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- "A Bloody Deed - Giles Bradford, Jr., Killed at Ai, Last Saturday" The Cookeville Press[Cookeville, TN] 07 Apr 1898: 1. Print.
- "A Mixed Business - Dol Bates Tells the Story of his Escape - Serious Charge Against Sheriff Doss" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 20 Jul 1878: 4. Print.
- "A Penitentiary In Flames." New York Times[New York, NY] 06 Dec 1881: 4. Print.
- "Another Brassell's Neck in Danger" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 07 Apr 1878: 4. Print.
- "At Large on Bail." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 23 Feb 1878: 4. Print.
- "Awakening the Jail Birds." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 30 Sep 1876: 1. Print.
- "Bates Recaptured - How It Was Done - In Jail Here Again" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 19 Jul 1878: 4. Print.
- "Blood for Blood, Salutory Sample of Stern Justice in Putnam, Two Braswell's Sentenced to be Hanged for Allison Murder -- Another Gets Twenty Years Imprisonment" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 07 Jul 1877: 3. Print.
- "Bound Over to Court - Jim Braswelll and Two Sons Preliminary Trial" The Nashville American[Nashville, TN] 12 Apr 1898: 2. Print.
- Brassell, Joseph L. "Let Whisky Alone!" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 04 Apr 1878: 2. Print.
- "BRASWELLS ARE GUILTY - Giles Bradford's Murders Given 10 Years Imprisonment Each" The Nashville American[Nashville, TN] 19 May 1901: 6. Print.
- "BRASWELL BOYS CONVICTED - For the Murder of Giles Bradford at Mine Lick" The Nashville American[Nashville, TN] 13 May 1898: 5. Print.
- "BRED IN THE BONE - Stringing of Two Tennessee Murders." The Daily Constitution[Atlanta, GA] 29 Mar 1878: 1. Print.
- "BROTHERS FOR BROTHERS -- The Brothers Brassell Hang for the Murder of the Brothers Allison at Cookeville, Tenn. -- History of the Crime of the Young Ruffians -- And Their Pious End." The Daily Memphis Avalanche[Memphis, TN] 28 Mar 1878: 1. Print.
- "Brought Here for a Hearing" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 08 Feb 1878: 4. Print.
- "Charged With Murder - James Braswell and His Sons To Be Tried Next Saturday" The Nashville American[Nashville, TN] 08 Apr 1898: 5. Print.
- "Criminal Jottings" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 09 Mar 1879: 1. Print.
- "Criminal News." Chicago Tribune[Chicago, IL] 28 Mar 1878: 2, Print.
- "Dining with the Brassells - A Reporter's Test of the Prison Cuisine - Hospitality of the Brothers - Sheriff Woodall's Plans - The Jail Yard Services To-day." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 17 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "Dol Bates" The Fayetteville Observer[Fayetteville, TN] 05 Dec 1878: 2. Print.
- "Dol Bates" The Home Journal[Winchester, TN] 02 May 1878: 2. Print.
- "Dol Bates Captured - The Accomplish of the Brassell Brothers Overhauled in Cannon County" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 20 Apr 1878: 4. Print.
- "Dol Bates Escape - A Confiding Officer Hoodwinked by the Accomplice of the Brassell Brothers" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 12 Jul 1878: 4. Print.
- "Dol Bates Escape - Suspicious Conduct of the Officer who Let Him Loose - Indicted for Complicity in the Affair" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 14 Jul 1878: 3. Print.
- "Dol Bates - His Return to Nashville - Not Able to Give Bail - A Vindication of Sheriff Doss" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 27 Jul 1878: 4. Print.
- "Dol Bates Trial at Smithville" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 10 Nov 1878: 1. Print.
- "Dol Bates Wanderings - How He Happened to Wind Up in the Davidson County Jail - Where He Has Been Since His Disappearance" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 21 Apr 1878: 1. Print.
- "Entirely Accidental." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 07 Dec 1881: 4. Print.
- "Going Home To Be Tried" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 03 Mar 1879: 4. Print.
- "Interceding for the Brassells." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 10 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "Lebanon Herald," The Milan Exchange.[Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.] 25 Apr 1878. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. < http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053488/1878-04-25/ed-1/seq-4/>
- "Lebanon - Our Regular Correspondent (Cyrus Blue)." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 23 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "M'Minnville News Era" Memphis Daily Appeal[Memphis, TN] 01 Aug 1878: 2. Print.
