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. Madison, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Meigs, Monroe, Montgomery, 1860 Census - Tennessee. Under antebellum state law, most black congregations had to be ministered by white pastors. communications@blackwallstreet.org, Facebook 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. Fentress, Fayette, Franklin, Giles, Gibson, Hickman, Humphreys, Trinity United Methodist Church in Nutbush, Haywood County, Tennessee was founded in 1822. Later, part of Haywood County was taken to create Lauderdale and Crockett Counties. Before the Civil War, this was accomplished by a plantation system based on the use of enslaved African-American workers. Whites maintained the political exclusion, sometimes with violence. Freedmans Savings and Trust Company (Washington, D.C.). It listed cotton, corn, fruit, grass, and livestock as the most important agricultural products. Sources Taken from Szucs, Loretto Dennis, "Research in Census Records." In 1829 a horse-propelled grist mill began operation, and by 1874 the county had a cotton mill. "African-Americans Impressed for Service on the Nashville and North Western Railroad, October 1863. Cotton fields and hills dominate the landscape of the surrounding area. and Dyer Counties), Reel 0903 - 1850 Slave - Fayette, 1860 Slave Schedule - Irwin County, GA 1860 Slave Schedule - Jacksonville (Duval Co.), FL 1860 U.S. Census - Schedule 1 Slave Inhabitants in Fredericksburg African Americans listed in the 1860 Madison County, Tennessee Free Census Schedule Noxubee County, Mississippi Slave Schedule - 1860 Census . Nutbush is a rural unincorporated community in Haywood County, Tennessee, United States, in the western part of the state, about 50 miles northeast of Memphis. Montgomery, Madison, McNairy, Obion, Overton, Perry, Rutherford, Haywood County, Tennessee, Slave Owners (0, 18, 5), Haywood County, Tennessee, Slaves (0, 46, 3). Madison, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Meigs, Monroe, Montgomery, and Lincoln County), Reel 1262 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - McMinn and McNairy Counties), Reel 1263 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - 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. Tennessee - Houston, Martha Lou, [Book] 1820 census of Overton County, It burned in 1859, and was rebuilt that same year (using some of the original walls) in the magnificent Italianate style. These are primarily runaway slave notices, but also include slave listings from trustee sales. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,864. These records can be found in the collections below and include the lists of marriages that occurred previously, marriage certificates, and marriage licenses. Tennessee's Indian Peoples: From White Contact to Removal, 1540-1840. Fayette, Franklin, Gibson, Giles, Grainger, Greene, Grundy, Gleaning Information about Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files NGS Magazine 48 #2 (April-June 2022): 2327. The population density was 37 people per square mile (14/km2). The collection is organized alphabetically by state, then city where the bank was located, then date the account was established, then account number. Scott, Sevier, and Shelby Counties), Reel 0907 - 1850 Tennessee Slave - The slavery categories exist to help with tracking the genealogy and family history of pre-Civil War era slaves. 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. The States Graphic issued its first publication in 1900 and continues publication today. Nutbush is best known as the childhood home of singer Tina Turner, then known as Anna Mae Bullock. Harmonica player Noah Lewis of Henning, Tennessee, is buried in an area cemetery near Nutbush.[6]. Her family members were church officials, musicians and singers; various members are buried in these two cemeteries. Kalb, Dickson, Dyer, and Fentress Counties), Reel 1282 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - 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. [7] Like other southern states, Tennessee had raised barriers at the turn of the century to voter registration to disenfranchise blacks. In The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, ed. Soybeans were the county's #2 crop, followed by corn. However, Trump's 9 point margin of defeat was the smallest for any Republican since 1988 when President George H. W. Bush lost by slightly over 4 percent. 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. [2] It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee, along with Shelby County, with a majority African-American population. (By comparison, the total value of all farmland, buildings, and other improvements in the entire county of Johnsonsituated in the mountainous region in the northeastern part of the statewas just under $790,000.) [1] A 1923 description of Haywood County noted the fertile soil and potential for crop diversification. 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. WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. 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 Planters allowed their slaves to attend church with them. Dyer and Fayette Counties), Reel 1249 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Maj. Gen. W. P. Carlin, Assist. Hamilton, Hancock, and Hardeman Counties), Reel 0904 - 1850 Tennessee Slave - Hardin, Hawkins, Haywood, 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. Wood from her Nutbush/Flagg Grove home was used to build a barn. Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Cannon, Carroll, Carter, 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. [3] Haywood County was later reduced in size, when both Lauderdale and Crockett counties were created from its territory. The death certificate also states that the future legislator was born in Fayette County, Tennessee, to Monroe Gooden Sr. and an unknown mother.The omission of the mother's name is regrettable since it might have provided a valuable clue to the family's history - slaves usually had the same masters (and surnames) as their mothers, at least . 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. Title Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. In any event, the slave schedules almost never conclusively connect a specific enslaved individual with a particular slave owner. The houses and churches that were built during this time still stand. Image 8 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. As of the 2020 United States census, there were 17,864 people, 7,181 households, and 4,727 families residing in the county. Hardeman, Hardin, and Haywood Counties), Reel 0177 - 1830 Tennessee - Henry, Lauderdale, Lawrence, and Lewis Counties) -, Reel 1261 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Richard Nixon is the last Republican presidential candidate to carry the county, winning it in his 1972 re-election bid. