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Son of Thomas BRISCOE & Mary Elizabeth TACKETT.

Life History

Other facts

Notes

• I was first introduced to this person as Thomas William Briscoe in thegenealogy of "Leta's Family" which included the Briscoe family.  Thisgenealogy had no information on Thomas' wife or children.
  
  Thomas William Briscoe
  Birth Abt 1789, Death Unknown
  Parents Thomas Briscoe 1740-1809, Elizabeth Tacket
  --  Ancestry Trees, Leta's Family,http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2804391/person/-1815879183
  
  Several Sources contribute to our understanding of Thomas William (orWilliam Thomas) Briscoe.  Several participants of the RootsWebDiscussion Forums have contributed information from their family andresearch work, referring to him as Thomas with the full name WilliamThomas.
  
  One source with mostly good consistent information (but with limiteddocumentation) reports his name as Thomas Huell Briscoe.  This sourcehas an exact death date and place of death.
  
  Thomas Huell BRISCOE
  Death 1794 in Virginia, Death 28 Jan 1873 in Apple Grove, Morgan,Alabama
  Parents Thomas Briscoe 1741-1809, Elizabeth Tackett
  Spouse Spouse Sarah Hill 1794 - 1873
  Tucker Family Tree,http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6585536/person/-1152441864
  
  Researcher Nelsi Pete contibutes this information she discovered.
  
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  The following article is taken from a book entitled The Heritage ofMorgan County, Alabama, published by Heritage Publishing Consultants,Inc., P.O. Box 67, Clanton, AL 35046. Undated. [I believe the date was1998. np]
  
  Thomas Briscoe Family Pioneer, p. 154
  [Note that the birth date given in this article for Thomas is 1790,and for his wife Sarah Hill 1794.  Most sources report Thomas was bornin 1787 or 1789.]
  
  Some of the earliest settlers in Morgan County were Thomas Briscoe,his wife, Sarah Hill Briscoe, and their nine children. They moved fromFranklin County, Tennessee to Morgan County, Alabama in 1819, the sameyear that Alabama became a state. Thomas Briscoe was born in Virginiain 1790 and his wife was born in South Carolina in 1794. They settledon Salem Ridge, about six miles south of Morgan City "as a crowflies", and near the Ruth and Apple Grove communities. Two sons wereborn in Tennessee, John Briscoe, born in 1815 and William GreenberryBriscoe, born in 1817. The other seven children were born in Alabama.The names of the other seven children are James W., Rebecca, PleasantR., Thomas H.L., Joseph Lane, Nancy A.E., and Martin Van Buren. Manydescendants of Thomas and Sarah Briscoe live in Morgan County, Alabamatoday. There is an annual Briscoe Reunion at Arab, Alabama which isattended by descendants living primarily in Tennessee, Georgia,Florida,
  Texas, and Alabama.
  
  Thomas Briscoe served under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 alongwith another well known pioneer from Franklin County named DavieCrockett. After returning from the Creek Indian fighting in AlabamaTerritory, Thomas Briscoe and his wife were received by letter in 1814as members of the Primitive Baptist Church on the Boiling Fork of ElkRiver (between present day Cowan and Winchester in Franklin County,Tennessee. He also purchased 30 acres of land near the church fromHenry Hill in Franklin County, Tennessee. Thomas Briscoe sold the landin Tennessee on January 12, 1818 and moved to Alabama.  This move isverified by the names Thomas, James and William Briscoe on a 1819petition requesting the delay of an order of all intruders to movefrom lands of the Cherokee Nation north of the Tennessee River. ThomasBriscoe
  received a deed to land in Morgan County, Alabama in 1824.
  
  Thomas Briscoe was a farmer and a Baptist minister. He was an ordainedMinister of the Gospel at Salem Baptist Church in Morgan County in1827 or earlier. Thomas was also listed as a carpenter in the 1850census and as a mechanic in the 1860 census. He died in 1873 and isburied in the Briscoe Cemetery on land which belonged to his son,Joseph Lane Briscoe, at the time of his death. The cemetery land wasowned by Donald Pritchett in 1997 and is maintained by the BriscoeAssociation of Alabama.
  
