It was established in the early 19th century by European-American settlers who bought enslaved African Americans to develop the area's cotton plantations. Of those, 42 were white (16.22%), 215 black (82.01%), and two were of another ethnicity (0.77%). This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 10:06. During the slavery years, black enslaved people were forced to attend the church under white supervision. Counties), Reel 0521 - 1840 Tennessee - Benton, 25.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. Early books sometimes contained the name of the former master or mistress and the name of the plantation. Commr. As of 2006, one cotton-processing plant in Nutbush is the only agricultural industry in the community. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Haywood County, Tennessee, Slave Owners]] . Work Activities Job Information State of Tennessee Job Information Opening Date/Time: Thur 03/02/2023 12:00AM Central Time Closing Date/Time: Wed 03/15/2023 11:59PM Central Time At best, they provide supporting evidence for a hypothesis derived from other sources. Records consist of slave importation declarations, plantation records, Tennessee hiring practices, census records, white family records, church and cemetery records, military records, vital records, and numerous Tennessee court records. Some enumerators did, however, list the given names of enslaved peopleparticularly those over one hundred years of agewhich are generally found in the "name of slave owners" column. and Greene Counties), Reel 0881 - 1850 Tennessee - Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, and In addition, mechanization of agriculture reduced the need for farm workers, and other African Americans left as part of the second wave of the Great Migration. Under antebellum state law, most black congregations had to be ministered by white pastors. Title Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. Macon, Madison, and Marion Counties), Reel 1264 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Maury County), Reel 1265 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - . and Henderson Counties), Reel 0884 - 1850 Tennessee - Henry, After the abolition of slavery, freedmen worked at sharecropping as the primary means of income. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, highlights the county's settlement, the early slave culture, the legacy of its many soulful and talented musicians, such as Anna . IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. The state legislature designated Brownsville as the county seat, and in 1823 Thomas M. Johnson sold the county fifty acres of land for the county seat for one dollar and a town lot. The houses and churches that were built during this time still stand. Counties), Reel 0174 - 1830 Tennessee - Bedford, In the aftermath of the Civil War, the cotton economy returned, although tenant farmers and sharecroppers now worked the fields. Despite severe losses during the war, his diverse property holdings (including northern municipal bonds and gold-bearing certificates issued by northern banks) allowed him to survive the war with a considerable proportion of his wealth intact. Today, Interstate 40 parallels the old Louisville and Nashville track to Memphis. To browse this image set, select from the options below. Please contact the Haywood County Coordinator, Jane Patterson. Lawrence, and Marshall Counties), Reel 0532 - 1840 Tennessee - Montgomery and Maury Counties), Reel 0533 - 1840 Tennessee - Overton, Rutherford, and Robertson 15, Tennessee, Batson-Young 410005 INTERVIEW CECELIA CHAPPEL 705 Allison Street Nashville Tenn I1se bawn in Marshall County Tennessee olest ob ten chilluns en Use 102 yars ole Ifse bin yer longer dan dat Ifm de. Charles A. Reeves Jr. has created a detailed map, based on the 1860 U.S. Federal Census, illustrating the distribution of slaves throughout Tennessee just before the Civil War broke out. By the eve of the Civil War, Bond had amassed property holdings in Haywood County alone of more than seventeen thousand acres and approximately 220 slaves. [1] For 1865 and 1866, the section on abandoned and confiscated lands includes the names of the owners of the plantations or homes that were abandoned, confiscated, or leased. At that time 190 people (73.36%) were aged 18 or older.[7]. Hamilton, Hancock, Hardeman, Hardin, and Hawkins Counties, Reel 1283 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Haywood County, Tennessee, Slavery]] . Researchers seeking information about slave owners may find slave schedules useful because of the specific information they provide about slave owners holdings. He was born enslaved in 1857 in Haywood County, Tennessee. One of their responsibilities was to record the marriages (past and present) of the former slaves. "'Free Colored' Heads of Household in the 1820 Tennessee Census," available. Salt Lake City, Utah . Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age as of the census day, sex, color; birthplace, occupation of males over age fifteen, and more. When researching enslaved individuals, the slave schedules are most helpful when used in conjunction with the 1870 U.S. Federal Census, the U.S. Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, wills, and probate documents. Categories: Tennessee, Slavery | Haywood County, Tennessee. Descended from immigrants from England, they traveled westward to the Mississippi River delta in western Tennessee. Phone: (423) 266-8658, Tennessee State Library and Archives Samuel A. McElwee was a lawyer and politician in the United States. WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. Rutherford, Scott, and Sequatchie Counties), Reel 1272 - 1860 Tennessee - Smith Citation Information Marshall, Meigs, and Monroe Counties), Reel 1266 - 1860 Tennessee - In 2002, a segment of Tennessee State Route 19 near Nutbush was named "Tina Turner Highway" in her honor. Copies of death certificates were sometimes attached to the entries. Rhea, Roane, Sullivan, Sevier, and Washington Counties), Reel 0536 - 1840 Tennessee - White and Wayne Counties), Reel 0537 - 1840 Tennessee - Williamson, Wilson, and Warren On June 20, 1940, Elbert Williams, an African American, was killed in Brownsville for "attempting to qualify to vote" and "an interest in Negro affairs. The U.S. Constitution was ratified September 17, 1787. [6], In 2000, the population of the Nutbush voting precinct (TN 3976) was 259. Bamman, Gale Williams. AHGP The American Carroll and Cheatham Counties), Reel 1244 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - ", Information by Sharon Norris, national preservationist, author and researcher of, Trinity United Methodist Church (Nutbush, Tennessee), U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Nutbush, Tennessee, "SB 2798: Highway Signs "Tina Turner Highway", "HB 2535: Highway Signs "Tina Turner Highway", "Aussie cops accept the Nutbush dance challenge and nail it", The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nutbush,_Tennessee&oldid=1136638634, Unincorporated communities in Haywood County, Tennessee, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 31 January 2023, at 10:40. [13][14], Woodlawn Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 for its historical significance. Feb. 24, 2023. Hickman, Humphreys, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, communications@blackwallstreet.org, Facebook In the county, the population was spread out, with 27.20% under the age of 18, 9.80% from 18 to 24, 27.30% from 25 to 44, 21.90% from 45 to 64, and 13.80% who were 65 years of age or older. Links to Online Census Records. Rutherford, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Shelby, Smith, Steward, Wood from her Nutbush/Flagg Grove home was used to build a barn. His parents were Robert and Georgianna McElwee. Stewart, and Sumner Counties), Reel 0535 - 1840 Tennessee - Polk, It may be purchased for a small fee through his website, which includes a scaled-down image of the map: For pensions of African Americans who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, see: Garrett-Nelson, LaBrenda. Until his death during the 1870s, Bond remained the richest planter in Haywood County and among the wealthiest landholders in the state. Its county seat and largest city is Brownsville. , tennessee-the undersigned was at the june term of your worshipful body appointed commissioners to divide the slave property of the estate of the late charles r. johnson, dec'd. , among . The former college's Center Building now houses a comprehensive Lincoln Collection and the Haywood County Museum. Brownsville's population rose from 400 in 1832 to 10,748 in 2000. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1922. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/james-bond/. Temple Adas Israel (1882) stands as a reminder of the migration of Jews into rural communities in the nineteenth century. Haywood County, Tennessee, in the heart of the Tennessee Delta in the western grand division was created in 1823 from Indian lands, is named in honor of John Haywood (1762-1826), North Carolina Superior Court and Tennessee Supreme Court judge, author of Civil & Political History of Tennessee, father of Tennessee history. See: American Slavery: Underground Railroad, Web Team Office Please only add profiles to the slave or slave owner categories found below. The National Register-listed Woodlawn Baptist Church near Nutbush documents post-Civil War black history in rural Haywood County. County), Reel 1281 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Anderson, Bedford, Benton, "African-Americans Impressed for Service on the Nashville and North Western Railroad, October 