Browsed by
Category: Public Records

Court Records: Probate of Deeds, Gifts & Bills of Sale, 1838

Court Records: Probate of Deeds, Gifts & Bills of Sale, 1838

Transcribed from Marshall County Probate of Deeds 1836-1840, TN State Library & Archives microfilim roll #A-2188 and contributed by Dana Hill in October, 2002 Explanatory note:  “Probate” in the context of these records does not mean an estate process was begin heard in the court session, although the instruments may have derived from an estate settlement.  “Probate” here means proven, or validated.  Someone personally represented to the clerk that the document brought in for registration was legitimate.  You will see…

Read More Read More

James Kidd’s Personal Estate Value & Distribution (1841)

James Kidd’s Personal Estate Value & Distribution (1841)

transcribed and contributed by Dick Wood Marshall County Inventories of Estates, Volume A, pages 218-219 Amount of property distributed amongst the heirs of James Kidd, dec’d by the Executors: One Bay horse @ $ 40.00 One Sorrel Mare @ 55.00 One Sorrel Colt @ 25.00 One Cow & calf @ 10.00 One Heiffer @ 8.00 One Cutting (???) @ .50 One Pot & hooks @ 2.50 One Cupboard @ 12.00 One Chest @ 3.50 One Check reel @ 1.00 One…

Read More Read More

James Whitsett Estate Inventory & Sale (1841)

James Whitsett Estate Inventory & Sale (1841)

contributed by Dick Wood Marshall County Inventories of Estates Vol. A, pages 281-283 A list of property sold on the 5th November 1841 Belonging to the Estate of James Whitsett with the price sold for and the purchasers names   Polly Whitsett Widow & C one chest @ .25 Ditto Ditto 1 bedstead & furniture 8.50 ”      ”      “ 1 cotton wheel & reel .50 ”      ”      “ 1 bedstead & furniture 1.00 ”      ”…

Read More Read More

Hugh B. Smiley Estate Settlement (1873)

Hugh B. Smiley Estate Settlement (1873)

contributed by Dick Wood Marshall County Settlements, Administrators & Executors Vol. D, pages 414-415 STATE OF TENNESSEE) MARSHALL COUNTY ) County Court Clerk’s office April 29, 1873 I Robert L. Adams clerk of the county Court of said county have this day proceeded to make settlement with N. J. Smiley under his appointment as Administrator of Hugh B. Smiley dec’d on the October term 1870 of the County Court of said County. Aforesaid administrator charged by return of sales List…

Read More Read More

Mary Endsley Estate Inventory and Sale (1854)

Mary Endsley Estate Inventory and Sale (1854)

Click here to see also Estate Settlement of John Endsley; Mary’s estate flowed from his. Marshall County Inventories & Sales of Estates 1850-1871 Vol. E, pages 32-40 An Inventory of the Estate of Mary Endsley Deceased and an accounting of Sales Nov 22 & 23 1854 James L. Burgess 1 Gopher Plow .80 John Leonard 1 Bar shear plow .80 James L. Burgess 1 Do & Single Tree Gopher .75 I. N. Endsley 1 Bar shear & __?__ .85    ”      ”      ”   …

Read More Read More

1900 Reunion of Veterans of Co. G, 32nd Infantry at Belfast

1900 Reunion of Veterans of Co. G, 32nd Infantry at Belfast

Lewisburg Tribune issues from Aug 10, 1899 to May 2, 1902 MARSHALL COUNTY NEWSPAPERS OLD SOLDIERS REUNION Surviving Members of Company G Held Their Seventh Annual Reunion Last Tuesday ADDRESS BY REV. J. R. HARRIS [Details as Gathered by a Staff Representative — Mr. and Mrs. Endsley’s Generous Hospitality–Many Visitors] The surviving members of Company G, Thirty-second Tennessee Infantry held their seventh annual reunion at the home of J.B. Endsley, two miles southeast of Belfast, last Tuesday. The day, as…

Read More Read More

John Endsley Estate Inventory and Sale (1855)

John Endsley Estate Inventory and Sale (1855)

Click here to see also Estate Settlement of John Endsley’s widow, Mary; her estate flowed from his. Marshall County Inventories & Sales of Estates 1850-1871 Vol. E, page 40 [Copied from Bedford County.  See note below for details.] An Inventory of the Estate of John Endsley Dec’d and account of Sale Jan 16th 1855 John Leonard 1 tract of land, the home place, 299 acres @ $14.95 per acre $4470.05 John M. Endsley 50 & 26/160 acres of cedar land…

Read More Read More

Tennessee Colored Pension Application

Tennessee Colored Pension Application

Hello, and welcome to Tennessee Colored Pension Application for CSA Service. The purpose of this website is to provide the names of African-Americans, mostly former slaves, who applied for pensions in Tennessee claiming to have served with the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The names were compiled byJohn V. Brogden using sources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee.  This information is provided with the hope that it will be helpful to other genealogists in their research. Listed below are…

Read More Read More

Virgil Cummings Estate Inventory and Sale (1843)

Virgil Cummings Estate Inventory and Sale (1843)

contributed by Dick Wood in 2005 Marshall County Inventories of Estates 1837-1847 & 1850 Volume B, pages 30-31 Milton Cummings, Administrator & C The foregoing is a full and perfect account of sales of all the personal property of Virgil Cummings, dec’d that have come to the hands of the administrator. Sale on the 29th December 1843 — 1 horse James W. Bell $ 20.50 1 Lot Black Smith Tools Thomas P. Adams 55.00 1 Saddle James Stinson 14.50 1…

Read More Read More

Thomas A. Cummings Estate Inventory and Sale (1842)

Thomas A. Cummings Estate Inventory and Sale (1842)

contributed by Dick Wood in 2005 Marshall County Inventories of Estates Volume B, pages 4-7 An Inventory of the estate of Thomas A. Cummings, dec’d as it came into my possession as administrator debonas non. The book of accounts for the year 1842 $ 825.45 ¾   1841 351.07 ¾   1840 145.07 ½   1839 63.68 ¾   1838 106.22 ½   1837 2.45 ¾ Drawn off accounts of various dates: 39.74 ¾ Total of Book and draw off…

Read More Read More