Fulton County Court
Account of first meeting of the court in 1845
                
Submitted by:  Don Livingston [mailto:donaldl@hcis.net]
Jan. 2003
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Hickman Courier - 11 January 1884
Fulton County Reminiscences

   "A look over the old records in the County Clerk's Office is sometimes
 interesting and specially so to old citizens. We find in the very beginning
 that Fulton County was organized at the Tavern House of Greenberry
Watson on Tuesday the 1st of April 1845.
   The first magistrates were Robert Brown, James P. Tyler, Jesse Edmondston,
 Ralph McFadden, Shedrick Boaz, Asa W. Clark, Hugh B. French, and
Thomas U. Smith; and Thomas James a justice of the peace from Hickman
County administered the oath to the Magistrates. Each of these Magistrates
Is long since dead.
   The sheriff was Jacob White, not without opposition, however. The said
White on the day above mentioned, appeared in court and presented his
commission from the Governor of Kentucky appointing him sheriff for two
years and asked to be qualified, but Lewis Scearce abojected and filed
exceptions, but the court decided in favor of White and he qualified with
M. Wale, Wm. Chambers, Josiah Parker and Joshua Smith as his
securities. The grounds of Scearce's objection are stated to be that the 
said White had acted as Commissioner of Tax for the year of 1845 and it was 
claimed this disqualified him.
   The Court made arrangements for holding further Courts in the southeast 
corner of the large building owned by the Planter's Bank of Tennessee.
   Mr. L.D.Stephens was elected Court Clerk by the Magistrates; and E.J.
Bullock, County Atty., A.S.Tyler, Surveyor; and Robert Powell, Coroner;
and Jno.Betts as jailer. R.C.Prather was the first road overseer appointed
in the county.
   The first constables were Wm.A.Downing, Geo.W.Puckett and Thomas 
Gore."


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