African American – Page 2 – Haywood County TNGenWeb

Last Will & Testament of Sally Tyner (1836)

January 24, 2026 TNGenWeb

This transcription was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in 2001. No copyright infringement is intended. Note: The TNGenWeb Project does not condone use of culturally insensitive language. In the text below, certain antiquated terms may remain for context. Note: The dates in the transcription differ. Source: Source for the following: Haywood Co., Tn. Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions; Bk. C (1834-1840); Pg. 385 & 504 State of Tennessee } Haywood County } August Term…

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Hearing of Isaac Dancy – Includes Slave List

January 17, 2026 Bettye Liberty

Haywood County Chancery Court records. Copies provided by Reese Moses, Haywood County Genealogist. Transcribed, as found, without editing, by j.d. , September, 1999. Haywood County Tennessee Chancery Court Book 3 , page 290 TUESDAY, AUGUST 23rd 1859 Abner Martin & wife Rebecca Warren Wyatt & wife Susan Robert Lemon & wife Mildred John H Dancey Elizabeth Lay Sarah Pulley & Ann Dancey vs. Isaac Dancey, Mary Dancey Alexander Dancey, Samuel Martin & Mary Martin Be it remembered that this…

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Haywood County Court Minutes August Term 1865

January 16, 2026 Bettye Liberty

PAGE 30; AUGUST TERM 1865 Thomas N. SKELTON Exr. of Francis R. SKELTON, dec’d A paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Francis R. SKELTON, dec’d ; was this day produced in open Court. Witnesses: Mary F. NOEL and D. H. THOMAS Executor: Thomas N. SKELTON Bondsman: H. S. MOODY & D. H. THOMAS PAGE 34; AUGUST TERM 1865 David WHITAKER admr. of Charles R. JOHNSON Ann E. WHITAKER & her husband, L. D. WHITAKER…

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Marvin’s Chapel United Methodist Church

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005. No copyright infringement is intended. 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 1871 and some of the members joined…

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Harmony Baptist Church

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005. No copyright infringement is intended. 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 present location on the Brownsville and Whiteville…

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Beech Grove Church of Christ

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2005. No copyright infringement is intended. 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 begun very near the present location by…

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

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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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Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (December 16, 1904)

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in 2000-2002 for the USGenWeb Archives. No copyright infringement is intended. Click here to view the original page at the Internet Archive. Note: The TNGenWeb Project does not endorse the use of culturally insensitive language. On this abstract, please note certain original words are included for context. Source: Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm Roll #101, Misc. — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 38 No. 1 — Friday, December 16, 1904 SOCIAL AND…

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Abstracts from the Brownsville States-Graphic Newspaper (December 9, 1904)

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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