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RUTHERFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PUBLICATION NO. 1
June 1973
Published By
Rutherford County Hiatorical Society
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee
1973
RTITHERTORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PUBLICATION NO. 1
FOREWORD
People, Places, and Events make History.
In wishing to preserve, and make easily accessible
many facts concerning the rich heritage of Rutherford
County, the Historical Society presents Volume I.
Many hours of research into historical records have
been spent in preparation for this volume, in order to
compile and organize information concerning outstanding
people, the marriage records from 1851-1853, and
descriptions of places which have played an important
part in the historical background of Rutherford County.
This volume is presented with the hope that it will
aid in helping individuals in research, and develop greater
appreciation for the historical background and heritage
of Rutherford County.
Mary Hall
7G-Cl;)yl
RUTHERFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PUBLICATION NO. 1
published by the
Rutherford County Historical Society
OFFICERS
President Ernest King Johns
Vice President Mrs. Elvis Rushing
Secretary & Treasurer. ,. .Mrs. Dorothy Matheny
PUBLICATION NO. 1 (Limited Edition - 200 copies) is
to be sent to members of the Rutherford County Historical
Society. "Hie annual membership dues are $5.00 which
includes a monthly NEWSLETTER to all members. Additional
copies of PUBLICATION NO. 1 may be obtained at $2.00 per
copy.
All correspondence concerning additional copies,
contributions to future issues, and membership should be
addressed to
D. M. Matheny
li*34 Diana Street
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
CONTRIBUTORS
■flie Rutherford County Historical Society gratefully
acknowledges the labor and hours spent to provide material
for our PUBLICATION NO. 1. Tlianks are extended to the
following;
Ben Hall McFarlin, Rutherford County Court Clerk
Dr. Homer Pittard, Rutherford County Historian
Henry G, Vfe*ay, Rutherford County Archivist
Virginia Gooch Watson (Mrs. George F. Watson)
Charter Member of Williamson County Historical Society
RUTHERFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PUBLICATION NO. I
1973
Contents
Page
Rutherford County Marriage Records (1851-1853)
Prepared by He nry Wray 1
Bride Index (Alphabetically by Page No.) 11
Sojourn in Murfreeaboro
Samuel Hervey Laughlin'3 Life in Murfreeaboro
By Henry T^ay 16
Rutherford County Militia Commisaiona 1807-1811
Pre pa red by He nry Wray 2U
Union: Murfreeaboro' s Other University
By Dr. Homer Pittard 29
Specif ication a for the First Court Houae in Murfreeaboro
Forwarded by Mrs. Virginia Gooch Wataon to
Henry Wray ^8
Rutherford County Offices and Officers (180U-1973)
Prepared by the Rutherford County Court
Clerk ' 3 Office 51
Members of Rutherford County Historical Society
(June 6, 1973) 62
RUTHERFORD COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS (1851-53)
Prepared by Henry Wray
1851
Adkinaon, F. M, 8; Susan G. Phillips June 23
Anderson, Henry C. & Catharine Horton Jan. 22
Anthony, Casper N. & Mary E. Pitta Oct. 11
Bates, Aaron & Eliz. Hopkins June 9
Batey, Jasper N. & Isabel N. Tassy Nov. 5
Batey, Vfei. P. & Eliz. M. Ho skins Dec. 1
Bell, Hezikiah & Perraelea M. Mathis July 26
Bell, Jos. T. & Hannah H. Mathis July 8
Beraus, Ito. S: Eliz. J. Dill Dec. 2
Bird, \fa. & lavina C. V7illiams Sept. 17
Blair, Geo. S. & Purlina N. Noe Dec. 20
Bond, John & Eliz. Luster Jan. 23
Boring, Sterling B. & Martha S. Edwards Nov. 25
Bowen, Wh. H. & Margaret A. Dobbins Sept. 3
Bowman, Bedford C. & Martha Benson Jan. 20
Bradford, James & Maria Martin May 30
Brandon, Geo N. & Eliz. McGregory Nov. 29
Broady, Alexander & Narcissa J. Floyd Dec. 25
Brooks, Jordan & Rebecca Johnson Jan. 28
Brown, James & Mary M, Fleming July 30
Brown, John W. & Eliz. McCracken Mar. 26
Brown, Benj. & Jane Taylor June 21
Brown, Thomas P. & Julia F. Gannon Mar. 7
Bryant, James R. & Nancy E. Hood Jan. 15
Burnett, Thomas & Rachel Cantrell Oct. 22
Canon, Abram W. & Mary E. Huggins Feb. 27
Castleman, Joseph R. & Sarah E. Pugh Feb. 26
Charlton, George W. k Mary A. Hannah Mar. 25
Childress, John W. & Mary E. Phillips Oct. 15
Clopton, John A. & Lucy W. Martin Sept. 25
Cobb, S. J. & Jane Alba Aug. 12
Coleman, Jesse A. & Mary J. Newsom Jan. 2
Golraan, Ivblter E. & Fanny J. Black Sept. 2
Collier, John A. & .Susan F. Brewer Aug. 21
Cook, Vfe. D. & Margaret J. Hunter Dec. 26
Corder, John & Margaret J. Morton Nov. 26
Cotton, John H. & Nancy J. McMurry Nov. 22
Coughanour, David & Eliz, Grimes Nov. 20
Covington, Larkin M. & Sarah E. Fagan June 12
Crick, Richard & Martha Mangrum Sept. 11
Corckett, Allen B. & Louisa Hall Apr.*17
Gumming s, Alfred M. & Lucinda T. Daniel Jan.* 16
Cunningham, George & Melissa Taylor Dec. 2k
Gurlee, Calvin D. & Emely Lyon Apr! 25
Daughtry, Jeremian & Eliza. Belt May* 18
Drenon, Thomas k Raymeth 3. .Smart Sept. 2 7
Drumwright, Alexander J. & Rhoda Ann McDowell Feb.*25
Duncan, Robert L. & Mary Ann V^att Jan. 23
DunLap, Jacob H. & Nancy C. Sage
Dowling, John M. & Mary W. aaith
Doyle, Vfa. H. & Adeline Grogan
Ellis, Hicka & Sarah Jackson
Evans, Peter & Phebe F. anotherman
Earless, Obediah & Sarah V. Brook
Farmer, Vfe. & Martha Wade
Fears, Prier & Armenia Covington
Finch, Adam & Gasha R. Jarratt
Frasier, Vfa. & Eliz. Thurman
Freeman, Joshua & Martha Cherry
Fugett, Mathew S. & Ann Eliaz Jones
Fowler, James B. & Melissa Tucker
Gilbert, Charles & Eliz. Ann Tudor
Gilchrist, Philip P. & Ellen A. Phillips
Gooch, J. C. & Martha J. Randolph
Green, Joseph J. & Mariah E. H. Hyde
Guile tt, Henry & Susan Winfrey
Gum, Alexander & Martha Wade
Hall, Alexander & Jane M. Fletcher
Harrell, Layman & Mary G. Harrell
Herrod, Right & Hannah Eades
Hill, Samuel M. & Clementine Bailey
Hope, James W. & Clementine Burnett
Hoover, Benf. F, & Susan J. Marlen
Horton, John N. & Sarah Ann Fowler
Horton, Vfa. j. & Martha A. Smotherman
Houston, Vfa. k Eliz. C. Clark
Jackson, John F. & Sarah C. Lawrence
Jackson, Tliomas M. & Mary Hendricks
James, John A. & Oliver F. D. Smith
Johnson, Granville & Frances M. Foster
Johnson, S. H. & Sarah A. Gum
Johnson, Vhi. & Nancy J. Posey
Jones, John & lucy A, Richardson
Jordan, James M. & Sarah Petillo
Kidd, G. W. & Martha A. Brittain
Kirk, F. G. & Rozetta Norman
Knight, Lewis W. & Eliza Eagle ton
Knox, James C. & Sarah A. Ryon
Knox, John h Manervia Vfeller
Lane, James & Mary A. McCrea
Lantern, Henry & Lucretia Collins
Lee, James M. & Martha A. Blair
Lewis, Vhi. J. & Lutha Ann Glenn
Livings, Allen G. & Susan C. Vfeller
Loughry, J. N. & Miss A. A. Brown
Malone, Andrew J. & Amanda F. Peyton
Mangrum, Joshua & Sarah Crick
Ma this, David C. & Nancy E. Serrell
Meredeth, Joseph & Rhuah A. Fleming
Miles, Caswell M. & Nancy W. Gentry
Miller, Edward 3. & Mary Miller
Oct.
15
Oct.
28
June
6
Jan.
21
Sept.
23
Aug.
20
May
29
Jan.
8
Jan.
7
May
22
Oct.
15
Oct.
24
May
16
Nov.
19
Dec.
16
June
18
May
29
July
31
Nov.
25
Nov.
17
July
21
Oct.
17
Aug.
21
Oct.
28
Dec.
17
Feb.
26
May
29
June
3
Dec.
12
Dec.
11
Nov.
24
Sept.
11
Aug.
6
Feb.
6
Oct.
28
June
5
Dec.
15
July
15
May
20
Oct.
6
Jan.
23
June
7
Aug.
29
Oct.
13
Dec.
10
May
28
Apr.
17
Sept.
16
July
22
May
5
July
3
June
11
Oct.
27
Moorehcad, Via. & Nancy Smith
Morgan, Vfa. & Louisa Ann Gaston
Moore, James B. & Andromedia Grisham
Mullins, John & Etaeline Croathwaite
McBride, Willis M. & Malinda Holden
McElroy, Vfe. E. & Margarett A. Neely
McFadden, Candor & Sarah L. Stroop
McMurray, Geo. W. & Margarett J. Clark
McRea, Wn. B. & Frances E. Three tt
Newman, John B. & Martha Elliott
Northcott, John & Eliza McKee
Odeneal, T. J. & Catharine Martin
Overall, John W. & Mary McGullough
Ozment, Henry H. & Mary A. Wrather
Patterson, John & Julia A. Lytle
Patton, Joseph G. & Judith C. Edwards
Peyton, Thomas B. & Mary E. Sanders
Pinks ton, Hugh & Mary McKee
Pope, Christopher & Tabitha Lamb
Pryor, James L. & Mary E. Winston
Pugh, Edmund B. & He t tie A. E. McGlendon
Ransom, Richard P. & Frances Bass
Rich, Robert & Mary L. Neely
Richardson, Harry P. & Nancy E. Devault
Robertson, Green B. & Mary F. Parrish
Rodgers, Robert & Sally Hooker
Rodgers, Ranzel H. & Mary C. Bivins
Rucker, Bennett & Mary Mathis
Rucker, Samuel & Mary T. Wright
Ruffner, John F. & Margaret T. L. Hopkins
Rouse, Isaac & Louisa Wilson
(free man of col. & free woman of col.)
Rouse, Richard & Manervia Wilson
(free man of col. & free woman of col.)
Sanflor, Candor & Sarah J. McGullough
Scales, Daniel R. & Susan Whigby
Sclaes, Joseph H. & Mary E. Hickman
Simmons, Vfa. W. & Louisa L. Thornton
Sivily, Vfa. H. & Frances H. Lawing
Slanter, Spencer S. & Alline Koonce
Smith, Geo. W. & Eliz. Henderson
Smith, Henry B. & Sarah E. Finch
anith, James & Lavicy Todd
Snith, James M. & Frances P. Bee ton
anith, Jesse B. & Joicy Gavinder
anith, John T. & America Johnson
anotherman, Elmore & Mary aaotherman
Stovall, Jephtha & Harriet Fields
Summers, Lafayette & Nancy Morgan
Summers, U. T. & Nancy A. Johnson
^omas, Robert G. & Sarah Ann Vaught
Thomas, Sampson & Suraney Williams
Towns, Vh. G. & Lucinda Covington
Vaughan, Edward J. & Mary Ann E. Thornton
Nov.
26
March 1
Dec.
17
Sept,
. 23
Sept,
. 3
Nov.
23
April 2k
May
10
Oct.
29
March 3
July
4
Nov.
8
Nov.
25
Dec.
18
July
31
June
23
Oct.
7
Nov.
29
Nov.
11
Dec.
22
Nov.
26
Nov.
17
Jan.
27
May
21
Dec.
14
Aug.
4
Aug.
7
Oct.
10
Dec.
16
March
17
Jan.
2
Feb.
20
Sept.
11
Mar.
30
Dec.
3
Oct.
3
Oct.
8
March
8
May
15
June
5
Aug.
5
Dec.
16
Sept.
12
Jan.
5
Aug.
Ik
Sept.
8
Oct.
Ik
Oct.
17
Sept.
6
Sept.
30
Dec.
19
Sept.
30
Vaughan, Thomas J. & Prise ilia Cooke
Vernon, Mn. T. & Martha S. Floyd
Wadley, John W. & Cynthia A. Hollowell
Wallace, A. M. & Sarah Reed
Walpole, Chas H. & Catherine J. Wblpole
Warren, James & Sarah J. Cook
Warren, Vfa. & Charloote J. May
Watkina, Joseph & Margaret H. Linater
Vfatkina, W. S. & Adeline W. Wilkinson
Vfeatherly, P. W. or W. P. & Julia Bishop
Webb, Thomas L. & Sarah A. Lee
Vfebb, W. S. & Adelphia Wheeler
Vfebber, Edward & Jane Green
Williams, Henry J. & Susan E. Sumner
Wingo, T. R. & Eliza R. Smith
Winsett, Robert W. & Mary Crick
Wood, Johnson & Amanda F. Claud
Woodruff, John M. & Eliz. J, Todd
Wood, Lafayette & Mary E. Beasley
York, Uriah & Mahala P. Batey
Youree, Wn. F. & Angeline T. Richardson
1852
Adcock, Henry W. & Margaret Odel
Alexander, John D. & Violet L. Baird
Anderson, Chas. W. & Martha Ann Love
Andrews, Mn. & Nancy J. S. Nance
Annatrong, Vfe. a. & Sarah A. Wright
Askew, Aaron 0. & Susan C. Read
Baricley, Samuel Y. & Catharine J. Harrison
Barkley, Thomas C. & Nancy J. Wilson
Barnes, Thomas F. & Siota Patterson
Barnea, Thomas P. & Lavinia F. Coleman
Batten, Vfa. S. & Nancy Ann Winston
Beealey, Jamea & Sarah C. Anderaon
Bennett, Zachariah & Lucinda Fleming
Blackman, C. A. & Mickey W. anith
Bowman, Francia M. & Mary E. Know
Bracken, Richard H. & Caroline a. Tucker
Brewer, Henry j. & Martha Ann Vaulx
Brothera, Andrew W. & Sarah G. Crockett
Brown, Felix & Nancy Slinkard
Brown, Roas 0. & Mary A. Smith
Burk, Thomas & Mary H. Wright
Burka, Romulua & Eliz. McNabb
Bush, Jesse W. & Melvinia Whitfield
Bushley, James & Sarah C. Anderson
Butler, James & Jane Stevenson
Campbell, Josiah E. & Martha J. Macgowan
Gastleman, James H. & Mary Gastleman
Gates, John A. & Elizabeth Ann Benson
Cole, John H. & Sarah C. Floyd
Coleman, Wn. b. & Angeline E. Caldwell
Oct.
