Thanks to Stephen Vallilo for the Brabson Coat of Arms ; the art work was done by Lyle E Brabson, Jr son of Lyle & Sarah Ruth Anderson Brabson
Brabson supposedly dates back to Wales and before to Western Europe. The name may have been Brabant. The Brabson family is first listed in East Nottingham, PA in the early 1700s. The migration path was then to Frederick County, VA, in the mid-1700s, then into Berkeley, Virginia in the late 1700s and East Tennessee in the 1800s. In the mid 1800s, some family members moved to Ohio and Illinois. By the early 1900s the family started spreading all over the United States. I did a lot of genealogy research Xmas 2014, gathering information & photos from cousins so please remember the sources of the photos and give where credit is due ; Wanda Jenkins Lambert, Carla Brabson McLain, Luann Brabson, Charlie Campbell, Margaret Brabson, and cemetery stones from my walking around Washington County
Thomas Brabson, of Berkeley, lived in Tennessee, June 11, 1804. Source:* Virginia Records. It was old Thomas Brabson sometimes spelled "Brabston" who sold land to Valentine and Frederick DeVault where they built the famous DeVault Tavern in Leesburg, Washington Co., Tennessee. The name Brabson was spelled "Brabston" in 1860 census records for Washington Co., Tennessee ; however, our family spelled the name Brabson ; due to different accents perhaps some who said the name Brabson made it sound like it had a "t" in it thus causing the enumerators/registrars to write the name with a t
The genealogy of Alexander Washington Brabson family 1805-1977, was compiled by Fred Solomon and Pearl Irene Morrow Garst and the Thomas Doughty Brabson book gathered from Katherine Brabson Vallillo who lived in Port Charlotte, Florida ALEXANDER WASHINGTON BRABSON, born September 06, 1805, married 16 September 1834 in Greene Co., Tennessee to EMILY MARIA STEPHENS, born February 19, 1817; three sons, Thomas Melvin, ETHELBERT DUDLEY, and Benjamin Ernest Brabson and five daughters Emily Jane, Eliza Caroline, Matilda Adelade, and Julia Katherine "Kate" Brabson were born to this union. Alexander W. Brabson was a physician, having been educated at Washington College Academy and elsewhere. Thomas Melvin Brabson married Margaret Ann Miller and Benjamin Ernest Brabson married Pearl Biddle. Alexander W Brabson was married first to Eliza Earnest 3 February 1831 and had a daughter June Brabson buried with her mother at the Old Ebenezer Methodist Church located on the Nolichuckey River where the Earnest family settled in early days. There may have been a son born to Alexander and Eliza Ernest? ETHELBERT DUDLEY BRABSON married September 1876 to KATHERINE JANE BARKLEY. His wedding suit is in the Jonesborough Historical Museum in Jonesborugh, Tennessee. Ethelbert's occupation was a Miller. Ethelbert was also a Justice of Peace. He operated the Brabson Mill at Carson Creek and Bowmantown Road in Washington County, Tennessee. Gray Family were the last to operate the mill ; 2012 the mill was demolished except for the foundation... Ethelbert Dudley Brabson was the first miller to operate the Brabson mill. Brabsontown later Millwood was the area where the Brabson's settled in Washington Co., Tennessee and Milltown became Telford The following Brabson Mill photos made December 2013 Uncle William Barkley & niece Katherine Jane Barkley before her marriage to Ethelbert Dudley Brabson Mabel Ingersoll Brabson Morrow, wife of Drury Lemuel Morrow. Mabel was a schoolteacher in 1900, just before her marriage to Drury Lemuel Morrow in 1904.
Margaret Brabson has told how Katherine Barkley Brabson had nandina bushes and I am thinking this bush may have come from Katherine's yard Mary and sister Alice Noel were born in Tazewell, Tennessee. They attended school at Salem Academy, North Carolina which, with no railroad facilities, required a journey on horseback of seven days accompanied by a negro servant, Julia. Mary Noel Brabson was very good to her black servants and would not even sell them for a lot of money. The mother Catherine Noel was born in Virginia John Miller Brabson II in his balmy days, he assumed the name of John Marlborough after the English Duke of that name, from whom he claimed descendancy, about which we older children use to tease him.
As a young man he was ambitious and obsessed with the necessity of an education. He married Julia Maria Harmon. One of their sons George Dana lived 102 years, 1896-1999
The Bank of Greeneville was established in 1887 by Judge Hacker & Bro. and John Brabson It was Alfred B Brabson who sold Uncle Samuel Keebler some additional land in Bowmantown where he earlier had a home built on land purchased from Solomon Good and where he raised his niece Mary Ann Prudence Ingersoll who married Daniel Burgess Barkley. The land owned by the BRABSON Family in Washington Co was located between Leesburg and Carson Creek and at one time named "BRABSONTOWN" because of all the Brabsons who lived there in the 1800's. The mill operated by the Brabson family was still standing but not in operation and December 2011 we found the building gone and just the foundation remaining
Most of the BRABSON family members are buried at Oakland Cumberland Presyterian Cemetery and some like Old Thomas Brabson are buried at Providence Presbyterian Cemetery on Carson Creek. Oak Grove Cemetery in Greeneville, Tennessee is another burial place for John M. Brabson family and the Ebenezer Methodist Church and Cemetery is where Eliza Ernest Brabson and daughter June are buried
JOHN BRABSON born abt 1710 and wife Margaret Bowen and one known son JOHN BOWEN BRABSON born .... There is a will for John S. Reese M.D., unknown relation to Mary Reese Brabson, dated Philadelphia 21 July 1852, proved 30 Oct 1853 Baltimore Co., Maryland. Still uncertain if this John S Reese is a brother of Mary Reese Brabson since both Mary and John Brabson died by 1790. I welcome any input and corrections on the early generation
JOHN AND MARY REESE BRABSON FAMILY
THOMAS AND JANE MILLER BRABSON FAMILY
Across Carson Creek road from the Brabson Mill
Across the road from the Brabson Mill
South on Hwy 75 below the creek and Brabson Mill ; today the Stafford home is near ; it has been said a house was torn down to build the Stafford home which would have been Dr Brabson home
On Sam Aiken Road, with a spectacular view
The Children of ETHELBERT DUDLEY AND KATHERINE BARKLEY BRABSON
Ancestry trees of Luann Brabson & Charlie Campbell
Vernon Brethren Cemetery Oakland Road
Vernon Brethren Cemetery Oakland Road
Evelyn, Marshall, Helen, Charlotte, John & Wilma (order of birth reversed)
Vernon Brethren Cemetery Oakland Road
JOHN MILLER AND MARY S NOEL BRABSON FAMILY
FAMILY OF JOHN MILLER BRABSON AND MARIA JULIA HARMON BRABSON
ALFRED B AND MARY ELIZABETH RUSH BRABSON FAMILY