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Sophiah Kerr Price Bible Record

Sophiah Kerr Price Bible Record

Transcribed, as is, from a copy of an original page of the Bible Records of Sophiah Kerr Price Ages John & Ruth Karr Children Henry Karr was Born July the 24 AD 1773 John Karr was Born April the 17 AD 1775 Mary Karr was Born January the 1 AD 1778 Margret Karr was Born February the 7 AD 1780 Hugh Karr was Born December the 1 AD 1782 Ruth Karr was Born May the 24 AD 1785 Sophiah Karr…

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Coppedge Family Bible

Coppedge Family Bible

NOTE: This transcription was taken from the net, from a post of Barbara Jean Hathcock. Document indicated no copyright.   Surname: Coppedge, Moore, Paxton, Armstrong, Luton, Jones, Stanley, Manley, Bush.  From: Haywood Co., TN Miscellaneous Records – W. P. A. Records Transcribed by Sallie B. Hayes (No Copywrite).  The only changes the contributor has made from the written work, was to add the capitalization of the SURNAMES.) COPPEDGE FAMILY The following was obtained from a bible owned by Mr. Joseph B. Moore, Dancyville, TN. Copied Sept….

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Lewis Cass Cherry Family Bible

Lewis Cass Cherry Family Bible

HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE AUTHORIZED AND REVISED VERSIONS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. ARRANGED IN PARALLEL COLUMNS;  THE TEXT CONFORMABLE TO THAT OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE COMPLETE CONCORDANCE; MARGINAL REFERENCES; CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES; A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS, WITH FAC-SIMILIES OF THE SAME; THE EARLIEST PRINTED EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE; A HISTORY OF THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE, ETC. 1885 PRESENTED TO Mrs. L. C. Cherry BY C. Cherry WHAT THEREFORE  GOD  HATH  JOINED  TOGETHER   LET  NOT  MAN  PUT …

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Dancyville’s Male & Female Academy Advertisement

Dancyville’s Male & Female Academy Advertisement

REV. R. C. DOUGLASS, PRIN. ~ F. M. SANGER, ASSOCIATE (VANDERBILT) Miss Sallie Douglass, Assistant. Miss Puss D. Tanner, Elocution Mrs. Sallie Boyd, Music Healthful location; decidedly Christian community; full Faculty; thorough instruction; pupils from other States and several counties. The moral tone of our school is exceptionally high. A bad character is held in disrepute  and receives no sympathy from the school or community. We mean business. If you do, address the Principal, Dancyville, Tenn. Board from $6 to…

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Brownsville District High School Advertisement

Brownsville District High School Advertisement

Dancyville This school proposes to (?) boys and girls for college and business. The Course of Study is second to no fitting school in West Tennessee. It embraces Mathematics, History, English, Latin, Greek and German. New methods are used intelligently but old usage’s are not abandoned because they are old. The study of English is insisted on and great care is taken in cultivating the faculty of expression in written composition. The charges for tuition range from $7.50 to $20…

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Willie P. Cherry Family Haywood County Taxes

Willie P. Cherry Family Haywood County Taxes

Tax Lists 1846: Dist. #2 Cherry, Willie: 121 acres of land value of land: $500.00 tax on land: $1.25 1 slave value of slave: $600.00 tax on slave: $1.50 1 white poll tax on poll: $.25 Total Tax: $3.00 1847: Dist. #2: Cherry, Willie 121 acres of land value of land: $400.00 tax on land: $.86 2 slaves value of slaves: $1100.00 tax on slaves: $2.20 1 white poll tax on poll: $.25 Total tax: $3.?? 1848: Dist. #2: Cherry,…

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Isaac Dancy Estate Settlement 1870

Isaac Dancy Estate Settlement 1870

From Haywood County Tennessee, Estate Settlements – 1870 – Ledger Page 20 ESTATE of  ISAAC DANCY in a/c with J. H. DANCY  adm. By amt Inventory and a/c Sales                                             7880.08   To Amt. Paid   A.H. Martin                                                        688.54 Aamen Wyatt                                   …

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Hearing of Isaac Dancy – Includes Slave List

Hearing of Isaac Dancy – Includes Slave List

Haywood County Chancery Court  records. Copies   provided  by  Reese  Moses,  Haywood  County Genealogist. Transcribed,  as found,  without editing,  by j.d. , September, 1999. Haywood County Tennessee Chancery Court Book 3 , page 290 TUESDAY, AUGUST 23rd 1859 Abner Martin & wife Rebecca Warren Wyatt & wife Susan Robert Lemon & wife Mildred John H Dancey Elizabeth Lay Sarah Pulley & Ann Dancey   vs. Isaac Dancey, Mary Dancey Alexander Dancey, Samuel Martin & Mary Martin Be it remembered that this…

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Isaac Dancy Inquisition 1859

Isaac Dancy Inquisition 1859

From Haywood County Chancery Court Records, Nov 1854 thru Apr 1867, Vol 3 , Pg. 253 Tuesday March 1st 1859,  John H. Dancy, Robert Lemon & Robert Pulley vs. Isaac Dancy Inquisition Application to appoint Guardian on Inquisition of unsoundness of mind Be it remembered that on this 1st day March 1859 came on this cause to be heard before the Hon Isaac B Williams Chancellor upon this petition of Petitioners the _¹_ of in the cause and the proof…

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John Kerr’s Medical Doctorial Dissertation

John Kerr’s Medical Doctorial Dissertation

Kerr On Peritonitis To The Medical Faculty of The University of Nashville To whom he is dedicated for so much useful and pleasant instruction, and whom he will always gratefully remember, these pages are respectfully dedicated by The Author Peritonitis This disease, which is an inflammation of the serous sac which lines the abdominal cavity, and invests more or less completely all of its contained organs, admits to being divided into several varities, but I shall consider it under the two…

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