In Memoriam: Hardy Pope Jackson (1858-1939)

 

Hardy Pope Jackson
Born:  January 19 1858 in Bedford County
Died:  January 17, 1939
Parents:  James Lytle Jackson & Mary Charlotte Pope Jackson
Member of Union Ridge Baptist Church at Rover, Tenn
Buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park
Survivors
Wife: Mrs. Altha Wood Jackson
Daughters:
Mrs. C. F. Lucas of Nashville
Miss Ethel Jackson of Nashville
Mrs. Frank Redmond of Nashville
Mrs R. C. Owen of Hartsville Tenn.

Sons:
W.A. Jackson of Nashville
William Harrison Jackson of Nashville
Charles P Jackson of Nashville
James Ebron Jackson of Hendersonville, Tenn
Robert J. Jackson of Antioch

Brother: A.W. Jackson of Nashville
Sister: Mrs. Will Shelley of Decker, Tenn.
17 Grandchildren
5 Great-Grandchildren

Sources: 
Nashville Banner, January 18, 1939, p 10, col 3; image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-obituary-for-h-p-jack/205238272/ : accessed September 3, 2026), clip page for Obituary for H. P. Jackson.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149556666/hardy_pope-jackson: accessed 3 Sep 2026), memorial page for Hardy Pope Jackson (19 Jan 1858–16 Jan 1939), Memorial ID 149556666, citing Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA.

W C Cook & James P Cook Witnesses on Rutherford Co TN Deed(1860)

As happens pretty much every time that I publish an "everything I have so far" listing of events and sources for a family, I found W C Cook and James P Cook listed as witnesses to a deed.  Elisha W Hendrix is deeding land to William Pope in 1860 Rutherford County Tennessee.  It's almost like the process of writing and publishing causes new info to surface.  Or in this cause it is old info that I am just now finding thanks to the FamilySearch Full Text Search tool. I'm not complaining.

Below is my attempt at transcribing the deed.  Check the deed at the link in the source below.

[Notation in margin William Pope January 22 1861] 

pg 495
No 561 I, Elisha W Hendrix have this day bargained
and sold and do hereby transfer and convey
To William Pope and his heirs forever for the
consideration of four thousand nine hundred
and sixty one dollars to me in hand paid for
__ a tract of land in Rutherford County and State of Tennessee
and District No 10 containing by estimation two hundred and
forty eight acres and bounded as follows ( viz ) Beginning in
the county line of Rutherford and Bedford at Richard Nance
south west of the Little tract thence north with Richard
Nance line to the meeting house lot thence with the line of said
lot to said Nances line thence with said Nances line
to an elm and stake the north west corner of the
Little tract thence west with the south boundary of
the Fears tract to a stake the south west corner of said
tract thence north with the west boundary line of said
tract and Richard Nances to a stake said Popes
south east corner thence west with said Popes line
to an elm said Popes south west corner in Thomas
Lamb Junior east boundary line thence south with
said line to a _____ said Lambs south east corner
thence with said Lambs south boundary line to a
Locust said Lambs south west comer in Thomas
Lambs Jnr east boundary line thence south with
said Lambs line to a stake running eastwardly
in the center of the fence agreed upon between Elisha
W Hendrix and Thomas Lamb and to a stake Thomas
Lambs north east corner: thence south with said Lambs
east boundary line to a cedar and ash _____
Lambs south east corner thence west with said Lambs
south boundary line to a stake in --? Davis north east
corner, thence south with said Davis east boundary
line to a stake in said line; thence east to stake
thence north running through the center of a well to
a sweet gum in the county line, thence east with the
county line to a cedar thence south to a sweet gum
thence east with the county line to the beginning
containing by estimation two hundred and forty to

[page] 496

Eight acres be the same more or less to have
and to hold the same to the said William Pope
his heirs and assigns forever I do covenant with
the said William Pope that I am lawfully
seized of said land have a good right to
convey it and that the same is unencumbered
I further do bind myself my heirs and representatives
to warrant and forever defend the title to the
said land and any pact thereof to the said William
Pope his heirs and assigns against the lawful
claims of all persons whatever this October the 6th
1860 signed sealed in presence of us
[witnesses]
W C Cook                             Elisha W Hendrix(Seal)
James P Cook

Source:  

Rutherford County, Tennessee, Deed Book 11, pages 495-96, deed from E. W. Hendrix to William Pope; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSTZ-H3Q6-4 : accessed 4 July 2024), IGN 008332344, images 571-72 of 729.

