Index, Cases Sevier County
Chancery Court, 1840-
No. 9: Thomas C. Brabson, Exec. Reps J. Davis, dec d., vs. Widow & Heirs, 24:
Sept.
1855. (Will of Reps J. Davis, made 14 Jan. 1853)
No.10: W. M. Bryan, Adm. , vs. Creditors & Heirs, Spencer C . Gist, dec'd 4
Dec. 1848
No. 13: Bank of Tennessee vs.
John Ellis & R. H. Hynds 19 July 1852
No. 16: Union, Bank vs. R.J. West & C. Cowan, 14 April 1846( Champion Cowan
data)
No. 20: Wm. Burns To. Benj. Tipton & Asa Delozier 13 Sept. 1851 (debt)
No. 20:Wesley Huffaker, John Chandler vs. Ann Shahan of et al, 3 Aug. 1855
(James Shahan dec'd., Walker County, Ga. , 1854; wife & Heirs)
No. 21:T. C. Brabson & Bros. vs. Wm. G. Pickens, 3 Dec. 1861 (debt)
No. 22 Henry S. Catlett et al vs.. A. Lawson Jr., et al, 4 Feb. 1856 (Will of
Anthony Lawson 12 Mar. 1839; latter's Heirs)
No. 23: Bank of Tennessee vs. Joshua Cate & others, 11 April 1854 (debt)
No. 24 Wm. R. Caswell assignee vs. Wilson Duggan, 4 April 1844 (debt)
No. 25:Mary E.. Trundle by next Friend, vs. Daniel L. Trundle 9 March 1846
No. 26: James R. Brazelton vs. C.A. Clementson & others, 20 Dec. 1853 (debt)
No. 27:Joseph Snapp vs. John Cannon 11 March 1843 (debt)
No � 28:Aaron Shamblin vs. Joseph Delozier 20 July 1859 (Injunction)
No. 29: John Cunningham vs. Saml. Pride, James B. Sharp, Execs., John Sharp,
dec'd 19 Jan. 1816 (J. G. M. Ramsey's Deposition as Physician for sd. Cunningham
insane Man)
No . 30: John McMahan vs. Wellington, Samuel & Issac McMahan 9 April 1850 (debt)
No. 31: Calvin
Clinton Mary Clinton vs. in. Smith &
others, 25 Oct. 185 (Will of Francis
Bodine, made 12 Sept. 1836)
No. 33:W.C. Murphy vs.
Joseph, Bailey, T. J. Bradford & others, 12 April 1865 (debt)
No.
37 John
McNutt vs. S.W. Inman 2 Aug.. 1850
(Injunction, regarding sick Negro purchased by sd.
McNutt from ad. Imam)
No. 38: Isham Hodges vs. Wm.
Hodges Ads. , & others, 1 Feb. 1853 (Estate of
Edmond Hodges Sr. )
No. 39: James M. Rogers vs.
Richard Randles, James Randles a others, 9 Aug. 1849 (debt)
No. 40: Wm. Mattox vs. Sarah
Headrick & others, 21 duly 11358 ( Sd.. Mattox 77 yrs.
old in 1856; m. Sarah Headrick in latter year)
No. 41: Petition for Dower by
Mary McCroskey 10 Dec. 1846 (Sd. Mary, widow of
Robert McCroskey, dec'd., Feb. 1846; she dau. of John Sharp; heirs of sd.
Mary & Robt. McCroskey)
No. 42:John Walker vs. Cowan
& Dickinson & Co., 9 Feb. 1855 ( debt )
No. 43: James W. Ellis et al
vs. S.W. Handles et al, April Term, 1877
No. 45: Saml. Wallace & Co.
vs. Bailey & Rogers & others, 2 Nov. 1848 (Injunction)
No. 46: Tolivar Weeks vs.
Lucinda Weeks 13 Feb. 1855 (Divorce)
No. 47: Ahas Ellis vs. John
Walker, Adm. Phillip Mock, dec`d. , 26 Sept. 1851
No . 48: Petition of Wm.
Porter ac Ann B. Patton is Sell Land, 9 Dec. 1846
Ann B, Patton dau. Wm. Porter & wife, Frances Sharp, sister of John
Sharp; sd. Ann, wife of Issacs N. Patton their heirs)
No. 49: Robt. Bales vs.
Joseph Bailey, Joseph Housley & James M. Housley 30 Dec. 1864 ( attachment )
No. 50 Serena Brown vs. James
C. Brown 27 Nov. 1865 (divorce)
No. 52: A. Lawson Jr. vs.
