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Spring 1980

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Williamson County Historical Society Franklin Tennessee 1980 V f WILLIMISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

PUBLICATION mimber 11

Spring 1980 .

Published by the

Williamson County Historical Society

George F„ Watson,- Publication Chairman

OFFICERS

President David Lassiter Vice-President T= Vance Little Treasurer Herman Major Recording Secretary Mrs, Annie Mai Gatlin Corresponding Secretary „ , , Bliss Mary Trim Anderson

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The Williamson County Historical Society was pleased to^

f provide eight interesting and informative programs to our com munity this year, and now provides its membership with Publica tion No. 11.

Some of our members are proud of their interest in studying their past and ours, and in these articles we may relish a frag ment of their research and discoveries. Our Publication has*a special focus - local history - with the source materials, subject matter ana people named all local and familiar. For- those of us curious about the hills and streams and families? around us, and the events which have taken place here, we take this means to deliver the material which provides details and j memories of these places, people, and events.

Whether your interest emerges from pride, nostalgia, or.' academics, there is substance for your insight and understanding; and think, too, about your roots and about our fine community's contributions to the broader context of the outside world.

David Lassiter President, WCHS, 1979-80 i

WILLIAI4S0N COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

PUBLICATION NO. 11

Spring 1980

CONTENTS Page A Williamson County Plantation, 1847-1865 by Dorris Callicott Douglas 1

Burwood s

Story of Burwood, Tennessee, by Louise Shannon Dedraan 27 History of Burwood Methodist Church by Lila Mai Akin Ragsdale 37

Samuel Akin; Early Settler of Burwood by Lila Mai Akin Ragsdale 3g History of Williamson County Home Demonstration Clubs by Elva Mayo Darby

Devon Farm and John Davis, 1770-1853 by Sarah and C. William Green 65 A History of Battle Ground .Academy compiled by Anne Beasley Johnson 91 Unpublished Genealogical Materials, War Memorial Library, Franklin, Tennessee compiled by Lula Fain Major

Harpeth River Prehistory by Joseph L. Benthall 127

James T. Carroll McCanless and Crystal Valley Farm by James Caldwell McCanless

Williamson County, Tennessee, Militia Commissions, 1832-1861 by Eilene M. Plummer

Contributors l^'l

Index 16:5 1 I I

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fer-f&Sr A WILLIAMSON COUNTY PLANTATION ¥ 1847-1865 BY; Dorris Caliicott Douglass,

A lovely aniiebellum home and productive farm may be- seep':

fom the Old Hillsboro. Road,, just north of New Highway'96 The

property is owned by Mr= and Mrs» Claude Caliicott and their

sons, Duncan and Clint Caliicotto The two-story' brick home .was

restored by Mr.- and Mrs = Caliicott in 1959= When they' bought

the property,the house was actually half a house= A tornado in

the 1920's blew away the top story and left the front porch:. ,

roofless' and bare of columns = The only repairs made'at the; .,

time was' a roof, placed about three feet above the upstairs ■.

floors = Therefore . .all that remained of the second'-stotyi-were

the original poplar .floors-,. Below, a winding stairway'went

to the ceilingo Outside, where the porch had been, were four

handsomely carved stone column bases. What became of-'the top

pled columns nobody knov^So . , Thus the house remained sbme.'thirty-

five years until the Callicotts rebuilt the second stbr:;' and

added a full length double porch across the front. The sur

rounding land of more than 700 acres is farmed by Clint Caliicott.

The original mistres.s of the elegant home was S-ara;.Agatha ' • ••, r • j Perkins (1832-1884) v/hose first and second husbands managed the

plantation. Sally, as she was called, was the'ybungest child-

of Nicholas Perkins, .and his wife Mary. Perkins', 'who owned some

PHOTOS; ' Top; . Original house; photo' taken about..,1900= Bottom left; House v/heh purchased in 1958 by the Callicotts showing missing second floor space. Bottom right; Restored by the Callicotts in 1959. ' V 12,000 acres of land and more than 300 slaves, provided generously for his nine children, both at the time of their

marriages, and at 'his death. Sall|; married her cousin Nicholas Lafayette Harr- at Columbia, Tgjnnessee,;. on, Jyly 7, 184.7. Marr was a native-, of ,

Tuscalopsa, Alabama.. When the couple married, he was not quite ,twenty-four years old and. she was. not yet. soyenteen.. ■ ■ , A week .after the ,marriage Nicholas. Perkins wrote, his

will, in which.he confirmed what property he had alre.ady given each child. For Sally, he has set aside the use of

about a thousand acres of land and twenty named Negroes* In addition he had given. her a horse, a mare, two .jmules, yoke of oxen, a wagon, and cows, hogs, and shS'^P,* ..The sjpe- cified livestock and wagon, together with land and.Negroes,.

constituted what Perkins evidently felt was adequate to establish a plantation; for he gave the same to each child . . .. beginning with the eldest in 1828. All that his sons and .

sons-in-law needed of their own, were farming implements.

Perkins further provided in his v/ill for Sally to have twenty

additional, slaves upon his death. ■ .i.i .•/•ID" Nicholas Perkins died January 6, 1848. On February 2, the Marrs legally received their share of the estate. To protect the interest of his. daughters., Perkins, instructed , his sons, as administrators of the estate, to cqnvey the. land and Negroes to their sisters in such a way that the property could not be sold or subject to their husband's. debtsV 'nor could the Negroes bo'taken'oiit of ■ Williamson » County .i " HGnce, Nicholas and Sally Marr received their-land :

and Negfde^ "Oh loan"o - '

The land set apart for:.Sally included "the tract'of landv^

called the white house> the tract on the South side .of:-the

West Haipeth nearly opposite the stone quarry, the Echols

tract and the larid south of the- Sduthern boundry of Nicholas"'

Edwin Perkins "tract"-.■ The exact location of these tracts . '

have not'yet-been determined. Consequently-it is riot known: ' '

for sure which t.ract included the plantation house.' .' •' Iiifbrmation pertaining' to the building of the house is • "

limited.' According to Henry A. Judd, an authority in the ■

history of a'tthitecture, this' attractive brick home was pro-

^ . . babiy built' bCtx-feen 1S40 and 1345. The. house is unusual in - i

^ its dimensions^ it being sixty feet square and having an en-r

trance 'hali' 'fifty-four feet long. The exterior walls -, are

thtee brick'thick except for the north wall, xvhich is four

bricks deep, as an added protection against the cold. A.

distinctive feature of the" house is. the interior.woodx-^ork

in the Egyptian Revival Style'; It is assxmed that-Nicholas.•

Perkins erected this notable edifice. :

When Nicholas Marr acquired the plantation, - part.of the. ,

land was already "emproved" or under cultivation. ' Perkins.,

ra'ised corn oh the White house tract.' 'When the produce,

from his estate was sold February 28-, -1848 there -were 260- ,

barrels of corn arid 30 stacks of fodder ."at White. House".

The corn- sold for 80^ to $1:. 05 per-rbarrel and, .brqught a .,

total Of $263 .85-.' - The- fodder sold for to r$1.05; a . stack, bringing a sum of $27,70.; In-.all:.nearly $380 waS' realized. . , from the corn and its fodder.. Those who bought the corn were W. Davidson, So H. Bailey, A. Vaughn and James GiraVo . William Denton and Jairies Gray bought the fodder» The White house'tract obviously included a barn where ■ the barrels of corn v;ero storedo- There must have/been slave, quarters as well, for Nicholas Perkins gave his , son Nicholas Edwin, a negro ihan named ''Jacob'White house/" .so called-:to. , JO.';. . f'-r- ; .. .. distinguish him from Jacob, also given to Nicholas Edwin,.

Besides the White house tract, the Echols tract would

have been under cultivation as Well, ' It had been farmed;for forty years. This 'tract of l'92-3/4- acres v^as settled by ; ,

John Echols and his sbh-in-law Edmund Tfall in'1806., The.-tract included good bottom land along the West Harpeth .River,- In.,.,/ one field near the river is the Echols family cemetery.■. ; Nicholas Perkins bought the land in two parts from John Echols' daughters in 1844 and 1845, paying a total of .$1,635;

for it.

The other tracts of land given to Sally were probably , .

uncleared for -the most part. The'woodlands included,-.such:

trees as the hornbean, ironwoOd, beech, box.elder, and dog-

wood. These trees were namisd as marker, trees -in the deed to

the Echols tract. ■

When the Agricultural Census^'Was taken in 1850 Nicho.las ■JIarr had 300 acres of improved ' land and 800 acres .^of .".unimproved

land. The cash value of -the pl.antation was $44/0.00,. The ■ value of the farming implements and machinery was $60Q, . .. .

In 1849 Nicholas tferr produced 3,000 bushels of■"Indian corn" and 40 bales of cotton, of' 400 pounds each. These-,were 1 . ':.v his only crops„ Marr was unusual in his emphasis upon corn

and cotton to the extent of excluding all other crops. Much of the improved land of the Marr plantation was in pasture for the livestock. As of June 1, 1850 Nicholas Marr

had 10 horses, 11 mules, 4 oxen, 23 head of cattle, and 150 hogs. The stock was valued at $1,540. In the two years since his marriage Marr had acquired eight additional horses, nine

more mules, and another yoke of oxen. It is not known by how many he increased his cattle and hogs, as there is no

reference to the niomber of cattle, hogs, and sheep that he got from his father-in-law. He evidently gave up. sheep rais- ing after 1848 as there was no V700l produced on the planta- » f- ■ ■" ■ ■ ■ j ' -,"1 ^ ' tion in 1849. Of the cattle that Marr had in 1850, thirteen '^4' .r.! . .-..J ■ . i = ;■ ' were "milch cows." There were 300 pounds of butter made on the plantation in 1849. There is no record of the milk pro duced. Also, there is no record of the number of beef cattle and hogs that were slaughtered. Hovzever, the value of the

animals slaughtered in 1849 was $375. Among the Marr stock were two hogs and a mule that were acquired quite by chance. On August 6, 1849 Nicholas Marr reported to the Williamson County ranger that he had taken up two stray hogs. One of the hogs was marked with a crop in the left ear and a half crop in the right ear. The brand of the other hog was disfigured. The animals were appraised at $2,00. As the hogs were never "proven away" we may assume that Marr kept them. Likewise, on December 14, 1850, Nicholas Marr reported taking up a stray mule. The mule, which was appraised at $30=00, was not "proven away" and became the twelfth mule on the plahtation. • ;

The horses on the "plahtatioh included the two given, to Sally by her father, ' wiiils the names of' the ■■horses .are, not

known, the names of their dams and sire are'recorded, in two . . places. Nicholas' Perkins' owned'more than eighty horses,, .Ac-,.,

cording to his will, he gave Sally "Caf s sorrel horse'' and;, ,.,.; "lloose's filiy by Prince, When'the ipe'rsonal. property, vras sold from Perkins estate, ijames' A. ' Bdstic- bought .the. "roan

i <■ mare Kate" for $55, 00 and John B, McCutcheon bought the, -

"brown mare Moose" for $80,00, Perkins had two,>horse,s.,named .

Prince. One was black and was bought by Jacob Surary for

$45.00. The other one was sorrel and was'^boug.hf by $.ally' brother, Nicholas Edwin Perkins for $70,00. The latter; hpr^.e

is thought to have been the sire-of Moose's filly. . Judging

from the prices paid for the' parent horses, Sally's horse and mare should have been worth, at the highest, $70..00, to $80;, 00

each. ■ omj-.

In order to have a comprehensive view of .■M.icholas_ Marr,'s

farming activities one should compare his crops and livestock with that of others in' the 'neighborhood, ' His brothersri^-.l,aw serve as prime examples for the' comparison". Marr ■ dif f ,

from the others in growing' only' the money crops ,of: ■corn-.-^and

cotton, Robert Bradley, for 'instance- had' 300 aqres of. im

proved land, the samo as Marr, '^et he grew corn,, cotton,, whcsat,

pulse, hay, Irish potatoes and sx-jeet potatoes.;; Of cpurse, he

produced less corn and 'cotton than'-Marr did, :.In 18-^'.$. he,. had

2,500 bushels of corn tO'Marir' s 3 ,000 bushels,. and,:37. bales

of cotton to riarr's 40 baleis', ■ Nicholas Edwin Perkins of Meeting of the Waters had 600

acres of improved land. He raised the same crops as Robert

Bradley (except hay) and also rye, oats, and tobacco. With

twice as much improved land as Bradley (and Marr), Perkins

not only could raise additional crops but larger quantities

of corn and cotton as V7ell. In 1849 his corn yielded as much

as 5,000 bushels, and his cotton made 61 bales.

Leland Bradley of Montpier was another brother-in-law

and uncle of Robert Bradley. Like Nicholas Edwin Perkins, he

had 600,acres of improved land. However, he chose to raise

very little corn or cotton, and have larger quantities of other

crops. In 1849 Leland Bradley produced 2,500 bushels of corn

and 30, bales of cotton, half of what Perkins produced. In ¥ fact, Bradley with ample land, raised even less corn and cotton

than Marr did.

The remaining brothers-in-law all raised a variety of

crops, some having more corn and cotton than others. As there

is no further record of Nicholas Marr's crops, it is not knovrn

if he continued to raise nothing but corn and cotton, or if he developed a plantation like Meeting of the Waters, with con

siderable corn and cotton, but including several other crops

as well.

With regard to livestock Nicholas Marr owned more stock than Robert Bradley, who like himself had 300 acres of im proved land. On the other hand, Marr did not raise as much

stock as William O'Neal Perkins, who had 400 acres. In June \ of 1850 Marr had 23 head of cattle to Bradley's 16, and 150 V hogs to Bradley's 30, Apparently Marr and Bradley held the ■ rf ■ ■ . . . . same opinion of sheep.. Marr owned nonei .and Hradloy had but '■ ■ -7 ^ , ■ . -i :V i , three« William O'Neai Perkins,■ with 400 acres of improved

land, had slightly more stock than, Marr.o He had a few less

cattle, 19 to Marr's 23,-but more hogs, 17,5 to ISO- In addi-

taon he had 54 sheep. ' •

Micholas Hdwin'Perkins and Leland Bradley also raised sheep. With twice as' much' -improved land as Marr, they could

raise many more cattle and 'KogS. .than he. did, and still have "■ . ' ■ ■ ■ ■ .. sheep. Nicholas Edwin Perkinis had- 35. head of. cattle, 266 hogs, . \,r,f , . and 36 sheep. Lelahd Br^adley had 31. .h^^d.,..9f ...cattle, 250 hogs

and 62 sheep. Nic.holas I-iarrV Robert"®radlOy,. and William O'Neal Perkins . ., .had enough draft animals ' for Oultivati,ng, more improved land than they had at -the time. ' In fact Nicholas Edwin Perkins and Leland Bradley, with 600 acres of improved land, had only two '.l.l; . ■ - . r . to four more mules and oxen than-liarr. .did. . Nicholas Marr had 11 mules, Robert Bradley had 13,cand .William Perkins had 10.

Each had 4 oxen. Nicholas Edwin-Perki-ns.. had 13 mules and 6 . .. oxen, while Leland Bradley had. 9 mules and 3 oxen. With ample draft animals Marr was prepared to farm more land as he cleared

it. ■ , Horses were generally used for family transportation and ■■■ ■ . ■ P -w- . pleasure riding.; All that were .-actually needed were a pair of carriage horses and a few riding horses.. The number of horses on a plantation depended•primarily on the master's love of ■ • '■ • ■ i-yiy horses. Nicholas Marr had 1^;. horses,,:Robert Bradley had 6, ...: Williim 0:'Neal 'Perkins-'had 10, Nicholas ,Edwin Perkins had 7 and Leland Bradley' had'"iSP , ,,. \ The word "plantation" has been used repeatedly in this account,^ . One diptionary defines "plantation" as "a £arin or estate of.many.,acres .worked by resident laborers". ' The e x..,v., "resident- laborers" of the .Marr plantation were the'iium^srous slaves eventually forty-five. Among the slaves give .to Sally-at the .time of her marriage, were Solomon, his wife, ■ Giely, eight of. their children, their son-in-law, and a ■ grandchild.. The ilegro couple and their older children 6ti- ^ ginally belonged, to Sally's maternal grandfather Thomas Hardin' Perkins, XA7ho built Meeting of the Waters. After their master]'s^ death., in. 1838., ..the slaves, became the property of Nicholas' . v. Perkins. At this time the Negro family included Solomon; ; . Ciely, and their children Grace, Robert, Elsham, Ephraimyv George., .Damps,y, Louisa, and Joseph. Another child, SaiRsbn, had .died..,some time beforehand. In the next few years Sarah and. Mary: Jane were born. Also born was Ciely, Jr., the daug'hter df 'Grace and her husband, James. At som.etime Robert caraie -to 'c - ■ - 'be. called by his. nickname Robin. All of the family, except- ; Ephraim and Joseph, were given to Sally when she married. • ■ i..!- Nicholas Perkins kept Ephraim for himself, and it is hot known what became of Joseph. Sally was gi-veh ergh-t other slaves; of which little is known concerning their family ties.. Their names were Rodin, Jr., Hickman, Wesley, Tempj^y^vTr.: ■ ■ Lydia.,- Edith, Nanny, and Betsy. In the fall of .1847 Sally received ancther salve.' On . ;. October 14th, Nicholas Perkins loaned fiis Negro girl Agnes to -Nicholas Marr. Actually Agnes was an advance-from the twenty SSj " ■ . , . ^ Negroes Sally ,was to have after her father's death. . : 10

; ■■ . ■; " i ' ' 'a/ Nicholas and Sally Marir wer'a to iiave the use of the & ■, 1; f;,,) _ . .. . >■ tt' ■. j. ■ ' ' , various slaves.and "their indf''ease"o 'That TArinter a baby girl, ... :-nr^ ' ' , ■ .v-: - ' (Amy), was born at the quarterSo^'A little later another.

child was born to Solompn and Cieiy, their twelfth. Planta- tion masters were very-^Cvareful'-about the birthing of their Megrods'aiid no doubt .Amy was brought into the v/orld by a .com petent midwife.. If. there was no riiidwife among the Marr slaves, Nicholas xvould. jhave. jhired. oneV such at" the Negro woman Sucky, belonging to Sally's brother,' Peter'. ' The nickname "Sukky' was common throughout the; south fdr Negro midwives (for they ... , .. v'-j ' ' ' . ,. .. fsn. took care of bot,h..,the. mothers and the ■"sucklings" from whi;6h they got their pame.-) . ■ ■'-fv"

After Nicholas Perkins.'^'dcath Shlly received nineteen , additional Negroes.. .Among them was Ephraiih who was reuni'ted with his kin. The ...others were jiifi, Daniel, Nicey, Nathan, Shadrick, Tom, Elija, James, Gentry/'Ahh, Elija, Margaret, ^ William, Patience, Martha, Glasgow, Eva,"''and Ruth. Daniel and his wi.fe Nicey had originally belonged'(-b''Thomas Hardin Perkins. So had Glasgow. The slave Eve once' belbnged to Sally's brother, William O'Neal Perkins, who sold hef"'to' his 'father on May 30, . . ' . . • .-iv.'.? ■'iW'.-ii.''

1840.

Nicholas Marr had.,three.-^or-eo 'slaves ' of his ovrn, all females. Their names are not khown, 'however. In January qf , 1850, a second female infant was■born among the Negroes. There is no way of determining if she V7"as ''the increase of one of 'tpq '.original!. Perkins slaves ^or of one'Of .Marr's own slaves. The. ,., child's name is not known. While there was a total of for'typ i ' ,r'. '.l- ' ' ' ' '■ five slaves, there were .probably' no more than five families 11

OA (the, plantation. i

■ f , The sl^ve-census taJcen Noivfembet 5> 1850'- shows that on

that date Nicholas Marr had 19 males and 26 females. The

names of the. Negroes are. not recorded in the'census? only the

sexy age^ and .colo.r. :(black or mulato). All of the Marr slaves

were jalack. Six of the slaves were over 50 years old, the

oldest being a man 62 and a woman 60. There were 16 children

under 10 years of age. Of these, there was an unusual num

ber of females, 13 girls to 3 boys. After allowing for the

elderly, the children, and say five house servants, there would

have been some 18 field hands, about 12 men and 6 women.

While Nicholas Marr was busy managing the plantation,

Sally was involved with raising a family. The couple's daughter,

%- Anne Green Marr was born May 24, 1848. The baby was called

Nancy. This child died at the age of ten months on March 26, 1849. A notice of her death appeared in the Franklin news

paper, the Western Weekly Review. Following the announcement

were the consoling words "Suffer little children to come unto

me" was God's kind command. The parents' grief no doubt was lightened by the fact that another baby was due in June.

The second child, another girl, Mary Elizabeth, was

born June 17, 1849. On July 20th a fifteen-year-old slave girl, Ann, was left in charge of the baby. Ann had been having

ah illicit affair with the Negro man, Tom, and on this day Tom had suggested that she give the baby laudanum to keep it quiet « so that she might meet with him. He had told her it would not A hurt the babv as he had often given laudenum to his wife. The

month old infant died from the laudanum within a few hours. - 12

The bereaved parents buried their child beside her sister in

theruGity-Cemetery in'Franklin.' Over the graves they placed

a nomument. which" read s

, , ;;j I ... Side by ■ side these two little sisters lay. Side by side in Heaven they stay. - Side by side the afflicted parents mourn, God took their babes and left them all alone.

The slave Ann was tried in the Circuit Court,o.t Willi.am—

son County and found guilty of murder. Hovjaver, the. case

appealed and she was judged innocent by. t.he Tennessee Supreme.;

Court. The basis for the verdict was that a master: was., respon

sible for the morals of his slaves. The. Marr overseer, had..

been aware of the improper behavior between Ann and Tom prior

to the tragedy and had said nothing. The, case was signif i-^ i ■

cant in that it was the first time the Court had ruled in favor

•■a • • of a slave over the master.

A year later the Marr's had a son, Nicholas Rowen, born-^!.

at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, June 25, 1950.. , ,In 18.5.2, three, days.

before Christmas, Sarah Perkins Marr was. born rat home in. ■

. Williamson County. The family appears tp.have moved to .v.-,

Tuscaloosa in 1853, leaving the plantation in.the hands of, ■

an overseer. In March of 1854 Claudia Virginia was borni-in

Tuscaloosa, She was called by her middle name,. Virgini^,'. Ar..^, ... v_! ; ■■V few weeks later on Sunday morning the 16th of April.,, Nicholas;;-

Lafayette Marr died. He was twenty-nine years old, Sallyj V ■■ j" ' ■ ' ' ■ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' buried her husband in Alabama and returned to Tennessee.,. ,, . .

-In the spring of 1856 Sally Marr had the opportunity. to •,?'

marry again, . Her suitor was Radford .Ellis, a.lawyer, and-: i

politician from Murfreesboro, and a major in the .rai'litia. 13

He was a. member of the..American ,pr Know Nothing Pc^rty ^nd .had been elected,state senator in 1855, representing Rutherford,,. .

and Will,iamson Counties. ■ -The American Party, originated in secret societies-.such as the Order of the .Star Spangled Banner in New.York a.nd t^e Order of the. Sons, of America .in .Pennsylvania. When asked ^abput.,their societies., the members/ sworn to secrecy, would answer I don know^" hence the popular narae Know,,Nothing. ii" . The party was organized in 1854 and advocated only native born Protestants holding public office, favorpd the curtailment of immigration, promoted str.ict naturalization laws; and strived to check the infl-uence of the Roman Catholic Church. Such were 4f> the political views of.,Radford Ellis and his colleagyes. , . The-Aonerigah; Party came about out of fear of, t.^.e^ grov/ing strength of immigrants? fpr in the last tv7enty-five years over five-;mil-lion foreigners, mostly Roman Catholics, had entered the;.country. Southerners objected to immigrants in that they . tended 1,to settle, in the ..north and v/ere thus aga.inst slavery. , . However-; manyr-southe-rners joined the American Party after the breakup-,of the Whigs,,, simp.ly to oppose the Democrats. The- American Party held its national, convention . at .Phila-. delphia on February 22, 1856 and nominated .former President. MilTardi.Fiill^ote,-for President and Andrew Jackson Donelson of Tennessepffor Vice President. (Fillmore had joinpd the Party, when the- Whigs broke up, because he felt tliat foreign born voters had cost him, ths,..election for .governor of New York in ■'1844)'". , .In thp presidential campaign of 1856 the American Party .isupporbed ia.jcpmmendable platform stre.ssing the. preservation of ? 1^. ,

the. Union, As sta.ted in the Nashville. American Banner of March , 2.2, . the party re.]presented. "the sounds conservation mexh...

North and South, who have at heart the deliverance of. the

/ country ^from. the. evils and dangers of s.ectional agitation and

the prpiyio.tion, of.. harmony and of the Union =" On election ,dsiy.i ■.

, Radfoh.d,^,Ellis.. woul,d,be only . one. of many in WilliamsQn.,Cou.nty,-, .. . tp,..|9aet hie. ballot for .Fillmor-a= , There were . 1,6^16.; votes;. fpr ..

Fillmore and only 775 for James Buchanan.. However, .Buchanan. .

carried.the state/ and the nation, to become.the next Presi

dent ,;.o.fj ;the United States, . . . ■ . ■ . j - . . Radfor.d.,.Ellis married Sally .Marr on Tuesday morning ..the, ,.. 25th .pip.March, ,,.1-85.6., ■ The couple was married by . the Reverend ^ A. N, Cnnn,inghara, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in. Franklin, A .gpo.d;-na.tured account of the Senator's courtship accompanied •the. a.nnouncemen.t of his marriage in the .Western Weekly Reyiey;:, It reads Just as we. said it was last winter, when we saw .thp.^ Maipt pnt. here. on a y.ety cold Sunday. TaTg knev/ he honored his., consti.tnpnts, and wonld gladly visit and converse, with them all, butiwe suspected then he had a particular preference for.one above all others,. Nell, well, it's only natural, and we wish. ■thej .newly married pair all the happ.iness they have desired

in .this: ;union...... ■ I Radford Ellis vi/as 35 years old and chad, been a wfdower fp.r five years, ifle had an 11.year old ..daughter, Elizabeth, ,. Sa.liy was npw! 24;and her. children were,: the ages of 2/ 3 and .5., Sal..ly./...-e second marriage not only provided a father and older sister fjor^lier little family, but probably four additional .house •servants,,.,.The; slave, census of 1850. shows; th^it Radford E.llis, .at 15

that time owned four slaves^ three women and one man. .They

would have been house servants as Ellis then lived on a city

lot in Murfreesboroo Assuming that he kept the. Negroes^ the

women would have been, in 1856, 39 _years old, -.,..,24' . ^nd 1,8.

The man v;ould have been 38 years old. . Al,l went, well for Sally and Radford through the,spring

and summer of 1856. Then tragedy struck Q,nce again.., A;tev7. .

word.s. in. the Western VJeeklV' Review only hint at the .jheart- . break. As recprded in the paper, "Vir.ginia C. Marr died,, , ;

October .23, 1.856, from the effects of an accidental, bupn:.,, re ceived ..some .two vjeeks previousr youngest daughter of Mrs.; R. ,G., Ellis;, aged about 3 years." Following, the death notice

were the words of sentiment, "'Suffer the little children to

come unto me' v^as the command of our blessed Savior." Once

more Sally had to gain strength from the Gospel of Matthew.

In. 1858 another little girl was .born. , Her name was Frances.,

bu.t they called her Fanny. ,

For a while the household included another member... About 186Q the Ellis' took in ,a boarder, the. "school teacheress." Her ngine was Miss McQuine. She was thirty-five years old. and

had beei>,born, in, Delaware. . ^ jj ...,It,.is thought ..that Radford; Ellis .added the ■ front porch to the plantation house. Among the., workmen was, Brice Pgto^fe, a young, stone cutter ..in his .early twenties. , Proud o.f his work, Poteete, carved his full name, .on one of the .column bases and put the. letter "B", for Bric.e on the oth.pr bases. Once the.. . stately Cprinthian columns were in place, his name v/as hidden •% from :view; but .it .was there .nevertheless, the. signature, of a

satisfied artisan. 16

Radford. Ellis'■first business transaction pertaining to

the plantation, ■•occurred two days before'his marriage« With

I, • i i the death.of Nicholas Harr, Sally had legally become a very

wealthy woman. Nicholas- Perkins had provided in his will,

that in the event of the death of the husbands of his daugh ter s.,....i^he, women were to receive ih'fee simple the title to their, land, and Negroes. ,On-March.-23,■ 1856,- Sally Marr'"agreed to a.marriage .contractiin which she gave Radford Ellis 1/5 in value, Qf her land and Negroes. This meant that he was ' entitle.d to about 300 acres of land and to abouli eight Of the

slaves,. While such a contract sounds harsh'it was • actually

as much a protection for Sally as it was a benefit for Rad-

fprd.; ,for, he thus had no right by virtue'of being her husband to any of her property other than-what wah stated in the contract,- The marriage contract evidently met with'the ap proval, of Sally's family, for it-was witnessed by her brother,

Nicholas Edwin Perkins and her brother-in-law, Leland Bradley, In 1,860, the plantation included 600 acres of improved land and, .800 acres-.of unimproved land, Ellis had-'twice as much,^land.under cultivation as. Marr did in 1850. -T-ioweyet, it was Marr v/ho bought the additional property -ih 18'52'.'' The' - casjh .vja.,jlue.„Qjf the plantation .in ;1860 was $4 0', 000, Tiie value of_, .Ellis' ...f^afining., implements .and machinery w:as $-700, Radford Ellas raised corn, wheat, cotton, and tobacbb;

and very likely pulse-,, Irish potatoes, and sweet' potatoes.

However, the sta-histics on the latter crops v/ere somehow

omitted from the census -r-ecord. .In 1859- Ellis produced" 3,,500 buSjhels. of corn, 900-bushels of wheat, 7-5 bales'of" 17

cotton,' and 30,066 poiinds of tobacco. A decide earlier,

Nicholas Mdrr had raised only corn and cottonf producing

3,000 bushels of corn and 40 bales of cotton.

As of June 1, 1860 Radford Ellis had 15 horses, 12 mules, 6 d'xen, 45 head of cattle, 350 hogs, and 125 sheep. The stock was valued at $4,725. Ellis had five more horses than Ma'rr had owned,"'' but the same number of mules, and only one more " yoke of oxen, 'i)n the other hand there V7ere twice as many

cattle, though the' number of milk cows was about the same. Ellxs'Hairing 15''to Marr's 13, The amount of' butter produced by tellis vras ■ omitted from the census record, Radford^Ellis"' owned'3si), hogs while Ilarr had owned 1501 In addition"'Ellis ' raised sheep whereas Marr had kept sheep only for one year.' In I860' Ellis owned '125 sheep and'had produced '173 pounds of wool the pre'vious year. The value'of the cattle,"' Hogs, ''ahd' 'sHieep slaughtered in Is5'9 had come to $100. The' over-all number of slaves on the plantation had hd't' changed in ten years, Radford Ellis had 47 Negoe's cbmpa'fed''to

Marr's 45. However, there were more adults, seven more to

be exact, and more work could be turned out. In the spring of ISfel Eort Sumtef was fired upon oh April 12th and the Civil War was at hand. On Juhe 8th, the State of Tennessee adopted a "Declaration of Indepehdehce"." "Eadford Ellis, ho longer for the'preservation of' the Union, '

reentered politics, seeking office in the TehnOssee House' of Representatives. Among.his political/expenses 'was $5,00 " paid to the Western Weekly Review, the 'fee for annotihcirig- '• 18

candidates.;: -Ellis was elected-August 1st. as the ..Represen- tative ;of a.: fl.oate,rial r.dis.trict comprised of Williamsonfr . ,

Maury, and Lewis Cpuntias. . . r ■ - .c i .iThe .'Tennessee, General Assembly conva^ned ^n October of

1861 atrithe State Gapitql building in Nashville. The. Legis

lature was yet in session cn February,16th when Fort Donelson

fell. i :ilinmediately Governpr .Harris..called for .adjournment to Memphis.; and., they, all ..departed in., haste ^ . takings the state archive.s: and;mpjciey with thein. .ij Within... t,h.Q, v/eek . General p. C. Buelv'ia.BELion Army occupied- the City, of. NaSjJiiville, ^Meanwhile,...^

the.'.Legislatur'P.rmet at Memphis., in a. building used by the. city, government on..:the northeast,,.corper. .of. B2.adison., and^ Sepppd ,

Straets^i v-\ „xtv n • ■ ■ ■■. [ ■■ ■■, :■■ ..„r. , ■ ■ ■ ■• ■ ...i -Z.I c. I . i . :t-- =A'S!.:a.vm«sm]:^i?.;.'i?-fi;the. General. Assembly,. Radford E.llis parti- cijiated,-in.'■the...passagei -of some- ;.interiestir|.g legislation. , . How

ever, most of the acts dealt -vrith the ordinary matters., of the ' ■ ■ ■ ■- - ' ■ " - . ; u ;...; -j.^ .: . '-i a State; iiike-iinqreas-ing the pay. qf. j.ailor.s.. and appropria:t.ing

raohey:;for -.the Asylum for the .Insane. , . . ■ ■.As ;.one.i'tWQ-ul.d expeot^ the. mqre interesting, enactments

pertained to the Civil War.. The..first such act v^as passed '• ■ <■ ■ yi.'t • .' in:. .. ;j October SQ,.*? ,1851,and permitted citizens to carry pistols, bowde knives,.; and. other weapons, "during existing, y^ar". On' Novemberc; 20.th an Ordinance ,Bureau y^as,;. established ■= . .. On Deoerabear 19th: an act v;as. passed, which,allowed the. Confederate S-tat.es.'.'to use-ipart of tbe State, .Capito.l Buil.dipp,. for the pur pose bf . 'hfelding their.:.courtSi.i .i. An .act .V7as .,passed February 11th to prof^idQ'for -the families of. .indigent sqidiors. :,0n March 12th an ingenious law was approved to furnish nurses for 19

the solddei:-s;.,.in arftiy.;-hospitals.- Free, perspns .of. coIpj: were .

t6';b.e 'impressed for the duty..- However^ they-.aould .not. ,be im- ,

pressed if they .had a- f.amily of. dependent children,. . .They y7.ere

to ..he."compensated for -their , services, the same,,as other. nurses_ in the hospitals. On March 18th the .Reserve .Military Coi^ps .^.

was authorized ..and was to .include every white male between the

ages of eighteenriand ;.forty-five. OnMarch, l,.9th an. act .was

paSsdd to :.pay .citizens for .arms collected, for. the. state. .Such ■ ' . ! j; ■: . i fi , ;c;

-were.'the.-..concerns-of a state, at war.. . . .

. ■■The: General Assembly, met .through March 19^ 1862» Last in

the order of:- -busine,ss was the-Report of the Committee of Finance. Th^' General:, Assembly: allowed, eac.h-, member, .$4 o.OO , a. day, P.lus 16jd

a mile for the round-trip to Nashville. Radford Ellis had been present every day that: the Legislature me-t. He, receiyed $532o 00 .^or 13,3:: days, pius.,:$7.76: for .36 miles, or a to-tal of .

$537':'76. .^Evidently the Legislature made no provision for ti^e

unexpected ••trip to.. Memphis.-,

■ Aftef :the' 'General Assembly. adjourned Radford Ellis pos sibly joined [the Confederate Army. , . There were thnee men by fhe name of. Radford:.'Ellis, in,,the Army.,;. Two were in Alabama regi ments- -and-the ..other in S:.Mississippi pegiment. The war years, on the Ellis ^plantation were not wit|iout

incident. , Two:horses were taken by the Rebels, .a horse was kil-ied at night in the. stablOf and, three, .horses were^ taken by the-.Uvv.'S. .forces,. ■■- The Rebels, took the, buggy.. ,..Beef and .pdrk-'.were .requisitioned -by, the Qonfederate ArMy ,:3nd pa_i^^^^ in-mi'but worthles.s money. .A, Confederate agent. gav^ • _$1»^342 in Cbrifederate- m.oncy for, ■ sixty-rfive po.rk hogs . and $60 in Bank of 20

Tennessee notes for two cows.. One "1^. Smith" bought four beeves for $95 and four head of cattle at''$14 Sacii "Or for $56. There is no reference to the kind of money-.he used. In all six horses, the buggy, sixty-five hogs and 'ten head'of cattTe were lost as a result"of the'war'. -y-y '•••■!• In the spring of 1865 General Robert E. LOe surfende'red' on April 9th at Appomattox Court House, Virginia,' hhd the ' '

South had lost the war. It is hot known when the'Ellis slaves left or what became of them, except for' isias'gow'and his -family. Glasgow, his wife Agnes, and his little brother and si'stef>

Calvin and Isabel, adopted the Ellis name and became share croppers on eleven acres of land near where the Old Chhrlotte

Pike meets the Del Rio iPike. '

Radford Ellis died in the summer of 1865, A sale of■ his personal property, including farming implements, live-' stock and produce, was held about the' first'of August.-' The' farming implements and machinery" brought very little, 'a • total of $47. 05, J. Peach bought nine old scythe bladeS'-for $.25. E. Lawrence purchased an old reaper"for $1.50. A, Rogers bought an old thrashSr and fan for $,75. J'.- Wali/•■■••• J, H. Hunter and C. 0. Jones each boug-t a cultivatbi, pay ing $1,50, $.50 and $.25, respectively. T. 'j. JoneS' boii^ht three cultivators, paying , $2.15,' $1. '?5 and $, 50'for them. Jno. H. Hunter purchased :an iron cultivator' fdf' $1. 00. 'A.. ■' Rogers bought one "lot" .of cultivators 'for'$, 10'.' Osca'r^ ' ^ f Ferrell purchased a shovel plow for $1,'00, B. 'C.' Hicks bo'ught a shovel and cast plow for $.50, and J.' Hunter "bought' three shovel plows for $1.00. 'b, C. Hicks'purchas'ed' 'a 'Mille'r' plow .« 21

^ for $'3..75...--X., F.-,Jones bought a Miller plow for $1.75, and ■" ■ .lj' i ' a Miller ;,plow and qul tongue for $1,50. Ed. Lawrence pur

chased-three Miller plows, two at $3.50 each and the other for $1.00. T. F. Jones bought a Diamond plow for $3.75. A

Rogers bought a bull tongue and sweep for $.70. B. C. Hicks

bought three plows for $1.00, Ed. Lawrence bought one "lot"

of old plows for $2.00. B. R. Hughes purchased a harrow for

$1,00, P. W. Moss bought a set of harness for $4.75. J, H.

