Source: Haywood County Line blog (click here to view original post). Snipped from the blog post: This photo came from the genealogy room at the Elma Ross Public Library in Brownsville, Tennessee. It was taken in the 1890s at the school in the Allen Community of Haywood County. Notes on the back of the photo indicate the school was located close to where Russell Kirby’s house is today. The photo was given to the library by Lawrence Cobb who ran…
This photo was first archived in July, 2001. The submitter is unidentified. The page indicated no date or identification information for the photo was available. Information would be appreciated!
Contributed by Kelly Russell, Friday, March 26, 1999, in honor of his mother, Willie Elizabeth Elder Russell, and grandmother, Hattie Lee Jones, who is in the picture. Information he contributed about Hattie is at the bottom of this post. FIRST ROW: Isaac Castellaw, Tommy Castellaw, Dan Castellaw, Harry Cable, Clarence Castellaw, Dennis Cain, Carl Marbury, Jim McNeal, Dade Williams, Emery Sullian, Glema Brown SECOND ROW: Beatrice Hill, Fanny Moody, Zilma Williams, Madeline Moody, Pauline Russell, Grace Booth, Kate Booth Ker,…
Information contributed by Mary Ann Mastin. Wellwood is near Jones or Jones Station. Founded in late 1700’s and early 1800’s on the stage coach line from Jackson to Brownsville and Bells, and at one time was larger than any of the three. Businesses at its peak included a hotel and theater, post office, livery stable, blacksmith, grist mills, schools, churches, ice house, four mercantile stores and a telephone exchange. Goodspeed’s History of Haywood County (1887), describes it: Wellwood, a post…
The submitter of this photo and notes is unidentified in the archives of Haywood County TNGenWeb pages. Photo circa 1975 Written by Jane Norton Powell in 1999: In the late 1940’s Bomar Park on E. College was abandoned and the swings and playground equipment moved to E. Main and the area now occupied by Elma Ross Public Library, and before that, the swimming pool. And along about this time, a football field was laid out at the present location. It…
Submitted by Jo Vail in 2002 with notation “Bob Sumners gave me this photo.” Identified individuals: Edith Sumners (Tanner) 1st row next to last on right (grey dress-4 buttons) Dr. & Mrs. Marr 2nd row, second and third from left (Dr.= striped tie, Mrs.= dotted dress) Dr. Wm. Lee Sumners 3th row, fourth from left, dark suit) Mary (called Mamie) Sumners Read 4th row, 9th from left (ruffled dress/ bow tie) Billy Sumners 5th row, 1st from left (next to…
Contributed by Anne Thiem, July 26, 2001. Robert Bruce Saunders served in the Civil War from Haywood and was also in a Tennessee Mounted Infantry in the Mexican War. He is also an ancestor of Brownsville resident Gene Campbell. R. B. Saunders was born in Virginia and moved to Tennessee in 1850 living there until 1874 when his family migrated to Texas. In 1966 many of his grandchildren had memories and stories of him. Finding this portrait in old trunk…
Click here to explore the FamilySearch catalogue of Haywood County probate records on microfilm and available free for viewing on-line. Transcribed by Tina Gray. Source: A Genealogical Quandary: Will Book D, 1845-1852, Haywood County, Tennessee, by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith, 2003 (used with permission). Prefatory Remarks (from the book) Many years ago WILL BOOK D (1845-1852) of Haywood County, Tennessee disappeared from the record room of the county court clerk’s office of that county, thereby creating a genealogical quandary…
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….
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…