John T. Trotter & Wm. Howell, 22 March 1856
No. 54: Edmond Hodges vs.
James W. Campbell, 7 June 1847
No. 55: Wilson Duggan, John
Ellis vs. Wilson P. Roberts & others, 13 April 1843
No. 56: Saml. W . Randles
vs. George P. Huffaker & James W . Ellis, 6 Sept. 1847
No. 58: A. Lawson Jr. vs.
Gideon M. Hazen, 3 Dec. 1842 (Debt; Hazen & Smodley,
Knox County firm )
No. 60: Martha R West vs.
Wm. West, 16 Nov. 1859 (divorce)
No.
61 G.W. Randles, Wm. Randles Sr., Ed. Hodges & others vs. John Howard & A.
Lawson Sr., 6 Sept. 1841 (Sd. Howard elected Sheriff Sevier County, 1842 )
No. 62: John Walker, Adm.,
Philip Mock, dec'd., 5 Jun 1842 (Will of Robert Wilson,
made 1813; his heirs, also Mock's heirs)
No. 63: John F. Stansberry et
al vs. John Chambers & Jams Shahan, 11 Oct. 1854
(Sd. Stansborry, Adm., John, Smith, Cooke County, Tenn. latter's heirs)
No. 64: Petition for Dower by
Rachel Shields vs. Heirs of Robert. Shio1ds, 24 April 1841
No. 65: Kelsey & Deas vs. Ahaz
Ellis, 31 March 1849 (Kelsey & Deas, business firm in S.C.; debt case)
No. 66: Robt. Sneed & others vs.
Wm. M. Bryan & others, 7 Jan 1854 (Last Will &
Testament Allen Bryan, made 1838; his heirs)
No. 67: Daniel Kerr vs. Sam.
B. Henry & Ellen S. Bryan, 23 Nov. 1854 (Debt; Margaret Henry m. Eppy Lea;
latter died & Allen S . Bryan app. adm. , Estate 1845 )
No. 68: James B. Wells & wife
vs. Wm. Catlett & others, 30 Sept . 1846 (Benj . Catlett Estate; ho owned
Spencer Clack Mill, Cotton Gin and Wool Carding Machine )
No.69: John Irwin
vs. J. P. H. Porter wife & Saml. Pride, 31 Dec. 1844
No. 70: Frances Rambo vs.
John A. Rambo, 24 March 1858 (Frances Rambo, widow of Peter Rambo; dispute over
2 shares in latter's
Estate)
No. 71: Saml. W. Randles,
Joseph M. Hodges, James W. Hodges vs. Saml. Pickens,
28 Jan. 1858 (Sd. Randles m. Viviena Jane Hodges, dau. Edmund Hodges, dec'd.,
1841; latter left Will had 18 children & some named)
No. 72:John M. Weishaupt vs.
Andrew Chambers, 6 March 1862 (Sd. Weishaupt lived in Knox County; sold land is
Sevier, 1857, to sd. Chambers )
No.
73: Mary Jane, Kanatcher vs. Ruben
Kanatcher, 21 Mar. 1860
(divorce)
No. 74: Wm. M. Randles
vs. James W. Ellis,
29 Sept. 1849 (Negro
Sale)
No. 75:
John Kelly F. Petty vs. Saml.
Pickens an Wm., Burns,
22 Dec. 1853
(injunction)
No.76:John
Kerr vs. Jesse Kerr
11 April 1842
(debt)
No. 77:
John L. Reed & others
vs. Wm. Randles Sr. &
other, 4 Aug. 1846 (debt)
No. 78:Wm. P. Burns, L.
W. Burns et al vs. Henry G. Hodges et al 30 Sept. 1851
(Nuncupative
Will
of Wilson Burns, dec'd.,
20 April
1843)
No. 79:Hiram Bogle & James M.
Black vs. Harvey A.
Keener,
18 Nov. 1861 (attachment)
No. 81: Elizabeth Walker vs. W.
M. Walker, 27 Dec. 1856 (divorce;
Sd. Eliz. Walker,
widow of Wm. Montgomery, dec'd., 1840; she was dau. John Winton, well known
Methodist circuit rider, Roane County, Tenn.)
No. 82
Abijah Fowler, Thos. Fowler vs.
