[NI0023] Gravestone says: son of Joseph & Rebecca Brinson, aged 1m3d.
[NI0032] Johnathan's third wife, Susan ROGERS, was a cousin to his second wife, Maria ROGERS. No children.
[NI0036] Another source says death date: January 15, 1854
[NI0042] Another source says born Jan 15, 1783, in Montgomery Co., KY.
[NI0046] Served in Civil War: Co. E 13th Inf.
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"15th Iowa Infantry Roster, US Civil War: Zebulon Brinson, Co. I, enlisted and mustered 27 September 1864 at age 44. Mustered out 2 June 1865 at Washington, D.C."
The organization of 15th Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry began prior to 5 September 1861. The precise date is unknown. The entire ten companies of which the regiment was composed, were ordered to Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa where they were mustered into the service of the United States Army, on dates ranging from 1 November to 22 February 1862. The regiment was mustered out at Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky on 24 July 1865. (This is probably this Zebulon, age matches and was mustered out of Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.)
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Transcribed from " History of Switzerland County Indiana 1855" pg.1154
John Hallgarth, born in Lincolnshire, England, immigrated to the United States in 1815, and in 1816 entered land in this township. In 1817 he moved upon his farm, and there he resided till his death in 1855. He married Mary Brinson, daughter of Zebulon Brinson, the noted wolf hunter of early days in this county, and owned at his death about 300 acres of land. His sons, Richard, Nimrod and Moses, still reside in the neighborhood of the old homestead, and are thrifty farmers.
[NI0142] Had 10 children.
[NI0156] Another source says born in 1723.
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Zebulon Brinson
The Wolf Hunter of Switzerland Co.
HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND COUNTY: John Hallgarth married Mary Brinson, daughter of Zebulon Brinson, the noted wolf hunter of early days in this county, and owned at his death about 300 acres of land. John Hallgarth, born in Lincolnshire, England, immigrated to the United States in 1815, and in 1816 entered land in this township.
HISTORY OF RIPLEY COUNTY: In 1815, a settlement was made in Brown Township by John Henson, followed by Richard Gilliband. Moses Roberts, James Curry, A. Young, Ira Young, Isaac Paugh, David Runner, Lewis Meyers, Jacob Hewitt, Frederick Buba, James Benham, Thomas Spencer, John Hallgarth, and Zebulon Brinson, a famous hunter who claimed to have killed one hundred and eight wolves in Ripley County.
L.E. HALLGARTH: They moved to Pleasant Township in Switzerland County about 1817. He bought land from the Government for two dollars per acre, this land having been opened for settlement in 1816. It was situeated on the Ripley County line, in what was then Ross Township. About 1821, Ross Township, which extended well up into what is now Brown Township, was broken up. A portion as before mentioned becoming a part of Ripley County and the rest being added to Pleasant Township in Switzerland County.
He was a farmer and noted as a wolf hunter, being credited with the slaying of several hundred wolves. In a history of Ripley County, he is referred to as "the strong man, who was able to crush a black walnut with his bare hand, and the slayer of several hundred wolves."
At one time there was a commerative marker placed by George Schort of the State Library beside what is now State Route 129, about two miles south of Cross Plains, in his honor. However, it was removed during highway repair and never replace. A little-used road, known as the Adams Road, extends eastward from Highway 129, and it is on this road that the Brinson Farm was located. A map of 1883 indicates that Zebulon's son William K. resided on the farm at that time.
Zebulon died April 20, 1851 and is interred in a small, private cemetery on the farm. The inscription on the stone Reads, "Zebulon Brinson Died April 20, 1851 in the 80th year of his age."
Newton Hallgarth: As to the names of Zeb Brinson's father and mother, I don't no. Nor there isn't anyone that does either. Katherine Brinson died May 5, 1866. She was buried there in the Brinson graveyard. I was at her funeral. Their first child was born April 25, 1800 and I suppose they were married the year before, 1799.
Laura Thorton Bassett: Zebulon Brinson was a great hunter and not afraid of anything. He found some cubs in a hollow tree and the question was how to get them out and not chance his life. So, with gun and knife, he went into the log feet first, but before he got out, Mrs. Bear came up. He had a desperate fight with her, killed her, and came away with the cubs.
Pieter VanTassel: Zeb was born in Virginia in the year of 1771 and named for his father. George and Henry Brinson were his uncles. The family moved into Kentucky around 1785. A tax list in 1790, shows that they lived in Madison County. Then at the Census of 1800, they resided in Montgomery County.
