The name Brabson or Brabston derives from the ancient name of Brabacon or Brabazon. The earliest know was Jacques le Brabancon from Flanders and Normany in 1060.
Jaques son was John who bore the last name of Brabancon also. John's son Adam went by Adam la Brabazon.
Adam's son was Thomas le Brabazon and he married Amelia of Mousely (Mowsley).
The name le Brabazon later became Brabson and Brabston. There were branches in England and Ireland. One branch became the Earl of Meath.
The earliest positive connection we can find is John Brabston and his brother Wilson Vinson Brabston who are believed to be the grandsons of William Brabston and Mary Runyon. Both were in Grainger Co., Tennessee in 1860 and were married to sisters, Sarah and Martha Smith. Sarah and Martha were Native American(Cherokee) sisters who were adopted by Capt John Smith during the First Indian Removal in 1812 in North Carolina.
John and Martha had 9 children. Elizabeth Aline Brabston married Simon Lafayette Moore in 1873 in Jefferson Co., TN.
Brabson Island in the French Broad River, Sevier County, TN, site of Brabson's Ferry
Site of Brabson Mill
Elizabeth Aline Brabson Moore and William Moore at the grave of Eli Wilson Brabson in Grainger Co TN, around 1920
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