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Marvin’s Chapel United Methodist Church

Marvin’s Chapel United Methodist Church

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.  In the text below, certain antiquated terms remain for context. This congregation, as it now stands, had its beginning in 1879 following the re-organization of Old Salem Church. Old Salem, 5 miles SE of Brownsville, was sold to the blacks in…

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Goodspeed’s History of Haywood County Churches (1887)

Goodspeed’s History of Haywood County Churches (1887)

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.  In the text below, certain antiquated terms remain for context. Source:  Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee (1887), pages 828-829 The early settlers of Haywood County brought with them the principles of Christianity. And the Methodists. Baptists and Presbyterians were the pioneer religious…

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Harmony Baptist Church

Harmony Baptist Church

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.  In the text below, certain antiquated terms remain for context. Harmony Baptist Church was organized 14 October 1837 east of the Haywood-Hardeman County line and about a mile and half west of Cedar Chapel. In 1840, the church moved to the…

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Christ Episcopal Church

Christ Episcopal Church

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.  In the text below, certain antiquated terms remain for context. The Episcopal Church was organized August 25, 1832 and the name chosen was Zion Church. Charter members were Mary T. and Egbert H. Sheppard, Mrs. Jane D. Johnson, Eliza H. Perkins…

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Beech Grove Church of Christ

Beech Grove Church of Christ

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.  In the text below, certain antiquated terms remain for context. Beech Grove, established 1883, was the first Afro-American Church of Christ in Haywood County. The history of the church as written in History of Haywood County, 1989, states that it was…

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Dancyville United Methodist Church

Dancyville United Methodist Church

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.  In the text below, certain antiquated terms remain for context. The deed to the church is dated April 1, 1835 and was registered on June 8, 1835. The property was sold by Byrd Link to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal…

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

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

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jim Curlin in 1998.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language.  In the text below, certain antiquated terms remain for context. 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…

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Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church History

Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church History

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Lynda Clarke in 2005.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church (also known as Do-Me-Good) is located in the Hillville Community, Haywood County, Tennessee. It is not known the exact date when it was established; however, it is known that the first building, a log structure, was used for school and church as early as 1840. Furniture for this building was…

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Nathan Eldridge & Elnora (McIntyre) Daniel Family Bible

Nathan Eldridge & Elnora (McIntyre) Daniel Family Bible

Submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Charlotte Holloway in 2004.  No copyright infringement is intended.  Click here to view the original item. Transcriber’s note:  Information provided by Barbara Perkins. 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., TN. He was the son of Greenberry Benjamin and Nancy…

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Tent Cities of Fayette & Haywood Counties (1960-1962)

Tent Cities of Fayette & Haywood Counties (1960-1962)

Historian Samuel Momodu wrote about the Tent Cities that existed in Haywood and Fayette Counties during the period December, 1959, through April, 1963.  He introduced the story: The Tent Cities of Fayette and Haywood Counties in Tennessee were the result of early efforts to register African American voters in those counties between 1959 and 1962. When John McFerren of Fayette County and other activists began their voter registration drive, many of the potential voters were sharecroppers who were evicted from…

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