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4 Wednesday, May 2, 2007 BRENTWOOD JOURNAL www.tennessean.com WHO'S TALKING New life ahead for historic Waller Chapel George Mayfield's flaming red hair likely saved his scalp Nolensville Notes Vicky Travis Leani Brentwood 1 T. Vance Little should contact president Glenda Palmer at thepalmers2 juno.com. As always, guests are welcome at the monthly meeting set for 10:30 am. Thursday. A program on the lymphatic system will be presented by Joan Wherley, Williamson County Agricultural Extension agent Lunch follows.

Remember your school memories: A plan for a keepsake booklet full of stories and photos of Nolensville Elementary School was hatched months go by Principal Beth Ferguson and anyone and everyone who has memories of the school way back when or even this year can write a mini-saga for the booldet. Photos of then and now are needed. Ferguson is especially hoping folks in the community, who went to, worked at, loved the school years ago will write. If you can, write your 50- word mini-saga and e-mail it to nolensvillememories yahoo.com. If you can attach a photo, that's great.

If you're old-school and want to put your story on paper and have old prints, please bring them to the school's office, where a box will be set up. I'm helping put this together, so contact me if you have questions. Contact Nolensville resident Vicky Travis at vtravistennessean.corn. After the owner of the historic Waller Chapel died last year, people wondered what the empty building might become. Another antique store, a restaurant? Looks like things are coming full circle and it will be a funeral home again, possibly by the end of the summer.

Woodbine Funeral Home owners Billy Appleton and Wendell Byrd closed on the purchase of the building about a month ago. Talk about full circle, Woodbine has Nolensville roots. Its founder, Herman Potts, lived in Nolensville and opened the business in 1955. Appleton and Byrd have been in business together since the 1960s and opened the Hickory Chapel branch in the '80s. "We're glad to come to Nolensville," says Byrd, who with Appleton also owns Hickory Chapel on Nolensville Road.

The owners heard about the building being for sale from Evelyn Bennett, who lives across the street from Waller Chapel, which closed for business a few years ago. Mary Frances Parrish owned the business with her husband, Burton, who served as our area's funeral director for years. The business, started in 1875, was one of the oldest family historic district during the third annual Buttercup Festival. The event will run from 10 am. to 4 p.m.

Specials will be available in the stores and more vendors are expected this year. Vendors will include a pulled pork station, burgers, an old-time photo studio, arts and crafts. Raffle tickets for a special prize will be sold for 50 cents each. For information about the festival, call 776-4252. Ravenwood craft show Also Saturday, Ravenwood High School will hold its annual craft show to benefit athletics programs.

It will nm 9 am. to 3 p.m. in the gym. Look for the flower display out front to guide you in. "We're really excited about everything," says organizer Sarah Grams.

"We've got some great artisans coming." New this year, box lunches from Simply Divine will be available for $5 each. Neighbodiood yard sale: The shopping opportunities Saturday just never end. Greystone Estates subdivision is holding its semi-annual yard sale starting at 7:30 am. till See ya there. Friendly Neighbors aub: Club members are hoping to sponsor a contestant in the Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corp.

beauty pageant on Aug. 18. Interested young ladies between 16 and 21 years old owned businesses in the county. After Burton died, Mary Frances kept the business running. She died last year.

The new owners respect the history of the Waller Chapel and knew Mary Frances Parrish through professional conventions and meetings. "We're going to keep the tradition there as best we can," says Appleton, who's also a member of the Nolensville Lions Club. "There are lots of memories for many families there," he says. "It's a sacred-type building. One reason we bought it was to make sure it stays that way." Waller Chapel was rebuilt after fire destroyed several buildings in Nolensville's historic district in 1953.

As far as renovations needed, they're all cosmetic. "The building's in excellent shape," he says. "It just needs upgrading." Welcome to the neighborhood. Buttemup Festival: Saturday's the day to wander over to our One of Brentwood's most legendary figures is George Mayfield. He's best known for having been kidnapped by the Creek Indians in 1789 during a raid on his father's new fort on what was to become Old Smyrna Road.

Brentwood was newly settled at that time and the Mayfields are said to have been the first family to settle in the area The elder Mayfield and one of his sons were killed. George was carried off by the Indians. The raid was not caused by the Creeks' being irate over encroachment on their lands. The Creeks did not recognize property rights in the same way as our Anglo-Saxon ancestors. The Creeks believed in communal rights and thought that the land was for everyone.

The Creeks might have been a bit ticked off by encroachment on their hunting right to Middle Tennessee, but the main culprits in the matter were the Spaniards. They wanted to expand their American holdings in the West and Florida to include Middle Tennessee. They, consequently, stirred up the Creeks to try to stop the English settlement Also, George Mayfield is said to have had flaming red hair. They probably wanted to show him off wearing his scalp rather than having it attached to their belts. And so, George was whisked away to central Alabama, the homeland of the Creeks.

He seems to have assimilated well into their culture. He learned the Creek language and adapted to their customs. We do not know the circumstances surrounding his return to his Brentwood home, but he did so about 1800. He would have been about 21 years old. As we will see, he probably departed from the Creeks on good terms.

Some say that his mother appealed directly to President George Washington in an effort to get him released. It is doubtful that happened. He returned to Brentwood to fmd that he had inherited his share of his grandfather's land. It is said that he was not very impressed with being a landowner because he had picked up on the Indians' practice of communal ownership of land. George Mayfield mauled Sarah McAlpin, granddaughter of John Henderson, who had received one of the original North Carolina land grants in Brentwood.

