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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 36 No. 41 — Friday, September 25, 1903

CROCKETT COUNTY NEWS —

THE BABY BOY of MR. JNO. BROWN, across the river in Haywood County, died last Sunday and was buried at Providence Monday morning. MRS. W. P. DAWSON has been quite sick for the past week, her daughter, MRS. H. W. GOODLOE, of Nashville is here with her.

A PRETTY HOME WEDDING occurred in our town last Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the home of the bride’s father, MR. Jno. O. CRAIG. The contracting parties being MR. O. L. GRANT and MISS MAMIE CRAIG. Rev. A. F. STEM performed the ceremony.

MR. & MRS. SOL MIDYETT, of near Alamo, are here this week, visiting their daughter, MRS. R. E. CASEY.

EUREKATON — An impudent negro boy made an assault on one of MR. S. B. MOORE’s little boys last week. He was promptly arrested and arraigned before Squire KELSO, who fined him $25.00 and costs. It seems that the spirit of Rooseveltism is permeating through all Southern negroes.

LOCAL NEWS — MRS. M. E. WATKINS died at DR. ALLEN’s Sanitarium on Wednesday evening last after a long illness. She was a MISS CORE, born and raised near Stanton in this county and was 70 years old. She leaves one sister, MRS. J. J. MANN, of this city; one son, MR. HENRY STONE, of Memphis; two daughters, MESDAMES W. S. WRIGHT and VIRGIL CAMPBELL of Lauderdale County. Religious services will be held at the resident of MR. J. J. MANN this morning at 9 o’clock, remains interred in Oakwood Cemetery.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

MISS MATILDA McCUTCHEN and MR. W. B. GROVE were united in marriage Wednesday at 4 p. m. at the home of the bride’s father, MR. J. T. McCUTCHEN in Jackson, Tenn., the ceremony being said by Rev. HOLLY W. WELLS. Mr. GROVE was formerly a resident of Brownsville, being a son of the late R. R. GROVE.

AUBREY BACHELOR spent Thursday in the city.

MISS NELLY FELSENTHAL, of Jackson is visiting her grandmother, MRS. ANKER.

W. B. GROVE and wife spent Thursday in Brownsville, en route to Houston, Texas, their future home.

MRS. GILMER WINSTON after a pleasant visit to her mother, MRS. M. BOYD, has returned to Memphis.

MR. J. MAT CLARK left Tuesday for Hernando, Miss., where he was called on account of the sickness of his two sisters.

MR. & MRS. T. R. SHORT, of Eurekaton, spent Sunday with their granddaughter MISS MYRA COLLINS SHORT. JOHN HAYWOOD, an old Brownsville man and ex-confederate soldier is the guest of friends and relatives in this city. He is now engaged in teaching near Atoka in Tipton County.

IVERSON CURRIE — the mulatto, who was arrested last week, charged with selling whiskey within the corporate limits of Brownsville, was tried last Saturday before Mayor CRANDELL and Recorder CARTER, fined $50 and costs and bound over to the State.

MR. ALLEN DILLARD — a former citizen of this county, died at the Western Insane Hospital at Bolivar Monday last, of which he had been an inmate for several years. About 20 years since while working at a saw mill he received a blow on the head which resulted finally his death. He served creditably in the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry and fort 20 years was a member of the Brownsville Baptist Church. About 1865 he married MISS TEXANNA DUPREE and leaves three daughters; two in Colorado and one in Texas. His remains were brought to Brownsville on the 2:10 train Tuesday evening and buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Rev. J. B. LAWRENCE conducting the services.

FIFTEEN HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND — By request I furnish the following facts in regard to a land grant in Haywood County claimed by North Carolina heirs. The grant is in the northern part of the county lying on both sides of Forked Deer river and is partly in the 8th and partly in the 12th civil districts. It is known as Grant No. 163, granted by the State of North Carolina to WILLIAM FERREL SERVIS, containing 1,500 acres and was surveyed and the grant issued in 1788. I have been informed that there has been but one transfer of the land since it was originally granted and that was by WILLIAM FERREL SERVIS, the original grantee to the HAMPTON family of Rutherford County, N. C., who were heirs of WILLIAM FERREL SERVIS. They have also another grant in Obion County of about 2,000 acres, which is said to be worth probably about $40 per acre. The HAMPTONS are said to be wealthy, and they sent one of the family out to West Tennessee sometime last spring to look after their interests, ans employed MR. TAYLOR of Trenton and MR. SAM WILLIAMS of Newbern to act as counsel in their case. About the 1st of August MR. R. Z. TAYLOR employed me to survey the grant in Haywood County, and on the 26th, 27th, and 28th of August, I located and surveyed it for them; the grant in Obion County having been previously located and surveyed by the county surveyor of Gibson County. It will be bad if the people who own lands within the bounds of these grants should be so unfortunate as to lose them, but it is an ill wind that blows nobody good and this maybe the means of awakening our people to the importance of investigating titles more closely before investing. There is but one right way to buy land and that is to require the seller to furnish you with a clean cut abstract of title and a legal survey, then get your own lawyer to pass on it. Respectfully – J. D. ANTHONY September 21, 1903.