Pope Family Documents Name Granville Co. NC and Williamson Co. TN Enslaved

Osborn Pope, born before 1755 if we believe his age from the 1800 US Federal Census of Granville, wrote his will on 3 April 1811.  His will was recorded in Granville Co North Carolina in the February term of 1812. In the Index for Granville Records under Jane Nicholson's entry, it is listed as being recorded Feb 1818 however, the record itself shows that it was recorded in February Term of 1812--another reason to seek out earlier and original sources. Within the will are the names of some enslaved with details on what should happen  after his death. See will at the site listed in the citation below.

"Granville, North Carolina, United States records," Osborne Pope Will, Feb. Court 1812, Will book Vol 7, p 229;  images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9GW-Y9C5-R : accessed Mar 29, 2024), image 245 of 710; IGN 007639740.

In addition to the will recorded in Granville County, North Carolina there was also a case filed in  Williamson Co Tennessee which focused on that probate file in the years 1825 & 1826.  If you have worked in Williamson Co TN Probate you know there was an attempt to index and contain files in folders with a listing on index cards which was meant to be somewhat of a summary of the folders contents.  While this was done with the best of intentions, it is still necessary to examine each document.  There are at least 2 cases I know of in my own research where persons of the same name have been combined into one folder without any notation which makes it appear that the documents were all for ONE person. I would caution researchers when they use this set to exam each document with this in mind.  I have contacted the archives clerk and asked them to include a notation when I found this had occurred once I sorted out which documents belonged to each of the same named persons.  That said, this Osborne Pope file is a full of information for anyone researching persons enslaved by the Granville Co NC Pope Family.  It mentions the names and ages of the children of the enslaved that have been born between the time period of 1812 and 1825.

"Tennessee Probate Court Files, 1795-1955," Probate Folder Osborne Pope(of Granville Co., NC), images, FamilySearch

(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-2F3C-G2 : accessed 29 March 2024), Williamson > County Court, Probate, divorce & family records > 1800-1899 > Pewitt, Joel - Potts, Mary Ann > image 2340 of 2960; IGN # 004727159.

Cooke family info in Rev War Pension of Harwood Pope's Widow

Sworn statement by Shemuel Cook of Franklin Co NC August 4th 1843 which was included in the Revolutionary Pension Application File of Elizabeth Bowers Pope(widow of Harwood Pope)

Source:  https://www.fold3.com/image/25885037/harwood-pope-page-25-us-revolutionary-war-pensions-1800-1900

This 1840 US Federal Census Entry for Franklin Co NC shows a Shemuel Cook who is likely the same one in the above affidavit.

From page 27 of the previously mentioned pension file at Fold3 is a letter from Wm H Strother to Mr. H. W. Brummell  (transcribed below)

Source:  https://www.fold3.com/image/25885063/harwood-page-27-us-revolutionary-war-pensions-1800-1900


Mr. H W Brummell Louisburg 12th Aug 1843

Sir

Annexed is the certificate
of Shemuel Cooke relative to the marriage of
Harwood Pope. Mr. Cooke was that the marriage
but is unable to state the precise time but is
confident it took place within the time specified
on the certificate. The marriage can be established
by three other persons one of them Claiborne
Cooke the brother of Shemuel who resides in Granville
County. The other two are Rhody Jones & Katherine
Hill both of the county. Should the certificate
of Shemuel Cooke be insufficient I will attend
to the taking of the others immediately after hearing
from you. I shall however be absent from home
about three weeks--neither of the three above
mentioned recollect the precise time when the marriage
took place but were all present and witnessed it.


Mr. Shemuel Cooke is a man of good
character and his statement on oath would not
be questioned where he is known. My Mother was present but of tender years she has no particular
recollection of the time further than she was told that she
was eight years old. I concluded not
to take her certificate. present me to my Aunt


Yours Respectfully
Wm H. Strother

Williamson Co. TN--Dist 25(1836-1840)--M-P

Over the past few years I've been studying Williamson Co TN Dist. 25 in hopes that knowing how the families were interconnected will help me to find a lead and break thru my Cook brickwall.  I've been using a spreadsheet to pull together my notes and information on this community so that I had somewhere to quickly look for notes on the families if they showed up in any other parts of my research. I'm publishing this to my blog in the hopes of finding other researchers interested in the area and time period that the information here might help.  This portion contains families who were living in or taxed in District 25 of Williamson Co TN during the years 1836-1840 whose surnames begin with M-P.  When possible I've noted connections in neighboring districts.  Simply put, there is a lot of overlap of families between Williamson Co TN Dist 25,  the Versailles and Eagleville area of Rutherford Co TN and Bedford Co TN Dist. 10(Rover). Also please note that anyone listed as NOT enumerated in District 25 should probably read not listed as Head of Household in Williamson Co. TN District 25.  They may be within another household OR they may not be enumerated at all within the district for a number of reasons. 

