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The Curlin Family and The Brown’s Creek Baptist Church, 1836-1879

The Curlin Family and The Brown’s Creek Baptist Church, 1836-1879

File contributed by Jim Curlin Samuel Brown, a pioneer landowner from North Carolina, settled in Haywood County, Tennessee, in 1826.   Soon after his arrival he gave land and provided logs to build the first Browns Creek Primitive Baptist Church.  His own farm laborers built the first church.  Approximately three years later the church burned.  A second church was built and consecrated by 1835, and it served the congregation until 1926.  In 1870 the name of the church was changed to “Woodland Church” to avoid confusion with…

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Descendants of Benjamin Bond

Descendants of Benjamin Bond

Submitter unidentified; first archived December, 2001. The Bond Family can be traced back to North Carolina. A slave owner by the name of James Bond, born in North Carolina and his wife, Mildred, born in Virginia, came to Haywood County with their slaves around 1845. The 1860 Census has James Bond with 221 slaves living in 63 houses. For some strange reason, no slave was listed as being over 65 years old, except for one woman who was listed as…

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Sons & Daughters of Haywood County

Sons & Daughters of Haywood County

Created from Chickasaw Indian lands and named for Judge John Haywood, Haywood County was part of Madison County when the Tennessee General Assembly created it in 1823-24. Later, part of Haywood County was taken to create Lauderdale and Crockett Counties. The state legislature designated Brownsville as the county seat. Haywood County is the only majority black county in the state of Tennessee. It has grown from a population of 265 families in 1826 to a population that reached 19,797 in…

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Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service

Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service

by Willie L. RobinsonHello, and welcome to Tennessee Colored Pension Application for CSA Service. The purpose of this website is to provide the names of African-Americans, mostly former slaves, who applied for pensions in Tennessee claiming to have served with the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The names were compiled by John V. Brogden using sources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee. Additional research has been done by the webmaster. This information is prov+ided with the hope that it will be…

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Estes Family Cemetery

Estes Family Cemetery

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Tem Moody       The Estes Family Cemetery is located about 1/4 mile south of Fulton Road (SR 87) on Estes Lane in Haywood County, TN.  It is about 0.2 mile east of the Lauderdale County line.  To reach the cemetery from Brownsville TN travel west out of town on Hwy 54 to Hwy 19 West, then to Hwy 87.  Turn left on Hwy 87 and travel 10.5 miles to Estes Lane.  The cemetery is surrounded by…

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Daniel Family Bible of Nathan Ethridge Daniel and Elnora McIntyre

Daniel Family Bible of Nathan Ethridge Daniel and Elnora McIntyre

Nathan & Elnora were married 23 January 1879 in Jackson, Madison Co., TN. Nathan was born 14 Sep 1859 in Jackson, Madison Co., TN., and died 17 Feb 1980 and was buried in the Woodville Cemetery in Brownsville, Haywood Co., He was the son of Greenberry Benjamin and Nancy Ann (Poole) Daniel of the Pinson or Bear Creek area, Madison Co., TN.  Elnora was born 20 Nov 1860 in Jackson, Madison Co., TN., and died 11 Dec 1933 buried in Woodville…

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Timothy Charles ABBOTT Biography

Timothy Charles ABBOTT Biography

ABBOTT, Timothy Charles, Roman Catholic Priest; born Ironton, Ohio; Irish descent; son of Florence and Julia (Sullivan) ABBOTT; secured early education in Stewart College, Clarksville, Tenn.; graduated from Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1879; pastor St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Nashville, Tenn., 1879-1884; also had charge of churches at Pulaski, Columbia and Franklin, Tenn., with missions attached to them; from 1884-1890, pastor St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Jackson, Tenn., with Humboldt, Union City, Brownsville, Grand Junction, and Bethel Springs as…

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David Alexander Nunn, 1833-1918, Federal and State Representative

David Alexander Nunn, 1833-1918, Federal and State Representative

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Click here to view archived page captured September 15, 1999. NUNN, David Alexander, a Representative from Tennessee; born near Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn., July 26, 1833; attended private schools and the West Tennessee College at Jackson, Tenn.; studied law; graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1853; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Brownsville; presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860 and on the Republican ticket in 1864;…

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S-W Goodspeed Biographies

S-W Goodspeed Biographies

John M. Shaw, a prominent citizen and extensive farmer and stock raiser of Haywood County, is a native of the county, born September 22, 1831, and is the son of Daniel and Sallie (McNeil) Shaw, both of whom were natives of Cumberland County, N. C.   In 1824 they immigrated to Haywood County, and settled twelve miles east of Brownsville.  Mr. Shaw, Sr., was a successful farmer, a true Democrat and a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and…

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Communities

Communities

Compiled by Jane Norton Powell before 2005. Allen’s Station, Asbury, Belle Eagle, Bethel, Brownsville, Christmasville or Castellaw Corner, Clark’s, Cliff Creek, Dancyville, Jim Dancy’s Dancyville, Eurekaton, Forked Deer, Hillville, Johnson’s Grove, Jones Station, Keeling, KoKo, Lebanon, Nutbush, Orysa, Owl City, Providence, Rudolph, Shepp, Stanton, Sulphur Springs, Sunny Hill, Tabernacle, Tibbs, Toulon, Union, Wellwood, Wesley, Woodland, Woodville, Zion BETHEL: Probably settled by Bob Taylor, and later Mr. Stocton bought the land which became known as Stocton’s Bottom. In 1870 Gibson Kendrick…

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