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…
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…
ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE 1837-8 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY Nashville S. NYE & Co., PRINTERS – TO THE STATE 1838 CHAPTER CCXLII. An Act to incorporate the inhabitants of the town of Dancyville in Haywood County. Commissioners to lay off town Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, that Wm. Wells, Solomon Payne, John Moore, George Cooper, David Dancy and Doctor Hawkins are hereby appointed commissioners to lay off and mark the…
WHITEVILLE, Tenn. – When S. Walter Edwards, vice-president and director of the Whiteville Savings Bank died, in 1937, he bequeathed $7500 for remodeling and maintenance of a small country church which he attended as a child. This was the Presbyterian Church of Dancyville, Tenn., ten miles north of here, and work which began this week, changes a landmark of Haywood County since 1853. Eighty-seven years ago immigrants who had settled this section felt the need for a place of worship…
Page 334 – Number 546 S.R. Carney To Deed Trustees of the Dancyville Female Academy Filed 16th May 1851 Regis 18th June 1851 at 10 oclock A.M. Know all men by these presence that Saunders R. Carney of the County of Haywood & State of Tennessee for and in consideration of five dollars to me in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged and for the further benefit I may receive from the female Academy have this day bargained sold…
Dancyville Female Academy Incorporation Act of the State of Tennessee passed at the first session of the twenty-eighth General Assembly, for the years 1849-1850. Published by authority Nashville: M’kennie & Watterson, printers to the state. Chapter lxxxix Page 280-281 An Act to Incorporate Dancyville Female Academy, in the county of Haywood. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, that there be established at, or near Dancyville, in the county of Haywood, in said State,…
Dr. Samuel Alexander Mims lived in Dancyville and Walnut Ridge, near Dancyville, from early 1849 until late 1853. In Dancyville he lived very near the Methodist Church, close enough to hear the singing and the preacher. Judging from the date he finished medical school, Dancyville probably was his first practice. The letters were written by Dr. Mims, his wife Harriett McIver Mims and Rev. William Nolen, the Baptist minister. All were written to Dr. Mims’ brother, James S. Mims, a professor at…
Know all men by these present that I Samuel A. Mims of the town of Greenville and of the district of Greenville of the State of South Carolina, have made constituted and appointed and in my name and ________ ________ _______ ___________ N.S. Burroughs of the town of Dancyville, of the county of Haywood, and State of Tennessee my true and lawful attorney for me and in my place and stead to grant, bargain, sell and convey all these…
Dear Mildred, If there was any good news would like to write it, but when it is about all bad news sometimes do not think it is worth writing. Glenna has just recently left. She came by from Spring Hill Cemetery and stopped to tell me about Lillian Dixon. She is in Methodist Hospital Room 217 – with a place on her arm that I am afraid is malignant, and afraid she waited too long to have anything done for…
PAGE 719; 6th January 1869 Jermon BATCHELOR apprinticed to Hugh M. CLARK, Jr. Jarmon BATCHELOR, a minor orphan, colored, was this day apprinticed to H. M. CLARK, thereupon, the said CLARK came into Court, entered into an obligation for the faithful performance of his duties as Master to said apprentice, and for the payment of the money allowed him by the Court, at the end of his apprenticeship with H. M. CLARK as his security on said bond, which was…