Source: "Roots of Roane County, TN" by Snyder E. Roberts, page 91
Mabel Huff Littleton gives an insight into conditions in the area when her father, JAMES FRANKLIN LITTLETON was Mayor of Kingston in 1900. In addition to Littleton as Mayor, the other City Officials were B. F. BROWN, Recorder; T. G. TIPTON, Marshal. Adlermen: S. M. FRENCH, C. V. WILKEY, A. J. CHILDRESS, B. F. BROWN, and W. A. FORRESTER.
On November 19, 1900, the City Council passed the following ordinance, and had it circulated by handbills:
At a call session of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, held in the town of Kingston, Tenn., Nov 19, 1900, the following order was passed by said Board:
Ordered that the Sanitary Committee be authorized to employ a guard, day and night, until further ordered, to prevent any person from coming into Kingston from any part of the county infested with small-pox, and more 'especially' from Harriman, Rockwood, Cardiff, and Emory Gap, or to leave the town of Kingston, go to another town and return to Kingston, without showing satisfactory evidence that the party entering, leaving, or returning, has been properly vaccinated.
Any person violating any of these regulations will be arrested and placed in the Detention House. All Parties living in Kingston who have not heretofore been vaccinated, are requested to do so at once.
This Nov. 19, 1900
J. F. Littleton, Mayor
B. F. Brown, Recorder