CA1355

A Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County, Tennessee (McCallum)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1355)

McCallum, James. A Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County, Tennessee. Pulaski Tenn.:The Pulaski citizen, 1928

p. 37-38

    SECTION TWELVE - BRADSHAW

    Odom Hightower, father of Hardy Hightower, was one of the first settlers on Bradshaw Creek, and came either the latter part of 1807 or early in 1808. He raised corn in 1808, which was the first raised on the creek. Hardy Hightower, John Kennedy, John Elliff, James McKnight, and Sam McKnight came the latter part of 1808, or early in 1809, and settled the places known by their names. Joe Jarring came in the early part of 1808, John Young, Esquire, was one of the first settlers. John Young settled the place known as the Archibald Young place. Nicholas Holly, father of Jno. Holly, came in February or March 1809.
    Those mentioned above were all here when Holly came. The first year the settlers beat most of their meal in a mortar and ground some in a little hand-mill. Hardy Hightower built the first mill on Bradshaw. Old Nicholas Holly moved from South Carolina to the State of Ohio, and from thence to Tennessee. He came by Columbia, by where Jno. C. Walker, Esquire, lives; by Dabney's and by old Robert Gordono's.