History Notes for Milton B. Midyett

Milton B. MIDYETT born 1842 in Haywood County,TN.He married Mary Adeline JOHNSON 24th Nov.1860 in Haywood County,TN.
Their children:

(a) Zackdrick M. “Zack” MIDYETT born 5 Feb.1862 in Haywood County,TN. married 10 Jun 1889 in Lauderdale County, TN to Kate Neal. Had 6 children.

(b.) Erasmus A.MIDYETT born 1865 in Haywood County,TN.

(c) John Edward “Ed” MIDYETT born 1868 in Haywood County,TN married Maggie DOZIER the 6th Jan.1891 in Laud.Co.TN


History Notes of Milton B. MIDYETT

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: HAYWOOD CO., TN. COURT MINUTES; VOL. H; PG. 626-30

November Term 1864
DAVID WHITAKER, H.R. JOHNSON & CHRS. R. JOHNSON
vs.
ANN E. WHITAKER, L.D. WHITAKER, PEGGY CASTILLOW, JOHN CASTELLOW, SALLY SANDERS, ADELINE MIDYETT, MILTON MIDYETT, NANCY JOHNSON, ZACH T. JOHNSON, LOUISA JOHNSON & J.F. WORTHAM

BE IT REMEMBERED THAT THIS CAUSE CAME ON FOR FINAL HEARING ON NOV. 7, 1864 BEFORE THE WORSHIPFUL COUNTY COURT OF HAYWOOD COUNTY, TN. ON THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS WAS APPOINTED AT A PREVIOUS TERM OF THIS COURT WHICH REPORT IS IN THE FOLLOWING WORDS AND FIGURES, TO WIT: TO THE WORSHIPFUL COUNTY COURT OF HAYWOOD COUNTY, TENNESSEE–THE UNDERSIGNED WAS AT THE JUNE TERM OF YOUR WORSHIPFUL BODY APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS TO DIVIDE THE SLAVE PROPERTY OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE CHARLES R. JOHNSON, DEC’D., AMONG HIS HEIRS. FIRST HAVING BEEN DULY QUALIFIED WAS PROVIDED TO DISCHARGE THE DUTY ASSIGNED US AND TO SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING REPORT AS FOLLOWS: THERE ARE 9 HEIRS AND THE MONEY VALUE OF EACH DIVISION OR SHARE IS $811.99
LOT #1–C.R. JOHNSON, JR. RECEIVED NEGRO WOMAN MARTHA AND BOY JERRY VALUED AT $925.00.
LOT #2–NANCY JOHNSON RECEIVED NEGRO WOMAN MANDA & CHERRY VALUED AT $675.00.
LOT #3–SARAH SANDERS RECEIVED NEGRO WOMAN MARGARET AND CHILD GEORGIANNA VALUED AT $75.00.
LOT #4–LOUISA JOHNSON RECEIVED NEGRO WOMAN MARY AND HER CHILD WILLIE, ALSO A BOY JOHN VALUED AT $975.00.
LOT #5–Z.T. JOHNSON RECEIVED NEGRO WOMAN PRISCILLA & BOY SILVESTER VALUED AT $950.00.
LOT #6–W.R. JOHNSON RECEIVED NEGRO MAN NELSON VALUED AT $700.00.
LOT #7–M.B. MIDYETT RECEIVED NEGRO MAN PETER VALUED AT $700.00
LOT #8–JOHN E. CASTILLOW RECEIVED NEGRO GIRL AMANDA & NEGRO MAN MATTHEW VALUED AT $807.00.
LOT #9–L.D. WHITAKER RECEIVED NEGRO GIRL _ AND BOY JOE VALUED AT $825.00.
IN AS MUCH AS SOME OF THE ABOVE HEIRS HAVE RECEIVED MORE AND SOME LESS THAN THEIR DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO THE MONEY VALUE OF THE PROPERTY DIVIDED AND IN ORDER TO EQUALIZE THE DIVISION, C.R. JOHNSON, JR. WILL PAY TO NANCY JOHNSON $113.12 AND LOUISA JOHNSON WILL PAY HER $23.76. LOUISA JOHNSON WILL PAY SARAH SANDERS $61.88 AND TO WILLIAM R. JOHNSON $77.48 AND Z.T. JOHNSON WILL PAY WM. R. JOHNSON $34.40 AND M.B. MIDYETT $103.72, L.D. WHITAKER, M.B. MIDYETT $8.16 AND J.E. CASTILLOW $4.96. WE WOULD FURTHER STATE THAT IN THIS DIVISION IS INCLUDED NEGRO GIRL TENNESSEE HERETOFORE GIVEN TO JOHN E. CASTILLOW BY C.R. JOHNSON, DEC’D.

