http://www.tngenweb.org/madison/wwr/wwr1-14.htm The abstracts of 1834 death notices from the Western Weekly review are online. Lotteries are nothing new in Tennessee. With the abstracts is a long item about the state lottery for the heirs of Robert Dyer. This item has to do with Madison County rather than Williamson but it is interesting all the same. At this time period there were many lotteries, so many that most failed. It was expensive to play. A ticket for the Dyer lottery costs $8 in 1834 dollars (when gold was worth $20.68 per ounce). Further down in the file is a list of delegates to a state constitutional convention. I think that the 1835 constitution was the first to ban lotteries. David