Hunter bought a cotton scraper for $.70 and P. W, Moss bought

six cotton scrapers for $.90, T, W„ Little bought a cross

cut saw for $4,75. Enius Maury bought a set of balances for

$2.75. * While the farm equipment sold for very little, the live- ^ stock and produce did quite well. The livestock brought a

total of $1,677,50, the wool $66,30, and the pork $100.00.

E. Lawrence purchased a sorrel horse for $100.00 and two clay-

bank horses for $120.00, Sally's brother William O'Heal

Perkins bought a sorrel horse for $65.00. John Edmundson

bought six mules paying $80,00 a piece for them or $480.00

in all. E, Lawrence bought nine cows and eight calves for

$405.00, and five head of cattle for $140,00. Enoch Brown

bought three white heifers, one for $33.00 and the other

two for $18.50 each. T. P. Owen purchased a brown heifer

for $15,50. E, Lawrence purchased eighty-five sheep for

$297.50. C. O. Jones bought 158 pounds of wool at 35^ a

pound, paying a total of $55.30, E. Lawrence bought fif-

teen "lots" of wool for $11.00. While there were no hogs

sold, E, Lawrence bought $100.00 worth of pork. 22 i

Wot ibng after the''eale of Radford'Ellis' personal pro- pertyV Sal1^' 'began selling'her land, a little at a timeo She soon moved to Franklin leaving her beloved plantation forever.

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

<._ • j Williamson, Gpuni;y - Records;

Book "9" (Wills and inventories Oct. 1847-March 1851), p. 96; Description of land, Negroes, and livestock given to Sa].ly Marr by her father, Nicholas Perkins; p. 101; " Names of " Nicholas Perkins' horses sold February 28, 1848; p. ,103;„; Gorri: sold from the White house tract; p. 104; Fodder sold frpm::the White .house tract.

Book "T" (Deeds February 1848-July 1850), pp.. 23-24; Lpa^, contract for land and Negroes betxi7een vadmihistrators of Nicholas Perkins' estate and Nicholas Jiarr February- 22,: : 1848.

Book "B" . (Deeds. July 1808-November 1811), p. 399; Deed-of "Echols tract," Henry Cook to John Echols, October-15, 1806, registered July 7, 1310,

Book-\"R'x (Deeds July 1842-January 1845), p. 536; Deed, of part --. of.; "Echols .tract," Howard D. Thweat, Elizabeth (Ec.hpls) Thweat his V7ife, and Christiana (Fchols) White, to-Nicholas Perkins, October 30, 1844.

Book ".S".; (Deeds January .1845-January- 1.848), .p, 1.1-8; • peed of part of. "Echols-tract," Edmund Wall; and Sarah (Echols.) Wall . -his wife, to Nicholas Perkins,^- September 25, 1845;,-:p., :.600; Loan of Negro girl Agnes, Nicholas Perkins to Nicholas Marr, October 14, 1847.

Ranger Book 3, No." 659; Nicholas .Marr take.r-up. of two hogs, August -6, 1849;. No,. 707; Nicholas Marr -taker-up. of; pne mule, December 14, 135G.

Book "7" (Wills and inventories October 1838-December 1842), pp. 117-11.8; Slaves acquired by Nicholas Perkins from .. Thomas.-Hard in Perkins, estate, April 1839. , . .

Book "P'k .i :(Deeds April. 1839-~September 1840) ,,.p, 48,3; Bill of Sale for Negro Eve, William O'Neal Perkins to Nicholas Perkins, May 30, 1840.

Book',~i".X"i. , -(Deeds January. 1.85.6-October 1857),, pp. 107-lOar? Marriage Contract-of Radford Ellis , and Sally-,-Marr, March 23, 1856,

■Book (Dee.ds June 1852-April 1854), pp. 81, ,89., 90; , , Land boug.ht by Nicholas Marr in October of,1852-, . . -

Book.("1,4" (Wills and.. inventories July 1864-May 186:6.) , pp. . -, , - .A'2:36-.2.41; Sale inventory of .personal estate of Radfeird ¥ s G. Ellis, dec., registered August 9, 1865. 24

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Book "2" (Marriages January 1838~May 1852), p. 219, no, 1522; Marriage of Nicholas L, Marr and Sarah A. Perkins, July 7, 1847. .. ■,

State-, of/Tennessee Records;;. , Commissibh Book 7 .(January 1, 1840-March 15,' 1862)', p. 5;" '; . ..I^uther.forci Co,.',' Rad'fprd Ellis comnii'ssioned' 2nd'Mcijbr'in' 'the' ^2'nd, Reg., Tennessee Militia,;'February r5,- 134 OV'-

United, States Records.?. .. . Bureau 'Ql/'the'.',C,en I. The Sixth Census of the United States, Washington, D'-, 'C., • 1840, ..Williamson County, Tennessee; Nicholas Perkins; slayes. . p . _ ■ ••

The Seventh Census of the United States, Washington, Q. C,, ,1850, Schedule I (Free Inhabitants), Rutherford County Tennessee; ■ Radfoid• Gi Ellis; residence - town ■■ 9f''Murrieesb'6ro,. 'occupation lawyer, child Elizabeth, etc,' ' '

^^'tTenijie^seei .Radford - ' Elli^i

The Seventh Census of the United States', Washington,- .p,,,. C. 1850,^Schedule IV (Production of Agriculture) , Wlllicimson County, ,, Tennessee Nicholas L. . Marr> Robert ' - H.' Bradley, "W',''c'N/ Parkins, NichO.las E. Peirkin's, - and"'"- Leland J, Bradley, ■ ' Ti^^ Eighth; Census Of the United 'States, Washington, b. 'cl, 18 50, ' S''ciio'(iuie I (Free, inhabitants) Williamson County, Tennessee'i' Radford G. Ellis; Lists'-Miss'P J ■ Mp.Quine. •- "school, teacheress, ". Elizabeth B. Ellis, j-is' H, . Ellis',' etc, " ■ ' ■ ■ The Eighth Census of the United States 'feshingtonf,;'- D.-,(Cr, , .-i86.0, . Schedule Ii (Slave Inhabitants) , William- ..r.son. Countyp '''Tenhe'ssees Radford. G,-'Elli'S; ' • ' ■ '■'■ • " ) ■ 1 •. r't ■ The Eighth Census of the United States, Washington,' -D',' C., 1860/.> Sch,eduLe IV (Production of Agriculture), Williamson County, Tennessee;. Radf'ord Ellis, The Ninth Census, qf the United States, Washington, D. C, l'8ho:,-,;..{^Ched'uia ' (I;i.habitahts)'! Willi&m'soh- County, Tennesseei Glasgow Ellis; .Lists Agc:es,' Caivin',- 'and Isabel; Brice Poteete; occupation ~ 'stone cutter. ' ■ ^ 25 %

^ The'Ninth Census of ti^e'United States, Was'hington, D.' Co .?, 1870, Schedule. IV (Production'of Agriculture), Williamsen County, Tennessees Glasgoi^ Ellis,' ■ ' ■ o- ;■ r

National: Archives Microfiim. Publication'";;

Microcopy No, 25,3, (Consolidated index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers), Roll 143 r Radfor.d Ellis. j," • j Newspapers;, ■

Franklin (Tennessee) Western Weekly Review> January ,18.4Ss ■ 'Ci'-'jPfeath^^ncrtipie,:Df_ -Nicholag Perkins? March 30, 1849s Death notidd .''of ' Ann'''rG^^^ Liafr r. April- 2'8 18-54 ,s peath motice of; ,,,-,, Nicholas L. Marr, "Died at his residence, 'TuacaloQia 1"/ ~-'- Alabama, ,.late of this county"; March 28, 1856; Marriage announcement of Maj, R. G. Ellis and Sallie A, Marr; November- 7, ..,1856; Death notice of Virginia C, Marr'; August 1, 1865,; (1) Announcement of Major R. G. ,Ellis ' as a candidate for the Tennesse'e'-'House of Representatiiy^s? (2) Announcement of election day to be August lst> includes date of when the notice first appeared, July, 7; ;(3) Notice of the fee c.harged by the paper for announcing candidates.

Books- /and)' EncyGlopedias;

Bowman, Virginia McDaniel, Historic Williamson County, -pub- lished for Mrs, Bowman by Blue and Gray Press, Nashville, 1971, pp, 95-96; Death of the infant Ann G, Marr at the hands of the slave girl Ann,

Garrett, Jill K, and Iris McCain, Some Rutherford County, Tennessee Cemetery Records, Columbia, Tennessee, 1971;

Death date of Radford Ellis' first wife, Sophia, April 28 f 1851,

McBride, Robert M. and Dan M, Robinson, Biographical Dict ionary of the Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee State

Library and Archives, and Tennessee Historical Commission P Nashville, 1975, p. 231; Names Radford Ellis as Senator 1855-57, member of the Know-Nothing Party, and as Repre sentative 1861, member of the Confederate Party,

"Know-N-othings" , The Universal Standard Encyclopedia, 1955 edition, volume 14, p, 5107,

Knoles, George Harmon, "Know-Nothing Party", Collier's En cyclopedia, 1967 edition, pp. 126-127.

Parks, Joseph H,, The Story of Tennessee, Harlow Publishing Corp., Norman Oklahoma, 1973 edition, pp. 205-206; Know- Nothing Party.

Campbell, Mary Emily Robertson, The Attitude of Tennesseans Toward the Union 1S47-1861, Vantage Press, New,York, 1961;

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p.JSSs '^uote' from the hmerlean Banner regarding the plat- 'fdrmi of ■•'"the Kriow-Mothing-Party in the- .sle.ctipn of'.1866 p. 283; Election returns of Williamson County .1856o

Nelson, Anson, "Brief Annals of Nashville from, its Foundation .. to 1875", in Old Times in Tennessee by Jo.; C. • Guild, -T'avoir .Eastman &'HowilT," NashviTle, 1878, p, 494; Mentions the ■Legislatures adjournment to-Memphis in 1862..

Keating, J. M., History of the City of Memphis, D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N, Y. 1888, Vol. I, p. 508; Mentions t-he- Legislature 'being.held in Memphis .in 1862.. , Public ActsState Of Tennessee, Thirty-fourth General Asi^eitlblyi Griffin, ■ e^fip &• Co., State Printers,. -Nashville, 1862.

Persons; '

Judd, Henry A., Restoration Architect, U-. S. Park Services' Judd, While; on an informal social visit in 1965, voiced . his opinlqff concerning the construction date of th^ P.lan- .' tation ,house/.' •- ' '

Duffey, Sarah Madison (Mrs. George M.)

Great-granddaughter of Sarah Marr Ellis; Genealogical-- materfa'l!;.

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STORY OF BURI^OOD, TENNESSEF , ■ u v: -

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. •• ••'-Mrs-.'"Louise Shannon Dedman* .

In 1806 the Reverend John Pope;- his second wife? Ann

Lucas and nine children, came .to Tennessee from Edgecomb

County, North Carolina. ^ Five of-the children were born after

coming from North Carolina. He ovmed land from Duck River

■'Ridge on one side to Indian boundary line on two sides. One ' 'deed was signed by General . James Robeitsoh' 'in 1808. Pope

was a circuit rider minister of the Methodist faith except he

did not believe in Bishops and Missions. He preached in

homes, in groves or any place he could gather the few resi-

dents who had ventured, into this unsettled area together. His % own land holdings extended as ^faras the law allowed settlers

to go without infringing on land that had not yet been treatied

for from the Indians. His closest neighbor,' two miles away,

was Colonel Hardy Murfree. Reverend John Pole's line of

descent in America was; . John Pope, Edgecomb.Co., N.C. (1728-1799); and wife, ^ .Elizabeth Jeffries i ■ Col. John Pope (1700-1745), Edgecomb.and ^^lifax Co., N.C., b. Isle of Wight, Va and'v/ifd, "Mourning . . . . McKinnie

I Henry Pope and Sarah Watts

William Pope (1634-1700) and his xi7ife, Maria, married Aug. 16, 166-0. Patented land Westmoreland and •. Nansemonda County, Va., 1656-1662-1665. ..D^ed ,West-: moreland. Member of Friends (Quaker records)

*NOTE-;.. . Mrs. Dedman is a descendant of Reverend John Pope: \ (1762-1828) .. ■Exerpts taken from Historic Williamson. County ..by Virginia Bowman,, 1971. • ■ - ' 28

Reverend John Pope {l'y'62-r328) and his seven children f

by his first wife, Ann Whitaker, who died Edgecombe Co=,

N.C., 1804, at the birth of their last child, Elizabeth, Lost no time In remarr'iagQ to .Anne Lucas, About a year later he aridhis''Children and new wife le'-f-t'Edgecombe Co., N,C, for Tenne'^^ee-and. the cheap land, but-rich, as the Indians cedect mbr-e and-,more to the Goverhiivent.-and..-vrere pujshed' •' i .-.r .. . - . •, 'tj further back. He bought land in Carroir^and.Henry^counties,

in addition to-Williamsori. County, Tennessee, which were grants given fof''Revolutionary War service,-and,.his purchase^ was surrounded on three sides of Indi'cih territory. He spent

a short while in''CarroH County and 6h'¥tiffalo River, six ... miles out ifrom-^-'where Waynesboro, Tennessee now stands, , One of'his'''older sons remained on %he . land on Buffalo .River while'Rev"l Pope-and his family came;f:,to build^ their home in Williairtson' County, He was payingsI'and,. taxes in Wil-

licimson County'in ■ 1805, and shortly after ;beganhewing logs

tg. build his home in the wilderness adjoining .Indian Terri- " '■■ ■■' ' '''nr: .. tory, which at'that time was the limit-of .. any encroachment

'"Of-^citizens in Indian Territory, ... ■: . .. " • - ...... "u. He and his family,cleared land for growing their own supplies, including a distillery V7hic-ii vras considered a sal-

"■.hble .crop, in that day, along with corn, potatoes and other r* ■ ■ . ■ *''' "■ C ■ -f-,- ■ ' . ' fDOd-So ,;i'H,e, .was a circuit rider preacher -of the'Methodist

faith except he did not believe .in having jurisdiction under ' a'-^''Bishpp,. He preached in homes "as the ..-area, began to acquire -iib^ighbor.s,^ his closest neighbor was Colonel Murfree, then the Swanson family where.-'he-.:f:reque'ntly-held worship -services, - o- ^ 29

% nn Edward Swanson's home had been the gathering place for yburtg people to frolic and dance. Parson Pope, as he 'v/as .referred

to frequently, met and preached against the sins of -dancing v' and such gaiety, until Edward Swanson finally accepted the sin as wrong for his ov/n, as well as neighboring youn^'people,

and no longer allowed this pleasant get-together in the Swanson

home, " ■ - V ■

In 1811, Rev, John Pope redeived word of the deh-th'-'of J

his bachelor brother, Os'born Pope, in Wakd'Co. ,'-'N.-CVV .^hhd; it was necessary for him to make the long trip there to attend/

to his brother's estate, A diary of expenses was ,kept'>' includ

ing ferry fares, food for horses, lodging for' his party', !'

His brother Osbbrn had willed all of~ his slaves; to Rev.

"Sp John Pope, so the return trip v/as double in niomber, coming'

back to Tennessee, Osborn Pope specified in his Wiri"; that

certain families of his Slaves were to be kept together -as:

a family and not to be separated. It is of interest to note in the expense diary, which is in my possession today, the ,amount of whiskey purchased each day, along with other sup

plies,for the party. As Rev, Pope's family ' grew and'others' were moving/in. and taking up their lands, there was a vital need for edu cation and a house of worship to be built, 'fie deecled-.'";l/:2 acre of land in 1818 (Sept, 4th)' to be used by any denomina- •tipn or sect so long as they did not infringe on another'/s occupation as a place to worship. He,"specified foot,by foot and board by board exactly hpw the building was .to be con- strueted,,,the exact dimensions and the kind of material it 30

wa's to: be'built frqm. :^requently camp meetings v/ere held tiiere'Which.'lasted: for days. and..people came from miles away

to''Pope.'.s iehapel-f as it. had been named p. to worship according

■' 'to their Own.'bel-ie.fs. ■ ..

^ The church.; and schqo.l was never deeded to any denomina-

' '■■tloh-as .is recorded ,at .-.the Williamson County Court House there

fore, it did not belong to any one denomination any more than

to another, arid so stands .true today. Various Protestant

denoliiinatiohs .occupied the pulpit.,at Pope's Chapel, on Pope's

Chapel " Road, iii the 4th Civil District of .Williamson County,

''and'because of a large-spring there it was an ideal location

for both a church as well as a schoolc The care with which

the building V7as constructed, it was built to stand fo-rever.

But abdut 1910 a tornado hit the area and damaged the building,

ai; 'liKat'tise being used by the Methodist denomination. Over

1 ' the years.a small village had sprung up about two miles from

■ the Revh'-'Pope' s home and had bagn called by several different

names-, including Williamsburg, fpr. one Dr. Williams who had ■ ' • ''' . V. ' ■ come into the vicinity .to, wait on ..the .sick of the area.

My father. Dr. James 0. Shannon, a young Rian of age 21

yddrsT-'^iad graduated, from-University of Nashville, which be

came t^ahderbilt Medical school in. the second graduation class

ot ' the University in-.1877, as Valedictorian of his class. He '" '■felt the--.heed for, addition^ medical'training, so spent a ■year'"'at' 'Bellvue Hospital in New York City before coming back 'to'"Frahklin,■ 'and began- his firs-t practice with Dr. Williams

"b'f'• pre'sant day • Burwo.od;. ,r ^ . .. « 31

At that time, rio permanent name had ^be<;5n given to,

the small community and Rev» 'Pope ' had deeded-lands to

his children in that community 'v;hich name was .the,..last des

cendant Miss Carrie Pope,'who died there in 1958. . There are

yet Blacks, descended from the first who came to ,Tennessee

with him, or which he inherited from his. bro.ther Osborn in

North Carolina and brought them here in.1311. . These Blacks

as a whole are a credit to. the name of Pope, which they bear,

and some' are living and owning land v/hich. their ancestors

farmed as slaves of Rev. Pope- The Popes were, meticulous

record-keepers. . Hot only were names, .births and deaths re

corded in the;.old. Pope Bible (which I have), but also the

same for the slaves.. Bepause of ■ records kept, I was able to

^ trace the lineage of..Joe Pope who still lives .in the vicihity,

arid he and his .forefathers were taught; .the Bible and heard the . _^same gospel teaching which Rev. (Parson) Pope. instilled iri

. his family and descendants," They ^ are a credit to the com-

.^munity, \ ^ ^ ,

, . . During the war between the States, Rev.; John Pope's ■ -L O.' • '' . . grandson, John OsbQtn Pope, in trying to escape being Captured

by the Yankees, hid in the nearby V700ds,.. but. one day got a

chance to go home, Ke hid in the attic and when a faithful j , . . . .; (■ -rv;- . servant saw the Yankees coming, she quickly took hampers of

apples waiting to be stored for the.winter and scattered them

thickly on the stair steps. As a Yankee soldier attempted to go upstairs in search of the escaped soldier, she spread all two hundred and fifty pounds of her anatomf^/.,., plus spreading her arms with hands on her. hips at the. fopt, of., the stairs and 32

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dared the Yankee soldier to walk on her Winter supply, of k'

apples and ruin them. She must have heen.. most emphatic be.-^

cause he did not attempt to push by her in his search, but

went on away, leaving the Southern soldier safely :hidden ■ .> upstairs and guarded by Aunt Mary's, huge physique and- the

stairs strevizn with apples, . h-.m-v

In the Rev, John Pope's home, "Sastview", put. in., the^ : Wtall of wainscoting, some three, or four....feet high on your right, was a secret panel where,important papers, old deads in North Carolina, a diary of which I am the nin,Gth-..gGne>^ • ration to add notations in, old .dii.eids of land holdingsi in " -

Halifax and Edgecombe Counties,of.North Carolina, and a. • deed of land to Rev, John Pope in the year. 1811 signed by

James Robertson. All of these doc.uments and .many more of. which I have no knowledge were kept. In later ..years .when

some remodeling v;as do.ne to .the old ho.use,. this paneling ..7ir.

was done away with and what was in the beginning an entrance', hall, one wall was torn down and made into part of the living

room. The house was weather-boarded qvet and the sheltered

walkway , from the dining room to the kitchen.,,.. whichT.v/as built',

some distance from the house as a fire hazapdf .was-all torn,-'; down and added to the back.^of ,the house..,-; The,;-same batten . -- door hangs at the foot .of sm^ll ste.ep stairsteps going to

the upstairs bedrooms. The slave quarters and home, distil- lery have long been done av/ay with, but,, the rich plot of

ground to the left of the house vjhere Parson Pope had his . family vegetable garden, is still used today by its present owner and occupant, Leongrd Grigsby,., bn- a on - : ^ 33

Just beyond the garden is.;the family burial ground, with some forty marked^graves and several unmarked. In my youth,

I can recall going there and while' the family graveyard was within a fenced place, ,it;Was surrounded'oh one side with many graves marked only with field stones, where lay the bodies of the servants and slaves who had 'known no other home than that of the Pope family, both in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Reverend Pope was paying taxes', as' stated, in Williamson

County, Tennessee, by 1805 and by 1828 he had over 2,261 acres.

Most of the land lay on. the. "Headx^aters of Murphy's Fork of

West Harpeth" and was derived from grants to James Robertson,

Martin Armstrong, Benjamin.Carter and'Daniel Anderson, and extended as far as the. l^w.allowed settlers to go'without in fringement on land that.had not yet been treatied for from the Indians:, -The sprav7ling.j,astate was, of-necessity,' self-sus- taming, and was complete down to the distillery. The house has stood 165 years, basically unchanged, arid'many of the walnut and cherry fRtnishings of; the-'original home, made by a slave carpenter, have passed 'do'wh th'roiigh the years to the present generation.

On November 23, .1780, John Pope had married Ann Whitaker,: the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Cary Whitaker, of Gran- ville County, N.C, By her he had five"sons and two daughters.

His wife died at age 37, shortly after the' birth of the youngest child, Elizabeth, in 1797, In February of 1798, John Pope married Ann Lucas (lf774-7,1836) v/ho' bbre him seven more children, the last five of xvhomwere born after'the Popes came to Williamson County in .1806',' Here the|^''spent most of 34 ,

.thieir lives and were .laid; to rest in the family burying, ground; beyond the gar.den» The ;first to.be buried, here-jwas.,. ,.

Reverend Ppj^e -in .1829, ..Since ..then,. v/iyes., sons, daughters, , ^;;.in-law:S and .grandchildren, . The last burial, that, of a grand-

v.spn., took place in 191.0i ..Rev. Pope's .grandfather, hy the same name.,, had .been a. , member...of .J:he courts o.f Edgecomb and Halifax counties,» Ke •. ,.died .while serving as a member, of the House from Edgecomb .... County,,.in 1,745, He was a. member of the Colonial Assembly. , and on, the committee to arrange, a rent yoll jfor: "his ... .. ^a.g<%s,ties".. ...He was a planter of note, justice of the^ Rea.ce/-.

Sheriff n Tax iCollector and Vestryman of St, John.'s. Church ■QfE Edgecomb Parish, He, too, had donated; landj.and-; built a;; ^ o£-.churc,h near Oxford:, N.c,, known as Pope's; Chapel.,- It ..is,.no.t surprising, therefore, that as soon, as his.,grandson had cleared .land and .harvested a few crops at., his new home , he. ;. built a meeting house and school vdiere his family .and . . neighbors could .worship and educate .their, childr.sn ipr pu[t great emphasis, on both religion and education As mentioned, the community that developed , in this ar.0.a ..;was..;fir.St ..known as Williams.burjg,, ■, and later Shaw,.. .The pre- .•Sen-t neime of Burwood w.as' suggested, by a grandson of Reverend, ,aEope, James Drake Pope, who took, ;t be ..name from Mrs, Humphry Ward's novel, "Robert Elsmere'!,: .and "J^urwood" it is still r.!:.rf.t®,day, ' ■V . ■ • .... . As the. Pope children reached maturity, their father gave each a :farm near him, except for. those,, who moved, to jbi;S, extensive diolding' in ^the "TAiestQrn.i Dls-trict". ,Kis i sonsjThOTO^s 35

» Anderson and John Whitaker Pope were progenitors of the

families who continue to live in this County. There are none

of the name left, but among the female descendants is Mrs.

Louise Shannon Dedman of Franklin, who owns many of the Pope

papers and the family Bible, taken from the secret enclosure

in the paneling. Every indication points to strong ties of

affection between the Popes and their servants through the

generations. They were taught the Bible, were treated medi

cally as receipts shov7, and many of their marriages carry the

signature of "Parson Pope". The homeplace, located at the

intersection of Evergreen and Pope's Chapel Road, continued

to be the home of Mrs. Ann Pope until her death in 1836, at

which time it was to have gone to a son v^ho died unmarried

^ prior to that date. It was owned many years by Colonel Helm,

and at his death, passed into other hands.

An outstanding landmark in Williamson County, Eastview,

The Reverend John Pope's home, is presently owned and occu

pied by Leonard Grigsby. After the destructive tornado

damaged the Pope's Chapel Church so severely, a new church

v;as built nearer the center of the community which is

Burwood. « 37 #>

\ HISTORY OF THE BURWOOD: METHODISE CHUkCH . " "

Bys Mrso Lila Mai Akifi-'Ragsdale

Methodism, in the community nov; called Burwood,.,.,began in

l-SiS, just six y. ars after Bishop McKendree and Asbury, h^d

drgani'zed The ■ Tennessee Conference at Old Fountain Head-Church

,:-:ihear'"'Portland, Terihesseeo

Acco.Jding to a deed registered at the Will ^^son County

. iiCourt House, Franklin, Tennessee, on August 18, . 1818,,, John

"Parson" Pope deeded two acres of ground "for a place of wor- •. -r j -' ■ - - ■. ; ■ ■ ■ ship" to the following trustees? Samuel Akin, John Moore,-and

James Patten, ryv

« On this ground given by "Parson" Pope, a Protestant Metho- diist,■■■a' 'l<5§fehddist Episcopal church was established, j -lob. lb • The Church, located about tv/o miles west of the pr|.e,^.',>n.t,

village of Burwood, was named Pope's Chapel, ,

- The building was a substantial, one-room brick structure

about 34 feet by 40 feet in size. In style, it was the

typical early American meeting-house v;ith two doors on the

front. Its arched-top windows v;ith old-fashioned slatted-

shutters lent beauty and dignity to the chapel.

In 1910, Pope's Chapel was destroyed by a cyclone. For

a year or more, the congregation met in a nearby school house

for its "preaching services,"

For a time the Sunday School was disbanded; but later it

was reorganized, meeting in a vacant house in Burwood on the

Sundays when there was no "preaching services".

In 1912, The Pope's Chapel Congregation decided to build

a Church at or in Burwood instead of on the original site. 38.

The Trustees we^ W« Jinskin/ D. ^^Clark, N."A. Boyd, R, E.

Thweatt and Ao Ro -i Sparkraan«' ■ ' ' The Pope's Chapel site was sold and one acre of ground in Burwood v/as bought from W= A.. Saw for $125.00 per acre. This lot was deeded to the above-named trustees in June 1, 1912, according to the record in the Court House in Franklin,

Tennessee.

, In 1913, a one room frame church was built which is the

present sanctuary. In 1931, an entrance hall and two Sunday School rooms

were added. From the beginning, the nev^ church was called

The Burwood Methodist Church.

The last addition to the building, which consists of a modern kitchen and two Sunday Schoo rooms capable of being converted into a dining area, was made in ------.

The present membership of the Burwood Methodist Church ^ "l*. i / is

n:.! ■ ovu-, ;/ ;

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4 , iS.?kMUEL miNs 'EARLY SETTLER OF BURWOOD

. . . Bys '. Mrs, Lila Mai Akin Ragsdale

Samuel AJcin^ one of the earliest settlers in- the - Burwood

Area was born in 1771 in South Carolina, In 1793, he'married

'dorcas Starr who was also bgrn in 1771, .

■ When they came to Davidson County Tennessee,■. iSi^unknown,

but, in 1801, Samuel Akin, living then in Davidson County,

bought from a "Thrasher HcCollum" 60 acres of land for $100,

This tract was located in the 4th Civil District on the head

waters of Murphy Fork of the West Harpeth River, In 1811, he

purchased 127 acres for $330 from Benjamin Carter, who had

received a very large grant of land in Williamson and Maury

Counties for his services in the Revolutionary War, In 1831, 'B he bought from John Pope 25 more acres for $80, giving him a

total of 212 acres. The above information vras obtained from

old deeds registered in the Williamson County Courthouse,

Franklin, Tennessee, The Samuel Akin place was located a mile

south of the present village of Burwood,

His xfill, a specific document written a short time be

fore his death in February 11, 1844, is also recorded at the

Courthouse,

Samuel and Dorcas Starr Akin had 12 children, five sons and seven daughters. Dorcas Akin died in 1850, at which time only two sons survived, John A.kin and Arthur Stewart Akin,

By the terms of Samuel Akin's will, his land was to be divided equally between these two sons, John Al^in was the grandfather

of W. J, Akin and his brother Tim Akin, also of Millard and

Vance Akin, brothers v/ho ran Akin's Store for many years in 40:W

Burwood/ and John Akin was the great/ great grandfather of

T. T. Akin, Jr», ("Td") a member now of the Burwood Methodist

Church,

Samuel Akin was one of the Pounders of the Methodist

Church in the Burwood area - he was one of the first Trustees of the Pope's Chapel Methodist Church begun in 1818, and the forerunner of the Burwood Methodist Church,

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• , • • history' of' WILLIAMSON COUNTY HOME' ^ DEMONSTRATION CLUBS

. , ■ by , - i- Lr'

Elva Mayo Darby (MrSo William J. Darby)

The year 1912 was a memorable year, - it was the yG^iE':,

neighbors in Williamson County began cooperating with eachrj- other in organized groups to learn crafts that would ©ase- itho

burden of some household ..chores, and to create an. atmosphere, of learning and fellov/ship. . . . ■

The year 1914 saw the founf^ing of. the Pioneer Club, bha-; oldest Home Demonstration .Club in Williamson County, .with, Mrs.

E. F. McKay as its first .President. .Many years- later this plub would erect a marker in her memory which would read, "Ida .Allen

McKay, 1868-1927, President of 1st Home Demonstration Club in

Tennessee."

The year 1914 V70uld also see the Smith-Lever Act, enacted

V7hich authorized the University of Tennessee, through; its

Agricultural Department and the Agricultural Extension Ser-, vice, to supervise the organization of many such clubs,through out Tennessee and allow it to make the statement, "Its Campus is the State," ,

In , 1919, llrs. Hattie . F. Wendel, Agent, in the annua,!.re port of ..Home Demonstr.ation .Club work, listed eight active -;g.-. organizations (Pioneer, Pirogressive, Bethesda, Harpeth .Valley,

Bingham, Grassland, Suburb.an, College Grove), 194 women .en rolled, 13 girls! clubs holding regular meetings, approximately 9^.560 quarts of canned .fruits,. 4,476 pints of, vegetables. 42

1,662 pints of preserves, jellies, marmal<^^es, 1,053 :p6un^ of 1 dri-eS'^ vii^etables storeci,.. ?i55-^pouficTs''of' brined vegetables, 67 gallons of vinegar, 78 gallons of fruit juices, 82 other pro ducts, the total value estimated at.$7,264.80. Mrs. Virginia Carson Jefferson, coming to Franklin in February, 1923, became t,h,e, next Home DGrhohsttation Club Agent, bulling out non-product.iye poultry, flocks all over the county, "U'sing roads which were Jpad- all the; year and'"* impassable in mid-winter, the clubs, under her direct'ibh, participating in

the government Mattress Program, iabout' 7500 cotton mattresses made in two years, meeting .^1so in;,millinery and' Smith-Hughes clothing classes, Mrs. .Mau^e,;Blackburn,'■'Mi:s'l'''''Zucarello, and Mrs, Waiter King, leaders.,_ Mr^,.-Jeffe^sbri''brgahizbd the first County Council of Home DG^p.ns.tratiPnK'Cl'tibS''bhd th County ^Council'of 4H Clubs. , jr,;..: .O' : ' ■

other Agents were Miss Gilmore and Miss Sara Wood. Miss Lois Crowley, after serving three years as Agent ■-■in' Scott County, East Tennessee,,.:, came to Williamson County in February, 1947, as Couiity Agent, In retiring'on March 1,

1977, looking back over a 30 years ' career, a most active, beneficial, and important one to so^many people, 'Lbis noted 'tfidt the greatest changes had come in food processing, one of the most noteworthy change, the freezer, Throug,h her

efforts and understanding the wome-ns division 'Of' the Exten

sion program "has grown tremendously.- '■ ' ■-o' -".- ' ■ -'

Ilrs. Joan L. Wherlpy .is,-the present 'eapa'lbl'G' Agent, « chos'eri by the University of ...Tennessee Agricultural adminis- .. . JO ■ ...... ■■OP ® '■ird€i'6h staff and members of - the County Court's Aaricultural

Cj -i- • # 43 t

\ CornpiitteG,^,. ass:uming duties nn May 1, 1977o

TQday-i, >1979-19.30, Williamson County has 36 organized

clubs,,.with paore than 750 iriembers meeting monthly. These Home

Demonstrgtion .groupsJ located throughout the county, are open

to anyone in. the county v^ithout regard' to race, color, or na

tional origin. Other, •event's and special workshops held are

also open to any interested hcmeiTiakeiri,• all emphasizing the goals

of Home Demonstration Clubs, "To make the best better, make the

most of resources"at hand> and develop leaders".

The Pioneer club was organized in' 1914 at the home of Mrs.

F. E. McKciy. Seven women were present and elected the follow

ing officers s , President, .Mrs. McKay; Vica-President, Mrs.

Leon White; Secretary? Miss Annie Walker; Treasurer, Mrs. W. J.

% Carothers. Among the early 'iriembers were Mesdames Walter Winc^

G. A. Still, J... W. ..McFadden, W. S. McGhnn, L. R. Neal, Allan

Taylor, R. Farmer, Will McKay, H. R. Ferris, W. P. Mullens,

and :,Miss ;Al3lce-Reece. From the very beginning, in addition to

following, the State program, the. .club" has been interested in

helping, other organizations'and needy individuals. One of its

first donations was a cannerto a girls' club in a remote section of the county- For:.a. number of years it has paid the expenses

of ■ three . 4H C.lub -.girls to the district camp held each summer

in Columbia. The group has spearheaded various philanthropic project,^? including raising funds- for children's dental care,

the hot-lunch program, and.:the'-'hemophilia one. For many years, they wers;.responsible for ■•'beautitying the town square in

Franklin ;and. stretches of highway leading into the town. The Club also sponsored a children's Mardi Gras, the funds helping 44

the underprivileged = They v;ere one of the first groups to put out a cookbook with members' recipes'. The ladies have successfully followed the motto chosen at the first meeting - "make contributions to , health and leadership in the community". A complete history of the Pioneer Club, written in 1953 by Miss Elizabeth Carothers, appeared in the

Review Appeal October 6, 1977,

The Progressive club was organized in the early winter

of 1916 at the home of firs. Walter King on Clovercroft Road

with 20 charter members, Mesdames Walter King, W, T.'Lewis, Oscar Lev/is, H, J. Biullens, Albert Marshall, John Murrey,

Tom Murrey, W, S. Nolen, Wade Roberts, Henry Wiley, Sarah'W.

Boxley,^ James Pickard, Misses Mary Ruth 'Smith, Eugenia ■

Williams, Eula Williams, Ruth Butts, and Mesdames Rosh" Seward,

Earl Toon, Walter Austin, Tom Gore, lirs. King was' elected

President and Miss Adine Marshall Recording Secretary;. ' A-

committee, composed of Mrs, Rosa Seward and Mrs.-' Mattie Lou Mullens, chose The Progressive -Club as a suitable name. All

club women were asked to support certain government projects

during World War I, One of these was to have women "sign up"

to use flour on only certain days of the week. Each member

became a demonstrator in some kind of v/ork; Mrs. Joe -Johnson

with her fine Brovrn Leghorns, Mrs, Walter King, millinery^

some gave demonstrations in canning,' sewing, making tfhys and

baskets, others in refini:f!hing furnitu're. The Progressive ' Hi . . V ' ■ . J j— ' Club had an active part in forming a COunty Pair Association,

County Farm Bureau, gave books and money to the. County'Memo rial Library, supported the County Health program, school' © 45

\ lunc:heS(,, aided in Red Cross wprkc One of the, first■ County Council off.d.cer.s was chosen from this group v/hen A. P., Wiley became ,its, first SacretaryrTreasufer„ . .Willipnspn p . Caunty w^s ,the first, to. have. county-v.7ide Yaarbooksv- .and. first to haye Demonstration Kitchens,.and Assembly Room, these ro.oms, called "Miss. .Carson's rooms" in the blue-prints. The, Pro- .; gressive. and the Pioneer clubs formed .the ,'"Franklin Community Club", v/inning, several hundred dollars in. prizes, .at ,t.hp Co^inty

and State. Faiys,. the Progressive Club winning, first prize,

later .at the. Columbia District Fair. , . ■

The Bethesda .club i»7as .organized in 1916. A Community .Fa,ir...was

held at the Bethesda school on May 5, 1917, the Home .Demonstra tion Club..and the 411.clubs entering many items mad.e in their

workshops. Several of,. the officers who seryed in.,the ..first few y.ears wares . .Mrs. J. w., Stowars, Mrs,. Alvin Alexander, ..

