{"id":1182,"date":"2012-09-03T23:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T03:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion2\/?page_id=1182"},"modified":"2021-09-26T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T18:32:16","slug":"methodist-obion-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/methodist-obion-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Methodist, Obion Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obion Chapel United Methodist history from Obion County History, Vol 1, p. 472<\/em> with great input from Bill Cunningham.<\/p>\n

Obion Chapel is located 1\/4 mile off Highway 21 between Troy and Hornbeak. According to p. 472, Obion County History, Vol. 1, 1981, p.472, the first log church was built around 1795 and also served as a school. This building burned.<\/p>\n

A more likely date for this building would be 1859 instead of 1795. (typo and transpose of numbers ?)<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The Jackson Purchase treaty between the Chickasaw Indians and the US government was not signed until October 19, 1818.<\/li>\n
  2. U.S. citizens were not allowed to settle in the Jackson Purchase area (West Tennessee) until the treaty was ratified by congress on January 7, 1819.<\/li>\n
  3. Marshall’s history and other sources state that the first settler in present-day Obion County was Elisha Parker in 1819 (page 5).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Bill Cunningham says family legend states that his Easterwood ancestors, and a number of their relatives and neighbors moved to that area from Gibson County in the 1850’s, not long before the Civil War. So many of them concentrated in the area that it became known as Gibson Ridge.\u00a0 Legend also states that his great-grandfather, Asbury Easterwood, was one of those original settlers and a founder of Obion Chapel Church. Asbury’s sister, Nancy, married Samuel N. Miller, one of the donors of\u00a0 land for the church.<\/p>\n

    As an aside, Samuel and Nancy Easterwood Miller’s daughter, Melinda Bell Miller, married T.J. Easterwood, who later served as sheriff and trustee of Obion County. This produced a lot of double cousins!<\/p>\n

    And again from Obion History, Vol. 1, 1981<\/em>:\u00a0 Two-and-1\/2 acres were deeded to the church by James L. Thompson and Samuel N. Miller on April 11, 1861. The second church was built in 1866.\u00a0 Rev. James A. Fussell held the first revival before the roof was completed. The present building was built in 1939. Two Sunday School rooms were added in 1962 in memory of Bobby Joe Tanner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Tanner. Rev. Joe Walker serves as church pastor.<\/p>\n

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    1885 SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC AT OBION CHAPEL
    \n–submitted by Chuck Burress, Galax, Virginia, cburress [at] tcia [dot] net<\/a>, 5-31-99<\/p>\n

    Charley Laster Burress (1876-1957) was born at Obion Chapel and lived there most of his life. He was my grandfather. In August 1948 he wrote an account of the 1885 smallpox epidemic that swept through the community. One family lost five children to the disease. All spelling appears as he wrote them:<\/p>\n

    Jimmie Evans died on his own farm.
    \nJim Brewer died on the Fuzzell farm.
    \nMrs. John Pennell died on the Fuzzell farm.
    \nWillie Easterwood lost five children. Died on Bilbry Roberson farm.
    \nBas Forster died on Jim Burress and Will Dun farm.
    \nWill Dun lost one child. Died on Burress and Dun farm.
    \nJim Burress lost one child. Died on Burress and Dun farm.
    \nAnase Dun and his wife died on Burress and Dun farm.
    \nBill Evans died on Bob Wright farm.
    \nSialias Crews and one child died on Bob Wright farm.<\/p>\n

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    Dora Burke <dburke [at] livingonline [dot] com>
    \nDean, Sarah E.\u00a0 July 4, 1861 – Feb 7, 1956
    \nDean, John W.\u00a0 Feb 22, 1858 – Mar 3, 1927
    \nThree or four unmarked graves (don’t know if this applies to these Deans)<\/p>\n

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    Obion County History, Vol. 1<\/em>
    \nBerry, Boone, 1887-1896
    \nBurress, Albert, 1887-1920
    \nBurress, Wm. Robert, 28 Jun 1870–6 Jun 1871
    \nBurress, Charley Laster, 14 Sept 1876-16 Jul 1957
    \nBurress, Emily Parkman, 1799-1884<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Obion Chapel United Methodist history from Obion County History, Vol 1, p. 472 with great input from Bill Cunningham. Obion Chapel is located 1\/4 mile off Highway 21 between Troy and Hornbeak. According to p. 472, Obion County History, Vol. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}