Wm T Hale my 3rd great-grandfather was among the hands appointed to take care of the road under the direction of Dixon Hillis at the March Term of Court in 1845 Van Buren County Tennessee. I have very few records for him which makes this find all the more exciting.
Van Buren Co TN Court Records 1840–1866
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County Clerk's Minute Book April 1840- May 1855 p 144
County Clerk's Minute Book April 1840- May 1855 p 144
March Term 1845
Ordered by the Court that Dixon Hillis be appointed
Overseer of the road from the forks of the road at Squire
Yorks new field to the foot of the mountain and keep the same
in repair as the law directs it being a road of the second class
And have the following bounds of hands Wm McDaniel Archibald
Hillis Jackson McCarver Dixon N Hillis Wm T Hale Francis
A Hale Thos Russell & John Boyd
Overseer of the road from the forks of the road at Squire
Yorks new field to the foot of the mountain and keep the same
in repair as the law directs it being a road of the second class
And have the following bounds of hands Wm McDaniel Archibald
Hillis Jackson McCarver Dixon N Hillis Wm T Hale Francis
A Hale Thos Russell & John Boyd
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