Mrs. Tom Beasley, Mrs. R. Chrisman, and Mrs. Clarence Alexander.

.5?he ;club meetings were first held at night ,in .the ..school build

ing, the ..ladies having their meeting with the Home Agent , and

the .men with the. County. Agent. In 1950 Mrs. Tom Beasley's

log cabin, hack of her home, wcs.used, the first meeting.held

there on February 3, 1950, later the club moving across the

street into an,lOld. store building. In the late .50's and early

60.':S meetings ware held in .the homes of members. At present

the club meets in the Recreation Room of the United Methodist

Church. . The Christmas meeting is always held in someone's ...

home. I It might be noted that Miss Lula Chrisman, the,first.

Home ■Demonstration .Agent, ^ijas a native of this community. © A6

• fhe 'Harpdth club was organized as a ••canning club" in ■

1916'with'Miss Lula Chrismah as the "(ba-rihirig' agent.". " In

1921, after'MlsS' Chrisraan left, they were■ i&e-organized by

Mr&^'Wenidel and'began the program of canhing, ' food prepara tion, and sewing. Lh'ter they supported club work and ■■ ■ also joined with their husbands to form'a Community'-'Glub, ' ' • carrying out'many improvements projects., The club-furnished- ■ ■ leadership in many drives, carrying petitions-frein door to .'-.•■ door, abolishing toll roads.-- 'and securing rhral electrifi- " cation. During the Depression cl-ub women throughout the - • county''led'programs te-aching gardening, food preparation,

■pres'ervati.bh'and during the War the. Wation-ai Defense' De-'^" partment called on club women to carry-out its program's'. Harijeth club ha,s supported the Health Department the'Re'd-' -i ' "■■ CrossV the'P'.T.A'o, and other programs to improve-the liveB ■' •

' of'a'ir"'citizGns'. ' '

In 1915 the Grassland club was' -formed. Wanting'to-iearri

a'bbtter and safer m.ethod of canning foods, a number- of ■ . -- - '-f ladies in this community m'et at the h-om'e 'Of'^^rs. Je'ff ''Moran - • un Hillsboro Road. As remembered by Ptos'. Tom .Mo'trisp'h'- " ■

member of this first club, 'Mrs. Walter 'Sweeney'"wa'S elected "President, iirs. 'Moran, the second Presideht/'-holding'- 'this--

office when the club had a booth in the Fall 'of- 191-7- during ' ' ■the Williamson County Fair. Sometime-aiftdf the'United -' - - ' States'entered World War i the club, ' along'-^ith' others in- '-"^ " - the , dommunity, ■turned i'ts efforts to knitting sdcks' arid

sweaters for the soldiers and v7orked as a Red Cross -unit - rather than as a canning club. At the end of this v/ar the ® ■ 4 7 -

•'1 \ woraen .'^discontinued meetings of .any-.kind; The knox^7n member^Tof ■ this .early' canning vclub weres -.Mrs.- John Sugg, -Sr. lirs. -Jeff''o

Moran, ..Mrs. -Walter Sweeney > Mrs. David M. Davis, Mrsi Henry R. .

Ringi.,Mrs.! John. F.. Short,; Mrs. Mary Wilson,,■■Mr.s-.i-' W... j. Robinson,

Mrs. Jim .Robinson, Mrs..—Hd Moran, ■ her daughter .Elizaboth, and -.

Mrs. Tom-Morris. The' Grassland; club was' re-organized in -192'4' .'

through- the ..efforts of Miss Virginia^ Carson, Agent, working .-

with ..Mrs. ■• Jeff M-oran. It disband.ed again, .however.-, in 1927 .oand

was not re-organized until January, 1.931^. when Miss. Carson; met-.

with interested ladies in the home of Mrs:. -Ned S. .Ring - 'r.

(Elizab.e.th .Moran)-.. Since that time ithere has been an, active

Grassland I'Club. Several officers ;of the Co-uncil-have : been mem-s

bers of this.'^club -- .Mrs. Nod S. Ring,- Vice.-President. in .1;9JD.,^ J'

Mass Margaret Moran, Treasurer-in 19.41, .Dirs.. Marshall Savryer.:, .x ..

President in 1.945..,-; Mrs.. James E. -Ring, Treasurer in- 1.9.48-49

and Mrs. Dotson .Sawyer.-in 19,52.3-53,. and Mrs. Herman E. Major,

President^' 1954-55. . - . v : .

The Hillsboro club v/as started in 1919j, its- first President

MrSi Will Fulton. This club was .one of the first, to be ...known

as a'Hqme Demonstration Club.- Ini l923 the .olub met. once- .a .. .

month six months out of the 'year, al,so. having a ..-summer social

and a .Christmas social. In .'ther-early days !;the,:,iaemb.Qrs. made

quilts,;..:canned, and did craft-work^ These,,.gullts!:" crafts,--.and:;;

canned, goods- won, awards at local and state.-fairs^ .,-the money

helping to. run the club, the dues at that, .time being .1.0;?i,-.a a

month, still. persisting in some clubs. xr.The .club::lnnl94Q.,•helped,

build-and'furnish the first Home Economics room at- Hillsboro-. .- # - - school after a fire destroyed the school. Club -members during:; s 48 ' 2

VJorld-War-'la-m cotton mattresses, the cost of these being J

65jd for- the-tufts and.-^needles» They made hospital gowns out of brown'domestic, also made their own hats. In the, last, few yeaif'h 'the members'-have .landscaped Hillsbqro Schopl, haye given- ■moriey" to the Eome' 'Economics department-,- gave a picnic-,

table to' Jim-'Warren Park in .Franklin, and have-given-annu-

ally to tKe"- Rescue Squad. '.They have made , baskets out of . . .. honey-suckle'Vine, put twine, cane, bark bottoms in chairs., ■ made -metal ''serving trays with designs etched on with acid, .

and have etched glasses. ..In the last ten years they have ,

taken ■ a--btts trip each'year-.to points- 'of interest - Shakers- , ■ ... „ .

towh in 'Kentucky, Muscle Shoals in Alabama, .Ruby F-alls in

Tennessee, Lincoln's home in Kentucky, Redstone Arsenal ,in... . , Alabaifia;;- and to Memphis,; Tennessee, Money is raised for . .. , . , %

these'trips through luncheon .programs, auctions, - County bazaar.

26 members-are on the roll, .meeting monthly in-the homes of . members. Only one present member, J/lrs. Joe Fly, was with the.

ciiib whQti'' it started, J ..rc-

'"'The Triune club had- its beginning. :in .the Summer, .Canning Club, 1922, under Miss Lula'-Chrisman. . fin the Spring.,.pf 1??3 . bti.r-s Virginia Carson introduced 4H. Clubs, Community. Clubs, ;and ^

Home Demonstration Clubs;; She. furnished the leadership,, and the-"'womeh'of'the-Triune'community-were tenacious in their

efforts''tb h&ve better fed, clothed and educated .families, ,

an enthusiasm-''that, carries to this day in projects such as , , . cbh't-fes€s',-'^' "sho'ws, and fairs. The Triune club ha?., been s.yp- . , *

portiVe-of' --Rur-i.l -Free De'liveries-,:.-electricity, running water, iVf . schools", i-ibi"aries,'. lunches, and,,roads. , ,For ma^y years, .the _ 49

club met in the homes for all-day meetings, thfen in^. theiJ^arly 40's the old school building on the hill was used.-'"' Since 195,6

the 32 members have met monthly in the Fellowship Hall of ■ j^j;

Triune Methodist Church.

,T]?.e,. Douglas club v/as founded in April, 1923, in the : ; Douglas community at the home of Mrs. Lacy Dos's., The: ladries-.;.

were .formerly members of a missionary society of the Douglas

Methodist Church. Wishing to affiliate as .a noh-denpminatiO;hal WQ|::k;ing.,club, they received the help of Mrs. Virginia Carsou,

Jefie^^son, Home Demonstration Agent .then and a"t: present an

active member of the Douglas club. Earlier projects were,

helping to secure rural electrification, good roads,, elimina-

tion of,, toll roads, naming county roads, posting name signs, 9 and .encouraging families to give their farms a name.. Activi-

ti.e,s have .included helping needy families, sponsoring 4H Club wp.rk:,,jdi:Saster relief, furnishing leadership in County Coun- .cilS- The work is probably not as' difficult as it was in earlier .^years, but is enjoyed just as much, the fellowship,

■ continuing. ... .

The Better Homes club, fo.rmerly the Southall Home Demon- ■ ■■ ■'J ..Uj. -77, ■ strat:ion. Club, was organized in October, 1925, V7hen Mrs. Will

Lewis, a member of the Progressive club, moved into the Sput^all community, which extended from B-rOwn ^ Kinnard' s. f,arm ; " ■ ' j." • "r i r ^ on Carter's Creek Pike to Blazer'Roadlat..-the intersection wxth t .U0j;.rr; y f Old ,9.6.., ..she_ invited, on this October at.ternoonv,.Mrs. Virginia Carson .uTpf.ferson, along with sevei'dl" other women, tP'-her.;. i .home, Mrs. jJefferson demonstrating 'a^"'fruit'"cake miade with homegrown materials, thereby organizing tihe ■Southall_,,gp^e 50

Demonstration club xvith 12 or is charter members, Mrs, Lewis its first President 1 Among these Mrs. J, D, King, Mrs. Ellis Thweat, Mrs,'John Blazer and her daughters, iirs,

Luther Davis and her sister, came from the Killsboro com munity, as did Liia Thweat and Mrs. Albert Beasley. During those early years Mrs, Yates, Mrs. Vaughan, Mrs. Coleman, and Mrs, Lilly brought neighbors and kin, soon having a large, thriving club. Through direct leadership with dye manufacturers the Agent v/as able to obtain dyes clieapiy,;. and each member of the Southall club perfected dyeing tech niques, At one rally du^^ing the Depression members of the

Southall club marched across the stage in uniforms each had made - white Hoover dresses, the women buying the material by the bolt, 11 to 15 cents a yard. Each member also con tributed, one year during the Depression, one dollar per member in order to keep the Agent there when funds for her were so scarce. During the community rallies and displays the merchants "outdid themselves" to decorate their stores, flying flags and showering women with souvenirs. In 1967, following the death of the last charter' member 'of the South- all club, Mrs. John Blazer, the decision was made to change the name of the club. At the suggestion of Mrs, Maude

Blackburn the club was. renamed Better Homes,

The Thompson Station club had its beginning on Janu ary 6, 1926, rdeetihg at the schoolhouse, iS members present to make baskets and trays. The charter members wares Mrs.

Tom Adair, Mrs, George Alexander, Mrs. Irene Boles, Mrs,

Louise Davis, Mrs. Crawfo'rd Dean, Mrs, Floyd Fafr'ar, Mrs, ' 51

Spencer Gary/ Mrs'TJo^Hn Hov/ard, Jr Mrs Ernest'Penhirigtonf' Mrs» Walter PetWay,,: MrSo John-'Rediaan, Mrs. George'Sedberi^, ■ Mrs« Ciiafles Southali; Mrs. Myra Smithson, Mrs i WillVS\^arin,- '-v- ■ - Mrs» Giis'Watsori; Jlrs. Will'yTilllams, and'Jirs. . Thornas-Wither'- ■ ^ spooriV Mrs Spencer'dary Jras its first President hid].:' -stilF'-- an active member of the club, Thi'§ club pioneered in-organiz-'"- ing programs" of work that contained elemental and, ecofiomical projects essential to the economy of that period,' Picnics, i" rallies, arid special'holiday programs have also been impdft^.'-.'i.' ant, • fOdoghitioh' of''I'll' tiert-Jiefs, ^exhibits at 'County and Stateov; fairs/ fund-ralsihg projects (subscriptions' to "The: .JarmerJs-:^:: o Wife", auctions,'bazaars ahd' plays)■. Attendance at the monthly meetings' has always been-good. The year the highway wasTunder cdristru'ctiori■ some of the ladies wallred across fields, others drove''buggies or Wagons'through grass lots, and still others ' / had 'the highway-mules hitched to their cars oi trucks to pull - them across almost impassible places. Today, efforts to be present in the home of the hostess still persist through rain, sleet, snov/, sunshine, even on the very day that Skylab was predicted to fall (July 11, 1979) ! 25 members are on the '

roll, Mrs, William C. Fredrickson, President-,

The Lick Creek club, formerly the Greenbrier Club, v/as orgahized in 1926, President, Mrs, Fred Fox, Vice-President,

Miss Ruth-Fox, The'club met in the homes of members until '

1955 when they started meeting at the Greenbrier school. ' This was bought in 19'62 by the Greenbrier community, the building,

now called the Greenbrier Community Center. In 194S the name % Greenbrier Home Demonstration Club was changed to Lick Creek 52 r

Home Deraonratration Club. Projects have included erecting''' maii boxes according to postal requirements,-.building road ■ signs using old names on white planks v^ith bl.ack letters; " ' worked v;ith County leaders in :Hed €rpss . first,aid classes,-^ membership drives, Health Unit clinics, also enjoying gameh, cbritesth?, and singing _ together.., . . . The Franklin club was organized, in 1-9 26. A group of ladies from the Fourth Aysnue Church, of Christ,. realizing that the Agricultural Extension Service was mainly for riiral people, appointed I-Srs. .Thomas . Johnson ;-to contact Miss Virg'inia b Ic bfi;' -'x; " ■. . . ■. ■ ■ Carson about organising this club,.,. Some; of the ■26 charter - • members were; Mrs. A. J. Harding, the, first President, -Mrs-. ■ d. L. Britain, Mrs. W. T. .Beasley, ibrs.- Cowan, Mrs.- Gurly

Haffner, Mrs. Cl.lfton Brov^n, .Mrs. G. S. Boaz and Mrs. Thomas'' Johnson. Mrs. Haffner, who died about five years ago, was the last living charter member. The club continued to grow inv-b-'P membership, ■ - and after reaching 70, .members it had to be divided into older and younger members Some of the younger matrons were Mrs. Tom Pinkerton, Mrs. Frank.Craig, Mrs. Joe Picket, and Mrs. Emily Britain. As the years-passed some of • ' ■ , I ■!■ ■ the younger meTabers acquired jobs, some.ofithe older ones- ' ' left, and the club again became one., aXways active and en thusiastic, Some of the early events, in, which the club par- ticipated included Better Homes Day,.. -observed..the first Saturday in May, road signs,, improved, mail boxes, and in '- recent years attending the summer.aamp in Columbia, some-' times 100%f Today there are .,23. .members. 53

>ii The Friendly Neighbors club, formerly the Nolensville club, was. organized in. 1926 .: There were :about 15 Chartiet members, the meetings to be held .• each fourth Wednesday of: the-iitionth in the: homes;.of..LmemberS. X itlrsvi Ben- Waller -was the "first" President. One of the goals has been 10Q% attendance., and is still stfived for by the members today. Traditions- in "the'club: are many, among these being the:'suminer . family.picnics and thb-summer club camp. Mrs. Eya Gooch,:'who joined the club in 19 29;: has missed only one. time at summer camp since joining-the club,' unbelievably a record. Two women from the club attended ''Farm'"Woman's Week" in Knoxville for two years in succession. Sometime dufirig' the ■ year 1969" the name of the club was changed to ''The Friendly

Neighbors". There are 21 members on' the roll, n ' .r.i-.-

The Del_iRio_club was organized in 1927—19:28" in the -'horne of Mrs. Walter- King, its first President. The 12'charter'-'m"embers were Mrs. i Alexander Brown, Miss Elizabeth Brown,"- Mrs.' Walter Carlisle,-; Sr., -Mrs-.i -Charlie.:.Cook, Miss: Mary Garner,. Mrs•■.: J. D. King, Mrs .. .Will'Reese., .-.Mrs John Stanley, Miss EizSie Stanley,

Mrs. Walter, T.weeney> and -Mrsv Frank Timmons. Members who fol lowed theselrin the I93a-'is. .were Mrs. D. 0. Bailey, Mrs. James Buford, Mrs.-; Jesse .iShort,; Jr., Mrs. Jerre Pollard, Mrs. John Grigsby, Mrsii iOmar Stephens, Mrs. James C. Short, Mrs. Harry

Guffee, and Mrs?. ^Perkins Overton. There are 16 active mem bers at the present time-> Ifrs'. Hiram Beasley, President. Mrs.

D. 0. Bailey, Mrs.: June Pollard, and Mrs. James are members

of longest standing.

The .Ar^ club Was organized approximately 50 years ago, around .1928, when -the community consisted of one church, one 54

r%8t^WQ-roon\-school,■ a g^.vage, and a blacksmith shop, ineeti^. was. held at,, the .home of Mrs. .Escar (Josie)..,,,. Sinith^O^i,. .-{Sonie of-the members.-rogall the table arrangement ■ . ^beingthe brightryellow blossoms ofturnip ,greens! Mrs. ,- . .y, SmitbsQn^s daughter, Carolyn, now Mrs. Jordan Cook, and a,.ma;ji,-., ■■■ber ,0),f-,,i/th.e, cljub ^ was a; baby at. the time. Another f^rdai^ghli^r,,. ,qChrisbine.,.Smi:'thson..Shaw, sitting on. the stairs, .qommentedj. "I. want..'S©;m'r-9.?' that what I see'i, in reference to a..,luciou,s °^.i^!?^ti.t .sal^d, / Mr. Smithson, unlike many men,,.chose...to.^st^y ^b'. bom^'On...,.^'Ciub', Day" ? he.,always liked to check on who f i^ile^ her .p.lat^ t^e .fullest...and then labeled her the "rad-hot Chamr pion"I From, the, yery.-.beginning club members were eager to Iq^arn making pretty vaso^-.f"©^ pickel jars and vinegar bottles by . .!Painti,ng- !them-, with flovjers and butterflies, v/eaving baskets ,trays,; from hone3rsuckle vines, and reeds, catching ,.butter-; ^rid; pres.s.'^ng them under glass, and, economically, canning . beef iji-. tin rgans.v; ciaving, the beef tongue, also hatching. , baby, chicks. .. A .program, called "The Family Album", was the ■ big fund.-ra-ising p.ro.ject of the year. Two of the charter mem- b.ers are;.-still f.ptive, members of the club, Mary Jordan and. Ha.m-s-1 Tbo Arno Club has bee.n a family-oriented. organiza.r tion with .one-gei-neration^. following another in membership,. Also, .through the -years, in this club a group of friends has .. j J- V/; ■stayed; tpg.ether to- grow, and learn and ha.s become a special... .^ kind..o;o loving,, oaring family group. : The Fairview club, ;!rs, .M. T. Tailor,.. Presidentr began ' in rl-929-.1930, maeting. in the mem.ber3,' .hqmes. The roster in- o-l-uded-5.-..:;,-Mr3. Taylor--.,. .Mrs-..i H,. :■% Hughes, Mrs. J. T... Spiper,. <3 55

Mrs. 'duliotf'iiankford, Mrs. Harding Daughteryv; ■ and- Mrs. Bpwden Mangrunlo^^ Hbrne pf the deraoristratioris and "praatical applications were lauridty and' bhth lye-soa'p'makingv cottage ohees'e ;makingi,vr hand lotidh froin glycerine 'and' rose water

cream itiade in a home freezer, ■leathef -purseS'^ and... three-layered

compote trays. The club bbugh't'a large home .pressure .canner-- which they used together and- individually J" Disbandingrjin the

late 40's, the club was re-organized in 1951 at the home.-pf r Mrs, kltoh Mangrum, Mrs, Les 'HughSs, President. Mrs.. Robertjrv Mangrum Served' as President ih 1953, some of the othervmem-

bars being' Mrs. John Beasley, Mrs, Henry Ensey, Mrs;. Prank Johnson, and Mrs. 'Simmons. In 1954-1955- the club dwindled . ; away, reorganized in 1956, Mrs, Les Hughes, President.; . .Some,; i' of the demonstrations presented by Miss .Lois Crowley^,.were^i-;; ^ flower arranging, a volume mix for quick.biscuit and.panpakA 'making, di="iriciples of oven cooking and etiquette for the . f^ily. A workday was spent on quilted pillow making, and community.j projects were Girl Scouts and ' the Red. Cross programs, .. Through the years other projects, such as starting the Fairvipw Com munity Libriry in-1964, continuing to keep the Fairview Public Library as its primary community service, Lio,ns.Club-.carniynl' Christmas baskets to shut-ins, lamp making, club meetings^, at the meeting room of the Lions Club, helping to furnish ...this; kitchen^ serving meals there on the 2nd. and,-4-th Monday,.nig^b^ assisting the Fairviev; Boosters with .the Horse Show .fn July, sponsoring the Beauty Pageant, Thrift. Shop, Boo.kmpbil.e,|., . , ^ Harpeth TerraCe Niirsing Home entertainment, playdays, .^.v^ild,--. flower quilt, Maves> ' Inc-i-, Flea Market,^.. ; 'MfS;, . Mary..,|J.,. .Cll

is the present President. 56

■ The Peytoh'sviire. cOi'ub wds - brgahized. in- the .Spring; gf- ; d

1930,-krs; Dee'Wahfieia/PteSidetet^ ■24.. members- In the^ middle 60's thas ■ ■blub'combined ^with the Millview' club., or- ..-n,./ ganized in the spring of 1954 ■ in the home/ firs,.?'): iJudy jJone^s.,

40 members, ■■ Mrsi^' Charlie' Pox,' ' Jr..,. ' President .in now , thQ,?.Pey- .

tonsviiie-Millview Home Demonstration Club. dT • ■ The-GarriJ^'club was organized in 1930:'in-.avclub,■.hou.se.'fv/ on Garrison'feoad' called the old store house;,, rThe. charter members' v/ere s Virginia Poinor, Lizzie Anderson,, ?Sadie ; l4each9fR, Annie Peari'Poinery Mrs. J". P. Peach, Laura' Jone®, . Rosa Sweeney, and Mrs. - 'Grover Poinor. There- was-: no presid.ent • ihx the beginning, the meetings-and the programs handled by,, ^ Virginia carson Jefferson'. . Mrs; .Mea.cham was -th.©-,.aGting, P,rd-,,.j-, sident when called upon to do so. : The club q.uil.ted, • panned the Agent going to the homes of members:.when asked f.or assds^. tance, she doing much of-"the -co'oking herself and helping, .with, the various jp'irO jecBs-of the - dlub." ' At'present-thers t members, MihJ''J, ' D'v VJhidby, III, -President. - .i;- ,• . •,:.q The ifi'a't' C'feek club" was organized . in 19-32-,:. ..-the idsSyOf,,?^ Mrs.' Jim Reynolds, originally ■ from Detroit. Mlectrin,g,:.,for..! -th^r firs-t few years in the homes, the- -Club -no-w has tho ,UfSe..ot,.,,.. ;. j a community building. Each-member .finds her- l-i-.f-e-;-enri9hed:. 3 by the association with each other and-.ib.y the n.ew impthP^® of ■ home-making'brought''by the Agent-."- '• -..ri.i: - j.;r The Spilt Log club was formed August 26./,. ■.;19;33. - >r.The : first meeting was held at the home-of -Mrs. 3. Ragsdale.on Owl Creek Road. Charter members weres Mrs. Rufus. Tindall, Mrs 1 "Bessie Rash'-, Miss Lizzie Jones, Miss .Evie Jone^;,. 57

Edlirie Fly, Mrk. Tom Moss, Mrs; lii'z-kie'Griggs • Sam^-Barnes,

Mrs"".'La tJiha Ragsdale, Mrs. Berriice Barnies, Mrs". B. Ragsdale, ^ Mrs.'Howard Jones, Mrs^ Charlie SteWart, Mrs.' John B.'Fly,-'

Mrs." Tom Mathias. The Agent's first demonstration was bottom ing,,chairs using grass feeid sacks.' The club meeting was- every 5th Saturday in' a member'S home until 1949 when Spl-it""-Lo^'sOh^ was closed and the club got permission from th'e-School Boafd to use the building as a club houSe. The meetings are now held on the 3nd Thursday of each month. Mrs. Sam Barnes is still an'• active member of the club. The CrbSsroads Home'Demonstration Club combined with the Split Hog club in August," 1977, and "now the club is knov/n as the Split Log Crossroads Rome De'monstra'^ tion Club. ■

The Liberty club was'organized in 1936; A nuOleus Of■ IQ zealous members comprised the embryonic beginning of ■ thiS'novel venture. During the years of the Worldwide Great Depression^ when severe unemployment and economic chaos'existed, an ot^' ^ ganized effort was implemented by the 'Federal'-Government, ■ : under the supervision of President' Franki'ih D". Roosevelt, ' ■ "i known as the Economic Recovery Administration. . .. Due to these adverse circumstances a number of governmental agencieSiweta created to stimulate the social and economic style of our v r nation. Home Demonstration Clubs were organised and sponsored by one of these jed'eral agencies known as the-Extension .Sert vice. The regular monthly meetings of the Liberty :club were held in the homes of 'members "until 1943 when the. consolidation of public schools made the Liberty school building available.

In 1945 it was finally designated as the ■Liberty'" Communityi i, 58 Qrfit

^Clubhouseo There are 19 members nov; on the roll, but with ' ^ the passing of more than four' decades of history, only three of th6 original members remain active. The club has always recbgnized the many 'appeals for civic contributions.' In the. ■

bast years-the Home Demonstration Clubs have been very for-y '^ ' iiunate 'to' haye been served' by outstanding agents,, namely, . ■ ■ Miss Lul'a Chrismah,''''M!i:s. Virginia'Carson JeffersOh, Miss'-.- 'Gilmore,'Miss Sara'"vfei"6'ds,'Miss Lois Crowley, and hbw^' Mrs'.

Joan Wherley. ' '

The Lipscomb Club- was - organized between 1936 a'rid '19-39. Mrs. Mary L. Zimmerman was instrumental in the formatibn of

this club. Professor William Lipscomb was teacher of the I • • ^ one-room school; the group chose the name Lipscomb in'his honor. Lipscomb has been quite active since its beginning. % Some of the Presidents were Mrs. George - Johnson, Mrs.-'Albert ^ Gasseir','Mr's. Samuel 'Ribhardsoh, Mrs. James English, Mrs".--AiA'. Witt, 'Mrs. 'Herbert'Me'adors,''Mrs. Ray Stephens,- and Mrs. t:. ■L. Hastings',' 'who' is' the "'bnly " charter member still active.'■ ^ Mrsr. Edwin S. flyers ib the current President. The' Hiiisboro Valley club was-organized in 1942 with ■ Miss Kate Grisham, Ageht. She gave some nev; ideas on canning and to take" What you''have and put'it to good use.- This club started with six members',' i-lrs. Dora Leach, President, and at- the present, 18 members, Mrs. John Winstead, President. v;-'- The Johnson club was organized in June, 1947. About 10' ladies met at the Johnson Comrrunity club, ori-ginaliy Jb'hhson ^ School House. The property was deeded'to'the JoHhsbri-'Gbmmu- ni-ty Club about 1946. Mrs .'"M'iy'Evans v;as the club-'s first-;.!- » 59

w President.. Of the lO cHarteir'-'Mernbers fdur.are ;still, in the clubs Mrs. Evansf Jiirs , Johhsehf 'Mrs. Howard.Gajrdneip., and Hps.,

Lyle Morrow. The club raee'td the''2nd TuesdaYi ,of each, month in

the homes of members/ now numbering 28.

The Homemakers club organized on March 13, 1952,....,eiaht ladies at the Co-op/ Miss Lois Crdvrley presiding. ..Five members ■ were from the Bingham clubv three nexr members/first,President f May Johnson, Ida Pev7ittl secdnd President. Charteprinembers

were; May Johrison/ Ida Pe^^itt-, Edith. Baxtep*. Mrs,., Frost,. Alice Brenneraan, Liliie Hill Lorene Rodgers, and .RaiChel. Wat.grs^^^^^ This club lias always beeri active, made its goals, .v7on second ■ : .xasiA prize with its Scrap Book, taken'part in. the Bazaars, . and has / ...... 'j had a representative'at camp'each year. ■ • .

'p Fernvale club was organized' in 1953, The charter members

numbered 14, tv/o still active.'- Twenty; members are. on the roll

at the present time, 60 names' during the years. : Mrs. ..Hox'^ard

King v/as the first President, a merit club that year,. Mrs.

Jay Stears, a past President, was also President of..the County

Council. Outstanding achievements of- the club have been beauti

fying the old landiTlark,' Mayfield Springs, parties, for inmates

at Bordeaux Home at Chiistmas and Easte-i", honored Mrs. Tom

Lyons with a party at Greystone, always,.stressing the import

ance of reading, sending eyeglasses to-Eyes of the Heedy,

trips to the Upper Room, Cheekwood, Governor's Mansion, flower

gardens, field trips, the Parthenon•to see the Sandor Bodo

exhibit. . 60''-

The lend ship alub'wa's orgaftizad about ■ 1954. • A <

. pof iadie'Svwhe''- v^o:£:ked ;at. the DOirtGh-Storie l^Jprks formed the^ .{ ■'

'■ clubv -meeting atvnighty the 2nd Thesday of each month.'- ■ Some

of the charter members we're? ' ' Gharlene Ladd, 'Plofence''Hixw'e-il, Dallas Pratt, Mary-Lou FdxV Lillian Jeffersorivand -Margie Von

'"^--HdoyerV ■ Each'-year'^ i ■pabfuary ' this- club has ^ a IDOi' dinhei ' ' ^ and;;"a' ■ 'glfthonoring 'the members with;' perfect- attendahce = Each

year "the cldb'-has a''Christmas dinner, husbands ■ or Vis itbr^^'' ' '-^ues-ts-/'exchange''gifts and' learn-sedret 'pals fb'f the' yearl In-Augii's't the' blub'''has a-picnic for'' their families, a -picnic Basket 'arid items for- the auction to-- -ralse money for th'e club.

' ■P-rogebts'are donations to-a nebdy family,' the Rescue- 'Squadl';

Heart and Kidney Fundsi At the present time' there' 'are abbtit 4h--membeisi'-Ruby-Peach, ' President,' -T' • "• 4 ii.c; -.-ri-^hb'Brentwood 'community club' held' its' first- meeting-"bh-^ ^

O'e-tbber -15', 1964y- in -the- home- of Marian Weaver, 'the-first P-resi-

den-ti The-charter members' were? Marian'Weaver, Jean'Shearin,

V ' 'Lbis 'Moirrbv/, "Ruth Park, Mattie Smith', Sara''Tucker, ' 'ATeta '■ '•'•E'n'gleh'art','' 'C6rvi-he Re'edi' Ma'rtha Mcbaniel-, ahd-Rachel Holibway. " 'pibi ects'" have ■ inbluded books ' bought and donated" tb the Lip's- comB'sb'hbbi'libraryf canned''goods dbhated^to a 'needy family-; " heTped db'Unty' Welfare 'for' emergency ■ disa-sterV"sold'' Swipe''

making; 95^ per bbttle ;;'dbnatsd- sandwiches' to---the- Williamsoh 'Cbthty -Cfa'uhcil for''retarded'Children.-, ■■'dbnatibh^ o'fr-$50- tb'-l Ha't peth ' Sp'edial ■ 'Educa tibnai ■ Scho'bl, - - des se'r t - -dobkbooks- --'soid-;' ? made wash cloth houseshoes for Williamson County Hospital^

books first brought to Brentwood from Williamson County

Library, space donated at Brentwood Cleaners for 200 books. 61

« sandwiches, the Williainson County Jaycees for horse-

shows ,,. Baz,a,a^'.'?;, 9hift-type dresses made by members , and donated to.-Cen,traX. ^ate Hpspital and Clover Bottom, scraps of yarn and trim donated to,Harp)<3.th Valley School for Retarded, dona

tion to Williamson County Assembly Room for equipment, U,G„F»,

' .i .L.'. Christmas gifts and cookies taken to Halfway House in Franklin,

material donated to Baptist Children's Home for dresses, shower

of ' Central ..State Hospital, donation to Churchwoman

of Franklin for a Day-Care Center, bake sale, parties at Grey-

stpne, donation to Northside Junior High School for library and

art. departments, donated desserts for box lunches to Brentv/ood

Business Association sponsoring Brentwood Festival with pro-r

ceeds going, to Lipscomb, Northside, and Grassland schools, do-

'$> :. nation to.. Brentwood Library, Hospitality House = Workshops in-

O,lidded monpgrammed towels, turbans, crewel embroidery, tote bags.., decoupage, spiced apples for closets, pressed flower^ pic

tures, ..macrame, broomstick afghan, Christmas decorations, silk flowers, bi^aided rugs, quilling,. ;place-mats on looms. The - ., .gr.eg-.test. blessing has been the friendship which is held dear in

thip club.

The -Meadowgreen club met at the home, of Mrs. Jerry Vaughan

in.1967 with eight members present. The original members re-

• . maining in the club are; Mrs. B. G. Watson, Mrs. William

Herbert,...Mrs. Don Hughes, Mrs. Carson Wright, and Mrs. Jim

Merritt. Some of the outstanding accpmplishments ares street

.. .markers in. the subdivision, house numbers, and an entrance sign

.that was bought, erected, and disappeared all within a month,

contributipns to needy families, the Rescue Squad, Library 62 ®

Bu'il'ditig, 'and'Wursidg feme' also an- over flight ^;■tr.lpr ■: J

T to Shaker Village' it''Kentu'cky'; The charter members were ? ■ ■ ■■ •■; ]\lfs;''Jdrry Vaughan, Mrs', Watsoh/-'.Mrs. Williaiti.-Herbert', 'Mrs'.' Jim-'Merritt, Mrs. Don 'Hughes> -'Mrs, ■ Wade Thomash'^and

Mrs. 'Carson-Wright.

. T;' : -f ("s • • • . , The Hillsboro Acres' club was organized in 1970'at the ■ ' home of Mrs, Haymohd' Turne'r/ ' the first President." Being in • a '-transit area the "club'has" been small with 12 to'15 members, working hard together and participating'in the annual- Pood' • Farr and Bazaar. Other projects have been street signs and- markers, donations to the Williamson County Library, Rescue"

Squad, and delivering' "'Heals' on Wheels, . The Green V'alley club was organized on October 28,- -1974, with 23 members, Btrs'", John Black, Pr-esident, Among the club's € activities have been"supporting by contributions the Friends ^ ■"'of the Library y- 'Rescue Squad, United Way', ■ Retarded ■ Citizens' '"Bike Hike. This club has provided'-and-served refreshments • foif^ the Red Ctoss Bloodmobile, prov-ided ■■Gookie& for the-Cancer Society at its 1978 "Hee-Hav;" production, providad Cookies-'rfor the Open House of the Counseling Center, appeared -on -Wagg's nr. fh>r; ,:■■■ ■ "radio "Second Cup" program, and participated in- the annual Food Fair and Bazaar. In '1'976'' "this—club held an' -Open House for ail residents of Green 'Valley tO become better-'aCquainted and in 1978 they s'po'nsordd a new club in Oakwood Estates. "The continuing community service has been visiting the pa- ■fiPj. 3 oDr' - ^ . ■ ■ ■ ticnts at Lofton Nursing Home- and, oUrrently,. they are rotat- ^ ' "ing'^'with the Oakwood club'in' having- a monthly birthday party "i r.-fd - . • ■ ■ ® there. The present President is "Mrs. E. A. Jaggars." « 6 3 m

The Oakwood club was organized May 15^ 1978, Mrs. Tom

Rodgers, President, 23 members, participated in the Fall Food

Fair and Bazaar, visited Lofton Nursing Home, decorated at

Christmas the entrances to Oakwood Estates.

The Monticello club v/as organized in October, 1970, Donna

De Coaster, President, meeting in the evenings to accommodate

those women working away from home during the day, beginning

with about 25 merabers.

In December, 1973, Mrs. J. Weldon Smith requested the as

sistance of Mrs. Joan Wherley, Agent, to help organize the

Pinewood Home Demonstration Club, this being the 35th club in

Williamson County.

'® The Royal Oaks club was organized in April, 1979, at the

home of Darlene Brewers, they being guests of the Green Valley

club, Barbara Hood, a member of the Green Valley club, then the

first president of the Royal Oaks club. About 15 members were

present, now about 13 members. They meet in the homes of mem

bers, the third Tuesday of each month, carrying out the projects

as outlined by the Agent, Mrs. Terry Stillwell, the present

President.

From July 1, 1978, to August 1, 1979, Mrs. Joan Whaley

reports that 26,352 quarts of food were canned, 42,300 quarts

of food frozen, and 468 pounds of food dried. This number in

cluded only Home Demonstration Clubs in Williamson County,

which have 750 members in 35 clubs.