7
Dec.
7
Nov.
30
Dec.
23
June
9
Nov.
27
Jan.
25
Dec.
23
Jan.
15
June
18
Dec.
24
March 14
Oct.
6
May
28
July
10
Oct.
15
Sept.
, 18
June
1
Feb.
27
Feb.
26
March
I 13
Nov.
18
Dec.
10
Sept.
10
Feb.
5
July
22
Dec.
9
Oct.
12
July
17
July
28
Jan.
19
April
21
Nov.
9
Nov.
3
June
30
Jan.
19
Dec.
15
Jan.
29
July
27
Aug.
22
Dec.
8
July
21
Aug.
13
Jan.
29
Nov,
10
Oct.
10
Feb.
13
Feb.
21
Aug.
12
Oct.
20
Nov,
24
CoLdwell, Thomas M. & Margaret J. B. Cannon
Cooke, John H. & Lucinda Noe
Cooke, Vh. L, & Mary A. E. McClaren
Cookaey, W. H. & Miaa M. A. Heater
Couch, Isaac M. & Sarah E. Ruahing
Coulter, Banning & Mary Sifera
Crocker, Thomaa B. & Eliza J. Holden
Crockett, A. 3. & Octavia Miller
Cromer, Joseph H. & Evelina D. May
Dal ton. Fountain & Mahulda Allen
Donnell, John W. & Suaan Bowman
Doyl, Patrick & Jane Vfebb
Drake, Thomaa & Sarah J. Mierhead
Dunaway, Drury & Caudia F. Patteraon
Duncan, Patrick L. & Judy Ann Hall
Elder, Wn. K. & Eveline Batey
Fanning, A. J. & Susan P. Blackman
Peatheraton, Prestley & Mary Blessing
Fleming, Samuel & Jane C. Maxwell
Freeman, Thomas R. & Margaret R. Bingham
Fry, John & Neaty C. Moss
FUrgaaon, Samuel D. & Margaret T. Thompson
Galaway, John B. & Rebecca Beaaley
Gamer, Thomas C. & Virginia Hughes
Gibbs, James H. & Cornelia M. Vfelden
Gillespie, Daniel J. & Amanda Willeford
Gilliam, Richard & Emeline Cantrell
Gosney, Richard C. & Manervia Shields
Graham, John & Sarah Sandridge
Cramps, John & Mai'y S. H. Smith
Greer, Andrew & Eliz. Brown
Greer, Thomas & Manervia A. F. Brown
Grimes, James M. & Balsonia Patteraon
Hall, Thomaa & Mary J. Vfard
Hancock, Benf . C. & Sarah N. Revell
Harpina, Patrick & Rebecca Cotton
Harria, Elgin & Mary E. Crocker
Hastings, Giles P. & Rhoda Ann Jarrett
Hays, Vfa. & Martha E. Hay a
Herrod, Rubin & Mary J. Armstrong
Hill, Wn. & Sarah Butler
Holden, Goodman & Dorinda S. Smothennan
Horton, James H. & Amanda Smith
Howland, Leroy D. & Eliz. C. Waller
Hughes, Thomas F. & Milly E. Shockler
Isom, Abaalum & Emeline McCaslin
Jarratt, James A. & Caroline V. Johnson
Jonea, James H. & Hester A. R. May
Jones, Richard C. & Mary J. McHenry
Jordan, M. B. & Hardenia Bumpua
Jordan, Vfa. A. & Martha H. Crouae
Kellough, Samuel & Margaret Williams
Lasiter, Vfa. & Susan M. Rodgers
Laughlin, Joseph Y. & Mary L. Sneed
Sept.
28
June
17
Feb.
25
April
12
Nov.
22
July
16
Aug.
17
Dec.
21
Nov .
29
July
12
March
31
April
25
April
25
Jan.
30
Oct.
9
March
k
Aug.
23
March
12
April
Ik
March
31
Dec.
28
Jan.
17
Sept.
25
March
15
Dec.
25
June
30
Jan.
23
May
31
April
22
July
21
July
3
Dec.
15
Feb.
21
Feb.
13
Nov.
30
Jan.
29
Nov.
15
Feb.
2k
Feb.
17
Jan.
2
Feb.
26
June
2
Sept.
9
Jan.
6
Nov.
2k
June
2k
Dec.
29
Dec.
1
Jan.
22
Jan.
6
Sept.
21
Feb.
9
July
10
Feb.
10
Layne, Alfred J. & Harriett N. McRae
Loven, James A. & Polita Ann Douglass
Lyell, Robert B. & Eliz. Crick
Manire, Philip H. & Homora T. Donnelly
Mankin, Vfelcomc H. & Tabitha Deason
Manley, VIn. R. & Malinda R. Wfelch
Martin, Vfa. C. & Lockey J. Donnell
Medling, Wn. A. & Eliz. M. Lasiter
Moore, Peter W. & Margaret L. Dickinson
Mooney, Jonathan A. & Martha Jane Seay
Moore, Samuel & Malinda Todd
McCaslin, Hugh R. & Rebecca Ann Youree
McCoy, John T. H. & Sarah C. A. Swink
McFarlin, M. P. & Emila McKinley
McKissick, Hugh L. W. & Milbra J. McGrigor
Newman, Anderson & Minerva Insell
Nisbett, Ephraim & Naoma Swan
O'Callaghan, W. A. & Frances McDowell
Owens, James F. & Mary E. Drumwright
Parker, Alfred K. & Margaret 3. Johnson
Parker, John & Mary Taylor
Patterson, R. H. & Mary Smith
Pearson, John M. & Mary Prewett
Phillips, Richard 3. & Margaret C. Turner
Pinkard, Via. & Susan Halliburton
Powell, Robert J. & Susanah B. Bingham
Prater, Wn. H. & Mary A. Jacobs
^l^«^«if & Susan Lassater
Rather, Wn. & Martha Cawthom
Robertson, Higdon J. & Martha A. ;*ller
Rogers, Benj. F. & Louisa Lockard
Rogers, John & Mary J. Lasiter
Rushing, John C. & Mary Stephenson
Russell, Newton & Eliz. Hutson
Ryan, Newton & Sarah J. Foster
Shelton, Geo. A. & Tabitha Eaton
Shelton, Wn. & Sarah A. Gates
Shelton, Wilson & Lucy Moore
anart, Gideon & Areanah Freeman
anith, demons M. & Marg. Dalton
anith, Henry P. & Martha A. l^faller
anith, Sherwood W. & Eliz. Boring
Sneed, Charles & Ann B. Haines
Stem, Asa L. & Eliz. M. Birdwell
Summer, Mathew & Manerva J. Kelby
Thomas, John A. & Mary Reed
Thomas, John W. & Eliz. J. Thomas
Todd, Jackson & Margaret Cox
Trail, Valentine & Eliz. Ann Russell
Turner, Wn. G. & Isabelah Nisbett
Waldron, Charles H. & Ann E. Buchanan
Wale, George W. F. & Nancy J. Wbod
Dec.
1
June
26
June
21
May
11
Dec.
22
Dec.
18
April
. 6
Oct.
18
April
- 19
Oct.
20
Nov.
20
Dec.
16
Oct.
28
Aug.
5
Jan.
4
Jan.
Ik
Sept.
28
April
28
Dec.
23
Dec.
25
July
7
March
1
Aug.
31
Sept.
29
March
3
Sept.
27
Feb.
3
July
5
March
16
Feb.
24
April
23
Aug.
2
April
14
Nov.
3
Nov.
23
Sept.
11
Dec.
3
Aug.
7
Oct.
18
Feb.
12
March
8
Nov.
30
April
5
Feb.
22
Jan.
5
Aug.
19
July
8
June
26
Aug.
18
Dec.
8
June
28
March
7
Ward, Kinchen & Eliz. Barrett
Warren, Edwin & Eliz. C. Henry
Ifetkina, Joseph & Margaret Linater
Webb, E. J. & Marj7 E. Daniel
Vfendel, Robert S. ^ Eama G. James
White, Charles T. & Viary Elliott
Wilkeraon, B. F. ?i Mary A. E. Sanders
Wilson, Joseph k Sarah E. Bishop
Wilson, Washington & Ann E. Burgess
Wimberly, Henry h Catherine E. Bowman
I«7right, Emuel ^' Johannah Smith
Wood, A. J. & Ann M. Beasley
Woods, Nathan A. A Mary Jane Brewer
Young, Wn. fk Lucinda J. Mangrum
Youree, James F. & Harriett E. Lancaster
1853
Adams, John W. f?t Mary J. Murry
A.ilor, Joseph ^j Mary Ann D. Summers
A.lexander, Robert M. & Ananda M. F. Dennison
Allen, Lunsford E. S- Martha Hood
/>ndrews, A.lphonso .'^ Sallie B. Seward
Armstrong, John J. ^ Catharine Summers
Baird, Vhi. D. ^ Catharine 0. Ready
Ball, Thomas W. & Mary Crou-se
Barnes, Vfa. & Mary Williams
Bates, Robert F. k Mary James
Bearkley, Benj. F. & Emily Hall
Bennett, James M. & Susanah M. Vfalden
Bennett, Joseph M. Sf Jane K. Hall
Blackwood, John T. & Mary E. Good
Boring, Sterlina B. & Martha L. Edwards
Bounds, George W. & Mary Pope
Bov?en, James A. & Eliz. Kelton
Bowling, Henry G. Ik Martha Parker
Boyd, Nathan A. Si Martha A. S. Vaughn
Bradshaw, Sandiford .^ Susa E. "Jni th
Brown, J. B. T. & Mary J. Pukett
Brunson, Isaac &- Harriet N. T'feakley
Brj'ant, Emanuel A. & Eliza M. Donnell
Bryant, Henry W. &: Margaret Cole (col.)
Burchett, Andrew J. & Mary E. Rogers
Burnett, Brookin J. 8i Martha 3. Perry
Biirnett, George ^1. Sj Emily J. Elder
Burnett, Vfa. &- Narciasa Beasley
Burnett, Vfa. G. ?■ Mary C. McKee
Bums, Vfa. R. X' Mary J. Evina
Burton, James A. ^ Stacy Ann Burk
Cain, Thomas M. & Cornelia A. Mullina
Carter, John W. & Mary A. Todd
Charlton, Joaeph ^ Sapronia A. Gregory
Childress, John S; Eliza Greer
Clay, Theordrick S. .'^ Jane E. Crutcher
Coleman, John f^' Lucinda Blair
Conner, Thomas W. & Palmyra A. Bethel
Corbin, Christopher C. & Suan D. White
Aug.
17
April
I
Dec.
23
Oct.
b.
Nov.
3
Dec.
30
Sept.
13
Sept.
28
Nov .
22
Dec .
20
May
3
Feb.
3
Aug.
28
Sept.
11
Jan.
6
Jan.
25
Aug.
1
Sept.
15
Jan.
15
Jan.
20
Sept.
8
June
21
Jan.
8
Oct.
27
July
k
May
15
June
17
Jan .
10
April
12
Nov .
24
Nov.
16
April
6
Jan-
20
March
19
Jan.
24
Aug.
6
July
3
Sept.
12
Dec.
27
Sept.
13
Dec.
13
Jan.
12
July
25
Sept.
3
July
28
Feb.
lU
July
2 7
Nov.
k
March
14
Sept.
24
Nov.
30
Feb.
u.
Jan.
12
June
30
Cotton, Manaua G. & Martha Garter
Crenshaw, John W. & Elen L. Campbell
Curlee, Cullin & Margaret E. Lyon
Dane, Drury & Mary J. Abbott
Davia, Young & Queen E. Patterson
Delbridge, Edward H. H. & Frances Miles
Dunaway, Daniel J. & Nancy C. Kellow
Eagle ton, Wn. G. & Mary A. Green
Ellis, Edward N. & lucy M. McKinney
Ewing, John A. & Caroline E. Buchanan
Finch, James A. & Louisa R. Huggins
Fleming, Vfa. & Eliz. A. Johnson
Floyd, James P. & Martha W. Rion
Freeman, Marshall & Eliz. J. Hall
Frost, Natha A. & Galadonia C. Prichett
Fugett, Benj. & Jane H. Becton
Garrett, Wn. G. & Phebe Cunningham
Gilliam, Thomas & Malissa Stone
Grey, Joel A. & Gary Ann Winsett
Gwin, Alexander M. & Sarah C. Crichlow
Hailey, Wta. B. & Nancy E. Wbbb
Hale, Joseph P. & Eliz. C. Vaughan
Hall, John & Mary L. Finch
Hartman, John & Eliz. Leek
Hatfield, James & Tinzey Dicker son
Hayes, Thomas H. & Lucy Ann demons
Haynes, John W. & Margaret A. Batey
Henry, Washington G. & Amanda G. Elliott
Hickman, John H. & Milley F. Glymp
Holden, Benj. H. & Permelia A. Vaughn
Holden, Granville G. & Manirva Crocker
Holden, Thomas J. & Hannah V. Nash
Holmes, J. T. & Miss P. L. Hill
Hooberry, Finus & Sallina A. ^-fell
Hoover, Jasper N. & Sarah M. Dunn
Huddle 3 ton, George M. & Eliz. J. Burk
Hughes, James & Amanda Douglass
Hunt, Hustus & Eliz. Winston
Ivins, Albert P. & Martha Ann Pcarcy
Jacobs, John W. & Amanda fiowland
January, Joseph A. & Virginia Henry
Johnson, James P. & Sarah J. Sikes
Jordan, Joshua & Locky F. Vaughan
King, Benj. S. & Mary M. Neal
Knox, Franklin & Nancy B. Leach
Lamb, David & Almary Westbrooks
Lannum, Alfred T. & Melvina Mullins
Lassiter, John & Eliz. E. Mayfield
Leathers, Theophilus H. & Martha J. Dunn
Lillard, Thomas W. & Mary E. P. Howard
Lockard, Elijah & Fanny Dove
Lomx, Wn. C. & Harriett Cowger
Lyell, Vln. T. & Mary J. Tudor
Lyon, John B. & Bratha M. Caffy
Dec.
6
Dec.
8
Ffeb.
8
Dec.
17
March
10
Jan.
3
Sept.
29
July
20
Nov.
lU
July
4
Feb.
2
Sept.
29
March
4
Dec.
9
May
2
Dec.
1
Jan.
12
March
3
Oct.
31
Oct.
26
Oct.
25
Dec.
14
Dec.
6
Sept.
1
Jan.
22
March
12
Jan.
18
Dec.
8
April
2
Feb.
16
March
15
Sept.
13
May
2
Oct.
22
Sept.
8
April
5
Aug.
20
Nov.
15
Feb.
21
Jan.
27
Feb.
3
May
2k
June
29
April
11
Feb.
9
May
30
Feb.
20
Sept.
28
May
9
Aug.
3
Aug.
23
Nov.
28
Aug.
11
Oct.
