Lawrence County TNGenWeb

Transcribed by Reita Jones Burress (source unidentified) 1818, November List of Lawrence County, Tn. Voters James Forbes, Henson Day, David Crockett and John Hillhouse, Esquires, who were appointed at the November term, 1818, of Lawrence County Court, to take a list of Taxable property and polls and to take a list of voters according to the late Act of assembly, making provisions for taking the Census, returned into Court their several lists of voters according to law. List returned by…

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List of Delinquent Poll Tax in 1842 for Lawrence County, Tennessee, presented by John Fondren, Sheriff, for the January term of Court in 1843. Copies can be ordered from the Lawrence County Archives.   [Note: A poll tax was levied on every male person in a household of legal voting age of 21.  If the poll tax was not paid, then the person could not vote.  In many areas, the money generated from this was used for school funds. Order of…

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The following list of tax payers in Lawrence County was transcribed by Kathy Niedergeses (May 18, 2009) from the original book housed at the Lawrence County Archives. Each person who owned property or paid poll tax is listed. The number following the name is the district where the individual owned property. The actual book shows acreage, value of land, number of polls, and amount of tax paid. In transcribing the document we found that some names were misspelled, but have…

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The following list of tax papers in Lawrence County was transcribed from the original list at the Tennessee State Library and Archives (a copy is housed at the Lawrence County Archives). Each person who owned property or paid poll tax is listed. The acreage, amounts paid in tax, or districts are not listed on the original. Many of the names were very hard to read, and I am sure we probably made some mistakes, but we did the best we…

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