This Article about Rev. Deatherage was
written by John W. Connelly who wrote under the name
of Old Choc. He wrote the bulk of his stories in the
1880's and 1890's . He was b. in 1834 and died in 1911
These articles were clipped out and pasted in a scrapbook without noting the date and newspaper. Most of his work appeared in Whitewright and Trenton papers.
The papers are brittle, flaky and terribly yellow and faded.