26
Mallard, John W. & Parthenia Bell
Manire, David C. & Martha Read
Manor, James W. & Charity Hunt
Mathews, Via. H. & Isabella M. Pasley
Miles, John Z. & Sarah A. Tutor
Miller, Burrel G. & Hannah E. Miller
Miller, Daniel R. & Nancy A. Jones
Morgan, Anderson & Eliz. Rushing
Mullins, Radford L. & Martha E. Rowlett
Myrick, Francis A. & Eliza Summerhill
McClaran, Daviel & Lucinda Potts
McGombs, John R. & Sane Stewart
McDowell, Joseph F. & Sarah McGlannahan
McKnight, James G. & Lucy M. Johns
McKnight, Vfo. T. & Virginia Johnson
McMillion, Franklin P. & Jane Robinson
Nance, James A. & Susan C. Neal
Neal, Thomas & Tabitha Merideth
Northcott, Benj. F. & Mary R. Rucker
Oden, Thomas M. & Roxana J. Sims
Owen, Sandifer H. & Lucy J. Owen
Page, Jesse T. & Eliz. Richardson
Pickett, Joseph T. & Sarah Bowman
Reynolds, Alfred & Catharine Wright
Rhodes, Albert W. & Martha J. Crawley
Ro bason, James M. & Mary E. Adcock
Robinson, Alexander & Mary Brinkley
Ross, Felix G. & Nancy E. Buchanan
Rouse, Joseph & Matilda Watkins (col.)
Sanders, Hiram & Margaret Brown
Sanford, John A. & Nancy Northcott
Settle, Seth B. & Ann Ledbetter
Simmons, Vfa. J. & Ann M. Graves
Smith, Daniel J. & Matilda A. Tines
Smith, Daniel G. & Susan D. McLean
Smothennan, Dennis W. & Ruthy G. McCoy
Smotherman, James A. & Mary Douglass
Snell, Thomas A. & Elvira J. Haynes
Spann, Thomas W. & Mary McDaniel
Spense, Abner & Lucinda Daniel
Spence , Joseph & Margaretta D. Vfendel
Summerhill, Norvel R. & Martha E. Mathis
Tanner, Robert & Harriett Furguson
Taylor, Joseph M. & Nancy 0. Iamb
Thomas, Gideon W. & Nancy A. McEwen
■niompson, Eli N. & Mary A. E. Zumbro
Tucker, Nathaniel B. & Louisa Tucker
Vaughan, Vfa. L. & Sarah Allman
Vinson, Vfa. & Mary Ann Cogburn
V7ard, Benj. & Malinda F. Holden
Waters, Elisha E. & Mary D. Hamilton
Watson, John M. & Mary Ann Haynes
Vfeathcrly, John B. & Nelly Ann Arnold
Vfebb, Isaac S. & Mary Ann Seay
Feb.
22
Dec.
22
Feb.
23
March
3
Aug.
9
Oct.
U
Jan,
3
May
26
June
30
Sept.
15
Oct.
15
Feb.
16
July
27
July
20
Dec.
14
Sept.
10
Jan.
2k
May
7
Sept.
1
Dec.
22
May
9
Sept.
28
Feb.
21
Dec.
27
March
21
May
30
June
7
Sept.
7
Dec.
15 or Apr
Aug.
5
Sept.
15
Jan.
19
Oct.
22
Dec.
6
Dec.
19
Sept.
1
May
30
Dec.
Ik
Jan.
12
Jan.
1
March
1
Oct.
18
Nov.
1
March
23
Dec.
14
March
9
Sept.
22
April
28
Nov.
15
Aug.
11
Dec.
Ik
Feb.
21
April
19
Aug.
15
White, James P. & Johanna Hutaon July 9
White, Vfa. L. & Mary Jannan Aug. 10
Wilkinson, John H. & America Bailey April 28
Wilson, James & Louisa Batey Sept. 27
Wilson, Vto. J. & Nancy J. Fain June 20
Woodruff, James T. & Lucre tia E. Ring Nov. 5
Wright, Nathaniel & Eliz. P. Ifiwis Aug. 11
BRIDE INDEX (by page #)
Abbott, Marj^ J. 8
Adcock, Mary E. 9
Alba , Jane 1
Allen, Mahnlda 5
Allnan, Sarah 9
Anderson, Sarah C. *+
Anderyon, Sarah C. 4
Armstrong, Mary J. 5
Arnold, Nelly Ann 9
Bailey, America 10
Bailey, Glemintine 2
Baird, Violet L. U
Barrett, Eliz. 7
Baas, Frances 3
Batey, Eveline 5
Batey, Louisa 10
Batey, Mahala P. 4
Batey, Margaret A. 8
Beasley, Ann M. 7
Beaaley, Mary E. U
Beaaley, Narciasa 7
Beaaley, Rebecca 5
Eecton, Frances P. 3
Bee ton, Jane H. 8
Bell, Parthenia 9
Belt, Eliza 1
Benson, Elizabeth Ann ^
Benson, Martha 1
Bethel, Palmyra A. 7
Bingham, Margaret R. 5
Bingham, Susanah B. 7
Birdwell, Eliz. M. 7
Bishop, Julia 4
Bishop, Sarah E. 7
Bivins, Mary C. 3
Black, Fanny J. 1
Blaclcman, Susan P. 5
Blair, Lucinda 7
Blair, Martha A. 2
Blessing, Mary 5
Boring, Eliz. 7
Bowman, Catherine E. 7
Bowman, Sarah 9
Bowman, Susan 5
Brewer, Mary Jane 7
Brewer, Susan F. 1
Brinkley, Mary 9
Brit tain, Martha A. 2
Brook, Sarah V. 2
Brown, Miss A. A.
Brovrn, Elizabeth
Brown, Manervia A. F.
Brown, Margaret
Buchanan, Ann E.
Buchanan, Caroline E.
Buchanan, Nancy E.
Bumpus, Hardenia
Burgess, Ann E.
Burk, Eliz. J.
Burk, Stacy Ann
Burnett, Clementine
Butler, Sarah
Caffy, Bratha M.
Caldwell, Angeline E.
Campbell, Elen L.
Cannon, Margaret J. B.
Cantrell, Emeline
Cantrell, Rachel
Carter, Martha
Castleman, Mary
Caston, Louisa Ann
Cates, Sarah A.
Cavinder, Joicy
Cawthom , Martha
Cherrj', Martha
Clark, Eliz. C.
Clark, Margaret J.
Claud, Amanda F.
Clemens, Lucy Ann
Cogburn, Mary Ann
Cole, Margaret (col.)
Coleman, Lavinia F.
Collins, Lucretia
Cook, Sarah J.
Cooke, Priscilla
Cotton, Rebecca
Covington, Armenia
Covington, I^cinda
Cowger, Harriett
Cox, Margaret
Crawley, Martha J.
Crichlow, Sarah C.
Crick, Eliz,
Crick, Mary
Crick, Sarah
Crocker, Manirva
Crocker, Mary E.
Crockett, Sarah G.
5
5
1
8
3
7
3
7
2
2
3
8
9
7
h
2
i+
5
2
3
8
7
9
8
6
U
2
8
5
^■
Croathwaite, Emeline 3
Grouse, Martha H. 5
Crouae, Mary 7
Grutcher, Jane E. 7
Cunningham, Phebe 8
Dal ton, Marg. 7
Daniel, Lucinda 9
Daniel, Lucinda T. 1
Daniel, Ma ryE. 7
Deason, Tabitha 6
Denniaon, Amanda M. F. 7
Devault, Nancy E. 3
Dickeraon, Tinzey 8
Dickinson, Margaret L. 6
Dill, Eliz. J. 1
Dobbin 3, Margaret A. 1
Donnell, Eliza M. 7
Donnell, Lockey J. 6
Donnelly, Homnra T. 6
Douglass, Amanda 8
Douglass, Mary 9
Douglass, Polita Ann 6
Dove, Fanny 8
Drumwright, Marj'' E. 6
Dunn, Martha J. 8
Dunn, Sarah M. 8
Eades, Hannah 2
Eagleton, Eliza ?
Eaton, Tabitha 7
Edwards, Judith G. 3
Edwards, Martha L. 7
Edwar-ds, Martha S. 1
Elder, Emily J. 7
Elliott, Amanda G, 8
Elliott, Martha 3
Elliott, Mary 7
Evins, Mary J. 7
Fagan, Sarah E. 1
Fain, Nancy J. 10
Fields, Harriet 3
Finch, Mary L. 8
Finch, Sarah E. 3
Fleming, Lucinda k
Fleming, Mar^' M. 1
Fleming, Rhuah A. 2
Fletcher, Jane M. 2
Floyd, Martha 3. i+
Floyd, Narcissa J. 1
Floyd, Sarah G. l\
Foster, Frances M. 2
Foster, Sarah J. 7
Fowler, .Sarah Ann 2
Freeman, Areanah 7
Furguson, Harriett
Gannon
Gentry,
F.
Julia
Nancy '.,'.
Flenn, Lutha Ann
Glymn, Milley F.
Good, Mpry E.
Graves, Ann M.
Green, Jane
Green, Mary A.
Greer, Eliza
Gregory, Sanronia A.
Grimes, Eliz.
Grisham, Andromedia
Grogan, Adeline
Gum, Sarah A.
Hainea, Ann B.
Hall, Eliz. J.
Hall, Emily
Hall, Jane K.
Ha 11 , Judy Ann
Hall, Louisa
Halliburton, Susan
Hamilton, Mary D.
Hannah, Mary A.
}^a r re 11, Ma ry C .
Harrison, Catharine J,
Haynes, Elvira J.
Haynes, Mary Ann
Hays, Martha E.
Henderson, Eliz.
Hendricks, Mary
Henry, Eliz. C.
Henry, Virginia
Hester, Miss M. A.
Hickman, Mary E.
Hill, Miss P. L.
Holden, Eliza J.
Holden , Malinda
Holden, Malinda F.
Hollowell, Cynthia A.
Hood, Martha
Hood, Nancy E.
Hooker, Sally
Honk in 3, Eliz.
Hopkins, Margaret T.L.
Horton, Catharine
Hoskins, Eliz. M.
Howard, Mary E. P.
Howland, Amanda
Huggins, Louisa P..
Huggins, Mary E.
Hughes, Virginia
Hunt, Charity
Hu n te r , Ma rga re t J .
1
9
2
8
7
9
8
7
7
1
3
2
2
7
8
7
7
5
1
7
9
1
2
^■
9
9
5
3
2
7
8
5
3
8
5
3
9
if
7
1
3
1
3
1
1
8
8
8
1
5
9
1
Huraon, Eliz.
Hutson, Johanna
Hyde, Mariah E. H.
Inaell, Minerva
Jackaon, Sarah
Jacoba, Mary A.
Jame a , Kmma C .
Jamea, Mary
Jarraan, Mary
Jarre tt, Gasha R.
Jarre tt, Rhoda Ann
John a, Lucy M.
Johnaon, America
Johnaon, Caroline V.
Johnaon, Eliz. A.
Johnaon, Margaret 3.
Johnaon, Nancy A.
Johnaon, Rebecca
Johnaon, Virginia
Jonea, Ann Eliza
Jonea, Nancy A.
Kelby, Manerva J.
Kellow, Nancy C.
Kelton, Eliz.
Know, Mary E.
Koonce, Alline
Lamb, Nancy 0.
Lamb, Tabi tha
Lancaater, Harriett
I-aaiter, Eliza. M.
Laaiter, Mary J.
Laaaater, Suaan
La wing, France a H.
Lawrence, Sarah C.
I^ach, Nancy B.
Ledbetter, Ann
Lee, Sarah A.
leek, Eli?;.
Lewi a, FOliz. P.
Linater, Margaret
Linater, Margaret H.
Lockard, Louiaa
Love, Martha Ann
Luater, Eliz.
Lyon, Emely
Lyon, Margaret E.
Lytle, Julia A.
7
10
2
2
7
7
7
10
2
5
9
3
5
8
3
1
9
2
9
7
8
7
3
9
3
7
6
7
7
3
2
6
9
i+
8
10
7
i+
7
1
1
R
3
Macgowan, Martha
Mangrum, Lucinda
Mangrum, Martha
Marlin, Suaan J.
J.
J.
Martin,
Martin,
Martin ,
Ma thi a ,
Catharine
T-.ucy 1 7.
Maria
T^annah H.
Ma thi a, Martha E.
Ma thi a, Mary
Ma thi 3, Fermelia M.
Maxwell, Jane C.
May, Charloote J-
May, Evelina D.
May, Heater A. R.
Mayfield, Eliz. E.
McGaalin, Eraeline
McClannahan, Sarah
McGlaren, Mary A. E.
McClendon, Hettie A.E.
McCoy, Ruthy C.
McCracken, Eliz.
McCrea, Mary A.
McCullough, Sarah J.
McCullough, Mary
Mc Daniel, Mary
MCDowell, Frances
McDowell, Rhoda Ann
McEwen, Nancy A.
Mc Gregory, Eliz.
McGrigor, Milbra J.
McHenrj', Marj' J.
McKee, Eliza
McKe e , Ma ry
McKee, Mary G.
McKinley, Emila
McKinney, Lucy M.
McLean, Suaan D.
McMurry, Nancy J.
McNabb, Eliz.
McRae, Harriett N.
Merideth, Tabi tha
Mierhead, .Sarah J.
Mi lea, Frances
Miller, Hannah E.
Miller, Mary
Miller, Octavia
Moore, Lucy
Morgan, Nancy
Morton, Margaret J.
Moaa, Neaty G.
U
7
1
2
3
I
1
1
9
3
1
5
5
5
8
5
9
5
3
9
1
2
3
3
9
6
1
9
1
6
5
3
3
7
6
8
9
1
i+
6
9
5
8
9
2
5
7
3
1
5
Mullina, Cornelia A.
Mul.lina, Melvina
Murry, Mary J.
T!ance, TIancy J. S.
Naah, Tiannah V.
Nenl , M<'\ry M .
TJeal, Susan C.
Neely, TIar2arett A.
Neelj', ■^''ary L.
I'Tewaom, t^avy J.
Fisbett, laabelah
Noe, Lnc'nda
Koe, Purlina V. .
T'orman, Rozetta
Northcott, Nancy
Cdell, Jlargaret
Owen, Lucy J.
TarVer, Martha
^arriah, ^■'arj'- ",
Pauley, Isabella >!.
Patterson, Balaonia
Patterson, Caudia F,
Patterson, 'jueen E.
Patterson, 3iota
Pearcy, t.'arthp Ann
Perry, ITertha 3.
Petillo, Sarah
Peyton, Amanda F.
Phillipa, Ellen A.
Phillir's, rary E.
Ph5.11iny, 3u3r.n G.
T'itta, Mary E.
Pope, Mary
Posey, '\rncy J.
Potts, T.ucinda
Prewett, Harj'
Prichett, Caladom'a n,
Pugh, Sarah E.
^nkett, Marj' J.
Randolph, Tlartha J.
Read, Martha
Read, Suaan C.
Ready, Catharine O.
