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John Louis “Dr. Jack” Atkinson (1810-1869) & Caladonia Childress (1814-1875)

John Louis “Dr. Jack” Atkinson (1810-1869) & Caladonia Childress (1814-1875)

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Submitted by C. A. Atkinson, 5 Aug 2007. Atkinson – John Louis, Dr. ‘Jack’ – 1810 – 1869 B: Jan 25, 1810 Cumberland Co., VA. Moved to Williamson Co. TN in 1811. Moved to West Tennessee, Tipton Co. Married Caladonia Childress (B:1814 – D:1875) in Brownsville, TN (Haywood Co.) in 1835. Moved to Tate Co. MS, Senatobia. Died there Dec 2, 1869. The Atkinson family lived in Pittsylvania and Cumberland Counties, VA at the time John Louis was born there….

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Veterans of Zion Baptist Church

Veterans of Zion Baptist Church

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Submitter not identified. Source:  From the booklet researched, written and compiled by Joyce Cobb Maness. War Between the States (Civil War) James William Castellaw b.1839-d.1918, Co L, 7th TN Cav, CSA John Charles Warren Cobb b.11 Oct 1830-d.25 Jun 1914, Co L, 7th TN Cav, CSA Simeon Amherst Cobb b.1840-d.1927, Co L, 7th TN Cav, CSA William Thomas Cobb b.1833-d.1898, Co. L, 7th Reg’t TN Cav, CSA Chas. Haywood Estes b.1844-b.17 Apr 1880, Co D, Newsom’s Reg’t, TN Cav W….

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Thomas Jefferson Walker, Civil War Anecdote (1863)

Thomas Jefferson Walker, Civil War Anecdote (1863)

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Contributor and source not indicated on archived page. JANUARY 1 1863, Stones River Battlefield. After one day’s fighting James B. Mitchell of the 34th Alabama Regiment of Infantry noted the grim aftermath of battle in his journal: There was a great deal of pilfering performed on the dead bodies of the Yankees by our men. Some of them [Federals] were left as naked as the day they were born, everything in the world they had being taken from them. I…

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Representative Samuel A. McElwee (R-Haywood County 1883-1889)

Representative Samuel A. McElwee (R-Haywood County 1883-1889)

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Samuel A. McElwee (1857-1914)  was born a slave in Madison County, Tennessee, to Robert and Georgianna McElwee.  After the Civil War was over, and following a general inclination of former slaves to move,  the McElwee family relocated to Haywood County ( the next county west)  in 1866. During the years following this move when he was nine or ten years old, Samuel obtained a education in local freedmen schools, and  attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (Oberlin College was  one…

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Funeral Homes

Funeral Homes

Brownsville Funeral Home 107 S Lafayette Ave. Brownsville, TN  38012 Phone: 731-772-1551 Fax: 731-772-1636 http://www.brownsvillebellsfuneralhomes.com Brownsville Funeral Home records date back a good number of years.  Must know death  year and month.  Copies of some later records are in the Genealogy Room, Elma Ross Library. J. M. Cox opened the first undertaking establishment in Brownsville in 1866.   He also opened the section of the cemetery west of the main iron gates.  His son, James Morrison Cox II, inherited the…

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Brown’s Creek Baptist Church Minutes

Brown’s Creek Baptist Church Minutes

Minutes: 6 June 1836— “Received by experience John Curlin Saturday before the 2nd Lords day in 1836– “Opened a door for the reception of members and Brethren Joel Watkins and Jackson Curlin and Sisters Fanny Watkins, Matilda Jones, Weatherly (?), Susan Clow and Nancy Rose by experience. 2 June 1837– “Appointed Thomas W. Batchelor, John Curlin and Joel Akins a committee to ascertain the best form of an [addition] to our meeting house also the probable cost.   Saturday before the 2nd Sunday in September 1837— “Took up the reference…

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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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