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Alton, George (Col) – apprenticed to J. W. Oslin

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Crockett Co., Tennessee
County Court Clerk’s Minutes
Vol. A
Monday, September 2nd A.D. 1872

GEORGE ALTON Col
Apprenticed to
J. W. OSLIN

GEORGE ALTON a Colored minor orphan was this day brought into Court and by the Court apprinticed to J. W. OSLIN thereupon the said J. W. OSLIN came into Court entered into an obligation for the faithful performance of his duties to said apprenticed and forth payment of one hundred dollars in Currency and to furnish said apprintice with one Suit of Clothes at the expiration of the apprenticship the said OSLIN gave J. H. WESSON as his security on said obligation which being acknowledged in open Court by J. H. WESSON was approved by the Court and ordered to be recorded said minor is about 13 years old.

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Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.

Jury appointment for change in Ashport Rd

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SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: CROCKETT COUNTY CLERK’S MINUTES

VOLUME A; PAGE 385; MONDAY 6th APRIL 1874

On motion and petition of Sundry Citizens it is ordered by the Court that Thomas COOK, Thomas GREEN, J. P. PARKER, Henry GREEN, G. W. BOLING, S. H. MIDYETT, E.T. AUSTIN and any five of them be appointed a Jury of View to look into the propriety of changing that part which is known the Ashport road leading from Alamo to Gadsden and Jackson, commencing from the west end of Thomas COOK’s land so as to enter Alamo through the land or Streets between C. F. AUSTIN and J. P. PARKER and say whether said proposed change will damage the public or private individuals and whether or not said proposed change should be made. And report to the present term of this Court.

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SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: CROCKETT COUNTY CLERK’S MINUTES

VOLUME A PAGE 386; MONDAY 6th APRIL 1874

On Petition M. B. PERMENTER, B. J. PERMENTER et al___it is ordered by the Court that Thomas COOK, Thomas GREEN, J. P. PARKER, T. W. BOWLIN, S. H. MIDYETT and E. T. FOSTER be and they are hereby appointed a Jury of View to examine the property and practicability of changing that part of the Ashport road leading from Gadsden to Alamo so as to run on the line of E. T. AUSTIN and J. P. PARKER and to make such other changes as they may think best and report to this term of Court.

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SOURCE FOR THE FOLLOWING: CROCKETT COUNTY CLERK’S MINUTES

VOLUME A PAGE 390 TUESDAY 7th April 1874

The Jury of View appointed at this term of the Court to view out and change that part of the Ashport road commencing at the West end of Thomas COOK’s land and entering the land between E. T. AUSTIN and J. P. PARKER make the following report:

To the Worshipful County Court of Crockett County, April term as a Jury of View to survey a new road of the Ashport road, beg leave to submit the following report. Commencing on the West end of Thomas COOK’s land runs North with the old line until it strikes the line between Thomas COOK and Thomas GREEN, thence North to a poplar stump. Thence Northwest to the mouth of the lane between Thomas COOK and Thomas GREEN, the changes the Jury made being the north boundary of the road thence through the lane to a corner between Thomas COOK and Thomas GREEN, thence north between Thomas GREEN and Thomas COOK to the corner of J. P. PARKER – thence west to the corner of THOMPSON & PARKER thence north to the street between J. PARKER & E. T. AUSTIN which we have respectfully established believing it to be practicable and the same should be made.

Signed: JURY of VIEW:

G. W. BOWLING; H. J. GREEN; E. T. AUSTIN; Thomas GREEN; Thomas COOK; S. H. MIDYETT.

A very special thank you to Sarah Hutcherson, who transcribed and contributed this document for use on this web page.

