Ledger from Erasmus Alley’s Mercantile Store
Marion County, Tennessee
April 1852
| David Earnest | Garret(?) Kinko | Pat Oconners | Thomas Brown | Andrew Gilliam |
| Thomas Fitzgerel | William Kelly | Pat Obryan | James Ryan | Elzey Hill |
| Martin Killey | William Kirkpatrick | Ed. Oconner | F. (T?) W. Patterson | Holte Farmer |
| Charly Kingston | James Klipper | Michael Obryno | Wm. Donovin | John W. Alley |
| Thomas Kelly | Alex Kelly | Michael Ocammer | D.D. Lewis | Emory W. Hughes |
| John Keath | Mip M. Kelley | Joseph Quinn | John Alphin | Paul H. Gunter |
| T. G. (?) Kingston | John Klippen | Robert Payne | J.E. Patterson | Wm. Jenkins |
| Pat Kenney | Andrew King | Michael Welch | Benjamin Tracy | James Russell, Sr |
| Michael Kelly | A. McKinley | Charles Brown | James Nelson | Thomas Choate |
| John Kelly | Wm. Tracey | C. Craven | David Dicus | Erasmus Alley |
| W. Kintton (?) | David Olivers | Peter T. Rankin | P. Lawson | Simon McCarrel |
| Shadrach Kinney | James Obryan | Wm. Davis | Allen Ball | J. Manley |
| Miled Kelly | John Oneal | Edward Robertson | James(?) M. Hughes | J. Rains |
| John A. Kelly | Wm. Odanel | Gideon Blackburn | David H. Woodley | B. White |
| Ran (?) Kitchen | E. Obryno | F. (T.?) G. King | A.C. Alley | Jacob Talley |
I ran across a list that I had made many years ago from an old ledger which
has been in our family for as long as I can remember. My dad said
that his g-grandfather, Erasmus Alley, owned a mercantile store somewhere in
Marion County and that the ledger was a listing of items sold to his customers.
For many years, the ledger was a "scrapbook" that my g-grandmother kept.
Eventually, the things she had pasted in it with flour water became crispy
and started falling away. That's when I discovered all these names.
From Goodspeed----"He
afterward gave this place to his son, Alex, and moved to South Pittsburg, bought
a farm near there, and in connection with his farm work, operated a mercantile
business in the city and also a ferry across the Tennessee River
Submitted by Judy Russell
