“Obion County Court Clerk Minutes”
(ANSEARCHIN NEWS Fall 1998. Abstracted by Jane Park Paessler from Tennessee Archives Microfilm
Roll #28)
1 JULY 1850
Page #66
Court appointed James Darnoll overseer on Troy to Dyersburg Road from 8 to 12mile post, with hands to work on road being Washington Wyatt, James Waidrope,
Abner Nall, James Nall, Howell Stroud, James Stroud, Martin Henry, John
Huffstutter, George Huffstutter, Adam Huffstutter, Harvy Wilson, F. Langley, and
William T. Shelton. Benjamin F. Mead was named to replace John Timberman as
overseer on new Dyersburg Road from hill near Thomas Hamilton's to B.F.
McWherter's lane, and to work same hands as before
Page #72
Court appointed Lewis Huffstutter guardian of Abigail, John, and Henry F. Ott,
minors, and he posted $500 bond with John Crockett and Thomas P. Cooper as
securities. John Cloar, Lee Gray, William A. Hord, James Namlin, Hugh Wilson,
Daniel Wilson, and Alfred Howard were appointed to mark a road from Mill Point
Road on a dividing ridge by William Janes', crossing North Reelfoot below mouth
of Taylor's Creek, and crossing Kentucky line at point where road comes in from
Mills Point.
(Ansearchin News, Winter 1998)
2 December 1850
Page #106
William Gleason and 3. M. Taylor, administrators of estate of Nancy Gleason,
dec'd, returned estate inventory. Court appointed: (1) Lewis Huffstutter, John M.
King, Meredith Carroll, James Stephens, and Thomas P. Cooper commissioners to
lay off one year's support for widow and family of Howell Stroud, dec'd; (2) James
Reeves, J. B. Harper, and Hiram Reeves commissioners to lay off one year's
support for widow and family of William P, Robbinson, dec'd.