AND THERE BEING NO EXCEPTION TO SAID REPORT, IT IS ORDERED & DECREED THAT THE SAME BE IN ALL THINGS AFFIRMED. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT LL THE RIGHT & TITLE WHICH THE PARTIES ABOVE NAMED EXCEPT THE SAID CHARLES R. JOHNSON HAVE IN AND TO THE SLAVES MARTHA & JERRY BE DIVESTED OUT OF THEM AND VESTED IN THE SAID CHARLES R. JOHNSON. IT IS FURTHER ORDERD THAT ALL THE RIGHT & TITLE WHICH THE PARTIES ABOVE NAMED EXCEPT SAID SARAH SANDER HAVE IN AND TO THE SAID SLAVES MARGARET AND HER CHILD, GEORGIANNA, BE DIVESTED OUT OF THEM AND VESTED IN THE SAID SARAH SANDERS. BE IT FURTHER ORDERED THAT ALL THE RIGHT AND TITLE WHICH THE AFORESAID PARTIES EXCEPT THE SAID ADELINE MIDYETT AND HER HUSBAND HAVE IN & TO THE SAID SLAVE PETER BE DIVESTED OUT OF THEM AND VESTED IN THE SAID ADELINE MIDYETT AND HER HUSBAND….

IT BEING REPRESENTED TO THE COURT THAT THE SAID W.R. JOHNSON HAS ONLY A LIFE TIME ESTATE IN THE LANDS GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS FATHER. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED BY THE COURT THAT IF UPON THE PRODUCTION OF HIS DEED, THIS FACT SHOULD APPEAR, THEN THE SAID WM. R. SHALL HAVE SAID LANDS ALLOTTED TO HIM, BUT THE COMMISSIONERS SHALL VALUE SAID LANDS AT WHAT THEY ARE WORTH AT THE PRESENT TIME. IT ALSO APPEARING THAT THE SAID WM. R. IS THE REGULAR GUARDIAN OF THE SAID LOUISA JOHNSON, THEREFORE IT IS ORDERED THAT HE BE RELEASED FROM ANSWERING SAID PETITION FOR HIS WARD AND THAT J.F. WORTHAM BE APPOINTED GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR THE SAID LOUISA AND ANSWER FOR HER. AND IT FURTHER APPEARING TO THE COURT THAT THE DEFENDANTS HAD BEEN SUMMONED TO APPEAR AND ANSWER AT THE PRESENT TERM OF THIS COURT WHICH THEY FAILED TO DO. THEREFORE UPON MOTION OF THE PETITIONERS BY THEIR SOLICITOR IT IS ORDERED THAT SAID DEFENDANTS ANSWER BEFORE THE NEXT TERM OF THIS COURT, OTHERWISE THEY WILL BE CONSIDERED AS STANDING OUT IN CONTEMPT OF THIS COURT.

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: HAYWOOD CO., TN. COUNTY CLERK MINUTES; VOL. I/34-36

DAVID WHITAKER, ADM’R. OF CHAS. R. JOHNSON ANN E. WHITAKER & HER HUSBAND, L.D. WHITAKER CHAS. R. JOHNSON, JR. PEGGY CASTELLOW & HER HUSBAND, JNO. CASTELLOW SALLY SANDERS & NANCY JOHNSON
vs
ADELINE MIDYETT & HER HUSBAND MILTON MIDYETT
WM. R. JOHNSON & ZACH J. JOHNSON & LOUISA JOHNSON BY THEIR GARD’N, J.F. WORTHAM