Reed, Marj/
Reed, .Sarah
Re veil, Sarah N .
Richardson, An^eline T.
Richardson, Eliz,
Richardson, Lucy A.
Ring, Ixacretia E.
Rion, Martha ■•7.
/
8
1
7
2
9
'+
7
7
5
k
9
2
10
8
Robinson, Jane 9
Rodgers, Suaan M. 5
Rogers, Mary E, 7
Rowlett, Martha E. 9
Rucker, Mary R. 9
Rushing, Eliz. 9
Ruuhing, Sarah E. 5
Russell, Eliz. Ann 7
Ryon, Sarah A. 2
Sage, Clancy C. 2
Sanders, lAaxy A. E. 7
Sanders, Mary E. 3
Sandridge , Sarah 5
Seay, Martha Jane 6
Seay, Mary Ann 9
Serrell, Nancy E. 2
Seward, Sallie B. 7
Shields, Manervia 5
Shockler, Milly E. 5
Sifera, Mary 5
Sikes, Sarah J. 8
Sims, Roxanna J. 9
Slinkard, Nancy U
.Smart, Raymeth S. L
Snith, Amanda 5
Smi th, Eliza R. i+
Smith, Johannah 7
Smith, Mary 7
Smith, Mary a. i*
.Smith, Marj'' 3. H. 5
Smith, Mary W. 9
Smith, Mickey W, '+
Smith, Nancy 3
Smith, Oliver F. D. 2
Smith, Susa E. 7
•Smotherman, Dorinda 3. 5
Smothennan, Martha A. 2
Snotherman, ^iarJ' 3
.S.Tiotherman , ^^hebe F. 2
Sneed, Mar^' L. 5
Stephenson, Marj' 7
Stevenson, Jane 4
Stewart, Jane 9
Stone , Malisaa C
Stroop, Sarah L. 3
Summerhill, Eli-^a 9
Summers, Catharine 7
Summers, Mary Ann J. 7
Sumner, Suaan E. if
•Swan, Naoma 6
Swink, Sarah C. A. 6
Taasy, laabell N. 1
Taylor, Jane I
Taylor, Mary 7
Taylor, Melissa 1
Thomas, Eliz. J. 7
Thompson, Margaret T. 5
Thornton, Louisa L. 3
Thornton, Mary Ann E. 3
Threatt, Frances E. 3
Thurtnan, Eliz. ?
Tinea, Matilda A. 9
Todd, Eliz. J. 4
Todd, Lavicy 3
Todd, Malinda 6
Todd, Mary A. 7
Tucker, Caroline A. 't
Tucker, Louisa 9
Tucker, Melissa 2
Tudor, Eliz. Ann 2
Tudor, Mary J. 8
lUrner, Margaret C. 7
Tutor, Sarah A. 9
Vaughan, Eliz. C. 8
Vaughan, Locky F. 8
Vaughn, Martha A. S. 7
Vaughn, Permelia A. 8
Vaught, Sarah Ann 3
Vaulx, Martha Ann 4
Wade, Martha 2
Wade , Martha 2
Walden, Susanah M. 7
Wall, Sallina A. S
Waller, Eliz. C. 5
Waller, Manervia 2
Waller, Martha A. 7
Waller, Martha A. 7
Waller, Susan C. 2
Walpole, Catharine J. H
Ward, Mary J. 5
Watkins, Matilda (col.) 9
1"feakley, Harriet N. 7
Vfebb, Jane 5
Vfebb, Nancy E. 8
Welch, Malinda R. 5
Vfelden, Cornelia M. 5
Wendel, Margaretta D. 9
Westbrooks, Almarj'' ;j
^>^eeler, Adelphia 4
Whlgby, Susan 3
VJhite, Suan D. 7
Whitfield, Melvinia k
Wilkinson, Adeline W. h
Willeford, Amanda 5
X\^illiama, Lavina C. 1
Williams, Margaret 5
Williams, JApry 7
Williams, Snraney 3
Wilson, Louisa (col.) 3
Wilson, Manervin (col.) 3
Wilson, Nancy J. ^4
Winfrey, Siisan 2
Win sett, Cary Ann 8
Winston, Eliz. 8
Winston, Mary E. 3
Winston, Nancy Ann 4
Wood, Nancy J. 7
Wrather, Mary A. 3
Wright, Catharine 9
Wright, Mary H. 4
Wright, Mary T. 3
Wright, Sarah A. 4
V^att, Mary Ann 1
Youree, Rebecca Ann 6
Zumbro, Mary A. E. 9
SOJOURN IN MURFREESBORO
By Henry Wray, Rutherford County Archivist
Samuel Hervey McLaughlin came to Murfreeaboro in 1815 and
began the practice of law. The Biographical Directory
(1796-1969), Warren County, highlighting members of tne
General Assembly, recorded these terse facts about
McLaughlin :
"Senate, 23rd, 2i4-th and 25th General Assemblies,
1839-45 representing Warren and Franklin Counties
in 23rd and 24-th; Warren, Gannon, Coffee, and
DeKalb in 25th. Born in Virginia and at 3 years
of age to Knox County, Ky. Family back to Virginia
in 1810. Clerked in store in McMinnville, 1811-15,
reading law meantime. Began practice in Murfreesboro
in 1815. Married Mary Clarke Bass. Resided on
east fork of Stones River below the mouth of
Bradley's Creek. Removed to Nashville in 1832.
Appointed Recorder, General Land Office in
Washington by President James K. Polk on March 4,
1845. Died in Vfeshington."
The Directory further states that McLaughlin was bom on
May 1, 1796 and died May 5, 1850.
Events associated with his several years in Murfreesboro
were abstracted verbatim from a diary in a private collection
and titled: "A Diary of Public Events and a Sketch of My
Life." The diary was written in 1845. Henry Wray's abstract
follows.
"After reading Law with Maj. McCampbell, hard and
diligently, I obtained a license, and in September or October,
1815 removed to and settled in Murfreesboro on advice of
Col. Mitchell and other friends.
When I went to reside in Murfreesboro, I found a v6ry
different condition in the state of society from which
exists there at present. Gen. Robert Purdy, who after
being disbanded in the reduction of the army to a peace time
establishment, came and settled in the neighborhood on a
16
farm inherited by hi 3 wife, who waa a Miss Philips, a sister
of the present Judge Joseph Philips. He was a man of moat
liberal hospitality. His wife waa an excellent woman--
a perfect lady--fond of gaiety, fashion and company.
The late Mrs. Nancy Lytle, wife of the late Capt. Vfa.
Lytle, an old Revolutionary Officer, was and always had been
the leader of fashion and patron of all Balls and Parties
at Murfreesborough, as she had once been at Nashville in
her younger days. She lived in sight of the tovm where her
son 'I'fa. Lytle now lives.
The late Joel Dyer, the old gambler, famous in the old
traditions of East Tennessee and Nashville--also rich and
whose handsome daughters had married respectably, and
afterwards also married respectably, lived in town, having
removed there from his farm where John Mclver now lives,
about the time I went there to live, kept a tavern in town,
where Col. Vfe. F. Lytle now keeps a tavern. Col. Vto.
Mitchell also lived in town and kept a tavern in the old
Jetton House, on the East side of the public square, where
Col. Robert Smith afterwarda lived for many years.
Mr. Joel Childress, a merchant, owned and lived in the
framed portion of the tavern house, on the west side of
the square, now owned and kept by Capt. Geo. Allen Sublett.
Mr. Childress waa a highly respectable man and was the
father of Mrs. Sarah Polk, the lady of James K. Polk, now
President of the United States.
John M. Tilford, now of Warren Co., Hiclcory Creek, was
a prosperous merchant in Murfreesboro when I went there
to live. He waa the 3on-in-law of Gapt. W. and Mrs. Lytle.
Nicholas Tilford and Jame a M. Tilford, now both dead, were
merchants there at the aame time. William Barf ie Id, James
D. Garuthers and Joseph D. Staith were also merchants, as
was one Jonathan Estill, now all dead. In 1816 and 1817,
the late Jonathan Gurrin and the late David V/endel, came
there as merchants. Gurrin from Franklin in Williamson
County and Vfendel from East Tennessee. Old Alexander
Carmichael and James D. Rawlings, both deceased, were
tavern keepers.
Dr. W. B. Butler, Dr. W. T. Henderson, Dr. Elisha B.
Clarke and Dr. Henry Homes were all practicing physicians.
Jiaj. Bennett anith, a remarkable man, still living, had
removed to town to enjoy his fortune, about the time I went
to the place to live. He pretended, however, now and then,
especially when drunk, to engage in the practice of Law.
The late Gen. Blackman Coleman lived in town and was Glerk
of the County Court. My brother, John R. Laughlin,
succeeded him in this office.
I cannot enumerate all those who then lived in
Murf reesboro, but of those who were then business men there,
scarcely any remain, and most of them are dead. Gaming
was then a most prevailing and fashionable vice and was
carried on almost openly. Cards were played for money by
almost everybody and billiard tables were a common resort.
About December, 1815, was the first time I ever saw
President Polk. He was then a very young man, a little
older than myself, and was a student at the Bradley Academy,
an institution which had been removed from near Col. Rucker' a
to Murfreesborough. The old Academy House was a spacious
log building and stood near where the brick Presbyterian
Church now stands. The same Academy House was used on
Sabbath days as a place of public worship, until it was
afterwards set on fire by a deranged man from Kentucky named
Forsyth. The Rev. Jessee Alexander, still a preacher, and
other Presbyterian clergymen preached and held sacramental
meetings in the House.
At this House, about 25th December 1815, an event
happened to me which I sliall never forget. Having heard
that a Miss Bass, I had not heard her Christian Name, and
several other young ladies, were staying at Maj. Bennett
anith's, with his daughter Margaret (afterwards married to
Uriah Cummin, and since dead) were attending a sacramental
meeting at the place mentioned. I had heard her mentioned
by Dr. Clarke, then a physician in Murfreesboro (a Virginian
and Cousin of her father), and having heard Daniel Barnes,
then a clerk in Estill's store, and \*i. M. Smith, now
General Smith speak of her, I had gone to the meeting, not
being well at the time, more with a desire to see her than
any other person and more from that desire than to hear
preaching. During the concluding prayer, Miss Bass was
pointed out to me. I was greatly struck by her appearance.
Although I had not seen her move, except to turn around and
take her seat at the conclusion of the prayer, and had never
heard her apeak, and although I withdrew and went home to
Mitchell's Tavern without seeing any more of her, I had
from that hour a presentiment that she was at sometime to
become my wife. From the moment I saw her, I determined to
ace her again. I knew Dr. aarke visited at her father's
six miles west of Murfreeaboro, where he lived on a large
fara on the old road from Nashville to Shelbyville.
Three or four days, I think, after the foregoing inci-
dent. Dr. Clarke got into one of his occasional fits or
sprees of drinking. He was an old bachelor, of great skill
in his profession, and was universally esteemed. He had
become very friendly to me. His friends on this occasion
persuaded him to take a ride into the country for exercise
and ride back and he would be over his frollic. He said he
would do so if I would go with him. I told him, at once,
I would. 1 never thought, nor did he, of the place we would
go to, or how far. We ordered our horses, and Col. Mitchell
gave the Doctor, at his earnest entreaty, a glass of toddy
to start on. Wfe mounted our horses, the Doctor taking the
lead, when we started out of town, down the old Nashville
road by Wilson Shoals, which led down on the North and
Northwest of Squire David Dickenson's plantation. While
riding, he spoke of a friend of his, Mr. Ambrose House,
who had lately removed from Virginia to Rutherford County
and near hi a kinsman, Capt. James Bass, and said we would
turn back and come home by the house of friend Ambrose after
we got as far down the Nashville road as he wished to go.
Vfe dashed on until we got to old Mr. Hartwell Marable'a,
another Virginia friend of his. Vfe stopped and went into
the house, he introducing me to the old people. He had
gotten nearly sober. He did not ask for anything to drink,
but went out and up the road where we had passed a black-
smith shop, where he got some whiskey, and presently he was
so much intoxicated again, as to set his tongue to running.
He refused when he went back to the house to stay for dinner,
pretending he was in a hurry to get home and had to go by
Mr. Houses and Gapt. Basses. Vfe set off and took the
Shelbyville road which turned off at the corner of Mr.
Marable's fence to the south, and crossed Stewarts Creek
through what was Searcy's, now White's mill dam. Vfe rode
on to Mr. House's where I hoped he would stop, as I did not
wish to go to Capt. Bass' with him when he was drinking.
Vfe found Mr, House and his negroes out clearing new ground.
He invited us to stop at his house and stay till next
morning. The Doctor refused, saying he must go home and
call at Capt. Basses on the way. So off we went again, he
still showing the effects of his drink and soon got to
Capt. Basses, it being only about a mile.
Here we got down and went in. Capt. Bass was not at
home. The Doctor introduced me to Mrs. Bass, to her daughter
Itemperance anith,then the wife of Thomas B. Smith, son of
Bennett anith, and to Mary Clarke Bass, her sister, who
afterwards in less than a year became my wife.
The Doctor and myself went home that evening, after he
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got a glaaa of toddy from Mrs. Basa. and in a few days he
got sober.
In 1829 I moved my parents to Rutherford County. 1 was
living on the East fork of Stones River on an excellent
tract of land below the mouth of Bradley's creek, opposite
John L. Jettons, bought of James Gordon. In March 1832, I
moved to Nashville leaving my parents and my brother Sidney
with some negroes on my farm.
My brother, John Randolph, wrote in the Clerk's office
in Murfreesborough under Gen. Blackman Coleman, until he
resigned the office in 1821 or 1822, when my brother was
elected to his place as County Court Clerk, and he held the
office until the change of the Constitution in 183U-5 when
he went out of office and was not a candidate for re-election
In 1837 my brother John R. being a candidate for the legis-
lature in which he was defeated by the falsehoods and
slanders of one Beverley Randolph and Alexander Blair. My
brother just before the election, at a public meeting at
Pace's, in July (The election was in August) took occasion
to cane Blair in company. Just after the election, at a
public collection of people at Maj. John Bradley's at the
fall races, Blair took an opportunity, having been furnished
a knife by one Henderson, his kinsman, insulted my brother
so grossly, that he again raised his cane, when Blair ran in
under, no one at the moment thinking of a knife, except
those that knew his talent, and stabbed my brother in the
groin or pelvis, and in other places before he could be
prevented. Of the firat mentioned wound, he died in seven
or eight days from mortification. I was then at my place
called Runnemede in Gannon County. My brother was buried
at the old Ledbetter place, two and a half miles southwest
of Murfreesborough.
My Dear Wife Mary Clarke Laughlin, died at our residence
at Hickory Hill in !-ferren County, Nov. 11, 18U0 and is
buried at Liberty Meeting House near McMinnville.
I'm writing these biographical notes in my office in
Washington City, and it is now August U, 1845.
RUTHERFORD COUNTY MILITIA COMMISSIONS
Prepared by Henry Wray
From records of Commiasiona of Officers in the Tennessee
Militia, 1796-1811, Volume 1, from a compilation by Mrs.
