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Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (April 10, 1908)

Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (April 10, 1908)

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in 2000-2002 for the USGenWeb Archives.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original page. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not endorse the use of culturally insensitive language.  On this abstract, please note certain original words are included for context. Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 40 No. 18 — Friday, April 10, 1908 LOCAL NEWS — Howell WILSON, negro porter for White,…

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Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (April 3, 1908)

Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (April 3, 1908)

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in 2000-2002 for the USGenWeb Archives.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original page. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not endorse the use of culturally insensitive language.  On this abstract, please note certain original words are included for context. Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 40 No. 17 — Friday, April 3, 1908 TRACE WOMAN WITH HOUNDS; CHATTANOOGA, TN — Ada PARKER…

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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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The Incorporation of Dancyville

The Incorporation of Dancyville

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…

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Presbyterian Church of Dancyville

Presbyterian Church of Dancyville

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…

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The Dancyville Female Academy Deed – 1851

The Dancyville Female Academy Deed – 1851

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…

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Dancyville  Female  Academy Incorporation – 1850

Dancyville  Female  Academy Incorporation – 1850

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,…

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History of Dancyville

History of Dancyville

by   Joe B. Moore,  1963 Dancyville, named after Isaac Dancy, an old settler, is a post village, thirteen miles south of Brownsville, so said Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee, published in 1887. Goodspeed continues, “It was established in 1837 by Fennel T. Carpenter and John Southernland, who were it’s first merchants.” Legend has it that when these merchants bought their first merchandise in St. Louis, they were asked where it should be shipped. There was no post office, and the community did…

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Brownsville, County Seat

Brownsville, County Seat

Brownsville, designated as County Seat circa 1823, was laid out on 50 acres the county purchased in December 1824 from Thomas M. Johnson for one dollar with Mr. Johnson retaining one lot. Public buildings were paid for by the sale of these lots. The first courthouse, a 28 by 33 log structure, stood on the west side of court square where Roy Drug Store now stands. In 1826, a frame building was constructed just south of the first one. In…

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The Beginning of Maranatha Baptist Church

The Beginning of Maranatha Baptist Church

This post and photos are submitted by Bettye Seaton Liberty in January, 2026. Scroll the photo album using the arrows below the photos.   Maranatha Baptist Church was founded in the mid-1940’s as an Independent Baptist congregation.  It remains a vibrant worship center serving multiple communities today. The First Pastor Rev. John W. Seaton, Jr., was called to the ministry as a young man and held pastorates in Woodville and Edith before he was called to Maranatha about 1947 to…

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