Son of Enoch Bruton & Dorcas Wofford. David Brewton/Bruton was born 1790 in Spartanburg Co, SC.
David Bruton married Nancy Langford February 8, 1810. They resided but a short time in South Carolina; after their marriage they crossed the mountains by packhorse conveyance to Alabama; after a few years there they went by boat to Tennessee and from there to Mississippi; after some little time there they moved to Webster County, Mo. near the Devils Den, July 6,1841. He was a soldier of 1812. {This information was compiled by Dr. J. T. Bruton M. D. and Daughter, Miss Helen of Carl Junction, Mo.}
He received a Military Land Grant in Webster County, Missouri for Soldiers Of The War Of 1812. Regiment: Hodges’s Company South Carolina Militia. (Webster County MO Archives Military Records War of 1812)
They moved their family to McNairy Co, TN between 1820 and 1826 where David taught school for 6 years (3 months, 5 days a week); then moved to Webster County, Missouri in 1843 where he took up a claim near Henderson.
On 5 July 1826 he and the following men sign an "agreement" obligating him to teach reading, writing and arithmetic to their 13 children for a three-month term for five days a week:
Charles S. Spencer (2 children)
Michael R. Bolt (2 children)
George Reaves (1 child)
James Colly (1 child)
Joseph Clark (3 children)
Samuel Redden (1 child)
James Stewart (1 child)
WIn. Smith (1 child)
Josiah Courtice (1 child)
When the David Bruton family left McNairy County, they moved to Greene County, MO and Webster County, MO.
The Bruton children were:
Thomas Bruton, b. Oct 1811 (married Lavinia Scott)
Benjamin Bruton, b. Nov 1813 (married America Pruitt)
Dorcas Bruton, b. May 1816 (married Frederic Branstetter)
Hiram Bruton, b. June 1818 (married Elizabeth Rhinehart)
Edia Bruton, b. July 1821 (married Edmund P. Cardwell)
Miles Bruton, b. May 1824 (married Lucy Ann Ford, Eleanor Boaz Still, Priscilla Emaline Harrison, Nellie Green(?), and Nancy Leming.
Elizabeth Bruton, b. May 1826 (married Merel McDonald)
Clarinda Bruton, b. Dec 1830 (married Mark Hatfield)
Dr. Jesse Thompson Bruton,M.D., b. July 1832 (married Martha F. Dameron, Mary Hide, and Lucy A, Fike.)
Dr. David Pinkney Bruton,M.D., b. July 1835/6 (married Mary Miller Martin)
Hon. Tyrrel Phillip Bruton, b. April 30, 1838, he married Martha McDonald. {He was a Repesentative from Douglas county. State Journal (Jefferson City MO); March 20, 1874.}
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Other Brutons were in Tennessee early, appearing in the "Indian Boundary" of Grainger County in 1797 and in the 1805/06 tax list of Anderson County.
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David and Nancy (Langford) Bruton were both members of old and honorable southern families. David was born near Greenville, South Carolina and was a son of Enoch Bruton. After his marriage, David and his wife went to Alabama and there engaged in farming, later moving to Georgia and then to McNairy County, Tennessee, where he remained for some time engaged in farming. He was a very intelligent man and of a somewhat roving disposition. Later he moved to Mississippi and went from there in 1841 to Greene County, Missouri, locating near Springfield, where he improved a farm, but in 1850 he went to a farm located near Van Buren, Arkansas, returning in 1851 to Springfield, where he remained until his death. His political opinions made him a Republican and he was a leading member of the Baptist church. For many years he served as Justice of the Peace and in whatever locality he settled he soon became known and respected. {Taken from the History of Jasper County, Missouri, By: Hon. Malcolm G. McGregor. Published in 1901. Pages 259-60-61.}
On 02 Dec 1871 Webster County, Missouri, Nancy Langford filed for a pension for the service of David Bruton (her husband) in the War of 1812. According to the document, David Bruton enlisted in the Greenville District of South Carolina as a Private in Captain Harley's Company. Other documents have David Bruton as a Private, Nash's Regiment South Carolina Volunteers.