Note from the author of this article; These histories have been collected from each club at the request of the author, which histories, in their original forms, have been placed in the files of the Agricultural Extension offices in the Courthouse at Franklin. For this particular article, many reports sent in had to be condensed. t m

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4. DEVON FARI'l and JOHN DAVIS, 1770-1853,

By;, , Sarah,and C- William Grqen .. . .

John Davis, the founder of Devon y'arm, v?as born July 3,' 1770 in Pasquatonk County, N, ci , the eldest df seven "Children =

His father, Frederick, a revolutionary war soldier in the 2rid ■' N. C. Battalidii, and his mother Fanny Grieves davis,'Were also

born ih'Pasquatonk County, N. C. ' - - John, at the age of 18, left' home with a' group'of Militia on assignment to tight Indians 76o mileS we'st iri'the' ' '" "Da^-k and Bloody Gfdunds" of what is now middle Tenhessed. . ' J6

had an additional reason besides the'military' aspects "for'mak^ "

ing the journey. In 1787 he had received' from North' Carolina' one of the earliest recorded land grants of 3,840 acres loci- '

I ted in the vicinity of Fort Nashbofo (now Nashville, Tennessee)',

on' the south side of the 'Cumberland River. This grant'was 'foir'

services rendered as a Captain in the Continental Line. " During

his lifetime he increased his holdings through purchases and '

by grant to 7,000 acres. By profession, he was a surVey'Or.

By necessity, he was an excellent woodsman; ' initially, on what was later to become' Devon Farm, John ■

Davis constructed a rustic log cabin for'temporary living quarters - located about ten miles southwest'Of' Fort Nashboro In 1790, he returned to Pasquatonk and brought'back his parent^

and six brothers and sisters-to his new home. - ' ■ . > :

Photos; ' ■ ■ ' - • Upper left: Frederick Davis, Esq., 1748-1831; , Upper right; John Davis, 'Esq., 1790-1853; " ' . # .Lower left; Edward Dicksqn Hicks, I, 1802-1839; ^ Lower right; The "Home Place" 1795' - Devon Farm' 1980 66

During these beiginning yeairs as' a settler, D^vis was very da active in the North Carolihd Militia. Early histories of the area tell of ^goutir^g sxpeditions surveying tracks thrgugh . the wildpness aM.gf.many battles with the Indians^. Some.,,9f tham bear repeating!,, ,

_In 1852 John ,Davis wrote, "My first; ojjperiance .qf Indian massacres was immediately after my arrival..in.,the vicinity of Nashvilie.,pn the 27.or 28 of.• November 17.88 when Joseph...Dunham and Hardy Asquel w^re killej near, Johnson'§,,.,F9rt., ..They had.., started to town th^t day and the. Indians, lying in.jWait at the ,fend..of tiie lane fired on them, and thej^..fell, just at the edge

of the .woods, stillr-uncleared, and east of where Charles . , Bosley's, house now stands. In.that same neighborhood several ■'§1 ■■ ■ ■ ■ ' ■ i'- ■ ■ ■ ■ .Jji; - ,• were .Icilled immediately afterwards.. The two men were soldiers

in .the; Guard with which I, had come to the country," (Johnson's

. Fort and Bosley's house are. in the vicinity of where St, Thomas

Hospitaljnow,stands,) In., April of 1791 John Davis was with Jei^^es Robertson,

Edwin Hickman, Robert Weakley, John Garner, J, Smith and

Richard.Shafer for the purpose of surveying lands on,the Piney River, a tributary of Duck River. This parj:y^ of. seven men was. suddenly attacked by,Indians - Hiclanan.was,.. hit and. dropped

. . dead, . Robertson was wounded in the hand. When they sa.w. .. Hickman fall, they realized they, were, outnumbered and the

group scattered - and all but Smith found their way back to

Nashville. They then regrouped their forces, gathered, re-. inforcements, and headed back''to recQvef"'the bo^y't»f''Fd^^in Hickman. ...It; is said thd-t during' thq''.triL? a singular'^- « 67

happenedp "Upon leaving on Tuesday morning, John Davis and Mili'airi Ewing found that they had more bread than they felt

that they needed. They half-jokingly proposed to leave tV70

pones on the fork of a low dogwood tree for the missing Smith

stilT'lost in thO woods. This'they did, and the half-famished

Smith, completely lost in the woods, came upon their trail,

followed it, and found the bread. This gave him much needed strength, and continuing to follov; their trail he finally

reached Nashville",

Again in 1791, John took part in the "Parched Corn Tour".

This V7as when Captain John Gordon's company of scouts spent so

much time hunting southern Indians they were forced to exist

on that article of food for several days.

In 1792 he tells of an Indian attack on Buchanan's Station

(in the gehetal area of Nashville Airport today) when he was

at "Barton's Fort" on Brown's Creek,, near where so much mis

chief had been done. The next day he started up Stones River

on a surveying trip with Robertson, Collinsworth, Caruthers,

Joseph Newland and Robert Evens. He said they saw so many

signs of Indians that they decided to return to their station,

lout on the way back they encountered a large party of Indians

and after exchanging several shots, both sides drew off.

In 1793, while he was at Captain Hays Fort on Stones

River, he recorded, "Captain Hays and a young man named McFwen

had recently been killed by Indians and while I was on guard duty my fellow guardsmen Joseph and John Castleman were killed."

In 1794, he was a-member of Captain Thomas Murray's expe dition against the Indians at Muscle Shoals. He was also with v..

or.Capta'in John Go^rdon during the Nickajack expedition'^hile ^ .i'lcthe ■ future ^General Aridretv Jackson was just staiftirig his inilir. ••"A'-tary.- oare'efj-ds-'^a private. 'c ' LitJohn: siajys that %he' last man killed by Indians that he x. .'-knows.;of was John'Gentry in 1797. This happened riealf the head jof -ithe-ila.rpeth- River. - (.now Williamson County) . ^

bohoi;/' ''.'An encounter with the Indians he failed to re66rd'-was .^ne .printed in Ramsey's Annals cortcerniiig John DaVi¥> Col. William Pillow, Captain Elijah Robertson/ Captain Hurray> !x Willxam. Ewing, Andrew Castleman, all of whom were oh duty

j;-'With the militia, or. guard as it was-also called.- '

: ■ In 17.95 or. ■.1796- John Davis moved from the'-log' houhe to

a new brick house; about-' 'two miles away which had been two ■..i..: yea'rs-rinrthe building. Today, the house artd property known § as Devon Farm, are located just south of Highway' 10'6-'at kicks

, - c Road about ten miles southv;est of downtown Nash-Ville 'owned

-lo'- .i-.'and lived in by Mr, and Mrs.'C. William Green, frlr's. Gr'e'en is a

^ a vdiract descendant of-John Davis, The bricks' for the house vwere made from-clay dug on the property and fired in'JOhh

, !'■< .h Davis' s own'kiln which x-za's located.'just southwest-of the'

.house and to the rear of the pres'ent xvork sheds. ' 'In ke^eping

with his.-simple tastes,- he' named the. house '"Harpoth", -^'It

was aCone and a-;half sto-ry residence, the walls were one

:i'.-.wioifoo.tixthiGki: and.-made of -solid brick. The house stands'JOtt

,b-;.x rise-overlooking the spot whOre the Little Harpeth and' ^the b;-/11.i Harpeth''!-Rivers, jolsi-."- intentionally '--the' rear . 6f--''the ■ houSe ^ overlooked a'--rock-:bluff for protection against-'maurauding ( m IndianS'-J An a-ll-brick -two "room kitchen - and"'itb-riiroom-'-wefee « 69

® built in the yard (today a guest cottage) as' welT as o'ther out

buildings, work sheds, a carriage house, ice house, etc.

In 1798 John, now twenty-eight years' old, "itiarri'ed a:-'Vir ginia girl, Dorcas Cleaves (1778-1851), and brought his bride'' to live in the new house. She was ''a "woman Of fine niind^ a good

manager, and of great ambition." Tliey had ten children" all 6f which married into the prominent families in eariy Waehville;" The Davis family history is, in a way, the city's hi'stbry

The geographical location of the house and farm was des cribed by the; Southwest Monthly in 185.1 ,,'as fo'iipws;- ''''Ten'-miles

from Nashville and some three quarters of a mile''Off of Rich-lhnd

Turnpike." And to complete the description of the final a'p-■

proach"to the house, a resident in 1850 v/rote, "To reach the § residence"after .leaving - the highroad, .we meandered upaldhg valley, until finally climbing a sharp ridge, almost in its pri mitive condition-of ..forest farniturep, v/a suddently looked down upon the ;f arm ■ buildings clustered;, t'ogether around 'some gushing

spring right under the sheltering brows of the hills a'roiihd."

Today the springi.ho.use; still , stands^-.but the s"priho itself no

longer' flows.- . v uu; '. John -Davis and General ..J^es .Robertson, ;'foundef of Sfash- ville and father of Middle Tennessee, were close ffiehd^^-'and related-by two ■ family.'marriages, - two Rgber'tson bO^s'mafrled two Davis girls. .. The; first marriage in 1792, ji^hen John's sister

Giddy (pronounced "Kitty") married Jonatho'h '^obdftsori, the-t

Robertson's eldest son,:; The young couple set tied, on the Curaber- i land River "about a mile below the mouth of Richland Creek in

Davidson County," There ware eight children by this marriage. 70, ..^ ®i

The second marriage further uniting the families was in 1820,

when sixteen year old Ellen Mordant Davis, second daughter

of John and Dorcas married thirty-three year old Dr. Peyton

Robertson. There were six childrsn by this marriage.

The bond between General Robertson and John Davis, began when they were "comrades-in-arms" and then strengthened by

family ties which was clearly shown in. the following, letter

from General Robertson to Captain Daviss

Chickasaw Agency August 10, 1.812

Captain John Daviss I arrived at this place 23d of last Ttionth.' I was sick the day I left your house, and' the next ' day; have been tolerably healthy since.

I am well pleased with my berth and have had the greatest council that ever was in this natibri,' ■ ''

The Chickasaws prbv-e to be as well pleased with me as I "am ' with them. There cannot be a people more determined to ob- g serve peace with the-United States than the Chickasaw'sv if the professions of the Creeks are sincere, there will be no danger v;ith the Southern Indians.'

This nation is determined to put their law in force in the strictest manner, should horse-thieves or murderers pass through- this bouhtry.' And the Chobtaws have ordered all out of their nation.

You will see in The Clarion the letter from the Creeks to these people,' and the proceedings' of our council.' -. i:' '-

The death of the Choctaw, killed by the Rangers, will c'ausb much trouble, but will not be any great national crime. His brother has killed a Mr.'' Thomas Haley on- the Mobile 'road in retaliation.

I have invited the two Indians who lost their companion and propert'y to accomp.ariy ^me to Nashville- the' -last of' September.

T'must visit Mrs^.^ '-baVis- arid my grandchildren before I return- as I know not when I shall be in again — crops are excep- . tionally good here. ■ . j ; i /: ■ "I-'am, 'my old frierid, sincerely your humble servant,' ' ■ =

■■ James'-'Robertsbn - 71

of In 1780 W. Wi Clayton in "History of Davidson County" wrote "Harding Pike "crossing Har^eth Ridge, o.in tfixs ri'eight borhood lived Esquird John Davis the County Surveybr£i^a .manv.^^^^

more universally beloved and esteemed than any man -in-'the;;.: r.- county for his intbgrity-, ho,nesty and benevolence." Additional

quotations further describe the character of John Davis ,/a^^ fol^ lows; "He was a'tal-lcslen^^er man, with wonderful powerSi.'e.fc; endui-qhCe--h'a..COhld Subsist .for days on parched "cbf'niWhen out

surveying-."; .,,"llany pleasing incidents and :g,eher6us acts, are - V / ..V .. J- connected with the history of this pioneer surveyor, who marked

the way far ih .advance of permanent settlements in almost every

part ef -Hickman County (Tennessee) fromt.790 to 1820.'":' ;;]

In 1900 in "The Historians", Spence writes; "He was a generous^ man. Rind to the poor, and lenient witfr'ihis many ten i ants ... he gave to the public a building site en which now

stands a public school house and a church free for all,denomi

nations.. .Davis was a member of no church, but was■ inciineid to

] .- - -ii the universalian doctrine claiming that God' is too good to

condemn any of liis creatures to eternal punishmenti" ;He be lieved that the disobediant would be punished here .and h^e- after, but not eternally. " ; ..., ■ > -nacc-O , r; j

From all "written: accounts,. Captain John Da-vis -was a man characterized Hy unsv/erving honesty, good' huiiSo'dr'andi ^ge^^ero- sity. He desired t'o live., a simple life, sAuhning public office and title other than Surveyor for' the'Cdhnty. ,;; This he

was, not only--f6r Davidson..Cpunty but Williamson'"and. Hxckman

Counties as well-; 72

pioneer of Teriniassee histoicy' and culture^ •"

<^ied on July 7, -1853 ae is-buried beside his wife and par^n^s^,.|i.t the-, home placexof his' father in''Williamson County what i,s., npWi" "^^.inity School bn Wirsoh Pikei, ' in keeping with jthe sinipliGity of the lifeastyla ' that'he chose,' he'requested :VX-J' .i a plain:.field stone for ai-markei; ■ ■ , , jPESCENDAWTS,0F JOHN DAVIS. & DORCAS CLEAVES. . -A'' DAVISr - 1. Sophis ,.We.steno , (1T99-18741'• m. Joseph White''Horton January 19, 1815„ Joseph Horton died October... 31, 1843» 2. ■ Fanny' cSr'ieves, bo August 17, 1801c m, David Morris H^rdihg^.in 1816. ■ 5o;[- 3. . Ellpn Mordant. (1,804-1876) ■ m. Pebruary 14, 1820 to Dr." Payton Robertson. Dr. Robertson b. 178,7. 4. 'Nancy Watkins. (1306-1832) m. Edv/ard Dickson, Hicks in 1830c , Edward-born 1802r in- W .Cv' '

5. Eliza Hamer. m,. W.-^E. Newsom 'for whom Newsom Station oh the Sarpeth is named. They had one son named.W. F, Newsom.

6c Susan Parrallae. m. Sam S. Raybhrn.-

7 c Howell Ta.tum r

8. Darthula Drope . . : ■ .l:'

9i John Elish^. ; r;-. ■

10^. Cornelia Caroline. mC- W. G. West. ■ '

Sophia Westen v/as born July 11, 1799. She married . Joseph White Horton January •IS-v 1815, a prominent business ...,.W^n of.Mashviile. His fathe3:, V=J6siah-Horton, fought under General George-.Washingtonqait'valley Forge. His mother's

..name waS;.Elizabeth. ■ • : 1-While,,yp-ung iHorton was ^attendihd Cumberland College, he

was a member of the Jackson Life Guards. In 1819 while still 73 a college student, he served with•General Andrew Jackson in Florida during the war agaiust the Spanish' and the Indians.

Upon his return to Nashville he was;rewarded his college diploma by Cumberland College. He was a most studious young man, read ing the classics in the original Latin.and Greeks

During his business life, he was connected with thO Bank of

Tennessee. He and his wife lived on ah extensive Sbrton family estate on the Franklin Pike. Joseph White: Hortoh died OctolDer

31, 1848. After his death and. their. chil'drfeR 'had girown, she came back to live on her father's farm which'is today iDevon

Farm. Sophia died in Marph of 1874. Descendants of Joseph White Horton and Sophia include the names of; Horton, Falls, Woodfolk, Brist,' Mayson, Nevins,

Malone, Trabue, MacGruder, Svans,, Wright, Friend, Kile, Dunn,

Early, McGaw, Russell, Eve, .Rodes, Wiley and'Dyer'. A niece was the wife of early Tennessee Governor James D. Porter.'

Fanny Grieves (christened after her Grandmother) waS born August 17, 1801. She married .David Morris^Harding in 1816. He was the son of Gles and Ttoidia Morris Harding; however, Amidia died before the family left Virginia, for middle Tennessee.'

David's brother, John Harding, established Belie Meade planta tion, but a nephew. General William Giles Harding built the mansion. David Morris Harding and his wife Fariny'lived at the brick house that had been built by John Davis which he had named "Harpeth"; however, they changed::the name -to "Oak Hill", which later became Devon Farm., They' immediately'started 'to enlarge the house from a one-and-one-half stbiy dwelling to a much larger two story .residence. A.wing was-added on the south 74

side which changed-^tSe front. Of; ■ the house from facing south ■- '■'i. '' ■■ ■i ■ ' ' r.-... to facing east. This e^jtensive'addition included a front entry hall with both front and rear doQrS:a ,, .jSuch design helped considerably to'allow.'cool breezes, to circulate during the hot summer months'. ' A' parlor v/as added off the front entry hall and it ha^ its ' own fire'place A new., pircular staircase was an elaborate addition which went up tO; the second floor hallway. Off th'i'^ hall/above .the parlor, was added a large bedroom with fireplace. In■ addition,, the roof was raised over the original one-and-one-half. story dwelling to allow two full sized bedrooms, each with its own fir.e place. ■ ' To;-.w; com plete the expansion, front and .^riear porches were added. '' Throughout tlieSe additions the !brick used., in the construction of the • walls i'. , wefe.*Y made from the. clay dug..P,n the farm and fired' i" • ■ ■ • in the same kiln as was Used-.earlier .by John Davis. .■ rxr/i -I An interesting"side'light concerns .the fact that all of the interior doors''wdre furnished with...t.^e,./'Carpenter" door' latches and locks WhicR'are ■ so stamped ajad predate 1830. These were imported ftoiif England,. They, are^.,.still in use to day on most all of the' ihteriot doors at Devon Farm. ' ■ 'iV"- t -j- ' - ' \ When the Hardings ' changed "the. ..nsme of the 'farm from Harpeth to Oak Hill, it seemed appropriate at the time be cause of the %3rar Oak trees that, had grown on the farm. Act- ually this type of oak tree was,.-not indiginous to the western

'' part of North Carolina which is.today Tennessee, but it did ' ■■ ■■ ' ^ g-xri"' grow very well in Eastern North,-Caro^ipa on the other side of the mountains, which today is Worth -Carolina proper. ' ilany of the settlers moving westward, .from the Atlantic seaboard 75

of North ,Ci|,ro,lina^ carried the acorns of the Burr Oak with 'a themo 'vUpon-reaching^,their destination and establishing their homest,ead;i, they, plantejd. the acorns» In time these seeds grew

and became mighty oak trees= Txto of them still stand on Devbh

Farmi one, is located near the entry gate to the brick house. cFllen Mordant was born May 18, 180.4 and died February 14, ria76r.) riShe; married Dr. Peyton Robertson on February 14, 1820.

He;;:WasHthe..non. ;Of,^ General James and Charlotte Reeves Robertson.

; .(The, descendants of this third daug.hter bear the names of •• . : i .. . . ^ " •loRoberts.on,-, Jennings, Hogran, Sledge, Murphy, Huddles ton,. CHam-

.>berS;, ;,.4n,dtews,. 0,'.Bryan,. Vaulx, Sharp, Combs, Wharton and Carinon.

"i.'.One . SOU:-wl^O; becamo ,a. .doctor, F. J. Robertson, married Louise'

Brown> daughter of Aaron Brown, one time Governor of Tennessee

aftd.'iPQstmaster ,of the United States.

Nancy PVatkins y/as born December 13, 1806, She married

Edward Dickson H.rcks in 1830, He was born in North Carolina in

■ 180:2v-i He; was: the. son pf, Lex<^is and Elizabeth Dickson Hicks,

Who with ..their infant son, had come to Charlotte in Dickson

■iCourity; to ii.ve. The,,county .xfas named for Elizabeth's uncia,

William-.^Dickson, a.,.Tennessee legislator.

■ 'Nancy-and; her . husband Ed Hicks, lived on the farm' (now

Devon):.'and- in,.1.831 their only child Edward Dickson Hicks, "11,

vi was-f,-borne. ' In-: 18 32. after only two years of marriage and only a

year.'.lafter the baby boy ivas born, Nancy died. There is a lovely

■ miniature _rpQ.r.trait .in the parlor at Devon Farm today of her that

was painted by the. celebra.tQd''' artist Dodge who also pain-fed lArtdrew;. Jac]5fQ^, ' ' " " 76

& j;. .After his young^'wife's 'di^ath, E= D. Hicks,, went to. .. ,.. Georgia to live where his firm Hicks,. VahLear^'and Baj^ter, had plants and offices as well as store outlets dealinq in iron 0(:; ■- ■ ■ ■ Vp-Hr.i smelting furnaces. THey also had similari interests ..Ten- Pf®.®®®* a; m^mbdf• of the firm .of,-.Woods j-and Hicks ^,h Jl^ashyillfe., Tennessee E. D j •Hicks-'also owned .a ste^boat ,-r.,^P..P,P^y the ; Cumberiahd . River ,He later re,m,af:ried.;;in Georgia o "!,■ ■ ■ ;hiis, leaving for .;.Georg.ia,,-.,Edward Dicksqn Hiqks ,.ma^e airrahgements for ;his infant.;sqh, E. .D.; Hic.kq II, ,,w.ho was , to live with and be...taken:oare. .qf.b^.. the .Child • s Aunt and Uncle Sophia .and ■ josephYHbrton,-.- ; Young Hicks po;.' ■; ■ ■■ ■ ■ ' . to regard the family as his .qwhY always- ■referring .to t.hem as "Mother, Father, brother arid sister-', " !■.. : the', isummer months-.young Ed'iived vxithih.is,^.grand- f i ..father, John Eavi.s, and learned to survey,.' . . _ ■ , • i' '• > r: ..; ^ jT. -!., ...^ interest is that prior tO'-^his,- leaving, for - Georgia; E. D, Hi.ckS; had Been a member of the first. Vestrv of ,n; . . ..^ . ' '■■■■ ■' ■Yjjfi: Christ-Episcopai Church, of. Nashville', The first, services of this church were held.in July 1831, and not long thereafter, ..iri'the same., year, the baby boy, E. D, Hicks, II,.was^chris- -. 1 tehjpd.. Francis B. Fogg, an early Nashville educ.a.tor.was the . |-,child's Godfather, Fogg later'on was instrumental in Ed,.. II's keen interest in furthering hiS' education, I.nciden-taliy,

:j ® life long member of the Christ Church .v;hic.h. >v-. f.?|^a,tds t°<^^y on Broad Street in Downtown Nashville.. In ear lier days it was Ideated on Church Street,

During his youth and school years his Uncle and" foster Y .^chsi ■" j.;.-: • . ^ father, Joseph W, Horton, who was a student and master of • 77 •«

Greek and La;tin as well as several other languages instilled

in Ed; 11/' a desire to learn. As a result, young Ed became

proficient in Greek, Latin,,FrenGh and ..Spanish, and soon devel oped a keeri love and interest in litera.ture and poetryi He attended a school conducted by Ed Pascall which was Ideated on

Chiirch Street' in Nashville. This school drew student^ from many

of the'Cities leading families. Some of his school mates who

became business men of note and life long friends were John

Thomas, President of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail

road, Campbell Brown, one of the States leading planters and

stockmen, Grundy"McGavoc, physician of note, and Ed Baxter,

counsel for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. '

' In 1849 Ed, II was listed as a student at the University

of Nashville, and was described as a slender, scholarly young

man. However, he must have had an adventurous spirit because .'.at eighteen he left the university for the gold fields of

California with a group of young men of.,Nashvillev Following

are two letters written by Ed Hick, II, while away from Nash- y'iile. One is to his cousin Alex Robertson, arid the other to

a friend,! Joseph D. Eastland;

Sacramento,, City, Aug. 24/50.

Dear Alex; ■

I was awakened this morning and aroused from my downy ; cqtch (if a blanket spread on a plank' can be sO. called) /by the cries of a newsboy, "California'True Delta, ; Deaith of General :Taylor, list of marriages -in all states etc.,' here it goes". I soon procrired'-one v^hen the;'Eollov/ing met my eye, , '

''y/7eil Jo is . tied.,; at last, all. that I haVe to say is, that . ■ ■'"'bf all ladies far and near he could not have made choice of one more estimable. I wish them all possible happi ness etc. Well I suppose you V70uld''iike to know something 78

&r . . of ^my trip, Buffalo etc c .Well,, we saw, no .game of ■ consequence' ori tlie v/hole route. ' i had no time to leave the road and as t^here was .a .continual string .-. : .1 ■'■ ■Of wago'ris on'i'i: '■fehe game kept off. On the Platte . we saw some buffaloes scarce the SfouX; ■/■ ■ '■^liidiahs haviny^'driven the Buffaloes before them and gone North for fear of sickness among ..the ..^ifhiteSi, i.; We' s-aw some Ahtelo'pes,' Rocky Mountain iSheep and scores of Prairie Ch.ickeus., Qur .trip. froip:,^.t. Joseph was very pleasant for seven or eigh-t hundred miles, except sleep as I qnly had twenty, five hours sleep .in:.-; ■' ■ ■' One'huhdred'and twenty five hours. I have seen no rain since 7th of June but on the. 15th .Qf; June, had n ■ '■ severe snovj storm. The country between the South Pass and the .Sierra Nevada with-, the. exception of th©.-' , : . ■■■■'Val^ley of the Great Salt Lake and Carson Valley is , not worth a continental red cent. . I have traveled.. ■ "'several weeks at a time without seeking a stick of timber and., almost all . of the way .I had-nothing-.to , cOok wifh hut buffalo chips (Bast of the Rocky Moun tains) and Wild .Sage .and. Gr,.e.e.sey7Q.od,..(,West o.f them) , ■ • 'We passed through many' tribes of Indians ■— Pawnee, Sioux (pronounced Suse) , .Shoshones,. Utahs, Root Dig- ■ gers and Cayutes , T.he Sioux are the most manly and Intelligent and the.Utahs most.degraded, the latter eat crickets and anything else they can get. ■ ' There are said to be 40,000 Emigran'hs yet behind on the plains, 20,000 having already come in. The amount ■' ■ 'Of suffering'on the road will be very great. All of the,,Emigrants s^tar^ted from .■the States wi^th light ;lo.ads., ■'of'p'rovisions expecting to make short trips but all are doomed to disappoin^tment and as raen,.,on -^he pla^^nsv©ht: : '■ ' twice as'much''as they do a-t home they are sure ■to get ou-t of food. Ergo, dead horses .and.,.oxen mus't.isuffe-r. , ■ •'■■ ■ Alif'eady there has keen much suffering. I have seen men offer one dollar for a hard, biscuit,, tv/o dollars ■ for three'pints of water. I have seen slices cut out of horses and oxen that had died ,of -exhaustion and starvation. On Humboldt River we had to swim the river . in most places to get grass for our mules, in other places wadesloughs up to the v/aist in mud and water up to the knees, fight ■the mosquitoes with both hands and cut grass with knives. We had this to do in the day time, whil.e we could see, ,aijid, ■travel at night,, which . kept .ps busy I .assure you. , The'.^ water- all along, this river is so .strongly impreg.na-ted, with potash- theb -flour which is. made .up v/i^th the. v/ater will- .rise like sPd© , biscuit .;(I have got to be a considerable cook-since.I left" hoirle) . "This water is however almost unfit for; use as it cannot be used for drinking unless made into coffee. On ■this riyer. we, traveled three hundred miles ' ■ or more all of'which distance was str.Qwn. with dead.,;-,, ■'■ mules.', horses, ,ajid oxen. Hera it sinks in ■the ground 79

and we have a desert of fifty miles without water, on this desert' we-are' two -or three -huhdred ^v/a'gdns and horses, etc, without number. The teams dying, wagons were'necessarily left. The last part of the route v/as over the roughest rocky road in creation. On the 7th of August at an alti tude of 10,000 feet above the level of the sea I was tra veling on show beds twelve feet deepi I tried mining about a week but only made tv/elve dollars so I have come to'this place where I have succeeded in getting employ- ment in surveying at Five (5) Dollars a day and my board, ■ which makes it-equal to ($*8,) per diem. This country is literally overrun and I would advise every man in good ' bh^iness at hortie to stay■ there. I saw A. A, Adamb' and S, Hodges of Nashville some few days since. They have not ferie much hete they say, Adanis badly disappointed,

' Jack and Will Davis are here. Many Emigrants started from "the States with provisioning packed on their backs. One man started with a wheelbarrow and beat every one else in, I.have'seen hundreds coming in who started"with^wagons, ' with-only packs 'on their backs. We have Pumpkin,' 'Sweet ' and Irish Potatoes arid Onions here from' the Sandwich Is lands (Ed, ndfes Hawaian Islands) " . ..■ u;.

There is'more gambling done in this place than any other • ' in Christendom, Most of the citizens follow it lOr busi ness, men and vramen, and boys not 12 years did; I have ' seen betting twenty dollars at a time on'lldnte, • ' ' , A geritleman from the Southern mines told'me today that • Dr, Walton of Nashville was down there, - I also heard of ■Stump up North," I am Scetis,

1' should like to hear from home if you have no objection for since ■ the '3pth of March I know nothing but-i-what I " "see in-the ' papdrs i Since I left home, I' have riot-slept • in a"'house;" nof-have I been sick-a day-bu-t have•• gained in " si'ze and weight corisiderably, ■ I' shall stay in this city ' until■the rairiy season begins When I shall go South or stay- here if I can firid employment, ' '

' I - ; I remain,as ever,

'■ Yours "etc, > "

(Signed) Edw, D, Kicks

Write to me at this, city soon. Give my love to Ma, Grand ma, Aunts Ellen and Fanny and all" the rest of the feminine part of the folks too numerous to particularize and oblige " " ■ ■"

Your K'-amble Servant,

(Signed)"' " "Edw",' Di Kicks v- 80 i, \

Tell Jo Horton that I wrote to him one or two days .sincp. , ■ ;

E » D • li. The above letter was written to; Dr. Alexander dJ Robertson . Nashville, Tennessee

■ , Chagres, N,J. October 21, 1851 ..Depr Jo, , (Joseph H. Eastland, San Francisco, Calif.) ■i arrived here last night after dark having;left Cruces ■yesterday at daylight. Our passage from San Francisco to Panama was very pleasant we made the run,.in eigh- . .. teen days and without the exception of a few shakes of ■ ■ 1 enjoyed myself very well. We reached Panama at . niue o'clock p.m.' and at Oregon about two ,the next morning. Our party consisting of two gentiejnen. from - ; Alabama, one from Nashville and myself, left Panama abput twelve that day. We reached Cruces :about two on the next day. I was barefoot and bedragled with mud from head to foot. I have crossed the plains, I have ■.-roved over mountains, but I have never took such a tramp V. - as. this one between Panam.a and Cruces. Everything is . . . better here than any place between this and San^Fran cisco — better hccomodations and less charges,. I was much amused at'women crossing the Isthus. riding astraddle h; . Cpxcuse the term, for I cannot think of a better one) ■ ■ mples oh the worst kind of roads. I have, formed an opinion that -any itian that has ever crossed: the Isthmus at this season of the year (as it rains constantly) and : would wish his wife to come across should be lynched without benefit of clergy. There is only one steamer here at present;, "the Cherokee of New York, but others are expected hourl'y. ■W.heh we will get off I cannot say, but hope to in a few days as possible. As it is I do .3, ..-.not trouble myself abdut it for I would not get off the sooner by it. T hope in the course of a month-to re ceive a letter from you in Nashville. If you..'will ex cuse this letter badly worded, badly written and badly composed, I will thank you and hope that the next time I write it will be under more auspicious circumstances.

Very truly yours,

(Signed) Edward D. Hicks

P. S,. . My respects to J. H. McCall . While E, D. Hicks, II was away adventuring^ .bhihgs were taking place in Nashville that would greatly affect his future. 81

on© a"fterriDOn had a tea at her Honie on

'^rid amon^ the %uests were Mary Ann

;:v- ?lrs. Felix Z611ieoffer who accompanied ■ . 3^^. h^t-odirandmothsr^j^KMr.si idohk iGOrdon,,-' 'Innthe "iivlLng. rocam f^sidence-.hung an oil portrait of Ed, II at the'age of four„pr -five-with his vdQg. standing next to him« As'Mary Ann was :admiring,:the painting.Mrs^ .Horton. ^told' her, "He 'is hbw' a

ypU;ng,,.man, I would: like, for' you to meet him when he returns from California" o Then in a joking manner she added, ''Should

you .iparty him I.will give you the ■portrait as a' gift".'

.^.r J^hen. E D,; Hicks, II' returned home, he" of ten 'staged that he had^m^de,a million.dollars -.all ot it■ih experiehce. He

. only a few small nuggets-of gold together a I smail ipQuch ..filled withigold dust; He'had'a Small'red ...Y.f 15ip :Cushio.n i.made. intowhich he' put the gold''^Ust,' arid to ,his aunt and foster'mother ^ Mrs'.''"iifoi'tbh. Later he did marry Mary Ann and he had t.he gold riUgget'S'"made

for. her . • The- pin cushion' is s-till 'in the -his descendants at Devon- Farm, ' as weii'as the por- ^i,f^:^h.f'v.?*^h4-gh,. gs ^promised, Mrs. Horton gave' to the newly "wads. ... ^ry White was the daughter of Mary' Ann-Gordon'and ' Reuben Fj., White., j th© nephew of' James. White the 'fourider bf ' KriOx- villejr Tennessee.,, Mary.rAnri'S. parents died When' she''v7as jus't a baby. Hand she. was-.reared/by her grandparents, John 'and'^'Dolly ' Cross Gordon Hat G.O,rderi is .^Fdfry ori the Duck 'Rivet .' Theit 'iarm was in Murray.rand/Hickman iCourities. It is sirigiiiar -to riote"'" that. John Gordon and -John/Davis 'had been 'iife' long frierids '"from

their; .earliest days at "The Bluffs" as Nashville Was '"sometimes 82:-,

r early days^ Each of them had^ along with their , own children> helped, to rear-'A grandchild that lived with .them,, and for .whom they were'very fond. And then,' after the death of these two old friends, the aforementioned grahd- children met and ,were= married to each other. The wedding -.place,, on July 15, 1855 at the home of Major Boiling Gordon in Murray County., The Major was^'bhe bfide's'Uncle r- '"r ■ J^swlyweds- lived on a farm, close to the present locatioh pf . the Tennessee State . Fairgrounds. ■' In the.War Between the States Ed D. Hicks , II, served with his wife's Uncle, General Felix K. Zollicoffer. He was an. adjutant .in„..Captain McNary's First Battalion Tennessee ' " payalry, -Very soon after the end of the wat Ed', II, in 18'^^f inherited the Oak Hill farm (later Devon Farm) from his Aunt Fanpy Hurding. He moved there with his v/ife' and three-c'hii'd" Gordon, Davis,; .'Ed, III and Fanny. -In 1873 a fourth child

was/horn, , Emma.. , Edward-; ;Pickson. Hicks, 11 j." was a -very successful stockmari , and farmer,.- -He-V7as very active in bringing new stock from ' England to the United States. One of-his largest activities was .the importing of Devon cattle from that"country. As a .result of so.many, of these cattle being on'the farm he de- ' cideci to. change the name from, dak-Hill to Devon, which is '' ' '' the name the,,farm retains ,„ to this day. He was one of the' fo.unders .Pf the American Devon Cattle Club in' 1884, and he did serve as, its, president, According to -the ' "Tennessee ' ''

;,paianer., . September 1888",. Ed Hicks. -owned a herd of'''l40 hWad

Pf..^®'^Ph' "probabiy the largest-hard of' Devons in the-United 83

States". He was active in a number of State._,,and County stockman

and agricultural associations, as well as the Tennessee His- . ;;rv; .;nA. f , torical^ Societyo .

^ Hicks v7as; on the bgard of trustees for., a njumber of

educational institutions, Uniyersity of Nashville, Peabody College and Montgomery^ Ball Academy, all of v^hich were,/located in.the greater Nashville Vicinityo.

Mr. Hicks had many business connections,,;he was .-a sto

hoijdei^.. S,ecretary of the Nashville Commercial Insurance

Companj7; as well as President of the Board of Underwrite

To fulfill his. obligations to these positions, he. traveled ■"•rT-Co ' ' ^ j; ■'>- .. -i r f - r- ' •; -r. ■ fro.m. the farm, to,,the city-pf Nashville ;each and, every,.week day# „ either, by. train or by horse and buggy. The .Nashyille,^, and .

Northwestern Railroad had. run a line from Nashville,to Kings-

,, . top Springs ..which V70uld eventually extend all the way to ■ • ' ■ ■■■ -■■ ■' ■ ■ ■ £ CC'Oqs ,, Memphis.. The right,, of way which V7as built about 1859 went

r through Devon Farm, as.dt does this.very day, E. D, Hicks,

.,r—-I.Ir, was .a,board member.,of this railroad. In 1873 when, the

N.»'.&.N,W» oRiRo merged with, the Nashville, Chattanooga and. St.

