at Scranton last week aged 82 years. Our Neighborhood in Brief. By an explosion of fire damp in the Oxford colliery, at Hyde Park, Scranton, on the 3rd inst., three men were severely burned and one fatally. Our Neighborhood in Brief. Sadie Marsden, aged sixteen, and Ollie Major, aged eighteen years, of Forty Fort, Luzerne county, while skating in company with Mr. Clark, a school teacher, on the Susquehanna river, on Saturday, glided into an unseen opening in the ice and were drowned. They were among the brightest and most promising girls in the neighborhood. Suffocated by Furnace Gas. On Thursday night of last week a German named John Bower, 35 years of age, was suffocated by inhaling the sulphurous fumes issuing from one of the furnaces of the Lehigh Iron Company, near Allentown. Bower, with a companion, on that evening entered the furnace to get a night's lodging and lay down in front of the hot blast. After midnight an employe came along and tried to rouse the men, but Bower was beyond relief. His companion escaped injury. This is the fifth death of the kind in that vicinity in a few weeks. Parryville Items. Dildine Snyder's birthday party was a success. Parryville Items. The birthday surprise party of Theo. Pettit last Saturday evening was a success. Weissport Letter. An infant child of Mr. Charles Hahn died suddenly on last Tuesday. It was buried on Sunday afternoon. A Lunatic Commits Suicide. On Tuesday of last week Owen Conley, an inmate of the Lehigh County Almshouse, failed in an attempt to commit suicide. He renewed the effort on the following Thursday night and succeeded. He was found hanging in his cell half an hour after his attendant had taken off his drawers and slipped on his pantaloons again. Then he fastened one leg of the drawers to the shutter and, using the other as a noose, he carried out his purpose. He was nearly sixty years of age. The coroner held an inquest Friday. Ghastly Discovery in a Barn. What is known as the Mile House, situated between Tremont and Branchdale, Schuylkill county, was the scene of a sensational discovery Monday morning. An unknown man, badly mutilated and with a bullet hole in his left breast, was found in the stable at the rear of the hotel. The persons who first made the discovery at first first believed that he had been frozen to death, but an examination of the body revealed the fact that rats had feasted on his head and face. A revolver, with an empty barrel, was found in the barn, and a verdict of suicide was rendered by the Coroner's jury. There is no clue to the identity of the man. MARRIED. HORN-CARPENTER.--At Barnesville, Scuylkill Co., Pa., January 8th, at 10 o'clock a. m., by the Rev. A. M. Woods, Rev. Alfred P. Horn, to Miss Katie F. Carpenter, only daughter of the late N. L. Carpenter, Esq. 3 Volume 12, Number 9, Saturday, January 19, 1884 Our Neighborhood in Brief. Our townsman, James Walp, residing on Bank street was made happy on Monday morning, by his wife presenting him with a bouncing baby girl. Mother and child are doing well. Our Neighborhood in Brief. Ex-Congressman S. A. Bridges, of Allentown, died Monday evening of dropsy, aged 82 years. He was a member of Congress from the Tenth district during the years 1848 49, 1853 to 1855 and 1876 to 1878. He leaves a wife, but no children. Death of Hon. Samuel A. Bridges. Another link connecting the past with the present was sundered last Monday evening in the not unexpected demise of one of Allentown's oldest, best known and most highly respected citizens, Hon. Samuel A. Bridges. He had for some time been in feeble condition, and last week was made bedfast under an attack of dropsy in a severe form. He gradually weakened under it until Monday towards evening, when the shadows of death gathered fast and dark upon his countenance, his respiration became feebler, and at last, at near 8 o'clock, died. Whilst not unlooked for, as he had been very ill for a few days, the announcement of his his decease was received with surprise, and many could scarcely credit that he had been called hence, owing to the briefness of his sickness. As a lawyer, statesman and citizen Mr.