PETITION FOR NEW COURTHOUSE LOCATION

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Submitted by: Bonnie Palmer
Date:8/21/97
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 SIGNATURES FOLLOWING PETITION; THESE WERE SOME OF THE FIRST SETTLERS

We the undersigners-citizens of White Co., feling our selves much agreaved & Laboring under many
disadvantages for the want of a County Seat do therefore petition your Hon'l body to locate the Same on the SE
1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 10 in township 7N & range 8W the place known as the property of John Howerton
James Walker & John Cook cald Searcy, & for which the said John Howereton James Walker & John Cook do
agree to donate to the County 10 acres of Said purposs to be layd off in a square tract of the NW corner of Said
land above named & also John Howerton doth agree to donate 4 acres-adjoining Said Acres on the N side.

The commicationers heare to fore elected by the voters of the County for the purposes of Selecting a County
Seat- have entirely faild in the object for which they were elected. Three of the number did Select a place and
sold lots but never mad titles the Site Selected by them is entirely objectionable to a large majority of the citizens
of the County. We hope therefore you Hon'l body will take the subject into consideration & grant us a petition
& we further Recommend to you Hon'l body John Magness Micall Owens & John Arnold as Suitable men for
Commitioners to carry into effect the above object & we your petitioners will ever pray, Etc.

(The people who wanted the other site - Frankfort - didn't sign. They were Ephraim Guthrie, Reuben Stephens
& Sherrod Arnold.)

Signed by:

Acklin, William
Bailey, John
Baker, Gabriel
Baker, Henry
Baker, Lewis
Barber, John
Barton, Elijah
Barton, Ewell
Barton, Josua
Beshears, James
Blue, M. H.
Britton, James S.
Brown, John P.
Burks, Simpson D.
Bybee, James
Bybee, Sherrill
Chisam, James
Cochran, J. H.
Cochran, James
Cook, John
Cook, William
Dennis, Nathaniel
Grace, Saunders
Gregory, Erastus
Hambrick, Robert
Hay, Stephen
Hearrard, John
Holt, Russell S.
Hoskins, William
Howerton, John
Jones, Clesby R.
Jones, John H.
Jones, Martin
King, James
Kirkpatrick, Lewis
Layton, Augustus
Liles, Amaziah
Magness, John
Magness, William
McDaniel, P. A.
McPherson, Daniel C.
More, Joseph C. 
Morrison, L. R. 
Moss, John D.
Price, Russell
Ramsey, C. S.
Robbins, Jacob G.
Saffold, William
Sherrill, Joel S.
Shook, John Sr.
Stacy, Byram
Terry, Alfred
Terry, Jesse
Terry, William
Tidwell, Peter
Vandever, Irvin
Vanmeter, T. R.
Vanwinkle, James
Vanwinkle, Jesse
Vanwinkle, William
Walker, James
White, David
Wilson, Obediah
Young, Thomas 

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