yesterday's tennessee

A GENEALOGICAL MISCELLANY HENDERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE - volume VI

Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The West Tennessee Natchez Trace:
• 1. The Routing of the Natchez Trace, The "Old Notchey" (pp. 1-13)
• 2. Joseph Reed and the Natchez Trace (pp. 14-19)
  Henderson Countians Reported in Perry County: General Land Grant Book T (p. 20)
  1820 United States Census, Perry County (p. 21)
  Hefley Family Notes (pp. 22-43)
  Rock Springs Methodist Church (pp. 44-54)
• Information from the Agricultural Schedule, United States Census,1880, Henderson County, Tennessee (pp. 55, 107)

Index (pp. 108-113)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I am grateful for the assistance of several persons in the compiling of the material herein contained.

  Among these persons are Brenda Kirk Fiddler, whose several works on Henderson County heritage are a source of information and an inspiration; Jack D.Wood and Robert D. Taylor, Jr. ,librarians, Tennessee Room, Jackson-Madison County Library, Jackson, Tennessee; Dinah Bowman Harris, director, Henderson County Library; Linda Ancell Fiedor and Joy Bartholomew Campbell, Henderson County genealogists; Martha D. Arnold, whose pride in her Douglass heritage has helped to ensure the preservation of Rock Springs Church; Willie Powers Trammell who cheerfully shared information about her Reed ancestors; Alisha Weber, interpretive specialist, Natchez Trace State Park for her assistance and open-mindedness; Gladys Jones Snider who so thoughtfully shared information with the author about the old Joseph Reed homeplace; Dorothy Taylor Porter, Taylor-Olive descendant who shared her information with the author.

Jonathan K. T. Smith
Jackson, Tennessee

Other works by Jonathan K. T. Smith can be found at the Madison County Records Repository at TNGenWeb.