.vbouis ,Railroad# -he served as Treasurer for. a number of years. :..It was • about this time ■ that a very .quainy custom became

a yearly event. On Christmas Day the family at Devon Farm

, .wghld;serve,.eggnog and fruitcake .to the passengers and the :, Cjrew. of -, the , trains that passed through. The engineers knew : to s.top rat "Hicks' Crossing" .^.^here trays of refreslments were

. served by.Mother,, Father, the sisters and the brothers and the -uncle aunts,and cousins who would be visiting Devon 84

Holiday Season^-;,.i.r?Truiy: a ■ happy -and ■ jbyoh'g-' jtide Qrjdfiayp3:-„ . , r, / 'v- Ed, II was a master mason in his ov;n lodge. ' He Was on. ,,th.e board Ojf the American National Bank. Dr. Alfred Leland

Crabb in^ the book "Peabody and Alfred; Leland Crabb"'Wrote as fallows, ." o.»his rep:Utation,;for unswerving honestyi'-and-'-fbir; - economic acumen became the city's standard... 'h;. Mr:i:: Hickis ■

.5e9r^ary: ;^.lj^^,:j- 1894 ...at..his.',beloved,: Devon;,:Farm.. ii'There ^9.®::i,^W9S,t a.; Spatton sirrtpligi.ty; ih'ithe man-.; He ■left expirfes's '^.^^"•.^ct.ipns that., no flowers,, be sentbto:. his graven and' 'So'#fie '

of;-. Nashville'? sjtisti, honored • c.itizen-s-. p.assed guietlyi'and' s'lm-- ^ ply- from the Nashville scene.. At a/,banq.uet heldxby one of' the Peabody,- College societies, ■ in an \-historicalr: hall" on his-

, torical-j grounds,;, President Willicim Harold Payne stoOd 'and

spoke; a,; .sobering,; word upon an evening that was brilliant with the-.w-it and gaiety of .the old days of Peabody, "Word has just

come ,to me of the death of, one, ofx the wisest councilers and

best friends this college has ever had. Edward Dickson Hicks lies dead at Devon Farm; -but'^a, h.un^dred years from now those •

who gather in these hallSii!:,..;many of whom will not have heard;-- his name, will .still be, gathering the fruits of his devotion

and love." -p-;

,; , ;At, the time, the Nashville ,papers stated-..vthat the fun- ' eral ,of E. b. Hicks, II.would take place from, the residences

at •2s.30 ,pb'm. and a special train would leave the Union Depot

at 2,s00 to carry: friends and, rela-tives who wished" toattend

the services at De-Von Farm. . A similar procedure was :fol- ' :

lowed by the railroad upon the death of the widov; of E, D. 85

Hicks^ II, Mar,y (Anne White) Gordon Hicks when she died on Sep-

tember 7,>1916 ' ' ' '' ' ' ■

Eo D,,-Hxcks, .11 and'his wife, Mary Gordon had four children, Francis (Fanny) Edward piqkson. III, Gordon Davis arid Einina. Each of:;cthg .children received a portion of Devon Farm!- ' '

Fraricis :(,Fanny) Hicks (1856-1919) married William Wdolwine ■ "• i'C . : ■ ... . (l853>19.14);, .a . broker, fro Parisburg, Virginia". They''iived' iri' "^ Naehviile.,.in pn^ of the stately residences just off tWeist'-j^nH-^'' ' AVentie not.f^r from Centennial Park. The Partheriori ToWrirfe apart

ments stand ...there today. ■ The tv70,, of them traveled extensively throughout' thd" United' ' Stated-, and:, Europe. They were communicants of Christ''flpisdbpai '-^^ ' ^

Church.,ip Nashville, and she was state president of an brghrii-^- ■

zation :;o.f the church called "The King's Daughters'.'" ' She''was' •'hT $ also president j.pf the state federation of Womens Clubs. Wilii'^' and Fanny-iha^f, only one child, a son, Emmons Hicks 'Wooiwine who'" '

graduated from Sewanee and studied architecture at Echole 'desi

Beaux Arts in Paris. He married Katharine Altemus of WaShirig-^'^ ton, D. C..:, and he, was., a partner in the Nashville firm of''

Harwood & Woolwine. He and his firm were well known 'iri' the"'' • architectual field for work on such buildings as the DaVidsori' ■ '

County Cour-thouse and other public buildings. That part' of -h:i

Devon Farm that he inherited from his parents he sold iri 1934-'■

to the. Park Board, of the city of Nashville, arid today 'it is' "'' ;

known as. Edwin Warner Park. ' '

..lEdward. Dickson Hicks, III (1861-1941) married Harriott Tur

ner Cockrill on .October 19, 1886 at the First Presbyteflah Chiirch "'' ''' ■ 'h... .J T',:: | . on Church Street in. Nashville. She was the daughter of Mark'' 86

the 'grand-' "" daughter of Mark RoJDertson Cockrill who owned a vast farm

"^ic^land'V'doeated^ at Ridhland Creek-and'th Cumber- ihrQavidson County. '■ He-■ was known'as 'the ''HtooT King of the/iforld;".'because he':w6n'''fii:st prizd at 'the "Worlds

■ &ghd@h'.'ini..li8'51i";f6r' the'-'siiperlor ' guaiity of 'wool from , . ".v ■ j .; ■ i' j f' . i .;.i' ) . "whiohVhe I raised' dh' his farmo ' He was awarded ^ .iroQdal....'by :;Qmeen.'Vitetb which today is on display at Teinn,as:s.Gej'StatG Museum, a bron'ze' praigue commemorating the distinction hangs in the Metropolitan Nashville arid fDa-yidson .Cloun.ty.'i'Coutth6u&e%' ' The planter of paris cast from Wbicfcithis wasf made hahigs' irt the'' ups'tair's ' hall at Devon Farm. Thp;,gfe::ati-!grandparents-' of Harriett (j Hicks were Ma jor John Cockrill^ of the~'Goiitihental Army' and' !khh Robertson Cockrill ;:Whgj,was theufirsfeoschool teacher in Nashville. " The 'tv/o 'of ■■ r,

■them arrivedwin.iNashvilT'e' with her brother "James Robertson's par-j^, of-thje. first^settiersi- .;.i

■.■a ■ "'Hicks ;TIT •and his wife Hairriett lived on and. -' farmed that .ipor.tibn of his fathers farm that "was located in" Williamson.'County i!■ '. They-had four 'chiidren that grew up'on ■the-, f.armi;.'- The- first'was' kaiy Hill Who''married Joseph Baugh' who dU.ed.i and shb"' then marri'ed' hi^"''brott(4"r'Thomas' Allison- ' ^ Baughw ! They . I'lved at'the Baugh'''home • called "Beiletud" in ' ' ' ..j' p •' • '1 southwest!D^viiidson'' Coufity .' 'SdMrd ■ Dickidii ■ HickS ^ was' '

the second child and he married Huntef' 'Giers of Nashville'. ' ''

The'rthir,d''\ohl'ld'oWas"'Mhrk-''(§ddkriTl 'fjicks' who was in the lumber ibus.aness,Loand',chb■''married •Ne'll -W. ' Mc'Daniel bf Franklin, Teh- '

nesseeii;!' The' fohrth"^ chi-ld ■Was- 'Huntef'-' McDohald Hicks v^ho ' ' ■ 8 7

marriedj Julia Regan- o^f' R^gan; Station near-v Sjweetwater, .Tennessee,

as> They an^i their .Ghildren lived fpr, many years in, Cuba, as he; was an e^ee^utiye wit^ the puban American ,Sugar. Company,.,

In > the, year o.f 1915 ; Edward;;.Dicksan : Hicks.r ill,?.- diyidediUfP his portion, of ■ Devon Farm r and sold off; .the sections at ,p.ub,liic;'.

auctionj,: L Spme vP-f these.i:S.ectionS; were .bought; baqk; by.phis -son^ ;

Ed;, ly,; in, 1936; jWhen^ he-was striving to.,put!\the farmpback; tp";

gether_;in one-, piece; and ,to :be owned, by; one-,,ipersQno ■ its

Pprdon-i-David Hicks ■ (18.6.5-1955) , , ,Ke xi^as. one month ,old, when the tamily.; moved to Devon Farm and he lived tbere .Afith .his-,. mother and .-father I until, he grew to manhood.^ ;In/tlypse,f#^y® the most-; convenient > and quickest way to reach Nashy..illP -^^PSpby^i-th® g, railroad. , In 1865.;,. .after, the. United, States Militati;-

thevoperation of the railroads to their original,,owne.r:s.,, . the,,,,;

Nashville and Northwestern, Railrpad. began functioning .auoin,;.--,,, ^ however, in 1872 the line, was purchased, by the .Nashville? Chat tanooga and St. Louis Railroad. The Hicks family made an .,j..

agreement; with the railroad companys whereby -.in, exchange for

the land they needed on..v7hich to. build the tracks? they?.,-the.,

railroad;, would, have all trains stop "on flag", at. Hicks ^Sta-.;

tion on,-the farm.. , Gordon-s father? Edward?, 11, ,was a trustee of the N.Cc & S,;.line which no doubt was of some assistance ^ in forming this .agreement. The entire family rode the,train

to ahd.-.from Nashville? going to school? business,; shopping,

excursions etc. etc.,, .Gordon Hicks?., like his father? loved the

railroad and enjoyed riding , it;.into Nashville tp attend school. nlHe^'was an honor student- at Montgomery Bell Acad.emy.-,where.-.his.

^ father was a member of the board of trustees. In 1886 Gordon 88

graduated from/Vanderbilt University with ai Bachelofciiof.- r ■ - ;Enginee.ring. :D.egreef and in ■■1887''. he "r.eceived- a; degree, infi^ Civil Engineering,;fr,Qm the same university»■ Upon hisijgrad?-nr. uation h© joined ithe'' engineering staff of. tlie Mashville/i. Chattanooga-.'and .St. Louisa Railroad, and ■■.-in 1891 he became.-.., the supserintendentj-.of' what was.; to,.: become:.the Huntsv.ille Di"*. . vision-of :that railroado-i He.moved-to-Tullahoma'where' the- : division was. headquartered where.,he met. and married fGer.trdds- ;.,Eo.ff': .in i8-93-i. Besides his demanding" duties , with 'the -rail road he found time to be a; vestryman of Sto B.arnabus, .Epis copal'. Church and an active member ■ of■ the Rotary■.ahdiithe";..- ■Chamber • of Cbimuerce in'Tullahoma .. Gordon and Ger'trudei Hick-s-- . had two daughters; -Mildred who'is-r-5rs'. '.Frank' -Hehegar df ' . i McMinriviile and -Mary: Gordon who is. Mr-s-o- :WinSton Bone of Lebar.: 9 non'.i : :.As might be"u.ekpeoted, ■ that, portion- of -Devori -Farm' that - Go" .D»- Hicks -inherited Was- 'the: .part that had' the raiiroad.-.yoni-

ito ' ■ - ' I.-' ".'J-J'' Emma Hicks (1843-1946j:';raarried Wiiiliam NayldK\l4cJ3QnaldipA of-Virginia. She was born and grew.-hp :on-Devon'Farm and..i she' was ediicated .in Nashville' schools. ,,'Emma and. her hus. . band- William inherited the "horcie place.'y-as) the''.-iresidence was called: on Devon Farm;- 'however, they did not. have.-.an .n.; opportunity to live there as his profession ias. a civil: en-i -i -. gineer: vfith the company' that employed him .'requiredthat: he- ,:i live'-in ■■Florida,' a-rid it' was' .there-;-tha't ■ they ,;establis.hed their home. ''He served as a'ii-ieutenant' in-the'U. S, ;Army of -Engin: neers in-Cuba during .the-.Spanish American War,, and as a Captain 89

of the Army Engineers in World War I. Emma and William had one daughter, Katherine Gray McDonald.

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. . , ,. ; " ■ A'HlSTOllY^ Of' BATTLE^-Gl^UNiy ACADEMY :: • compiled'by I Anri^" Beasiey Johnson' , vmokfkvm- vpi'' ; ■■ ■ January 1980

For many decades riashVille was known as the "Athens of

the South" - and rightly'SO - because of its excellent -educh-' tionai and' dtiitural centers, included in this honor Willi'iamsOn County and Franklin are not to be ignored. Scattered over the county in ■the middle and late 1800's there were private schools "■ - ■ -i. ^ i j , ■ rif". worthy of mention most of 'which opened their doors to both^ t-he yOuhg itieh arid the young iadies in their areas, SOme of the"' more familiar ones arei ,

From Arrington Creek North of Triune on the Huntsville ..i: : turnpikey now known as Highway 31-A the following "schools were avaiiatiles Female Academy, which was destroyed duririg :the?Civil War;- Porter's Female Academy, Hardeman Male Academy;(which be came coeducational in later years) . Hardeman Academy: burned;;

in 1904; BO stick; Female-Academy v/as biiilt around' 1390 and was short lived) however, it' later became a public school and;was used as Such until the mid-19'40's when the x^ublic school syS> "tern began consolida-tirig the rural schools. Today the^ bhildfirig still stands in a sad 'state of abuse but as a reminder ofrrthe caliber of the citizens of Triune and their interest! inv prof vidirig the best educational advantages for their children

PHjQTOS,; Upper left; B.G.A, known also as Wall-^Mooriey school. Established abouit 1839, Upper right 'U '■ ■ -■ r ' v af -j r~ Isv.erbrighe Mansion lower .lef-fg ; ' ^ ; B.G.A. Rebuilt 1903 after destroyed by fire. * Lower right; B.G.A. Rebuilt again 1910-1911 (Photo taken about 1930) 92

Within a few miles' of ■ Triiin(2-''¥tbod'the Harpetfi Female Academy

and at Poplar Grove (now CoHege Grove) around 1855 an aca

demy, was huilt for young men known as Gary and Winn Academy, ■ , In. addition to these seats'of learnihg'"j tiier'e was on

Calendar Road ;(now called-Concord Road)- ah academy headed by

William: iispcpmb;(brotheri'of David Lipscomb for whom David

]jipsc.orab'College: wasonamed) = -■■ ■' '

•* 1 I* • • : ■ .- ;'-;.Anbthbr - are'a-•ofr.the county, the Leipe'r 's' -Fork' or' Hills-

■ ■ ...... - ' '.-W borpj -jCommunity, proudly - suppC'rted- "another -private school which was..gfuii4ed by the able hands-df T'Jiiiiam Ahd-ef 'son'hnd others'.

r- .. This boarding school was open to both ydiiiig ''ladies' and young

men.; j, ■ ■ " ' ' '

, Edijis.qational-'-opportunities were plentiful. Already the r rirri f.;. '' ■/ history ©if. -"Tennessee Female College" 'has been"researched and

writteni-by Lula- -Fain: Major as has ■ "Old Harpe'th Academy" by

Mary Trim/Anderson'. Both of these histories have been pub

lished in.the Williamson'County Historical Society Journal.

SO; it-is with special interest and importance that the''"His- '

tory of Battle Ground Academy" be added to the holdings 'of the . Soci'oty for its historical significance 'and for' an' appire-" cation of the cultural advantages our ' forefathers provided '"'

the youth- o.f'this- county . '■ ' '

Of all' :the institutions'riamed only Battle Ground has

continued to operate and stands proudly today haying through, the. .ye:ars-'-put. schoiarshipV honor/' -truthfulness', arid care o-'f-

the spiritual and physical needs as top priorities. , .- . Battle G.round Academy has held a prestigious positib-n.ri^'^'^''' the history of p^-psratory schools of the South..since''-i-4s .

beginning in September 1389. 93

Graduates of the Academy (bp'^h women and fien) a're proof of this statement. They have made outstanding. contiri'Ij'utibiis of

valuable service in wide areas,.9,f public . servibe.' ^ In-business they have achieved success as lajwyers, ,bank.er.&^ ohgirieers/ judges, doctors. As teachers thejj^pyb.OY^ -^bne. intb'^alll sections of the country; parents have supported-civic and schoOl pro jects; alumni have served, as. trustees.: aad .'leh'ders in the"plans for continued success; athletes.

able desire to always win.

Throughout its history, beginning, with ,5:.; V. Wall-^ahdP^'■ W. D. Mooney, basic values of honestly,, integrity, scholarship

and respect for ones body have been taught along'•vjith'due''re gard for scholarship. This has been..true. Ihdeed thO''head- ' !• masters have all striven to keep these goals foremOst''in'"their

plans. : ■ ' '•

As one enters the main doors.of the. administration build ing at Battle Ground Academy, he is immediately impressed' by "

the display of photographs of, all the headmasters Of the ^dda.-' demy, the. many pictures of early basketball, baseball 'ahd-^"' ' football tecims, and the bronze sculpture >of.:. the tug-of-War in

its special niche.

Then passing into the hallway; there, iS;,further 'iindibhtion

of the pride the administrators and students bave had and ' '

continue to have in preserving, the history :;o.f ,:the^ heritage of ' this institution. Lining .the walls aro^iphotographs;of■ the' "' ■ graduating, classes and the faculties., from- 19,0.7 feO- the'-'prebdrit"^''

^ time. 94 ... t.,^c, .. are tHete ' comijoslte '^icfiirei - of 'classes?

''%ti"t''''thGre are'i5hot'ograph&''ilbno'f^iTig' Wffe, EmiiW knd Mr. Hal Peoples and'memorial'plagues-'iiv rieifeTPjjrkhc'O^^^ Mr. Daly' Thompson and ikri"'Jonas Scott'l^o'^rdare. "' "

included in " the memorabilia'^ are certificatds^ indlcat-^ ing-meinberships in variou's professi^b-hM'-orgahizationS and'-- societies. Such groups as the- National Council■■Of TetChdrs of English, Southern Ass'Ociatioh of Colleges and SecOhdafy Schools, National Honor' Society', ' Felib'-ivS'hip'^.Of Chri-S'tith'-v Athletes of Secondary Schools are'representative Of'-the'' wide

programs in which the AcadOmy is' 'involved, Since the inception of Battle' 'Ground Academy,' also

kribwn as Mooney School ," ih 1899 tnder the leadership of W. D. Mooney and S'.'i?',' vJail' in the'brick building 16'cated'

on the corner of'" the eist Side of COI'ltnbia' 'turnpike'and' ^

Cleyburne Street, high standards of scholarship, honesty, truthfulness, and loyalty'have'prevai'lod'in''the' training of the 'yourtg ladies ' and young men vjho have studied iri' the halls where the footsteps of such men as' Wall Modriey, -^People'S'

Brothers, George I. Briggs, Glen Eddington, Jonas'' 'Scott'

Coverdale, Paul Redick, J. B. Akin and John A. Bragg

tinue to resound.

.In 1902 the Mooney building burned and the Campus was

moved to the present site after interested citizens-tallied

again and made application for a" charter of' incorpora-fcion

upon which.to proceed which is found in Williamson' 'Gounty Book of Charters'BookZl, p^felll. '' ' ' ' '

9*- 95 . o I A' nisw'^administration moved iii"--;Mr. Jim'. Peoples and "Mr. Rees taught one:year until Mr. -Richard Greer (Grier) Peoples and Hisdbrother>kMro Robert Holdane Peoples'were free to leave their twOrk-at the Morgan School in Petersburg^:: Tennessee« . The Peoples"Brothers took.'Over' the responsibility of.■educating the youth-of Middle Tennesseei Under theiroguidance., the:, same..-o-c' philoeOph^ 'Which prevailed during the Mooney administrationiri;-:^ cShtinued to influence the leadership: of this institutiQ.n;. This code of ethics was most likely handed: down through th:e influence of Sawney Webb under whom the Peoples Brothers had:studied as

had'MooheS^ also. .k-

■ Mr 1' Hal Peoples died, in 191'2;,' but Mr. Greer (Grier) con-i.

tinned as headmaster until 1925. During these years some stu

dent's came to school-in buggies,. some rode horseback, others .

rode the' Franklin—Nashville intereirbon'v while still iothers......

rod'e^- the' L & N train or the Middle Tennessee train.. Of' course the local-and. boarding-students walked during,;'these e.arly years

in-the 1900's;-' By this time students were coming:..from out-ofr state andi boarded: with the. Norths, Misses .Irene ..and lAnna .B.rowne v/hose^hbme stood-' on. the corner of Cleybure .:Ayen.u.e- and Qo.lumbia

Avenue" where:."the Pizza Hut-now stands...: :Mrs...: Johnnie.. B.augh'-also kept Battle. Ground Academy boys as .did Mrs.. Bill ;.Glass,.wfeQ .w.ifth

her husband owned and lived in Magnolia Hall on Boyd Milli:..,.,. :..:;)

Avenue.' ' . .. ; - r .:r:

' The' campus,' early in i-ts history, had-a white,plank.,.f.bn,ce which'Wa's White" washed or painted every .ispring in preparation.

for g-jraduation' week ?■ ■ ' ■;

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,. y Stiles WQr©i;pl^ convenient places for the stur

dent,s.- and tp;,sav^e "wear anc^. ..tear'' on the..fence. I-n.-the . f.ar on- the. ■northiwesti cpjrneir-.iOf the .grounds was;.--.a-barn

with several-stables to shelter the horses ■■iri.;bad: weather'.'' : i

. .. : -v During this period, ■ it is noteworthy that the towns-

people supported the .-academy by . sending ..all their childrerii v somet;ime.s,;f.iye--.!.to six. to the school, by; attending-i not pnly:'..i .iq i'the .athletic, ^Vients but also the debates,.. oratorical contests-,

-. -and: the graduation, exercises i '■ 'a- - : ;„Tho w-isdom and . .foresight of the Board of. Trustees ahd:< .

the administrators at the turn of the century were manifested in- th<2ir decision.to build a gymnasium in 19D3 along about the. same:-, time -the. administration building was erected on, the new, campus.;- , • .This building was heated in' the early days by.. . .; two, -per.haps; three, large pot-bellied- stoves.. For seventy-;. , ., seven years, this well-buil't structure has withstood the alr ■/, most daily use by students. Haying served as a gymnas.iumj. . 'j . until 194-7-:when, .the George I. Briggs. Memorial Gymnasium was built with ;all -the...modern accessories., ifc later, v/as used as a cafeteria with. -kitchen, a dormitory- and-in the last iew : ■ years.it. has served as the: middle school and: is.'known; as the Gonerdaie Middle School in honor of Mr. Jonas;}S....[.. j ■ ■■ :■!

Coverdale. . . >; , ■ -^.n

Misfortune came again in 1910 when the administration building burned^. For the: secpnd tii^e. the student:body, was moved to. -;.th.p beau-tiful -.ante-bellum; homp-built by .John Dabney. -

Bennett. Later Richard and Rebecca LetitiasCannon Bo.stipk . lived there. (Mrs. Bostick was the daughter of Governor 97

Newton Cannon and Rachel Wellburn Cannon). . Mrsv. Bostick en joyed company and entertaining so she, chose Everbright for the name of their home. , >

It was this year of 1910 that the . students of Battle Ground published an annual which they called ."phe Warrior. Many group ■pictures were made at Everbright in which the stately columns were the background. This yearbook was dedicated to Mr. R, G,

Peoples.

Loyal friends and trustees immediately made plans for the rebuilding of the structure using the uninjured bricks'and stones in the new building to save on. the cost. This same building having wings added for a library and to house the in creased enrollment is in use today. Luckily the gymnasiulri was hot damaged.

The Peoples Brothers stayed on as co-workers although they were asked to go to several nearby tovms to teach. Under their direction Battle Ground continued to grow^ and to hold high the standards upon which the school was founded.'

During the next.two. depades. baseball? basketball, foot ball and tennis were the athletic events which were popular among the private and public schools. It was not uhusual in the early twenties .for the teams ,,to spend the night when they traveled as far as Mt. Pleasant on the ..train. 'Later when •' roads v/ere. improved and tires were,more .dependable?' the .teams returned home after thevCames. , With, the .©x.ception, ,of fcaseball, the other sports were played in the. afternoon and many-busi-

^nessmen attended,.the afternoon sports. : 9 8

(St) It was then in'1925 that Mr. Greer (Grier) Peoples re- signed and went to Westminster College in Pulton, Missouri and there he ended his career. In failing health he resigned

and he died on December 11, 1939, His remains were returned to Tennessee and buried at Bell Buckle near Mr, Sawney Webb under whom he studied in his youth. An alumnus of BGA who v/as teaching in Chattanooga at Baylor School was invited to come to head the school, and he, Mr, George I, Briggs, accepted and moved his family to

Franklin. He served as headmaster until his death in 1944, Mr, Briggs was not only headmaster, teacher, disciplinarian

■but he was also an innovator. He introduced ideas and games whidh were popular with the students. One of his innovations,

the tug-of-war, became an annual tradition and is still a

highly competitive sport between the Greer and Plato Socie

ties in the spring. Much has been written about the excite ment of this high point of the spring season. It compares somewhat with the running of the Kentucky Derby especially

from- the length of time involved in the event, r ' i .1 , • ' Then, too, Mr, Briggs was recognized for his "prowess

as a champion marble player". It is told that 'ihe made a

standing offer "to play any student", and if that student won he had the promise of a school holiday prize. He was

often challeh'ged biit' never defeated. As a memorial to Mr. ' Briggs the new gymnasium built in 194 7 v;as named the George

I, Briggs Memorial Gymnasium,

In 1944, after the death of George I, Briggs, Glen Murray

Eddington, who had assisted Mr, Briggs for several years,

became headmaster and served until 1950, 99

Mr. Sddington -'jas aducated in the public schools ©f

Williamson County. One year he lived at Triune with his

aunt and attended the Triune School which was built around

1890 for young ladies. It v/as knovm as Bostick Female Academy but after a few years it became a public school. Finishing Franklin High School in the early twenties

about 1921 or 1922^ Mr, Eddington went on to Davidson Col

lege. Upon graduation he returned to Williamson County and

as early as 1927 was teaching mathematics at Battle Ground

Academy, He was a "renowned teacher of mathematics".

Having taught for many years and served as headmaster

from 1944-1950 Mr, Eddington left Battle Ground and again

took up his teaching of mathematics. He began his new

service as teacher at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Ten

nessee, From Greeneville (. he want to California and taught

in a junior colle(;'a but at the present time he is retired

and ha and his V7ife are making their home in Greenevilla^

Tennessee where their son resides.

When Mr. Jonas Scott Co3zerdale and Mr. W. Paul Redick

came to Franklin in 1950 from Lebanon, Tennessee v/here they

had been associated with the Castle Heights Military Aca

demy, they continued the traditional loyalty of training

both the mind and the body, Mr, Cov.erdale as headmaster,

also began a program of vast improvement. An extension

of the school plant was begun and Battle Ground v/as placed

on a "sound financial footing",

.After Blr, Coverdale's retirement in 1959, Mr. W, Paul

6^ Redick took over the leadership and served as headmaster m 100 until 1968 with Mr, J, 3, Akin assisting in thcs rolo of business administrator. Many improvements and ex pansions were 'completed during'this time,: New wings were added to the"administration building'to house tho ■ library and to take care of the enlarged enrollment.

It was during Mr'. Redick's leadership that an i. evaluation committee was invited to inspect the overall plant at Battle Ground, First, the administrators and the faculty made a prolonged study of the entire pro gram, Buildings, classrooms, athletic program, in fact, every area of the campus which contributed to the edur cation of the students was examined. After v;eeks of this self-study, a visiting committee from all levels of education was . invited to observe and recommend im- proveraents that needed to be made in order to qualify for continuing accreditation in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, The committee also recognized the outstanding work being done in various departments and encouraged the teachers and administra tors to continue to examine the program and improve themselves as teachers and leaders. This study, of course, was done not only to qualify the school for mem bership in the Southern Association but also to keep the faculty aware of the responsibility of being prepared to meet the students in the classroom. This important phase of the school program was supervised by Mr, Redick with Mr, John A. Bragg and Mr, J, B, Akin assisting him,

Mr. Redick resigned in 1968 and fir. J, B, (Coach)

Akin became headmaster and president. For one year he 101

carriqd the great responsibility of leadership on the busy

campus.. In, his. tour; of duty, Mr, Akin had coached, taught classes in Bible, general science," physics, chemistry and

physical science, Ee was at one time business administra

tor, president-headmaster, and'later served as president when Mr, Bragg was appoirited headmaster. In 1973 he gave

up his administrative duties and returned to the classroom

where he concluded hiS'career and retired in 1976.

Upon his retirement Mr, Akin said that as a teacher

at B.G.A, he was associated with some of the most outstand

ing educators in the South, As a student in 1924 and '25,

he was taught by Mr. Greer (Daddy) Peoples. The next year

he was a student under Mr, George I, Briggs and served, as

a teacher with .Mr. Briggs the first two years of his B.G.A. teaching career". He also worked with Mr, Gien Eddington,

Mr. Jonas Co.verdale, Mr, Paul Redick, and Mr, John A. Bragg,

As a coach of baseball, basketball and football, Mr.

Akin had,many vjinning and championship teams. It is no

wonder that the Athletic field!.was-named the J, B, Akin

Athletic Field in 19SS.^in"honor lof- Coach Akin.

A decade ago, the fair of 1969, Mr. John A. Bragg be

came headmaster and is "at the helm" today directing the

students a.nd faculty according: to the high standards first

set forth by Mooney and Wall and continued through each

change in headmastership.

There haves.been many changes, of course, improvements 9

and grov/ing pains.i • Among, the improvements one now notices

a Battle Ground .Bus on-Col.umbia -Pike headed toward Columbia

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to bring students-here» (After CoM.a;:- Columbia Mili

tary, Academy closed;,!ts . doors, requests were made for ' this transportation'Serv-ice 'so that students could attend '

Battle ,Ground Academy,) ■ .In the athletic department the now popular sport of

soccer has been added to the curriculum-, • • " Besides Soccer, art iS now a part of the program and a building across Everbright Avenue has' been converted into an adequate' studio to accommodate the needs and re quirements for this subject.

Another subject offered the students nov; is Driver Education which is a valuable investment in a safety pro- - gram.

While many changes are obvious, there are structural changes that perhaps go unnoticed such as lockers- in both the upper school and the middle school, science labs reno vated, the auditorium revamped - old desks.-replaced by new ones, new physics laboratory and classroom'installed, and certainly the razing of the dormitory and replacement on the same spot with a multiple-purpose building must be one of.the most useful and beautiful additions to the campus.

: This;-new building known as Hal Peoples Hall houses the library,...audio-visual materials, classrooms, alumni - office, a kitchen and dining room (lunches are^'^Served to '' students who order them)-, There is an interesting -s'tdry about-a ;$50,000 gift left to use 'as scholarships for"'■ Rutherford boys if .they desired- to go" to BGA, If- hb one^'' 103 applied then the money was to be spent on a building pro vided it was named for Mr. Hap Peoples, so today it is ;Call^ed the Hal Peoples. Hall. • . Changing times with record keeping a tremendous under taking, scholarships available and enlarged enrollment nec essitated setting up a counseling program.. Today Miss Dorothy Doggett is in charge of thiS: vital service to the students and parents. Test scores and academic progress are maintained in the guidance office and the records show that Battle Ground students have been and still are perform ing extremely well in their scholastic, skills. Tribute is due to the leader's - the headmasters, ■ the principals, presidents, faculty and students for preserving a heritage worthy of great honor.

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Interesting sidelights in the history df Battle Ground Academy,

Graduation program - Wall '& Mooney School, May 28, 1896.

Chicka ,av; Indians from Oklahoma enroll at Battle Ground ^ademy In 1894. 1 ■ ■ ■ i ■ - ;. BGA dpstroyed by fire. •. n ■ '

••Graduate of 1907 recall'.s at- EGA,- ■'

Battle, Ground■ Academy, had female students/•

, .Battle: Ground Academy had female'teachers. ' ■ ■ '

Annuals honor faculty and friends.

The wrong. v;,ay w.as right, . ■.

• , ...T.ug-of-~war, .sculpture-- ' ' • - ■ i. - ' ■ ' ■ ' Publications Board of Trustees (1979)... /■ ' ' A.lumni Association Presidents (1973-1980)

Obituary - Mrs. Elizabeth Cody Johnson, former Judge Battle Ground Academy - Summer School 1979 ■ Battle Ground Academy - Faculty 1979-1980

Av/ards and trophies available - 1979 Activities Reflections

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^ Review and Journal June 12, 18 89 oi i ... -

The Battle Ground-Academy "It is now a settled fact that the.Academy will be an institution of Franklin. All agree that a more useful and benefiqlal institution could not be inaugurated for the good, not only of the town, but■ the. entire community. It is upon this plans A charter has been obtained by gentlemen connected with the prosperity of Franklin and the County, to hold the property for the sole purpose of edu

cation.

This company has secured 12-1/2 acres of land on the turnpike nearly opposite Col. Carter's residence. The ground has a history which will last as long as our institution of

% government lasts. Almost identically where the famous old Carter gin stood in the great battle of Franklin, is the site selected for the building, Convenient to comfortable board ing-houses, on a high and beautiful location, a place recall ing historical events never to be forgotten.

A contract has been entered into betvreen them (Wall and Mooney) and the Board of Directors settling all important points. They expect to open the school about September 1st."

An article from Review and Journal, Wednesday, June 12, 1889 shows the Board of Directors, selected by the stock

holders to bes

William House V. , Gillespie m 106 "S

% J. C= Wells & Do 'Bi. c^if^e• ■ A. C= Vaughan , , Jos'W. Baugh Jo Ao McFerrin ' ' • Co Ro Berry No N. Cox ^ ,

The Board of Directors elected N= No Cox president and

Co Ro. Berry, secretary and treasurero

"EGA Destroyed by Fire

Review Appeal, March 3, 1910

"Shortly before midnight Monday the main building and contents'donsumed'by flames (last night of February, 1910). ■"'The Bo Go A, 'Was destroyed by fire Monday night 'A pass ing Ne'grb shortly after 11 o'clock saw a blaz'e and ran to ■iprof'o Hal Peoples to' notify him o, .. The fire- department responded - but there being no ad jacent water main nothing could be done, and in less than ' two hours only the walls remained. The gymnasium escaped the

fire.

Professor Peoples' brothers lost nearly all of their private 'papers and records' in the office as well as a valu

able library ....

"The origin of the fire is unknown ....

There will be no interruption to the work of the school. . Temporary'facilities for teaching have been provided at

"Everbright Mansion.'" - ■ Fortunately the brick and stone v^alls of the academy building were very little injured, and the work rebuilding will, therefore cost several thousand dollars less than ori

ginally. " 107

Review Appeal, March 10, 1910

■ ■"Success. Assured.for Proposed Handsome New Academy

Building, $7,300 of. the $10,000 needed to rebuild already sub scribed; subscriptions steadily coining in meeting tonight;

Chancellor Kirkland coming Saturday,

Peoples Brothers - requests and propositions came from

Murfreesboro, Winchester, Tullahoma and Shelbyville to .the

Peoples Brothers offering them large inducements to. move, to those towns. They have publicly'stat'ed, however,, that fhey much prefer to stay here (Franklin, >.'Tenn. "

John'.:Par.owell.

In 1930 The Cannon Ball (4th edition) was dedicated to

Mr. John Prowell, "As an expression of our gratitude for ■the unselfish interest which has given us the prospect of a glo rious .future, and for the aid and encouragement he is always ready to give us, the Staff respectfully dedicates the fourth edition of The Cannon Ball to Mr, John Prowell,"

'^For many years, until his death December 22, 1943, he gave the medal for best all round athlete at EGA, r'"After his death. Aunt Irene (his wife) discontinued giving the medal."

"In 1971 by agreement with Mr. J, B, Akin I placed in' trust at Williamson County Bank an amount, the interest of which will be used to pay for the John.Prowell Athletic medal each year," (diven in the names of his sister Mrs, Frank (Esther Provieil) Kittrell and- Elizabeth Kittrell (his niece) of Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee,;') ' ■ ;■ 108 ■■ I: j

Miss Kittrell further stated that, her uncle hosted dinners 3®.

for the athletes at his home for many years and sometimes had

the football banquet,

Mr. Prowell (called •Possum') and tv70 of his sisters at

tended BGA in its early days.

Female Students at BGA ■ ■

■i Battle Ground historians have given little recognition to

the coeds who attended the academy and who from the earliest days played an interesting rOle in the activities there. As early as 1896 two young ladies ^ere listed among the graduates. They were Mary Wood House and ?~ahnie Mai Wall. In 1907^ Miss Lois Fleming, Miss Manie Denham, and Miss Josephine MqPherson were among the graduates of that class, .. Practically every ^ year from 1907-1929 there were a few to several ypung ladies rM

who received their diplomas. The last,of the coeds graduated;;

in 1929 whan the trustees and headmaster decided to phase .out

the girls and to foster an all-male .school,. . . For the next fifty years the stuclan.t bo^y v/as composed ot young men. Then, much to the surprise of some, the April 18, 1979 edition of The Nashville Banner carried this he^dlinp; "BGA to Start Accepting Females, JThis Fall",. .

Women-Teachers • ■

MissVashti Early and Miss Mary Hatcher were among or perhaps the earliest women teachers at the school. As early as 1907' ot 1908 Miss Mdry'Hatcher was 'highly recommended for *• theprimary teacheie) ■ and she cairte' from Cedar Hill School near ® (S> 109

Lebanon^. Tennessee to ; carry- on her work in the primary de

partment ^..yv^Latpriinanyoother-'women'^ere eftiployedo Among,.

them were; .lo v:;v " .. .■.-■■

Miss Rush Worley ..i - ' Mrs, Pryor Lillie v ' Mrs, Georger,;!,, Briggs.i.{Librarian) Mrs. Jim Buford (Librarian) Mrs. Emma VJooten Haynes (Hostess, housemother and nurse) Mr So Paul Redick. . . Mrs. Cynthia Hatcher , Mrs. Dorothy-: Lea,- Mrs. Eunice Edwards- Miss Dorothy Doggett Mrs, Lillian Campbell .Stewart Miss Carol Leach Miss Margaret .Ann Reynolds

For the .1979 faculty^ see'"' "Battle Ground Acadeiriy - Faculty

1979-80.9

% Honored By The Annual Staffs , i ; ,...The following men and women-have been honored by" Thd Cannon

Ball staffs for the past years. In some instances there was no dedicatory page and there were some years when no annual

was published. Beginning in the year 1910, however, the annuals have provided much history and can be usd^^lth per-

mission in the alumni office,

Year Title Dedication ^

1910 The Warrior : ■ P.. GsoFOoples 1927 The Cannon Ball Glen Eddington 1929 The Cannon Ball Men In Gray 1930 The Cannon Ball John Prowell 1931 The Cannon Ball Robert Edward Kell 1935 The Cannon Ball J John Rainey Bratton 1953 The Cannon Ball j:--%: Akin 1954 The Cannon Ball Alumni 1955 The Cannon Ball Mrs. Pryor Lillie 1956 The Cannon Ball TO the Heritage of BGA 1957 The Cannon Ball ' Jonas Scott Coverdale 1958 The Cannon Ball ■ - Henry Nelson Boyd, Jr. eiio

' Year . ■..Title Dedication

1959 : . The Cannon Ball ' Robert Donnell Stanford, III 1960-1963 (published no dedication) ; 1964 The Cannon Ball Daly Thompson 1965 1966 The Cannon Ball . Paul Reddick 1967 The Cannon Ball 1968 The Cannon Ball ■ ■ 'Billy, ■.•Br.adshaw 1969 1970 1971 1972 The Cannon Ball John Colmore. *1973 The Cannon Ball J. Bo Akin 1974 The Cannon Ball Mrs. Dorothy Lea 1975 The Cannon Ball John Hermann■ 1976 The Cannon Ball Bob..Co Rauchle' 1977 The Cannon Ball Jimmy Ge'htry 1978 The Cannon Ball Larry McElroy 1979 The Cannon .Ball Rohnie Pritchard

: ^The Cannon-Ball- :was twice dedicated to J. B. P.

