Local History & Information – Page 14 – Haywood County TNGenWeb

Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (April 17, 1908)

January 25, 2026 TNGenWeb

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. [19] — Friday, April 10, 1908 Transcriber’s Note: No front page SALE OF PAPER; CHATTANOOGA…

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

January 25, 2026 TNGenWeb

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)

January 25, 2026 TNGenWeb

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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Joseph Henson Bell Civil War Service Correspondence (1864-1865)

January 25, 2026 TNGenWeb

These transcriptions were submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Lillie Ruby in 2001. No copyright infringement is intended. Click here to view the original items. Note: The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language. In the text below, certain antiquated terms may remain for context. Letter to Mr. Hoquett with Postscript to Wife Verona, Miss Oct. 18, 1864 Mr. Hoquett kind friend- I avail myself of the opportunity I find of sending a few lines through…

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John Kerr’s Medical Doctorial Dissertation

January 17, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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

January 17, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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

January 17, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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

January 17, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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

January 17, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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

January 16, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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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