John Trotwood Moore, one time State librarian.
Under the Militia Law of 1803, the general assembly
adopted a numerical system of identification, assigning a
number to each regiment, in each county, again however
these regiments were known locally as the First regiment
of the county, etc. The two regiments in Rutherford County
were known as 22nd and i+Sth regiments. The 2nd or 45th was
organized in 1811.
This list undertakes to include all the commisaiona
issued to Militia officers during the first three terms of
Governor John Sevier. The volume which apparently covered
the years 1801-1806 has not been found. Thus the first
years of Rutherford County are missing and start with 1807.
Armstrong, James L.
Blount, Benjamin
Carr, Benjamin
Carrol, Stephen
Cooper, Zacheus
Country, George
Country, Isaac
Denton, Thomas
Doake, Robert
Dyer, Robert Henry
Ellis, John
Henderson, James
He nde r s on , Jame s
Higginbotham, William
Houstion, John
1807
Gapt. 22nd Regiment
Ensign "
Lieut. "
Ensign "
Lieut. "
Capt. "
Lieut. "
Lieut. "
Capt. "
Lieut, regiment of
cavalry 5th brigade
Ensign 22nd Regiment
Capt. regiment of
cavalry 5th brigade
Ensign 22nd Regiment
Ensign "
Lieut. "
Oct.
16,
1807
Oct.
16,
1807
Oct.
16,
1807
Oct.
16
1807
Oct.
16
1807
Oct.
16
1807
Oct.
16
1807
Oct.
16
1807
Oct.
16
, 1807
July
28
, 1807
Oct.
16
, 1807
July
28
, 1807
Oct.
16
, 1807
Oct.
16
, 1807
Oct.
16
, 1807
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Laughlin, Jamea
Litton, James
Mc Bride, Francia Enaign "
McBridc, Samuel Second Major"
McEwen, Alexander Capt. "
Moore, Edward Capt. "
Morrow, William Lieut. "
Morton, Jamea Capt. "
Ramaey, Robert Enaign "
Ramaey, William Lieut. "
Searcy, William W. Firat Major
Stiarp, Jamea Capt. "
Sharp, Marcua Lieut. "
anith, Nathaniel Enaign "
Ward, Burrel Enaign "
Wil bourne, Jamea Lieut. "
Wright, Richard Capt. "
Capt. 22nd Regiment
Lieut. "
Abbot, David
Barefield, Jamea
Barr, Silas
Blount, Benjamin
Brown , Jo ahua
Carty, John
Freeman, Jamea
Gitton, John
Humphreys, William
Kerr, Benjamin
McBride, Francia
McMicken, Andrew
Peake , John M.
Rucker, Jamea
Arnold, William
Banton, Joab
Blair, John
Blair, Samuel
Boatwright, Daniel
Bowman, William
Canon, Robert
Ghiaom, Alexander
Crawford, John
Culbertaon, Daniel
Davis, Willie J.
Douglaaa, George
Fuller ton, James
Goodman, Claiborne
1808
Capt. 22nd Regiment
Enaign "
Capt. "
Lieut. "
Enaign " "
Ensign "
Enaign "
Lieut. "
Enaign "
Capt. "
Lieut. "
Capt. "
Lieut. "
Lieut. "
1809
Capt. 22nd Regiment
Enaign " "
Capt. "
Enaign "
Ueut. "
Rifle Company
Capt. 22nd Regiment
Rifle Company
Lieut. "
Lieut. "
Enaign "
Lieut. "
Lieut. "
Capt. "
Lieut. "
Capt. "
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
July 31
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
June 6
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
Oct. 16
April 2
Oct. 21
Oct. 21
Oct. 21
Oct. 21
Oct. 21
Oct. 21
Oct. 21
April 2
Oct. 21
Oct. 21
May 7
May 7
April 2
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1807
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
1808
May 19, 1809
Sept. 21, 1809
April 18, 1809
Nov. 10, 1809
Sept. 21, 1809
April 18, 1809
NOV. 10, 1809
Sept. 21, 1809
Sept. 21, 1809
Sept. 21, 1809
Nov. 10, 1809
Nov. 10, 1809
Sept. 21, 1809
April 18, 1809
Harrison, Vinson
Height, Sion H.
Hunter, Edwin
Hunter, Ephraitn
Johnson, Mathew
Johnson, William
Laughlin, William
McClennahan, I-lathew
McCree, James
McRee, Lewis
Martin, William
Maxwell , John
Moore, Robert
Nash, George R.
Nash, John
Puckett, Shi ply A.
Richmond, John
anotherman, John
Wynn, Peter
Abbott, David Seco
Camatian, Thomas
Dyer, Robert H.
Fuller, John
Gilliam, John
Gitton, John L.
Griffin, John
Hall, James
Hall, John
Henderson, James
Irvin, Samuel
Laughlin, James
McClanahan, Matthew
McEwen, Alexander
McEwen, James
Orr, Alexander
Searcy, William W.
Ensign 22nd
Ensign
Lieut.
Ensign
Lieut.
Capt.
Lieut.
Light
Capt. 22nd
Light
Ensign 22nd
Rifle
Ensign 22nd
Lieut. "
Ensign "
Lieut. "
Ensign "
Light
Ensign 22nd
Ensign "
Lieut. "
Rifle
Ensign 22nd
Capt.
1810
Regiment
Infantry
Regiment
Infantry
Re gime n t
Company
Regiment
Infantry
Regiment
Company
Regiment
Nov. 10
April 11
Nov. 10
Nov. 10
April 11
April 11
April 18
April 18
April 18
Sept. 21
April 11
Sept. 21
Sept. 21
April 18
May 19
Sept. 21
April 18
Sept. 21
Sept. 21
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
1809
nd Major 22nd Regiment Dec. 27,
Ensign " " April 23,
Capt. Regiment of Cavalry
5th Brigade Aug. 29,
Lieut. 22nd Regiment April 2^+,
Capt. " " April 2i+,
Capt. " " April 24,
Lieut. Regiment of Cavalry
5th Brigade Aug. 29,
Lieut, 22nd Regiment April 24,
Ensign " " April 24,
Lieut. Colonel Commandant
2nd Regiment
Rutherford Co. Aug. 29,
Ensign 22nd Regiment April 24,
First Major Aug. 29,
2nd Regiment
Rutherford Co.
First Major July 23,
22nd Regiment
Second Major Aug. 29,
2nd Regiment
Rutherford Co.
Coronet Regiment of Cavalry
5th Brigade Aug. 29,
Capt. 22nd Regiment April 24,
Lieut. Colonel Commandant of
22nd Regiment July 23,
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
1810
Scratt, Joseph
Smith, William
Willeford, William
Allen, James
Anderson, William
Bankhead, John
Bankhead, Elobert
Barckly, Henry
Bedford, George
Bishop, Sterling
Bobbet, William
Borton, William
Bowman , John
Bradly, Robert
Brandon, George
Carson, Robert
Coldwell, William
Crawford, John
Cummins, Richard W.
Curie, Cullin
Dixon, Don G.
Eastwood, Daniel
Frederick, Hezekiah
Garner, Obediah
Go ode n, James
Haily, Elijah
Hand, Samuel
Hardgrove, Leroy
Howell, VTilliam
Jeton, Robert
Johnson, William
Jones, William
Kindelj William
Laughlm, William
Love, Philip 3.
McConnel, Moses
McCoy, Amos A.
McCoy, Robert
McEwen, John
Mc Fe rre n , Jame s
McKee, William
Matthews, John
May berry, John
Mayfield, Solomon
Miller, James
Ensign 22nd Regiment
Gapt. "
Lieut. "
1811
Lieut. 22nd Regiment
Light Inf. Co.
Ensign 2nd (U5th) Reg.
Ensign "
Vol. Rifle Co.
Lieut. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Vol. Rifle Co.
Ensign 2nd (45th) Reg.
Ensign 22nd Regiment
Ensign 2nd (45th) Reg.
Ensign "
Lieut. "
Ensign "
Light Infantry
Lieut. 22nd Regiment
Gapt. 2nd (U5th) Reg.
Vol. Rifle Co.
Gapt. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Ensign "
Gapt. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Gapt. 22nd Regiment
Ensign 2nd (45th) Reg.
Gapt. 22nd Regiment
Ensign 2nd (45th) Reg.
Ensign 22nd Regiment
Ensign "
Lieut. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Lieut. 22nd Regiment
Gapt. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Gapt. "
Gapt. 22nd Regiment
Gapt. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Ensign 2nd (45th) Reg.
Ensign 22nd Regiment
Light Infantry
Gapt. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Lieut. 22nd Regiment
Gapt. 22nd Regiment
Lieut. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Lieut. 2nd (45th) Reg,
Ensign 2nd (45th) Reg,
Ensign "
Gapt.
Lieut. "
Ensign 22nd Regiment
Lieut. 2nd (45th^ Reg
Ensign "
Lieut. "
April 24, 1810
April 24, 1810
April 24, 1810
Aug. 22, 1811
July
3,
1811
Oct.
^,
1811
Oct.
^,
1811
April
17,
1811
June
^,
1811
24,
1811
July
24.
1811
July
3,
1811
July
3,
1811
June
4,
1811
Oct.
i+,
1811
April
17,
1811
May
24,
1811
May
24,
1811
Feb.
21,
1811
April
17,
1811
June
^,
1811
July
3,
1811
Aug.
22,
1811
Feb.
21,
1811
April
17,
1811
Feb.
21,
1811
July
24,
1811
May
24,
1811
Aug.
22,
1811
July
3,
1811
May
24,
1811
Aug.
22,
1811
July
3,
1811
Feb.
21,
1811
Feb.
21,
1811
April
17,
1811
, May
24,
1811
May
24,
1811
July
13,
1811
April
17,
1811
May
24,
1811
Feb.
21,
, 1811
. May
24,
, 1811
June
10,
, 1811
July
24,
, 1811
Nance, Bird
Naah, Travis C.
Overall, Nace
Parker, Daniel
Ramsey, William
Renshaw, Isaiah
Reynolds, John
Smotherman, John
Stephens, Henry
Tacket, David
Thomas, Hamilton
Vaughn, Peter
Ward, Barrel
Wfelton, Samuel
White, Stephen F.
White, William
Wood, John
Wright, Jeremiah
Yardly, Thomas
Capt. 22nd Rag.
Capt. 2nd (45th) Reg.
Lieut. "
Capt. "
Capt. "
Capt. "
Capt. "
Lieut.
Lieut. 22nd Reg.
Ensign 2nd (45th) Reg.
Capt.
Lieut. 22nd Reg.
Ensign "
Lieut. 2nd (U5th) Reg.
Ensign
Light Infantry
Capt. 22nd Reg.
Light Infantry
Lieut. 2nd (i+5th) Reg.
Lieut.
Capt. "
Light Infantry
Feb.
21,
1811
May
2*+,
1811
July
13,
1811
July
3,
1811
July
13,
1811
April
17,
1811
May
2i+,
1811
May
2i+,
1811
June
4.
1811
April
17,
1811
June
10,
1811
Feb.
21,
1811
June
^,
1811
June
10,
1811
July
3.
1811
Aug.
22,
1811
Apr.
17,
1811
July
3.
1811
July
3,
1811
UNION: MURFREESBORO' S OTHER UNIVERSITY
By Dr. Homer Pittard
The Baptists generated a grand plan at their meeting
in Nashville, Tennessee on October 13, 1839. By resolution
it was decided that a denominational university was needed
for educating young ministers for the gospel. Not only was
a university essential but, in addition, were several
smaller institutions to "feed" the mother school. It was
envisioned that the mother campus would serve as a nucleus,
or in the nature of a hub, with the sub-schools positioned
in a circumference for comfortable and convenient commuting.
Although the plan was sparse in details, there was some
evidence that the smaller schools would operate at the high
school level with the possible addition later of two years
of college. The larger campus would offer four years of
collegiate study. The prospective minister had his choice
of entering at the lower levels and then advancing at his
own pace to the "seminary" level.
Minutes of this historic meeting record that the plan
was enthusiastically received. Many of those whose voices
were loudest in praise of the magnificent scheme probably
occupied the impoverished pulpits of the Tenneseee and the
Alabama hinterlands--but this was religious business and
"the Lord would provide."
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since auch an educational plan would bring together
many diverse elements in Baptist faith and would thereby
unify the Tennessee and Alabama denominations, it was
decided that the then unborn principal institution should
bear the name, "Union University."
To administer the sterner aspects of Union, that of
fund raising, B. F. Farnsworth, former president of George-
town College in Kentucky was employed to initiate and com-
plete a gifts campaign. Farnsworth reasoned that prospec-
tive donors would be more receptive to solicitation if the
institution, still on paper, had a charter. Therefore,
during the next three years, his principal energies were
devoted to preaching from many pulpits and to the details
of organization as he put it, and to writing and petitioning.
In 1842, the elusive charter was captured and granted.
Thereby, Farnsworth had possibly made his only contribution
to Union. There were scarcely any funds, pledged or cash
in tiand, to the credit of the school.
Nevertheless, anticipating great things from Brother
Farnsworth, optimistic Baptists, and other S3mpathetic
bodies, the Baptist hierarchy, in early 1840, opened a
school in Somerville, Tennessee. Although it proudly bore
the aegis of "Union University," it offered study only at
the primary level and was poorly financed and patronized.
Seeking a more central and receptive location. Union
moved to Murfreesboro and opened on May 2, 1841. Its
quarters were the grubby old Bradley Academy building. Hie
Bradley trustees had long since abandoned the two- story
log structure to homeless religious sects in the community
and to diverse groups that needed an assembly hall. The
structure, gaunt and unprepossessing, rested on a slight
eminence near the southeast limits of the town. However,
it had had its moment of glory, at least a moderate after-
glow from former years. James Knox Polk had attended the
institution twenty-seven years before as a young man and
biad later married Sarah Childress, one of the town's
several eligible and attractive belles. Polk had served
one term as governor of the state but near the moment that
Union moved into Murfreesboro, he had lost his bid for a
second term. The memory of the Bradley years, however,
assumed added if not renewed significance when, four years
later, Polk became the eleventh President of the United
Sta te s .
Itie glories of the past campus did little to diminish
the grimneaa of the task ahead for the Baptists as they
took their first steps to implement the 1839 plan.
The diminutive faculty corps could hardly bear the
burden of the name "university" but, nevertheless, Union
opened with the traditionally heavy classical curriculum
and began advertising for students. Joseph Haywood Eaton
was appointed the president and professor of Latin. The
specialist in Greek was D. G. Snith. This constituted the
full faculty with the exception of William Williams who
UNION UNIVERSITY
Appeared in The Tennessee Register (18721 as part of an advertisement.
JOSEPH HAYWOOD EATON
First President of Union University
JAMES MADISON PENDLETON
Controversial President of Union
University just prior to the
War Between the States
was listed as a tutor. A spate of additional courses was
taught by these men who doubled as janitors and repairmen.
