Families & Individuals – Page 13 – Haywood County TNGenWeb

Nixon – Adkins – Singleton Family Bible and Genealogies

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by G. Wayne Nixon in 2009. No copyright infringement is intended. Click here to view the original item. Family Bible Record Births Benjamin Lewis Atkins was born August the 1st 1848 (Brother of Lizzie Frances УFanny) [Atkins] Allison Nixon) W. B. Nixon was born Dec the 14 1875 Emma Singleton was born Jan the 1st 1881 Willie Calley Nixon was born Nov 5 1901 Georgia Allie Isabelle Nixon was born Jan…

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Temple Adas Israel

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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 reformed Jewish temple began in 1867 in the home of Jacob and Karoline Felsanthal. A room in their home was set apart to house the Torah brought from Germany by…

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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. 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)

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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

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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Nathan Eldridge & Elnora (McIntyre) Daniel Family Bible

January 14, 2026 TNGenWeb

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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