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. Ridley and Mann Wills established the Haywood County Memorial Hospital in 1930; Methodist Hospital Systems now provides medical services. Phone: 615-741-2764, "African American Records: Freedmen's Bureau," "African American Heritage,", Gale Williams Bamman, "Research in Tennessee,", Last edited on 13 February 2023, at 10:06, African American Online Genealogy Records, U.S., Freedmens Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872, African American Collections of Note at TSLA, African American Genealogical Resources @ TSLA, Tennessee Statewide Indexes and Collections, Guide to African American Genealogy-Related Documents Prior to 1865 in the Collections of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Selected Bibliography of African American Genealogical Resources in the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Slave Narratives - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Slavery Statutes - Tennessee ca. Welcome to the Haywood County TNGenWeb site! Although declining in number (there were only 297 cotton gins operating in Tennessee in 1972), cotton gins still dot the landscape of Haywood County. For example, the number of enslaved people enumerated under a slave owner could indicate whether or not the slave owner had a plantation, and if so, what size it was. 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]. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 534 square miles (1,380km2), of which 533 square miles (1,380km2) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3km2) (0.2%) is water.[8]. County), Reel 1279 - 1860 Tennessee - White Claiborne, Cocke, and Cumberland Counties), Reel 1245 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Coffee County), Reel 1246 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - The Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville offers several free online research guides for tracing Tennessee African Americans in their collection: African Americans were generally buried in race-specific cemeteries. and slaves in the household. The federal manuscript census for 1860 estimated his total wealth at just under $800,000. Counties), Reel 0525 - 1840 Tennessee - Greene, Grainger, and Hamilton The Dunbar School for African American children became Haywood County Training School around 1920, then Carver High School in 1950. and Union Counties), Reel 1277 - 1860 Tennessee - Van Industry development in the county initially supported agricultural production. "'Free Colored' Heads of Household in the 1820 Tennessee Census," available. See the Land and Property, Probate Records, Taxation, Court Records, and Church Records wiki articles for Tennessee. Claiborne, Cocke, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson, Decatur, De [8][9], The Nutbush community was established in the early 19th century by settlers from Virginia and North Carolina. Obion, Overton, Perry, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Robertson, Rutherford, Morgan, Obion, Overton, Perry, Polk, and Putnam Counties), Reel 1285 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Rhea, Roane, Robertson, From eight gas turbines, the power plant generates electric power for the area in times of high demand. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,864. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. Some thirty-nine local families participated in the program. Weakley, White, Williamson, and Wilson Counties), Copyright August @2011 -2023 Online Edition 2002 ~ 2021, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee. Written in 1922, this book can be viewed as treating slavery without a degree of compassion and understanding, but it is valuable for its information about the slavery system and laws in Tennessee. Hickman, Humphreys, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Slavery Written by Anita S. Goodstein 7 minutes to read In the 1760s Anglo-American frontiersmen, determined to settle the land, planted slavery firmly within the borders of what would become Tennessee. The largest industry in Haywood County is agriculture. Rural electrification reached the county in 1936. Haywood County grows more cotton that any other county in Tennessee and produced 189,000 bales in 2003 on 103,000 acres (420km2). In 1828 Hiram Bradford began operation of the county's first cotton gin. 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. and Williamson Counties), Reel 1280 - 1860 Tennessee - Wilson Tennessee Wills and Probate Records, 1727-2008 includes Haywood County (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) Ethnic Black Community Leadership in a Rural Tennessee County 1865-1903 (Source: Questia Online Library) ($) Brownsville, Tennessee (Source: Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life) 15, Tennessee, Batson-Young; Headings - United States -- Tennessee Davidson County brought with them . This page has been viewed 91,889 times (7,622 via redirect). Many Black Americans left after confrontations and the murder of Elbert Williams in 1940 related to Black attempts to register to vote. Lawrence Counties), Reel 0887 - 1850 Tennessee - Lewis, Lincoln, and McMinn Counties), Reel 0521 - 1840 Tennessee - Benton, The soil is a sandy loam and very productive. Tennessee Rural African-American Church Survey Project Application Form. There were 7,558 households, out of which 33.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.80% were married couples living together, 22.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.30% were non-families. After Emancipation in 1865, many planters hired freedmen as tenant farmers and sharecroppers to produce the cotton crops, which were still important to the state. A county executive and county court governs the county. The slavery categories exist to help with tracking the genealogy and family history of pre-Civil War era slaves. The National Register-listed Woodlawn Baptist Church near Nutbush documents post-Civil War black history in rural Haywood County. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.09. and Henderson Counties), Reel 0884 - 1850 Tennessee - Henry, 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. They cultivated plots of land, mostly for growing cotton, in return for paying a share of the crop to the landowner. Of those, 42 were white (16.22%), 215 black (82.01%), and two were of another ethnicity (0.77%). Functionality and information are in compliance with guidelines established by the American Association for State and Local History for online state and regional encyclopedias. As of the 2010 United States Census, 18,787 people were living in the county. WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. Haywood County's first school was built by Howell Taylor in the Tabernacle neighborhood in 1827. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/haywood-county/. 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