BE IT REMEMBERED THAT THIS CAUSE CAME ON TO BE HEARD ON AUG. 8, 1865 BEFORE HAYWOOD COUNTY COURT ON THE PETITION ANSWERS OF ALL THE DEFENDANTS BY THEMSELVES OR GUARDIANS UPON EXHIBITS OF PROOF IN THE CAUSE. IT APPEARING TO THE COURT THAT IN APRIL 1864 C.R. JOHNSON DEPARTED THIS LIFE INTESTATE IN SAID COUNTY LEAVING NO WIDOW BUT THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: WM. R. & C.R. JOHNSON, ANN E. WHO HAS INTERMARRIED WITH L.D. WHITAKER, PEGGY WHO HAS INTERMARRIED WITH JNO. CASTELLOW, SALLIE SANDERS WHOSE HUSBAND IS DEAD, ADELINE WHO HAS INTERMARRIED WITH MILTON MIDYETT, NANCY, ZACK T. AND LOUISA, THE LAST 2 BEING MINORS AND J.F. WORTHAM IS GUARDIAN OF ZACH T. AND WILLIAM JOHNSON IS GUARDIAN OF LOUISA. IT FURTHER APPEARING THAT THE SAID C.R. JOHNSON HAD DIED SEIZED AND POSSESSED OF THE TRACTS OF LAND IN THE PLEADINGS MENTIONED AND THAT HE HAD GIVEN TO HIS SON WILLIAM 150 ACRES FOR HIS LIFE AND THAT THE SAID INTESTATE HAD GIVEN TO HIS DAUGHTER ADELINE ONE HUNDRED AND ONE-HALF ACRES FOR HER LIFE. AND IT ALSO APPEARING THAT THE SAID MILTON MIDYETT HAS PAID $500.00 PART OF THE PURCHASE MONEY OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND ONE-HALF ACRES GIVEN TO THE SAID ADELINE. IT FURTHER APPEARING THAT THE SAID DAVID HAD AT THE MAY TERM BEEN APPOINTED ADM’R. OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES R. JOHNSON AND THAT NO PART OF ANY OF THE SAID LANDS WHICH CHARLES R. WAS POSSESSED OF ARE NEEDED FOR THE PAYMENTS OF HIS DEBTS AND THAT THE SAID LANDS CAN BE DIVIDED BETWEEN THE HEIRS ABOVE MENTIONED. IT FURTHER APPEARING THAT THE SAID CHARLES R. (Jr.) HAD SOLD AND TRANSFERRED HIS INTEREST IN SAID LAND TO HIS SISTER, THE SAID ANN E. PETITIONERS PRAY THAT COMMISSIONERS BE APPOINTED TO DIVIDE LAND BETWEEN THE HEIRS, THE SAID WILLIAM TO ACCOUNT FOR LANDS ADVANCED AND GIVEN TO HIM AT WHAT THE LAND WAS WORTH AT THE TIME GIVEN. THE COMMISSIONERS TO ASCERTAIN AND DECIDE WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE OF AN ESTATE FOR LIFE AND ONE IN FEE, AND CHARGE THE SAID WILLIAM WITH THE LAND ADVANCED TO HIM AS A LIFE ESTATE. SAID COMMISSIONERS TO ASCERTAIN THE VALUE OF THE LAND ADVANCED TO ADALINE AT THE TIME IT WAS GIVEN, DEDUCTING $500.00 PAID BY MILTON MIDYETT AND CHARGING THE SAID ADALINE WITH THE BALANCE OF THE ESTATE AS A LIFE ESTATE AND NOT CHARGING HER AS MUCH AS AN ESTATE IN FEE. COMMISSIONERS ARE TO SET APART THE SHARE OF THE THE SAID ANN E. AND THAT CONVEYED TO HER BY HER BROTHER, CHARLES R. JOHNSON, TOGETHER IF PRACTIABLE AND THAT THE CLERK ASCERTAIN WHAT AMOUNTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED THE ATTORNIES FOR THEIR SERVICES IN THIS CASE AND REPORT THE SAME TO THE NEXT TERM.

August Term 1865
ORDERED BY THE COURT THAT FRANK WORTHAM, HENRY SHERRON, WILLIAM JOHNSON, HENRY MOODY AND MILTON MIDYETT BE APPOINTED A JURY OF VIEW TO EXAMINE AND REPORT UPON THE PROPRIERTY OF THE CHANGE OR ALTERING THE DYERSBURG & JACKSON ROAD AS NOW OR CONTEMPLATED BEING NEAR BY RICHARD GREGORY’S AT OR NEAR HIS HOUSE BEGINNING AT OR NEAR MICHELL’S & PETERSON’S LAND, THEN RUNNING WEST TO THE LANEFIELD & CHERRYVILLE CROSSROADS AND MAKE THEIR REPORT TO THE NEXT QUARTERLY TERM OF THIS COURT.

