Major Robert Turner Brashears

Notes for TURNER BRASHEARS:

Armstrong Roll- Choctaw Census 1830

Under Treaty 27 Sep 1830

Communicated to Senate 11 Apr1834

Turner Brashears

40 acres cultivated

Family size- 2

Male over age 16- 1

Location- mouth of Suckenatcha

7 slaves

Total acres- 480

Remarks- good land

District- LaFlore

Turner Brashears

40 acres cultivated

Family size- 2

Location- 480

Remarks- good land

District- Mushulatubbe

In 1805, the Choctaw Indian Agency was located in the area now known as Ridgeland. The Agency was called Turner Brashear's Stand. The agent in charge was Silas Dinsmor. Around 1850, Brashear's Stand was renamed King's Inn. The Inn was used as a headquarters by General Stephen Lee during the American Civil War. King's Inn was lost to fire in 1896.

In 1853, James B. Yellowley founded the community of Yellowley's Crossing (later named Jessamine, after his wife). Two Chicago developers, Edward Treakle and Gordon Nichols, purchased the land from Yellowley and founded Highland Colony. They laid out a city which they named Ridgeland and enticed settlers from the Northern US to move south. Farming thrived with pears and strawberries among the chief crops

In 1805, the Choctaw Indian Agency was located on the Natchez Trace in the area, which is now Ridgeland. It was called Turner Brashear's Stand with Silas Dinsmore as the agent in charge. Andrew Jackson traveled the Natchez Trace to and from the Battle of New Orleans. Among other famous Americans passing through Ridgeland on the Natchez Trace were Meriweather Lewis and John James Audubon.

Around 1850, Brashear's Stand was changed to King's Inn. King was associated with the infamous Murrell gang who terrorized, robbed and killed travelers on the Natchez Trace. General Stephen Lee used King's Inn as his headquarters during the War Between the States. Later known as Hawthorne Vale, it was destroyed by fire in 1896.

James B. Yellowley of South Carolina purchased the "Ridgeland area" in 1853 and established a community known as Yellowley's Crossing and later named it Jessamine for his wife. In 1865, the Illinois Central Railroad Station was known as Yellowley Switch and was the "highest point on the Illinois Central between Memphis and New Orleans".

Robert Turner Brashear Sr, son of Benjamin Brashear Jr and Catherine Belt, was born 18 MAY 1754 in Blandenburg, Prince George's Co., MD and died in 1821 in Natchez Dist., MS at age 67.

Noted events in his life were:

• He was employed. Hosteler (Hotel owner)

• Misc: Knew a Choctaw Indian named Franchemastabe.

• Named Turner after his great uncle

• Granted land by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.

• Newspaper Article: 02 DEC 1806. Advertised his hotel in the Natchez Gazette, as being on the road between Natchez and Nashville.

Robert married Hotioka T J "Jane" Appuckshunneebbee in 1770 in Okla Falya, Choctaw Nation, MS.

The child from this marriage was:

42 i. Robert Turner Brashear Jr

85. Hotioka T J "Jane" Appuckshunneebbee, daughter of Chief Toboca Appuckshunneebbee and A Bu To Na, was born in 1754 in Okla Falya, Choctaw Nation, MS and died in 1822 in MS at age 68.

General Notes: Alternate Name: Jane Hotoika

Daughter of full blooded Choctaw Indian named Tobaco (Apuck shu nubbee or Snagbe). Also known as Jane Apuck shu nubbee. Was not present at her father's testimony in 1778.

Noted events in her life were:

• She had a nationality. 4/4 Choctaw

Hotioka married Robert Turner Brashear Sr in 1770 in Okla Falya, Choctaw Nation, MS.