FIRST - Chairman & first County Court Clerk - Trenton, TN
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N 35° 58.843 W 088° 56.511
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Marker is historic marker and explanation of gravesite on courthouse lawn. William P Seat, chairman of the first Quarterly Court established in Gibson County in January, 1824.
Waymark Code: WM11CDY
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2019
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County of First: Gibson County
Location of First: College St. & Huntingdon St., Trenton
Buried now on courthouse lawn
Gravesite moved in 1975
Text of Original Tombstone:
WILLIAM P. SEAT.
Born
Feb. 27, 1784.
Died
Aug. 16, 1853.
Married to
REBECCA CLINTON
ca 1810
Text on 1975 Marker: Chmn. of the 1st Gibson CO. Quarterly Court, held Jan. 5 & 6 1824. at the house of Luke Biggs, 4 miles Northwest of this site
Court members commissioned by Gov. Wm. Carroll and oath administered by B. G. Stewart, J.P. Madison Co.
Other members are Robert Edmonson, Robert Reed, Olley Blakemore, John D. Love, William W. Craig, Hunter Burgin, Benjamin White, Isham E. Davis, [three names unreadable].
The grave of Seat moved here from near the Madison Co. line, 1975, by the Gibson Co. Quarterly Court.
Born in Virginia moved to Gibson Co. from Davidson Co., TN. about 1822.
First Co. Co. Clk. - Thomas Fite
Sheriff - John W. Needham
Register - W. W. Craig
Trustee - Robert Reed
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