1863. Lawrence, and Lincoln Counties), Reel 0124 - 1820 Tennessee - Giles, Maury, Rutherford, Shelby, The Mansion was built in 1853 near Nashville's first horseracing track for Dr. James and Mary Ann Hoggatt, who owned sixty slaves. WMC's Bria Bolden reports. This is a category for those who held slaves in this county. Among the county's many historic schools were Union Academy, Brownsville Male Academy, Brownsville Female Institute, Dancyville Female Institute, Brownsville Seminary, Cageville Male and Female Academy, and Wesleyan Female College. County), Reel 0880 - 1850 Tennessee - Grainger In 1846, Hardin Smith, who was from Virginia, was allowed to preach to a black congregation at an evening service at the white Woodlawn Church; it was the first time an area congregation was pastored by an enslaved person. The county is generally level or gently undulating. and Sullivan Counties), Reel 1286 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - [19] At age 16, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri. Counties), Reel 0878 - 1850 Tennessee - Franklin and Gibson Counties), Reel 0879 - 1850 Tennessee - Giles For much of the county's history, agriculture, especially growing cotton as a commodity, was the basis of the local economy, as it was throughout western Tennessee, which was in the Mississippi Valley. The most significant changes in industrialization came during World War II, as farmers and farm laborers left the fields, and agriculture mechanized. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Claiborne, Cocke, and Campbell Counties), Reel 0519 - 1840 Tennessee - Bedford, Cannon, and Coffee Posts about Haywood County written by kblauder. Haywood County is situated on the southeastern edge of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, an area with a high earthquake risk. These settlers founded Trinity United Methodist Church in 1822. A Unionist during the secession crisis in 1861, Bond readily swore an oath of loyalty to the Union upon the occupation of Haywood County by federal troops in June 1862. Welcome to the Haywood County TNGenWeb site! The federal manuscript census for 1860 estimated his total wealth at just under $800,000. Phone: (901) 521-9699, Bessie Smith Cultural Center 9. Males had a median income of $27,333 versus $21,361 for females. Early settlers soon established a plantation system based on slave labor. Later, part of Haywood County was taken to create Lauderdale and Crockett Counties. Hickman, and Humphreys Counties), Reel 0885 - 1850 Tennessee - Jackson Sankofagen: Tennessee plantations and slave labor sites. Updates: In 1828 Hiram Bradford began operation of the county's first cotton gin. Sullivan, Sumner, Tipton, and Van Buren Counties), Reel 0898 - 1850 Tennessee - Warren Additional slave schedule fields that are not indexed include: Sometimes the listings of enslaved persons on large estates or plantations appear to take the form of family groupings, but in most cases enslaved individuals are listed from oldest to youngest with no evident attempt to account for family structure or units. National Civil Rights Museum Decatur, De Kalb, and Dickson Counties), Reel 1248 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - The county's first newspaper, the Phoenix, began publication in 1833. Kalb, Dickson, Dyer, and Fentress Counties), Reel 1282 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Valuation of the Negroes of the Estate of David Peeples, Deceased. It listed cotton, corn, fruit, grass, and livestock as the most important agricultural products. Trinity United Methodist Church in Nutbush, Haywood County, Tennessee was founded in 1822. and Washington Counties), Reel 0899 - 1850 Tennessee - Wayne and Weakley Counties), Reel 0900 - 1850 Tennessee - White James Bond, one of the wealthiest slaveholding planters in Tennessee, if not in the entire South, came to the state during the late 1820s or early 1830s. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1850 United States Federal Census, the Seventh Census of the United States. ", Waldrep, G.C. Email: info@bessiesmithcc.org Nine other papers appeared during the next century and a half. 50.4% were Black or African American, 45.9% White, 0.2% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 2.5% of some other race, and 0.9% of two or more races. This page has been viewed 91,889 times (7,622 via redirect). Taken every 10 years since 1790, census records provide a snapshot of the nation's population. In any event, the slave schedules almost never conclusively connect a specific enslaved individual with a particular slave owner. This has been the commodity crop since the antebellum years, when its cultivation depended on slave labor. McMinn Counties), Reel 0528 - 1840 Tennessee - Monroe, Morgan, Meigs, and Marion Chattanooga, TN 37403 The production of staple crops