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Lyle Mrs. Brent Cook The WILLIAMSON COUNTY HISTORICAL JOURNAL is sent to all members of the VJilliamson County Historical Society. The annual membership dues are $5? which includes this publication and a monthly NEV/SLETTER to all members. Correspondence concerning additional copies of the WILLIAMSON COUNTY HISTORICAL JOURNAL should' be addressed to Mrs. Clyde Lynch, Jordan Road, Franklin, Tennessee 3706^. Contributions to future issues of the WILLIAMSON COUNTY HISTORICAL JOURNAL should be addressed to Thomas Vance Little, Beech Grove Farm, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027. Correspondence concerning membership and pajunent of dues should be addressed to Charles Haffner, Treasurer, Owl Hollow Road, Franklin, Tennessee 3706^. •v ii WILLIAMSON COTMTY HISTORICAL JOURNAL NUMBER 3 1971-72 Table of ConterLts page Tfe'e Edmondson Family By Howard Vallance Jones ,.,...,1 A Short History of Saint Philip Catholic Church By Valere B. Menefee .,..,..11 Green Hill By Walter Stokes3 Jr. ..25 Soldiers of the War of l8l2 By Louise Gillespie Lynch. 33 First Inhabitants of Brentwood By Mary Sneed Jones 65 Thomas Stuart By Dorothy Norman Carl. 75 The Presbyterian Church in Williamson County By Helen Sawyer Cook 89 The Fates of Three Cousins By Thomas Vance Little. Ill Contributors Index Page 1 TI-iE EDMONDSON FAMILY Howard Vallence Jones If nothing elSei the Edmondson family certainly did its share in helping the population'of early Tennessee to grov/ rapidly.- At least seven memhers of the family,, all closely related, are known to have "been in the,Nashville area before I8OO, and by 1820, the family had increased,by a total of at least fifty-three children, not counting the in-laws.- Tliese were solid citizens, farmers,, magistrates, soldiers, a family too little known, although often mention^- ed in the pages of Tennessee's earliest history. The Edmondsons v/ere frontiersmen for several genera-- ^ tions. The family has ancient roots in Scotland, but early in the Seventeenth Cenvury went to northern Ireland v/hence they came to America. They settled first on the Pennsyl vania-Maryland line, and then about 17^1-0 went, out to open the Virginia Valley, • A generation later, in the 1770's, they are found in southwestern Virginia when that territory \ms first settled, and in the next generation they v/ent on to.the pioneer settlements of Tennessee and Kentucky. From those bases they spread still further to the v/est and south in later years. Earliest of the Edmondsons in the.Nashville area was Thomas Edmondson, who came v/ith Robertson in I78O and y/ho , was a signer of the Cumberland Compa.ct, Thomas settled, on. a farm near the intersection of the Edmondson and Nolens- Page 2 ville Pikes and was soon joined by his brothers Robert and William and his sister Margaret., v/ife of John Buchanan, Robert settled in the same-rarea, but William, the author's ancestor, carved out his.farm on a grant of ,320 acres near Arrington, a grant given him for his service in 1783 guard'to thei.'C.o.mmiss.ion -whi.ch laid off lands for the vet erans of othe Revolutionary War,. John and Margaret Buchanan came to- live 'on i, the next farm south at Arrington, In ' the-;-1787;i tax-lists o,f Davidson County, John, William and.-two Robert; Edmondsons ar.e listed, apparently living to-' gether. The.-John was a ld.nsma,n of the three brothers (the exact relationship.is not known), and the second Robert was probably his son. This John, v/ho for some reason seems to have been called "Bloclihouse John", purchased 6ifO acres in the"Mill Creek, area just where Davidson and -Williamson coun ties meet. Half was soon deeded to his son, also named John, and the other half to his nephew, still another John, whose descendants are still living on the original land and whom v/e-will label "Brentv/ood John." Still another nephew of Blockliouse John^'Saiifuel, had lands near Harpeth Presbyterian Church, and his -sister Esther, v;ife of Robert Kennedy, was also an early Nashville settler. A second Tliomas, also a nephew of B" _ckhouse John, lived oh■the Franklin Pike in the .house which is now Brentwood Hills Church of Christ. The editor has given me strict orders not to venture into the Edmondson genealogy, but I cannot resist ' -i. - mentioning that Franklin Pike Thomas-was twice an Edmondson: his father was Captain William Edmiston, killed at King's Page 3 