Jonesboro was spelled that way in 1890.
May 22, 1901: With a Johnson City dateline, The Knoxville Sentinel reported news about recent flood damage. âThe Watauga, Chucky and Doe rivers (sic) are higher than ever known before. The Watauga river (sic) is seven feet higher than it was in 1867. The bridges at Watauga, Embreeville, Elizabethton, Chestoa, and other places are gone. At least fifty houses have been washed out of Elizabethton.â
âAll save (sic) mills and lumber yards along these rivers are gone. The lumber mill at Watauga and the Wilder mill at Chestoa are destroyed.
âA train of loaded cars had been put upon the Watauga bridge and fifteen cars were lost.
Boarded at Queenstown. Third Class.
From: Kingwilliamstown (now Ballydesmond), County Cork.
Destination: 855 Trement Avenue, Bronx, New York City.
Daniel Buckley lived because a woman in a lifeboat threw a shawl over him. Her action cloaked his presence as officers fired shots and ordered men who had rushed a boat to leave it – or die. A moment’s humanity had turned Dannie Buckley female.
He was an ambitious and enterprising young man who wanted to go to America to make some money, as he told Senator William Alden Smith at the US inquiry. I came in the Titanic because she was a new steamer.