A-C           D-H            J-L           M-P           R-S           T-Z

Malone William(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

Maxwell Robert(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1837 & 1838)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

McBride Charles(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836 & 1837)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

McCowan James (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836,)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

McCoy William (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.--He dies in 1837 owing Wm C Cook, Wm Putman & Hiram Putman(among others)  His probate records can be found in the 1838 Probate Records of Williamson Co TN.  Samuel B Robinson is appointed the admin of his estate since he died without a will.

McDaniel William Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

McDowell John(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1839)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

McPeak Susan(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1837)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

O'Bryant:
O'Bryant Lewis (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.
O'Bryant Owen (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.
O'Bryant David Sr(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

Owen John Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

Paine W. Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

Patterson:
Patterson Carson (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836 & 1837)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840. Married Cassie Carlton(daughter of Thomas Carlton and Nancy Wade Carlton. Brother In Law of Wade H. Carlton who married Sarah Putman.  These families later lived in Weakly Co. TN.
Patterson D W Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.
Patterson Hilary (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1837, 1838, 1839) Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840
Patterson Margaret (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836 & 1837)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.
Patterson Thomas (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836 & 1837)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

Pope:
Pope Charles (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839) Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840
Pope Hardy Jr(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838) Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840
Pope Hardy Sr (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1838 & 1839)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840. There is a Hardy Pope on Bedford Co TN Dist. 10 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839.

Pope Quincy(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836) Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840. Also a Quincy Pope in Bedford Co TN Dist. 10 Tax List 1836

Portis Elijah G (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839) Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840

Potts Abner C. (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839) Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840

Potts Wesley (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

Prince:
Prince Thomas (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1838)Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.
Prince Mrs. Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840

Pryor John H (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1838)Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.

Putman:
Putman Amos(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839) Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840. Amos is the brother of Jabel Putman who died in Williamson Co TN in 1835. Thomas Call married his daughter Hally Putman. A number of his line end up in Oregon Co MO.
Putman heirs Jabus/Jamin/Jabel (Admin Hiram Putman) (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839)
Putman Jabez Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840. Son of Amos and nephew of my direct line Jabel/Jabez Putman.
Putman Hiram(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839) Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840.  Son of Jabel & Nancy and a brother of my Elizabeth Putman Cook.  He is was over this father's probate.
Putman James F(Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1838, 1839) Enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840

Putman Nancy(Dist 25 Tax List: 1839, 1839)  This is Nancy Putman, widow of Jabel Putman.  She is not enumerated in Williamson Co TN Dist 25.  I believe she is the older female listed within the household of Wm C Cook & his wife Elizabeth Putman Cook.  They are in Dyer Co TN in 1840 with Noah Putman(Nancy's son/Elizabeth's brother) next door   

Putman Noah (Dist. 25 Tax List: 1836, 1838, 1839) Not enumerated in Dist. 25 in 1840. Son of Jabel & Nancy Putman.  Brother of my direct line Elizabeth Putman Cook.  I found him in Dyer Co TN in 1840 with brother in law Wm C Cook & family nearby
Putman William--It's difficult to sort the Wm Putman's out so I'm listing them by year

25th District Tax List 1836--there are two William L(or S) Putman entries

25th District Tax List 1837--

25th District Tax List 1838--William L(or S) Putman

25th District Tax List 1839--William L(or S) Putman

25th District 1840 Federal Census--William Putman  This entry is Wm Putman son of Jabel & Nancy.  

I believe the other William Putman was the son of Amos Putman.  Amos William went on to Weakley and Henry Co TN and others of that line to Missouri.

 Sources: 

• Tennessee, US, Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2883/
• Williamson County(Tennessee) Tax Records 1800-1963) Tax records 1831-1845 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4V-V2HL?mode=g&cat=234786
• Tennessee State Library and Archives. Ancestry.com. North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Records, 1753-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
• Nance, R. Fred, and John W. Nance. 1983. The history of Versailles, tenth district, and its people. Murfreesboro, Tenn. (P.O. Box 906, Murfreesboro 37130): Rutherford County Historical Society.
• "United States Census, 1840." Database with images. FamilySearch.