"Hie President (a pretentious title for a most unpre-
tentious venture) was a remarkable man. Born in Berlin,
Ohio on September 12, 1812, he was educated at Georgetown
College in Kentucky and at Hamilton Academy near Columbus,
Ohio. From 1837 until his emergence on the scene in
Murf reesboro, he was a journeyman teacher with schools in
Nashville and in Fayetteville, Tennessee. In 1843, he
became the first pastor of the fledgling First Baptist
Church in Murf reesboro as well as that of continuing his
presidency of Union. Both institutions were horribly
impecunious. Each operated on a salary schedule of a sort
but payments were rarely in the stipulated amount which,
if paid, usually were in arrears. This situation apparently
did not deter Eaton in his dedication to his two awesome
challenges. He occupied his own pulpit and supplied many
others. He made long, arduous safaris, by houseback, into
the hinterlands in search of students and financial support.
His energy was unlimited for a time at least until the two
flames at each end of his life candle burned closer
together.
Unwary students who happened to wander onto the campus
during the infant years, found lodging in the town. Tuition
was listed in three categories based on coats for each of
two sessions: preparatory classes - $18, academic - $22
and collegiate classes - $26. Matriculation was $2 per
session. Generous trustees established the policy of
granting ministerial students free tuition.
The educator-preacher, from his citadel of learning
near the town limits, was forever alert. In the November
Itennessee Baptist of 1844, he made this appeal: "There
have been two young men here within a week past to enter
the institution who have the ministry in view, but they are
poor in this world's goods, and they have been obliged to
return home again. One of them resides in north Alabama
and the other in Wilson County. There are now two here
and two more desire to come, making six. What shall be
done? The brethren have concluded to rent a house, fix
it up and put them in it. Will the brethren in Nashville
aaaiat? This church (Murfreesboro' s First Baptist) is
willing to furnish all of the e stables, if the other
churches will pay the rent and the servants here. It will
not only be a shame but a sin if the churches refuse to aid
these young men who are panting to proclaim the unsearchable
riches of Christ to a perishing world--we leave this with
you and your final judge."
Itie ardent petition for the "panting" young men in
educational distress struck a responsive chord for on
February 11, 1845, William H. Barksdale, a Nashville friend
of Eaton, wrote this soaring panegyric in the Tennessee
Baptist : "Need I say that it would be utterly vain were
I to attempt to express the grateful, the glowing, the soul-
cheering emotions which dwell within our hearts, when we
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contemplate the kindness and liberality of our endeared
brethren; for where can we find language to express that
which is inutterable? Vfe can only adapt the words of
Samuel: 'Hitherto hath the T.ord helped us'."
In June it was reported that Andrew Jackson "had been
laid in the narrow house in the Hermitage garden where he
will rest until the sound of the last trumpet." The
trumpet for the Baptists, however, sounded loud and clear
that June month. Bradley Kimbrough was employed to promote
the cause of Union University by launching a gifts campaign.
B. F. Famsworth, the previous promoter-, who had labored
with marked deliberation in the vineyard, had now returned
to Kentucky. Kimbrough, in addition to his travels among
the denominations, bombarded the Tennessee Baptist with
urgent pleas. In November, he placed the issue squarely
on the line: "Can we do anything without proper schools?
And can we have schools v/ithout expense? Brethren, friends,
V7e nray you, think of this matter, pray over it, be united
throughout the state, and when you are called upon, be
ready to act with a liberality worthy of the great interest
involved." Kimbrough devised a pledge system whereby
payments could he made in four installments. His goal was
$50,000 in endowment. He reported that Murfreesboro would
provide $10,000 for the erection of a building. In a
letter to the Tennessee Baptist late in 1845, he wrote:
"Not one sister has refused to subscribe." Truly there
were many pledges, some of a generous nature. The problem
apparently was not the subscribing of the sisters — and the
brethren--but collection of the pledges. Kimbrough had
aroused the Baptists to new heights and had served one noble
purpose, if no other: Alabama and Tennessee Baptists were
at last aware of the existence of the little school in
Murf reesboro.
Meanwhile, President Eaton was expending his frenetic
energy in keeping alive the educational institution as well
as the Baptist church. In addition, he was siring a large
family, moat of whom did not survive infancy. Esther, his
wife, a granddaughter of Ihomas Treadwell, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence, was equally remarkable as her
husband. During the intervals when she was not delivering
children or mourning the loss of one, she was busy with a
school of her own. Utilizing the Fletcher schoolhouse where
the Murf reesboro Baptists conducted services, she organized
a small faculty and offered courses of study at the upper
elementary and high school levels. Later she was instru-
mental in establishing an institution of collegiate rank
in a new building near the northern town limits on land
purchased by the Baptists from the Oakland s estate. First
designated in 1853 as the Baptist Female Institute, it was
renamed Eaton College in 1859. This highly talented woman
also found time to launch a monthly magazine. The Aurora .
Published at the Murf reesboro Telegraph, it was designed as
a "Monthly magazine for the Mothers and Daughters of the
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South and Vfeat." It waa a kind of an early Ladies Home
Journal. Sample articles were: "Be Just to Your Stomach;"
"Restored Affections;" and "letters to Young Wives."
Subscription was $2.00 per year. Devoted spouse Esther was
ideally suited for her perambulatory educator-preacher-
husband. It was a magnificent instrumentation that she
reflected in holding home and fireside together, bearing
and rearing children, writing copiously, and nurturing an
evolving educational institution of her own.
With the assurance of $10,000 from the City of Murfrees-
boro and the treasury some richer from a few scattered
pledges in various stages of payment, the Baptists decided
to proceed with the erection of a permanent home for the
University. The trustees at the time were William Martin,
Robert Boyd, R. B. C. Howell, J. H. Marshall, C. G. Trabue,
J. H. Shepard, D. W. Dickinson, Burrell Gannaway, Howard
Maney, J. J. Whi taker, W. W. Searcy, B. F. Norfleet,
Lawrence Reneau, Charles Watkins, and Lee Abernathy. This
official body announced in January of 1848 that the insti-
tution was "chartered, officered, and ready to begin." An
eighteen -acre campus located on the Vfoodbury Pike, just
east of the town limits, had been purchased from Matthias
Murfree. Sale price waa $2,121.25. It was described as
"beginning at a stake in the center of the stage road
leading from Murfreesboro to McMinnville. " On April 9, 18W,
the trustees "voted to invite the Masons, the Oddfellows,
and the Sons of Temperance to assist in laying the cornerstone.
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Construction proceeded slowly in a pattern proportionate
to the reception of pledge payments. There were resurgent
periods when President Eaton returned from reasonably
successful financial forays into the denomination's hinter-
lands. Early in 1850, it was announced that the building
was partially "closed in." By Christmas of 1851, construction
had progressed to the point to allow occupancy. Union's
permanent home was 80 feet by 110 feet. Its three stories
of gray brick were decorated by six wooden half columns at
its front. Placement of the columns began at the second
story. The two recessed wings continued the columned motif
with two each. The structure was capped by a hip roof. A
small yard was enclosed by a board fence and two privies
were hidden from each other at the east and west ends of
the building. These two stations were partially and taste-
fully obscurred from the turnpike by cedars planted by the
woricmen. To the north was a small hitchbam for use by
students who commuted from their homes in the country.
In early January, President Eaton led the one hundred
students along with his faculty, now mushroomed to three,
to their new home.
Once ensconced in its new home, the University began
to attract a large clientile. By 1855, enrollment had
climbed to nearly three hundred. At the time, the faculty
advertised J. H. Eaton as the teaching President along with
faculty members David Bridenthall, 3. R. Vfestbrooks, T. W.
Woodson, and G. W. Jarman. The curriculum was generally
implicit in the faculty choices of textbooks which included
Ray's Algebra , Dillaway's Cicero, Anthon's Horace, Kendrick'a
Greek, Bullion's Caesar, Cooper's Vergil, Daviea' Surveying
and Analytical Geometry, Mitchell's Geography, Vfeld's
English Grammar, and Fowler's Mental Arithmetic. University
faculty minutes nor promotional materials made any direct
references to works of theology. It can be assumed that
these basic course areas provided, in the vernacular of
twentieth century pedagogy, the "general education" founda-
tion for both the minis teral student and the disinclined.
Doubtless, all of the emotional and academic trappings of a
true seminary were found at Union.
An unnamed and unheralded writer, probably a member
of the faculty or Eaton himself, made this promotional
assessment of the institution: "It is situated in the midst
of rural scenery, calculated to inspire the young with the
love of nature; sufficiently retired to invite study and
reflection and unsurpassed in regard to health by any
section of the Union, why may we not invite hither those
who are in search of knowledge?" To assure that the "search"
would be beneficient, the faculty adopted the policy that no
student could enter any class without first being subjected
to a rigid examination.
Comfortably situated in a new building, delighted by
increasing enrollments, and undergirded with what appeared
to be a sound academic policy. Union to the casual observer
and to the ardent Baptists, was the emerging institution that
had been anticipated.
But, the bright academic horizon had its detracting
clouds. On April 9, 1855, the faculty requested President
Eaton to inform the Board of Trustees that "the payment of
salaries is needed." Requests of the nature became a
recurrent plaintive plea in successive faculty minutes.
Eaton, likewise, suffered from the casual salary program
of the trustees. What little financial security he had came
from sporadic payments from the governing body since he
bad separated himself from the Baptist Church in 1849.
Therefore, it was not a minor miracle that enabled him in
1856 to construct a president's home on the east campus.
A two-story brick, it was financed principally from his
limited funds, those his wife Esther siphoned from her
returns from the Aurora , and from a few cash gifts made by
sympathetic Baptists in the area.
In addition to financial problems, the students played
their role in partially obscurring the bright theological
atmosphere to the east of Murfreesboro . During the spring
of 18 55, a Union student was killed in a drunken brawl on
the public square. In the fall of the same year, a University
disciplinary pledge: "We promise during our connection with
Union University to obey the rules and regulations" and a
forthright enforcement of this, led to a student strike.
During the period of the incident, Union boys milled around
the public square thereby causing considerable problems for
the merchants and, in particular, the saloonkeepers. On
July U, 1857, an altercation near a cobbler's home resulted
in the death of one student and the wounding of another.
David Thompson, in a violent disagreement over a shoe
repair bill, was shot to death by John Fly, the cobbler's
son. Another student, standing nearby, was critically
wounded when young Fly began to fire indiscriminately.
Aside from the catalog, the principal publication of
the University during its relatively brief life was Itie
Classic Union. Issued semi-monthly, it averaged twenty-
eight to thirty-two pages per issue. It was printed at
the offices of the Rutherford Telegraph located at the
southeast comer of the square. Matthew Hillsman, a faculty
member, served as the editor during the publication's
two-year existence. Contributions from faculty members and
students consisted principally of Baptist doctrinal articles,
general interest stories, poems or, as it was expressed in
its masthead: "Devoted to Religion, Literature, and General
Intelligence." In commenting on a local event. The Classic
Union editorialized the coming of the railroad: "The rail-
road has been completed to this place and we hail the event
as one highly auspicious to the commercial interests of our
town--and yet there is one deep shade upon the otherwise
bright picture of prosperity which the achievement of the
work pre sent 3- -blowing of a train whistle on the Sabbath."
The Union continued in a similar vein one issue later:
"Vfe deeply and sincerely regret that the management of the
affairs of the company has been entrusted to the hands of
those who fear not God nor His Holy day." And another:
"Are not the men who are engaged in running the railroad
cars for pleasure trips on the Sabbath either Catholic or
under Catholic influence?" Successive issues of the maga-
zine carried no further references to the unholy whistle
thereby leaving the answer in limbo as to whether the
engineers had muted their Sabbath rousers or that Editor
Hillsman had ceremonially washed his hands of the affair.
An awesome tragedy struck the campus on January 12,
1859. President Eaton died. Only forty-seven, his cause
of death was attributed principally to exhaustion and exposure
aggravated by long and difficult hours expended in main-
taining some resemblance of solvency in the institution.
His full commitment to Union carried him in search of funds
and students to the rough hinterlands of Middle Tennessee
and North Alabama. Frequently, he travelled by horseback
and was thereby exposed to all of the hazards of inclement
weather and rigors of extended hours in the saddle. Eaton
had literally worked himself to death for Union. Probably
in truth, whatever success had been achieved by the bright
new theology school and whatever future the institution
might have, lay in the casket at the president's home on the
east campus.
Possibly the funeral and attending obsequies, a magni-
ficent tribute to Eaton, were the most resplendent in the
histary of Murfreesboro. After lying in state for two days,
the remains of the departed president were placed in the
horse-drawn hearse which then moved to the turnpike and west
toward Murf ree aboro. On foot inimediately to the rear were
faculty members who served a a pallbearers. These were
followed by the family and relatives in carriages, the
University trustees on foot, the University students, the
members of the Preparatory Department, and citizens of the
town. As the long cortege entered the town limits, there
still remained many of the citizens who had not fallen into
line. The procession turned left at Spring Street, one
block from the public square, and moved south two blocks
to the Baptist Church at the comer of Sevier Street.
After a soaring funeral sermon by James Madison Pendleton,
a Union faculty member, the remains were conveyed to the
City Cemetery for temporary interment. Two days later,
the University students, faculty, and many citizens, still
full of the tragic grandeur of the moment, launched a
campaign to erect an imposing tomb on the University campua.
The funds were collected in a few days and arrangements
were made for the construction of the tomb. By June 15 it
was completed. It was "reared in the shadow of the Uni-
versity," lying some twelve feet to the southeast of the
building. Constructed of native limestone, it contained
two compartments, one for the President's remains, and the
other reserved for his wife, Esther. Mounted atop the front
of the tomb was a three -foot stone figure flanked by two
urns. One June 16, the black hearse, accompanied by Uni-
versity students as an honor guard, made its second visit
to Eaton's grave. The body was disinterred, placed in the
hearse again, and with much ceremony, the procession moved
back to the campus. While the students formed a wide
cordon around the new tomb, the undertaker slid the coffin
into its new compartment. A flat rectangular slab,
previously inscribed, was placed over the opening and
sealed. The inscription was a genealogical epitaph with
the words :
Sept. 10, 1812 Jan. 12, 1859
JOSEPH H. EATON LLD
"Know Ye Not That There is A
Prince and Great Man Fallen This
Day in Israel"
He was the Son of Joseph Eaton
Who was the Son of David Eaton
Who was the Son of John Eaton
Who was the Son of Joseph Eaton
Who was the Son of John Eaton
Who Emigrated from WSales
A.D. 1686.
After the obsequies and the resolutions had run their
course; after the inevitable campaign to endow a chair in
memory of President Eaton had proved somewhat futile; and
after the Female Institute had been renamed Eaton College,
a more mundane problem presented itself. The moment came
to settle Eaton's estate. This appeared to be a very
simple matter since Eaton tiad no visible estate. However,
the University was delinquent in salaries to the late
President in the amount of at least $5,000. Since no
funds were available, Esther Eaton was given a lien on
the University property. Shortly thereafter, H. G. Scovell,
prominent Nashville druggist and University benefactor,
assumed the lien by payment of the $5,000 to Mrs. Eaton.
