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Taken From: A History of Mulberry Baptist Church 1818 1968 by Ulysses H. Abrhams
A few early Mulberry Community marriages:
1819, September 8 Edmund Beaird - Gildger Goodgame solemnized by the pastor, Rev. William Harrod. 1819, November 5 Joseph White Milly Goodwin. Young Goodwin gave consent. 1819, December 25 Holloman Varden Patty Baggett. Solemnized by William McCullers. 1820, March 18 Elijah Campbell Rebecca Kemp. Solemnized by William McCullers. 1820, October 15 -- Calvin Glasscock Catherine Campbell. 1820, October 15 -- Henry Henley Sally Honeycutt. 1820, December 18 Jerard Myers Nancy Clovers. Solemnized by Daniel Williams, J. P. 1921, March 1 Joshua Monk Dorcus Armstrong. Solemnized by Rev. Enoch Hayes. 1821, February 5 Kilby Bassett Rebecca Clowers. Executed by Agrippa Atkinson. 1821, March 11 -- Burrell Lewis Lucinda Page. James Page gave his consent. 1823, December 22 James Honeycutt Bethany Cobb. He, son of Thomas Honeycutt and she, daughter of Alexander Cobb. 1830, February 16 John Price Martha Rasberry. 1830, September 25 James McCullers Amanda Bain. Abraham Bain gave his consent. 1830, February 12 Madison Rasberry Elizabeth Hubbard.
James Davenport and wife, Elizabeth Davenport, were natives of South Carolina. He was born there in the year of 1786, and she in 1787. This family arrived on Mulberry with the first group of settlers. They were here in 1818 and James Davenport was one of the organizers of Mulberry Church. They were the parents of a very large family of children: Joseph, Wilson, John, William, D. H., Mary, Amanda, Isaac, Jackson, Emory, Wash, Marion and perhaps others.
Joseph Williams and his wife, Jane, were natives of Georgia. He was born in 1792 and she in 1796. Their children were Amelia (Emily), Bethany, Margaret, Rebecca, Thomas, John W., Christopher and Joseph. There were possibly others. Joseph Williams was one of the founders of the Church.
John Goodgame and family became members of Mulberry Church in 1819. John Goodgame was born about 1775 and his wife,*Sarah Crockett Goodgame was born about the year 1780. They had a son, James Goodgame,who was born in 1799. He married here in the community, Telitha Cobb, the daughter of Alexander Cobb. Their son, John, married into the Rasberry family; and Gildger, presumably their daughter, married into the Beaird family. Around the year of 1834 they moved out of the community into Talladega and Coosa Counties. John Jr., we believe, settled upon Yellow Leaf Creek east of Jemison.
The home of Alexander Cobb stood some one and one-half miles from Mulberry Church. He came into the settlement very early. He was a successful farmer who used slave labor in his operations. His children were Ruth, born in 1804, Bethany, Telitha, Mary, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Levi, James, John, Charles, and William. William Cobb was an active member of Mulberry Church during the 1840s and 1850s. There were other Baptists in this family. Alexander Cobb was born in 1772 and died in 1856 or 1857.
The family name of Lawhon was around from the beginning until after the Civil war. The first of that name was that of Joab Lawhon who settled about one mile from the church. He died in 1838 and was buried in the community. He had several sons and daughters, one of them being Brooks and another, John, who settled upon the place which years later became known as the Abram place.
Thomas and Josephine Honeycutt were the first of that family name. They came early and were Baptists. Their family seems to have been a very large one. Included among the names of their children was a son, James Honeycutt, who married Bethany Cobb, the daughter of Alexander Cobb. James Honeycutt and Bethany Honeycutt moved into the Providence community about the year of 1845 and became members of the Providence Baptist Church. The family name is still very much around in Chilton County today.
The Family of Aaron and Martha Patsy Campbell
Aaron and Patsy Campbell came into the Mulberry settlement with other and related families. They were among the first settlers and were in the small group who organized Mulberry Church. He was born in Georgia in 1796, and she, in North Carolina, during the same year. Among their children were: Elizabeth, Elmina, Melissa, Malona and Lawson.
Elmina married Wilson Davenport and among their children were son, Aaron Davenport, who was the father of Oscar Davenport. Melissa married Alfred Palmer and among their children were son Jackson L. Palmer, who is mentioned elsewhere in this history. Elizabeth married James Cobb, the son of Alexander Cobb. James and Elizabeth moved to a place about five miles northeast of the present town of Jemison, where they became successful with the farm operations which included a store, gin, mill, and tan yard. He grew up during slavery times, his father being a good size slave owner. When the Civil War came on James Cobb organized a company of Confederate soldiers in his community, and was elected Captain. He died in June of 1865. Times were exceedingly hard after the war. Elizabeth, with her family, moved down to the Mulberry Community and became a member of Mulberry Church. In 1870 one of her daughters was a teacher in Baker County while Prof. J. Corderie was the Supt. Of Education.
Thanks to Barbara Rowe (my genealogy friend from Ga.). |
