[15], In 1881, a U.S. Post office was opened in Nutbush; it was closed in 1905. Lincoln County), Reel 1262 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - McMinn and McNairy Counties), Reel 1263 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Males had a median income of $27,333 versus $21,361 for females. Soybeans were the county's #2 crop, followed by corn. The U.S. ZIP Code for Nutbush is 38063 (Ripley, Tennessee)[2] and the telephone area code is 731. In 2002, a segment of Tennessee State Route 19 near Nutbush was named "Tina Turner Highway" in her honor. Enjoy the work of our webmasters, provide a link, do not copy their work, Part of the American History and Genealogy Project. It was established in the early 19th century by European-American settlers who bought enslaved African Americans to develop the area's cotton plantations. Reel 0063 - 1810 Tennessee - Rutherford County), [Book] 1820 census of Perry County, [19] At age 16, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri. 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. Marion, Monroe, Anderson, Washington, Bledsoe, Sullivan, and Henderson, Jackson, Lincoln, Lawrence, and Maury Counties), Reel 0178 - 1830 Tennessee - Hawkins, Sevier, McMinn, Campbell, African-American vital records were usually recorded in separate books for many years. [22][23][24] Sleepy John is buried at Elam Baptist Church Cemetery in Durhamville, Lauderdale County.[24]. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Haywood County, Tennessee, Slavery]] . Fentress, Franklin, Gibson, Giles, Grainger, Greene, Grundy, Her family members were church officials, musicians and singers; various members are buried in these two cemeteries. Montgomery and Morgan Counties), Reel 1267 - 1860 Tennessee - Obion The freedmen soon withdrew their congregation from white supervision, as did most black Baptists in the South. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Researchers seeking information about slave owners may find slave schedules useful because of the specific information they provide about slave owners holdings. Coordinates: 3535N 8917W / 35.58N 89.29W / 35.58; -89.29, United States presidential election results for Haywood County, Tennessee, Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 20:32, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Register of Historic Places listings in Haywood County, Tennessee, Jessie P. Guzzman & W. Hardin Hughes, Lynching-Crime,, "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990", "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. [2] It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee, along with Shelby County, with a majority African-American population. Born in 1899 or 1904 in Ripley, Tennessee, he lived most of his life in Brownsville. Sankofagen: Tennessee plantations and slave labor sites. 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 . Decatur, De Kalb, and Dickson Counties), Reel 1248 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - The courthouse underwent complete renovation in 1989. FS Library 973 D25ngs. Planters allowed their slaves to attend church with them. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1922. Categories: Tennessee, Slavery | Haywood County, Tennessee. [2] It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee, along with Shelby County, with a majority African-American population. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/james-bond/. and slaves in the household. Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Cannon, Carroll, Carter, Cheatham, Nutbush is best known as the childhood home of singer Tina Turner, who described the town in her 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits". The Bureau created a wide variety of records extremely valuable to genealogists. Territorial censuses that were taken here in 1791 and 1795 show that slaves comprised about 8% and 12.5% of the population here, respectively. Sources Taken from Szucs, Loretto Dennis, "Research in Census Records." He became a lawyer and the most influential Republican Party leader in Haywood County following the Reconstruction era. Madison, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Meigs, Monroe, Montgomery, and Tombstone Inscriptions, et cetera from the Black Cemeteries of Chester County, Tennessee. Counties), Reel 0524 - 1840 Tennessee - Hickman, Humphreys, and Jackson 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. 31st 1867, Index to Freedmen's labor contracts between Tennessee Freedmen and employers in various states, Index to Freedmen's labor contracts between Tennessee Freedmen and employers in Crittenden County, Arkansas, Index to Freedmen's labor contracts between Tennessee Freedmen and employers in Alabama, Index to Freedmen's labor contracts between Tennessee Freedmen and employers in Louisiana, Index to Freedmen's labor contracts between Tennessee Freedmen and employers in Arkansas, Index to Freedmen's labor contracts between Tennessee Freedmen and employers in Kentucky, Index to Freedmen's labor contracts in Fayette County, Tennessee, Index to Freedmen's Labor Contracts, Memphis & Charleston Railroad, Index to contracts between Tennessee freedmen and employers in Mississippi County, Arkansas, Index to contracts between Tennessee freedmen and employers in Arkansas County, Arkansas, Miscellaneous Freedmen's Labor Contracts - Tennessee, Miscellaneous Freedmen Work Contracts - Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Indenture Agreements Counties), Reel 1254 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Hardin and Haywood Counties), Reel 1255 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Hawkins County), Reel 1256 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Macon, Madison, and Marion Counties), Reel 1264 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Maury County), Reel 1265 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Blount and Bradley Counties), Reel 1242 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Cannon and Carter Counties), Reel 1243 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - The county's first newspaper, the Phoenix, began publication in 1833. 