Awards - 1979 ■ .. j- # Pinkerton Watch - Best All-round Studen-t ,, . Paul. Guf fee A.ward - Outstanding senior wlio exhibits excellence "in character, leadership, athletics and all phases of school life.. : Franklin Rotary Scholarship Award. Prankl-in Rotar^' Sportsmanship' Trophy Durwood Dies Leadership Award . Bob Carter School Spirit Medal Matilou B. Duke Speech Award Daly Thompson .Latin Medal English Medal ^ , i; Patterson Scholarship Award Science Medal ■ r D.A.R. History Medal Mathematics Medal Bill Ross Award

Athletic Awards

Sewanee Club . Award (Art Av/ard) Tommy West Trophy (Most Valuable Fo.otbail-Player) Wildcat Avrard (Meanest Football Player),-. . J. C. Anderson Award (Best Football, Blocker) Wrestling Trophy (Most Valuable Wrestler) James W. Short Trophy (Most Valuable Basketball-Player) Claiborne Kinnard Trophy- (Most Valu.able Golfer) v Tennis Trophy. L(Most ValiiabTe'Tennis-'Player) Tennis Medal (Most Improved Tennis Player) Ill

Swimmirig 'Award . (Most Valuable Swiiriitier) Cross Country Award . : . Track Trophy ^(Most Valuable Track Man) Trousdale Trophy (Most Valuable Baseball Playeby John Prowell Athletic Award (Best All-round-Athlete) •

■ Acknov/ledgments

The author and^ compiler wishes to acknowledge the gen

erous help of the following people, in providing'ihformation

for -the History of Battle.Ground Academy; Jo Bo Akin,-John

A. Bragg, Mrs. L. P. (Emily Beasley) Brittain, Miss Dorothy

Doggett, Mrs. William M. (Frances Anderson) Gibbs, Miss

Elizabeth Kittrell, Mr, To Wo Pettus, Mr. and Mrs. Claire

Do (Elizabeth) Regen, and Dr. Tom Warren.

Bibliography ■ ■

Alexander, T. H., "T. H. Alexander Pays Fine Tribute to Famous Old School". Reprint in Review-Appeal from. The ' Memphis Commercial Appeal (n.d.)

"Battle Ground Academy". Review and Journal, June 12, 1889

"BGA Destroyed By Fire". Review-Appeal, March 3, 1910, p. 1

Battle Ground Report Cards (Alumni Report Card)

"BGA To Start Accepting Females This Fall". Nashville Banner, April 18, 1979, p. 17.

Bowman, Virginia McDaniel, Historic Williamson County, Nash ville, Tennessee, Blue and Gray Press, 1971.

Covington, John W., "Eastern Williamson County". VTilliamson County Historical Society Journal, X (1979), 41-47.

Cummins, Polly Armistead, "Battle Ground Academy Observes 75th Birthday", Review-Appeal, October 17, 1963, 1-D, 7-Do

"Established Local School". Reviev;-Appeal, August 7, 1941, f p. 1, Hi

German, Horace, "We Buried A Man". Review-Appeal, August 1941. ■ - Kirkpatrick, Peggy 0., "There Is Nothing -You Can,Name. That I? Like Girls ■Back-At BGA" The' Nashville Banner, Co-tober 3, 1'979, '' . .. J ■ Morgan, Marshall, "BGAs The Old Days", Review-Appeal, n.d. "Rauchle, B. C-. ,' "Graduate of 1907i Recalls Life, at BGA" BGA Alumni Report Card, III (July 14, 1976), 4. Redick, Paul, "Jonas S, Coverdale - Maker of Men". Review- Apipeal, November 7,'-1974, p. ■ 13, . ■ 'Wil'liamson County B'obk of Charters 1, p. 11.

Williamson' County Deed Book 14,. pp. 192-193.

"vJilliamsbn County Deed Book 23, p. 441. .i ; ■ Willicimson County Deed Book 30, pp. 329r331. t.: Williamson County Historical Society "clippings" Vertical File (War Memorial Public Library)

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UNPUBLISHED GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ' WAR MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE

Compiled by; Lula Fain Major

The unpublished genealogical materials, found an- "t-he "

War Memorial Public Library are housed conveniently together in one room. These materials fall into three classes; those available on microfilm, those filed in the verticle files of both the library and the Williamson County Historical

Society, and published v;orks,

MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM

The census records for certain years and.for certain counties exactly as recorded by the census taker are on

I . ■ microfilm. Before 1850, the only names appearing on these records was the head of the household. In 1850 the census included all persons living together in one family unit, along with ages, sex, race, place of -Sirth, real and per sonal estate, extent of education.

Beginning with the 1880 census-, the relationship Of each person'Iri the household tO ' the head of household was recorded, as well as their marital status, where each per son's parents were born, and in what State. The 1890: cen suses burned, but there remains one census taken of the

Union veterans of the Civil War for that year. The latest census records to be released on microfilm are for the year 1900. The 1900 census' is the first one to record the month and year born, the number of years married, the num ber of children and how many of these were living.

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The other materials on microfilm, as listed be

low, are for the most part-self-explanatory. Howeverj in several instances notes have been added giving

additional information, A list of all microfilm

materials follow!?.? . . , . y ; ; Drawer 1 ■ ■ . . ■ : Williamson County Nevjspapers" isis - June 1978 (Not indexed) ... . , ■

Drav/er 2

Census P.ecords Tennessee

Anderson County 1850 Bedford County ■ 1820, 185b ■ ■ Carroll County 1860 .. • ■Cheatham County 1860 ■■ Davidson County 1860 Robertson County 1850 ■ Warren County 1840 . . , Wayne County." 1830" ' ■ Weakiey County 1830 White County• 1830, 1860 Williamson County 1830, .1340, .1850, 1860, 1870, isSO, 1900 Wilson County 1330, 1840, 1880

1890 census - Veterans and widows of Union Vet erans of Civil War for the following'countiess Bedford, Cheatham, Coffee, Davidson, Franklin, Giles,. Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Moore, Robertson, Rutherford., Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson, Wilson,

Census Records - Kentucky . • ■ ' ' Jefferson County 1810 Jessamine County 1810 Knox County 1810 Lewis County 1810 Lincoln County 1810 Livingston County 1810 Logan County 1810 Madison County i-"- ^ 1810 Mason County 1810 ' Mercer County ■ 1810"

Montgomery County 1810 .-ill •. Muhlenberg;" County' • '

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§■ Williamson County Will Books 1835-1870 '* Williamson County Deed Index 1799-r383 William'soh County Tax Books 1300-1895 Williamson County Minute Books 1800-1840

Church Records

Belleview Cumberland Presbyterian Church 1852-1908 Cool Springs Primitive Baptist Church St, Paul's Episcopal Church 1827-195'4 Wilson Creek Primitive Baptist Church

Diaries

Jesse Cox Diary Samuel Henderson Diary 1860-1876 Miss Susie Gentry's Scrapbook 1860-1944 Miss Susie Gentry's Scrapbook for Old Glory Chapter DAR

I Slave Schedule - 1860 Anderson, Bedford, Benton, §lount, Bradley, Campbell, ^ Cannon, Carroll, Carter, Cheatham, Claiborne, Cocke, ' . Coffee, ■ Qu^ Davidson,,Decatur, Dekalb, % ■■■"'" Dickspn, Dyer, .Fentress, Sumner, Tipton, Union, Van Bufen,,: Warren, Washington, Wayne, Weakley, White, Williamson and Wilson Counties - all in Tennessee

pray;er 3

■ Confederate Cemetery Records of the Confederate Cemetery in Franklin Gaht, S. Co Belletristic Literature in Kentucky and Tennessee - Newspaper and Periodicals, 1820-1840. Marriage Bonds and Licenses of Williamson County from 1800 through 1850. Microfilm copies of the originals along with an alphabetical index of both brides and grooms. Prepared by and owned by the Williamson County Historical Society.

Mt. piivet Cemetery Records, 1844-1915 -- 8 volumes on reels. 1 and 2. This cemetery is in Nashville, Tennessee.

VERTICAL FILES ^ Genealogical inform.ation in these files are in printed booklets, typed and handwritten family histories, copies of e> A materials, clippings from newspapers, and a few original 116.

family papers Both the War MGinor-Lal Public Library, «. and the Williamson County Historical Society have files of this type material in the library at,this " tirae^o In these listings belov.w the date the material .. printed^ or given to. the library are noted, v/here available., War Memorial Public Library Cemeterxe,3 - Listings of the folloxving cemeteries in WilliamEon Countys ' (1) Cemeteries in the 16th Dis trict by Vance Little? (2) Rest Haven taken by WPA worker, J, McKayBuchanan, in 1939; (3)' Old City Ceme tery taken ^cy Mr; ■-Buchanan in 1939 and-by Corinne Carter Ward in 1953; (4) C4reGnbrier (new part); Mt Zion (first death in 1308) ; (6) Oak Grove,

Genealoqical Section, Andr^v^_ ■—'■Dssceridarits 6t jdhn (1764—1842)., George (1765-184'2), arid Sphraira (l7o9-1834)' Andrews, sons of Mark Aiidrevrs. Desdenaants of Sarah Locke Andrews, and tilliott-R, -Waddey, oi Elizabeth Andrev^s and joliln McCiirdy, and of Lydia Asidrews and Iloratio.'Sharp"' Smithson, Compiled by Mrs. Forrest Andrew,s, .1968. Blackburn - (1> "I'he Elackburns in ilmerica" compiled by^W, 'A, Cna.llacombe, Blackburn Coile'g'e, Carlinville, Illinois, 1354. (2) '"The Blackburn College Alumni Quarterly'- - January 1967. (3) "Gideon Blackburn" by Jp Minton -Batten - a paper read before the Ten nessee .Historical Society January 9, 1951. Buchdhin — A L.ire Sketch of- Jennie Thomas Buchanan" -by ^Ldura Cr Blalo'ck, 1908. Campbe-].1 dmisto:■?, Concerns mostly the Campbell family of "Virginia. Taken fr-om Foote's sketches, Saved Caimpbcil, once governor of Virginia. ain-Hi ght-ov,7e.r" Jef tries-Lac y - Owen- Sp enc er— Walker — Histories of these families were compiled by J. Tyree Fain in 1938. Collrlns - Abstracts of forty-six Araerican Revolu- ' Wai: pension applications J -''Prom Troy Young it. Worth, Texas in 195G, Corn - Copy of rii.ble rec^erd, 5 pages. 117

Cotton -The Sir Thomas Cotton family„ Family chart be ginning in 1042 by Dr. J„W,L. Matlocko A letter in'1'958 rom Dr. Ma tie ck to Mrs. J. B. Hatcher v/ith Cotton family • .■;infarmation, gowden - .Southern Cowdens by John/s Cowden. .. Copihh of portions of the book written in 1933. Cr||v;^ - Information compiled by Mrs. Donald B-. Duff, lybo. 15,.pages, Crutcher - Copies from the.file.at the Tennessee State' Library and:Archives of Robert K, ..Merritt of .California, j pages:. Davis-Hicks - "Footsteps of the Harpeth" by Illene Corn- of the articles as they, appeared -in* the' ' Surburban News in 1970 and 1971. DeMoss-Dozier-NewsOm-Robinson - Information on' the Rbbin- son, Newsom, Litton^ and Morton families compiled by William A. Byrn, Jr. in 1941 and updated in. 1963j CQpies of several, .deeds .i "Newsom History Family Tree"- -' 3 pages.

■ Elisha Farrar' family (1809-1876) . A history bi the Farrar family. - 6 pages. : % German ~ Records kept by Sallie A. H. Ge.rman - births> deaths, marriages. The book was presented to• her in ' " ' 1876 by her mother, Emeline McEwen German. 5 pages. Givens - Some-of the papers of Mrs. Elva Farish-Givens. Mrs, Givens.:' Colonial Dames of the XVII Century applica-^ tion papers as descended from Obadiah Holmes, Warham Horsmanden, Robert Pollard, Giles Rogers,^ John Roaers, Randall Holden, hnd Byrd, I... :; Mrs';'-Givens' DAR application papers with George Ridley and John Henderson as ancestors. . Also information on^ the families of. Farish, . .William Jordan, Marshall,- Blackburn, William Johnson,, and Givens." Go^^ - Four pages copied from the Surburban News, 1972. ' on the Abel, Gowef family. ~ "^^Booklet - "John W. Green - Autobiographical Sketch,: 1946., Father - Frances .Marion. Green? -Mothef - Susan ,<-W.ebb., .. Oohh W." Green was born in 1859. Herbert ''Herbert Line, of Descent" compiled by Virginia' Haley Denis.,. 1944 . 14 pages. ' ' - ^ Hulme - Family chart drawn by Mrs. Mattie E. Trube from', informatio'h- compiled by .Miss Catharine Hamilton and Mrs Herman Major. 118

0* SK Jai£Q3 " "The ;Search, for Jesse James" by Robert W, , McBride as,It appeared in the -Fall 1965 issue of ^ , ,the Tennessee..Historical Quarterly. Family Bible records of the William Lanier , f^ilyo He. was born in: 1803. Also nev\'spaper clip- , pings of the deatns of William Lanier in 1873, .-:1873,??Y° Rev. E^win,William D.D.,Burns Rev...in 1873, Pferk and Wilson Rev.' Gray John, in . - P-lcCurdy in 1856 (?). Johnson -..Memoirs of Joseph A, Johnson who wa&:..borh' . ' Also information on the Hyde, Scales,-Pettus, Williams, Jordan, Dalton, and Gallihue families'. ' -Lavender^^ One page on Anthony" Lavender (1804-1854 ' Gift of Guy L. Collier. -

. •1689. Gift of John MccordWeakley family Covington. - James was born in . ; McDaniel..- ^ A letter from Coliin PScDaniel to his sistef - dated June 15, 1825, , • . . a McEwen-German - A listing of the children of David and Margaret Ervin McEwen with births and deaths. Ob.itu-- 1847, of Pirs. ElizabethGofff German widow in of 1881, Capto ofAndrew'Goff Pirs. Fannie ,' ' js E. Tulloss, widow of Major John Tulloss, in 1909, War" record of Major James McEwen. Magness - "Tennessee's Celebrated Case" by John B. Cowden,. 1958. Patton Anderson killed by Pviagness. . ...Bedford County, Tennessee. Copy. Motheral - a history of the Joseph Motheral family as compiled by Beth Ring Uehling in March 1967. Murphyf i • - Abstracts. . of thirty-seven" • • •American Revolu- tiorj^ry War pension applications of Murphys. Gift of ... Y Young.Coll ins, Texas, in 1966.-'. fNeely :r "A Sketch of the Life of - iiary Neelv" bv ' '''' Spears'. ^ t Newsom - Wewsom. family treo, Newsom' Cemetery., and :an ^ost^sct, of. title of James Eb Newsom who died in' 1863 ^ Newsom Station - "Newsom Station" by Eilene Plummer . :tAe Surburban News plus information on the NeWsorii family. 1971 or 1972. '

Nolen family newslet ters - in 1978 and 1979.: 119

Nugent.-- "Some Historical Data on the Nugent Family - 1780. to the Present, The William Nugent Family Who Settled at Hardinsburg, Breckenridge .County, Kentucky in 1780'Sa' by Thomas J„ and Paul Nugenti "Nugent Family, 1906 ~ " by Wayne Nugent, Park - Newspaper clipping in 1903 of Dr. John S, Park,- Pegram - A Pegram family.history written by Mary Lou - Beach and given to the library in 1972 by William Brien Linton and Mark Hutton. Pettus - "Early x/irginia Pettuses", Tyler Magazine, Vol. 26, pp, 183-188; .Vol, 29, pp, 140-152, Wills of Overton Pettus (1850), Sylvanus Walker (1785) of Virginia and abstracts of wills of Susannah Pettus (1851)-. arid .. Elizabeth O, Pettus (1855) of .Williamson. County, Terin, A Pettus family record beginning with Thomas Pettus who married Amey Walker in 1735, - "The Pedigree of the Pollok or Polk Family" from the American' Historical Magazine, pages 4 2-73, Copies, Rs,ed. - Booklet - "A Reed Family in America" by Forrest ^ ' , ?, Reed, 1962,

- "Rowe Family of Southern Middle Tennessee" com- % , piled by Richard Fulcher in 1974, Shelburne ~ A family chart of the Shelburne family ac companied by a letter in 1970 to Mrs. Marvin Pratt from Richard W,. Buck, .....Sledge - Information on the John and Sterling SledgC ' families as compiled by Helen Ring -Womack of Dallas, ^ Texas and also on the Kogg-Gillespie families and the Pinkeltham Hogg (1776-1866) family, . Smithson - Separate booklets on the following families - Allen Johnson (1765-1835), Smithson,; .Smithson-Andrews,> ' Smithson-Giles, and Smithson-Giles—Wilson as compiled by Minnie Lee Weaver of Utah, Stiles-Baldwin,:- Family information compiled in 1971 by Celia Baldwin Taylor Locke, ; Temll-Swanson ^Terrill family genealogy, and Swanson family charts^ ■ ■ White - Marriages and deaths of the family of Gen, William White who died August 6, 1833, Copied in:1955 by Hazel Giddens Morton,

McEwen-Goff Chronicles of Three Pioneer Williamson County, Tennessee Families, 1798-1925^ This book was written by 120

Graham Rounsaville German-Webb on the German, Goff, and' \ related f^ilies,. It,., is . a bound, typewritten book., .and because of its condition and scarcity it is kept in the- flies. One can also find this book and/or a microfilm- copy at the Tennessee State Library and Archieves,' The copy at t;he. War Memorial Public Library was given to, the library when it moved to the German house in 1949 be cause Mrs, Webb .was born there. It is thought to have been her. brother's Horace German^ copy. Pioneer Preachers of Williamson County - Sketches bv Lillian . Seymour., Sheman,. Old Glory Chapter, DAR, of." these preachers - Green Hill, Garner McGonnico> Gideon Blackburn, .James Hervey Otey, Andrew.Craig, and Joel Anderson, . .. yhomas Chapel Society - Copy of the church, register of the Thomas Chapel Society, Tennessee Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church South, Gives.members from 18S3, with- - three having been members prior to this time, to 1907 and a list of : pastors from 1877-1907, Williamson County Historical Society" Biographical Sketches - clippings from newspapers, pri- manly the Review-Appeal and the Williamson Leader. It is an assortment of articles .that give some type of info- ma- tion about a particular person.o . Some, qf these are -. the # family. Dr. Robert Hutchinson, Tom Moody, JudgeT J AWallace ^^4Smith, James Daly E, Thompson, Shannon, andDr, C.J, 0.P. Wilson,Shannon, . * Churches - These are copies of the original church records and of church histories of which some list members and/or pastors. ..Besides the listings belov7 there are other church materials that give histories of churches themselves. Cumberlang Presbyterian — Copy of session minutes (1.^8J/"1951) and the church register, Beileviev/ Ciimberlahd Presbyterian Church - Has a. register of members and pastors. Gowles Chapel United Methodist - Copy of church regis ter, 1871-1964, with a list of pastors and members^ along with marriages and deaths of some members, Methodist Church - A history and list of ministers 1800-1971 and the church membership in 1971, Avenue Church of Christ - A history-of the church ^ and church directories for 1960, 1969, and 1971- ' 121

SttGn^iFrjrrwritten in 1978-whi-ch 2f.t^.^Nazare^.- includes sketches a history of pastors. of the church .■

along with a history of^ the church.pastors from 1853 to. 1931 Lei£^ Fork Primitive Baptist Church. Copy of husrn.occ meetings, from 1824 to 1978": «usinuss 1914"^^^^^^' - Abstract of church records," 1889- Poplar Grove Cumbejrland Presbyterian - Names nf ovr^^r,-: ing members in 1860. Rig|s Cross Road Church of Christ - Has a list of some D3.ptisnis e Sao^ Philip Catholic Church - A history of the church which also 3,ncludes some information enfold families members, and sketches of the parish council.

Deeds (copies) ^ l..-, . Brittain Adams td Sherwood Green 2. Daniel Bates to R, w. MCLemore, Trustee 3, John Bennett to William Wiseman Joseph Chrisman to Thomas McFarland 5. Mrs. Ida M. Eller to W. W. Bond ^ 6. Elisabeth H. Erwin to Anderson McFarland ■ 7. David Gooch, Sr. to Henry Williams 8. Marmaduke J. Green to■jacob Christman ■ 9. Marmaduke J. Green to Thomas McFarland I 10. Henry Halfacre and Gilbert Marshall to Isaac Chrisman 11. I, Henry Lawrence to Atlanta M. Chrisman 12. Charles I." McFarland to Jacob Chrisman 13. Charles I. McFarland to Thomas MbFarlin 14. John Smith to John Bennett 15. Alexander E. Sneed to Anderson McFarlin 16. Thomas E. Sumnet Estate by executor to Jacoip Chrisman

Demonbreun A Genealogy and History of Jacques Timothe Bo^gh^ de^ Mgnbreun and His Ancestors and Descendants. A soft bound book compiled by Kathryn De Monbreun Whitefort Copyright 1939.

Family Histories « Allison and Ogilvie - Families of Robert Allison, Sr. who 1796 and of William Oglivie who was born in 1690. 122

Bennett--KcLeinore .Family, charts'.. « Boyles. - Bible record.of the family of Charles-. a,hd- Polly Old Boyles - four pages= '

Burnett - Sketch of Peter Hardeman Burnett by'Wo W, Fav7o Newspaper clipping in 1947= Mr, Burnett was the first governor of Caiifornia and lived as a boy in Williamson County. Carter - Newspaper clipping featuring Dro Moscow Carter and ^written by Louise Davis in 1949. - Also a news- ■■ ■' paper clipping of the Carter house. Courtney ~ r^ewspaper clippings - William Wirt Courtney, Covington, W, F. - Bible records of this family. 3 pages,. . . Cov7den - Southern Cowdens by John B. Cowden. Copies of pages 62-74. Written in 1933, Criddle-Scruggs - Gift of Mrs. Virginia Scruggs Jared, Manchester. Tennessee in l972. Includes (1) obituaries- ^ of John Scruggs and his wife, Mary Griddle (born 1833), daughter of Smith Griddle and Lucy Whitfield, (2) A list of Edvzard Criddle Scruggs' .schoolmates at the ■ # Franklin Institute in 1867, (3) Mary- Criddle's school days in Franklin,-. . ^ Dobson-Hughes - The-. Courtship of Matthew Hughes Dobson and Letitia Hughes by Pattie Rogers Dobson Kaynes. Copies of pages 1-84.: - .■ Edmiston (Sdrciondspn) .- "Early; Edmondsons in Middle Ten- nessee" by Howard..,Jones - seven typewritten pages. A genealogy beginning-v with .Samuel Edmiston who was born in Maryland in 1733 ~ fourteen pages. - .A sketch of Gen. John Edmondson Steph-e,ns. who was born in 1874. German ■- Family record giving births, deaths, and mar- riages as kept by Sallie A, H. German in a book presented to her in 1376 by her mother, Emeline McEwen German. Giddens-Mbss - A SS-page booklet entit-ied. "Giddens^and- • Allied.Families", by Kazel .Giddens Morton - the Giddens Family, 1753-1973, Herbert - "Herbert Line of Descent" as compiled by Virginia Haley Davis in 1944. Family of John Herbert and his wife, Elizabeth. - . * Hvde-Williams"Jordan - Hartwell Hyde family records. ■ ^ James Williams family records. Births, death, marriages ^ 123 %

« of the family of lJames B.lount and Susannah Carolina Snell , * Jordan, The Archdr..Jordan family as xirritten by Col, Johrv.-.'' Jordan, ' . ~ "The Hunts of Tennessee" compiled by T, Vance Little, 1959, . .1 . . . Johnson,. Willia|n Weakley - Two folders. Some of his origi nal receipts, letters,- a deed, ... In second,, folder a JohnsGiji family chart, copies of Johnson BibleVrecbrds, and theb Alston-^Johnson lineage on application for Magna Charta Dames in 1960, Lanier - A family chart and the Colonial Dames applicatibh papers of Mary Caroline Lanier in 1957. Lytle - A sketch of 'william Lytle (i755-1.8^9)- by Ethelr'^ ~ Benedict J, Lytle of New York,

McGavock, Caroline Elizabeth 'Winder,,- Two newspaper sket-c.hes of Mrs, McGavock, Also a picture of her home,~C^rnton-i Nichols - G.eiprge,.,.S,^^Nichols wrote "the following repollec- tions written by my."gtahdfather from information his"" StiOther told him as she came to Franklin, Tenn. in 1813, His great grandmother was Mrs, Elizabeth McCown-NicVols who came to Franklin 1813 from Bardstown, Kentucky, There is a sketch of the Nichols family and the names of old citizens ' living in Franklin in 1813, Poyner - One page. Births, deaths, marriages beginning with Sarah and Robert Poynor both born in 1777.

Scales - A family record arranged and written by Joseph A, Johnson in 1955. Also includes the Johnson, Hyde, and Pettus families, r Stuart - Carl - Family histories compiled by Dorothy Norman Carl and presented to the Williamson County Historical in 1971, Copies of some of the papers of Judge Thomas S.tuart, Sumner - Family history beginning in England, Three pages. Written in 1911,

Vernon - Information on the Thomas Vernon family, Thomas was born-around '1700. -Ten pages,

Wilson - Copies of pages from the Holy Bible With a Per- petual Genealogical Family Register (1859), Begins with James H, Wilson who was born in 1763 in Ireland, ''Ai'so Christian, Cross, Doak, Gordon, Hill, -Kennedy, and , , Zollicpffer families. Hillsboro High School - Catalogue, 1893->9,4., . 'Le.ip.bJ^s' Fork, Tennessee, William Anderson, principal. Contains enroll ment for preceding year. 124

Jameson;, R. D.. and Camilla, his wife. Letters and Recollections of a Confederate Soldier, l'5.60"1865, t Copies. Originals in the Tennessee State'Library and Archives. Lipicomb - Will of Granville Lipscomb made in 1853. Sketch of ?7illiam Lipscomb (1329-1903).

'^Q^Tity, Tennessee Pioneers Jiagazine - Seven- copies,., 1970 and 1971. Has genealogical information., ife^hville _ Ci% ■ Cemetery "An Index to Interments in the Nashville City Cemetery, 1846-1962," Published in 1964. Southern Heroines of the American Revolution. A booklet published in 1973 containing brief sketches, 's Who in Williamson County - clippings from the Review-Appeal,. some old and some recent. Sketches of the fq4,;iov7ing.people-- - , - Aifa,. Levels Anderson, C. C. Akin, ,R„ V.,, Jr. Ashworfh, Porlina Lock; Alexander, ..T„/H. ' Ayery, 'Gorman Ammerman, , br. Wesley.,' .^.^ug'h, Joe, ,Jr. Brookshire, Judy , B'edrden, William' Henry Buchanan, j. .Mc.R,^jr, Berry, Ryler, Jr. Buchanan, Robert P. 1 5.1®y? Dr. H. P., Buford, Gasto.n Reedy Beasley, Joe'D. . Burnett, Mary Campbell Bolin, Leslie

I Gampl^'eil, ■^ Compton, ii. L, ' Canh'On,' "Newton, "IV Cooke, Marshall Carlisle, W. 0. Crawford, Harvey . . gawth.on, . Robert T. , (Southall Lumber Co.) ghrlst.i'a.n, JaiTi.qs. Crockett, Hilary R., Jr.. ' i Crutcher,. Ross Coli'in, ■ Judy ' Culberson, J. w.

l'' ' . • • Daniels, Wilbur E. Davis, Jesse - Darnell, Mrs. Dave (Hattie) DicJcinson, Jacob - McGavock Davis, Jr. and Mrs. Henry Dodd, Paul M. . Davis, J. 0, Duncan, Herman, Jr. r Ewin., Sam.'"|?hite ^ Fielding, Nancy . ■ , '. Fox, Rev. George.A. Gilmore, Jeanne Graham, Judge Dorsey .. iC^ivens, J^es . "v . ■. .Mack Lewis

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■t Goodjine, Mrs, Jane Gray, Sam Wo Macklin Grigsby, Blythe Gore, To J„

Haun, Ao Jo Hoskins, Bates and Maude"-Guffee Hendricks, Joe R. Hewlett, .Miss Virginia Hicks, liro & Mr So Hunter, J. A. Fred, Jr„ Hussey, Lawrence Kills, Eo Mo (Southall Bros.) Hood,, Donal,d

Jackson, Claude Jones, Miss Mary Sneed Jackson, Mrs. Ina Mai . Jordan, John Jackson,.,. J. Leonard Johnson, J. Ho (Bob)

Kelley, Wilburn H,

LagerStrom, Miss Lanier, Miss Mary Margaret L^ni.er, James, R.

... McCall, . Herbert McCullough, Miss Kattie McCammon, Rev. J.A, McDaniel, Charles Minor McCord, John D. McMahon, -Dee McCord, HoAo (Dock) % MoMurray, .Mrs. T. M.

Marlin, John E. Moore, Morris Bo ..Martin,. Wo p. Morgan, John Heachcim, Harding Mount,, Rev. Eric ,Minton, Doug

O'More, Eloise, • Osburn, Mrs. L. W. (Mary) Ormes, Mrs. Sallie Ann

Page, Rosa Battle Pitner, Lt. William (Mrs. Harry H.) .Posnack, ..Joseph Bi Parks, Walter J. Potts, Ho J. Patterson, Pat L. Preston, Happy Patterson, Thomas Prichard, Mrs. W. J. James Petway, Walter Pinkerton, Tom, Jr,

Ragsdale, .Mrs . J. S. Reynolds, Miss Lena Rainey, Mrs„ Marvin Richardson, Mrs. Newton (Darlene) Ridley, Miss Sallie Reese, Will Rucker, Ed Regen, Mro & Mrso M.T family

Sawyer, Coley & Short, James Wallace Marion Lazenby Short, Jimmy

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Sawyer^ Mr, & firs.- Robert.B, Stalcup, Edward Scales, W. P„ Stephens Quartet Schumacher, Eo Ro Scruggs Jane and Wiley...

Tanner, James Terrell Tucker, ,J. J,„ (Tobie.)'.'. Tohrner, Mrs. Flora Rulloss, Joe -Jordan Truett, Ed Laird

Van-Hof, Mr. & Mrs. C. Vaughn, Hewlett Travis Hunter

Waddey, Richard P. Wood^ Prah. Waggoner, Joe Woods, ..Miss Sara'■ Wolfgang, Steve

York, Claude

Zeigler, George.^..- - Serfoss ,..- .L. Frank

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ally the older articles which appeared in the REVIEW APPEAL

in the 1930'5; and 1940's or later and were .written by the

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HARPETH RIVER PREHISTORY

3y; Joseph L= Benthall

Since the early dawn of prehistory in Tennessee, the Harpeth River served as a habitat, as v/ell as a migratory

route, for aboriginal peoples for thousands of years before

the arrival of the first European settlers.

The first inhabitants to live along the Harpeth were

the Paleo-Indians who probably moved into the area more than

10,000-12,000 years ago. These people were nomads who prac ticed hunting, fishing, and' limited collecting 9f edible .

plants as means of subsistence. Vary little is known about

them other than the nature of their tool kits and the fact

that they hunted the now extinct mammouth and mastadon,. as

well as a variety of other species.

Archaeologists have recognized several other cultural

periods which postdated that of the Paleo-Indian. These

, periods include those of the Archaic, (8,000-1, 600 ,.B..C.) ;

Woodland (500 B.C.-700 A.D.), and Mississippian .(A.D.- 850-.^

! 1450), The Historic Period was introduced with the arrival I of the first European explorers and settlers in the area.

Archaeological sites representative of camps, shelters, and villages represent the best evidence of aboriginal life as

It had existed along the Harpeth.

Several.well known^archaeological sites along, the

Harpeth include Old Tov/n, southwest of Franklin in, Williamson

PHOTO g Wall trenches delineating outline of aboriginal houses, MOUND BOTTOM SITE excavations 1974. 128

County, Fewkes Mound Site near Brentwood in Williamson County, and Mound Bottom, near Pegram in-cheatham Coun * ty. There had also been, ;ip..pearlier years, another spectacular site located on the former DeGraffenreid property.near Frahlclin, but in more recent years was destroyed .by phosphate mining operations. All of the sites, above date from the Mississippian Period and had represented fortified towns enclosed within stockades.. Before ■...its destruction, ' the DeGraf fenreid Site had en compassed. an 'area of 32 acres and consisted of 9 mounds ■ enclosed within the vestiges of a fortification ditch and embankment ^T^hiCh extended 3800 feat in circumference. A large truncated mound near the center of the site had probably served as an earthen base for a structure whiq^ -rr- fio served either as a council house or as a dwelling for an j : individual of high social status. Another prominent site dati.ng from the Mississippian Period is Old Town located approximately six miles south- : west of Franklin, on the Big Harpeth River. Like the DeGraffenreidj Mound Bottom, and Fewkes Sites, Old Town

j had .been■.•fortified by means of a stockade. In 1876 Dr. Joseph .Jones in his Explorations of Aboriginal .Remains.., in Tennessee described the fortification ditch and embank.-. . ,• j-- mentasi. extending from the steep bluff of the river in a crescent pattern 2,4 70 feet, enclosing three mounds,, an^ a large village' site, all encompassing an area of apprpxi.-i mat.ely --twelve ■ acres,-'' The mound complex within the enclo sure consists of two pyramidal mounds and a small burial , ..^r

i.-ilJCTl L F-H. X/l '; S - 129 mound, both located in the southv^est corner of the site. « TSeo stone box cemeteries were also located within the in terior of the • en'cloisure, Sixteen miles down river'from Old Town lie the com bined sites of Mound Bottom and Harpeth Mound City situafed in one of-,the ibends of the Harpeth in Cheatham County. Dr. Joseph jones: (Jones, ■1876) described the two sites as thus in 1876;.; , . i

. two.Fortifications systems of mounds several and miles numerous in extent Stone; graves,inr-inriinrf ' lie along.the Big Harpeth River, about sixteen miles Bottom and Osborne's' ' ' " worKs,wo?k?° whichwht inclose extraordinarythe sites of twoaboriginal ancient cities" are .faunft three feyramiaal mounds, about fil?y in elevation, and each, one exposing about one acre ' ' - . on Its summit; and besides these a^e lesser moSndL. . aboriainJr'^L'^^ which connected their ancient . forfacs? fi towns can .still be recognized in the PlfcS^';,places a foot or more lower,thancompact thepath general being insur- some . face.of the sufrSunding soil." goneraisur With.the establishmeht in 1970, of the Division of Archaeology within the Tennessee Department of Conservation, a program of acquiring ancS preserving archaeological sites, - for preservation was begunl In 1973 the lOs' acre Mound. Bottom Site was purchased by the Department of Conservation for preservation and development as an archaeological in terpretative park. The site is comprised of a large villagg. area and plaza,, as well as a large pyramidal mound and eight smaller mounds. Following acquisition by the Department of Conservation, the Division of Archaeology conducted • explo ' • "".'n ratory^ excavation at the site from the Spring of 1974 to late Fall of 1975. These excavations resulted in the

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uncovGring ;of numeroiis archaeological features and artifacts= Archaeological excavations disclosed recti-' linear patterns of post molds and wall trenches as

recognized by dark soil stains or discolorations ^ These

(Figure 1) were representative of houses hav ing walls formed by rows of vertical posts.interwoven' with strips'of split cane which had been covered over with plastered clay» Several of the houses, had burned^ prompting the Indian occupants to quickly evacuate thqir houses leaving all of their utensils^ arid other persdrial belongings to the■fate, of, the structures. . Since charcoal will remain in a state of .preservation indefinitely the charred remains of the collapsed structures . provided cellent details on the nature of the structures as- well' as

" • '-.i techniques and materials employed in their construction.

Such details will provide for reconstruction of these fea tures as part of the interpretative program at-Mound^' --' Bottom when its development is begun, ''ii

Excavations conducted along the north side of•the' I'.'-i plaza area exposed a large area of baked clay floor which 1- • had been associated with a large public building situated' on the .sumniit of a low platform mound. Excavations fuf-' ther revealed that the mound and public building (council housG;?.). had been partially enclosed v/ithin a log palisade.