  --  RootsWeb Forums, 22-Sep-09,http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BRISCOE/2002-01/1011647945
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  On the same page of the forum, one participant stated that he knowsthis Thomas as Thomas Jefferson Briscoe.  This Thomas did have anephew named Thoams Jefferson Briscoe, the son of Thomas William 'sbrother Isaac.
  
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  Thomas J. Briscoe, born 1789 in Virginia, USA; died January 28, 1873in Morgan Co., AL. He married (1) Sarah Hill in Virginia (?).
  
  Notes for Thomas J. Briscoe:
  From pamahicswbell.net, 7/24/99:
  
  The Tillman County (Oklahoma) History published in 1976, contains inreference to my Great Grandfather, William Greenberry Briscoe, thefollowing: "James W. Briscoe b ca 1800 in VA and Mary (Polly) Dossey bca 1807 in TN. were parents of W.G. Briscoe, b May 16, 1824 in MorganCounty, Alabama. The 1830 census of Morgan Co. provides the earliestrecord of his father who lived on an adjoining farm of Thomas Briscoe,pioneer minister of Shiloh Baptist church, Salem Ridge, Alabama, in1819 It is presumed that they were brothers and had come from Virginiato Anderson, S.C. and then to Alabama. James W. Briscoe was a justiceof the Peace in Alabama and in Sevier Co. Ark, where he moved in1837." The William Greenberry Briscoe mentioned is the son of James W.Briscoe b ca 1800 in VA and Mary (Polly) Dossey b. 1807. This James W.Briscoe may have been the brother of Thomas Briscoe b. ca 1790.
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  One genealogy provides a picture of Thomas's details and theconfiguration of his and Sarah's family.
  
  Thomas BRISCOE, Birth: 1789 in Virginia
  Death: 8 FEB 1873 in Morgan County Alabama
  Fact 1: Farmer
  Fact 2: Carpenter
  Fact 3: Baptist Preacher
  Fact 4: Confederate Army
  Fact 5: Buried Briscoe Cemetary (Old Homestead)
  
  INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM:
  1. Census records Morgan County, Alabama 1830, 1840.
  2. Marriage records Morgan County.
  3. Gandrud-Jones, Alabama Records, Morgan County, DAR/ALA 929.3761
  4. Cemetery Records, Briscoe Cemetery (old homestead).
  5. Personal knowledge of Herman Briscoe, great grandson of Thomas &Sarah.
  -----------------------------------------------------------January,1983.
  6. Briscoe Cemetery Location: From Hartselle, take Hwy 36 east toCotaco.
  Turn right on County Hwy 32 through Union Hill to Rescue Road. Turn
  right, go 1.9 miles. Cemetery is on the left about 1000' from the road
  behind al aol homeplace. Secure directions locally. T7S R1E S7.
  Copied Nov. 19, 1981.
  
  Marriage Sarah Hill (Dorsey?) b: 1793 in South Carolina
  Children
  John BRISCOE b: 1815 in Tenn
  William Greenberry BRISCOE b: 1817 in Tenn
  James W. BRISCOE b: 1822
  Rebecca BRISCOE b: 1826 in Morgan County Alabama
  Pleasant Roland BRISCOE b: 1827
  Thomas Huell Lawson BRISCOE b: 24 JAN 1829 in Oleander, MarshallCounty, Alabama
  Joseph Lane BRISCOE b: 7 AUG 1831 in Alabama
  Nancy A. E. BRISCOE b: 1835 in Morgan County Alabama
  Martin Van Buren BRISCOE b: 11 NOV 1837 in Morgan County Alabama
  --  Ancestry Trees,http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=*v11t0460&id=I001

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Leta's Family,
• 2. RootsWeb Discussion, Ray Hill
  • Name: Name:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BRISCOE/2002-01/1011647945;;
• 3. RootsWeb Discussion, Nelsi Pete
  • Name: Name:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/BRISCOE/2002-01/1011647945;;
• 4. Ancestry Trees
  • Tucker Family Tree,