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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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Dr. Samuel Alexander Mims Family Page

Dr. Samuel Alexander Mims Family Page

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…

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Power of Attorney From Dr. Samuel A. Mims to Sell Dancyville Land – 1857

Power of Attorney From Dr. Samuel A. Mims to Sell Dancyville Land – 1857

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…

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Lena Hughes Dancy’s Letter to Daughter Mildred Dancy Duck 1949

Lena Hughes Dancy’s Letter to Daughter Mildred Dancy Duck 1949

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…

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Haygood County Court Minutes, January Term 1869

Haygood County Court Minutes, January Term 1869

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…

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Haygood County Court Minutes, July Term 1868

Haygood County Court Minutes, July Term 1868

PAGE 596; 6th July 1868 Ordered by the Court that E. WARREN; John MANN; H. S. MOODY; J. B. JETTON and John KING be appointed a jury of view to view out a road, commencing at the five mile post on the road leading from Brownsville to Henry JOHNSON’s, running thence north, on the east boundary line of the HUT tract of land, thence on the line between John and James MANN’s lands-north to Henderson’s Ferry, or the most practiable…

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Haygood County Court Minutes, April Term 1868

Haygood County Court Minutes, April Term 1868

PAGE 544; April Term 1868 J. A. MOODY was security on a $1500. 00 Bond for James WHITEHEAD,   Administrator of Susannah WHITEHEAD. PAGE 550; April Term 1868 Ordered by the Court that Francis CLARK,  S. H. PERMENTER,  S. H. MIDYETT,  G. W. BOND and A. HUGHES be appointed a jury of view, to view out a change in the Cageville and Bells Station Road, as prposed by W. A. LEWIS, where it runs through the said LEWIS’ land and…

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Haygood County Court Minutes, January Term 1868

Haygood County Court Minutes, January Term 1868

PAGE 459; January Term 1868 The settlement of H. S. MOODY, guardian of Angeline V.  and Ewell M.   MIDYETT, made with the Clerk of this Court, was this day brought into Court, confirmed and ordered to be recorded. PAGE 498; 10th January 1868 It is ordered by the Court that the Bond by Wm. A. MOODY, with Thos. BOND and David A. NUNN as his securities, dated—day of—186–, for the maintenance, education , –of a colored girl named Sarah…

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