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21. 1836.
Laws of the U.S. establishing post roads....
No Headline
(Legislative) Date: 1836-08-01; Paper: New Hampshire Patriot
and State Gazette This entire product and/or portions
thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American
Antiquarian Society. 2004. page 1
{very very
lengthy article that covers multiple states and an entire
page of very small print. I will include McNairy and
vicinity only}
[By
Authority]
Laws of the
United States Passed At the 24th congress First Session
{Public- No. 62.)
An act to
establish certain post roads, and to alter and discontinue
others, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the following be established as
post roads;
Tennessee.....
to Benton
Courty courthouse and to Paris. From Huntington, in Carroll
county, By Lexington, and Jacks Creek, to Purdy, in McNairy
County. From Bolivar, by Nubbin Ridge, Simpson's Bridge, on
Hatchie River, Cypress, Chamberlain, and Wolfs' Ferry, on
the Tennessee River, to the Brick house, or Cherryville, in
Hardin County. .....
From
Jackson, by Oakland and Chalk Bank and Shiloe, Tennessee, by
Trenton, yorkville, and Troy, to Mills Point, Kentucky. From
Waynesboro, by David Gallaher's and Pinhook, in Wayne
county, to the Brick House, in Hardin County, on the stage
road from Savannah, Tennessee, to Florence, Alabama.
.... From
Purdy, Tennessee, by Colonel John Reeve's in the Chickasaw
cession, to Pontitoc, in the State of Mississippi....
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# 22. 1906.
Biography of D.A.Hipps
Career of
Rev. D. A. Hipps (News Article) Date: 1906-11-04; Paper:
Dallas Morning News Historical Archive (c) Copyright, 2003,
The Dallas Morning News; page 17
Career of
Rev. D.A. Hipps
Sketch of
Pastor of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of
Dallas.
Rev. D.A.
Hipps, who has been called to the pastorate of the First
Cumberland Presbyterian Church of this city, was born in
1874 in McNairy County, Tennessee. His boyhood was spent on
a farm. He joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church when 17
years of age.
After
completing a high school course he yielded to a call to the
ministry and joined a presbytery. He pursued a course of
study in liberal arts in Trinity and Cumberland
Universities.
His first
work in the ministry was at Hobart, Ok., where he organized
a Cumberland Presbyterian Church and served as pastor for
two years. Several months he spent in travel. In 1905 he
entered the Theological Seminary at Lebanon, Tenn., and
remained one year. After the seminary closed in May he
entered the field in the interest of the church. The last
three months were spent in travel. Rev. Hipps is delivering
lectures in Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Kentucky.
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# 23.
1955.Obit.Mrs. Alice E. Douglas (former McNairy resident)
Services Set
for Widow of Cotton Belt's Founder (Mortuary Notice) Date:
1955-06-30; Paper: Dallas Morning News Historical Archive
(c) Copyright, 2003, The Dallas Morning News; section: Part
1, page 6
Services Set
for Widow of Cotton Belt's Founder
Special to
the News
Tyler,
Texas.- Funeral services will be held in Tyler Thursday for
Mrs. Alice E. Douglas, 102, widow of Major J.P. Douglas,
founder of the Cotton Belt Railroad System.
Mrs.
Douglas, Tyler's oldest resident, died Tuesday at her home
after a long illness.
Last rites
will be held at 4 p.m.Thursday in Lloyd James Chapel. Burial
will be in Tyler's Oakwood Cemetery. Officiating ministers
will be Dr. Robert Hill and the Rev. Cecil W. Johnson, both
of Tyler.
Mrs. Douglas
was honored by the Cotton Belt System in 1952 when President
H.J. McKenzie presented her a diamond pin representing the
only 75-year service award given on the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the railroad. Her husband was first president
of the Tyler Tap Railway, which evolved into the Cotton Belt
system.
Tyler
citizens honored Mrs. Douglas in 1948 as Tyler's oldest
mother. She lived in Tyler 94 years, coming here from White
House plantation in McNairy County, Tenn. She remembered her
own personal slave of pre-Civil War days and recalled that
her father owned 20 slaves in Tennessee.
