Source: Sumner County Archives
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County Court Minutes, page 557
December Term 1875
©2001
Ordered by the court that Robt F. Payne be _ granted Guardianship of Dickerson Austin a person of unsound mind. Thereupon said Robt F. Payne together with his securities J. F. Appling and J. R. Culbreath appeared in open court and entered into and acknowledged their bond to the State of Tennessee in the penal sum of five hundred dollars constituted as the law directs.
It is further ordered by the Court that Robt Payne the Guardian make a settlement with Wm Payne as to the effects - belonging to Dickerson Austin that went into his hands and after crediting the said Wm Payne with all necessary and proper disbursements receive from him the balance found in his hands.