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Miscellaneous McNairy County New Articles #21-33
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 thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American 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 This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 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 This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004. 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 This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004. 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.
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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 are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004. page 3
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 copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian 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 This entire product and/or portions thereof are copyrighted by NewsBank and/or the American Antiquarian Society. 2004; 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.
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