Survivors
include a son, Earl C. Douglas of Houston; two daughters,
Miss Lucia Douglas and Miss Alice Douglas, both of Tyler;
two grandsons, E.C. Douglas Jr. of Houston and Buford
Douglas of Chicago, Ill and three great-grandchildren.
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# 24.
1835.Election Results for Old vs New Constitution
No Headline
(Election Returns) Date: 1835-03-16; Paper: National Banner
and Nashville Whig This entire product and/or portions
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Antiquarian Society. 2004; page 3
Monday,
March 16, 1835
New and Old
Constitutions. The following are all the returns of the
result of the election between these two instrucments, held
on Thursday and Friday 5th and 6th March, which we have yet
received.
McNairy 61
Old and 666 for New Constitution
Results in
from 50 counties which show New Constitution: 36,661
Old
Constitution: 15,212
# 25. 1825.
Post Roads
No Headline
(Legislative) Date: 1825-05-10; Paper: The Arkansas Gazette
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2004.Page 1
(By
Authority)
An act to
establish certain Post Roads, and to discontinue others.
Be it
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
following Post Roads be established.
(very
lengthy article covering multiple states. I have included
McNairy County and a few other mentions.)
In
Tennessee: ....
From
Hardinsville, By McNairy court house and Hardeman court
house, to Tipton Court house.
From
Jackson, by Harrisburg, to Dyer court house.
From
Pulaski, By Lawrenceburg, to Waynesboro;
From
Reynoldsburg, by Paris, Weakley court house, to Obion court
house........
From
Hardinville to Florence, Alabama
# 26. 1870.
Politics
No Headline
(Legislative) Date: 1870-09-21; Paper: The New Hampshire
Patriot This entire product and/or portions thereof are
copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian
Society. 2004; page 1
Carpet
baggers in House; (very lengthy article; included only
person with mention of McNairy County, Tennessee in note)
Joseph L.
Morphis, of McNairy County, Tennessee, served in the
Confederate army from 1861 till the surrender; then went to
Mississippi, and was elected to Congress as a Republican, in
1868
# 27. 1893.
County Line Change
No Headline
(Legislative) Date: 1893-04-05; Paper: The Knoxville Journal
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Page 1
.... The
following house bills came up on third reading. To change to
the line between the counties of McNairy and Chester.
Passed.
#28. 1893.
Redistricting Bill
No Headline
(Legislative) Date: 1893-04-05; Paper: The Knoxville Journal
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page 1
The
redistricting Bill
Comes up
To-Day as agreed Upon by the Democratic Caucus.
Special to
the Journal
Nashville,
Tenn., April 4- The redistricting bill will come up
to-morrow as agreed on by the democratic caucus. It will be
seen that Chancellor Thomas M. McConnel takes the largest
district, with the full cognizance of the added amount of
work, but the people of his district have the fullest
confidence in his ability to accomplish his taks faithfully
and well. Following are the counties composing the various
judicial circuits and chancery divisions, as defined in the
bill as agreed on in caucus.
..........
Eleventh
district- Maury, Lewis, Marshall, Wayne, hardin, Lawrence,
Giles
Twelfth
district- Stewart, Houston, Carroll, Benton, Humphreys,
Dixon, Hickman, Perry, Decatur
Thirteenth
district- Henderson, Chester, McNairy, Hardeman, Madison.
CHANCERY
DIVISIONS.
Eighth
district- Perry, Wayne, Hardin, Lewis, lawrence, Mauray and
Giles
Ninth
district- Henry, Benton, Decatur, Henderson, Madison,
Crockett, Chester, Hardeman, and McNairy.
... Under
the terms of the bill it does not take effect until the
August election, one year from August of the present year
# 29.
1930.Obit. E. C. Chamness
E. C.
Chamness Dies (Mortuary Notice) Date: 1930-04-08; Paper:
Dallas Morning News Historical Archive (c) Copyright, 2003,
The Dallas Morning News; part 1; page 10
E.C.
Chamness Dies
special to
The News.
