From Wayne County. Convicted of Grand Larceny and sentenced to three years from 14 June 1842. Rec’d 15 June 1842. He is 24 years old, 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighs 162 lbs. born and brought up in Wayne County about eight miles from Mount Jasper Furnace and 15 miles northeast of Waynesboro. He has a wife and two children living with her father Jos. Staggs two miles from Mount Jasper Furnace on the waters of 48 Mile Creek. He has two sisters in Hardin County about six miles from Savannah near the road leading to Purdy. One married to a man by the name of Blanton, the other to a man by the man of Brumley. — (Record of Convicts, Rec. Group 25, Vol. 45, p. 162. TSLA)

Fielding Churchwell, age 24, born in Tennessee. Occupation: labourer. Convicted of Grand Larceny by Circuit Court in Wayne County and sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. Received 14 June 1842, discharged 21 Apr 1845. Pardoned under the act of 1836. — (Convict Record, Rec. Group 25, Ledger 86: 534. TSLA)

Submitted by Edgar D. Byler, III