Scovell then transferred his interests with an additional
PRESIDENT EATON'S HOME
Subsequently used as a residence, as housing for Linebaugh Public
Library, and as classrooms for retarded children.
EATON TOMB
Constructed on the Union University Campus in
1859, it was removed to Evergreen Cemetery in
1907.
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BAPTIST FEMALE INSTITUTE
Renamed Eaton College in 1859, it later housed the
Normal and Scobey's School, and still later it was a
residence before its razing in 1965.
$5,000 to the Baptist Educational Society. Under the
presidency of James Madison Pendleton, the University
continued its operation, spasmodically, until the outbreak
of the Civil War.
Pendelton, a controversial figure in religious dogma,
came to Murfreesboro from Hopkinsville, Kentucky on
January 31, 1857. He ascended the pulpit of the First
Baptist Church and doubled as a professor of theology at
Union University. Religiously, he espoused the cause of
the somewhat obscure principle of Landmarkism, a rigid
theological interpretation that focused principally on
authorized baptism and vigorously opposed the principle of
infant baptism. The reaction of townspeople and the Uni-
versity to this position was minimal. However, Pendelton' s
stand on slavery quickly drew fire from the town and it
was darkly hinted that the president- preacher would soon
be the principal in a lynching party. Curiously, Pendleton
styled himself as an emancipationist rather than an aboli-
tionist. Yet, the housekeeper for the Pendleton house was
a Negro girl, a bequest from the will of his father.
According to Pendleton, his father on his deathbed had
elicited the promise from his son to care for the girl
"during her natural life."
Sometime in January, 1861, the University closed its
doors. Gathering war clouds had drawn most of the young
men to the training camps. During the next four years,
the University building was used alternately as a hospital
by Blue and Gray troops. Several students were casualties
of the war. A partial list of Confederate dead included
William A. Arnold, Henry P. Halbert, Francis W. Middleton,
Jesse Sparks, and John M. Pendleton. The latter was the son
of the University president and this family schism ending
in a battlefield casualty brought Pendleton many hours of
anguish. Late in 1861, the president made a hurried exit
from Murfreesboro just an hour or so before a mob gathered
at his home near Oakland s. His family followed later and
he remained as a exile in Hamilton, Ohio during the remainder
of the war.
During the four years of conflict, the University
building was horribly vandalized by occupying soldiers.
General Lovell Rousseau, commander of the garrison, issued
at least one order late in the occupation that prohibited
the destruction of the property but the damage had already
run its course. All of the equipment had been destroyed and
books had been crated and sent north. In addition, most of
windows, doors, and much of the woodwork were converted to
firewood.
For some three years following Appomattox, the building
stood bleak and unoccupied in the rubble left by the soldiers.
In 1869, after some minimum repairs to the roof and the
replacement of most of the windows and doors, classes were
resumed. During the five years of spasmodic operation,
D. F. Self, George Jarman, and Charles Manley tried brief
stints as president. The first postwar commencement class
in the spring of 1870 consisted of two members.
Uien the Itennessee Baptist Convention met for organi-
zation in Murfreesboro in April 10, 1874, there was a ray
of hope that Union would be regenerated. The local citizens
petitioned the visitors to resume its support of the insti-
tution in order that it might regain and continue its
antebellum preeminence. However, the arguments against
such action by the Baptist were ominous.
The enrollment had been reduced to a trickle; there
remained locally a residue of the cholera scare; the country
was in financial straits; and free school leaders were
mounting their pressures. A highly important argument,
according to the Baptist hierarchy, was the need for a more
central location to serve the Baptist involved and a site
in Wfest Tennessee appeared to be the most logical. Conse-
quently, on October 1, 1875, the University doors were
closed and the base of operations was moved to Jackson,
Tennessee.
During the next five years, the old building housed
in sequence an academy of sorts and a military school.
By 1880, its delapidated condition made it unsafe for
occupancy and it was abandoned. Until the coming of
Tennessee College for Wbmen in 1907, it was the habitat
of youthful vandals and the other hazards that are plights
of unoccupied buildings.
For twenty- seven years, the building languished in
the midst of sedgebrush, weeds, and briars. In 1886, Esther
Eaton died in Louisville at the home of her son, Thomas
Treadwell. Her remains were brought to Murfreesboro and
interred in the tomb by the side of her husband. When
Tennessee College was established on the old Union site in
1907, the tomb was moved to Evergreen Cemetery.
The trustees of Union University were predominantly
Rutherford County citizens. In 1875, they were vehemently
opposed to the closing of the institution and its subse-
quent reestabliahment in Jackson, Tennessee. Consequently,
the old Union site remained in the hands of the majority
trustees. In 1915, the federal government finally acted
on a claim for damages suffered by Union during the Civil
War period. Payment of the settlement in the amount of
$15,000 was made to the Murfreesboro trustees. Subsequently,
this sum was transferred to Tennessee College.
SPECIFICATTONS FOR THE FIRST COURT HOUSE
IN WIRFREESBORO
The notice that followa appeared in The Nashville Whig on
V/edneaday, November 25, 1812. Mrs. Virginia Gooch Vfatson,
of the Williamaon Countj' Historical Society, discovered the
notice in the Tennessee State Library and Archives and
forwarded a copy to Henry Wray, Rutherford County' Archivist.
NOTICE
On the 2 5th day of January next, to be let to the
lowest bidder, the building of a COURT-HOUSE, for the county
of Rutherford, in the town of MURFREE'S BOROUGH, the
dimensions as follows, to wit: UO feet square; the wall of
brick; the first story to be 15 feet in the clear, two feet
thick; the upper story to be 12 feet in the clear, 18 inches
thick; the foundation to be of stone, sunk two feet under
ground, and raised two feet above, the stone above ground
to be neatly dressed; the lower floor to be raised and laid
with brick edge up; the joists to be 4 by 1^ inches, and
placed two feet apart from center to center, in a girder
through the middle of the house, 1^^ inches square, all to
be of good durable wood; the girder to be supported by two
neat-tumed walnut posts, and set on stone pillars of
sufficient size, not to be seen above the floor; the under-
edge of the joists that are over-head to be ceiled with
poplar quartered plank, neatly planed and beeded, and
joints broken. Three doors on the lower floor, h feet wide
and 9 feet high, with f ron tis-pieces and circular sash, in
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the .same manner of that of Franklin court-houae, Williamson
county; with pannel shutea well lined; with a sufficient
lock to one door, and good bolts to the other two doors;
with sufficient hinges to each door; with sills and steps
to each door, neatly dressed; ten windows v.ath rock sills,
and frames of good poplar of same thickness of the wall,
with double architrive facings on both aides; ."ash of the
same wood; the lights to be 10 by 12 , ^ 2U lights to each
window; the lower story to be wainscotted neatly as high as
the window-sills, and plaistered and whitewashed above to
the ceiling. The upper story, 13 windows, done and finished
as below; that is 2U lights to each; the floor to be laid
with good poplar plank, one ^ a half inches thick, well
tongued and grooved; an entry of ten feet through the
middle of the upper story, and partitions, so a a to make
two rooms on each side of the passage, and a fire place to
each room of common size; in such cage the nartitions to be
made of plank one and a half inches thick, to be rabbeted and
beeded; with a pannel door to each room; with sufficient
locks and hinges; neat chair and wash boards. The upper
joists to be 4 by 1?, supported by sufficient girders, and
ceiled as below; box and cornished with joints and modillion
cornish, in proportion. A hip'd or square roof, that is
carried up from all sides, with a principal frame to support
the same, a cupalo on the top 1^+ feet high, and floored;
a six light window in each square; the remainder to be open,
hand railed, and banistered; a bell roof, a steeple of
15 feet long, with an eagle, etc. The roof to be of yellow
poplar shingles, 18 inches in length, 4 in breadth, and
3-U thick, and to be well shea ted with at least three-quarter
plank; all to be nailed on with good and suitable nails.
The staircases to run from the lower floor to the cupalo;
the lower stair case to be bracketed and banistered. A
neat court-bench, jury-box and bar; all to be done in the
same manner as the court-house in Franklin. The whole to be
painted in an alegant, durable, fashionable manner. The
roof to be painted red; the boxing and comishing white;
and door and window-facing a and sash also white. The whole
work to be done and executed in a neat workman-like manner.
The wainscot, wash-board and ceiling to be neatly painted
of fashionable colors, and stars.
H. ROBINSON )
H. HAMILTON ) p„„„,,- „a-f ,.«^t.o
OWEN EDWARDS ) Commissioners
JOHN THOMPSON )
N. B. Should the lowest bidder fail to give sufficient
security on the day of letting, the letting will be continued
from day to day until let to such as will comply
H.R.
H.H.
O.W.
J.T.
November Ik
RUTHERFORD COUNTY OFFICES AND OFFICERS
(1804 - 1973)
(Prepared by the Rutherford County
Court Clerk's Office)
COUNTY JUDGES or CHAIRMEN
James Three t
She 1 ton Edwards
Hoyte T. Stevart
Harold Earthman
John D. Wiseman
C. N. Haynes
Knox Ridley
T. R. Whitus
W. H. Robinson
A. L, Camahan
W. A. Miles
J. C. Ransom
I. M. Floyd
James H. Spence
Edgar Smith
B. M. Rucker
T. E. Hord
A . F . Summe r s
Richard Ransom
William N. Mason
John Woods
Joseph Lindsey
James F. Fletcher
William Vinson
John Fletcher
Logan Henderson
A, L. Camahan
John Smith
Frederick Barfield
Thomas Stuart
William Nash
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COUNTY COURT CLERKS
Ben Hall McFarlin
Fount Pitts
J. P. Leathers
1962-
1950-1962
1918-1950
51
Al D. McKnight
W. T. 3notherman
G. H, Wilkinson
Frank White
W. D. Robinson
James 0. Oslin
John D. Wilson
John Jones
John V7oods
Robert S. Morris
John K. Laughlin
Blackman Coleman
Joseph Herndon
1914-
1910-
1898.
1890.
1878.
1870
1866
1856
1848
1836
182U
1810
180U
• 1918
•1914
■1910
•1898
-1890
■ 1878
■ 1870
-1866
■1856
-1847
-1836
-1824
-1810
SHERIFFS
G.
W.
Robert Goodwin
Hall McNabb
W. H. WLlson
George Sharpe
W. H. Wilson
George Sharpe
Earl McKnight
J. R. Jones
W. Thompson
F. McCrary
W. B. Bragg
N . W. Powers
C. W. Lenoir
0. N. Mann
J. R. Rhodes
J. T. McKnight
J. W. Primm
W. R. Bragg
J. J. lee
W. T. Smotherman
R. D. Dejamatt
Ben Batey
Aaron Todd
Richard Ransom
Ed Arnold
Richard Ran son
Ed Arnold
Isaac P. Vfebb
Albert Jones
George W. Gannaway
William H. Blanch
James G. Taylor
W. N . Ma son
A. M. McKnight
1970-
1968-
1964-
1962-
1956-
1950-
1946-
1942-
1938-
1932-
1928-
1922-
1920^
1915-
1912-
1908-
1904^
1898-
1896^
1890-
1886-
1882-
1880-
1876-
1873-
1870-
1868-
1866-
1865-
1970
1968
1964
19 62
1956
1950
•1946
1942
1938
1932
•1928
•1921
• 1920
■1914
■1912
•1908
•1904
•1898
• 1896
•1890
•1886
■1882
•1880
■1876
■1873
-1870
■1868
■1866
1861-1865
1855-1861
1852-1854
James M. Tompkins
V/illiam B. Lillard
Wilson L. Watkins
William B. Lillard
Granville 3. Crockett
Uriah S. Cummins
Matthew McClanahan
Richard M. Cummins
Matthew McClanahan
John Griffin
0. M. Benge
Samuel Mc Bride
18^*6-
1842-
1836-
1835-
1832-
1824-
1817-
1816-
1812-
1808-
1806-
1804-
1852
1845
1842
1836
1835
1832
1824
1817
•1816
■1812
■1808
•1806
ASSESSOR OF PROPERTY
Haynes Baltimore
1968-
TAX ASSESSORS
R, B. Mc Bride
Temple Williams
M. L. Tolbert
Mrs. J. L. Dillion
Josh Dillion
H. R. anothennan
C. C. McCrary
C. T. Lowe
J. S. landrum
W. M. Rucker
Charles R, Holmes
John B. Jones
W. F. Holmes
W. D, Robinson
J, E. Butler
Stephen A. Hill
Albert Jones
Leonard Sims
William P. Lillard
W. P. Watkins
G. W. Crockett
Uriah S. Cummins
Matthew McClanahan
John Griffin
0. M. Benge
Samuel Mc Bride
1964-
19 56-
1946-
1937-
1932-
1920-
1911-
1907-
1905-
1888-
1876-
1873-
1872-
1869-
1855-
1850-
1849-
1848-
1842-
1836-
1834-
1824-
1812-
1808-
1806-
1804-
1968
1964
1956
1946
1937
1907
1889-
1877
1874
1873
1872
1869
1855
1850
1849
■1848
•1842
1836
1832
1824
1812
■1808
1806
TRUSTEES
Allen Stockard
Mra. Clay Jackson
Aubra McCrary
Frank Hayes
Aubrey Cook
J. A. Given 3
J. W. Winfrey
G. C. Williamson
Mrs. Almar Youree
Almar Youree
Joe F. Fox
T. M. Vaughan
Cullom Alexander
Paul Kerr
3. M. Crick
J. A. Carlton
J, W. Dejamatt
Thomas R. Hollowell
I. M. Miller
J. M. Adams
William D. Robertson
William D. Robertson
J. P. Abernathy
J. J. demons
Swinfield Barton
M. L. Climons
Swinfield Barton
James A. Harrison
Robert S. Donnell
Randolph B. Hall
Samuel Anderson
Joseph Soape
Samuel Jones
Augustus H, White
Abner Johns
Alexander McCullock
1970-
1958-
1955-
19^-
1940-
1936-
1933-
1930-
1929-
1924-
1920-
1916-
1913-
1909-
1905-
1902-
1900-
1879-
1877-
1875-
1868-
1866-
1865-
1854.
1852-
1850-
1849-
1846-
1844-
1842-
1836-
1832-
1824-
1822-
1813-
1804-
1970
1958
1950
1944
1940
1936
1933
1930
■1928
• 1924
1920
•1916
•1913
■1908
•1904
•1902
•1883
•1879
•1877
•1875
•1868
■1866
•1856
■1854
•1852
•1850
•1849
•1846
■1844
1824
1816
1813
REGISTERS
Homer Jones
Everett Waller
Mra. W. L. Foutch
Miss Myrtle R. Foutch
1966-
1958-1966
1843-1957
1947-1958
W. L. Foutch
1942-1943
J. D. Roberts
1834-1942
H. 0. Todd
Logan J. Nelson
Logan J. Nelson
Richard Holden
Frank Vaughan
Robert B. Jetton
Hardy Murfree
R. B. Jetton
Hardy Murfree
John H. Bar bom
George S. Cook
A. T. Reeves
John Woods
1915-1922
1914-1915
1907-
1901-1904
1887-
1821-1887
1881-1885
1879-1881
1870-1879
1868-1870
1864-1868
1850-1854
1840-1850
Moses G. Reeves
1824-1836
H. 0. Todd
John Dickson
John Spence
William Mitchell
1812
1806-1812
1804-1806
CORONERS
Dr. Matt Murfree
Charles L. Briley
Alvis Huddle 3 ton
J. R. Jones
John T. Wbodfin, 3r.