Paris,
Texas. April 7.-E.C. Chamness, retired farmer and father of
A.H. Chamness, principal of the Paris High School, died at
his home near Pattonville, Lamar County, following an attack
of pneumonia. Mr. Chamness was born in McNairy County,
Tennessee, in 1854; moved to Lamar County in 1903 and had
lived in the Pattonville community since that time. He is
survived by two sons, E.E. Chamness, superintendent of city
schools at Weslaco, and Mr. Chamness of Paris, and two
daughters, Mrs. John Morrow of Humble and Mrs. W.N.Denny of
Pattonville. Funeral services were held at Pattonville.
# 30. 1836.
Death Notice. Accident.
Tragical
Affair. Extract of a Letter to a Member of the Senate of
Tennessee, Dated, "Bolivar, Ten., Oct. 20th, 1836
(Letters) Date: 1836-10-24; Paper: National Banner and
Nashville Whig This entire product and/or portions thereof
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Tragical
Affair
Extract of a
letter to a member of the Senate of Tennessee, ????
"Bolivar,
Ten., Oct 20th, 1836.
"Dear
General: The Fall Races terminated with real tragedy on
Saturday evening last; two men, Whitehead and Price,
concluded to run their horses from the tract to town for a
triffle and were both thrown and killed. A boy was killed on
the State line, and a man in the edge of McNairy.------ So
much for one day of sport."
# 31. 1871.
Unusual Story.
Wild Men
(News Article) Date: 1871-05-04; Paper: Weekly Eastern Argus
(Maine);This entire product and/or portions thereof are
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Society. 2004.page 1
....
Tennessee, however, has the champion wild man. The Jackson
Whig of the 23th inst. says:
We learn
that between Sobby and Crainsville, on what is called Piney,
in McNairy county, a strange and frightful being has been
observed for several weeks. He is said to be seven feet
high, and possessed of great muscular power. His eyes are
unusually large, and fiery red; his hair hangs in a tangled
and matted mass of jet below his waist, and his beard
reaches below his middle. His entire body is covered with
hair, and his whole aspect is most frightful. He shuns the
sight of men, but approaches with wild and horrid screams of
delight every woman who is unaccompanied by a man. He
sometimes with great caution approaches houses; and should
he see a man he runs away with astonishing swiftness,
leaping the tallest fences with the ease of a deer, defying
alike the pursuit of men and dogs. He has frightened several
women by attempting to carry them off as well as by his
horrid aspect, and the whole country around Sobby is in
consternation. The citizens are now scouring the woods, and
are determined either to capture or drive off the monster
(Margaret's
note: I think these places referred to are actually in
Hardeman County rather than McNairy)
# 32. 1855.
Post Roads
No Headline
(Legislative) Date: 1855-02-24; Paper: Texas State Gazette
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page supplement # 1
By Authority
Laws of the
United States
Passed at
the Frist Session of the Thirty-third Congress
[Public. No.
72]
Tennessee
continued. (typed in small letters)
From
gainsboro by rock mount, highland, bagdad and pleasant
shade, to dixon's springs; from gallatin to springfield, via
cross plains; from gallatin to scottsville, ky., via
bledsoe's creek; from gallatin to elkton, ky., via cross
plains, keysburg an allenville; from gallatin to
murfreesboro's, via lebanon; from greenville by camp creek,
horse creek and broylesville, to rheatown; from greenville
by timber ridge, little chucky, warrensburg, chucky bend,
soddyville and leadvale, to dandridge; from greenville by
limestone springs, paint rock, warmsprings, n.c., lapland
and french broad, to ashville; from hardinsville to tipton
c.h., via mcnairy c.h., and hardeman c.h.; from handinsville
to florence, ala; from harrison to cottonport, via blue
spring; from harrison to pikeville, via hinson's; from
harrison to chattanooga; from harrison by walden's ridge.