- "Murder in Putnam - Giles Bradford, Jr Beaten, Stabbed and Shot to Death by Jim Brasswell and his Sons" The Nashville American[Nashville, TN] 05 Apr 1898: 2. Print.
- "Nashville" The Fayetteville Observer[Fayetteville, TN] 27 Mar 1879: 2. Print.
- "No Hope for the Brassells -- Governor Porter Refuses to Commute Their Sentence -- Administration to the Rite of Baptism to Them, Sunday Afternoon." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 19 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "On The Way to Death - Departure of the Brassells for Cookeville Last Evening." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 22 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "Over the State." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 19 Mar 1878: 3. Print.
- "Over the State." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 31 Mar 1878: 3. Print.
- "Petty's Escape." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 24 Oct 1876: 4. Print.
- "Praying with the Brassells - Impressive Religious Services in the Jail Yard -- A Letter from the Condemned Men." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 16 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "Preparing to Die." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 20 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "Record of Doom. What the Braswell Brothers Have Been Studying in Prison. A Full Statement by Them to an American Reporter. Reviewing the Testimony of the Witnesses Who Sealed Their Fate -- Victims of a Deep-Laird Conspiracy -- Innocent but Ready to Meet Death." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 17 Mar 1878: 3. Print.
- "Sent Out to the Penitentiary." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 01 Jan 1880: 4. Print.
- "Sixty Years Ago - Local News - Issue 21 March 1878." Reprint of Article first printed in the Cookeville Chronicle21 March 1878. Putnam County Herald[Cookeville, TN] 22 Jul 1937: 6. Print.
- "Sixty Years Ago - Local News - Issue 28 March 1878." Reprint of Article first printed in the Cookeville Chronicle28 March 1878. Putnam County Herald[Cookeville, TN] 29 Jul 1937: 6. Print.
- "Sixty Years Ago - Local News - Issue 04 April 1878." Reprint of Article first printed in the Cookeville Chronicle4 April 1878. Putnam County Herald[Cookeville, TN] 19 Aug 1937: 3. Print.
- "Sixty Years Ago - Local News - Issue 11 April 1878." Reprint of Article first printed in the Cookeville Chronicle11 April 1878. Putnam County Herald[Cookeville, TN] 26 Aug 1937: 8. Print.
- "Smithville - Dol Bates Found Guilty of Murder in the First Degree" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 14 Nov 1878: 3. Print.
- "Still on His Travels - Dol Bates Taken to Carthage - Will He Get Bail - A Card From Sheriff Doss" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 23 Jul 1878: 4. Print.
- "Testifying in Stolen Boots" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 23 Apr 1878: 4. Print.
- "The Brassells Hung." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 28 Mar 1878: 1. Print.
- "The Courts" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 19 Jan 1878: 4. Print.
- "The Doomed Brassells. Incidents of the Passage Up the River -- Safe Arrival of the Prisoners at Cookeville -- The Jail Guarded and a Citizens Patrol on the Street" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 26 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "The Execution of the Brassells" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 28 Mar 1878: 3. Print.
- "THE LATE BRASSELLS -- Further Details of the Hanging and Some Biographical Incidents." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 29 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "The Law Eluded." New York Herald[New York, NY] 28 Apr 1878: 3, Print.
- "The Law Eluded." Old Fulton NY Postcards. Fulton History, 1 June 1878. Web. 26 Mar 2014. < http://www.fultonhistory.com>.
- "THE PENALTY FOR MURDER.; A DOUBLE HANGING IN TENNESSEE. GEORGE AND JOSEPH BRASSELL EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF RUSSELL AND CLAUDE ALLISON 10,000 PERSONS PRESENT A HISTORY OF THE CRIME AND THE TRIAL OF THE MURDERERS AFFECTING SCENES AT THE GALLOWS." New York Times, 29 Mar 1878. < http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9802EFD6113FE63BBC4151DFB5668383669FDE>
- "THE PENITENTIARY: Yesterday's Arrival - A Tribute to the Convicts For Their Conduct During the Recent Fire" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 12 Dec 1881: 1. Print.
- "THE PENITENTIARY FIRE - One of the Largest Manufacturing Establishments in the South Destroyed." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 06 Dec 1881: 4. Print.
