TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM BLACK CEMETERIES
IN BENTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
(Revised Edition with Maps)
Compiled by Jonathan K.T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K.T. Smith, 1995

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A McGLOHON INQUIRY

JOHN McGLOHON (c1797-1872) came from North Carolina and settled in northern Benton County, the vicinity of what became the town of Big Sandy. (This surname was apparently pronounced as it was sometimes spelled, McGlown.) He had relatives in Madison County including the more prosperous Freemans of Walnut Grove plantation near today's McKellar-Sipes Regional Airport.

In the 1860 slave schedule of Benton County, page 55, John McGlohon is listed with eight slaves, an older male aged 55, a female aged 30 and then several children. This would indicate a helper with the farm operation and also a housekeeper.

On December 20, 1856 McGlohon sold a slave, MOSES, aged about 50 years, a man of dark complexion, to John M. Parker of Jackson, Tennessee. (Madison County Deed Book E, page 398)

In a letter written to his kinsman, James McGlohon, Denmark, Tennessee, late in 1838, John McGlohon made a request: (McGlohon, Letters and Other Papers, Tennessee Room, Jackson-Madison County Library)

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