J. H Singleton
L. R. Jacobs
John Bumpus
B. G. Cloves
S. H. Singleton
R. L. Seward
J. L. Anderson
T. H. Wood
James Sharp
John T. McKinley
E. J. Covington
W. H. Blanch
J. N. Clark
John W. Quarles
1969-
1960-1969
1955-1960
1949-1952
1926
1910
1900
1898
1896
1892
1890
1888
1887
1886
1885
1884
1879
1873
^1^7
-1926
-1910
-1900
-1898
-1896
-1892
-1889
-1888
-1887
-1886
-1885
-1884
-1879
1867-1872
1865-1867
E. J. Covington
Robert 3. Northcott
Green Clay
E. A. Cochran
1856-1862
1855-1856
1847-1855
1844-1847
John Chappell
Edward Fisher
John Bruce
Robert P. Shapard
Thomas G. Watkins
William C. Qnmitt
1840-1841
1836-1840
1833-1836
1832-1833
1826-1831
1824-1826
Samuel Wilson
James Sharpe
1812-
1804-1812
SURVEYORS
Eugene Hargis
John D. Kerr
J. J. Doster
1961-
1950-1961
1945-1950
1937-1945
J. R. Jackson
Paul Campbell
W, T. Henderson
J. R. McKnight
R. D. Jamison
J. R. McKnight
James H. Bowling
W. R. Jones
E. S. Sims
John D. Kerr
W, R. Jones
John J. Neely
J. R. Burtwell
John Gum
W. R. Jones
William C. Blanch
W. R. Jones
Robert L. Sims
P. M. Alexander
James M. Tompkins
1917-1919
1914-1917
1913-1914
1905-1909
1901-1905
1897-1901
1893-1897
1885-
1881-
1880-
1877-
1873-
1869-
1868-
1866-
1861-
1856-
1853-
1841-
•1889
■1885
■1881
•1880
■1877
•1873
1869
•1868
1866
1861
1856
1853
1841
RANGERS
Henry Murfree
1907-1909
J. D. Nelaon
J. W. Clark
M. M. Henry
M. N. Hay
John N. Clark
R. K. Henderson
R. L. Clark
James Oslin
H. C. Carter
Hiram Garter
Wilson Thomas
Bur re 11 Gannaway
1902-
1896-
1894-
1883-
1873-
1871-
1870-
19 OU
1901
1896
1893
1883
1873
1871
1866-1868
1859
1853-1857
1844-1846
1813-1824
SUPERINTENDENT of SCHOOLS
Clifford P. Brothers, Jr.
M. B. Brandon
Ira Daniel
Bealer anotherman
W. S. Donnell (acting)
(regular term)
J. E. Brandon
Miss Jeanette M. King
W. N. Elrod
J. Dallas Jacobs
Andrew L. Todd
Miss Nettie King
N. D. Overall
James D. Nelson
Reese K. Henderson
G. H. Baskette
A. J. Brandon
George Q. Jannen
W. H. Wallace
1970-
1961-
1950-
1945-
1942-
1935-
1927-
1923-
1917-
1907-
1903-
1897-
1891-
1887-
1883-
1880-
1876-
1873-
1869-
•1970
■1961
•1950
•1945
1942
1935
1927
1923
1916
1907
1901
1897
1891
1887
1882
1880
1875
1873
ROAD SUPERINTENDENTS
W. H. Wilson
Edwin Todd
Butler anotherman
L. C. Smith
N. W. Powers
J. H. Dyer
C. L. Holden
1968-
1951-1968
1949-1951
1933-1949
1932-1933
1925-1932
1908-1920
WORKHOUSE .SUPERINTENDENTS
H. D. Thompson
H. A. lane
G. A. Youree
N. W. Powera
J. H. Dyer
C. L. Holden
1937-19i+2
1935-1937
1934-1935
1932-1933
1925-1932
1908-1920
HEALTH OFFICERS AND PHY SI CIAN S
Dr. Robert S. Sanders
Dr. R. D. Hollowell
Dr. John T. Mason
Dr. Price H. Duff
Dr. J. G. Wfeeks
Dr. J. B. Black
1969-
19^+7-1969
1947-19i+7
1946-1947
1946-1946
1929-1926
Dr. H. S. Mustard
Dr. S. B. Staith
1924-1929
1920-1924
Dr. J. C. Kelton
Dr. A. E. Goodloe
Dr. George Todd
Dr. S. C. Grigg
1914-1920
1912-1914
1906-1908
1902-1906
JAIL PHYSICIANS
Dr. J. B. Murfree, Jr.
Dr. W. C. Bilbro
Dr. J. F. Byrn
Dr. R. S. Wbndel
Dr. J. B. Murfree
Dr. R. S. Wendel
Dr. H. H. Clajrton
Dr. J. F. Byrn
Dr. H. H. Clayton
1898-
1890-
1889-
1886-
1885-
1884-
1880-
1878-
1878-
•1902
1898
1890
■1889
1885
1884
1880
1879
PUBLIC GUARDIANS AND ADMINISTRATORS
J. P. Hale (G)
Charles R. Holmes (a)
P. P. Mason (G)
1888-1892
1883-1891
1884-1888
C. R. Holmes (A)
J. 3. Webb (G)
H. H. Norman (G)
Frank VJhite (A)
C. R. Holmes (A)
R. D. Jamison (A)
G. W. McLaughlin (A)
E. L. Turner (A)
1883-1887
1881-1883
1879-1882
1879-1883
1875-1879
1872-1875
1871-1872
ATTORNEYS
William Sellers
1957-
John D. Wiseman
W. B. Knott
E. L. \ihi taker
John T. Wilson - B.
George Gran or
John E. Richardson
B. F. Lillard
H. P. Keeble
M. Rucker
1926-1932
1920-1926
1918-1920
1907-
1905-1908
1903-1904
1887-1899
1878-1879
CIRCUIT COURT CLERKS
(Courtesy of Robert J. Suddarth, Circuit Court Clerk. This
list is not complete as of now, however, we are continuing
the research.)
Robert J. Suddarth
P. E. Harrison
Murfree O'Brien
J. Moore King
Mrs. Blanche Huf faker
B. M. Rucker
N. L. Clardy
Ellis Rucker
J. Moore King
Thomas M. King
Beverly Randolph
Thomas B. Fowler
1962-
1957-
1954-
1930-
1929-
1926-
1915-
1905-
1898-
1895-
1886-
1884-
1880-
1871-
1962
1957
19 54
1930
1929
1926
1915
1905
1898
1890
1886
1884
1880
M. L. Fletcher
1861-1864
AUDITORS
LIVESTOCK INSPECTORS
PLANNING AND ZONING DIRECTOR
PLANNING DIRECTOR
PUBLIC VJELFARE DIRECTORS
CENSUS TAKER
60
Land W. Meryon
D. D, Vfendle
John Vfooda
Samuel H. Hodge
Richard Ledbetter
I860-I861
1850-1860
18U1-1850
1845-I8U9
1839-1845
1835-1839
H. L. Fox
C. C. Henderson
1920-1932
1919-
A. G. Topmiller
3. H. Woods
Dr. G. B. Giltner
1922-
1917-1922
1914-1916
1898-1914
Sam Parnell
1969-
VJilliam Welch
1968-
Wanda Leverette
Thelma \-food
1971-
1965-1970
John E. Dromgoole
1841
CHANCERY COURT CLERK (CLERK and MASTER)
(Courtesy of B. B. Gracy, III. Chancery Court Clerk. Further
research is still being done.)
Brainard B. Gracy, III
James R. Jetton
1947-
1939-1946
61
T. B. Cannon 1929-1939
James R. Jetton 1922-1929
E. D. Hancock 1916-1922
Hickman !*akley 1886-1915
Jamea W. Sparks -1886
N. B. Black 1872-
JameaN. Tompkins 1864-1872
James F. Fletcher 1849-1864
George Crosthwait 1844-1847
Granville S. Crockett 1841-
MEMBERS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
(June 6, 1973)
NAME
ADDRESS
Mr. Don F. Adams
Mr. John P. Adam a
Mr a. John P. Adams
* Mra. W. D. Adkeraon
* Mr. Robert W. Baskin
Mr. Robert T. Batey
* Capt. F. W. Brigance
* Mrs. F. W. Brigance
Miss Louise Cawthon
Mr. Almond Chaney
Mra. George Chaney
Mrs. James K. Clayton
Mr. Louis Bush Cole
Mrs. Louis Bush Cole
Dr. Robert Corlew
Dr. Vblter R. Courtenay
Mrs. A. W. Cranker
Mrs. Florence Davis
Mi 3 8 Myrtle Ruth Foutch
Mr. Vaughn L. Glasgow
Mra. Robin Gould
National Park Service
Virgin Islands
Route 4
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Route I*
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Compton Road
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
801 E. Lytle
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Route 1, Box UU
Nolensville, Tennessee 37135
1202 Scottland
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
1202 Scottland
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
534 E. College Street
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Sanford Road
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
P. 0. Box 114
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
525 E. College
Murfreesboro, Tenneaaee 37130
2815 lyne Blvd.
Nashville, Tennessee 37215
2815 Tyne Blvd.
Nashville, Tennessee 37215
Manson Pike
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Eagleville, Tennessee 37060
305 Tyne, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
37130
Old Nashville Hwy., Route 2
Smyrna, Tennessee 37167
103 G St., S.W.
Washington, D. C. 20024
Box 524, MTSU
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
2900 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, D. C. 20008
62
Mr3. Robert Gwynne
* Miaa Mary Hall
Mrs. Adelaide Hewgley
Mrs. Eulalia J. Hewgley
* Mr. Walter King Hoover
* Mr. Robert S. Ho akin 3
* Mra. Robert 3. Hoakina
* Mr. C. B. Huggina, Jr.
Mr. Morman F. Hutchinaon
* Mr. Erne at King Johna
* Mra. Buford Johnaon
Mr. Homer Jonea
* Dr. Robert B. Jonea, III
* Dr. Belt Keathley
* Mra. Belt Keathley
* Mr. W. H. King
* Mra. W. H. King
* Mr. George Kinnard
* Mra. George Kinnard
* Mr. William C. Ledbetter, Jr
* Mra. Dorothy Matheny
Mra. Jamea H. Mc Broom, Jr.
* Mr. Ben Hall McFarlin
* Mra. Ben Hall McFarlin
Mr. William F. McPeak
Mra. David Naaron
Brit tain Hi 11 a Farm
Rock Springa Road
Smyrna, Tenneaaee 37167
821 E. Burton 071 on
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee J/i:JU
Route 3
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 371 JU
Route 3
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee J/iJU
101 Diviaion
anyrna, Tenneaaee 37167
310 Tyne
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 3/lJU
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee J/iJu
915 E. Main
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
UIO Apollo Drive
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee J/i.JW
Jefferaon Pike
Stayrna, Tenneaaee 37167
109 Cheatnut St.
Smyrna, Tenneaaee 37167
1825 Ragland Avenue
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
2031 Sherrill Blvd.
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
1207 Whitehall Road
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
1207 Whitehall Road
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
2107 Greenland
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
2107 Greenland
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
Route 1
LaVergne, Tenneaaee 37086
Route 1
LaVergne, Tenneaaee 37086
115 N. Univeraity
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
1U3U Diana Street
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
Route 2, Box 131
Chriatiana, Tenneaaee 37037
51if E. Lytle
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
514 E. Lytle
Murfreeaboro, Tenneaaee 37130
Box 222
Smyrna, Tenneaaee 37167
Rock Springa Road
Route 1
LaVergne, Tenneaaee 37086
Mr. John Nelaon
* Mr. Lawaon B. Nelson
Dr. Joe Edwin Nunley
* Mr. S. W. Perry
Mrs. Harvey Peyton
* Dr. Homer Pittard
Mr. Bobby Pope
Mr. A. G. Puckett, Jr.
* Mr. Robert Ragland
Mrs. Robert Ragland
Mr. Granville S. Ridley
Mrs. James A. Ridley, Jr.
Mr. Knox Ridley
Mayor Sam Ridley
Mr. Billy E. Rogers
* Mrs. Elvis Rushing
Mr. E. R. Sanders, Jr.
* Miss Racheal Sanders
* Miss Sara Lou Sanders
Mr. John F. Scarbrough, Jr.
Dr. R. Neil Schultz
* Mr. Gene H. Sloan
Colonel Sam W. Smith
* Miss Dorothy Smothennan
* Mr. Travis anotherman
* Mr. Doug Sparks
Mr. Roy E. Tarwater
Route #4
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
13812 Whispering Lake Dr
Sun City, Arizona 85351
305 2nd Avenue
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Box 666
Grand Marais, Minnesota 55604
Lascassas, Tennessee 37085
309 Tyne Avenue
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Old U. 3. 41
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
Mason Cr.
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
Box 544
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Box 544
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
730 E. Main
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Lebanon Pike
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Box 128
Smyrna, Tennessee 37167
Box 128
Snyrna , Tennessee 37167
506 Jean Drive, Route 2
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
604 N. Spring
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
205 Cumberland Cr.
Nashville, Tennessee 37214
1114 N. Tenn. Blvd.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
1114 N. Tenn. Blvd.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
701 Fairview
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
1811 Jones Blvd.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
728 Greenland Drive
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
318 Tyne
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
1220 N. Spring St.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
6565 Premier Drive, Apt. A-12
Nashville, Tennessee 37209
410 Rushwood Dr.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
815 W. Clark Blvd.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Judge James V. Three t
Mr. Ma8on Tucker
Mrs. Emmet t Waldron
Mr. Roy L. Waldron
Mayor Veater Waldron
Mrs. Veater Waldron
Mr. William T. Walkup
Mr. Robert Hatton Ward
Mrs. George F. Watson
* Mayor W, H. Weatbrooka
Mrs. W. H. Weatbrooka
Miaa Virginia Wilkinson
* Mr. Henry G. Wray
# Tennessee State Library
& Archives
Lake shore Drive
Murf reeaboro, Tennessee 37130
Route 6, Elam Road
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
Box h
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
Route 2
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
LaVergne, Tennessee 37086
202 Ridley Street
anyrna , Tennessee 37176
Route 2
any ma , Tennessee 37167
Executive House, B-17
Franklin, Tennessee 37064
305 Tyne
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
305 Tyne
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
1118 E. Clark Blvd.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37130
104 McNickle Drive
anyrna, Tennessee 37167
Mrs. Frances M. O'Dell
State Librarjr Division
Tenn. State Library & Archives
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
* Charter Members
# Honorary Member
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