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: HAYWOOD CO., TN. COUNTY CLERK MINUTES; VOL. I/41-44

September Term 1865
W.R. JOHNSON, C.R. JOHNSON, NANCY F.J. CASTELOW, ZACHARIAH T. JOHNSON, SALLY SANDERS, ANNE E. WHITAKER & HER HUSBAND L.D. WHITAKER, PEGG. CASTELLOW & HER HUSBAND, JOHN CASTELLOW
vs.
ADELINE MIDYETT & HER HUSBAND, MILTON MIDYETT, LOUISA JOHNSON BY HER GRD’N.

BE IT REMEMBER THAT THIS CAUSE CAME ON FOR HEARING ON SEPT. 4, 1865 BEFORE THE COUNTY OF HAYWOOD. THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED AT THE AUGUST TERM 1865 TO DIVIDE THE LANDS BELONGING TO THE HEIRS OF C.R. JOHNSON, DEC’D., AMONG THE PARTIES ENTITLES TO THE SAME, HAVING MET UPON THE PREMISES AND BEING WHOOLY DISINTERESTED, HAVE MADE THE DIVISION ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF SAID COURT AND BEG LEAVE TO OFFER THE FOLLOWING REPORT AS THEIRS:
WE HAVE VALUED THE WHOLE LANDED ESTATE INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENTS TO W.R. JOHNSON AND ADELINE MIDYETT AT $11,828 4/7 WHICH DIVIDED BY 9, THE NUMBER OF HEIRS, MAKES EACH SHARE $1314 2/7.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORDER WE HAVE SET APART TO THE SAID ANN WHITAKER 2 SHARES TOGETHER AND BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS: (lengthy discription) CONTAINING 120 ACRES VALUED AT $2628.27 OR 2/9 OF THE VALUE OF THE LANDED ESTATE.
WE HAVE ALLOTED TO MRS. SALLY SANDERS 65 ACRES DESIGNATED AS LOT #3 BEGINNING AT THE N.E. CORNER OF THE KING TRACT NOW OWNED BY RICHARD GREGORY, AND BOUND BY THE NEW FROG JUMP ROAD, THE BROWNSVILLE-DYERSBURG ROAD. THIS SURVEY INCLUDES THE ONE ACRE GIVEN BY C.R. JOHNSON TO JOHNSON’S GROVE CHURCH, BUT IT IS EXCLUDED FROM THE AMOUNT GIVEN TO THE SAID SALLY SANDER, HER PART BEING 65 ACRES, INDEPENDANT OF THE CHURCH LOT, THIS SHARE IS VALUED AT $1300.00 AND IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE $14.28 FROM W.R. JOHNSON.
WE HAVE ALLOTED TO LOUISA JOHNSON, A MINOR, THE 100 ACRES KNOWN AS THE NORMAN TRACT WHICH BEING ENTIRELY DETACHED FROM ALL THE OTHER LANDS BELONGING THE THE ESTATES, WE HAVE NECESSARILY BEEN COMPELLED TO PUT ONE SHARE BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS: (lengthy description) BOUND BY THE FAULKNER TRACT NOW OWNED BY RICHARD GREGORY, VALUED AT $1800 WHICH IS IN EXCESS OF $485.72 OVER THE VALUE OF ONE SHARE WHICH AMOUNT THE GUARDIAN OF LOUISA JOHNSON WILL PAY TO MRS. ADELINE MIDYETT. THIS LOT IN THIS DIVISION IS DESIGNATED AT LOT #4.
WE HAVE ALLOTTED TO ZACHARIAH T. JOHNSON LOT #5 CONTAINING 77 ACRES VALUED AT #1350.00 WHICH IS $35.72 IN EXCESS OF ONE SHARE WHICH AMOUNT THE GUARDIAN OF SAID ZACHARIAH T. WILL PAY OVER TO MRS. ADELINE MIDYETT OR HER REPRESENTATIVE.
WE HAVE ALLOTTED #6 TO PEGGY CASTELLOW, WIFE OF JOHN, 77 ACRES AND VALUED AT $1350.00 WHICH IS AN EXCESS OVER ONE SHARE OF $35.72, WHICH AMOUNT THE SAID PEGGY & HER HSUBAND JOHN WILL PAY TO ADELINE MIDYETT OR HER RE[RESENTATIVE.
WE HAVE ALLOTTED TO NANCY, WHICH HAS INTERMARRIED SINCE THE LAST TERM OF THIS COURT WITH T.J. CASTELLOW, JR., LOT #7 (lengthy description) CONTAINING 77 ACRES VALUED AT $1350.00 WHICH IS AN EXCESS OF ONE SHARE $35.72 WHICH THE SAID NANCY & HER HUSBAND WILL PAY ADELINE MIDYETT.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORDER OF THE COURT, WE HAVE TAKEN PROOF WHICH IS HERE SUBMITTED OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LIFE ESTATE & AN ESTATE IN FEE SIMPLE OR ABSOLUTLY AND HAVE ESTIMATED THE LIFE ESTATE OF W.R. JOHNSON IN THE 150 ACRES GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS FATHER $1350.00 WHICH BEING IN EXCESS OF ONE SHARE $35.72 THE SAID WILLIAM WILL PAY ADELINE MIDYETT $21.44 AND SALLY SANDERS $14.28.
WE HAVE ALSO, AFTER TAKING PROOF, TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LIFE ESTATE OF THE SAID ADELINE AND AN ESTATE IN FEE SIMPLE AND AFTER DEDUCTING THE $500.00 PAID BY HER HUSBAND TOWARDS THE 101 1/2 ACRES FIVEN BY C.R. JOHNSON, SEN’R. TO THE SAID ADELINE AND KNOWN AS THE FARMER TRACT, ESTIMATE HER LIFE ESTATE TO BE WORTH $700.00 WHICH IS SHORT OF ONE SHARE