They must have jumped over the broomstick because no record can be found of the marriage in public records. They took up residence on land that McAlpin had inher Mikey's on a diet, and Puppy and I couldn't be happier ited from her grandfather. They lived on Wilson Pike north of Old Smyrna Road at what is today the Mayfield subdivision By the time the Creek War broke out, George Mayfield had become friends with Andrew Jackson, commander of the U.S. forces. He enlisted the support of George Mayfield as guide and interpreter because of his 10- or I2-year tenure with the Creeks.

Mayfield joined John Gordon's Company Mounted Spies. He was wounded at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. After the Creek War, George Mayfield applied for a pension The application was written (or dictated) and signed by Jackson In the application, Jackson identified Mayfield as a private in John Gordon's Company of Spies in the Creek War. Jackson said he ordered Mayfield to accompany him to where the Indians were surrounded. Jackson told Mayfield to speak to the Indians in their language, telling them they could not escape and they would be humanely treated if they would surrender.

They surrendered on the spot Jackson described Mayfield's injury as being from a bullet "aimed" at him. He said that it glanced by his head, missing him and striking a black oak tree and wounding Mayfield in the shoulder. He said this severe wound deprived Mayfield the use of his right shoulder for a great while. Jackson concluded that Mayfield was entitled to a pension as much as any soldier wounded under his command. A peace treaty was signed with the Creeks under which they ceded to the United States most of Alabama and part of Georgia The Creeks insisted upon awarding Mayfield a land grant of 640 acres in appreciation for his fairness and integrity in dealing with them during the war.

The kindly gesture never materialized. But it said a lot about Mayfield. George lived in the Brentwood community until his death in 1848. He was the father of at least two sons, Southerland Shannon Mayfield and George Andrew Jackson Mayfield. Both of them became physicians.

According to reports George Mayfield was well-respected, albeit a bit eccentric. Have a question on Brentwood's history? Write historian I. Vance Little at ttylittleaol.corn A trio The flu Wag Sally the Dog Speaking of Gayle Brinkley, she and Eunetta Kready and Mary Fran Ligon are three gals who grew up together in Franklin and who still are best friends today. Eunetta has a sweet dog, Simi. You can see them walking around downtown Franklin nearly every morning.

is all natural, made in the United States. Even better, these guys say the food is delivered to their door. So, if they get hungry and Mom's out of town, they hit the keyboard for www.deliverpetfood.com. Bwahaha. It's a new day at the Stout house.

One dog's trash is another's treasure. A new Franklin furry friend, Mikey Levine, is a dog who was forced by his doctor to go on a diet. Black news for Mikey. Silver cloud for this dog and my pal Puppy. And I use the term "pal" very loosely.

Here's what happened: Mikey's mom, Dr. Carol Hersh, is a fab cook. She made all kinds of things for Mikey, such as roast lamb. Yep, roast lamb. But Mikey's doc said "no more." Now, with my allergies, I can eat only lamb and rice, either dry food or cooked at home.

Mikey and his mom donated a slew of roasted lamb from their freezer, already divided out into doggie-size servings. Oh, dog. Are we eating well at our house! Thank you, Mikey. Allergies Oh, dog, The Farm at Natchez Trace is having a free educational seminar on skin allergies at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

who suffer so from skin allergies, plan to go, and I'm taking Mom. Phoebe Connors will be the speaker. If you or your people want to go to the free seminar, call 662- 6682. The Farm is a posh doggie hotel so make sure if you go, you don't get left behind. Though there are way worse places to be left than this hotel, where you have a doggie bed and a TV in your room.

Puppy stayed there once. He shredded the bed and pot-tied in the main living room as he left. He's been banned. When I go to the allergy seminar, I won't divulge that he is in any way related to me. The Farm is at 9479 Highway 96 W.

in Franklin. Ciao for now. My furry friends, if you have news and views or just want to howl "hi," have your people contact my people at vicki.stoutcomcastmet And do read my online biog. Go to www.tennessean.com, then click Williamson AM. on the left side.

Jacks Wrigley Womack is a 16- year-old Jack Russell terrier who has done it all. He was quite the dude, back in the day. He's a great dog and the apple of his dad's eye. His dad is Rusty Womack Wrigley has three siblings: Fancy, Missy and Gabby. Rusty is a real Jack man, has bred them, hunted with them, but mostly loved them.

True love Libby Brinldey is a cute and sweet Franldin dog who has the biggest crush ever on the boy next door, Watson Schroer. She sits at her window waiting for that dog. Her brother, Bailey, thinks she's nuts. Bailey, who sadly is without sight, says love is blind. He likes Watson and his sibling, Lizzie, OK, but Libby, oh, dog, she's so smitten.

Libby and Bailey's parents are Gayle and Jerry Brinkley. Speaking of eating The pet food scare has another couple of Franklin dogs, Romeo and Deisel Lunn, checking their bowl. So, their mom, Phyllis Lunn, found a product, Nature's Select, that Two more Jacks And Rusty's girlfriend, Tracey Little, has two Jacks herself, Deuce and Tutti. She says six is more than enough when all the dogs are together. crafts KNOWING WHICH STOCKS TO OWN STARTS WITH KNOWING FESTIVAL 4 (4)' (Antiques ect 0 (Antiques ect YOUR GOALS.

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