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. Harmonica player Noah Lewis of Henning, Tennessee, is buried in an area cemetery near Nutbush.[6]. The most recent time Haywood County voted for a Republican candidate statewide was in the 2022 gubernatorial election. Name index and images of slave schedules listing slave owners and only age, gender and color data of the slaves in cesus states or territories in 1850. [21] He died on June 5, 1977, in Brownsville. Rural electrification reached the county in 1936. 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. Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work, Part of the American History and Genealogy Project. The 1850 slave schedule was used in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. 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 . Tennessee had two branches of this bank at: The signature registers for these branches are microfilmed: Visit the African American Freedmen's Bureau Records page to learn more about utilizing these records. The county court met in the home of Richard Nixon, the first settler in the area, until 1825, when the first log courthouse was completed. Google Davidson County brought with them . 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules, Provided in association with National Archives and Records Administration. Weakley, White, Williamson, and Wilson Counties), Copyright August @2011 -2023 Carroll, Davidson, Dickson, and Dyer Counties), Reel 0175 - 1830 Tennessee - Carter, Richard Nixon is the last Republican presidential candidate to carry the county, winning it in his 1972 re-election bid. for the State of Tennessee for the month ending Jany. [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. The U.S. ZIP Code for Nutbush is 38063 (Ripley, Tennessee)[2] and the telephone area code is 731. William Dollarhide, The Census Book: A Genealogist's Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes, Heritage Quest: Bountiful, Utah, 2000. Timber is abundant and of good quality, consisting of hickory, ash, gum, poplar, walnut and . Haywood County, Tennessee, Slave Owners (0, 18, 5), Haywood County, Tennessee, Slaves (0, 46, 3). Slavery Project Freedmen's Bureau Reparations Slave Narratives Slave Owners Slave Records Slave Records By County Underground Railroad US Slavery by State Choose State Subscribe Affidavits Affidavits related to the 1866 Memphis, Tennessee Riot Conditions Report of Conditions Trenton, Tennessee Report of Conditions LaGrange, Tennessee One of their responsibilities was to record the marriages (past and present) of the former slaves. Copies of death certificates were sometimes attached to the entries. This article is about the community in Haywood County, Tennessee. Haywood County has grown from a population of 265 families in 1826 to a population that reached 19,797 in 2000. [17], In 2009, under the leadership of Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen and Haywood County Mayor Franklin Smith, a 3,836-acre (1,552ha) tract in southwestern Haywood County near Stanton was designated for a state-supported industrial "megasite," intended for a large-scale industrial or business development such as an automobile assembly plant. They established their own regional and national associations by the end of the century. 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. This page has been accessed 858 times. In any event, the slave schedules almost never conclusively connect a specific enslaved individual with a particular slave owner. and Hawkins Counties) -, Reel 0883 - 1850 Tennessee - Haywood 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. During the slavery years, black enslaved people were forced to attend the church under white supervision. Fentress, Franklin, Gibson, Giles, Grainger, Greene, Grundy, Carroll, Dyer, Fayette, and Gibson Counties), Reel 0522 - 1840 Tennessee - Hardin, Hardeman, Haywood, Bond and two brothers moved from Bertie County, North Carolina, to the Forked Deer region of West Tennessee and rapidly acquired large landholdings in Haywood County. In 1868 the county added a west wing to accommodate the convening of the Supreme Court for West Tennessee. Rhea, Roane, Sullivan, Sevier, and Washington Counties), Reel 0536 - 1840 Tennessee - White and Wayne Counties), Reel 0537 - 1840 Tennessee - Williamson, Wilson, and Warren For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.40 males. Sankofagen: Tennessee plantations and slave labor sites. Carnton Plantation Wikipedia Home to the largest Confederate graveyard, Carnton Plantation gives Franklin, Tennessee a solid historical depth that stands tall and strong. A great starting point is Afrigeneas's "African Ancestry in Tennessee.". The official enumeration day of the 1850 census was June 1, 1850. Agriculture is still the most important element of the rural economy, focused on the cultivation and processing of cotton. Cotton fields and hills dominate the landscape of the surrounding area. 1867 Black Voters Registration List - 1867-1872 . and Henderson Counties), Reel 0884 - 1850 Tennessee - Henry, [18] She was raised in Nutbush, Knoxville, and Ripley by her maternal grandmother and extended family in the area. Its county seat and largest city is Brownsville. History and Genealogy Project. Madison, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Meigs, Monroe, Montgomery, and During and after the Civil War, more than 50 Civil War soldiers, both Confederate and Union, were buried in the Trinity Cemetery associated with the church. [15], In 1881, a U.S. Post office was opened in Nutbush; it was closed in 1905. 1795-1865 (16 fiche) FS Library 6118914, Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service, African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records, United States, Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874, U.S., Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1871 ($), United States, Freedmen's Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmen's Court Records, 1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints, 1865-1872, United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, United States Freedmen's Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, United States Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, African American Freedmen's Bureau Records, Andrew Jackson, Account book, 1845-1877. Kalb, Dickson, Dyer, and Fentress Counties), Reel 1282 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Before the Civil War, this was accomplished by a plantation system based on the use of enslaved African-American workers. During the 1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, enslaved individuals were recorded separately in what were called slave schedules. Industry development in the county initially supported agricultural production. Brownsville received telegraph service in 1848; Bell Telephone opened an office in 1895. 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. 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. These settlers founded Trinity United Methodist Church in 1822. Online Edition 2002 ~ 2021, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee. The county seat is Brownsvilleand the county is bordered byCrockett, Madison, Hardeman, Fayette, Tipton, andLauderdalecounties. Surviving slavery, Reconstruction, poverty, and the Civil Rights tensions of the twentieth century, Haywood County s black community has done much to shape the identity of this historic West Tennessee county. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1850 Federal Census. Slaves are sometimes mentioned in deeds, wills, tax records, or court order books. communications@blackwallstreet.org, Facebook The houses and churches that were built during this time still stand. Rutherford, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Shelby, Smith, Steward, [11], The community also had Woodlawn Church, which was limited to whites and is still active. McMinn Counties), Reel 0528 - 1840 Tennessee - Monroe, Morgan, Meigs, and Marion Scott, Sevier, and Shelby Counties), Reel 0907 - 1850 Tennessee Slave - and Williamson Counties), Reel 0901 - 1850 Tennessee - Wilson Lincoln County), Reel 1262 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - McMinn and McNairy Counties), Reel 1263 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - [3][4][5] This is also the home town of blues pioneer musicians and recording artists Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes. The Dunbar School for African American children became Haywood County Training School around 1920, then Carver High School in 1950. Giles County), Reel 1252 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - [17], The early Black musicians and singers from the Nutbush churches recorded and influenced an international audience. The former college's Center Building now houses a comprehensive Lincoln Collection and the Haywood County Museum. Whites maintained the political exclusion, sometimes with violence. 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