$614.28, WE HAVE ORDERED THAT HIS AMOUNT SHALL BE PAID BY THE LEGATEES, WHO HAVE AN EXCESS OVER THEIR SHARES AS FOLLOWS:
W.R. JOHNSON, GUARIDAN OF LOUISA $485.73
ZACK T. JOHNSON OR HIS GUARDIAN 35.72
WM. R. JOHNSON ON HIS OWN AT EXCESS 21.44
PEGGY CASTELLOW & HER HUSBAND 35.72
NANCY CASTELLOW & HER HUSBAND 35.72

ALL OF WHICH IS RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED AFTER HAVING BEEN DULY QUALIFIED THIS SEPTEMBER 1865.
P.M. NEAL
CALVIN BEST
I.T. CHRICHLOW
W.H. MITCHELL
R.L. THOMAS, SURVEYOR

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: CROCKETT CO., TN. CIRCUIT COURT MINUTES; BK. A/218

Sept. 22, 1873
100 ACRES OF LAND IN CIVIL DIST. #10, PROPERTY OF M.B. MIDYETT, WAS SOLD FOR UNPAID TAXES FOR THE YEAR 1872 AMOUNTING TO $19.43.

Aug. 4, 1874–Tuesday
1OO ACRES OF LAND IN THE 10th DIST. BELONGING THE M.B. MIDYETT WAS BOUGHT BY J. HALL FOR $18.62 TO PAY FOR BACK TAXES FOR THE YEAR 1873.

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: CROCKETT CO., TN. “SENTINEL” NEWSPAPER

28 July 1876–Alamo
DELINQUENT TAX NOTICE–THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE ARE LISTED AS NOT HAVING PAID THEIR TAXES ON LAND. (M.B. MIDYETT WAS LISTED.)

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: HAYWOOD CO., TN. DEED BOOK 5; PG. 119-120

M.B. MIDYETTE & HIS WIFE M.A. MIDYETTE OF CROCKETT COUNTY SOLD TO D.H. THOMAS OF CROCKETT COUNTY, FOR $90.00, “…ONE ENTIRE UNDIVIDED 1/8 INTEREST IN A PORTION OF LAND IN HAYWOOD COUNTY, DISTRICT #16, CONTAINING 50 ACRES, IT BEING THE SAME LAND GIVEN BY F.(rancis) M. WOOD, DEC’D. IN HIS WILL TO J.(ohn) F. WORTHAM DURING HIS LIFETIME AND AT HIS DEATH (HE DYING WITHOUT HEIRS) DESCENDED TO THE HEIRS OF HIS DAUGHTER LOUISA JOHNSON…” AND BOUNDED BY THE LANDS OF F.M. WOOD, DEC’D., J.F. WORTHAM, DEC’D. AND WILLIAM FAULKNER, SR., DEC’D. THIS INDENTURE WAS MADE MARCH 7, 1875.
PROVED: NOVEMBER 20, 1875 M.B. MIDGETT
M.A. MIDGETT

