The Town of Braswell was created by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia on Dec. 13, 1895, and was named for
Henry Braswell. According to the History of Paulding County, "a sizeable community existed in the area prior
to the incorporation of the town, especially since the advent of the Southern Railroad about 1882. The Railway
Stop as known as BRASWELL, which was named for Henry Braswell, a prominent citizen of Dallas whose
daughter married Carey Spinks and reared a large and most respected family in Paulding. Mr. Braswell carried
on a sizeable saw mill operation in the vicinity and later worked for the Railroad. The town took its name from
the Railroad Stop."


Henry Braswell was the Son of Wesley Braswell, he was born May 20, 1831/32 in Newton/Dekalb Co.
He is listed in the 1850 Dekalb Co. Census in Wesley's household at age 19. He is also listed in the 1860 Georgia
Census in Paulding County at Age 27, male, farmer, real estate $930 - Personal Property $1400, born in Georgia.
Wife: Martha, Age 20, (born March 17, 1838; died August 11, 1901 and is buried in the Dallas City Cemetery in
Dallas, Georgia. Children: Branson, female, age 2, William age 7 months (born Sept. 7, 1859) and died June 30, 1862 and
is buried in the Dallas City Cemetery, Dallas, Georgia.; male, all born in Georgia.
Henry died on August 21, 1901 in Paulding County, Georgia and is buried in the Dallas City Cemetery, Dallas, GA.

Henry Braswell married Martha Evans in DeKalb Co, GA on 01 Jan 1857

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Henry Braswell is the son of Wesley Braswell.

Henry S. Braswell.
He supposedly married my great-grandmother Manda Tallulah Grist Wadsworth between 1900 and his death in 1902, although I have not been able to locate a marriage record for them. I know that he worked for the East Tennessee Virginia & Georgia RR (Southern Railway predecessor) and that he did quite well for himself buying and selling land.
The community of Braswell on the Polk-Paulding County line is named for him since he once owned most of the land around there.
Upon his death in 1902, he left my great- grandmother quite comfortable with assets in a house, land, and timber. He was considerably older than my great-grandmother
(he was born 1832, she was born 1871) and had
been married previously. He is buried at Dallas GA in the Dallas City Cemetery with his first wife.

My great-grandmother Manda Tallulah Grist married Henry S. Braswell between the summer of 1900 (when she was on the census in Paulding Co. and not married to him) and 1902 (when he died). The marriage record is not in Paulding Co. GA where he lived or neighboring Polk Co. GA where she lived. Has anybody come across this marriage record. My gr-grandmother used many variants on her name--Manda, Mandy, Amanda, and Lula (short for her middle name); and she appears as "Madge" on the 1900 census.

"The Carroll County Times" .
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JUNE 10, 1881

NEIGHBORHOOD News

From The Cedartown Advertiser we learn that Mr. Henry Braswell, living near
Dallas in Paulding county, had plowed up on his place the other day, by a negro
boy, a large number of gold coins, amounting to a thousand dollars or more.
The coins must have been buried a long time, as nearly all the figures are
effaced, but supposed to be of British origin.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/paulding/newspapers/goldcoin2167gnw.txt

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