David, John, and William were probably his brothers. His sister Bethany married John Harmon and their daughter Elizabeth married William Jackson. The Government opened up land in Indiana in 1816 and the following year, Zeb bought 160 acres. The document tells that he came from Bath County, Kentucky. A scrap of paper that I found in my Grandmother's desk said that Zebulon met his wife, Katherine Keithley, on Lothar Creek. She was born in North Carolina on January 15, 1782. They had fifteen children.
BRINSON-THE-CHAIRMAKER
William Jackson: When I was married in 1864, August 25, Anthony Brinson sent me word that he had six good chairs ready if I wanted any for my home. These chairs were bought for $1.00 each and have been in my home in everyday use until by son bought them at my sale. Raymond VanTassel bought the chairs from my son on the date this is written (December 7, 1939). Anthony Brinson was known all through this country as "the chairmaker". I knew him and Joel Copher and his wife, Cate Copher, one of their children, was about 14 years old when she moved to Tipton County, I am 93 years old, will be 94 next March.
Raymond VanTassel: With Bethel and both the children, I visited Jane Hyatt in Bryantsburg, Indiana. She told me much about her father, Anthony Brinson. She had a set of "Brinson chairs" and she explained the process consisting of making the chair by hand, of maple sugar tree, fastening it toghether with glue and green dowls, and with a split hickory ax.
A son of Anthony Brinson, named Jonathan, married Betheny Jackson, and daughter, Elizabeth, married John Jackson. Thereby indicating a close family tie between the Jackson and Brinson families.
From an old man named Wm. T. Jackson, I was able to purchase four "Brinson" chairs that he had bought from his father, also named Wm. Jackson. When we had dickered over the price and the chairs were mine, I went to see old "Uncle Billy" Jackson, who bought the chairs direct from my Gr-gr-gr-grandfather. He is 93 years old and knew Grandma as a child. He calls her Cate and says she was named after Katherine Keithley, her great grandfather's wife.
Cate Copher: My grandmother Brinson came in her girlhood days from Tennessee. Mrs. Woodall was Grandmother Brinson's sister. Grandmother married Anthony Brinson in Switzerland County or Ripley County, Indiana, one or the other county. They lived and died there with their families and were burried at Salem Church. Your Grandmother Brinson's name before her marriage, was Nancy Softley.
Gladys Paugh Gilbert: My great grandmother was Nancy Softly of Richmond, Kentucky. She was visiting her older, married sister when her family all "came down" with the cholera and all died within a few days. She continued to live with her older sister. They bought a farm near Vevay and moved there in a covered wagon. There, she later met Anthony Binson and they married, he was a big land owner and cabinet maker. And each time a child married, he gave them a set of chairs, with rocking chair, a Seth Thomas clock, and five-hundred dollars, or land, and I have all six of my grandmother's chairs (Jame Brinson Hyatt), the rocking chair, and the Seth Thomas Clock!
Pieter Van Tassel: Anthony Keithley Brinson, born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, August 18, 1805, was twelve years old when his family moved to Indiana. There were eight other children: John 17, Stout 15, Mary 13, Katherine 11, Joseph 9, Elizabeth 8, Bethany 4, and Sarah 2. His parents were in their forties, his mother carring a child at the time. Lewis Brinson was born May 10, 1817, followed by David, Zebulon, James, Pachel, and William K., totaling fifteen children.
Anthony was one of the first sons to purchase his own property. There, he built what his daughter Jane describes as a fine brick house. It burned down sometime after 1941. His brothers Joseph and Zeb were also large land buyers in 1836. His cousin Elizabeth's husband, Wm. Jackson, states that Anthony Brinson was known all through the country as "the chairmaker". Jane Hyatt said that her father made four dozen chairs for the courthouse at Vevay. It seems that he was mostly known for his maple, Ladder-back chairs, but he also made cabinets, tables, and the cases for the Seth Thomas clocks which Gladys Gilbert states he made for each of his children. There is an indication that he learned his trade from his father, as L.E. Hallgarth states that Zebulon made a small arm chair and presented it to his daughter, Mary Hallgarth, as a wedding gift. never-the-less, it is clear that the art of chair-making was passed from father to son. Neva Brinson remembers that her grandfather made twelve walnut chairs with cane bottoms and two rocker. Her grandfather, Thomas Brinson, was Anthony's son.
Anthony and Nancy had nine children. A daughter, Delilah, died at age two. Their daughter Elizabeth married John Jackson while Jonathan married Bethany Jackson, both grandchildren of Anthony's Aunt Elizabeth.
They belonged to the Salem Church at Cross Plains and are burried there. The gravestone bears a chiseled log on the tip denoting the very woods in which Anthony-the-chairmaker obtained his livelihood from. He reached the age of seventy-two, his wife the age of eight-four.