David Bruton married Nancy Langford February 8, 1810. They resided but a short time in South Carolina; after their marriage they crossed the mountains by packhorse conveyance to Alabama; after a few years there they went by boat to Tennessee and from there to Mississippi; after some little time there they moved to Webster County, Mo. near the Devils Den, July 6,1841. He was a soldier of 1812. {This information was compiled by Dr. J. T. Bruton M. D. and Daughter, Miss Helen of Carl Junction, Mo.}
He received a Military Land Grant in Webster County, Missouri for Soldiers Of The War Of 1812. Regiment: Hodges’s Company South Carolina Militia. (Webster County MO Archives Military Records War of 1812)
They moved their family to McNairy Co, TN between 1820 and 1826 where David taught school for 6 years (3 months, 5 days a week); then moved to Webster County, Missouri in 1843 where he took up a claim near Henderson.
On 5 July 1826 he and the following men sign an "agreement" obligating him to teach reading, writing and arithmetic to their 13 children for a three-month term for five days a week:
Charles S. Spencer (2 children)
Michael R. Bolt (2 children)
George Reaves (1 child)
James Colly (1 child)
Joseph Clark (3 children)
Samuel Redden (1 child)
James Stewart (1 child)
WIn. Smith (1 child)
Josiah Courtice (1 child)
When the David Bruton family left McNairy County, they moved to Greene County, MO and Webster County, MO.
The Bruton children were:
Thomas Bruton, b. Oct 1811 (married Lavinia Scott)
Benjamin Bruton, b. Nov 1813 (married America Pruitt)
Dorcas Bruton, b. May 1816 (married Frederic Branstetter)
Hiram Bruton, b. June 1818 (married Elizabeth Rhinehart)
Edia Bruton, b. July 1821 (married Edmund P. Cardwell)
Miles Bruton, b. May 1824 (married Lucy Ann Ford, Eleanor Boaz Still, Priscilla Emaline Harrison, Nellie Green(?), and Nancy Leming.
Elizabeth Bruton, b. May 1826 (married Merel McDonald)
Clarinda Bruton, b. Dec 1830 (married Mark Hatfield)
Dr. Jesse Thompson Bruton,M.D., b. July 1832 (married Martha F. Dameron, Mary Hide, and Lucy A, Fike.)
Dr. David Pinkney Bruton,M.D., b. July 1835/6 (married Mary Miller Martin)
Hon. Tyrrel Phillip Bruton, b. April 30, 1838, he married Martha McDonald. {He was a Repesentative from Douglas county. State Journal (Jefferson City MO); March 20, 1874.}
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Other Brutons were in Tennessee early, appearing in the "Indian Boundary" of Grainger County in 1797 and in the 1805/06 tax list of Anderson County.
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David and Nancy (Langford) Bruton were both members of old and honorable southern families. David was born near Greenville, South Carolina and was a son of Enoch Bruton. After his marriage, David and his wife went to Alabama and there engaged in farming, later moving to Georgia and then to McNairy County, Tennessee, where he remained for some time engaged in farming. He was a very intelligent man and of a somewhat roving disposition. Later he moved to Mississippi and went from there in 1841 to Greene County, Missouri, locating near Springfield, where he improved a farm, but in 1850 he went to a farm located near Van Buren, Arkansas, returning in 1851 to Springfield, where he remained until his death. His political opinions made him a Republican and he was a leading member of the Baptist church. For many years he served as Justice of the Peace and in whatever locality he settled he soon became known and respected. {Taken from the History of Jasper County, Missouri, By: Hon. Malcolm G. McGregor. Published in 1901. Pages 259-60-61.}
On 02 Dec 1871 Webster County, Missouri, Nancy Langford filed for a pension for the service of David Bruton (her husband) in the War of 1812. According to the document, David Bruton enlisted in the Greenville District of South Carolina as a Private in Captain Harley's Company. Other documents have David Bruton as a Private, Nash's Regiment South Carolina Volunteers.