Jury List, April 1872

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Crockett Co., Tennessee
County Court Clerk’s Minutes
Vol. A
Monday, April the 1st A.D. 1872

Ordered by the Court that the following Persons good and Lawful men Citzins of the different Districts of Crockett County Be and they are appointed Jurors for the April term of the Circuit Court for said County To wit –

Elisa Jackson
J. A. Nance of Dist. No. 1
R. W. Mason
G. M. Connatzer of Dist. No 2
James Emmerson
John W. Bailey
J. W. Roseman of Dist. No 3
D. H. James
Thomas Kenner of Dist. No. 4
H. B. Reames
E. Harrell
R. G. Cates of Dist. No. 5
J. P. Burns
W. M. Craddock
I. M. Johnson of Dist. No. 6
Noah Stallings
F. P. Hall of Dist. No. 7
F. E. Mahon
Richard Cook Sr.
Z. P. Warren of Dist. No. 8
J. T. N. McCewen
W. M. Tatum of Dist. No. 9
J. L. Perry
W. A. Graham of Dist. No. 10
G. W. Hawkins
Thomas Bell of Dist. No. 11
E. B. Curtis
R. W. Boyd of Dist. No. 12
G. W. Bettis
G. J. Fleming of Dist. No. 13

Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.

County Court Clerk Minutes

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County Clerk’s Minutes usually handles personal disputes, wills probated, estates settled when a person dies intestate, Road work assignments, divorce, child custody and child support, and general every day settlements

J. F. Speed, Levy, 7 Jan 1876

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CROCKETT COUNTY CIRCUIT MINUTES
VOLUME B MARCH 1875 — FEB.1878

PAGE 100; 7th JANUARY 1876

There being no personal property of J. F. SPEED to be found in my County I levy this execution on all the interest of J. F. SPEED in the following described tract of land lying in the 10th Civil District in Crockett County, subject to two former executions by me levied this day on said land, said bounded as follows–East by P. M. NEAL, South by David S. MOODY, West by Jos. RICHARDSON, North by BROWN heirs and W. B. HARRISON, said SPEEDs interest in said land being a life interest in entire tract and a fee simple right to one third of same.

January 20th 1876 – – W. A. TUCKER; deputy Sheriff.

CROCKETT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT MINUTES
VOLUME B MARCH 1875 — FEB 1878

PAGE 111;

165 Acres belonging to J. F. SPEED is condemned for sale for debt, this land also bounded on the South by David S. MOODY.

PAGE 114; Another judgment against the same land of J. F. SPEED.

A. Simon -vs- A. Midyett, 9 Aug 1873

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PAGE 163 SATURDAY 9th August 1873

A. SIMON vs Acriel MIDYETT – – APPEAL

Came the parties by their attorneys and by consent of a Jury is waived. It is therefore considered by the Court that the matters in the dispute is in favor of the defendant. It is therefore considered by the Court that the defendant go hence and recover of the plaintiff the costs of this suit for which execution will issue. {Acriel MIDYETT is a man of color}

W.A. Powell, Tribute, 6 Apr 1891

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Tribute to William A. Powell
Crockett County Minute Book “E”
Page 404

Alamo Tennessee Monday April 6th 1891

On motion it was ordered by the Court that the resolutions of the death of W.A. Powell a member of the Alamo Bar, be spread upon the members of this Court.

Whereas on the 22nd day of February 1891 the ever unwelcomed messenger, death, thrust his scythe into our little band of attorneys at Alamo and cut down our companion in the law W.A. Powell and thereby created a vacant seat in the court room and emotions of sorrow in our hearts; and whereas in our opinion it is meek and proper for the survivors to pay tributes of respect to the departed whose deeds in life merited expressions of esteem, therefore;

Resolved that in the death of W.A. Powell the Alamo Bar loses one of its most courteous members, a gifted and talented lawyer and one who was ever ready by his eloquence and force of character to defend the truth and by his manly becoming and affable manner endured him to those who knew him best.

Resolved further, that in the Death of W.A. Powell our city has lost our able and estimable defender of and devoted to principles of truth; that we are not aware of any man whose daily conduct more strikingly demonstrated his adhering of truth as a divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue that was found in the deceased, in honor of whose memory these resolutions were written.