Anthony Brinson: I, Anthony Brinson, give and devise to my beloved wife, Nancy Brinson, all of my estate both real and personal, except two promissory notes. (One calling for $270.00 signed by Thomas and one calling for $100.00 signed by Sarah Jane.) At her death, to be then disposed of as follows: I give and bequeth to my grandson, William A., one horse, saddle, bridle, and blanket, provided he lives and makes his home with my wife until he is twenty years of age, and he is to receive clothing and common schooling. The rest and residue of my estate, real and personal, shall be equally divided among all my children and heirs; Elizabeth Jackson, Martha Ann Copher, and the children of my deceased son William J., Jonathon Brinson, Mary Copher, Lucinda, and Anthony Brinson, and Sarah Jane Hyatt. The promisory notes to be paid of the shares of my two last named children. It is my will that my son Anthony is to have the use of the part of my barn which he hertofore used. I appoint by friend Joseph Voris to be sole executor of my last Will and Testament. fifth day of May, A.D. 1876
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On June 11, 1998 I visited the gravesite of Zebulon Brinson. Carrie Brinson, my cousin, was kind enough to take me there. The grave is located on private property which is believed to have belonged to Zebulon. His wife Catherine Kiethley is probably buried there but there are no records or a tombstone to prove this. The markers are well hidden in a wooded area about 1/4 mile from a gravel road which I believe was called the Adams Rd. which is off of State Rd 129 south of Cross Plains, IN. Zebulon's stone has fallen over 3 or 4 years ago but is in excellent condition otherwise. There are two other stones that can be read, Skein & Skeen. Maybe these folks were neighbors!
His stone reads as follows:
Zebulon Brinson
Died
April 20th 1851
in the 80th year
of his age
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[NI0164] Another source says was born in Membury, Devon, England.
[NI0170] Another sources says born about 1743.
[NI0171] Another source says born in Middlesex, New Jersey
[NI0176] Another source says born in Membury, Devon, England
[NI0202] Died with no issue.
[NI0226] Judge of the Court in Somerset County, New Jersey.
[NI0279]
E-mail from Karen Isaacson < [email protected]::
He made a statement on 14 October 1833, when he was aged 84, that he enlisted in spring 1778 with Captain Alexander Paterson of the Regulars at Strouds Mi8ll near Easttown in Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter, he marched under Captain Paterson to Valley Forge. Paterson's company was a part of the Regiment of Infantry (Regulars) of Colonel William Cook. > From Valley Forge, they went to battle near Monmouth Courthouse (28 June 1778.) He became ill, and was hospitalized at Princeton, then rejoined the army at White Plains. Winter quarters 1778 were at Middlebrook. Eventually they arrived near Morristown, New Jersey, in the winter of 1779.
He said he was born at Kingwood, New Jersey, on 28 March 1749.
My notes add that in 1787, he was listed on the tax lists with Zebulon, in Madison Co., KY. And that John Brinson (the father of Stout and Zebulon) was in the 1780 taxlist of Amwell, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey.
[NI0293] Single in 1823
[NI0300] A Baptist Minister
[NI0312] No issue.
[NI0319] Died in the Civil War.
[NI0928]
Born at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Named for P. Walter Jones and R. B. Saunders.
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Walter, Teutonic for "Powerful fame."
[NI0930]
Named for Josie Beall Jones and James Thomas Fleming.
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Vit� of JOSEPH T. FLEMING
In April 1994, Joseph Fleming was appointed Director of Public Affairs for the American Insurance Association, a Washington-based trade organization representing more than 275 of the nation's largest property and casualty insurance companies.
Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year, 1981. John E. Drewry Memorial
More information is available offline. Contact [email protected].
[NI0932]
Elizabeth Ann Young
More information is available offline. Contact [email protected].
[NI0933]
From The McCallie Alumni Journal, September 1946, p. 23:
"Lt. (Ch.) Theodore Patton has had an interesting service story. He is back now in Coalmont, Tenn., with his wife, the former Margaret Gray Johnson of Augusta, Ga., and his two daughters, Clare and Barbara. Theodore entered the Navy chaplaincy in June, 1944, and attended the Chaplains' School in Williamsburg, Va. He took over the organization of chaplains' work at a Naval hospital in San Francisco in December, 1944, and later served on the USHS SAMARITAN. Last fall, a newspapers article written by the grateful wife of a marine to whom Theodore had ministered, told of what help he had been to "his men" in the solving of various problems, material as well as spiritual. Before entering the service, Theodore was pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church, in Baltimore, Md."
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While at McCallie, participated in Ochestra ('22 - '24), second violin, YMCA, and the Pocket Testament League
July - October 1944 -- Chaplains' School, Williamsburg, Virginia
October 1944 - May 1945 - USS Samaritan
July 1945 - Occupational duty - Japan