Biographies – Page 2 – Haywood County TNGenWeb

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

January 10, 2026 Bettye Liberty Comments 0 Comment

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

January 10, 2026 Bettye Liberty Comments 0 Comment

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

January 10, 2026 Bettye Liberty Comments 6 comments

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

January 8, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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

January 8, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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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Timothy Charles ABBOTT Biography

January 5, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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

January 5, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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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Surnames in the History of Haywood County Book (1989)

January 5, 2026 TNGenWeb

This searchable listing contains surnames that appear in the book History of Haywood County, published by Brownsville-Haywood County Historical Society in 1989. Surnames that have a bio-sketch in the book are indicated. Note the search box above the table; however, we recommend you scroll to ensure you do not miss spelling variants of a surname.

S-W Goodspeed Biographies

January 4, 2026 Bettye Liberty

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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P-R Goodspeed Biographies

January 4, 2026 Bettye Liberty

Joseph B. Phillips received a common school education when young, and was business manager for the “Rough and Ready Iron Works Company” in Stewart County until the war commenced. He went into the Confederate service, and afterward joined the Second Kentucky Cavalry and served until 1863, when his health failed him, and he was compelled to return home; after he regained his health he engaged in the mercantile business at Johnsonville, Tenn., and remained there until 1868, when he sold…

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