John Feazle, Adm., George Bush, dec'd.;
Abijah Fowler, author of
Fowler's Arithmetic; lived
in Cocke County, Tenn. )
No. 83:Courtney
& Tennent vs. John McMahan et al,
28 march 1853 (Gourtney &
Tennent, S.C. firm; Negro Sale)
No. 84: Margaret J. Etter vs.
L.L. Etter, 11 Feb. 1861 (divorce)
No. 85:
Amanda Henderson & others vs.
John Howard &. others, 14
April 1855
(Heirs of James
Henderson, dec'd he son of Wm, & Mary Henderson)
No. 86. E. Hodges vs.
Wm.
Widner 27 Sept.
1851
(debt).
No.
87: James Hickman vs.
James Underwood, 23 Oct.
1847
(Negro Sale)
No.88: A.
&
C. Delozier vs. Saml. Pickens,
5
Oct. 1850 (Dispute about Dam across
Knob Crook)
No. 89:
Cowan & Dickinson vs. James Randles
& others, 30 Aug. 1849
(debt)
No. 90:
Henry G. Hodges vs. Levin
V. Burns & Lewis Wayland,
3 Oct . 1854
(Wilson Burn's Estate;
his heirs)
No. 91: Saml. Henry vs.
A.
C. Dlozier
& others 25 Sept. 1858 (debt; note
on
Asa Delozier & Benj. Tipton made 1827)
No.
92: Sarah E. Hill, by next friends,
W.F. Nickels, W. T. Hill
vs. James Toomey
& others,
24
Mar. 1859 (data on Sarah Hill)
No. 93: Ruel Birdwell vs. Ann
Trundle &
others, 12 Feb. 1861
(Will
of Wm. Trundle
made 1851; his heirs)
No. 94:
Asa Derrick
vs. Joseph A. Hill,
3
April 1851 (Partnership Cattle deal;
118 head pastured in mountains, Wear's Cove, driven to Market)
No.
95:
Sarah Hodges, guardian, vs. Sam1.
Pickens & others, 17 Mar. 1858
( Wm. Hodges Will, made 1850; heirs of
Edmond Hodges)
No. 96:
William T. Havis vs. Richard
Randles, James Randles, 9 Aug.
1849 (debt)
No. 97:
T. C. Brabson & B. D. Brabson vs. G.
W. Underwood 18 Nov. 1861 (debt)
No. 99: Murphy, McNutt & Co.
vs. M. C. Williams & others, 19 Mar. 1860 (debt)
No. 100: Petition to Sell
Land, George Wade vs.
John McCrosksey & others,
10
Aug. 1843
(James Norton & wife,
their heirs)
No.. 101:John Brabson vs. B.
M. Chandler 14 April
1446 (Partnership in Brabson's
Store, Boyd's Creek
between
sd. Brabson
&
sd. Chandler, 1839)
No . 104: ____________ &
Saml. Pickens, guard.
Martha
Henderson vs. John K. Henderson, 11
Aug.
1848 (divorce &.alimony;
sd. Henderson, insane son of William
&
Mary Henderson; Martha Henderson,
dau. John Catlett)
No. 108: John Smith vs. James
& Richard Randles, Perry Cate & Joshua Cate, 27 Mar. 1850 (debt; Richard Randles
gone to Calif.)
No. 109:
George & James Pollard vs.
James Hamilton,
& others, 1 April 1851
( Depo. of Benj.
"January, " Jefferson Co., Tenn. ;
James Hamilton. went "down river" to Ill.)
No. 111: Joseph Snapp vs.
Isaac A. Miller, 5 may
1843 (Injunction)
No. 112:
Saml. Pickens, Wm.
C. Pickens vs. Sarah M.
Hodges, S.W. Randles &
others,
20 Nov. 1857
(reference to E. Hodges Will, he,
dec'd., 1841)
No . 113: Wm. Mills vs. Heirs
& Legatees of Edward Routh,
14
Sept. 1858 (Sd. Routh's will, made
1844,
filed as Exhibit)
No. 114: George Shultz vs.
Adam. Houk & John Howard, 19 July 1859 (Reference to
Will of Jacob Layman Sr.,
date of his death)
No. 117: John Ellis vs.
M. G. Rogers, 19 Feb.
1847 (M. C. Rogers owned
Spencer Clack's place, East Fork of Pigeon; sold same to John Chandler for debt)
No. 118: P.P. Porter & H. M.
Porter vs. Jane Porter, Saml. Pride & Wm. M.