Son of Enoch Bruton & Dorcas Wofford. David Brewton/Bruton was born 1790 in Spartanburg Co, SC.
David Bruton married Nancy Langford February 8, 1810. They resided but a short time in South Carolina; after their marriage they crossed the mountains by packhorse conveyance to Alabama; after a few years there they went by boat to Tennessee and from there to Mississippi; after some little time there they moved to Webster County, Mo. near the Devils Den, July 6,1841. He was a soldier of 1812. {This information was compiled by Dr. J. T. Bruton M. D. and Daughter, Miss Helen of Carl Junction, Mo.}
He received a Military Land Grant in Webster County, Missouri for Soldiers Of The War Of 1812. Regiment: Hodges’s Company South Carolina Militia. (Webster County MO Archives Military Records War of 1812)
They moved their family to McNairy Co, TN between 1820 and 1826 where David taught school for 6 years (3 months, 5 days a week); then moved to Webster County, Missouri in 1843 where he took up a claim near Henderson.
On 5 July 1826 he and the following men sign an "agreement" obligating him to teach reading, writing and arithmetic to their 13 children for a three-month term for five days a week:
Charles S. Spencer (2 children)
Michael R. Bolt (2 children)
George Reaves (1 child)
James Colly (1 child)
Joseph Clark (3 children)
Samuel Redden (1 child)
James Stewart (1 child)
WIn. Smith (1 child)
Josiah Courtice (1 child)
When the David Bruton family left McNairy County, they moved to Greene County, MO and Webster County, MO.
The Bruton children were:
Thomas Bruton, b. Oct 1811 (married Lavinia Scott)
Benjamin Bruton, b. Nov 1813 (married America Pruitt)
Dorcas Bruton, b. May 1816 (married Frederic Branstetter)
Hiram Bruton, b. June 1818 (married Elizabeth Rhinehart)
Edia Bruton, b. July 1821 (married Edmund P. Cardwell)
Miles Bruton, b. May 1824 (married Lucy Ann Ford, Eleanor Boaz Still, Priscilla Emaline Harrison, Nellie Green(?), and Nancy Leming.
Elizabeth Bruton, b. May 1826 (married Merel McDonald)
Clarinda Bruton, b. Dec 1830 (married Mark Hatfield)
Dr. Jesse Thompson Bruton,M.D., b. July 1832 (married Martha F. Dameron, Mary Hide, and Lucy A, Fike.)
Dr. David Pinkney Bruton,M.D., b. July 1835/6 (married Mary Miller Martin)
Hon. Tyrrel Phillip Bruton, b. April 30, 1838, he married Martha McDonald. {He was a Repesentative from Douglas county. State Journal (Jefferson City MO); March 20, 1874.}
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Other Brutons were in Tennessee early, appearing in the "Indian Boundary" of Grainger County in 1797 and in the 1805/06 tax list of Anderson County.
* * * * * * * * * *
David and Nancy (Langford) Bruton were both members of old and honorable southern families. David was born near Greenville, South Carolina and was a son of Enoch Bruton. After his marriage, David and his wife went to Alabama and there engaged in farming, later moving to Georgia and then to McNairy County, Tennessee, where he remained for some time engaged in farming. He was a very intelligent man and of a somewhat roving disposition. Later he moved to Mississippi and went from there in 1841 to Greene County, Missouri, locating near Springfield, where he improved a farm, but in 1850 he went to a farm located near Van Buren, Arkansas, returning in 1851 to Springfield, where he remained until his death. His political opinions made him a Republican and he was a leading member of the Baptist church. For many years he served as Justice of the Peace and in whatever locality he settled he soon became known and respected. {Taken from the History of Jasper County, Missouri, By: Hon. Malcolm G. McGregor. Published in 1901. Pages 259-60-61.}
On 02 Dec 1871 Webster County, Missouri, Nancy Langford filed for a pension for the service of David Bruton (her husband) in the War of 1812. According to the document, David Bruton enlisted in the Greenville District of South Carolina as a Private in Captain Harley's Company. Other documents have David Bruton as a Private, Nash's Regiment South Carolina Volunteers.