Resolved further that while we may not at all times comprehend the mysterious doings of our all wise Creator we bow in submission to his will and herby turn our sympathies to his sorrowing widow and bereaved orphans, expressing the belief to them that He who has thus bereaved them doethe all things will.

Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be presented to the bereaved Widow of the deceased and that the same be presented to the Chancery, Circuit and Quarterly term of the County Court to be spread by the Minister of the same and that the Crockett County Sentinel be requested to publish the same.

C A Goodloe
H E Austin
W H Biggs

C.A. Permenter -vs- M.B. Permenter, 8 Apr 1874

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CROCKETT COUNTY,TENNESSEE COUNTY COURT CLERK MINUTES
VOLUME A DEC.1871—FEB.1876

PAGE 395; WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL 1874

CANDIS A. PERMENTER )
VS ) Petition for Homestead & Dower
M. B. PERMENTER et al )

The Commissioners appointed at the last term of this Court to assign to the Plaintiff her dower and homestead in the estate of L.M.PERMENTER, deceased, returned the following report, to wit:


To the Worshipful County Court of Crockett County; We, your Commissioners appointed at the March term of said Court to lay-off and set apart to Mrs. C.A. PERMENTER, the widow of L. H. PERMENTER, dec’d, her dower, interest and Homestead in the lands owned by him at the time of his death, Ask to make the following as our report. That we met on the premises and after examination and investigation of the facts with Mrs. PERMENTER, we proceeded to lay-off and set apart to her the said C. A. PERMENTER, her dower or disbutees share of one third in value of said land. Taken from the west end of the tract batted and bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stake and pointers the southwest corner of the tracts, runs thence east 49 1/2 poles to a stake in the south boundary line. Thence north 71 poles to a stake in the north boundary line. Thence west 49 1/2 poles to a stake and pointers, the northwest corner of the tract–Thence south 71 poles to the beginning. Containing by estimation twenty-two acres. And that we proceeded to lay off and set apart to her, the said C.A. PERMENTER, a homestead interest to the value of One Thousand Dollars out of the lands owned by the said L. H. PERMENTER, deceased. Taken from the east end of the tract, Butted and bounded as follows to wit: Beginning at a stake in the south boundary line, The southeast corner of the Dower tract, runs east one hundred and twenty poles to a stake and pointers the southeast corner of the tract (page 396) Thence north seventy one poles to a stake and pointers the northeast corner of the tracts thence west 120 poles to a stake in the north boundary line, the northeast corner of the dower tracts, Thence north 71 poles to the beginning, Containing by estimation 53 acres.

All of which is respectfully submitted after being duly sworn.
( W.A.JOHNSON; surveyor
COMMISSIONERS: ( Thomas COOK
( John EMMERSON

Which report then being no objection, is in all things confirmed. And it is further ordered that the plaintiff pay all costs in their proceeding for which let execution issue.

T. E. Noel -vs- W.H. Guthrie, 5 Oct 1877

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CROCKETT COUNTY, TENNESSEE CIRCUIT COURT MINUTES
VOLUME B MARCH 1875— FEB 1878

PAGE 496; FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER 1877

Thomas E. NOEL vs W. H. GUTHRIE

In this case it appearing to the Court that an execution was issued for a balance due to the Plaintiff after condemnation and sale of land, sold in this Court, under order of condemnation–the said execution for such balance issuing from this Court, and it appearing that said execution came into the hands of R. H. HARRIS, Sheriff, and was by him levied on the following land and as property of W. H. GUTHRIE, namely situated in State of Tennessee District 5—and it also appearing that said execution was levied on the following tract of land, as the land of L. M. JELKS namely situated in the State of Tennessee, County of Crockett, Bells Depot; bounded on the East by J. N. CAMERON, West by T. E. NOEL, South by F. B. WOODWARD, and North by E. M. MIDYETT.

M. B. Midyett Tax Sale, 4 Aug 1874

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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.