Polk County, Tennessee

 

Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune: 1888-12-18

Death of Capt. Duff, The Sheriff of McMinn County

Athens, December 17, Capt. J. C. Duff, sheriff of McMinn County, died yesterday morning of typhoid fever, at the home of his son-in-law, S. N. Burk, pastor , in  Athens, and will be burried by Garfield Post, G. A. R., of which he was an honored member.

Captain Duff was officer in the union army during the late war, and was at one time sheriff of Polk County. He spent several years in the U. S. internal revenue service, and was serving his second term as sheriff of McMinn county when he died.

In all the relations of life he was honorable and high-minded, as an officer, brave, faithful and efficient.

transcribed by Pam Rathbone

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Old Offenders Caught"

 

 

Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune: 1895-04-09

Four Noted Polk County Moonshiners in the Toils Again

Deputy Collectors Taylor and Thaxton came in yesterday from a successful moonshine raid in Polk County near the Georgia State line. They arrested four well-known old offenders, who have promised time and again never to do so, but they were caught in the act again. Their names are William, Jim and Abe Green, and William Milsap. They were so suddenly surprised that no resistance was ventured and their still was destroyed.

 

transcribed by Pam Rathbone

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