Indictment for assault with intent to kill State vs. Oliver Conn

This day came John B. Forrester Esq. the Attorney General who prosecutes for the state in their behalf as well as the defendant in his proper person and the said defendant having heard the bill of indictment read says he is not guilty in manner and form as charged in the bill of indictment and for the trial puts himself upon the county and the said Attorney General does the like. Where upon came a jury to wit, William Crain, Charles Gillespie, John P. Martin, Chester Oldham, Isham Warmack, Thomas M. Moses, Asa D. Oakley, Joseph Nuckles, Thomas South, Sampson McLane, Thomas Williams, Amos Franklin, who being elected, tried, and sworn well and truly to try the case of traverse, joined upon their oath to say they find the defendant not guilty in manner and form as charged in the bill of indictment. It is therefore considered by the court that the defendant go hence without delay and excuses such cause to him in his behalf and expended as the county can find proper to allow. (July Term 1832 Franklin County Circuit Court Minutes p. 78)

( Note: Matthew Wade is a neighbor of Oliver's according to the 1830 census. He lives only two houses/doors/farms from Abram Shook.

   
                   The State of Tennessee vs. Oliver Conn
                       Sheriff Finch 2 subpoenas  25 ea           .50
                       Sheriff Shook 2 do not found 12.5 ea     .25
                       Sheriff O'Rear  2 do found & 2 not
                                             found                .75
                       Edward H. Wade a witness 3 days 50 perday 1.50
                       Edom Holder       ditto  7 days          3.50  
                                                                 6.50
                   I certify that the above is the cost that the county 
                   court is authorized to allow and that the defendant 
                   was acquitted at July Term 1832. 
                                                James Spyker Clk
                                               by S. Adams D.C.
                   (WPA typscript records Franklin County County Court 
                   Minutes v. 2 1832-1837) 

State of Tennessee Franklin County Personally appeared before me Edmond Russell clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Franklin County the above named Oliver Conn the bargainor and Abram Shook the trustee with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledge that they executed the within deed of trust for purposes therein contained Witness my hand at office this 4th day of April 1834 E Russell Clerk of Franklin
County Court
Registered in my office this 5th day of April 1834
Solomon Wagner Register
by W. B. Wagner D.R.
(Deed Book N. pg 447-448 Roll #109 TSLA)

(Note: A Morgan Conn shows up later in 1850 in Missouri with Josiah Conn. 1840 Census shows a male living with Oliver between 15-20 years old. Since this is too old to be a son he is probably a brother.)

Ordered by the court that William P. Francis be appointed overseer of the same part of the ?milk sick fence? that William Thurman was formerly overseer of and that he keep the same in good repair according to the law and that he have overhands, Michael Williams, Absolom Williams, Peter Williams and the Widow Williams hands, John Francis, Lindfield Berryhill, Sampson Thompson, Bird Francis, William Thurman, his hands, Oliver Conn, Edom Holder, William Lee, George Young, and William Henderson. (Franklin County Court Minutes February Term 1835 p. 457)

State of Tennessee Franklin County
Personally appeared before me William M. Brazelton clerk of the County Court of said County, Oliver Conn and James Robinson the bargainor and Trustee named in this within deed of trust with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledge that they executed said within deed of trust for the purpose therein contained. Witness my hand at office the 1st day of December A.D. 1838
William W. Brazelton
Registered in my office the 15th day of December A.D. 1838

Jessee T. Wallace Register
(Deed Book O Franklin County pg. 259-260 Roll #110 TSLA)

Note: Salem community was in the south east portion of the county. It had good merchants and for many years Mrs. Cowan's hotel was considered one of the best in the country. On the 7th of March 1873, the town was nearly all destroyed by fire. Mrs. Cowan's hotel, some dwellings and every business house in the village were consumed. The loss was estimated at $34,000. The town has never been rebuilt. The road mentioned may have been the Old Bean's Creek Road which is off highway 64. Salem was the first center of trade in the county. Long before 1840 Salem was a noted cotton market. The merchants exchanged goods for cotton and then shipped the cotton by water to New Orleans, using the Elk River in its flood stage to reach the Tennessee River, on to the Ohio River and then down to New Orleans. (T. F. Rhoton A Brief History of Franklin County Tennessee) John R. Patrick was listed as one of the early merchants of Salem. (Goodspeed) The cotton sold for 1 1/4 to 2 1/4 cents per pound. The merchants would take the cotton to New Orleans and then walk back through the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian Nations. (Goodspeed) Beginning in the 1840 period, there were quite noted carriage & coach manufacturing concerns in Winchester. Among these were Thomas Logan and Porter & Co. Logan and Hutchins was located on a lot just behind the present Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Porter Co. on Jefferson Street at the place of Mr. C. C. Tucker's shop. (Rhoton)

Witness summons issued to Daniel Keith Jr. And Claiborn Hannah to appear first Wednesday after the third monday of November 1849
Witness summons for Lansford Hunt to appear 27th Nov 1850 (date is accurate!!)
Summons for James Keith, Daniel Keith and Madison Wiliams to appear 18th March 1850.
Summons Stephen Ross, Margaret Ross, Joicy Nichols, Lanson Hunt, David Hunt, Mary Hunt, William Green, J. P. Keith and Jas. Bledsoe to appear 3rd Monday of huly 1849.
Summons for Isaac Stephens to appear 3rd Monday November 1849.
To the Sheriff of Franklin County: Greeting. You are hereby commanded to take the body of Oliver J. Conn if to be found in your county, and him safely keep, so that you have him before the judge of our next Circuit Court to be held in the County of Franklin, at the Court house in the town of Winchester, on the first Wednesday after the third Monday of November next then and there to answer the State of Tennessee on an Indictment against him for an assault.

Alfred E. Winklier to Elizabeth Conn 4Aug1853 John P. Weddington J.P. (in the 1860 census she is listed as Mary Elizabeth Conn)

Robert Berryhill to Sarah A. Conn 2Aug1852 N. T. Power M.G.

Isaac Mahaffey m: Frances E. Conn 10Aug1856

James Oliver Conn m: Nancy Angel 5Dec1855 in Coffee County.

Notes: Oliver's oldest daughter in the 1850 census stated that she was born in Alabama. This is the only clue to the origin of Oliver. Alabama research: Alabama Records, compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud. Volume 141. pg 2. Madison County Alabama Marriage Book 2, pg 83. Carlton, Thomas to Elizabeth Carne License issued 3Apr1818. Solemnized 30Apr1818 By John Martin J.P. with the return showing Thomas Carlton and Elizabeth Conn. William F. Rowland Bondsman.