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Our Ancestor The Orphan Of William" John Breazier b-1699
1799/1814-John BREASHEARS of Christian Co, KY to Warren/White CO & Giles CO Tennessee.
The records for Middle Tennessee, 1799-1819 were destroyed. The few that are left are helpful in solving the riddle of who the Brashears Men in White and Warren County Tennessee really were.
I have made the following lists to help track them through the years 1799 to about 1819 from Spartenburg South Carolina to Lawrenceburg Tennessee, where we find Henry Alexander Breshears estate settlement. I give much more documentation in my book "Bresdhears Welding Links".
*** White County Tennessee Connections ***
1820...WHITE COUNTY TN (LDS-AIS) HOUSEHOLD # 369:
The following men are all enumerated under the same h/h number in the 1820 State Census for
Tennessee, viz:
...BAZEL BRASHER: h/h 369) WM 200001-WF 21010 (s/o Thomas?)
...BERRY BRASHER: h/h 369) WM 210010-WF 31010 (s/o John)
...JOHN BRASHER : h/h 369) WM 200001-WF 12010 (Littleberry (now John Sr.? )
...MIDDLETON BRASHER: h/h 369) WM 000100-WF 10100 (s/o John Sr. o/SC)
...THOMAS BRASHER: h/h 369) WM 100101-WF 00101(s/o John Sr. o/SC)
1820...WARREN COUNTY TN HOUSEHOLD # 5
...WILLIAM BASHEN: WM 000100-WF 01000 (NC William BASHEN land grant?) 1830...BEDFORD CO TN - Middle TN Pioneers. Also seen as BRADSHAW/BRASHEAR:
...JAMES BRESHEEN: WM 0011001-WF 00200101 (an elderly family?)
...JOSIAH BRESHEEN: WM 11001- WF 112011
...LEMUEL BRESHEEN: WM 000301- WF 222001
...WILLIAM BRESHEEN: WM 0000000001-000000001 (not living there-only slaves?)...
...WILLIAM BRESHEEN: WM 0022101-WF 00011001 (William JR.) This must be the father
William BRASHER who appeared in the 1830 list of Middle TN Pioneers below.
A Henry (son of John of Spartenburg), William and Elizabeth (Elizabeth Cooper Breashear)
widow of John Breshears Sr. of Spartenburg Co., SC, took land in Warren Co., TN in 1815.
... Elizabeth was conveyed land by William, Laban, J (James or John) and Elyjah (2) -
descendants of James BREAZIER of Cumberland NC. These heirs match the family of WM &
Sarah Horn Brazier It appears the heirs of the "Intire Brzear Estate" in Cumberland County North
Carolina, were looking after the widow ELIZABETH(COOPER) BREAZIER wife of the now
deceased John BREAZIER Sr. of Spartnburg South Carolina..
All of the above are probably descendants (heirs of John's son John-- "Orphans" of William &
Elizabeth Clayton Breashear.)
Middle Tennessee Enumerations
1830...A list of Middle Tennessee Pioneers (1830-State Census-Middle TN), gives a
Thomas Brashears son of John BRESHEARS of Spartenburg Co., SC, was living in Rutherford
Co., TN
...THOMAS BRASHEARS W Male: 020001 (elderly) WF: 00101 (elderly). He lives close to:
...JESSE BRASHEARS W MALE: 00001001 (elderly)- WF: 01100001 (SP: Betsy Wright)
...WILLIAM BRASHEARS W MALE: 000001(?) WF: 10001. (very old?)
...JAMES BRASHER W MALE: ................................
*** THOMAS BRASHEARS OF WARREN/WHITE COUNTY TENNESSEE ***
Thomas above,must be the Thomas who is seen with THOMAS ETHERIDGE from Norfolk
Co., VA, in the early Tennessee records. Thomas Brashear died in Warren County TN naming
his wife Amie [Miller or Mitchell?]. A Thomas ETHERIDGE settled in WEAKLY COUNTY TENNESSEE.
[[Looking for the THOMAS BRASHEAR of White Co., TN., who appears with the rest of the
clan along with HENRY ALEXANDER BRESHEARS & Tho. ETHERIDGE descendants]] This could be
him. Thomas's wife AMIE is named in his will of Warren Co., TN. (insert). There is an Amie
(Miller or Mitchell) named in her mother's Will in Maury Co TN. [Connection to THOMAS - NO PROOF].
1866...Tishomingo Co. (MS Probate records, under misc., Bk 9, pg 522): Amelia (Amie)
BOSHEARS, widow of THOMAS BOSHEARS died Sep 1866. 2 minor children Jane P.
Boshears & Thomas J. BOSHEARS. The land- a section, encumbered by deed of trust & small
personal property - assets due.
Sooooo - is this the clan from Warren/White Co. TN, via Lawrenceburg Tennessee? Thomas
Brashear is Anna Locke's Mississippi documentation. See her research from Corinth Mississippi where
she found her Berry and Anna BRESHEARS before removal to Arkansas (ID602-notes to GH
1964ish).
There was a Thomas J. BRASHER in Talladega Co. AL, in 1850, son of James who had a brother
Thomas BRASHER - I'm wondering, sure looks like there might be a connection here - GH ?
This could be James M. BRASHER who went to Angelina Co., TX.
!Notes: Compiled from records submitted to GH, from Mrs. Livingston abt 1969. Original
research in SC, TN and KY by Georgene Eytchison Humphries. Dorothy Elliott research. "BQ",
#11, by Charles Brashears and Robert Brashears's research of Spesutia Church records, Baltimore
Maryland (1991-2). 1968-9...Andrea's SC Brashears Report.
(The James BRESHEEN sic here could be JAMES BESHEAR "Stiff Knee Jim", as indicated by
Draper (The Filson Club Qtrly pg 10,544 - about 1800) as being in the territory South of the
Ohio. This must be James Mumford Brazier's heirs of Cumberland Co., NC and Worcester Co.,
Maryland.
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