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Monday, October 23, 2017

Former Residents of Nashville



The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1924 Page: 3 of 10

. . . the following description of the old town of Nashville [is] from a letter from Mr. Frank Brown, who lived in Nashville as a boy and who after sixty-three years of absence, retained a vivid picture of the place as it existed in its palmiest days: . . .

It is impossible after a lapse of 63 years to give the names of all the families that lived in and near Nashville. In 1836, and up to the winter of 1839 and 1840 when I left there, I knew nearly every one. The village was small, not over 15 or 20 families in town and immediate vicinity. . . . I call to mind only the following residents:

  • Neill McLennan
  • John McLennan and others of that name.
  • Calvin Bowles
  • Jacob M. Harrel
  • Jasper Crouch
  • ? Bell
  • W.D. Thomson
  • John Duff Brown
  • Robert Davidson
  • James Shaw
  • Gid Bowen
  • Jack Hopson
  • Lige Bailey, with others lived just below the river.
  • Capt. James Howlett (first surveyor of the County of Milam)
  • Capt. Goldsby Childers
  • George and Herman Chapmen
Among those at Nashville more or less, and at different times in the middle and late 30's were:
  • Timas C. Thomson
  • Sterling C.R. Robertson
  • E.S.C. Robertson (then a youth)
  • Alexander Thomson
  • James G. Swisher
  • O.T. Tyler 
  • Laughlen McLennan
  • George B. Erath
  • Capt. Eastland
  • Ehan Stroud Fleruy
  • Captain John Bird
  • James Robinett
  • W.S. Wilson
  • Maus Griffin
  • W.B. King
  • Ben Bryant
  • Joseph Rowland
  • ? Campbell
  • R.M. Coleman
  • Thos. H. Barron
  • Daniel Cullins
  • David Clark
  • James Coryell
  • Stephen Fazier
  • Moses Cummins
  • Frank W. Johnson
  • Mrs. Matilda F. Connell [widow of John Connell; daughter of Elisha Roberts]
  • James Graves
  • William Moore
  • Lewis Washington
  • Isaac Parker, and his brothers
  • Daniel Moses
  • Massilon Farley
  • N.C. Raymond [attorney]
  • F.T. Duffau
  • John Cockrell
  • Henry Kattenhom
  • Daniel McKay
  • Gus Sullivan
  • E. Lawrence Stickney
  • W.H. King
  • John R. Craddock
  • C.M. Hubby
  • John Pool
  • William and Thomas Robers
  • John Taylor (a lawyer)
  • George Green
  • Lewis Moore
  • Jacob Gross
  • ? Icleberger
  • ? Chalmers and his son, Albert


6 comments:

BeNotForgot said...

1927 "Interesting Historical Sketch of Old Nashville" . . . The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927 Page: 2 of 12

BeNotForgot said...

The site selected for the new [1927] steel and concrete bridge across the Brazos river, between Robertson and Milam counties, is former site of Nashville . . . where the graves of the Robertson family can yet be seen [as of 1927; they were moved in 1936] . . . The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927 Page: 3 of 12

BeNotForgot said...

In one of these cabins lived the noted Charlie Goodnight family. . . . The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927 Page: 2 of 12

BeNotForgot said...

Nashville and the surrounding area are described on the pages of this "day book" from 1846 . . .

BeNotForgot said...

"One of the most honored citizens of Nashville was the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence, George Campbell Childress, a cultured lawyer and nephew of Sterling C. Robertson, founder of the town. . . . The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927 Page: 11 of 12

BeNotForgot said...


The remains of Major Sterling C. Robertson, founder of the Robertson Colony, the first settlement in Milam County and known as Old Nashville, were recently disinterred from the old cemetery at that point and on last Saturday were re-interred in the State Cemetery at Austin with appropriate honors. . . . The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1936 Page: 1 of 12 [near bottom of left column]

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