From Family Findings
Lake County, Tennessee Centennial Edition
Vol. II, No. 4, October 1970, p. 148
Copyright, Mid-West Tennessee Genealogical Society, 1970
Appears on this web site by permission

ATHENEUM HALL

The first County Court of Lake County, Tennessee, was held in the Atheneum Hall in Tiptonville. In October 1871 the County voted to buy the building from the Atheneum Society. Below is a table of stockholders and their shares, copied from Minute Book #1 by Abigail Hyde.

James C. Harris 50
W. H. Adams 20
R. S. Bradford 20
P. G. Hines 20
L. Donaldson 10
D. L. Tipton 20
Clark T. Jones 20
Rivers Donaldson 20
James Cronan 30
Je D. Davis 30
W. B. Hutchinson 20
M. Donaldson 10
Henry Walker 20
J. R. Watson 20

George Nevill 20
W. E. Bastel 40
A. J. Newgent 20
Stephen Burrus 40
C. W. Nevill 20
W. H. Anderson 50
A. L. Hines 20
James Pallack 20
Samuel Frey 40
Henry Brady 20
J. M. Alexander 30
W. H. Shelton 20
Wm. Mobley 50

Reece Long 20
Geo. W. Shaw 20
E. E. Westbrook 50
T. C. Mooring 20
P. Davis 20
W. T. Price 20
David H______ ? 10
Smith Newton 20
W. J. Wynn 30
J. H. Tipton 40
Chas. A. Lewis 20
R. B. Lane 30
Wm. Brady 10
W. D..Meriweather 20

 

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