Research Aids – Page 19 – 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. 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 12th 1904 Flora Elen Nixon was born…

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Trinity United Methodist Church

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This history was submitted to the archived USGenWeb Project by Jane Norton Powell in 2000. 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. Located at Nutbush in Haywood County, the church was organized in 1822 after a camp meeting by Bishop Moses Brock. The church was formerly known as Buckhorn church and located a mile south of the present location. Andrew…

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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. 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 Joe Sternberger. In the following years some…

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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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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. 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 societies. The first Methodist ministers who labored…

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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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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. 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 and Sarah Grove. The Rev. John Chilton,…

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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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