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Orphaned African American Hotchkiss Children Court Proceedings (1868)

Orphaned African American Hotchkiss Children Court Proceedings (1868)

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in November, 2000.  Note:  [sic] in the content below was inserted by the Haywood County TNGenWeb Coordinator when revising the text in January, 2026. Source:  Haywood Co., TN. Court Minutes; Vol. I FamilySearch Film # 008659166 — click here to view images (requires free login)   Page 604: 7th July 1868: Ordered by the Court that a warrant issue against David Moody for harboring or concealing two orphan children, named Lucy and Martha Hotchkiss, heretofore…

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Funeral Homes

Funeral Homes

Brownsville Funeral Home 107 S Lafayette Ave. Brownsville, TN  38012 Phone: 731-772-1551 Fax: 731-772-1636 http://www.brownsvillebellsfuneralhomes.com Brownsville Funeral Home records date back a good number of years.  Must know death  year and month.  Copies of some later records are in the Genealogy Room, Elma Ross Library. J. M. Cox opened the first undertaking establishment in Brownsville in 1866.   He also opened the section of the cemetery west of the main iron gates.  His son, James Morrison Cox II, inherited the…

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Johnson Family

Johnson Family

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  Click here to view a blog post about ancestors and descendants of Maclin Bass Johnson and Sarah Eason Jones (b. 1850, Haywood County). Photo gallery image of Martha Ellen Johnson Taylor, b. 7-25-1885 in Nutbush community and d. 1937. She was the daughter of Alexander Johnson and Martha Ellen Bridgewater of Nutbush. Married in 1908 to Edwin S. Taylor of the Tabernacle community. They are buried in the Tabernacle Cemetery.  Contributed by Tina Gray.

Civil Rights Movement Experiences of Two Brownsville Families

Civil Rights Movement Experiences of Two Brownsville Families

The Ph.D. dissertation of Jo Zanice Bond (2011, University of Kansas), explores the history and 20th Century experiences of two families from Brownsville, Tennessee.  The author is the granddaughter of Charles Allen and Maude E. Rawls and Garnett and Jo Bond. Click here to view Dr. Bond’s dissertation.

African American Batchelor Families

African American Batchelor Families

This post contains a compilation of possible resources for research. Minor African American Batchelor Orphans Apprenticed in 1869 — from Haywood County Court Minutes “Batchelor/Bachelors of African-American Descent” — Genealogy.com post dated 2007 by Charles Bachlor contains a good bit of information about early white Batchelor families, including those who were enslavers.  Bachlor wrote: Although probably not pertinent to your search, two Batchelor brothers owned plantations on either side of the Haywood/Madison County line in western Tennessee and many of…

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Minor African American Batchelor Orphans Apprenticed in 1869

Minor African American Batchelor Orphans Apprenticed in 1869

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in November, 2000.  Note:  [sic] in the content below was inserted by the Haywood County TNGenWeb Coordinator when revising the text in January, 2026. Note:  The TNGenWeb Project does not support use of culturally insensitive language.  Certain terms on this post are presented in their original context. Source:  Haywood Co., TN. Court Minutes; Vol. I FamilySearch Film # 008659165 — click here to view images (requires free login) Page 719: 6th January 1869: Jermon Batchelor…

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Insolvent Tax Payers in 1867

Insolvent Tax Payers in 1867

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in November, 2000.  Note:  [sic] in the content below was inserted by the Haywood County TNGenWeb Coordinator when revising the text in January, 2026.   Source:  Haywood Co., TN. Court Minutes; Vol. I FamilySearch Film # 008659166 — click here to view images (requires free login) Page 368: Tuesday 2 April 1867: The following list of persons, with amount of their taxes, who are insolvant [sic], and amounts from them cannot be collected included: Jno….

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Estate of P. C. Midyett (1865-1874)

Estate of P. C. Midyett (1865-1874)

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in November, 2000.  Note:  [sic] in the content below was inserted by the Haywood County TNGenWeb Coordinator when revising the text in January, 2026. Source:  Haywood Co., TN. Court Minutes; Vol. I FamilySearch Film # 008659166 — click here to view images (requires free login) Page 6: February Term 1865: It appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the minor heirs of P. C. Midyett, deceased, is without a regular guardian, upon application, it…

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Charles R. Johnson’s Estate Distribution (1864-1865)

Charles R. Johnson’s Estate Distribution (1864-1865)

Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in November, 2000.  Note:  [sic] in the content below was inserted by the Haywood County TNGenWeb Coordinator when revising the text in January, 2026.   Source:  Haywood Co., TN. Court Minutes; Vol. H FamilySearch Film # 008659165 — click here to view images (requires free login) Pg. 626-630: November Term 1864: David Whitaker, H. R. Johnson & Chrs. R. Johnson Vs. Ann E. Whitaker, L. D. Whitaker, Peggy Castillow, John Castellow, Sally Sanders, Adeline Midyett,…

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