Bryan, Adm.,
Spencer C. Gist, 28 duly
1849 (Will of David Owens, Blount County, Tenn.;
sd. Will made 1827; also nuncupative Will of James P. H. Porter, made 1846
latter died home near Sevierville,
1846 )
No. 115:Wilson Duggan vs.
Andrew Lawson & John C. Headerson, 12
April
1842
(slave bought at sale Jacob Layman's Estate)
No. 116: Nancy Trotter vs.
Saml. Newman, Saml. Pate & J . T . Trotter, 6 Dec.
1842
(Wm. Trotter's
will,
made 1851)
No. 119: James Toomey vs.
Thomas Atchley & others,
29 Mar.
1859
No. 121: John S. Trotter
&
Henry Headrick & others, 29 Sept.
1843 (Deed of Henry
Headrick
to Peter James & Daniel
Headrick, 1843)
No. 122:
E.W. Nichols vs. Isaac A.
Miller & others, 10 Oct. 1842
No, 123: Abraham McMahan &
wife & others vs. C. Cowan, John Feazle
&
others,
8 Dec. 1843 (Will of
George Bush, made 1837; copies of original
papers sd. Bush's Estate,
Sevier Co. Court, 1837-I840; Abraham McMahan's
wife, niece of George Bush)
No. 124: Alexander Zollinger
vs. George Fose (Fox), 1O April
1845
(Sd. Zollinger,
85
years old, father-in-law
of Willis B. Sharp, East Fork of Pigeon)
No. 125: James Toomey vs.
Charles E. Pate, 3 July
1854
(Randal Hill's
minor heir,
Mariah Hill, wife of Charles E. Pate )
No. 126:
Spencer C. Rogers vs.
John Cannon, 8 Aug. 1843 (M. C. & S.C. Rogers Store,
Sevierville)
No. 127: John, Brabson, Saml.
Pickens, George McCown & I. A . Miller, Trustees, vs.
Thomas
Hill,
James P . H. Porter,
Alexander Preston, John Sharp,
Wm.
Henderson,
Isaac
Love & B. D. Brabson, 8 Dec. 1841
(New Trustees Nancy Academy vs. old Trustees sd. Academy;
Nancy
Academy began as school,
1811,on two lots donated by Isaac Thomas
and James
McMahan; 1st. bldg,
burned 1815 or 1816; new site and brick
bldg.
sold Trustees
by M. C. Rogers on Main
Street,
Sevierville, 1822)
No. 128: Curtis Mill, Adm.,
John Sheilds, dec'd., vs. Heirs of John Sheilds, 2 Jan. 1843
No. 129:
John Underwood vs. Thomas
Underwood & others, 10 May 1866
(John Underwood's Will, made
1854)
No. 132:
Rhoda C. Long & Alice Long
vs. Margaret Franklin &
others, 23 Aug. 1866
& ( James K. Franklin, dec' d. , 1862
his heirs)
No.
138: A. Ellis, P. H.
Toomey & others vs. Curtis Mills,
Adm.,
John Shields, dec'd.,
26 Sept. 1851
No. 139: J. Seaton et al
vs. W. P. Roberts, 10 Dec. 1841 (Trust Deed by Love Bros
1838)
No. 140:Hiram Bogle,
Exec. , Isabella J. Davis, dec'd., vs. Samuel. Pride & others
13 April
1859 (Isabella J. Davis Will, made
1856; she was Isabella J.
McCroskey, dau. of Robert & Mary (Sharp) McCroskey, and first married Hugh
C.
Bogle).
No . 142: John
A. Rambo vs. Jonathan Mize, 2l Mar. 1861 (Heirs of Peter Rambo, one of whom was
grandson, John Rambo, son of Andrew Rambo,
dec'd. Mill Dam
owned
by Mize
across West Fork of Pigeon and dispute about same)
NO. 144:
Stephen Whitehead vs. Wm. S. J. Ford
& David McMahan 2 April 1851
( Sd. Whitehead
had 3
sons in Mexican War, & all died; sd.
Whitehead claimed 160 A.
land, under
Act of Congress,
for each
son)
No.
145:
William K. Love & Brothers vs.
Sheilds, Smith &
Co., 15 Sept. 1840 (Sd. Love
Bros. owned Sweden or Short Mountain Furnace, Little East Fork, & Forges at
Pigeon Forge, West Fork of Pigeon, Sevier County, Tenn.; pig iron & bar iron
produced; sd. Love sold int. in Sweden furnace to M. C. Rogers who entered
partnership with Shields, Smith & Co.; latter firm, owned Brighthope Furnace in
Greene County, Tenn. )
No. 146: Jacob W. Low
vs. Aaron Runyan, 7 Aug.
