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
