{"id":1776,"date":"2021-08-27T20:48:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T20:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2021-08-27T20:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T20:48:05","slug":"overton-county-miscellaneous-court-records-1852-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/overton-county-miscellaneous-court-records-1852-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"Overton County Miscellaneous Court Records, 1852-1862"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contributed by Overton County Historical Society<\/em><\/p>\n

Deaths<\/h2>\n

TAYLOR, Moses died intestate 5 July 1852. John TAYLOR, admr.<\/p>\n

FANCHER, James filed August 1853<\/p>\n

COPELAND, William, no will. Jefferson COPELAND and Mark COPELAND appointed administrators.<\/p>\n

RAY, Benjamin B, filed December 1852. Catherine RAY, widow. Benjamin RAY owned 6 slaves. Heirs, John M. RAY and C.P. HAMPTON and wife, Nancy.<\/p>\n

CHOWNING, W.B. filed January 1853.<\/p>\n

JACKSON, John B. filed December 1852.<\/p>\n

CAPPS, Doak filed November 1862. Lucinda CAPPS, dower.<\/p>\n

STEPHENS, William filed December 1862. Parthena STEPHENS, widow.<\/p>\n

COPELAND, Jefferson filed February 2, 1863. Mark COPELAND, admr.<\/p>\n

REEVES, David P. filed August 1862. Mary J. REEVES, widow.<\/p>\n

MARTIN, Milton filed August 1862.<\/p>\n

HUDDLESTON, S. W. filed September 1862.<\/p>\n

LEE, Alexander filed September 1862.<\/p>\n

COPE, Thomas 24 November 1852. Children: James A. COPE and Valentine SUBLETT and wife, Rebecca.<\/p>\n

JOHNSON, Jeffrey filed April 1853. Children: Nancy Jane JOHNSON and Joshua WAITS (at law).<\/p>\n

NASH, W.W. filed March 1853.<\/p>\n

CHANDLER, William filed April 1853. No will.<\/p>\n

FLEMING, William filed June 1853. Polly FLEMING, widow.<\/p>\n

GREEN, William filed May 1853.<\/p>\n

GALTING, David filed May 1853.<\/p>\n

ARMSTRONG, Hugh F. died 1 June 1848, filed October 1850. Delilah ARMSTRONG, widow. Children: Amanda (married Thomas PAYNE), and minors: Frances, Melvina, Nancy, Elizabeth, Landen, William T. Thomas and Amanda PAYNE were appointed guardians of minor children.<\/p>\n

FINLEY, Thomas Milton filed June 1851. Letitia, widow.<\/p>\n

HANCOCK, James W. filed June 1851.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL, Isaiah filed October 1850. Heirs: Asa LYNN and wife, Polly; William TINSLEY and wife, Sally; William A. WILLIAMSON and wife, Polly; Nancy Mitchel. Minors: Permelia, Jane and Denton.<\/p>\n

WILSON, Reuben filed November 1862. Lawrence MATTHEWS, Thomas MAXWELL, George MCGHER (?), Stephen WELLS are to lay off 1 years maintenance to Martha WILSON, widow. Manor house and 195 acres on Roaring River. Minor children: William, Malvina, Alzada, Mary Ann, John, Margaret, Alexander, Overton, Thomas, Rebecca Elizabeth and Martha Jane.<\/p>\n

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Bastardy<\/h2>\n

Nancy J. GAVIS vs William DALE filed July 1852. Ordered to pay $90.00.<\/p>\n

Surrena STOVER vs William PARROTT filed August 1852. Ordered to pay $20.00 by 2nd August 1853, $10.00 by 2 August 1854 and $5.00 by 2 August 1855.<\/p>\n

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Murder<\/h2>\n

William REYNOLDS and Hanah REYNOLDS filed February 1852. Charged with 27 January 1849 murder of Jeremiah GRAY. Witnesses: Green COMBS, Nelson HOWARD, Marah ROBBINS, Sylvester ROBBINS, Henry B. CRAVENS, Richard LEE, Sally LEE, Westley SELLS, Henry NATIONS, Jordon SHOEMAKE, John SMITH, Elizabeth SMITH, Catherine CRAVENS. NOT GUILTY.<\/p>\n

Rebecca GAMEWELL filed June 1850. Charged with killing her newborn, bastard female. NOT GUILTY.<\/p>\n

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Divorces<\/h2>\n

Mary M. BILBREY vs Isham M. BILBREY filed 2 Feb 1852. Married in Overton Co, TN 4 Aug 1850. Adultery with Aliza SIMPSON.<\/p>\n

Abner ALLRED vs Jane ALLRED filed June 1852. Married 4 years ago in Overton Co., TN. Charges of adultery.<\/p>\n

Thomas I. CATE vs Mary CATE filed 31 May 1852. Married 9 November 1830 in McMinn Co., TN. Children but not named. Charged with uncontrollable temper and ungentlemanly language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contributed by Overton County Historical Society Deaths TAYLOR, Moses died intestate 5 July 1852. John TAYLOR, admr. FANCHER, James filed August 1853 COPELAND, William, no will. Jefferson COPELAND and Mark COPELAND appointed administrators. RAY, Benjamin B, filed December 1852. Catherine …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}