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From: "M. Fannin" <>
Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] FROM TENN TO ALABAMA
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:34:20 -0400

This was posted in another forum But seems to be useful everywhere

Melissa


From HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA
by John Robert Kennamer (Decatur, Al), 1935:


(The author was a relative of my great-aunt, Vera Kennamer Whitaker.)

An 1809 census of Madison Co., AL. includes some of the area that is now
Jackson County. Some of this land also became Marshall County

By 1821 the Mud Creek Association was formed at the Mud Creek Meeting House.
This Association included all Baptist churches in Jackson and some in
Sequatchie Valley, TN. The nine churches were located in Mountgilled, Mud
Creek, Providence (Maynard's Cove), New Hope, Hopewell, Blue Spring,
Friendship, Paint Rock (in the valley), and Union, in Sequatchie Valley.

Isaac REED was elected first moderator, Josiah CONN, Clerk. Delegates
were John KELLY, Shadreck HERRON, Samuel WILSON, John HAM, Andrew ESTES,
Hugh GENTRY, John OWENS, Levi ISBELL*, Elisha BLEVINS, Haden WILLIAMS, John
BELVINS, David BRYANT, James DODSON, John JONES, David SETTLES, Richard
WILSON, Daniel and John MORRIS, John WILLIAMS, John REED, Samuel MCBEE,
Henry GOTCHER, Jabez PERKINS, David KENNAMER, John MOON, Moses MAPLES,
Joseph and William MAPLES, S. STEPHENS.




Claysville became the first county seat of Marshall County. This territory
was settled at a very early date with an excellent class of people from
Virginia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. Some of the settlers prior
to 1830 were: David RICKETTS, William BARCLAY, Hesekiah BAYLES, Edmond
BRIDGES, James FLETCHER, George GREEN, James COTTON, Isham H. FENNELL,
Abraham G. HOLT, and Thomas MANNING, who settled in lower Paint Rock Valley
and Honey Comb Valley; Hans KENNAMER, and sons, Samuel, Stephen, Levi,
Zachary, and Jacob, Presley R. WOODALL, Isham WRIGHT, Jabez PERKINS, Robert
CHANDLER, and Willis WOODALL in Kennamer's Cove; William BLACK, Bryant COBB,
Joseph G. GARRETT, Hugh HENRY, John C. JOHNSON, William MCKEE, Peter
STEARNES, William S. TODD, Isaac TIDWELL, Dr. Andrew MOORE, William H.E.
WHEELER, Arthur C. BEARD*, Washington T. MAY*, James RANDLES, James BOGGESS,
Eli FREEMSTER, and Percival M.BUSH, at Claysville and in the valley near;
David BOSHART, Spencer BENSON, Lewis MANNING, James MCDONALD and William A.
MCCAMEY, in the Boshart Community.

(Arthur Campbell Beard (1810-77) of Guntersville was the grandfather of
Andrew Jackson Beard who married Minerva Isbell, daughter of Elijah Miller
Isbell, son of Rev. Levi Isbell (1797-1876). Mays, Wright, Cobb, Tidwell,
and some of these others also had descendants who married Isbell descendants
or relatives of Isbells.)

The Gay Nineties saw Jackson County as a pretty tame place to be. For
amusement and entertainment on Sunday was going to the depot to see the
train go by, taking walks on the railroad track, or driving a span of
beautifully matched horses to the surrey or top buggy, which was sure to
invoke envy in everyone. Every home boasted a horse-block and a hitching
post as this was the surest way to get anywhere. Harry HILL was Agent at
Paint Rock, P. H WOODALL at Woodville, Jess ISBELL* at Lim Rock, John
CANTERBERRY at Larkinsville, Spillman COWLEY at Scottsboro, George CHAPMAN
at Hollywood, and R. B. ELLIS at Stevenson.

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