David Bruton married Nancy Langford February 8, 1810. They resided but a short time in South Carolina; after their marriage they crossed the mountains by packhorse conveyance to Alabama; after a few years there they went by boat to Tennessee and from there to Mississippi; after some little time there they moved to Webster County, Mo. near the Devils Den, July 6,1841. He was a soldier of 1812. {This information was compiled by Dr. J. T. Bruton M. D. and Daughter, Miss Helen of Carl Junction, Mo.}
He received a Military Land Grant in Webster County, Missouri for Soldiers Of The War Of 1812. Regiment: Hodges’s Company South Carolina Militia. (Webster County MO Archives Military Records War of 1812)
They moved their family to McNairy Co, TN between 1820 and 1826 where David taught school for 6 years (3 months, 5 days a week); then moved to Webster County, Missouri in 1843 where he took up a claim near Henderson.
On 5 July 1826 he and the following men sign an "agreement" obligating him to teach reading, writing and arithmetic to their 13 children for a three-month term for five days a week:
Charles S. Spencer (2 children)
Michael R. Bolt (2 children)
George Reaves (1 child)
James Colly (1 child)
Joseph Clark (3 children)
Samuel Redden (1 child)
James Stewart (1 child)
WIn. Smith (1 child)
Josiah Courtice (1 child)
When the David Bruton family left McNairy County, they moved to Greene County, MO and Webster County, MO.
The Bruton children were:
Thomas Bruton, b. Oct 1811 (married Lavinia Scott)
Benjamin Bruton, b. Nov 1813 (married America Pruitt)
Dorcas Bruton, b. May 1816 (married Frederic Branstetter)
Hiram Bruton, b. June 1818 (married Elizabeth Rhinehart)
Edia Bruton, b. July 1821 (married Edmund P. Cardwell)
Miles Bruton, b. May 1824 (married Lucy Ann Ford, Eleanor Boaz Still, Priscilla Emaline Harrison, Nellie Green(?), and Nancy Leming.
Elizabeth Bruton, b. May 1826 (married Merel McDonald)
Clarinda Bruton, b. Dec 1830 (married Mark Hatfield)
Dr. Jesse Thompson Bruton,M.D., b. July 1832 (married Martha F. Dameron, Mary Hide, and Lucy A, Fike.)
Dr. David Pinkney Bruton,M.D., b. July 1835/6 (married Mary Miller Martin)
Hon. Tyrrel Phillip Bruton, b. April 30, 1838, he married Martha McDonald. {He was a Repesentative from Douglas county. State Journal (Jefferson City MO); March 20, 1874.}
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Other Brutons were in Tennessee early, appearing in the "Indian Boundary" of Grainger County in 1797 and in the 1805/06 tax list of Anderson County.
* * * * * * * * * *
David and Nancy (Langford) Bruton were both members of old and honorable southern families. David was born near Greenville, South Carolina and was a son of Enoch Bruton. After his marriage, David and his wife went to Alabama and there engaged in farming, later moving to Georgia and then to McNairy County, Tennessee, where he remained for some time engaged in farming. He was a very intelligent man and of a somewhat roving disposition. Later he moved to Mississippi and went from there in 1841 to Greene County, Missouri, locating near Springfield, where he improved a farm, but in 1850 he went to a farm located near Van Buren, Arkansas, returning in 1851 to Springfield, where he remained until his death. His political opinions made him a Republican and he was a leading member of the Baptist church. For many years he served as Justice of the Peace and in whatever locality he settled he soon became known and respected. {Taken from the History of Jasper County, Missouri, By: Hon. Malcolm G. McGregor. Published in 1901. Pages 259-60-61.}
On 02 Dec 1871 Webster County, Missouri, Nancy Langford filed for a pension for the service of David Bruton (her husband) in the War of 1812. According to the document, David Bruton enlisted in the Greenville District of South Carolina as a Private in Captain Harley's Company. Other documents have David Bruton as a Private, Nash's Regiment South Carolina Volunteers.
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