1841 (Estate of James Walker, dec'd)
No. 149:
Wilson P.
Roberts & J.C. Bogle vs.
Champion Cowan, 13 April
1841 (Hog driving partnership between above parties)
No. 150: W. S. J . Ford vs.
Allen S. Bryan 30 Jan. 1850 ( Store owned
by
above parties at Bryan's Ferry)
No. 153:
A. Lawson Jr. vs. John Tunis &
others, 5 Dec. 1850
No. 155
:
James A. Miller vs. Asa
Derrick 8 Aug. 1854
(Hog Driving partnership
letters from sd. Derrick & others about this business)
No.
157:
Rebecca Smith vs. George Smith
5
Sept. 1859 (Divorce; George Smith,
U.S. soldier in Mexican War; after war went to State Prison for stabbing a man)
No. 159: Petition of
Catherine Rogers for Dower, 13 April 1842 (She, widow of Rev. Elijah Rogers
latter heirs he owned 600
A . land
at mouth of Pigeon, lived hers on
present Arthur McCroskey land)
No. 163: Elizabeth Roberts
vs. Saml. Roberts et al,
6
April
1867
(Sd. Elizabeth, widow of Houston
Roberts; latter's heirs; sd. Houston, son of Wm. Roberts Sr.; latter's heirs)
No. 167: Alexander Preston
vs. Levi Lewis, 28 Sept. 1842 (Levi Lewis, son of Mordecai Lewis, one of
founders of Sevierville; sd. Mordecai Lewis heirs; one was Isaac Love)
No. 169:Albert H. Partin. &
Sarah Partin vs. Frederick Emert, 21 July
1858
(Sarah
Partin,
dau. of Richard Evans)
No. 172: A. Lawson Sr. vs.
Jacob Kifer, 17 April
1845 (Jacob Kifer, Adm.,
Thomas Kifer, dec' d.; sd. Jacob moving to Arkansas). Jacob Kifer owned land
owned by W. A. Sharp, West Fork of Pigeon.
No. 173: George Parrott vs.
Eli Fox & others, 2 Jan. 1866 (Fight between Rebels and Federals, flat creek,
1864;
John Parrott
killed;
Indians & Rebel scouts involved)
No. 174:
Wesley Huffaker, Adm., Estate George
W. Porter, dec'd.,
vs. Heirs,
15
April
1845
(Heirs. of George W. Porter; letter
from latter to Elizabeth Springer, formerly Elizabeth Rogers, wife of Simeon
Perry, dec'd.; then, living in Montgomery County, Texas, 1841; sd. Porter, son
of James P. H. Porter and Nancy Porter )
No. 176:
R. H. Hodsden & others vs. Milton
Sheilds & others.. 29 Mar.
1860
No. 177: B. C. Brabson, J
. L. McNutt & Hiram Bogle, guardian, vs. Edmond Hodges & others, 18 Jan. 1862
No. 178:
Hill, Agnew & Co.
vs. Isaac A. Miller & John
Picket, 15 Aug. 1840
No. 179:Caroline Delozier vs.
A. & C. Delozier, 25 .Mar. 1857 (Asa. Delozier's Will,
made 1856)
No. 180: Daniel Atchley &
James Toomey vs. Samuel Pate,
6
Aug. 1850 (Wm. Canter
berry's Will,
made
1835 )
No. 186: Robert H.
McCroskey vs. W. L. Scruggs et al 13 Oct. 1868 (Sd. McCroskey lived in Atlanta,
Ga.; sd. Scruggs lived same place; latter was heir to estate of Frederick &
Margaret Scruggs, Sevier
Co., Tenn.).
No. 191:Adam Creswell vs.
Michael Fagala & others,
25
Nov. 1859 (Fagala Heirs)
No. 208:
Alexander C. B. Nichols
& Andrew W. Nichols vs. Joshua Nichols, John Trotter & others, 17 Oct. 1865
(Sa1e of lands of John Nichols, dec'd., 1865; land on Walden's Creek; sd.
Nichol's heirs)
No. 265: E. S. Early vs. Asa
Derrick 12 Jan. 1876
No.___: Amanda Baker vs. Henry M. Baker, 21 Nov. 1866
No.____: John, Feazle, Exec.,
George Bush, dec'd., vs. Aaron Runyan, 15 April 1845