Coosa County Alabama Newspaper Articles Miss Addie Blanche Upshaw & Ben F. Perry Ben F. Perry, of Marietta, Ga., and Miss Addle Blanche Upshaw, of Coosa, county, Alabama, were united in marriage on June 24, 1880. at the residence of Mr. I. D. Upshaw, the Bride's uncle, at Upshaw, in Cobb county, Georgia and today quietly celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their  wedding at their Univeter home, 3 1/2 miles south of Canton, Ga, where they have lived the past   six years. The first nineteen years of their married life was spent in Canton. Ten children has blessed their union, five boys and five girls. No deaths or serious sickness having afflicted the family. Seven of these children are now with their parents The oldest, a daughter, married T. M. Torgeson, of Michigan, has one child and they are living in Raleigh, N C ; the second, Ben, Jr., Is stenographer and assistant bookkeeper at their Georgia Marble Finishing Works at Canton, and the third, Clarence A, is in charge at one of the leading weekly papers in Arkansas. Mrs. Perry is fifteen days younger than Mr. Perry, and is a daughter of the late John R. Upshaw, who lived near Talladega Springs, Ala,. but was formerly a. resident of Georgia. She is a double cousin of Ernest Willie Upshaw and has scores of relatives in Atlanta and elsewhere in this state and Alabama She is a member of the Methodist church; her parents were and are Primitive Baptists. Her mother Is still living in Alabama. Mr. Perry was born in Marietta, Ga., July 27, 1859. His father was a native of South Carol'na and his mother a daughter of Joseph Gault, of Marietta, Ga , who was author of "Gault's Reports," a humorous caricature of Georgia justice in the early days of the state's history. His parents are both dead. Mr. Perry received only a limited education in their public schools, but graduated with distinction from Moore's Business college at Atlanta in I878 After serving several years on The Marietta journal and working for some time in the Marietta paper mills, he came to Canton in 1879, the same year and month, May, that the first train over the then Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern railroad, reached this place. He was in charge of The Georgia Advocate, a religious and secular newspaper printed here for the remainder of that year, but in January, 1880, established The Cherokee Advance, which newspaper plant one of the most up to date steam plants in north Georgia) he still owns, and from the foundation of The Advance; he has been more or less connected. Source: June 25, 1905 Atlanta Constitution; Submitted by Janice Rice W W. Richardson, a radical justice of the peace of Coosa county, Alabama, who hanged himself about & month ago, left a letter to his wife, which has been published, showing that it was fear of disgracing and ruining himself by his official acts that impelled him to the deed. Source: Galveston Daily News, November 25, 1868; Submitted by Janice Rice Howell Ross, an eccentric old miser of Coosa county, Alabama, died recently. He lived in a log cabin, and by long continued hoarding, had saved nearly $300,000, which he left to his wife for life. West Eau Claire Argus 11/21/1866 Source: West Eau Claire Argus, November 21, 1866; Submitted by Janice Rice WALKED MANY MILES TO BE WED Seventy Miles Are Covered by Mr. Patterson and Miss Foshee. DID NOT HAVE RAILROAD FARE So They Trudged from Alabama Town to Columbus, Where the Knot Is Tied. Columbus, Ga., July 10.—(Special.)— Determined to be married, Leonard Patterson and Miss Rosa Foshee, a young couple from Coosa county, Alabama, walked 70 miles to Columbus and had the knot tied. The groom had been Corresponding with one of the mills here and had accepted a position with them. He did not have the money to bring his Intended bride here on the train and so he and the young lady trudged most of the way through the country. They had barely enough money to buy the license, and the justice of the peace who performed the ceremony credited them for his fee. July 11, 1902 Atlanta Constitution Source: Galveston Daily News, November 25, 1868; Submitted by Janice Rice © Copyright 2009 Genealogy Trails