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Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications

Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications

Tennessee, Confederate Pension Applications, Soldiers and Widows, 1891-1965 Lincoln County, Tennessee James L Bishop Gerge W Hopper Samuel McWhorter W M McWhorter John Dotson J P Dollar Newton Franklin Harris J H Arnett J H Arnett W P Ledford George J Stonebreaker R T Turner Robert T Turner Leonard Henley Twitty James W Turner Alexander C Smith B F Smith Benjamin W Smith James Marion Wells J M Wells J C Wells Stephen P Wiles James D Scott James Nathaniel…

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Ansearchin News in Lincoln County

Ansearchin News in Lincoln County

Ansearchin’ News Our young friend and occasional contributor, T. W. Bullock Esq., has returned after ruralizing nearly two weeks out in Marshall, Bedford, and Lincoln counties, looking about as usual. He reports all right in these counties. Everybody is at work, wing wheat, picking cotton, and gathering in the crops. He reports all young folks gay and lively and marrying. He was perfectly delighted with the concert given by young ladies at Fayetteville for the purpose of repairing their churches….

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Lincoln County Courthouse

Lincoln County Courthouse

Lincoln County Register Of Deeds P.O. Box 614 Lincoln County Courthouse Fayetteville TN 37334 Telephone: (931) 433-5366 Lincoln County Clerk, 112 Main Street South Fayetteville, TN 37334 Telephone: (931) 433-2454  

Letter From Philip Cruse to Nephew

Letter From Philip Cruse to Nephew

  See The Fine Looking Women Here Fayetteville ~ 1834 Copyright © 1998, Julie Hampton Ganis. All Rights Reserved. From Philip Cruse to his nephew, Allison Stirewalt ~ 1834 LINCOLN TN 2 Folded letter sheet, stampless. Circular postmark: Fayetteville, Te Aug 28 Addressee: Allison Stirewalt, North Carolina Rowan County, Salisbury P. Office Tennessee Lincoln County August the 25th 1834 Dear Nephew I take the pleasure of writing to you again to inform you that I received your letter you wrote to me some…

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Letter From E. Hill to Daughter

Letter From E. Hill to Daughter

A Bell Tolls in Fayetteville ~ 1848 Copyright © 1997, Frederick Smoot. All Rights Reserved. From Ebenezer Hill to his daughter, Emily Ann Hill ~ 1848 LINCOLN TN 1. Red circular postmark: Fayetteville, Tenn Jan 16, and blue manuscript rate Paid 10 Addressee: Miss Emily Ann Hill, Care of Mr. B. W. Merriam, 130 Chatham, New York. At Home. January 15, 1848 My Daughter It is rather to gratify your Mother than because I have anything to write, that I…

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Census

Census

The US censuses have been taken since 1790 and are available to the public up to 1930. Tennessee was not a state in 1790 and Lincoln County was Indian Territory. The 1800 and 1810 censuses of the US were destroyed by the British in the War of 1812. The 1890 census of the US was accidentally burned in 1923 at the Commerce Dept. 1820 Original manuscript at the National Archives (Washington DC) Microfilm of original (copies of which are at…

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USGENWEB ARCHIVES

USGENWEB ARCHIVES

The USGenWeb Archives stores original source materials in online digital format for free downloading. Check out the Lincoln County Table of Contents. See what is available state by state: at the Archives Search the whole archives:    National Search Go to TNGenWeb Go to USGenWeb

Mulberry School in Lincoln County

Mulberry School in Lincoln County

From: johnshutt [at] vallnet [dot] com (John L. Shutt) To: ‘George Waller’ <hbladm1 [at] uconnvm [dot] uconn [dot] edu> Subject: Mulberry Institute Date sent: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 03:44:21 -0600 Dear George, Better late than never! On December 21, Edward English Smith wrote wanting to know how he might obtain his grandfather’s records from Mulberry Prep School. I can’t answer his question, but I did come across an article in the “Fayetteville Observer” of 19 March 1891 titled “A Noted…

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Legal Executions

Legal Executions

May 30, 1907 Fayetteville Observer Legal Hangings in Lincoln County The first legal execution occurred in Lincoln County in 1829. A white shoemaker, Samuel McClure killed a blacksmith, Edward McBride. He was indicted at the September term, 1828, of the Circuit Court, and after conviction appealed to the Supreme Court which affirmed the decision at the January term, 1829. The hanging took place a short distance west of the stone bridge. We are informed by Mr. W. B. Lamb that…

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THE GOWEN PAPERS

THE GOWEN PAPERS

Notes copied from a paper lent by Albyne Gowen Blythe, wife of Rees Blythe, Fullerton, California. Rees is a grandson of James Blythe, brother of my grandfather, Joseph Blythe. Albyne’s brother, Tom Gowen, had the complete group of notes duplicated for Albyne. I have copied only those parts applying to the Crocketts and the Blythes and a few excerpts which reflect the early times. What a memory for people he had! Ruth Blythe Walker Genealogy (circa 1964) ____________________________________________________ Notes and…

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