Bedford Co TN.  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YTB-921F?wc=31SJ-161%3A1588669927%2C1588669780%2C1588665902&cc=1786457

Rutherford Co TN  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYB9-98FZ?wc=31SK-FMD%3A1588669927%2C1588669425%2C1588665902&cc=1786457

Williamson Co TN  https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YB7-4DT?wc=31S2-443%3A1588669927%2C1588667580%2C1588665902&cc=1786457

• Rover Historical Society. History of Rover and the 10th district of Bedford County: lest we forget the people and things in our corner of the world. Vol. I(1986), Vol. II(1999). Paducah, Ky: Turner Pub. Co.

Joseph Cook--Franklin Co GA 1785

The warrant in this folder is likely one of those included in an previous post(here) I did about the Joseph Cook entries in the records for Greene, Franklin, and Wilkes Co GA although it looks like this one has been transferred.

Folder Labels

Cook, Joseph

1 Warrants

SEE: 

 Lindsay, John
Taylor, Grant
Long, Nimrod
Shelman, Michael

Warrant

Georgia to John Gorham Esq. County Surveyor for the County of Franklin

You are hereby authorized and required to admeasure and lay out, or cause to be admeasured and laid out, unto Joseph Cook a Tract of Land, which shall contain Nine Hundred and Twenty Acres, in the said county of Franklin, On the Bounty certificates of William Davis, William Anderson, William Lewis, & Benjamin Allen

Reserved

Taking special care that the same has not heretofore been laid out to any person or persons; and you are hereby also directed and required to record the Plat of the same in your Office: and transmit a copy thereof, together with this Warrant, to the Surveyor General, within Six months from this Date.  Given under my Hand, as Senior Justice of Said County, this 6th Day of June 1785

Walker Richardson C F C

On outer side of Warrant

Middle Panel

Joseph Cook
920 Acre
Warrt.

Right Panel

Franklin County } To the worshipfull Court of
Now Selling your Petitioner Joseph Cook prayeth that the within warrant be renewed in John Pope's name and your Petitioner will ever pray

Joseph Cook

Source:  "Georgia, Headright and Bounty Land Records, 1783-1909," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YMM-FK6?cc=1914217&wc=M617-R3F%3A200589401 : 20 May 2014), Headright and bounty documents 1783-1909, Cone, Aaron-Cooner, James > image 472-474 of 546; Georgia State Archives, Morrow.

Correspondence in Pension file of James Blackwell

On August 28, 1930, Dr. Blackwell Markham of Durham NC wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Pensions in Washington, D.C. asking for information on the following Revolutionary Pensioners of North Carolina.

• James Blackwell, 10th Regiment, Bradley's Co. enlisted July 20, 1778.
• Thomas Marcum, private.
• Thomas Blackwell, private.

The information provided in the response gives a bit of insight into the Blackwell, Pope, Cook, Clopton and Nall families of the Granville County, North Carolina area.

The digital images of the original file including the correspondence can be found at Fold3.com in the Pension file  of James Blackwell(North Carolina) which include his widow's pension W. 18613 .  Below is the information(typed by me) which was included in the 2 page letter from E.W. Morgan in response to Dr. Markham's inquiry. 

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

October 30, 1930

Dr. Blackwell Markham

First National Bank Building

Durham, North Carolina

Dear Sir:

You are advised that it appears from the papers

in the Revolutionary War Pension claims, W. 18613, that

James Blackwell of Granville County, North Carolina

enlisted and served twelve months and twenty-two days

as a private in Captain John Dickerson's Company of

North Carolina Light Horse and was discharged May 10,

1777.

He served three months as captain in the Granville

County North Carolina Cavalry and was discharged

November 17, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed

November 8, 1819 while a resident of Granville County, 

North Carolina, aged about eighty-eight years.

He died April 1, 1823 or in 1824.

Solder married July 17, 1767 Elizabeth Clopton,

who died in 1768.  He married April 2, 1773 in Granville

County, North Carolina, Temperance Pope, who died

February 14, 1840.

Digital Images from Fold3 located at :
https://www.fold3.com/image/11705429
https://www.fold3.com/image/11705430

Digital scans of original info from The National Archives (http://www.archives.gov)
NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application
Files. Roll 0256.  James Blackwell (North Carolina)

1840 Williamson Co TN Census Head of Households

A look at the head of households in Dist 25 of Williamson Co TN in the 1840 Federal Census. This is the area where Joseph S Cook AND Wm C Cook are listed among the tax records in 1838. Wm C Cook is listed among the tax records of Bedford County's 10th Dist in two tax years prior to that(1836 & 1837)

* Name is not a duplicate and households differ in age breakdowns.

Williamson County, Tennessee District 25 pages 204A-206A (Beginning: Image 190 of 198)
Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line: https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8057]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.