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Transcribed by Jan Johnson
Barnes
©1999
Source:
TSL&A County Clerk Minutes Roll #55
County Clerk Minutes, pages 437, 438, 6, 7
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October Term 1894, page 437
The report of the Commissioners of the Poor was read
in open Court and ordered spread upon the Minutes of this Court and which
in words and figures is as follows,
To the Hon County Court of Sumner County, we the Poor House Commissioners
of said County beg leave to make this our report for the year ending the
30th day of September, 1894.
Inmates at the County farm
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White 19
Enos Harper age
77 feeble
Thomas Glover age 57
idiot
James Brumley age 25
idiot
Malinda Griffin age 80
poverty
Martha Roberts age 75
poverty
Susan May
age 65 idiot
Francis Hessen age 50
poverty
Margaret Smith age 48
poverty
Willie Smith
age 3 poverty
Francis Adson age 26
poverty
Lizzie Adson
age 3 poverty
Matilda May age
43 poverty
Jesse McCloud age 6
poverty
Lilly Griffin
age 12 poverty
John May
age 74 poverty
Axom Lawrence age 73
poverty
Case Johnson age 2
poverty
Michael Johnson age 20 months
- poverty
Colored
Matilda Corthran age
80 poverty
Perry Mathews age 77
poverty
Dick Chambers age 74
idiot
Sally Meadors age 82
poverty
Clarissa Patterson age 49
idiot
Milton Young age 28
idiot
Jacob Cotton age
94 poverty
Sally Cotton age
79 poverty
Stock on County farm in 1894
Sheep 18, Milck cows 4, Calves 4, Yearlings 7 Fatering Hogs 28, Pigs 20,
Three mules, Bacon 450 lbs. Lard 300 lbs. Peas 3 Bushels, Onions 15 Bushels,
Wheat 248 Bushels, Hay 20 Tons, One half acre in Sweet potatoes, One &
one half acre in irish potatoes, 500 Bundles of oats, one two horse wagon
and harness, and plenty of farming tools on the farm to answer all purposes
for farming, all of the inmates are well cared for by T. P. Dennis the
Superintendent of said farm, one hundred & fifty loads of wood, Deaths
at the county farm in Eleven months 7, white and 4 colored in all 11. Return
to you the office entrusted to our keeping we hope you will find our record
unblemished by intentional wrong and one which will meet the approval of
the Court and the people.
W. F. Clendening
T. W. Wright Comsars.
M.J. Hassell having this day received the majority of votes cast of the Justices present and named in the caption was duly elected Commissioner of the Poor for ensuing term vice Leroy Hoffman expired.
July Term, 1895, Page 6
Whereas it has pleased almighty God to call from the walks of this life T. P. Dennis who was as
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Superintendent of the Poor House, a faithful honest upright and kind official and servant who was loved and respected by all the inmates of said assylum, as well as all his friends and acquaintences.
Therefore resolved that this Court tender to his bereaved family and friends our deepest sympathy and condolences in this their hour of trouble that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this Court and a copy of same be furnished the family by the Chairman & Clerk of this Court
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