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April Term 1892 pages 33 and 37
A report of the Poor Commissioners was here read in open Court and ordered filed.
The following accounts having been filed for allowance
and having been examined and approved as the law directs by the proper Committee
are hereby ordered paid a majority of the Justices present voting therefor
viz-
Also the following Pauper Appropriations are allowed for the ensuing
quarter.
Mrs. Janies Walker Pauper Outside $15.00
Harbert Honeycutt Pauper Outside $10.00
Ramisey Childress Pauper Outside $ 5.00
Martin Link Pauper Coffin $ 3.00
J. C. Clendening Pauper Coffin $ 3.00M
W. R. Anglea Pauper Coffins (listed 7 coffins at $3.00 each, no names for
paupers)
J. L. Gray Pauper Coffins (listed 2 coffins at $3.00 each, no names for
paupers)
James Tuttle Caring for Thos Tuttle Jany &
Feby $15.00
P. P. Dismkes Poor House Supplies $4.05
R. G. Gillespie Poor House Supplies $6.95
W. H. Hassell Poor House Laborer $14.00
M. A. Dennis Poor House Laborer $20.50
T. P. Dennis Poor House Supt. $63.25
J. D. Roberts Poor House Laborer $8.33
M. J. Hassell Poor House Coms $16.15
Dr. T. H. Hassell Poor House Physician $20.85
A. M. Blue Supplies Poor House $7.00
R. Beeber Poor House Supplies 1.40
T. H. King Pauper Coffins (7 listed at 3.00
each with no pauper names listed)
Columbus File Col Pauper Coffin 3.00
April Term, 1892, page 53
Ordered by the Court that W.E. Pitt br and he is allowed Fifteen Dollars
($15.00) for caring for Mrs. Jane Young a pauper.
Poor House Records
October Term 1892 page 102
The report of the "Commissioners of the Poor" for the
year 1892 was read in open court and ordered entered upon these minutes and
is in words and figures as follows
We the undersigned Commissioners of the Poor beg leave to submit the following
report for the year ending Sept. 30th 1892.
Inmates, White
Arch Barton
Age 95
Enos Harper Age
73
Susan May
Age 61
Tom Glover
Idiotic Age 56
James Brum Idiotic
Age 23
Fanny Hessen Idiotic Age
46
Rachael Boyd Age 72
Jane May
Age 36
Susan Aldridge Age 11
Margaret Morgan Age 75
Lizzie Anderson Age 18
Thomas May Aged 39
Fanny May Age
4
Tom Tuttle
Age 42
Francis Anderson Age 23
Colored Inmates
Peter Baber
Age 103
Dick Chambers Age 72
Perry Mathes Age 76
Clarisa Patterson Age 57
Sally Meador Age 80
Wm. Slaughter Aged 23
Joel Turner Age 80
Amantha Cothran Age 78
Jordan Meadors Age 70
Admitted during the year Whites 15
Blacks 4
Left during the year Whites 16 Colored 2
Died during the year 3
Stock on the farm 1 pr mules, 8 milk cows 11 yearlings,
27 sheep, 25 hogs, 39 shoats, all in good condition. The crop of wheat, 166
Bushels, 2000 binds of oats 12 tons Hay, about 30 acres of corn 7 bbls per
acre Irish potatoes 30 bu. acre of late potatoes, acre of sweet potatoes
acre of turnips, 8 bu onions, 3 Bu Peas, 1 Bu Beans, 4 bbs Molasses, 130
lbs Lard, Wagon & harness, farming tools sufficient for the farm, the
fencing and farm in good condition. Produce sold from the farm $85.34.
Paid Commissioner W. F. Clendening $25.65
Paid Commissioner Leroy Hoffman $24.40
Paid Commissioner M. J. Hassell $21.50
Paid out for the use of the farm 13.79
$85.34
We employed T. P. Dennis Superintendant for the year for $230.00 he to make
a hand on the farm and all other duties pertaining to the office, he was
to furnish two horses to be used on the farm, he was to keep two milk cows
to be used for his family and also for the inmates we hired W. H. Hassell
for $15.00 per month to work on the farm. All of which is most respectfully
submitted.
M. J. Hassell
W. F. Clendening Comis.
Leroy Hoffman
October Term, 1892, page 107
F. W. Wright having received a majority of the votes of the Justices present is duly elected Commissioner of the Poor for ensuing term of three years.
Return to Sumner County Poorhouse Index
Genealogist's Companion to Research in Sumner County, Tennessee
