{"id":2795,"date":"2026-03-28T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:03:47","slug":"eureka-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/eureka-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurekaton Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First called Eureka, the community was later named Eurekaton because another town in Tennessee was already named Eureka.<\/p>\n<p>The area was settled in the 1830&#8217;s and 40&#8217;s by families from Virginia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Howse, Jeter, Jones, Mason, Miller, Newsum, Short, Stoots, Stuart, and Wilkes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>From North Carolina came the&nbsp;<strong>Etheridge, Givson<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Nicholson<\/strong>&nbsp;families.<\/li>\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Craig&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;and Griffin&#8217;s migrated from East Tennessee, and&nbsp;<strong>Hilliard&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;came from both South Carolina and Alabama.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Post Office<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Located in Fletcher T.&nbsp;<strong>Seymour&#8217;s<\/strong>&nbsp;store.<\/li>\n<li>Mr.&nbsp;<strong>Stott<\/strong>&nbsp;who worked in the store also went to Dancyville once a week to pick up the mail &#8211; which only arrived at Dancyville once a week.<\/li>\n<li>Others who ran the store after Mr. Seymour were Ben&nbsp;<strong>Stuart<\/strong>, Hunter&nbsp;<strong>Stuart<\/strong>&nbsp;and Frank&nbsp;<strong>Barden<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big>Doctors At Eurekton<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Dr.&nbsp;<strong>Seymour<\/strong>, Dr. Joseph T.&nbsp;<strong>Seymour<\/strong>, Dr. Joseph&nbsp;<strong>Nelson<\/strong>&nbsp;and Dr. Thomas K.&nbsp;<strong>Powell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Harmony Baptist Church was organized in October 1837.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First called Eureka, the community was later named Eurekaton because another town in Tennessee was already named Eureka. The area was settled in the 1830&#8217;s and 40&#8217;s by families from Virginia: Howse, Jeter, Jones, Mason, Miller, Newsum, Short, Stoots, Stuart, and Wilkes. From North Carolina came the&nbsp;Etheridge, Givson, and&nbsp;Nicholson&nbsp;families. The&nbsp;Craig&#8217;s&nbsp;and Griffin&#8217;s migrated from East Tennessee, and&nbsp;Hilliard&#8217;s&nbsp;came from both South Carolina and Alabama. Post Office Located in Fletcher T.&nbsp;Seymour&#8217;s&nbsp;store. Mr.&nbsp;Stott&nbsp;who worked in the store also went to Dancyville once a week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/eureka-community\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}