Oth^ features 'uncovered include refuse, pits, hearths, . flOO and foodjstorage'pits which contained bits of.broken-pot tery, storije i.tools, and large quantities-of animal bones- % and charred vegetal remains. Such items serve as evidence 131

% for the many daily activities and subsistence of the.early it. inhabitants, it is now known that Mississippian. peoples practiced row horticulture through which they grew maise (oorn)„, beans squash, andpumpkinsl Four stone box cemeteries were also known to have; existed at Mound Bottom, one of v;hich was partially ex- ^ Plored during the 1974-75 excavation. These graves were generally,rectangular boxes with slabs of limestone or. te^serving as walls, floors, and lids. Floors of the. boxes were sometimes formed with fragments of broken ;poto tery. The bodies of deceased adults and older children were placed in an extended position in the boxes and generally, had burial offerings placed with them at the time of burial.

'm ,:0f additional interest were the samples of charcoal.re covered from-several of the burned structures. These sam ples when submitted to a radio carbon laboratory and pro- , ce.ssed, produced carbon 14 dates which placed the Indian . occupation at fiound Bbtiiom within the period A. D. 850-

1350, Another prominent site dating from the Mississippian Period. is,,the Fewkes Mound, located in the Brent^^ood area., ^ of Williamson County, six miles northeast of Franklin., , The site located along, the southwest side of the Harpeth Riyer IS comprised of a single pyramidal mound and four smaller deflated mounds. The mounds, a plaza and village site, presently encompasses an area of approximately 15 acres. Like Mound Bottom, old Town and DeGraffenreid, the Fewkes # Mound complex and village had also .been fortified and 132

enclosed within, a,,lpg. stockade» Altho.ugh, no, recent archaeological wprJp has Jseen conducted, William E. Myer.s conducted limited work there as early as 1920 = Aboriginal house sites and various other features, in cluding, stone box graves were recovered and recorded by Myers 4s a result of his efforts= Also located, on the .Site, and of local historical interests the. Qld. Boiling Springs Academy, established in 183.2, and presently the oldest standing school house in Williamson County,. Tennessee is richly endowed with ..a prehistoric and historical heritage which needs to be preserved. Over the,past 50 years many of our historic and archaeologi cal sites have, been lost due to urban and industrial ..expansion, building of dams and other activities involv- : ® ing land alteration. Although the Fewkes Mound is in an excellent state of preservation today, land develop ment has,..moved c^angerously close to this site, conse quently, there is a potential danger that it could be the near future. Only through the joint effprts of local citizens and the State can Fewkes .and .many,. pf . Tennessee's other rapidly disappearing

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^ : JM1ES To CARROLL McCANLESS and CRYSTAL VALLEY FARfl '

by

James Caldwell McCanless

Somewhere in Tennessee, on a Saturday, the 13th day of March, 1826, James To Carroll McCanless was born. The exact county is

not known for sure but Williamson County is first choice, with

Rutherford and Giles counties as possibilities, ,

The birthplace and names of his parents are also not. knov/n

but res.earch and- speculation narrows the possibilities to four s

lo There was a James McCanless, born in North Carolina in

1794, married to a Nancy Pumroy 19 August 1823 in Williamson

County, Tennessee, James McCanless appears on the Williamson

% County 1825 tax list which shows he paid taxes on 200 acres :

located on Mill Creek, In 1836, when the tax list .was divided .-i'

into districts, James McCanless was listed in the 16th District;.

The 1840 census records for Williamson County show- him present.

He had a male child 10--15 years old which coincides v/ith Carroll-'

McCanless ° s age at that time. There is no v/ill or settlement of

estate,or grantor deeds for this James McCanless so the names

of his heirs are unknown,

.■ 2, Then there is' a William .McCanless v/ho married .Sally;. Goff

in Williamson'County, Tennessee, 26 August 1809. He could have . r,?,

been a ...brother: to the above James and he could also . have been .

the father of ..Carroll, This speculation is based on the re- . .r;

search which shows 'William appearing in the 1820 census in .the

45 year old and up ''age bracket" and he also appears in the # 134 ^ \

age bracket of 40-50 in the 1830 Williamson County census. <•

Based on his age as being 45 in 1820/ this''William would have been born about 1774. He does not appear on the Williamson

County tax lists from 1820 forward.

. 3. Then there is a Thomas McCanless of Rutherford

Qounty^ Tennessee,; and his wife, Tennessee. There is a . strong possibility that maybe these were Carroll's parents; this supposition is based on the finding of a widow's appli-

,.cai:.;Lon for provisions dated about 1860 filed in Rutherford .County. The age of the widoW; Tennessee McCanless; added to •

the facts that Carroll named his oldest child "Tennie" and

that. Carroll's middle initial was "T" which could have been fo.rj., T,hppas should be seriously considered. , .4., ,And to throw coal on an already burning fire, the

CileS; County, Tennessee, census of 1830 shows three McCanless ,®

names,that had a male child under 5 - Thomas, David, and Jane

McCanless.

. In summation, if facts can be found to determine Carroll's county of birth, and if that county happens to be Williamson

as _it is assumed to be, then, either James or William McCanless is Carroll's father with James being the most likely. ,. .At age 23, Carroll married Susan Lovell, aged 17, on 2Sth of July, 1849 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Susan was the

daughter of Mr,. and Mrs. William Lovell. Mrs. Lovell's maiden name was Gambrill or Gamble. The 1850 Rutherford County .census shows the yoiing couple living in Mechanicsville on a *

farm. adjacent to William !Lovell. Mechanicsville has since lost its identity and was probably absorbed by Rocky Fork. 135

tod-me-down "records reveal that Carroll and his only known brother, John Franklin McCanless, were partners in a cotton gin

at Mechariicsville'prior to the Civil War= John Franklin wore the Confederate gray uniform in a company raised by Giles County native. Captain Farguarsono Carroll did not serve due to severe

"nearsightednesso Carroll's v/ife, Susan, died in 1865„ She named her children Tennie, Jbhn, James, Ann, Belle, Mary Jane, and William Ho '"On the 8th of February 1865, Carroll married Elizabeth Luviney Coleman in Williamson County who bdre him one son, December Broxm", and two daughters, Ardeen March and Nina June, and also a son and daughter who died in infancy»

Shortly after the Civil War, Carroll purchased a farm from

Is, Dro Copeland, located a few miles west of Mechanicsville in the eastern edge of Williamson County under the watchful eye of Summers Knob, and named it "Crystal Valley" and it so appears in the 1878' county map. Crystal Valley Farm was a part of the General Jethro Summer grant. Today, this is located in the 18th

District on McCanless Road about one mile north of Triune. The 422 acre homeplace was drained by Page Branch from east to west with fertile bottom land paralleling its banks. As Carroll prospered from general farming, cotton ginning, some type of wagon freight or commerce and land trading, he acquired enough land and resources to set each child up with a farm. Nearly the entire "Hollow" was inhabited by his sons and ^ daughters and their spouses. Carroll was given credit for being the driving force in

establishing two congregations of the Christian church, one in 136 ' %

Ruthe.rford County and, the other, the ..present day- Arrington Church of Christ, .In writing his obituary,,,.:his neighbor - Dr, S, T, p,. .Kirkpatrich said that the big, disappointment in Carroll's life was a failure to get the people tp. see the ..

simplicity of the gospel, Carroll died June 19, 1884, The cause was giyen.as a

..xup^yrpd,..: appendix, Dr, Pashall attended him. and I can .recol lect SQitie; family member telling that he operated on Carroll- on .the dining room., table with someone holding a lamp and '

"brough.t him back three times," Carro.ll' s obituary records . i

that in., the .,d ays of his suffering he called, each child to.his bedside and asked.him to "discharge.faithfully his duty," and-

dt to., his .v^if he..^afd, "Betty, seek for honor, virtue, and im mortality," ^.. The ol^ Crystal Valley homeplace is being restored to its ;«

original shape and size by a great grandson, James Caldwell ;; f

McCanless, and his family. The old home itself remains'vacant and in need of repair as it watches over the front,yard graves

of Carroll and his family. . r.v,

,,,Dr, S, T, F. . Kirkpatrick's .closing obituary remarks are

as fitting today as they Vi'ere then when he said, "Let us for

get his faults and emulate hisvirtues," .# 137

WILLIAMSON COUNTY^ TENNESSEE, MILITIA C0MI2ISSI0NE

. 1832 - 1861

: by ., r •

Eilene M. Plummer

This list of coinrnissions of officers in the militia of

Tennessee who resided in Williamson County is a continuation of the lists published in the Williamson County Historical Society's '■Journal NOo 6" entitled "Williamson County, Tennessee, Militia Commissions", prepared by Henry G. Wray and Ernest K. Johns, '

ending with the year 1815»

In the Spring 1979 issue, the present compiler added the

years 1815 through 1831, This issue continues the v/ork through

1861,

Some year's lists are not in the records,' On pages 132, 133,

it 134, and 145 of volume 7 of the Commission Book series there are

lists of commissioned officers with no specifications as to

counties of residence.

On page one of volum.e 7 of the Commission Book 'there is a

document, signed by Governor James K. Polk and dated'Jan, 1, 1840,

which states that John McGavock of Williamson County, Colonel of Infantry, is appointed-aide-de-camp on the Governor's staff,

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Allen, William H, - 2nd Lieut, - 21st Reg, - June 9

Baxter, Ezekiel - First Major - 97th Reg, - Feb, 2

a Crocker, Jacob - 1st Lieut, - 21st Reg, - Mar, 15 ^ Edmondson, William - Captain ~ 21st Reg, - Mar, 15

Eggleston, Edward C, - 1st Lieut, 44th Reg, - March 20 138 \%

Poster, Benneti'T" - Erisign - 97th Reg. - Dgc»

Helson, Henderson - Captain - 97th Reg. - Dec.

Holt, Nickolas P. - First Lieut. 21st Reg, ~ Mar, 15

House, Jesse - 1st Lieut. 44th Reg, - Apr. 14

Hughes, William - Captain - 21st Reg, - June 9 Ivy, Isaac •» Second Major - 97th Reg, =• Fab, 2 . . - ■ Joice, Roai - 1st Lieut, - 44th, Reg. - April 14 - '

McCutcheon, Patrick -• Captain ■= 44th Reg. ~ Sept, 12 (McCutchin?)

Patton, William H, - 2nd Lieut. - 21st Reg, - June 9

Peach, William " Lieutenant-Colonvol - 97th Reg, - Feb. 2

Pope, Thomas A, - Commahdant - 97th Reg, ~ Feb, 2

Powers, John - Ensign - 21st Reg, - June 9

Ray, Eli - 1st Lieut. - 44th Reg, - Sept, 12

Read,, John. C. - 1st Lieut, =■ 21st Reg, - June 9 , Smith,, Thomas B.i =• .2nd..Lieut6 - 21st Reg, - Mar, 15 . ,* Smith, Thomas B, ^ .2nd Lieut, - 21st Reg. ~ Mar, 15

Smithson, John P, - Captain - 44th Reg, ~ Sept. 12

Thompson, James - Captain - 44th Reg. - Mar, 20

Walker, Truman, (Freeman)• - 2nd Lieut. 44th Reg. - April 14 . •

White,c Elihu, P',:. - 2nd Lieut, - 97th Reg, - Dec, White, Jghi)^ H.„ 2nd Lieut, - 97th Reg, - Dec,

1333

• Armstrong, James - Captain - 97th Reg, - Mar. 11

Barker, William ~ Captain - 97th Reg. - June 20

Beard, George - Ensign - 97th Reg, - Mar. 11 ' ' Belcher, Newberry H, - Ensign - 97th Reg,.!- Oct. 4 ' ^ b # 139

'a Blackburn, Andrew - Captain - 97th Reg. - Oct. 4

Bullock, John - Lieut. Colonel - 21st Reg. -■ Jan. 11

Burnett, Joseph - First Major -;97th Reg. -Oct. 4

Burns, Jhraes - 1st Lieut. - 97th Reg. ~ Mar. 11

Cahoun, • James P. - 1st Lieut. - 44th Reg. - Sept. 19.. Ca(a)sey, James R. ~ Captain ~ 44th Reg. .Hay 1.0 Cathon (Calton?), Wada H. ~ Captain - 44th Reg. - May 10 Childress, William H. -■ 1st Lieut. ~ 97th Reg. - June 20 Church, Charles C. - Captain -- 97th Reg. - .Mar. 11 Divoon, James - 2nd Lieut. - 44th Reg, - Sept. .19 Finley, Osborne R. -■ Captain - 97th Reg. - June. 20, , Hay, William - 1st Lieut. - 9!7th Reg... - Mar. 11 Mankins, James - Captain - ■44th Reg. .-r.Dec. 17. Patterson, David Wesley ~ 1st Lieut. - 4.4th Reg. -..Dec. . 17.

Patton, Matthew B. - Captain - 97th Reg. - June 20

Ragsdale, John B, - 97th Reg. - June 20

Scales, William - Captain - 44th Reg. - Dec. 17

Shaw, John ■" 2nd Lieut. - 97th Reg. - June 20

Shaw, Thor - Ensign - 97th Reg. - June 20

Younger, Willicim ~ 1st Lieut. - 97th Reg. - Mar. 11

1834

Blackweir, Moke (?) - 1st Lieut. - 21st Reg. - April 7

Brown, James - 2nd'Lieut. - in Light Infantry att... to 21st Reg, - April 7

f Brown, Willis - Ensign - 21st Reg. - April 7

Crockett, Andrew - Captain - 21st Reg. - April 7

Edmiston, Francis C. ~ Ensign ™ 21st Reg. - April 7 ^ • 140 % Frazier, Augustus Do - 2nd Lieuto ~ 21st Reg. - Aug. 2 Gentry, Meredith P. - LieutJ-Colonel - 44th Reg, ~ June" Guyn , Johnson - Is't Lieut, - 21st Reg, - April 7 Heicks (Hicks?), Benjamin B, - Ensign - 21st Reg, - Apr, 7 Hill, Richard J, - Colonel Commandant - 44th Reg, - July l4 Kill, Thomas J, - Second Major - 44th Reg, - July 14 Hughes, Albert G, - Captain - 21st Reg, - Apr, 7 ' Inraan,. Samuel - 1st Lieut, - 21st Reg, - Apr. 7 Jones, John - 2nd Lieut, ~ 44th Reg, - Aug, 20 Ludbury, William D, - Captain - 21st Reg, - Apr, 7 Mann, Massena V, - 1st Lieut, - 21st Reg, - Aug, 2 McConnico, Garner (?) - 2nd Lieut, - 21st Reg,"- Apr, 7 ' Morris, Jesse - 1st Lieut, - 21st Reg, - Apr, 7 (Revis?) (Rives?), Thomas L, - 2nd Lieut, - 21st Reg. May 20 Scales, Joab - First Major - 44th Reg, ~ July 14 Sneed, William - Ensign - 21st Reg, - May 20 Thomas, Jesse - Captain - 44th Reg, - Aug., 20 West (?), J, W, P, - 1st Lieut, - 44th Reg, - Aug, 20 Wyatt, Jonathan J, - Captain - 21st Reg, - Aug. 2

1835

Andrev;s, Richard L, - 1st Lieut. - in Volunteer Company att, to 1st Rag, - May Beard, Thbmas - 1st Lieut, - 97th Reg, - June Childress', William - Captain - 97th Reg, - June Coleman, W, - Captain 97th Reg, - June Cordel, Sterling,.- 1st Lieut, - 97th Reg,. - Jan,..27 Givens, William. - Captain - 97th Reg,. - June , 141

% A McCarroll(?), Israel - Lieuto-Colonel - 97th Reg„ - Jan, 1 Nesbitt, William B, - 1st Lieut, - 97th Reg, - June Ragsdalp, Joshua B, - Captain ■= 97th Reg, - Jan, 27 Sparkman, J, l, - Ist Lieut, - 97th Reg, - June Tappan, Benjamin S. - Captain - in Volunteer Company att, ■ to 1st Reg, - May

1836

Bateman, William M, ~ Captain - 82nd Reg, - June 20 Brown, Willie - Captain - 81st Reg, - June 20 Burnett, Joseph - Commandant ~ 84th REg, -May 25 Childress, William H, - Second Major - 83rd Reg, - June 8 Chrisman, George W« — Captain — 83rd Reg, — June 20 Coleman, Thomas - Captain - 31st Reg, - June 20 h Coleman, Wyatt ~ Captain - 84th Reg, - June 20 Contett(?), John T, - Lieutenant-Colonel - 83rd Reg, - May 30 Covington, John - Captain - 81st Reg, - June 28 Davidson, John, W, - Captain - 83rd Reg, - June 20

Demptsey, Hugh - Captain -■ 82nd Reg, - June 20' Foster, Burnett T, - Captain ~ 84th Reg. - June 20 Glass, Hector - Captain - 84th Reg, ~ June 20 Gordon, John - Captain - 83rd Reg. - June 20 Green, James C, - Captain - Volunteer Company att, to 82nd Reg. - Sept, 20 Gregory, David - Captain - Regiment of Cavalry att, to 83rd Reg, ~ Aug. Grimmer, Robert - Second Major - 81st Reg, - June 8. HallumC?), Hullum(?), William - Captain - 81st Reg, - June 20 Helme, Henderson - Lieut, (?) - 84th Reg, - May 30

■S' 142

1^. Hemphill/ George B. - Captain - 81st Rag. - Juiie 20 & Hornsby, William Captain - 81st Reg. - June 20 Hughes Williara - Captain " Volunteer Rifle Company att. to 82nd Reg. IIov. 7 Hunt, Green (W?) ~ Lieut. .(?) ~ 82nd Reg. - May 30 Ivy, Asa 0, - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 20 Jordan, Blount - Lieut. (?) - 81st Reg. - May 30 jMcCall, Lycurgus - Captain - 83rd Reg. - Sept. 20 McCarroll, Israel " Commandant - 83rd Reg. - May 25 McLin, William ~ Captain- 84th Reg.'- June 20 Martin, Jamas - Captain - 84th Reg. -'June 20 Newby, Azwell - Captain - 82nd Reg. - June 20 Peay, Samuel - Commandant - 81st Reg. May 25 Peeples, Ingram B. ~ Captain - 33rd Reg, - June 2 Reed, John C. - Captain - 82nd Reg. June 20 ■ : Reed, Robert A. - Second Major - 82nd Reg. - June 8 Sharber, John, Jr. - Captain - 81st Reg, - June 20 Stanfield, John D. - Captain - S1st Reg. ™ Sept. 20 Still, John V. - Captain - ■82nd'Reg. - June 20 Tappan, Benjamin S. - Brigadier-General - 13th Brigade ' May 20 Tune, Beverley B. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - June 20

Wakefiald, John W. - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 20 Walker, William C. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - June 20 Watson, John J. '~ Commandant - 82nd Reg. ■- May 25 ^ Whitfield., Thomas J. - Lieut, (?) - 85th Reg. - May 30 ■Wiles, John (W?) - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 20 143

■% 1837

Adams, Minos C, - Captain - 31st Reg» - Dec» 8 Cloud, Eldridge ~ Captain -• 8 2nd — July 19 (Claud) Crockett, Benjamin Fo - Second Major ^ 81st Reg. - Feb. 20

Ci^ouch> John E. - Captain of Franklin Independent Blues att. to 82nd Reg. ~ Apr/27 Eggleston, Edward C. - First Major - 81st Reg. - Nov.. 15 Hughs, William - Captain - 82nd Reg. — May 1 Hunter, Joseph R. - Second Major - 84th Reg. - June 28 Montgomery, John - Captain ~ 84th Reg. - March 13 Hash, William N? (W?) - Second Major - 62nd Reg, - Feb. 20 Stephens, Calvin - Captain - 82nd Reg, - Oct. 26 Wells, Garret P, - Captain - 33rd Reg, - Feb. 9

1838

Allen, John - Captain - 83rd Reg, - Sept, 13

Barnes, Bolen C, - Captain - 81st Reg, - June 7 Beasley, Zachariah - Captain - 34th Reg, - Sept. 3 Bird, James L, - Ensign - 84th Reg, - June.. 14-

Carouthers, James - Captain -■ 81st Reg, - Sept. 3 Cowan, Richard G, - 1st Lieut, - 84th Reg, - Sept, 3

Cromar, John G, - Captain - 81st Reg, - Sept, 3

Farmer, Henry E. ~ 1st Lieut, - 83rd Reg;, - Sept, 13

Fly, John - Captain - 79th Reg, ~ Sept. 17 Fox, Thomas-1 1st Lieut, - 79th Reg, - Sept, 17': Giles, Patrick G, -Ensign - 83rd Rag. - Septi 13 '

Graves, Harrison - 2nd Lieut, - 81st Reg, ■■ June 7

,a 144 f

■ Green Thoraas - 1st Lieut.. - 82nd Rego - July 16

Harrison^ John Ho - 2nd Lieut» - 83rd Rego - Sept, 13

Hatcher(- John R, - 2nd Lieut, - 83rd Reg, ~ Sept, ,13 . , ,

Hatcher, Octavias C, - Captain - 83rd Reg, - Sept, 13

Hatcher, William S, - Ensign 33rd Reg. - June 7

Henderson, Samuel - Captain - "Williamson Blues" Volunteer Company att, to 83rd Reg, - June 7

Johnson, Gregory - 1st Lieut, -Slst Reg, ~ Sept, 3

Lillard, John D, - 1st Lieut. - "Williamson Blues" Volunteer Company att, to 33rd Reg, -• June 7

McCall, Siriith Go' =- Ensign - 83rd Reg, - June 7

McCall, Smith G, - 1st Lieut, ■=- 83rd Reg, - Sept, 13

Mankins., William - Captain - 81st Reg, - Sept, 3

Manly, Joel - 1st Lieut, - 82nd Reg, - June 1

Matthews, Edward - Captain - 81st Reg, - Oct, 22

Mawry, Zabulon M, P. -- Captain ~ 84th Reg. - June 14

Miles,. John W, - Second Major - 81st Reg. - May 17

Miller, Thomas J, - 2nd Lieut. -■ 84th Reg, - Nov, 17

Morris, Benjamin W, - Ensign ~ "W, Blues" att, to 83rd Reg, - June 7 . .

Morton, Jacob J, - Captain " 81st Reg, - Sept, 3

Parker, Albert G, - 2nd Lieut, - 82nd Reg "-' June 1

Patton, George W, ■- 1st Lieut, - 33rd Reg, ~ Sept. 13 j

Primm, Shadrach - Ensign - 82nd Reg,; - June "7

Quinn, West W, - Captain - 84th Reg, ~ Apr, 30'

Ross, William L. - Captain - 83rd Reg,. -.'Apt, 12

.. I • Spencer, Bartholomew - 2nd Lieut, - 3ist Reg, Sept. 3 " . . , ; A Stacy, Eli R, ~ 2nd Lieut, - 84th Reg, - Sept, 3 ■ ' • Taylor, Jefferson. - 1st Lieut, - 81st Reg, Oct, 22 ,

'es. 145

Twomey, Morris D= - 2nd Lieutc - 84th Reg. - Apr. 30 Wall, John - Lieutenant-Colohel - 83rd Reg..- May 10 Wheeler, Morton ~ Ensign - 82nd Reg. ~ June 16 White, Robert B. - Ensign - 81st Reg, ^ Oct. 22,, tfnitley, Lewis - Ensign - 81st Reg. - Sept. 3

1839

Allen, Charles H. - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. ' - Aug. 2.^2 Allen, John - First .Major -'81st Rag. - Aug. ;2-4. . ;...i Barnes, Solomon M. - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg. - ^Aug.= .22!. ' Blackman, Albert W„ - 2nd Lieut. - 83rd Reg. Mov. -25 Brown, Willie - Second Major - 81st Reg, - Apr. 2 Burke, Franklin 21. - Captain - 81st Reg, -.Nov. il9 Church, Charles C. - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg. - Aug, .22 . Cochran, Nathan W. - 1st Lieut. ■■ 82nd Reg. - Aug. .14 Crews, William A. - 1st Lieut, - 83rd Reg. - Nov. 25 Farmer, Hugh D. - 1st Lieut, - 83rd Reg. .- Nov. 25 Farmer, Joseph J, - Captain - 83rd Reg, - Nov. 25 Flernming, David R, - 1st Lieut. - 83rd Reg, - Nov. 25 Gibbs, Patrick G. - Captain - 83rd Reg, - Nov. 25 Godwin, James S. - Captain - 84th Reg, - Aug. 22 Hatcher, John R, - Captain - 83rd ,Reg, - Nov. 23 Hatcher, Octavias C. -. Lieutenant-Colonel - 81st Rag. Aug. 24 Hawks, John w, - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg, - Aug, 22

Hay, Petis M. - 2nd Lieut, - 83rd Reg. - Nov. 25 Haynes, Nathaniel - 1st Lieut, - sist Reg. - Apr, 25 3 Heaton, Joseph - Captain - 81st Reg. - Feb. 7 146 f

Hendrix/ Thomas S. - 2nd Lieut» - 81st Reg, - Apr, 25 '

Hice, William Jo ~ 2nd Lieut, - 81st Reg, ~ Apr, 25

Kickraan, William - 1st Lieut. - 81st Reg, - Nov. 19

Hicks, Madison L, - Ensign - 82nd Reg, - Aug. 14

Horton, Manoah - 1st Lieut, ■=■ 83rd Reg. - May 8

Johnson, James M. " Captain - 81st Reg, ~ June 15

King, George W, - Captain 84th Reg, - Aug. 22

Kirk, William - 2nd Lieut, - 83rd Reg, - Nov. 25

McGan, Hiram - 2nd Lieut, - 84th Reg. - Dec, 9

Morton, William vT, ~ Ensign - 81st Reg, ~ Apr, 25

Page, Jacob - 1st Lieut, - 81st Reg, - Nov. 19

Pillow, William B, ~ Ensign - 84th Reg, - Aug. 22

Priiran (Primer?), Shadrack - Captain - 32nd Reg, - Aug. 14 I i r • *' Reynolds, William C, - Captain - 33rd Reg, - Nov. 25 ^ Ridley, George - Ensign - 81st Reg, - Mov, 19 : -

Roberts, Newton - 2nd Lieut, - 83rd Reg, -- May 8

Smith, Luke L. - 2nd Lieut, - 82nd Reg, - Aug. 14

Thomas, George W, - 2nd Lieut, - 84th Reg, - Aug, 22

Trenthara, William - Ensign - 84th Reg. - Dec, 9

Tutor, Smith - 1st Lieut, - 81st Reg. - A.pr. 25

Swomey, Isaac - Captain - 84th Reg, - Aaig, 22

Whitahead, .Milton H, - 1st Lieut. 83rd Reg, - Nov. 25

Wood, William T, J, - Captain - 31st Reg, - July 15

1840

Bateman, William' .E, - Ensign' -'82nd Reg. - Apt,' 14 " '

Booth, George B,:- 2nd Lieut, 84th Reg, - Sept, 22 Brooks, George - Ensign ^ 84th'Reg, - Sept."' 22 ^ t 147

/* i Cannon, William P, - Lieutenant-Colonel - 81st Reg. - Feb. 15 Claud, P. - Captain - 84th Reg. - Sept. 22 iPerguson, F. - Captain - 84th Reg. - Sept. 22

Hill, William J. - Captain - 81st Reg. - Jan.

James, James A. - Ensign - 81st Reg. ■- Feb. 20

King, William B. - 1st Lieut. ~ Slst Reg. - Feb. 20

Litton, Thomas ~ Captain - 84th Reg. - Sept. 22

Medyett, Lewis - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Apr. 14

O'Brient, Frederick -- 2nd Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Jan.

Powers, Robert F. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - April 14

Reynolds, Henry C. - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Apr. 14

Seay, John T. - Captain ~ Slst Reg. - Jan.

Sharber, Cooly{?) Wood - 1st Lieut, - Slst Reg. - Jan. P" Sharber, John - First Major - Slst Reg. - Feb. 15

Smithson, Baugh W. - Captain - Slst Reg. - Feb. 20

Stewart, William - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Apr. 14

Waggoner, Lewis C, - Captain - 82nd Reg. - Apr. 14

White, Thomas - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. - Sept. 22

1841

Allen, Charles M. - Captain - S4th Reg. - June 3

Beasley, L. - Captain - 84th Reg. - Nov. 18

Beasley, L. B. - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. - June 8

Bond, William K. - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. - June 8

Boyd, N, A. - 1st Lieut. - Slst Reg. - Oct. 25

A Burns, Lawrence - Ensign - 84th Reg. - Nov. 18 ^ Claud, Francis N. - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 8

D'Lelaino, John - Second Major - 83rd Reg. - Jan. 12

0 148

Fra (?), To Po - Ensign - 81st Reg. - Jan. 12 '■s

Franklin, A„ - 2nd Lieut. ".84th Reg. - Nov.., 18

Gardner, William - Ensign ~ 82nd Reg. - Apr. 27

Givens, William - Ensign - 84th Reg, - June 8

Gregg, Thomas - 2nd Lieut. ~ 31st Reg. "■ Nov. 23

Eorn(?) (Ham?) - 2nd Lieut. - 32nd Reg. - Apr. 27

Horton, M. - Ensign - 83rd Reg. - Sept. 9

Jamason, S. - Ensign - 31st Reg. - Nov. 23

Johnson, W. G. - 2nd Lieut. - B3rd Reg. - May 2.

Jones, Benjamin - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg. - June 8

Jones, Hamilton - 1st Lieut, - 84th Reg. - June 8

Levers (?) , F. - Captain - 82nd Reg, - Nov. 4

Little, S. E. - Captain - 81st Reg, - Oct. 25

McFarland, K. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 4

McKeal, James - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. - Nov. 18

Nance, Robert W. - 2nd Lieut. - 34th Reg. ~ Nov. 18

Page, Jacob - Captain - Slst Reg. - Oct. 25

Page, T. J. - 1st Lieut. - Slst Reg. - Nov. 23

Parham, George W. - 1st Lieut. " 84th Rag. - Nov. 18

Parks, A, W, - 1st Lieut. •= 83rd Reg. - May 2

Parks, J. N. - Ensign - 33rd Reg. ~ May 2

Paterson, G, G, - 2nd Lieut. - Slst Rag. - Oct. 25

Pearcy, C. A. - 2nd Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Oct.., 25

Rankin, B. B. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Apr. 27.

Reese, John C. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Apr. 27

Robertson, H. W. - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg. - Nov. 18.^

Smith, Daniel J. - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 8 ^ 149

^ Taylor, J. - Ensign - 81st Reg. - Oct. 25

Taylor, T. L. - 2nd Lieut. Blst Reg. - Jan. ,12

Thornton(?), Allen - Captain - 81st Reg, - Sept. 9

Threat(e)(s) (?) , William - Captain - 84th Reg. - Nov., 18

Veabler, J. B. - Ist Lieut. -- 82nd Reg. - Apr. 27

Weems(?), W. - Ensign - 81st, Reg. - Oqt. 25

West, J, W, P. - First Major -■ 83rd Reg, July 7

184 2

Adams, Hiram - Colonel Commandant - 81st Reg. - May 27,

Allison,: Franklin ~ Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 5.

Armstrong,: G. W. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 5

Bateman, H, S. r 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 23 ^ Claud, Francis -> Lieut...Colonel - 84th Reg. - May 27

Coleman, W. - 2nd .Major - 84th Reg, - May 27

Crauss, L, (?) (or S,) ,r" 2nd Major - 84th Reg, - May 27

.Davis, Thomas E. - 1st Lieut, - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 23

Fly, S, B. ~ 1st Lieut, - 82nd Reg, Aug. 17 •

Henderson, Robert -- 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 17

Henderson, Samuel - Colonel Commandant - 83rd Reg. - May 27

Hendricks, Thomas- Df - Captain - 81st Reg, - Aug. 29

Hill, W. H, S. - Lieut.TColonel - 84th Reg, - May 27

Herman, L, V. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 17

Hyde, Is. —2nd Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Aug. 29

Javatt, W. A. - Captain - 83rd Reg. - Aug. 23

g McMeaken, Samuel - 1st Lieut, - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 23

Maury, John B. - 2nd Lieut. - 8 2nd Reg.. - Aug. 5 to® Mawry, P. Colonel Commandant -, 84th Reg. - May 27 150 1.

Mays, H. - 2nd Major - 84th Reg. -- May 27 4? Midyet, Lewis - Captain -• 82nd Reg= - Aug. 23 Moran, 3. F. ~2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 17 Parrish, Arthur - Ensign - 32nd Reg. ~ May 5 Pickering, William ■=■ Ensign - 82nd Reg, - Aug. 23

Pyron, T. B. - Captain - 81st Reg. - Aug. 29

Reams, E, H. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 5

Reams, H. 3. - 2nd Lieut. - 32nd Reg. - Hay 5 Reynolds, Henry - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 5

Saratt, W. A. - Captain - 83rd Reg, - Aug. 23

Stewart, Thomas - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 5

Stewart, W. W, - 2nd Major - 84th Reg. - May 27

Taylor, J. G.(?) - Ensign - 82nd Reg. ~ Aug. 17 Tenison (Yenison?), J. R. - Ensign - 32nd Reg. - Aug. 23

Waggoner, L. C. - Captain - 82nd Reg. ■= Aug. 23 Well, George - 1st Major ~ 84th Reg. - May 27 Winstead, J. M. - Colonel Commandant - 82nd Reg. - May 27

Wray, J. » 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. -- May 5

1843 •

Adams, Benjamin F. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Wov. '22 Adams, Sterling B. - Ensign ~ 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22

Cady, Young - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22

Chapman, Willieun - Captain - 03rd Reg. - March 30 Devere (Davpre?), J. w. ~ Captain - 81st Reg. - July 25

Johnson, John ~ 1st Lieut, - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22

Long, William - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22

May (Wray?), Isaac - Captain - 82nd Reg. - Aug. 8 151 i'

@5 McCutchan, W. C. - 1st Liout, -,82nd Reg. - Aug. 8

McPherson, James B. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22 Moss(?), A. Jo - Captain - 81st Reg. - July 25 Page, J. So(?) - Captain - Slst Reg. - Sept. 9

Simmons, James - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. -Nov. 22 Thornton, Sterling B. - 2nd Lieut, - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22 Wagner, Lewis C. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22

West, Mark R. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 22

1844

Anderson, JJ (or I?) - 2nd Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - July 1

Anderson, S. - Captain - 84th Reg. - Dec. 14

Crutcher, - 1st Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - July 1 Handy, F. K. - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. Oct.. 22

Jones, D. P. - Captain - 84th Reg. - Sept. ?5

Lane, H. - Captain - ,83rd Reg. - July 1 McCallen (?).> W. A. (or W, II,?) - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. Sept". 25 ■

McNeal, H. ~ Captain - 84th Reg. ~ Sept. 25 ' Mellon, W. A.(?) (or W. H.?) - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. Sept. 25

Mincy, Richard R. - Ensign - 83rd Reg. - Mar. 13 Moore, John -,2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg. - Dec. 14

Moss, W. - 1st Lieut, - 83rd Reg. - July 1

Parks, James -CCaptain - 32nd Reg. - Oct. 22 Payne, J.(I?) M. - Captain - 83rd Reg. - July 1 Pyron, Sterling P. ,- 1st Lieut., - 83rd Reg. - Mar. 13 Ragsdale, E. - 2nd Lieut. ~,„8.4th Reg. - Dec. 14 Reynolds, George W, - 1st Lieut. - B4th Reg. - Dec. 14 152 :% Swanson/ J.: (or.I?) - 1st Lieut. 84th Reg. "Dec.,14 %

Tanner, C. F. - 2nd Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - July 1

Taylor, John - 2nd Lieut 84th Reg. Sept, 25'

Wagonner, L. C. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Oct. 22 Whitehead, M. P. - 1st Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - Julyl

Woldridge, L. H. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Oct^ 22 ■ T

1845

Brooks, C. - Ensign •" 82nd Reg. - May 16

Caruthers, J. B. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 16

Chapman, William -• 2nd Lieut. — 83rd Rag, - May 18 ' '

Cochran, N. W. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 16

Cochran, Thomas R. -First Major - 32nd Reg, - Nov. 25 • Coleraan, Thomas. 3. 1st Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Aug. 28 ' 4

Cooper, Russell P. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. Nov. 17 '

Crockett, Samuel -■ 2nd Lieut, - 81st Reg. - Aug.' 28

Felts, John W. - 2nd .Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 17 '

Gee, G, L.(?) - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg, - May 16

Glenn, Leonard - Ensign - 81st Reg. - Aug. 28

Holland, Thomas H. - Captain - 82nd Reg, - Nov. 17

Holland, William S. - 1st Lieut. - 82rid Reg. - Nov. 17

Norton, Adville - 1st Lieut. -83rd Reg, - Aug. 18

Johnson, Gregory - Captain - 81st Reg. - Aug. 28

Jones, John W. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 17

Mason, Henry P.' -. Captain - 8lSt Reg, - Nov. 21 '

McNeal R. -Captain - 81st Reg. - Nov. 21 4

Newson, A. S. - .ilst Lieut. - 82nd Reg, - Nov. 17 • $ 15 3

Paschal, Andrew - 2nd Lieut, - 83rd Reg. - Aug. 18

Payne, J. - Major - 81st Reg. - Apr. 7

Pinkerton, Zechariah - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Nov. ;17"-.

Raney (?), J. E. - Captain - 81st Reg. - Mar. 6,

Ratcliff, Francis E. - Captain - 83rd Reg. - Aug. 18

Sanders, A. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 16

Smithson, Pryton C. - 1st Lieut. - 83rd Reg; - Aug. 18

Waggoner, J. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 16

Wall, James W. - Ensign - 83rd Reg, - Aug. 18

VJarren, Philip - Captain - 81st Reg. - Nov. 21

West, W. R. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May: 16

Wood, J, (or I.) - 1st Lieut. ~ 81st Reg., - Mar,,. i„'6r : j.

