Showing posts with label McMinnville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McMinnville. Show all posts

Sunday, September 03, 2023

Sheriff's Sale--Land of Joseph Shropshire(Warren Co. TN--1st Oct 1831)

By virtue of an order of sale, issued and to me
directed from the county court of Warren, I shall
expose to public sale to the highest bidder for
cash, at the court-house door in the town of Mc-
Minnville, on the first day of October next, all the
right, title, claim and interest that Joseph Shrop-
shire has in and to ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF
LAND, lying and beng in the county of Warren and
state of Tennessee, on the road leading from Spar-
ta to Liberty, with some improvements on it, to=
wit:

Beginning on a chesnut, running north to two
poplars; thence west to a stake; thence south to a
stake; thence east to the beginning.

The above described land was levien(sic) on at the-
nstance of William H. Moss, to satisfy a judg-
ment which he recovered against the said Joseph
Shropshire and Thomas Sherley.

L. FERRELL, Shff.
of Warren county
August 20-- St. Printers fee $3 50.

Source:
"Sheriff Sales," Sparta Recorder and Law Journal, 01 Oct 1831, p.2 col. 3; digital images, Newspapers.com(https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 03 September 2023.)

Link to Clipping: https://www.newspapers.com/article/sparta-recorder-and-law-journal-joseph-s/131171747/




Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Which Andrew McElroy?

I certainly need to further investigate this.  I have two ancestors named Andrew McElroy--my 3rd grandfather(Andrew J. McElroy) and his father, Andrew McElroy who would both be in that area of Tennessee.  I don't believe it would have been either of them.  It certainly couldn't have been Andrew J. McElroy who would have been about 1 year old otherwise I would not have been here.  I do have a death date for his father the elder Andrew McElroy and it is June of 1864--some 43 years after this was published.   That date comes from a short bio written about his son, Andrew J. McElroy who was a state senator [pages 262-263 of Compendium of Biography--published by Ogle Co. 1898.]. It seems likely that these are somehow connected to mine because of the name and the area, especially given that Andrew McElroy's wife was Martha Shropshire.

Nashville Whig (Nashville, Tennessee)  17 Oct 1821, Wed  Page 3
From www.newspapers.com


I found the two names together in 1825 White Co TN on the tax list 4 years AFTER the article.  Is there another Andrew McElroy?  I know that descendants of the elder Andrew McElroy have continued the name but wonder if there were two in this area during that time period and if not, why was this ad posted.  There is a Hick Shropshire that dies in TX in the late 1830s.  Would love to know more about this.  Perfect excuse to make a timeline, as if I needed an excuse.


Friday, July 06, 2007

Links to Obits for the Warren Co. TN area

Great news for anyone who has Warren Co. TN connections or in the surrounding counties of Dekalb, White or Van Buren. High's Funeral Home has their obituaries for the past several years online. Since I am kin to probably 75% of the people in those counties in some shape or fashion and don't live in TN I am thrilled to be able to view this resource. I wish they had the early years online.


High Funeral Home

101 College Street

McMinnville, TN 37110

Phone: 931-473-2137

Email: info@highfuneralhome.com



Also you might check the Sparta Expositor, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home and Hunter Funeral Home websites.