BURGLARY OF HILLERY WATTSWORTH KEY | The Rev. H. W. Key, of Mason, Tennessee, was robbed of $60 by burglars a few nights ago. The Reverend Key will need better locks to his treasury when his congregation shall have made his loss good.
— New Jersey Trumpet
[ Burglary of Hillery Wattsworth Key | Southwestern Christian Advocate, (New Orleans, LA) Thursday, June 14, 1888]
Delegates to General Conference
Tennessee – Ministerial, H. W. Key, presiding elder, Mason, Tenn.; reserve, C. B. Wilson, pastor Nashville, Tenn. Lay, Thomas A Fortson, professor Central Tennessee college, Nashville, Tenn.; reserve, George Hill, Brentwood, Tenn.
[Northwestern Christian Advocate, November 1, 1899]
Legal Information about Land
R. P. Van Pelt, et al., v. Katie B. Fields, et al., Tipton equity. BanPelt and others are creditors of the estate of Mariah B. Fields, deceased. It is alleged in the bill that Mariah B. Fields owned an undivided interest in fee by descent from her father, Hillery W. Key, in certain lands in Tipton and Davidson counties, and it is sought to subject this interest to the payment of the claims of her creditors. Defendants assert that under the will of Hillery W. Key, Mariah B. Fields took an undivided interest for life in these lands. Complainants assert that the items of the will devising the property are void because in violation of the rule against perpetuities. Defendants interposed a plea of res adjudicata where in they set up a decree entered in the case of Mariah B. Fields v. E. W. White, et al., chancery court of Tipton County, heard upon the construction of the will of Hillery W. Key, deceased, and it was adjudged that the will does not violate the rule against perpetuities and that Mariah B. Fields took a life estate in an undivided interest in the lands. No appeal was taken from this decree. The chancellor sustained the plea of res adjudicata and dismissed the bill. Complainants claim in privity with Mariah B. Fields, Deceased, and are bound by the former decree. Affirmed. Opinion filed.
[Katie B Fields – daughter of Hillery W Key – The Jackson Sun; Jackson, Tenn; 28 May 1939; Pg 13]