hinson's and stephen's chapped, to fillmore; from harrison
by hinson's to pikeville; from hermitage by swallow bluff,
on the tennessee river, to savannah; from huntingdon by
mclemoresville, shady grove, waterford, trenton, gibson's
wells's, quincy, eageville, cherryville and rusk, to
brownsville; from huntingdon by roan's creek, red mound,
lexington, middle fork, jack's creek and anderson's store,
to purdy; from huntingdon by hico, caledonia, fleming's
christmasville, pillowville and winston, to dresden; from
huntingdon by terry (?ferry), south carroll, spring creek,
jackson, medon, bolivar, van buren and williams' store, to
la grange; from jacksboro' by huntsville to Jamestown; from
jacksboro by elk gap to williamsburgh;from jacksboro' to
straight fork, buffalo creek, pouch creek and wild cat, ky.,
to whitley court house; from jackson by mfflin, jack's
creek, mud creek and coffee landing, to savannah; from
jackson by andrew's chapel, denmark, black oak grove,
fayette corner, championville, pierce and somerville, to
moscow from jackson by mount pinson (?piason?) miffln and ?,
to lexington; from jasper to nickajack; from jasper by
dadesville, checksville, looney's creek, coop's creek and
mount airy, to fillmore; from joneboro to ash c.h.., .....
(I skip a lot here)
from trenton,
via bluff springs, hope hill, lavinia, south carroll,
spain's and lessenberry;s to lexington; from treton by
shiloh and south gibson, to jackson; from troy by red foot
and silver top, to compromise, ky., from trundle's cross
roads by ellejay, to marysville; from washington by smith's
cross roads and sail creek, to soddy; from washington to
orme's store; from waynesboro by houston, pleasant valley
and lowryville, to eagle mills; from waynesboro' by factor's
fork, west point, wayland springs, florence, ala.,
westmoreland, cypress inn and victory, to waynesboro from
waynesboro' by sorby, smith's fork, eagleside, savannah,
adamsville, purdy, rose creek, crainsville, bolivar, van
buren and william's store to la grange; from waynesboro; by
clifton hermitage, decaturville, lexington, juno, and cotton
grove, to jackson; from waynesboro' by whitaker's bluff, to
linden; from waynesboro by carrolville, to patrick; ......
Note: I
could not locate the page with the beginning of Tennessee-or
the beginning of the article. This lists the postal routes,
etc. I believe c.h.= court house.
# 33. 1957.
Tornado
Tornadoes in
Dixie Ravage Wide Area (News Article) Date: 1957-04-05;
Paper: Dallas Morning News Historical Archive (c) Copyright,
2003, The Dallas Morning News; Part 1, Page 1
Nashville,
Tenn. (AP). _ Savage tornadoes whipped across Dixie thursday
leaving at least two dead, a hundered or more injured and
scores of homes demolished. Property damage was reported
heavy.
Apparently
breaking out of the southwest, hard hit earlier in the week,
the tornadoes lashed at several Mississippi communities,
struck into west and north Alabama, roared into Kentucky and
Tennessee before moving eastward and northward toward the
Atlantic.
Mississippi
bore the brunt of an early morning storm, which killed
Louisa Jones, 62-year-old negro who had fled to the shelter
of a school bus near Louin. the body of Leland Newsom, about
30, was found in his automobile after it was blown into
flood waters near New Hebron, in south Central Mississippi.
At least 89
persons were reported injured in Mississippi......
The storem
veered off into Tennessee, already struck by a small
tornaldo, at Nashville Wednesday night, and hit half a dozen
more communities. The Red Cross said eight houses, a cotton
gin, service station and grocery were destroyed in and
around the southwestern Tennessee communities of Guys,
Chewalla, ramer and Eastview. Four members of the Otha Burns
family at Guys were injured.
Selmer and
Chesterfield in the Jackson area of West Tennessee suffered
property damages in a twister which hit about 2 a.m. in a
driving rainstorm. Two houses were destroyed but no one was
injured.
Advance
tornado warnings may have averted some deaths or injuries.
Several
small tornadoes blew off roofs, smashed barns and damaged
other buildings in north and west Alabama. Here again, heavy
rains followed the storms and flooded small streams and some
highways.
.......
Margaret
Tull
margaretann1858@yahoo.com
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