Where was Brownsville Landing? My next crowd-sourced search is for the exact location on the Hatchie River of Brownsville Landing. The only real clue I can find so far is on a historic marker for Bradford’s Landing that can be
The Cobb Family Cemetery in Haywood County, Tennessee has always been one of my favorite burial grounds because its in such an expected location. You can find it at the end of an unmarked gravel road off Poplar Corner Road.
I’m taking a break from blogging about my own family and the history of Haywood County to share this rare find my wife received last week from her aunt. This newspaper article about Michelle’s 2nd great-grandmother, Serilda Martina Eaton Warn
Last week, I shared my quest to find the general location of the home of Richard Nixon, the first settler to build a cabin in Haywood County, Tennessee, and I quickly received messages from friends and family, including Regie Castellaw
Photo credit: David Foster Example of a Tennessee cabin around 1910. I want to locate the specific site where Richard Nixon, the first non-Native American settler in Haywood County, Tennessee, built his cabin in 1822. In the words of Joseph
I’ve always wondered why someone in Haywood County, Tennessee didn’t package and distribute the stew they make in large black pots. As it turns out, someone did. My wife Michelle and I attended this “stew” back in 2011 at Holly
While back in Tennessee a few weeks ago, I had a chance to visit a few of my favorite Haywood County spots with my father and youngest daughter. I shared our visit to the remote Brantley Family Cemetery with
I traveled back to Tennessee last week for a reunion of the descendants of Thomas Jefferson Castellaw (1808-1878), and was reminded of the important role storytelling plays in how our family history is passed down through the generations. I’ve long
While on vacation recently, I finally had a bit of time to catch up on some books I’ve been wanting to read for a while. One was “Beginnings of West Tennessee: In the land of the Chickasaws, 1541-1841” written by
I’ve long been aware that both my paternal and maternal ancestors migrated from Bertie County, North Carolina to West Tennessee in the earliest years of the state’s history. When I ran across “Beginnings of West Tennessee: In the land of