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. Haywood County grows more cotton that any other county in Tennessee and produced 189,000 bales in 2003 on 103,000 acres (420km2). He was the last recorded lynching victim in the state. At that time 190 people (73.36%) were aged 18 or older.[7]. Phone: (901) 521-9699, Bessie Smith Cultural Center Stewart, and Sumner Counties), Reel 0125 - 1820 Tennessee - Robertson, Smith, and Williamson 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. Hardeman Counties), Reel 0882 - 1850 Tennessee - Hardin 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. Obion, Overton, Perry, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Robertson, Rutherford, Hickman, and Humphreys Counties), Reel 0885 - 1850 Tennessee - Jackson 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. Both the Holly Springs and Brownsville Railroad and the Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (later the Louisville and Nashville) served Brownsville. 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. It burned in 1859, and was rebuilt that same year (using some of the original walls) in the magnificent Italianate style. County), Reel 1274 - 1860 Tennessee - Warren 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. All Rights Reserved. Building a Movement, Not Just Another Non-Profit, Affidavits related to the 1866 Memphis, Tennessee Riot, Report of Conditions Centreville, Tennessee, Freedmen's Bureau Report1866 Memphis, Tennessee Riot, Freedmen's Bureau Report1868 Pulaski, Tennessee Riot, Colored laborers discharged from employment in Davidson County, Tenn on account of voting for certain candidates in the election of August 1st 1867, Freedmen's Bureau Report This is a container category for space pages and sub-categories only. Stewart, and Sumner Counties), Reel 0535 - 1840 Tennessee - Polk, 7Acts of Tennessee, 1806, ch. Haywood County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the region known as West Tennessee. They developed this area for cotton and were dependent on the use of slave labor.[10]. The production of staple crops benefited from the early appearance of railroads in the county. In Tennessee Reconstruction (1865-1896) black men (including ones from Fayette, Haywood and Shelby counties) gained election to the state legislature; however, in 1890, a Fayette County. See: Slave Owners, American Slavery: Slave Records By County Salt Lake City, Utah . A total of more than five million migrated out of the south during those decades, moving especially to the West Coast for the expanding defense industry, and to industrial cities for work opportunities. The first Tennessee census that included the names and identities of freed slaves was taken in 1870. Functionality and information are in compliance with guidelines established by the American Association for State and Local History for online state and regional encyclopedias. Benton, Bledsoe, and Campbell Counties), Reel 1241 - 1860 Tennessee Slave - Gleaning Information about Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files NGS Magazine 48 #2 (April-June 2022): 2327. Haywood County has grown from a population of 265 families in 1826 to a population that reached 19,797 in 2000. Your county coordinator isJane Patterson. Posts about Haywood County written by kblauder. 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]. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Haywood County, Tennessee, Slave Owners]] . Haywood County, Tennessee By Sharon Norris $21.99 $15.39 Overview Details Author 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. 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. The following information is provided for citations. It listed cotton, corn, fruit, grass, and livestock as the most important agricultural products. Today, several manufacturers employ local residents in industries ranging from the production of riding lawn mowers to the manufacture of vinyl garden hoses, PVC pipe fittings, and powdered ball bearings. Samuel A. McElwee was a lawyer and politician in the United States. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997). Fayette, Franklin, Gibson, Giles, Grainger, Greene, Grundy, 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 . Counties), Reel 0521 - 1840 Tennessee - Benton, In 1939-40, the federal Farm Security Administration established the Haywood County Farm Project near Stanton to provide small farms for African American residents, which they could rent with an option to buy. Madison, Marion, Marshall, Maury, Meigs, Monroe, Montgomery, and Overton Counties), Reel 1268 - 1860 Tennessee - Perry, Polk, and Rhea Counties), Reel 1269 - 1860 Tennessee - Putnam and Roane Counties), Reel 1270 - 1860 Tennessee - William Dollarhide, The Census Book: A Genealogist's Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes, Heritage Quest: Bountiful, Utah, 2000. In her honor Tennessee slave - the courthouse underwent complete renovation in.! 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