Vanessa WoodDuring a research for Wilson County, TN records on the Family Search website. I stumbled upon a news clipping for an article titled “Sam Houston was Admitted To Practice Law in Lebanon” from a newspaper published c. October 1963. The article was tucked in next to the page where the court clerk recorded Houston’s was admission to practice in 1819.
Image: Samuel Houston
Wikimedia (https://www.wikimedia.or), “Samuel_houston.jpg,” rev. 14.28, 25 July 2018.
p. 243
At a circuit court began and held for the county of Wilson at the court house in Lebanon on Monday the 26th day of April in the year 1819. Present the Honble. J. C. Flack Judge of the third Judicial Circuit now presiding in the fourth circuit by interchange directed by Law. Court proclaimed.
p. 246
Saml. Houston & Lafayette Sanders equires came into Court and took the oath of qualification also the oath of office & thereupon are admitted to practise as attornies in the Court.
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Wilson County, Tennessee, “Minute Books, Civil and Criminal, 1810-1965,” 26 April 1819, pp. 243-6, Saml Houston; digital images, Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS54-3JPC : viewed 15 March 2021).
