Notes
Jeremiah and family moved to Texas in the 1890s--maybe in 1895. Jeremiah's son, Jack, opened a drug store in Ennis in 1895 and Jeremiah's son, Charlie, died in Oct 1895 and was buried in Ennis. Jeremiah and Mary lost two more children--Bina and Arthur--shortly after. The family, except for Jack, returned to Tennessee sometime after Aug 1, 1899 and before the 1900 census. In Aug 1899 Jeremiah was witness to a pension application in Texas.
Lucy Albina Castellaw died in Texas in 1898. In the 1900 Haywood census, Jeremiah and Mary have Albina's children, Alice F, Paul H, and Harry Cobb living with them. By 1910, the two older ones are living with their father and half-siblings, but Harry is still with Jeremiah.
In February 1900, Jeremiah and Mary donated the land west of the Holly Grove Baptist Church in Haywood County, Tennessee. This land was to be used for the cemetery. According to the Holly Grove Church booklet, the deed can be found at the Haywood County Court House in Deed Book 26, page 257. This is the cemetery where my mother, Julia Castellaw, is buried, so Jeremiah and Mary's gift is very special to me.
One of the first to be buried there was W H Watridge. William H was married to Jeremiah's sister Zilphia Castellaw, and was the nephew of Dorsey Watridge. Dorsey Watridge, along with his wife, had donated the land for the Church itself (Haywood County Courthouse, Deed Book 11, pgs 45-46, dated July 23, 1886).
I wondered who the first person buried there had been, so I asked Jean Mann. At the time, Jean was the librarian for the Holly Grove Baptist Church. She said the first person buried there was a black vagrant. According to a story she heard from her mother-in-law, Irene Castellaw Mann, he had been found dead near the railroad tracks at Jones. Some speculated that he was a hobo that had fallen off the train. Since no one could identify him, someone suggested that he be buried in the newly formed Holly Grove Church Cemetery. Everyone agreed and he became the first buried in the new cemetery.
At least two of Jeremiah's sons have confusing information for Jeremiah on their death certificates. Jack's brother, Jelks, gives the information for Jack's death certificate. He gives their father's name as Thomas J Castellaw. This is a very odd mistake. On Jelk's death certificate, his son Billie gives Jelk's father's name as T G Castellaw. That's a little more understandable, coming from a grandchild. But how does Jelks get his own father's name wrong? Perhaps Jeremiah had an additional name. Maybe he was Thomas Jeremiah Fletcher Castellaw.
Pictures/Memorabilia
These pictures provided courtesy of Lynn J Graves:
Jeremiah Fletcher Castellaw Family Photo - c1897 Ellis County, Texas - Lucy Albina Castellaw, A L Cobb, Pat Castellaw, Jack Castellaw, Charlie Castellaw, Tom Castellaw, Helen Moody, Egbert Castellaw, Paul Cobb, Alice Cobb, Jelks Castellaw, Jeremiah Fletcher Castellaw, Mary Aurelia Blaydes, Jessie B Castellaw, Rosie Whitamose
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Mary Blaydes Castellaw, Jelks Castellaw, Jeremiah Fletcher Castellaw - Holly Grove, Tennessee
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Sources
Lynn Jelks Graves, great grandson to Fletcher Castellaw
Martha Jean Wilson Mann, great great niece (in-law) to Fletcher Castellaw
familysearch.org - Haywood County, TN 1850 US Federal Census (image)
heritagequestonline.com - Haywood County, TN 1860 US Federal Census (image)
ancestry.com - Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 - J F Castellaw and M A Blaydes (image)
heritagequestonline.com - Haywood County, TN 1880 US Federal Census (image)
Castellaw Family Bible - record of births, courtesy of Lynn Graves
files.usgwarchives.org - Ellis County, TX - Civil War Pension Application - J. T. Jackson (transcription)
heritagequestonline.com - Haywood County, TN 1900 US Federal Census (image)
heritagequestonline.com - Haywood County, TN 1910 US Federal Census (image)
Holly Grove Baptist Church booklet
Jeremiah Castellaw family photo, courtesy of Lynn Graves
Charlie Castellaw headstone inscription - Myrtle Cemetery - Ennis, Texas
findagrave.com - headstone transcriptions and images
familysearch.org - Tennessee Probate Court Books 1795-1927 - Thos J Castellaw Last Will and Testament (image)
familysearch.org - Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 - Jack Coleman Castellaw death certificate (image)
familysearch.org - Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 - Jelks Flournoy Castellaw death certificate (image)
Arthur Fletcher Castellaw obituary, courtesy of Lynn J Graves
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