benefited from the early appearance of railroads in the county. By 2017, grains, oilseeds, drybeans, drypeas and tobacco drew the most income, but Haywood country still grew the most cotton in the state. A great starting point is Afrigeneas's "African Ancestry in Tennessee.". Obion, Overton, Perry, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Robertson, Rutherford, Carroll, Davidson, Dickson, and Dyer Counties), Reel 0175 - 1830 Tennessee - Carter, Counties), Reel 0531 - 1840 Tennessee - Lincoln, The following information is provided for citations. Maj. Gen. W. P. Carlin, Assist. The per capita income for the county was $14,669. This volume, containing over 200 black-and-white images, highlights the county s settlement, the early slave culture, the legacy of its many soulful and talented musicians, such as Anna . Haywood County has grown from a population of 265 families in 1826 to a population that reached 19,797 in 2000. and Williamson Counties), Reel 1280 - 1860 Tennessee - Wilson By the eve of the Civil War, Bond had amassed property holdings in Haywood County alone of more than seventeen thousand acres and approximately 220 slaves. Counties), Reel 0888 - 1850 Tennessee - McNairy and Macon Counties), Reel 0889 - 1850 Tennessee - Madison and Marion Counties), Reel 0890 - 1850 Tennessee - Marshall, Maury, and Meigs In 1909, $7,500 from Andrew Carnegie's library program built a free public library, which was replaced in 1992 with the Elma Ross Library. The first jail was built in 1825; in 1872 it was replaced with a brick and iron jail. The soil is a sandy loam and very productive. Counties), Reel 1284 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - A collection of plantation records is: An index to records at the FamilySearch Library containing the names of African Americans is: A list of slaves that were impressed to work on the railroads is in: Slaves were gradually emancipated by Tennessee law beginning in 1865. Fentress, Fayette, Franklin, Giles, Gibson, Hickman, Humphreys, Fayette, Franklin, Gibson, Giles, Grainger, Greene, Grundy, Your county coordinator isJane Patterson. Hermitage. [17], The early Black musicians and singers from the Nutbush churches recorded and influenced an international audience. Harmonica player Noah Lewis of Henning, Tennessee, is buried in an area cemetery near Nutbush.[6]. Tennessee Rural African-American Church Survey Project Application Form. The information contained on the records may include the name of the husband and wife/groom and bride, age, occupation, residence, year or date of marriage, by whom, number of children, and remarks. The following is a list of free black heads of household living in Tennessee counties at the time the 1820 U.S. Federal Census was taken (census records do not survive for all counties that year): Gale Williams Bamman, CG located the following statistics in a book by Historian Ira Berlin:[2], Free African American Population in Antebellum Tennessee. Counties), Reel 1240 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. Whites lynched three African Americans in the county, most at the county seat of Brownsville, in the period following Reconstruction and into the early 20th century.[5]. The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865. The collection is organized alphabetically by state, then city where the bank was located, then date the account was established, then account number. Counties), Reel 0891 - 1850 Tennessee - Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, and In 1829 a horse-propelled grist mill began operation, and by 1874 the county had a cotton mill. Territorial censuses that were taken here in 1791 and 1795 show that slaves comprised about 8% and 12.5% of the population here, respectively. The houses and churches that were built during this time still stand. Of Conditions & Affairs Concerning Freedmen in the Sub District of Nashville, Tennessee, Special Report on the late riot at Franklin, Tennessee, July 6, 1867, Complaint Books of the Freedmen's Court in the Memphis District, Freedmen's Bureau Indenture of Apprenticeships - Hardeman County, Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Indentures for Rutherford County, Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Apprenticeships in Shelby County, Tennessee, Freedmens Bureau Indenture of Apprenticeship Bonds - Dickson County, Tennessee, Freedmens Bureau Indenture of Apprenticeship Bonds - Dyer County, Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Indenture of Apprenticeship Bonds for Madison County, Tennessee, Bolivar, Tennessee Indenture Bond, Balaam Fentress, Frances Fentress and Levi Chesheir, Freedmen's Bureau Indenture Bonds - Anson County, North Carolina (Contracts to work in Tennessee), Report of Transportation issued by Bvt. 32, sec. 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