Pioneers from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina -
1789-1795
On Red River: William Johnson, Elias Fort and sons,
Rev. Sugg Fort and brother, Josiah Fort; Daniel Holman, John
Phipps, Charles and Thomas Kilgore, James Yates, George Bigbee,
David and Hugh Henry, Samuel Mason, Augustin Cook, John Bell,
Rev. Thomas Plasters.
On Sulphur Fork: Henry, John, and James Gardner; Isaac
Dortch; Carr, Holland, and Jonathan Darden; John Hutchison; Col.
Archer Cheatham and his brothers, John and Anderson; John Crane,
William and Jeremiah Batts, Charles and William Miles, James
Norfleet, Elias Fort, Archelaus Mahan, Nathan Clark, John Couts,
James Appleton, David and James Jones, Dr. Richard Nuckolls,
Benjamin Porter, Patrick Patterson, Martin Walton, Robert Kerr.
On Caleb's Creek: Caleb Winters, Joseph Washington,
Azariah Dunn, Henry Ayres, George Murphy, Rev. William Carter,
George Williams, Thomas Farmer, David J. Justice.
On Beaver Dam Creek: Thomas Woodard, Arthur Pitt, John
Chambers, James Owens, Joseph Winfield, William Benson, John
Krisle, John Draughon, Martin Walton, Meredith Walton, Thomas
Baird, Waddy Stark.
On Carr's Creek: Michael Fiser, Matthew Day, James
Connell, Jacob Binkley, James Culberson, Jacob Fiser; Henry
Johnson, grandfather of Hon. Cave Johnson and William and John
Huddleston; Henry Johnson, son of Hon. Cave Johnson.
On Brown's Fork: Henry Frey, Jacob Binkley, Henry
Childress, Samuel and William Crockett, Patrick and Thomas
Martin.
On Elk Fork: William Fort, James Mitchell, David Smith,
Andrew Shanklin, Joseph Wimberly.
On Miller's Creek: Robert Head, Richard James, John
Carr, James Bryan, Nicholas Conrad, Jesse Martin, Rev. John
Lemaster, James Elliott, Samuel Walker.
On Brush Creek: Col. Benjamin Elliott, Benjamin Jordan,
Giles and William Connell, James Atkins, John Stephenson, Mark
Noble, Frank Grimes, Matthew Luter, Sr., Matthew Luter, Jr.,
John and James Yoes.
On Sycamore Creek: Hardy Bryan, James Ventriss, Anthony
Hinkle, Shadrick Rawls, Lawrence Clinard.
On Spring Creek: Rev. Joseph Dorris, who built the
first shingle-roofed house in the county; Daniel Highsmith.
On Battle Creek: James Jamison, Elisha Pilant, Elisha
Bellamy.
On Buzzard Creek: Reuben Rose, William Mason, Joseph
Perry, Howell Sellars.
On Wartrace Creek: James Bell, Matthew Rose, John
McIntosh, John Chowining.
The first settlement made in what is now Robertson County was at
Kilgore's Station, in 1779.
We learn that Thomas Kilgore was one of the first settlers in
what is now Robertson County. In 1779 he, in company with Moses
Mauldon, Ambrose Mauldon, Samuel Mason, Josiah Hawkins, and
others, built a fort one mile west of where the village of Cross
Plains, in this county, is situated, and called it "Kilgore's
Station." Thomas Kilgore lived to be one hundred and eleven
years old. He was never known to ride, except one time, always
preferring to walk. He never took any medicines until just
before his death.
The first settlement made in what is now, Robertson County was
on Red River, just below where the St. Louis and Southeastern
Railroad bridge crosses said stream, by William Johnson, from
North Carolina, in 1787. Soon after Charles Miles, from South
Carolina, built a blockhouse near the Sulphur Fork of Red River.
Other settlements were made at the mouth of Sulphur Fork, then
called "Richland Creek" by James Stewart and William Fort, about
1790. In the following year Kilgore's Station was established by
Thomas Kilgore.
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Source: American Historical Magazine, Volume V, No. 1, editor W.
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