- "THE PROFITS OF WILDCAT -- What the Brassell Brothers Know About Making Illegal Whisky" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 07 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "THE PUTNAM ATROCITY -- Shot down in Cold Blood and Buried in the Same Grave." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 15 Dec 1875: 4. Print.
- "The Putnam County Murders." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 29 Feb 1876: 4. Print.
- "The Scaffold for the Brassell Brothers." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 14 Mar 1878: 4. Print.
- "THE WRONG MAN: A Suit for $50,000 Against the Secretary of State" The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 16 Feb. 1878: 4. Print.
- "They Must Hang. Sentence of Death Passed Upon Two Putnam County Murders. March 27 the Fatal Day -- Particulars of Their Atrocious Crime." The Daily American[Nashville, TN] 03 Feb 1878: 1. Print.
- "They Must Hang. The Supreme Court Sentences the Allison Murders to Hang on the 27 of March." The Cookeville Chronicle[Cookeville, TN] 07 Feb 1878: 2. Print.
- "THIRD CONVICTION - Jas. Braswell and Two Sons Guilty of Bradford's Murder" The Nashville American[Nashville, TN] 12 Sep 1902: 3. Print.
- "Twenty-nine Years Ago Today," Putnam County Herald[Cookeville, TN] 27 Mar 1907:3. Print.
- "TWO VILLAINS." Memphis daily appeal.[Memphis, Tenn.], 28 Mar 1878. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. < http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045160/1878-03-28/ed-1/seq-4/>
- "Death of Wm. B. Bates." Alamogordo Cloudcrofter[Alamogordo, NM] 16 Jun 1922:5. Print.
STATE RECORDS
- Death Certificate of Dop Johnson, T ennessee, Death Records, 1908-1958[database on-line]. Ancestry.com. ( http://interactive.ancestry.com/2376/33113_257685-01008/279062?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dTNDeathRecords%26rank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26gss%3dangs-d%26gsln%3djohnson%26msddy%3d1911%26msdpn__ftp%3ddekalb%2bcounty%252c%2btennessee%26uidh%3dd74%26pcat%3d34%26fh%3d0%26h%3d279062%26recoff%3d8%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord: accessed 18 Jun 2014), Dop Johnson, 21 Oct 1911; citing … … Cemetery, Liberty, De Kalb, Tennessee; Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- "New Mexico, Deaths, 1889-1945," index, FamilySearch( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLYV-X4Q: accessed 22 May 2014), William Bates in entry for William Bell Bates, 08 Jun 1922; citing Otero, Colfax, New Mexico, reference 45, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Santa Fe; FHL microfilm 2032885.
- "New Mexico, Deaths, 1889-1945," index, FamilySearch( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLYC-D3L: accessed 22 May 2014), Sarah F. Bates, 30 Aug 1933; citing Orogrande, Otero, New Mexico, reference cn 2912, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Santa Fe; FHL microfilm 1913294.
- Prison Records, State of Tennessee 1831-1992, Tennessee State Library and Archives, microfilm publication RG25, roll 15, Vol. 51 - Convict Records: State Penitentiary, Nashville, TN Book "B" 1877-1882.
- Prison Records, State of Tennessee 1831-1992, Tennessee State Library and Archives, microfilm publication RG25, roll 19, Vol. 56 - Convict Records: State Penitentiary, Nashville, TN Book "I" 1894-1896.
- "State vs Joseph Brassell" 1877. MS Tennessee Supreme Court Cases. Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville.
- "State vs William B. Bates alias Dol Bates." 1880. MS Tennessee Supreme Court Cases. Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville.
- Tennessee State Library and Archives, Microform. Governor James Davis Porter (1828-1912) Papers 1875-1879 (1964):microfilm roll #10.
- Tennessee State Library and Archives, Microform. Governor William Brimage Bate (1826-1905) Papers 1883-1887 (1964):microfilm roll #5.
COUNTY RECORDS
- Allison, Joseph C., Will, "Tennessee, Probate Court Books, 1795-1927," images, FamilySearch( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-195-2180761-1-67?cc=1909088&wc=M6QQ-M3D:179682001,179756001: accessed 04 Jul 2014), Putnam > Wills, 1876-1933, Vol. 6 > image 26 of 249.
