Partial Index

Chancery & Circuit Court

Loose Papers

 

Lauderdale County, Tennessee

 

1851 - 1919

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circuit Court Loose Papers

 

1839 Taylor, Mathews, Venable vs. Nixon

1842 State vs. William Lunsford, failure to keep road in repair

1851 Robert S. Hall vs. Aires Lunsford & H. R. Osteen

1852 Frederick R. Smith & Martha P. Smith vs. Citizen Byrn

1852 State vs. Arias D. Lunsford

        Selling Liquor on Sunday

1852 State of Tenn. vs. Hardy Osteen & Aries D. Lunsford

        Racing on Public Road

1852 Raleigh Smith vs. Patrick H. Pugh

1853 State vs. Osteen & Lunsford & Evans

     1853 State vs. Aries Lunsford

1853 State vs. Jessie B. Jennings, William Jennings & Jeremiah Norris

1853 State vs. Aris D. or Avery D. Lunsford

1853 Grand Jury, Elzey Taylor, Victim

        To be summoned: H. R. Osteen, Rezin Byrne, Elsey Taylor

1853 Hardy R. & Elizabeth Osteen vs. Isaac & Mary Moore

        June 7, 1853 – Catherine Lunsford had a male child 01-Sep-1853

which died next day. John Moore, son of defendants, reputed father of baby. Summons issued 12-Sep-1853. Elizabeth Osteen accused of killing the child

1854 Hinkle vs. Osteen & Lunsford

        I. N. & J. D. Hinkle vs. H. R. Osteen & A. D. Lunsford

1854 Wm H. Fisher & Stephen Lunsford

        To appear before Grand Jury 07-Oct-1854

1854 State vs. Arthur Totty

        Selling Liquors on Sunday, 03-Oct-1854

1855 Taylor vs. William Lunsford

        Elzy Taylor, next of friend of Duncan Taylor vs. Wm Lunsford

        Summoned as witness; Reason D. Byrn and Isaac Moore

        Summoned as witness; B. A. Sinclair & Fayette Ryan

        Hardy R. Osteen, Security on defendant appeal bond

1858 Davis vs. Arias D. Lunsford

        William H. Davis vs. Arias D. Lunsford

1867 State vs. Benj. S. Lunsford

        Disorderly Conduct in Tavern of Thomas Ferguson

1867 State vs. Bennet S. Lunsford

        Plea for Abatement

1868 Emily J. Lunsford vs. H. H. Lunsford

1870 State vs. Green & Allison Lunsford, et al

State of Tenn. Vs. Green Lunsford, Napoleon Thompson, Allison Lunsford, late Frederick Maness

1871 State vs. A. E. Lunsford

1872 State vs. G. W. Lunsford

1874 Glass vs. A. E. Lunsford & G. W. Lunsford

1882 William Lunsford vs. O. H. P. Piper

1897 State vs. Allison Lunsford et al

State vs. Allison Lunsford, Mrs. Anna Lunsford, Green Burnes & wife, Sahra Burnes, Luke Jones, Mrs. Addie Ruffin, Al Underwood, for unlawful cutting of timber.

1901 J. W. Lunsford vs. Herbert Johnson

1912 Ferguson

1914 W. F. Lunsford vs. I. C. R. R.

        Train killed horse

1919 State vs. Dee Chipman

1919 State vs. Verser Lunsford

Dec 1919 – Summoned Bob Moore, north of Ripley on J. I. Moore’s place, on 11-Dec-1919 to testify in half of defendant, Verser Lunsford, for carrying a pistol

 


Chancery Court Loose Papers

 

 

1859    Osteen (A-24)

1859 Nixon (A-29, D-38, D-177, D-213)

1861 Nixon (A-53)

1866 Nixon (A-71)

1866 Bennett Lunsford vs. A. J. Norris, et al

1873 E. D. Lunsford vs. A. E. Lunsford

April 4, 1873 - E. D. Lunsford, Bill of Divorce from A. E. Lunsford

1875 Wm Lunsford, et al vs. J. W. Jarrett, et al (B-81)

        Jarrett was adm. of S. A. Thompson

1876 Osteen (B-108)

1876 Wm Lunsford vs. H. C. Lunsford, et al (B-151)

1877 Nixon (B-177)

1877 W. C. Crook, et al vs. A. E. Lunsford & wife

1878 Wm Lunsford vs. Hiram C. Keller (C-8)

1879 William Lunsford, et al vs. J. W. Lackey, et al (C-22), File Missing

1879 Harrison Lunsford Estate

1891 G. C. Lunsford vs. J. W. Livingston (A-296)

1892 G. C. Lunsford vs. James Lunsford (D-336)

1888 A. R. Lunsford vs. Samuel Osteen

1895 G. C. Lunsford et al, vs. J. W. Byrn, adm et al (E-24)

        J. W. Byrn, adm of Jno. A. Stewart, dec’d

1899 R. A. Lunsford, et al, vs. Mrs. Josie S. Lunsford, et al (E-155)

        Complainants were from Crockett County

1909 T. L. Johnston vs. Anna Lunsford, Administrix

1914 Susie Lunsford vs. Verser Lunsford, Divorce, Book I-Page 77

1921 S. L. Robison & wife vs. Verser Lunsford

1866 Bennett Lunsford vs. A. J. Norris, et al

1879 Harrison Lunsford Estate

1888 A. R. Lunsford vs. Samuel Osteen

1898 Mrs. M. L. Lunsford vs. C. B. Lunsford, et al

        Petition for Homestead & Dower, Heirs of G. C. Lunsford named

1908 Mrs. Anna Lunsford vs. Walter & Verser Lunsford

(Homestead & Dower)

 

 

County Court Loose Papers

 

 

1851 Robert Hall vs. Aris Lunsford & H. Osteen

1852 William Lunsford vs. Carey Pope, et al, petition to partition land

1852    Nixon

1854 Robert Hall vs. Aris Lunsford & H. Osteen

1858 Arias Lunsford vs. Wm. Davis

1865 Carson vs. A. D. Lunsford (Oldham)

1866    Lunsford

1879    Lunsford

1885 Osteen

1888    Osteen

1888    Nixon

1893    Lunsford

1898 Lunsford

1908    Lunsford

1919    Nixon

1925 Grand Jury Pa Aug 12th – Wyatt Lunsford

1931 Osteen

 

 

               

 


 

 

Source: Lauderdale County Circuit and Chancery Court Records, Loose Papers

Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee

Indexed by Bettie Davis

 

 

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