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Subject: [GADEKALB] BROWNING- TALBOT, CASH, LEAVELL
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 20:51:13 EST
This first page includes my Cash ancestors.
Page 119 -The History Of Dekalb County, GA 1822-1900
Revolutionary veterans must have found Tucker a particularly congenial place
to settle. Peter Cash,
Daniel Fones, Edward Leavell (or Levell) and Graner Whitley and their
extended families settled in
the Browning's District, near what is now the town of Tucker.
The Cash and Leavell families helped organize Fellowship Primitive Baptist
Church on August 15,
1829. Elder James Hale was moderator of the first church conference, with
Jessie Wallis as church
clerk. Charter members included seven received by letter: Robert D. Inzer,
Elizabeth Inzer, Isaih (sic)
Parker, Dicy Parker, Sarah Parker and Revolutionary War veteran Peter Cash
and Peter's younger
brother, James Cash. Received by voucher from Nancy Creek Primitive Baptist
Church were Robert
Carath, Green Ville (sic) Henderson, Nancy Henderson, Raihe Leavel (sic) and
Jessie Wallis. James
Cash wrote the Yellow River Baptist Association requesting membership in 1829.
The congregation originally built a log cabin with a dirt floor adjacent to
the Fellowship Primitive
Baptist Church Cemetery on Pine Valley Road, off Lawrenceville Highway, about
a mile from the
church's present site.
Many other Tucker area pioneers are buried at Fellowship, including Andrew
(Dad) Browning (for whom Browning's District is named), Isaiah Parker,
Charles Whitlock, William
Beauchamp, Aaron and John Goza, Larkin Nash and Martin Thompson. Tom
Browning, a descendant
of Andrew, is said to have been one of the area's most colorful characters.
He owned a saloon and
horserace track on Fellowship Road, and, wearing a high top hat, traveled
throughout the community
in a two-horse carriage with a Negro driver.
Josiah Gresham drew Land Lot 308 in the 18th District of then Henry County in
the 1821 land lottery.
He moved from Morgan County shortly thereafter and paid $19 in fees for 202 ½
acres of land near
what is now the intersection of Chamblee Tucker Road and Norcross Tucker
Road. Gresham's
neighbors included Tucker pioneer Greenville Henderson, who lived on
Henderson Mill Road, and
Edward Leavell.
Leavell was the first of the Revolutionary veterans to settle in the area,
arriving by 1825. Born
on July 16, 1756 in South Carolina, he was the grandson of Jean LaVelle who
came to
Virginia from France in about 1715. With Edward came at least two of his
children, John W. Leavell
and Rachel M. Leavell. John, who was born in Newberry County,
S. C. on November 4, 1804, had
married Mary C. (Polly) Wood on January 16, 1825. Rachel married A.
Henderson, a son of
Greenville Henderson, on September 16, 1835.
Three of John Leavell's children married three of Josiah Gresham's children.
Nancy B. Leavell was the
second wife of William Collins Gresham. Margaret Kate Gresham married William
Jasper Leavell, and
Mary Howard Gresham married Francis Marion Leavell.
Josiah Gresham died in 1853, at the age of 61, and was the first person to be
buried in Gresham-Weed
Cemetery, adjacent to the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, both of which are
located on formerly
Gresham land. ~
Three Cash brothers-Peter, William and James-had moved from Virginia to
DeKaIb County by
1828. The Cash brothers were great grandsons of Scottish immigrant William
Cash, and sons of
Stephen Cash and his wife, Jamima Grining. Three of Stephen and Jamima's
sons were Revolutionary
soldiers. Five of his sons came to Georgia, three of them choosing the
Browning's District of DeKalb
County to put down roots.
Page 181 HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY, GA. 1822-1900
The Rock Mountain Post Office was established on July 18, 1834,
with William Cochran as the first postmaster, who served until January 13,
1835.
He was succeeded by Andrew Browning.
William
Meadow was the first postmaster after the name was changed to Stone Mountain
on June 9, 1836.
Subsequent postmasters were Andrew Johnson, 1839-46; Drewry Lee, 1846-47;
Alexander C. Fowler, 1847-1848; George K. Smith, 1848-1849;Samuel H. Dean,
1849-1855; and Thompson A. Browning, 1855-1865.
Page 292
Willis Browning DATE: 1850
AGE: 64 OCCUPATION: None BIRTHPLACE: N.C.
Page 233 DATE :1841
On November 1, a new road was authorized"....Commencing at A. Browning's on
Lawrenceville Road and running west so as to intersect the Peachtree Road at
or near William's Gin" (possibly LaVista Road)
Page 165
One by one the (Latimer) brothers married : William to Elizabeth Furlow,
Henry to the widow of Samuel L. Wilson and Charles to Eleanor Swift, daughter
of Thomas Swift and Lucy Talbot, of Morgan County.
Mimi
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