- Brassell, Charles & Geo. to Amanda Cox, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book Z:248; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, E. H. et ux to E. L. Gardenhire, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book I:391; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, J. R., Will, "Tennessee, Probate Court Books, 1795-1927," images, FamilySearch( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-195-2180755-1-81?cc=1909088&wc=M6QQ-M3D:179682001,179756001: accessed 04 Jul 2014), Putnam > Wills, 1876-1933, Vol. 6 > image 203 of 249.
- Brassell, James R., Death Certificate, "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955," index and images, FamilySearch( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11668-77980-26?cc=1417505: accessed 04 Jul 2014), 1876712 (004183287) > image 2327 of 2511; citing State Library and Archives, Nashville.
- Brassell, Jas. R. et al to Mrs. Amanda Cox, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book 2:179; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, J. R. & others to Algood & Finley, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book T:15; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, J. R. et al to Amanda Cox, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book Z:505; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, J. R. et ux to John P. Murray, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book I:380; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, Mary L. et al to James R. Brassell, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book 10:292; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, Mary L. et al to Tennessee Patton, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book 4:587; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Brassell, W. E. to Amanda B. Cox, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book Z:248; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Bates, William to W. B & John Bates, Deed, DeKalb County, Tennessee, Deed Book J:470; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #84.
- Isbell, Angeline to James H. Lee, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book P:542; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Isbell, Angeline, Will, "Tennessee, Probate Court Books, 1795-1927," images, FamilySearch( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-195-2180669-1-98?cc=1909088&wc=M6QQ-M3D:179682001,179756001: accessed 04 Jul 2014), Putnam > Wills, 1876-1933, Vol. 6 > image 60 of 249.
- Lee, Jas. H. to Mattie Lee, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book O:518; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Patton, D. C. et al to Lucy Presley, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book 1:236; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Patton, Tennessee et al to Amanda Cox, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book Z:249; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Patton, Tennessee et al to Mary L. Brassell, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book Z:250; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- Presley, J. J. and wife to M. A. Patton, Deed, Putnam County, Tennessee, Deed Book 1:237; Register of Deeds Office, Courthouse, Cookeville.
- State vs E. H. Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book S:399, 457, 463, 465; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #5.
- State vs E. H. Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book U:45, 146, 177, 225, 342, 365; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #5.
- State vs G. A. Brassell alias Teek Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book 1:89, 100, 293; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #6.
- State vs James Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book A:191, 266; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #5.
- State vs James Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book B:337, 338; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #6.
- State vs James Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book C:261, 272-273, 293, 356, 436, 481; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #6.
- State vs James Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book 1:21, 78, 501; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #6.
- State vs James Brassell, Circuit Court Minutes, Smith County, Tennessee, Minute Book 2:13; Tennessee State Library and Archives Roll #7.
FEDERAL RECORDS
- Bates, William B. (Pvt, Co. G, 1st Tenn. Mtd. Inf., Civil War), pension application no. 1,390,821, certificate no. 1,163,549, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications., 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. C.
- Bates, William B., “Civil War Service Records, Union Records,” digital images, Fold3,1st Tennessee Mounted Infantry, pg. 1-13.
- Brassel, James R. (Pvt, Co. A, 1st Tenn. Mtd. Inf., Civil War), pension application no. 222646, certificate no. 901088, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications., 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. C.
- Brazeal, Egbert H. (Pvt, Capt. Dearings Co., Tenn. Mtd. Spies, Florida Wars), pension application no. 123, certificate no. 715, widow's application no. 7661, certificate no. 5435, bounty land warrant no. 8417-80-55, Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. C.
- Brazil, James R., “Civil War Service Records, Union Records,” digital images, Fold3,8th Tennessee Mounted Infantry, pg. 1-11.
- Johnson, Dobson (Pvt, Co. E, 4th Tenn. Mtd. Inf., Civil War), pension application no. 599,041, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications., 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. C.
- "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949," index and images, FamilySearch( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VHZW-CWW: accessed 03 Jul 2014), William B Bates, 08 Jun 1922; citing Alamogordo, New Mexico, NARA microfilm publication M1916, roll 6, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 1878155.
- "United States vs Joseph Brassell," Records of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Middle District; Nashville Rule Docket - Criminal, November 1867 - October 1879, Case No. 1509; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives Building, Atlanta, GA.
- "United States vs W. B. Bates & W. C. Johnson," Records of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Middle District; Nashville Rule Docket - Criminal, November 1867 - October 1879, Case No. 531; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives Building, Atlanta, GA.
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