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…
Compiled by Jane Norton Powell before 2005. Allen’s Station, Asbury, Belle Eagle, Bethel, Brownsville, Christmasville or Castellaw Corner, Clark’s, Cliff Creek, Dancyville, Jim Dancy’s Dancyville, Eurekaton, Forked Deer, Hillville, Johnson’s Grove, Jones Station, Keeling, KoKo, Lebanon, Nutbush, Orysa, Owl City, Providence, Rudolph, Shepp, Stanton, Sulphur Springs, Sunny Hill, Tabernacle, Tibbs, Toulon, Union, Wellwood, Wesley, Woodland, Woodville, Zion BETHEL: Probably settled by Bob Taylor, and later Mr. Stocton bought the land which became known as Stocton’s Bottom. In 1870 Gibson Kendrick…
This database contains 11,990 marriage records for the period indicated. There is a SEARCH box at the top of the table below. Be broad and creative with your search words. Many individuals, especially males, registered with their initials only. The data were first published on the Haywood County TNGenWeb site in November, 2007. The transcriber is not indicated. The original records were microfilmed, and those film reels have been digitized. With a free FamilySearch login, you can view the documents…
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…
Robert CALDWELL, one of the influential farmers of long standing, of the Second district, is a native of Lincoln County, and was born October 25, 1822, and is the son of Alex Caldwell, who was born in 186, and died in Tipton County, in 1842. The mother was Elizabeth NICHOLLS Caldwell, who died when our subject was quite an infant. Robert Caldwell is of Irish descent; he was raised on a farm, and worker for wages until the date of…
Littleberry M. ALLEN, one of Haywood County’s reliable farmers and citizens, was born in Hanover County, Va., April 17, 1820, and is the son of Ampson and Ann S. (BROWN) Allen, both of them being natives of Virginia. The father was born in Louisa County June 22, 1794, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died in Haywood County March 9, 1855. The mother was born in Louisa County, Va., March 24, 1800, and died in 1854….
John H. DANCY residing in the Second District of Haywood County, was born in October, 1831, in Williamson County, and is the son of Isaac Dancy, who was born August 7, 1783, in Virginia, but moved at an early date to Tennessee, locating at Spring Hill, and was captain of a militia company of Williamson and Maury Counties. He moved to Haywood County in 1831, and located on the farm where our subject now lives, and established a postoffice called…
Maj. A. J. Halliburton, a farmer and valuable citizen of the Tenth District, was born in Humphreys County, in 1814, being one of two children born to Charles A. and Jerusha Halliburton. His grandfather was born in North Carolina in l747, and lived to be seventy-three years old; he was a major in the war of 1812. The father was born in North Carolina, July, 1793; his parents came to Nashville in 1796, then moved to Dickson County, then to…
H. Kerr, one of the early farmers of this county, resides in the Second District, and was born December 3, 1828, in Giles county, Tenn., being the son of Francis Kerr, who was born in 1801, in South Carolina, and came with his father to Giles County, where he lived until the latter died, then moved in 1829 to Fayette County, and settled one mile southwest of Dancyville, and eleven miles north of Somerville, where he died, December 1, 1885….
Dr. James N. Maclin, a physician and surgeon residing in the Third District of Haywood County, was born in 1842 in Tipton County, and is the son of James B. and Lucy (Taylor) Maclin, being one of twelve children – four living. The father was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Mecklenburg County, Va., about 1800; moved to Tipton County when a young man, and in 1839 married there and engaged in farming. In early life he was a successful physician,…