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: HAYWOOD CO., TN. DEED BOOK 4; PG. 727-728

M.B. MIDYETT & HIS WIFE M.A. MIDYETT OF CROCKETT COUNTY SOLD TO D.H. THOMAS OF CROCKETT COUNTY, FOR $90.00, A TRACT OF LAND IN HAYWOOD COUNTY, CONTAINING 50 ACRES, “…OUR ENTIRE UNDIVIDED 1/8 INTEREST IN DIST. #16, AND BEING THE SAME LAND GIVEN BY F.M. WOOD, DEC’D. IN HIS WILL TO J.F. WORTHAM DURING HIS LIFETIME AND AT HIS DEATH (HE DYING WITHOUT HEIRS) DESCENDED TO THE HEIRS OF HIS DAUGHTER LOUISA JOHNSON…” THIS LAND IS BOUND BY THE LANDS OF F.M. WOOD, DEC’D., J.F. WORTHAM, DEC’D. & WILLIAM FAULKNER, SR., DEC’D. THIS INDENTURE WAS MADE MARCH 11, 1875.
M.B. MIDYETT
M.A. MIDYETT

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING 1880 CROCKETT CO., TN. CENSUS (DIST .#10)

MIDYETT, MILTON B. AGE: 40 TN NC NC FARMER
MIDYETT, MARY A. 39 TN NC NC (Wife)
MIDYETT, ZACHARIAH M. 18 TN TN TN (Son)
MIDYETT, ERASMUS A. 15 TN TN TN (Son)
MIDYETT, JOHN E. 12 TN TN TN (Son)

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: CROCKETT CO., TN. CIRCUIT COURT MINUTES; BK. E/57

September 26, 1884
LANDS SOLD FOR TAXES: DIST. #10–MILTON MIDYETT BOUNDED NORTH BY NEAL, SOUTH BY MOODY, EAST BY MOODY AND WEST BY BRANCH, CONTAINING 100 ACRES VALUED AT $800.00.

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: GRAVES CO., KY. NEWSPAPER GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS
BY DON SIMMONS

NEWSPAPER DATED THURSDAY APRIL 6, 1905
M.B. MIDGETT, WHO FORMERLY LIVED IN THIS COUNTY AND HAS BEEN HERE ON A VISIT, LEFT THURSDAY MORNING FOR HIS HOME IN BENTON, ILLINOIS. (Is this Milton B. Midyett?)

SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING;
CROCKETT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT MINUTES BOOK A

PAGE 218 22nd SEPTEMBER 1873
STATE of TENNESSEE CROCKETT COUNTY

Hon. G.B.BLACK,judge of the Circuit Court of Crockett County pursuant to the law the undersigned tax collector after advertizing according to law for three consecutive weeks in the Crockett County Sentinal,a newspaper published in the town of Alamo,the County seat of said County,proceeded to sell and did sell at the Court House door in Alamo on the 1st day of September between the hours 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. for the taxes,penalties and costs due thereon for the year 1872–Tp Wit:(page 219) 100 acres of land in Civil District 10–Sold as the property of M.B.MIDGETT for taxes,penalties and cost for the year 1872 amounting to $19.43.

CROCKETT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT MINUTES
BOOK A APRIL 1872—MARCH 1875

PAGE 326 TUESDAY 4th AUGUST 1874
STATE of TENNESSEE CROCKETT COUNTY
I,J.B. SMITH,tax collector of Crockett County do hereby report the following tracts of land as having been sold for the taxes,penalty and cost for the year of 1873 at the Court House door in the town of Alamo on the first Monday in July 1874 between the hours of 12 & 3 o’clock p.m. (page 327) M.B.MIDYETT: 100 acres of land in the 10th District bought by J.HALL for $18.62.All of which was duly advertized and sold as the law directs for the taxes,penalties and costs for the year 1873. J.B.SMITH ; Tax Collector It is therefore ordered by the courts that all rights,title and interests be divested out of the respective owners of the tract of land or town lots and vested in the respective purchasers thereof.