Mountain, and his mother was Elizabeth Edmiston, sister of Blocldiouse John, also of Col. William 'Edmiston, Samuel's, ■father, and also of an elder Samuel, Brentwood John-'s father. Thus Colonel William Edmiston had a brother-in-law named William Edmiston, and there was also still another William Edmiston, usually called William Senior,' -probably a first, cousin or an uncle, who was the father to Thomas, Robert and William of Tennessee. This splendid bit of confusion .no doubt explains why genealogical details were prohibited in this account; Since the name Edmiston has been introduced, let us add quickly that the name can come out . either way, Edrnondson or Edmiston—not to speak of other variations such as'Edmonston, Edmonson, and so forth. The brothers Thomas, Robert'-and" William, plus Brentwood John, used Edrnondson; Blockhouse John, Samuel, and Franklin Pike Thomas used Edmiston-. In the Eighteenth Century records the name is usually Edmiston, and \yhy some members of the family kept that spelling and others changed to Edrnondson is not known. One tradition has it that it was the result of a family-feud. Supposedly, a member of the family v/as elected to office or some such and gave himself such airs that others in the family changed the spelling to avoid identification with the haughty one. This story may well be true: - for-there is evidence that the Edraondsons were inclined to high tempers and long grudges. For example,' it is reported that Robert Boyd Ed- mondson, son of William of Arrington, had a quarrel with his wife Vesta Wilson Edrnondson (herself a niece of Franklin Page k ■Pike Thomas) and droV/ a line dovm the middle of their house. From that tirae^on, Robert' lived on the one side and Vesta t.oii; the other, 'communicating with each other only by, v/ritten notes.passed across" by the slaves. John Hazard Edmondson, a grandson of V/illiam of Arrington, told his mother v/hen he was'sent off to' the Confederate States army that, live or die, he would never ■come back to her. Although he s-.irvived the, war.., he- indeed never did return home, nor as far as is known did h'e" eve-ir communicate v/ith his mother. The same temper appears in a story about Brentmvod John ■ Edmondsonj several of whose daughters married into the McCut- .■chen.-family, H'e is said to have remarked that the devil owed him-a grudge and paid him off in sons-in-law. Or -■-.here was Rebecca Buchanan, second wife of William King of Arrington, whose mother was an Edmondson. ' After a quarrel v;ith her Buchanan relatives (she managed to quarrel sooner or later .with.all her relatives), she is said to have muttered that if she know which veins in her body carried Buchanan blood, .she would rip- them out. ■' - ■ . This-kind of spirited temperament, if v;e can for char-- • it-y's sake call - it that, was not v/ithout its useful .side., .how ever-,- for the Edmondsons had to' be fighters in the raw, un- tarflod Tennessee-'of those days. V/hen the Edmondsons came from Virginia, they were no doubt already experienced fighters, for they had- grov;-h up in Washington County during the time when that.,..area v/as being 'wrestod from the Indians. Also, many of the.family had seen service' in the Revolutionary War, parti cularly at the Battle of King's Mountain whore no less than Page 5 tliree Edmondsons wdrc killed; Robert, V/illiam, and Block house John all saw service in that battle,- Williari .being a lad of--only fiftedn* . John, was v/Ouhdodth-ere-j most - distinct- ivelyV for a.- -,nervous Br.it-ish soldier neglected to remove his ramrod be for.e firing; and the rod struck John and .-passeJ com- piotoiy through his--body. 1. - ■- : ■ -• ^ - .It is, thcrfore, not surprising to find the Edmondsons very ;mU-ch'involved in the Indian fighting which plagued the early, settlors. The dcscenda.nts of Thomas.;still treasure the story of his wife Mar.tha feverishly making bullets all night long during one siege. His brother Robert was wounded at Neely's Bend in I788. Either Blocldiouso John or Brcntv/ood John organized his ovrn company to invade the Indian country but was stopped by an order fronr Robertson, which led to ■Robertson's receiving an anonymous letter which wished "Edraiston great success, and you gone from hence and a bet- ter in your room." William and Robert -Edraondson were among the signers of a petition of 1791 to President V/ashington.
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