Wood, J. C. - 2nd Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Mar. 6 ■ r j.

Young, McLimore - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Nov. 1,7

1846

Allen, George W. ~ 2nd Lieut. ~ 83rd Reg. -Aug. 26

Andrews, B. B. - Lieutenant-Colonel - 83rd Reg. -.\July 16

Austin, J, N. - Captain - .83rd Reg. - Aug. 26

Bird, R. - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg. - Apr. .14 , .

Blackburn, A. S. H. - Ensign,- 84th Reg.,,- Apr. 14

Davis, Thomas H. - Captain - 81st Reg. - Nov. v.l2,. ■ . , .

Ewing, W, B. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 28

Fields, Stephen D. - 1st Lieut. ■- 83rd Reg, - Aug. 26 iv

Fleming, David R. - Colonel Commandant - 83rd Reg. - Oct. 12

§ Geddes, John - Captain - 84th Reg.. ,- Apr. 14 ^ Haley, I. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 28 154

Hartley,. J. W.o - 1st Lieut. - 83rd Reg;. - Aug, 26

Harvey, Robert H. - Captain - 82nd Reg. ■" Nov. 17, Hatcher-,.,,B. -U. 1st Lieut. -.83rd Reg. - ;Aug. 26

Hatcher, John - First Major. - 83rd Reg-. - July 16

Hill, C. A. - 2nd Lieut. - 81st Rog. - Sept-. -7 •

Hill, W. H. - Second Major - 82nd Reg. - May 12

Home, J, -W. - Captain— 84th Reg. - Apr. 14,

Jameson, John B. - Ensign - 81st Reg. - Nov. 12

Johnson, B. A. - 2nd Lieut. - 81st Reg, - Nov. 12

Johnson, W. R. - 2nd-Lieut, - 82nd Reg. - May .28 .. King, W. B. - Colonel. Commandant - 81st Reg. - Feb. 10 Lain, Benjamin 1st Lieut. -- 82iid Rog. Nov. 17

Lane, Damascus - Captain - 83rd Reg^ - Aug. 26 Langford, A. W. - 1st Lieut. - 81st,Reg. - Sept..7 Latton, Thomas - Captain - 84th Reg. - Apr, 14 Lynes, S, (or L.) - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 28 McDaniol, E. - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg, - May 28, -- . McDaniel, W, - Captain - 82nd-Reg. - May 28 McLemore (?) (McLaure) , A, "■ Captain -:82nd Reg. - May 28 Manley, I. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 28 Oden, T. F. - Captain - 83rd Reg, - Aug. 26 Parks, Andrew. W.'. - Captain.; - 83rd Reg. -- Aug. 26 Parks, Stephen N, - 1st Lieut. - 83rd-Reg. . - Aug. 26 Pyron-A S.. B. - Second Major. - 83rd Reg. - July 16 . Remsey, J, E. First Major - 81st Reg. - May 12 Scales, John -. Captain - 81st.Reg. - Nov. .12 Shumate, Smith - 2nd Lieut,. - 83rd. Reg. .r Aug. 26 Smith, Josiah B. - 2nd Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - A.ug. 26 155

StephensoH/ William C. - 2nd Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - Aug. 26

Sudberry, W. J. - 1st Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Nov. 12

Sutton, James - Captain - 81st Reg. - Aug. 10

Synes (?)/ S. (or L.) - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 28

Taylor, T. L. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 28

Whitehead, M. F, - Captain - 83rd Reg. ~ Aug. 26

. 1847

Baker, G. W. - First Major - 84th Reg. - Jan. 9

Bradley, W. D. - Second Major — 82hd Reg. - Apr. 12

Colquet, J. R. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - May 3

Glyeiss (?), John A. - Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 3

Graham, W. - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 3

Hollaines, W. L. -- Captain - 82nd Reg. - May 3

Vaughn, J. W. - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 3

Vaughn, W. - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - May 3

Wall, John - Brigadier-General - 13th Brigade - Dec. 13

1848

Bethel, Rufus - 1st Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Sept. 6

Burnett, Willicim W. - 2nd Major - 84th" Reg. - July 12

Cash, C. - Captain - 84th Reg. - Nov. 15

Cash, C. C. - 2nd Lieut. - 81st Reg. - March 11

Coleman, T. C. - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg, - Nov. 15

Colguitt, Henry - 2nd Lieut. - 81st Reg. - Sept. 6

I, Dodson, M. H. - 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. - Nov. 15 ' , FurgusOn, H. - 1st Major - 82nd Reg. - July 12 : 156 g

Hillv Thomas -• Lieut-Colonel ~ 8-2nd Reg. - July 12 »

Magness, Lewis C. - Colonel-Commandant - 82nd Reg. - July 12

Patton, William -- Colonel-;Commandant - 84th Reg. - July 12

Sutberry, William J. - Captain - 81st Reg. - March 11

Trimble, George W. - Captain - 84th Reg. - Mov, 15

Waller, McNairy - 2nd Major. r '82ncl Reg. - July 12

Warren, Robert - Captain - 81st Reg. - March 11

Whitfield, Harrison - Lieut.-COlonel.:- 84th Reg. - July 12

Whitley, John - 1st Lieut. - 81st Reg. - March 11

Wren, A.' M, - Ensign - 84th Reg., - Nov. 15

1849

Allen, I. S.(?) - Captain - 83rd Reg. Aug. 24 Anames, William V. -.Ensign- 33rd Reg. - Aug. 24 4

Basins, (Brassas), (Bramass.) - Captain - 83rd Reg. - Aug. 24 -

Beasley, James A..- Captain - 84th Reg. - June 1

Beasley, Janus - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 1

Brassiss, John - 1st Lieut. - 163rd Reg. - Apr. 19

Dennis, John W. - Captain - 83rd Reg. - Aug. 24

Ford, I. C. - 2nd Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - Aug. 24

GardnerV Humphrey H. 1st Lieut. - 84th Reg. - June 1

Gooch, George - 1st Lieut. - 163rd Reg. ~ April 19

Hargrove, Ear ens' - 1st Lieut, - 83rd Reg. Aug. 24 Harris, Charles - Ensign - 83rd;,Reg,, -.Aug. 24

Hiney, Richard R. - Captain - Reg. - Aug. 24

Johnson, L, -L-. - 2nd Lieut,.; - 84th Reg. - June 1 *

McCall, Lycurgus - CclonelrCoinmandant - 81st Reg. r June 26 i 157

%' McMaily Robert H. ~ Lieut,-Colonel - 81st Reg, - June 26 r r- Morris,' Packson - Captain - 163rd Reg. - Apr. 19

Payne, A,, J. - 2nd^ Lieut. - 83rd Reg, - Aug, 24

Petters (Pettens?), T, N, - 2nd Lieut, - 83rd Reg. - A.ug, 24

Ragsdale, L. M. - 1st Lieut, - 84th Reg, - June 1

Raunsetree, I, J,(?) - Captain .,t 84th Reg, - June 1

Robinson, Lafson C, - Captain - 163rd Reg, - April 19

Rucker, William P, 1st Lieut, - 83rd,Reg. - Aug, 24

Russell, D, N, - 1st.Lieut, - 83rd Reg, - Aug, 24

Shelton, William - Captain ~ 163rd Reg, - April 19

Subblett, D, Ci. - 2nd: Lieut, - 163rd Rag, - April 19

Tarpley, Callis - 2nd Lieut, - 163rd Reg, - April 19

Terrell, Joseph'R. - 2nd Lieut. - 84th Reg.. "• June 1

Thompson, David T, - Captain - 84th Reg, - June 1

Vanderslice, ? - 1st Lieut, - 84th Reg, -. June 1

Whitehead, Milton F. - 2nd Major -■ .81st Reg. - June 26

1850

Aden, John E. - Ensign - 83rd Reg. - June 27

f ,i. J. ■ Bostick, John C. - 2nd Major - 81st Reg, - April 9

DeGraffenreid, Nathan F, - 1st Lieut. - 82nd Reg, - Oct. 3

DeGraffenried, Matthew. F. - 1st Lieut, - 82nd Reg, - Oct. 3

Elliott, Samuel 1st Lieut. - Slat Reg. - Oct. 2

Fitzgerald, A, R. - Ensign - 83rd Reg. - June 27

Hodge, 'Eliht - 2nd Lieut. - 83rd.Reg, -.June 27 ^ James, Thomas S. (or A.?) - Captain - 81st Reg, -- Oct. 2'

King, John F. -■ 2nd Lieut, .r 83rd Reg, - June 27

Lacy, T, M. - Ensign - 83rd Reg. - Oct.. 21 158

Laddp William H. - Captain - 83rd Reg. - June 27 « Lane^ Dearaascas R. (or W,?) ~ 1st Major - 83rd Rag^ - June 27 Lature^ Jacob - Captain - 83rd Rag. - Oct. 21 Litton, Thomas - 2nd Major - 84th Reg. - April 9 McConnico^ W. Lafayette - 2nd Lieut. - 82nd Reg. - Oct. 3 McCrory, Williajti - Captain - 82nd Reg. - Oct. 3 Mahafey^ J. H. - Captain ~ 83rd Reg. - Oct. 21 Parks, James N. (or M,?) - Captain - 83rd Reg. - June 27 Payne, Alfred J. - Ensign - 83rd Reg. - June 27 Radford, Samuel -■ Captain - 81st Reg. - Oct. 2 Rucker, William - Lieut-Colonel - 83rd Reg. - June 27 Russell, Daniel Vif. - Ensign - 82nd Reg. - Oct. 3 Saless, John E. - Ensign - 83rd Reg. - June 27 Spengin (Spurgin?), William - 1st Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - Oct. 21 ^ Stevens, J. W. -- 2nd Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - Oct. 21 ^ Vaughn, D, - Ensign - a3rd Reg. - Oct. 21 Warren, Thomas - Captain - 81st Reg. - Oct. 2 White, J. W. - 1st Lieut. - 83rd Reg. - Oct. 21 Williams, C. p. - Captain - 83rd Reg, - June 27 ■■ ■' '■ X''. .

■ ' ■ 1852 - . ' :

Baggins, Nathaniel - Major - 84th Reg. - Nov. 24 Banks, Thomas - Captain - 83rd Reg. - April 21 Dennis, John W. - Captain -- 83rd Reg. - April 21

Law, W, H. - Colonel-Commandant - 83rd Reg. - Nov. 24 '.T. Wunn, William - Colonel Commandant - 81st Reg.-July 5 Pate, Duly - Lieut.-Colonel - 81st Reg. - July 5 Wells, John - Captain - 83rd Reg. - April 21 M 159

^ 1854

■ ■ ■ ■■■ Eliott, Alpheus.. - Captain - 81st Reg.• ,- Sept.v 25. ^ .r ^ j'l;.'' ' Lavender, Francis M.'- 2nd Major - 84th Reg. - Sept. 17 Myric3

1857

Allen, John S. - 2nd Major -■ 83rd Reg. - April. 1 W. - Captain - 83rd Reg. - April 1 McGuire, John W. - Captain - 83rd Reg. - April 1 . Pate, Thomas R. - Captain - 33rd Reg. - April 1 . k

1858

(Beass?), John — 2nd Lieut. — 84th Reg. — April 18 Johnson, Nathan G. - Ensign - 84th Reg. - April 18 Robinson, Allison - Captain - 84th Reg, - April 18

1861

Armstrong, George W. - 2nd Major - 82nd Reg, - May 15 Beard, A. P. - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 27 Bond, J. L. - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 27 Bos tick, Newton C. - 2nd Major - 84 th Reg. -- Sept. 9 Cheney, David C. - 1st Major - 84th Reg. - May 15 Claybrook, Frederick - 2nd Major - 81st Reg, - May 15 Crosan, ? - Captain - 84th Reg. - June 27 ' Fox, E. M, - Captain - 84th Reg. - Sept, 9 160

Matthews/ William H» - Lieut, Cclonel' - 81st Reg, - May 2 Mitchell, Benton K, 7 1st Major - 82nd Reg, -- May 15

Nolen, P.,: R,. ^ 7 Captain - 84.th Reg, - Sept. 9

Patten, William B-, .Colonel .Commandant - 84th Reg, - May 15 Pinkston, Ephraim T. - Lieut. Colonel " 83rd Reg. - May 15

Pope, William c. - Lieut, Colonel - 84th Reg. - May 15 Smith, Thomas B. - Colonel Commandant - 81st Reg, - May-2

Smithson, Patrick G. - 1st Major - 83rd Reg. - May 15 Smithson, Sylvanus W. - Colonel Commandant - B3rd Reg. ~ May 15

Sneed, D. W. •- Captain - 82nd Reg, - July 20 '

Stanbrough, John Q, - Colonel Commandant -» 82nd Reg, ~ May l5 '

Swanson, James, Jr, - Captain - 84th Reg. - Sept, 9 Winstead, William E, ~ Lieut, Colonel - 82nd Reg. - May 15 ■ ■

^ . M 161

. . CONTRIBUTORS

JOSEPH L. BENTHALL was born in Yorktown, Virginia. He received an AoAo Degree from Mars Hill College in'liberal arts^ his B.A. from Florida State University in Anthropology/ and his M.A. from the University of Alabama in Anthropology. He moved to Ten nessee in 1973 and is currently the Director of the Division of Archaeology, Tennessee Department of Conservation or the "Tennessee State Archaeologist,"' He is a member of the Cheatham County School Board in Ashland City, the Cheatham County His torical Society, the Cheatham County Chapter of the Tennessee Archaeological Society, and the Tennessee Archaeological Society.

ELVA MAYO DARBY (Mrs. William J. Darby, Jr.) was born in Clarendon, Arkansas and is a graduate of Little Rock Junior College and Arkansas State Teachers' College, Conway, Arkansas (nov; the University of Central Arkansas). She taught for four years high school English and History in the Pulaski County ' rural schools in Arkansas, and taught crippled children in the University of Michigan Hospital. She has served as President of the Vanderbilt Medical Center Auxiliary, President of the Vanderbilt Woman's Club, is a member of Peabody i\id, the Ladies' Hermitage Association, Tennessee State Museum Association, Tennessee Historical Society, is a past Vice-President and President of■the Williamson County Historical Society, Heritage Foundation, Friends of.the Library, Franklin, Carnton Associa tion, Garter House Association, National Trust for Historic Preserya-tion, past^President of the Thompson Station Home Demonstration Club, and currently is Secretary of Pioneers' Corner Association. She and Dr. Darby live at Homestead Manor in Thompson Station which they have called home for the past ten years. -

MRS. LOUISE SHANNON DEDMAN is a native Williamson countian, the daughter of Dr. James 0, and Georgia Pope Shannon of Franklin. She is a graduate of Battle Ground Academy, the ' University of Kentucky and studied Social Psychology at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee. She held the position of Executive Director of the Williamson County Chapter of the American Red Cross in Franklin for 30 years at which time she retired. She has taken several genealogy courses at the Pima College at Tucson, Arizona since her retirement and actively engages in genealogical work,. She is a past member of the Williamson County Historical Society.

DORRIS CALLICOTT DOUGLASS (Mrs. George Douglass)is a native Williamson countian. She received her B.A. ,from Converse College.and her M.A. from George Peabody College in Library Science, Mrs. Douglass's work experience includes positions with; the Tennessee State Library and Archives,^"''the'Georgia Historical Commission, and the Atlanta Historidai Society,.' Atlanta, Georgia, She has contributed book reviews to- the,.;. Atlanta Historical Bulletin and is a member of the Cumberland 162

Chapter, Daughters of the American .Revolution and the Crockett Forge Seat Ch.apter, United States daughters of 1812»

BILL AND SARAH- GREEN (Mrp. & Mrs- Co William Green) have caught and retained the mood of Devon Farm as initiated by their fore- bearers. Together they enjoy the bid horaepiace and its. sur-,-. rounding acreage as they endeavor to maintain, the historic character-and individuality of this their,residence, which is a farm house, of simple outline. The furnishings therein are .,p.f.. the same, casual Ispirit, They are vitally inter.ested in the history, of .Tennessee and. specif ically Dayidsoh and. William son. counties,. The.y bel';-ng', to ,a. number of historical societies in.,the'.ariea.^ and.-they have received awards for the restora-...' tion of Devon Farm from the Tennessee Historical' Commission as well as thp Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Historical, Commission.. The house is on the National Register of Histori cal Places, and.it is located in .Davidson county adjacent to . the Williaitison County line. Half of the total acreage ,pf tho. farm is in Williamson County and the oth|Q.r half in"Davidson, . Interest in the history of .pevon Farm.is'shared with their . daughter, Mi.cki as well as their .son Scott.' ,

ANNE Bo - JOHNSON (Mrs, J, Dobson Johnson) is a graduate of . Battle Ground. Academy, Franklin, Tennessee, David Lioscom.b College and George Peabody College for. Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, - and has done graduate . work . at. Middle Tennessee State ..College and George Peabody College, , She has held positions as Associate Librarian at Florence,. Mabama State. Normal .(now North Alabama. State University), teacher at Triune Junior• . ; • High School and Franklin High .School, Librarian at Franklin,' High School .,1953-1966,,- and Periodicals Librarian at David ...7 Lipscomb. Coli.ege,,. 1955-1972. She holds membership in the ' Tennessee Botanical Gardens and Fine Arts Center, Friends o.f . the Library, Franklin, is a charter member of the Williaraso.n County Historical Spc.iaty, Delta Kappa .Gamma, the Associa tion for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities, and the Williamson.County,. Tennessee, and National Retired Teachers ..associations, , -. JAE4ES CALDWELL Mcid.ANLESS was born and.reared in Williamson County near Triune where he now...lives. He is President of ., .-..McCanless; and Company, a brokerage firm in Br'entwood, Ten nessee. Exp.erimenting with and perfecting nev; -ideas in grain and livestock farming have been his goal. . Deeply inter.ested. in and devoted to his ancestral, heritage.,, he has spent man.y..'\7 hours involved in genealogical research,

LULA FAIN I'^AJOR (Mrs, Herman E,.Major), is a native of Wil liamson County, Tennessee? B.A,, Vanderbilt University, Nash ville, Tennessee, Birs. Major has been a Case Worker, Dept., of Institutions and Public Welfare, Sept, 1937-Oct, 1939 in Williamson County, and March .1940-May 1941 in Davidson County, Tennessee; Social statistician May 1941-May 1944., She is a.: , member of. -fhe Tennessee Historical Society, and has served as' • ■ > Vice-president and President of the Williamson County His torical Society and serves as Librarian for Old Glory Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolutiono She has contributed several historical articles to the Society's annual publica- tioUo EILEWE M. PLUMDIER (Mrs. G. R. Plummer),'a graduate of Phillips University at Enid, Oklahoma, and George Peabody College, Nash ville, Tennessee, has spent much of her life teaching in Pensacola High School, Pensacola, Florida, and Farmer School of Davidson County, Tennessee, At one time she served as presi dent of the Davidson County Education Association. She is a member of the Tennessee Historical Society, the Bellevue His torical and Literary Society, the I'Tilliamson County Historical Society, Campbell Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu tion, and other civic organizations. She currently is serving as Registrar of Nashville Chapter No. 1, United Daughters of the Confederacy,

LILA MAI AKIN RAGSDALE (Mrs. Dr. Ernest M, Ragsdale) is a native Williamson countian. She was born in Burwood the daughter of William James and Lula Shaw Akin and the great, great grand daughter of Samuel Akin, pioneer settler of the Burwood 4th District of Williamson County. I4rs. Ragsdale was graduated from Branham-Hughes Preparatory School, Spring Hill, Tennessee, a. ^rid received her B.S, from George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee. She taught 25 years in Tennessee high schools and 6 years in Cartersville, Georgia. In 1969 she re tired after teaching 12 years at Central High School in Columbia, Tennessee, where she now resides. She is a member of the Old Glory Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Pioneers Corner Association, Franklin, Delta Kappa Gamma, and the Maury County, Tennessee, and National Retired Teachers associations. - 16§

Index

Adair 50 Boaz 52 . .. . Adams . 77,121,143,149,150 Boles 50 Aden, -1'5 7 Bolin 124 Ai t a 124 Bond ^ 121,147,159 Akin 38,39,40,94,100,101, 107, Bone 88 109,111,124 Booth 146 Alexander 45,50,111,124 Bostick 6,96,97,157,159 Allen. 137,143,145,147,153,156, Nowman 25 159 Boxley 44 Allison 121,149 Boyd 38,109,147 Altemus 85 Boyles 122, Ammerman 124 Bradley 6,7,8,16,24,155 Anames 155 Bradshaw 110 Anderson 33,56,92,110,123,124, Bragg 94,100,101,111 151 Brassiss 156 Andrews 75,116,119,140,153 Bratton 109 Armstrong 33,138,149,159 Brenneman 59 Asbury 37 Brewers 63 Ashworth 124 Briggs 94,96,98,101,109 Asquel 66 Brist 73 Austin 44,153 Britain 52,111 Avery 124 ■Brooks 146,152 Baggins 158 Brookshire 124 Bailey 4,53 Brown 21,52,53,75,77,95,139, k Baker 155 141,145 Baldwin 119 Buchanan 14,67,116,124 Banks 158 Buel 18 Barker 138 Buford 53,109,124 B a r n.e,s ^ 37.,. 14 3,145 Bullock 139 Basins 156 Burke 145 Bateman 141,146,149 Burnett 122,124,139,141,155 Bates 121 Burns 118,139,147 Batten 116 Butts 44 Baugh 86,95,106,124 Byrd 117 Baxte^rf,, 59 , 7.6 ,7 7,13 7 Byrn 117 Beach 119 - Cahoun 139 Beard 138,140 Callicott 1 Bearden 124 ■ Campbell 25,124 Bears 159 Cannon 75,97,124,145 Beasley 45,50,52,53,55,124,143, Carl 123 . 147,156 i Carlisle 53,124 Belcher .138 Carothers 43,44,67,143,152 Nennett 9^5121,122 Carr 116 Benthall 127 , , Carson 47,48,49 ,52. Bethel 155 Carter 33,38,105,110,122 Berry 106,124 Casey 139 Bird 143,153 Cash 155 Black 62 Castleman 67,68 Blackburn 42,50,116,117,139,153 Cathon 139 Blackman 145 Challacombe 116 Blackwell 139 Chambers 75 Blalock 116 Chaney 159 Blazer 50 ■ ' Chapm.an 150,152 166 Dalton 118 Daniels 124 Childress 139,140,141 Darby 41 Chrisman 45,46,48,58,121,141 Darnell 124 Christian 124 Daugherty 55 Church 139,145 Davis 47,50,65,66,67,68,69, Clark 38 70,71,72,76,77,81,82,117, Claud 143,147,149 124,153 Claybrook 159 Davidson 4,141 Clayton 71 Dean 50 Cliffe 106,124 ■ Dedman 27,35 Clinard 55 DeGraffenreid 157 Cochran 145,152 Demqnbreun 121 Cockrill 85,86 Demoss 117 Cody 150 Dempsey 141 Coleraan 50,135,140,141,149, Denham 108 152,155 Dennis 117,156,158 Collier 118 DEnton 4 Collin 124 • Devere 150 Collinsworth 67 Dickson 85,124 Colmore 110 Divoon 139 Colquet 155 D'Lelaine 147 Colquitt 155 Dobson 122,155 Combs 75 Dodd 124 Compton 124 Dodge 75 Cook-Cooke 23,53,54,116,124 Doggett 103,111 Cooper 152 Donelson 13 Copeland 135 Doss 49 Cordel 140 Dozier 117 Corlett 141 Duffey 26. Corn 116 ■ Duke 110 Cotton 117 Duncan 124 Coverdale 94,96,99,101,109, Dunham 66 111 Dunn 73 Covington 111,122,141 Dyer 73 Courtney 122 Early 73,108 Cox 106,115 Eastland 77,80 Cowan 52 Echols 3,4,23. Cowden 117,122 Eddington, 98,99,109 Crabb 84 . Demiston-Edmondson 21,122,137 Craig 52 139 ■ Crane 159 Dewards 109 Crauss 149 Eggleston 143 Crawford 124 Eller 121 Creswell 117 Ellis 12,14,15,16,17,18,19, Crews 145 20,22,23,24,25 Criddle 122 Elliott 157,159 Crockett 124,139,143,152 Englehard 60 Crocker 137 English 58 Croraar 143 ■ Ensey 55 Crosan 159 Eoff 88 Crouch 143 Erwin 118,121 Crowley 42,55,58,59 Evans 58,59, 73. Crutcher 117,124,151 Eve 73 Culbersoh' 124- Evens 67 Cummins 111'' Ewin 124 Cunningham 1'4' Ewing 67,68,153 Falls 72 167

Farmer 43^143.,145 Gray 4,118,125 Farqu^rspn i35 Green 68,117,121,141,144 Farrar 50,117 : i Gregg 148 Farrish 117 s,-. . Gregory 141 Felts 152 Griggs 57 Ferguson-Furguson 147,155 Grigsby 32,35,53,125 . Ferrell 20 Grimmer 141 ' • Ferris 43 Grisham 58 Fielding 124 Guffee 53,110 Fields 153 Guyn 140 Fillmore 13,14 Haffner 52 Finley 139 Halfacre 121 Fitzgerald 157. - Haley 70,153 Fleming 108,145,153 Hallum 141 Fly 48,57,143,149 Ham 54 Fogg 76 Hamilton 117 Ford 156 Handy 151 Foster 138,141 Harding 52,72,73,74,82 ^ Fox 51,56,60,124,143,159 Hargrove 156 Franklin 148 Harris 18,156 Frazier 140 Harrison 144 Fredrickson 51 Hartley 154 Friend 73 Harvey 154 . i. Frost 59 Harwood 8.5 . i Gallihue 118 Hasting 58 Gamble 134 Hatcher 108,109,117,145,154 Gambrill 134 Haun 125 i Gardner 59,148,159 Hawks 145 Garner 53,66 . Hay-Hays 67, 139 ,145 . ). Garrett 25 Haynes 94,109,145 Gary 51 Heaton 145 Gasser 58 Helm. 3 5,,1-41 Geddes 15 3 ... • ;. . He Is on . : 1.38 Gee 152 Hemphill 142 ■ Gentry 68,110,115,140 Henderson 115,117,120,144,149 G e r,maq ^ j 1,12,, 1,11., 118.,120,122 Hendricks 125,146 Gi'bb.a ■ I'll, 14,1 .■ Henegar 88 Giddens 122' J | " Herbert 61,62,117,122 Giers 86 Hermann 110 Giles 119,143 Heicks 140 Gillespie 105,119 Hice 146 Gilmore 42,58,124 Hickman 66,146 Givens 117,124,140,148 Hicks 20,21,72,75,76,77,79,80, Glass 95,141 81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,117, Gleaves 69 125,146 Glenn 152 Hightower 116 • i Glyeiss 155 Hill 59,125,140,147,149,154, Godwin 145 156 Goff 118,119,120,133 Hiney 156 Gooch 53,121,156 Hodge 77,157 Goodgine 125 Hogg 119 . , Goodloe 86 Holden 117 Gordon 67 , 68 , 81 ,,8,2 ,1,41 . : . Hollaines 155 Gore 44,125 ' ! Holland 152 Gower 117 Holloway 60 Graham 124,155 Holmes 117 "Graves 143 Holt 138 168

Hogati 75' Lane-Lain 151,15'4 ,158 Hood 63,125 Lanier 118 ,123 ,125. . ^ Horman 149 Lankford-Langford 55,154 Horn 148 Larkin 117 Home 154 Latton 154 Hornsby 142 Laturn 158 Horsmanden 117 Lavender 118,159 , , Horton 72,73,76,80,81,145, Law 156 148,152 Lawrence 121 . i Hoskins 125 Lea 109,110 . ^ House 105,108,13:8 Leach 58,109 Howard 51 Lee 20 Hewlett 125 Levers 148 • , Huddleston 75 Lewis 44,49,50' Hughes 21,55,61,62,122,138, Lillard 144 140,142,143 Lillie-Lilly 50,109 Hulme ■117 Little 21,116,148 Hunt 123,142 Lipscomb 92,124 Hunter 20,125,143 Lit'tbn 117ml47., 15.8 Hus sey 125 / Long 150 Hutchison 120 ^Lovell 134 Hyde 118,122,149. Lynes 154 , , . Inman 140 Lyons 59 Ivy 138,142 Lytle 123 Jackson 68 ,'7 3 , 75 , 125 *Lucas 27,28,33 daggers 62 • . Ludbury 140 James 118,147,157 Macgruder 73 Jameson 124,148,154 Magness 118,156 Javatt 149 Mahafey 158 Jefferson 42,49,56,58,60 Maj or 47,92,116 Jeffries 27,116 Malone 73 Jennings 75 Mangrum 55 Johnson 44,52,55,58,59,91, Mankins 139,144 104,117,118,119,123,125, Manley . 144,154 144,146,148,150,152,154, Manh' 140 156,159 Marlin 125 Joice 138 Marr 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, Jones 20,21,56,57,125,129,. 12,14,15,16,17,23,24,25 140,148,151,152 Marshall 44, 117 Jordan 54,117,118,122,123, Martin 117,125,142 125,142 . , Mason 152 Judd 3,25 Mathias 57 Keating 25 Matlock 117 Kell 109 Matthews 144,160 Kelley 125 Maury 21,149 ■ Kile '73- Mawry 144 King 42,43,44,50,53,59,146, Maxwell 60 147,154,157 May-Mays 150 Kinnard 49 Mayson 73 ■ Kirk 146 Meacham 56,125 Kirkpatrick 112,136. . Me ado r 5 8 r; •. Kittrell 107,108,111 Medyett , 14 7 . ' ; . Knoles 25 . Mellon 151; :. . Lacy 113,157' Merritt 61, 62, ' , Ladd 60,158 Midyet 150 Lagerstrom 125.; i Miles 144 [, 169 Miller 144 McNary 82 Mincy .151 McNeal 151,152 . ' Minton 125 McPherson 108,151 Mitchell 160 McQuine 15,24 Montgomery 143 Nance 148 Moody 120 Nash 143 Mooney 94,105 N e a1 4 3 Moore 125,151 Neely 118 Moran 46,47,150 Negent 119 Morgan 112,125 Nelson 25 Morris 46,47,140,144,157 Nesbett 141 Morrow 59,60 Nevins 73 Morton 144,146 Newby 142 Moss 21,57,122,151 Newland 67 Motheral 118 Newsom 72,117,118,152 Mount 125 Nichols 123 Mullens 43,44 Nolen 44,118,160 Murrey 44,67,68 Nunn 158 Murfree 27,28 0'B r i e n t 14 7 Murphy 75,118 0'Bryan 75 Myers 58 Oden 154 ' Myrick 159 Ogilvie 121 McBride 25,118 O'More 125 McCain 25 Ormes 125 McCall 80,125,142,144,156 Osburn 125 McCallen 151 Overton 53 McCammon 125 Owen 21,116 McCanless 133,314,135,136 Page 120,121,146,148,151 McCarroll 141,142 Parham 148 McCollum 39 Park=Parks 25,60,119,125,148, McConnico 140,158 151,154,158 McCord 118,125 Parker 144 McCrory 158 Parrish 150 McCullough 125 Paschall 77,136,153 McCurdy 116,118 Pate 158,159 McChuchan 6,138,1.5.1 Patterson 125,139,148 McDaniel 60,86,111, 1.18,125, Patton 138,139,144,156,160 154 Payne 84,151,153,157,158 McDonald 88,89 Peach 20,56,60,138 McEwen 67,110,118,119 Pearcy 148 McFadden 43 Peay 142 McFarland 121,148 Peeples 142 McFerrin 106 Pegram 119 McGann 43,146 Pennington 51 McGavoc 77,123 Peoples. 94,95,97,98,101,102, McGaw 73 106,107,109 McGuire 159 ' Perkins 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10, McKay 41,43 16,21,23,24,25 McKeal 148 Petters 157 McKendree 37 Pettus 111,118,119 McKinnie 27 Petway 51,125 McLemore 121,122, 154. Pewitt 59 McLin 14 2 , Pickard 44 McMahon 125 Pickering 150 McMeaken 149 Picket 52 McMurray 125 Pillow 68,146 McNail 157 ' ' " ' . Pinkerton 52,125,153 170

Pinkston 160 ' Rucker 125,157,1^8 . Pitner 125 ' Russell 73 ,157 , 15,S « Plummer 137 • Saless 158 , . , Pointer 36 Sanders 153 Polk 119,137 Saratt 150 Pollard 53,117 ■ ■ Saw 38 Pope 27,28, 29, 30 ,31, 32, 33,.3A, Sawyer 47,125 35,57,39,138,160 Scales 118,123,125,139jl40, Porter 73 154 , Posnack 125 Schumacher 125 Poteete 15,24 Scott 94 . Potts 125 Scruggs 122,126' : Poyner 123 ■ ■ ' ■ S eay 14 7 , . " Powers 138,147 Sedberry 51 Pratt 60 Seward 44 ■ ■ . Preston 125 Shafer 66 Primm 14 4,.'. 146 ■ ■ ■; i . ' , Shannon 30,120 Pritchard 110,125 ' Sharber 142 , 147. Prowell 10 7, 10 8, 109=vlll Sharp 75 Pyron 150, 151, 154- ■ ■ i ■ Shaw 54,139 Quinn 144 Shearin 60 Radford 158 Shelburne 119 Ragsdale 39,56,57,125 , 139 , ' ' ShletO;n i 1,5 7 141,151,157 Sherman 120 Rainey 125 Short 47,53,125,110 Raney 152 Shumate i 154 ,. Rankin 14 8 ■ Simmons 55,151 ■ . Rash 5 6 ' ■ " ■ Sledge 73,119 .. Ratcliff 153 ' Smith 20,44,60,66,67,120,1.38, Rauchle 110,112 146,148,154,160 , Raunsetree 157 Smithson 51,54,116,119,138, Ray 138' ■ 147,153,160 Rayburn Sneed 121,140,160 Read 138 ' ' Southall 51 Reams ' 150 '' ' Stacy 144 , Redick • 94, 99 , 100,101, 109i110, Stalcup 125 111 Stanbrough 160 Redman 51 ' ' Stanfield. 56,142 Reed 60,119,142 Stanford 110 Reese 43,53,95,125,148 S tanfley 53 Regan-Regen 87,111,125 Stears 59 .Remsey 15 4 Stephens 58,126,143 Revis " 140 ' ' ■ Stephenson 155 Reynolds 56 , 109',125 ,146, 147 , Stevens 158 150,151 ' ' , ■ ■ Stewart 57 , 109,, 147 ,1,50 Richardson 58, 125' ' Stiles 119 ' ' Ridley 117,14 7 '' Still 43,142 Ring 47 Stillwell 63 , Roberts 44,146 S towers 45 Robertson 27,32,33,66,67,68, Stuart 123 69, 70 , 72, 75, 77, 80,1'48 Sparkman 38,141. .. , Robinson 25 , 47 J 1^7 ,15^i;i59 Spencer 116,144 Rodes 7 3 , ' Spurgin 158 .. , Rodgers-Rogers '20,591,63,117 Subblett 157 : Ro OSevelt 5 7 • : Sudberry 155,156 Ro ss 14 4 Sugg 47 Rowe 119 Sumner 121,123,135 171

V" Surary 6 Warren 111,153,156,158 S tit ton 155 Waters 59 Swann 51 Watson 51,61,62,142 Swanson 29,119,152,160 Wat ts 2 7 Sweeney 46,47,56 Weakley 66 Synes 155 Weaver 60 Tailor 54 Webb 98,117 Tanner 126,152 Weems 149 Tappan 141,142 Wells 106,143,150,158 Tarpley 157 Wendel 41,46 Taylor 43,77,144,149,150,152, West 72,110,140,149,151,153 155 Wharton 75 Thomas 62,77,140,146 Wheeler 145 Thompson 94,110,120,138,157 Wherley 42,58,63 Thornton 149,151 Whidby 56 Threat 149 Whitaker 28,33 Thweatt 23,38,50 White 23,43,81,85,119,138,145, Tennison 150 147,158 Terrell 119,157 Whitehead 146,152,155,157 Timmons 53 Whitfield 142,156 Tindall 56 Whitley 145,156 Tohrner 126 Wiles 142 Toon 44 Wiley 44,45,73 Trabue 73 Williams 30,44,51,118,121,122, Trentham 146 158 Trimble 156 Wilson 47,119,120,123,159 Truett 126 Winstead 58,150,160 Tucker 60,126 Wiseman 121 Tulloss li8,126 Witherspoon 51 Tune 142 Witt 58 Turner 62 Woldridge 152 Tutor 146 Wolfgang 126 Tweeney 53 Wood-Woods 42,58,126,146,153 Twomey 145,146 Woodfold 73 Uehling 118 Woolwine 85 Vanderslice 157 Wb'r ley 10 9 Van-Hof 126 Wray 150 Van Hoover 60 Wren 156 Van Leer 76 Wright 61,62,73 Vaughn 4,50,61,62,106,126, Wyatt 140 155,158 Yates 50 Vaulx 75 York 126 Veavler 149 Young 153 Vernon 123 Younger 139 Waddy 116,126 Ziegler 126 Waggoner 126,147,150,151,152, Zerfoss 126 153 Zimmerman 58 Wakefield 142 Zollicoffer 81,82 Walker 43,116,138,142 Zucarello 42 Wall 4,20,23,94,105,108,145, 153,155 Waller 53,156 Walton 77 Ward 116