Food for thought.......

Around the late 1700's many people from the Eastern states felt
the Tennessee frontier a new beginning and challenge so they set 
out to claim territory. They drove wagons from 
North Carolina and West Virginia, via the Cumberland Trail to an area
near the Fork Dear River in West Tennessee.

To  help others identify their claim, they named this small area, Carolina.  It is now located
between Brownsville and Ripley, Tennessee.

One of the families who possessed  political clout were the Haywood's whose  heritage is

Granville, North Carolina; another name for Nutbush.
John Haywood (born 1755-1827)was the State Treasurer of  North Carolina and his first cousin, 
John Haywood (born 1762-1826) was later known as the "Father of Tennessee History" because of his 
historical contributions to Tennessee.    Members from both families settled near Nashville and 
in an area now known  as the Nutbush/Woodlawn community.  They  owned many acres of 
land on the highway known today as Tina Turner Highway 19.  

  Many older residents say, during the Civil War, (1861-1865) Nathan Bedford Forrest identified his
 campsite in Durhamville  (a community in Lauderdale County or Ripley called New York at the time)
 as Nutbush because of  the beautiful trees full of berries  and nuts before he led the charge on 
Fort Pillow in Lauderdale County. So during the Civil War,  the area from Durhamville to Woodlawn 
was changed from Carolina and New York to what is now identified as the Nutbush area.  
Haywood County incorporates Brownsville, Nutbush and Stanton.

Many of the area  settlers who came from North Carolina and  Virginia also came from England.
The Haywood's and John Leigh came to America from Lancashire, England  together 
via New York and many of the other area settlers came from the village of Gloucestershire, 
England (Scott,Hay,Bishop,Reed,Wade,Hull,Evans,Smith,Stafford,

Walker,Huntingdon,Leigh,Norris,Ingram,Davis,Burroughs,Butler,Lee,Sewell,

Watkins,Rogers,Lawrence,Martin,Fowler,Austin,Baily,Coleman,Lovelock,Hancocks,Hill,
Jacobs,Robinson,Palmer,Haynes,Gibbs,Young,Hill,Collier,Beard,Haywood,Simmonds,
Brown,English,Turk,King,Farmer,Fletcher,Manning, Thomas,Clements,Hooper,Stephens,
Lowe,Ford,Philpot,Bond,Jones,Bullock,Cole,Barnard,Reeve,Gregory,Haskins,
Townsend,Mitchell,Austin,Curry,Dyer,Holloway,Jeffreys,Osborne,Turner,Rice,Moore,Long,
Holloway,,Mitchell,etc.) Just to name a few.
                                                                                    Research: Sharon Norris,  Historian 
                                                                                  University of North Carolina archives; Haywood 
                                                                                  County History

History Books/Videos  Available!!!!!

"Nutbush, Of Cotton Fields Butterflies and Wild Onion Ridge" book by Sharon Norris
731-277-9228 nutbush1@newwavecomm.net to order

"Black America Series: Haywood County Tennessee" by Sharon Norris
Arcadia Publishing, Amazon.com ; Barnes and Noble.com

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You can read  about one of the first African American insurance companies, The Golden Circle Life Insurance Company; blues legend Sleepy John Estes; Rev. Hardin Smith; Gospel legend Rev. Clay Evans  and Tina Turner in the following history books and videos compiled by my associates.  Find contribution credits and/ or articles written by Sharon Norris

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  "Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture," compiled by Dr. Carroll Van West.and published through the Tennessee Historical Society and Rutledge Hill Press of Nashville, Tennessee

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"A History of Tennessee Arts" 
Compiled by Dr. Carroll Van West and Margaret Duncan Binnicker; published by University of Tennessee Press

Books and videos can be purchased through www.barnesandnoble.com

amd www.Amazon.com

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"Tina Turner" 
a book by Judy L. Hasday
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"VH-1 LEGENDS:  Tina Turner"  video
 Gay Rosenthal Productions, Inc.

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 Video-"Headliners and Legends" with Matt Lauer; Tina Turner; Blue Moon Media-July 2000 
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A  video about the life of prominent minister/ recording artist, Rev. Clay Evans of Nutbush is on the market.   "It is No Secret, The Life of Rev. Clay Evans"   Lon Gibby Productions, Inc. call 1-800-200-1113         (Refer to the credits and you will see my book  "Black America Series, Haywood County Tennessee by Sharon Norris" used as an  historical reference)  It was an honor to be used as reference.  Thanks Lon Gibby. 2001
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 African American Lives 2; Tina Heritage  Kunhardt Productions, Inc.  2007