Brewer Ancestors in NC and TN: Julius Brewer was asked to serve as a juror in several cases in Lawrence County. One of the cases involved his friend David “Davy“ Crockett (Julius would later on name one of his sons after him). Court records from Lawrence County Archives : Tuesday, Oct 2nd, 1821 Julius Brewer was summoned to appear a Juror at the County Couty the 1st Monday in January next, to-wit, Julius Brewer and (25 others) . January Term, 1822 - January 22, 1822. The sheriff returned the following venure Facias returnable to this term, to-wit, Julius Brewer and 25 others. The following were drawn as Grand Jurors, Julius Brewer and (25 others) . Friday, January 11th, 1822, Wm. F. Cunningham vs. David Crockett - Appeal - This day came the parties by their attornies and thereupon came a jury of good and lawful men, to-wit, Julius Brewer and (25 other men), who being elected, tried and were sworn well and truly to try this issue of traverse, upon their oaths do say that the defendant is guilty in manner and form as in the plaintiffs declaration mentioned, whereupon it is consideered by the court that the plantiff recover against the defendant and John Edmundson and John foster the defendants surety the sum of $70 debt together with he sum of $1.40 damages, togeather with his costs by him about his suit in this behalf expanded and the defendant in mercy & c. . Late 1823 or early 1824, Julius moved his family from Brewer Branch (Lawrence County) up Holly Creek Road to Butler Creek (Last) in Wayne County, Tennessee. Butler Creek has three (3) smaller creeks, named Upper(First)-Middle-Lower(Last) Butler Creeks, that join together to form the larger Butler Creek. Julius entered an Land grant for 25 acres on Lower Butler Creek. He and Margaret would have their first (1st) child together at this location in 1824, Sarah Ann. Late 1826 or early 1827, Julius moved his family across Shawnette Ridge (present day Meonite Rd) to Holly Creek. He had an Land Entry for 50 acres. This land is located on present day Railroad Bed Road (runs mostly thru center of property) on Holly Creek between Williams Hollow Road and Billy Moore road. In the 1830 U.S. Census, Julius is shown with 1 male child 10 to 15, 1 male 30 to 40, 2 females 5 to 10, 1 female 15 to 20, and 1 female 30 to 40. Julius and Margaret would have their second (2nd) child together at this location (SE of present day Bethlehem Community) in 1832, Hulda Jane. In March-May 1834, Julius moves his family to Marion County, Alabama. We *base this date on the land deed/grant issued to Julius. We presume he left the 25 acre parcel on Last Butler Creek and the 50 acre parcel on Holly Creek to mentioned son Elias. Julius land grant(War Of !812-1814 Bounty Land Grant) of 160 acres, as listed by the Pontotoc Land Office, (documented) in the NW section of Marion County near the Franklin County Line in the Bull Mountain Creek area. Originally federal bounty land for veterans and heirs of veterans of the War of 1812(1812-1815) could only be taken out in designated districts in Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri. An act of Congress in 1842 allowed the claimants to receive their land in any federal land state, including Alabama, thus explaining the issue date (1845) on his registered land deed/certificate. This particular time in Julius` life becomes very interesting and somewhat confusing. Margaret *supposedly died in 1834. *A Gist family website states, whether it be fact or fiction, that Margaret died from childbirth complications in 1833-34(she was now in her late 40`s or early 50`s). Another *story passed down from family members, whether it be fact or fictional also, says Julius, Margaret, and her Gist family members travelled by water to the Franklin/Marion County line around 1834. That would be Shoal Creek out of Lawrence County, Tn to the Tennessee River and onto Bear Creek, then down Bear Creek (AL/MS line) to Bull Mountain. We *surmise that they probably followed by horse and wagon using those creeks/waterways as a guide to their Alabama location. We base this on (1) the waterway route was to rapid in places and also very shallow in places for boat travel, (2) a small band of Chickasaw Indian warriors still remained in a portion of Northwest Alabama at that time and were hostile to incoming settlers due to their resentment of the Indian Removal Treaty Act that their Tribal Chiefs had signed in 1834 to relocate the tribes to Oklahoma. To top off all of this, the Marion County, AL Courthouse records were destroyed by fire, not once, but twice in the late 1800`s. *Julius and Margaret` third child supposedly together was Delilah, born in 1834. *This would have been the child born which resulted in Margaret`s childbirth complications that caused her death? Once again the facts concerning Margaret`s death time/frame, along with the birth of Delilah in 1834/35, is somewhat confusing. Was Delilah really the last daughter of Julius and Margaret as previously stated or was she actually the first child(daughter) of Julius and his last wife Nancy who he married in 1835? We just*do not know for sure. In 1835, Julius marries a Nancy (Unknown maiden name), who was about 20 years of age. Julius and his last(3rd)wife Nancy first or second(depending on who Delilah was born to) born was named Nancy, born Nov 13, 1837 in Marion County, Al. Then came David C. (1842), Mary (1842), Daniel (1843), Alexander (1846), and Rial (William Riley) (GrGrandPa) in 1848. Again the fires probably destroyed the only record(s) of Julius` last wife Nancy1 maiden name. *We are pretty sure Nancy WAS NOT full blood Cherokee Indian as so many Brewer researchers have mistakenly included in their Family Trees.** We will leave open the possiblity that Nancy(wife) could have had some Indian blood in her. As we stated earlier, GrGrandPa Riley had said he was 1/4 Indian, not 1/2. Also, as we previously mentioned, the Marion County, AL courthouse being destroyed by fire in the late 1880`s would have had the Marriage Records there. So, for the time being, we will have to leave Nancy`s maiden name as UNKNOWN. We will now move on in Julius` life. Julius is listed on the 1840 Marion County, AL census as Jules Brown (Jules should be Julius and Brown should be Brewer), as the census proofreader made a mistake on transcription conversion. Thanks again to James (Jim) H Brewer for finding this mistake on the census report. One of Julius` neighbors around 1840 was James Madison Clark, whose property/land sit on equal sides of the Franklin and Marion Counties Line. Julius` daughter Sarah Ann married James Madison Clark in the early 1840`s (1842 ?). Note here that we mentioned earlier that Julius and David “Davy“ Crockett were friends and community neighbors in Lawrence County, Tn. The son Julius named David Crockett (D.C.) Brewer was in his honor. We also will mention here that when we were in Lawrence County, TN researching records on Julius, we were told by an elderly woman working in the records department that the marriage record of Julius Brewer to Margaret Gist had at one time been on file there. But, the current records has an asterisk beside their name indicating that record is missing. After telling her that David Crockett was a supposedly friend of Julius, she said that possibly his signature as a witness on the marriage certificate could be an explanation of why it is missing. Very Interesting! freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry/~richardrustybrewer/richardrustybrewerfamily.index.html
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:32:56 +0000
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