Notes for Rev Noah HAGGARD

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Notes for Rev Noah HAGGARD

As a baby, Noah moved with his parents to the forks of the Little Pidgeon River in Sevier County where he grew to manhood. He was about 8 years old when the State of Tennessee was created in 1796.

When Rev. Noah Haggard was 18, he married his cousin Sarah Randolph on January 28, 1807, Jefferson County, Tennessee, daughter of James and Sally (Gentry) Randolph of Neighboring Jefferson County. Sarah was born ca. 1789, Jefferson County TN, died 17 June 1868, Montevallo, Shelby, Al.
Noah and Sarah settled in Sevier County where on 13 June 1810, he received a patent for 150 acres in Crowson's Cove on the waters of Walden Creek adjacent to his father as well as Aaron Crowson, Richard Shields and Cove Creek. Noah and Sarah had twelve children.

Noah Haggard following his father's example became a licensed preacher of the Babtist Church. By 1813 he had joined the Wear Cove Baptist Church, serving as a delegate to the Association Meetings from 1813 to 1815. As reported some 50 years later, "Uneducated, poor, clad in homespun, without books, without pay, he would set forth from his ill furnished cabin to proclaim the Master he loved and leave a family of helpless little ones and their mother amid her lonely fears."

In 1816, as soon as the Alabama Territory was opened for settlement after the Creek Indian War of 1813/14, Noah was one of the first to head to this wilderness when there was no road but an Indian trail. Probably moving with Noah was his Father, brother Martin, sisters Elizabeth Clabaugh, Nancy Fancher, Susan Fancher and their families. Brother Joel followed a few years later. It is believed that Noah first associated with the Cahaba Valley Baptist Church in present Bibb County, Alabama, before settling in Perry County.

By 1821, Noah and Sarah Haggard were living in Southwest Perry County where on 3 January 1825, Noah patented 82 acres of land near Possum Creek.

In February of 1821, Noah and Sarah were received into the Oakmulee (Ocmulee) Baptist Church which according to the church minutes, has been established the preceding May to bring together the scattered members of the Baptist order in this neighborhood. "Noah, feeling the call to become an ordained, addressed his fellow church members and on 25 August 1821, as written in the minutes, "the church unanimously agree to the call of Brother Haggard to ordination which is to take place on Saturday before the fourth Sabbath in September." However on September 22 1821, the necessary number of ordained ministers could not attend.
He was not ordained officially until everyone could attend after the winter wet months. So on February 23,1822, he was officially ordained.

In June of 1822 he was pastor of the Oakmulee Church, and continued to be for 9 years. In 1830 Noah and Sarah Haggard's family had grown to five boys and five girls, with two more to follow. Eldest son Martin had already married and was living nearby.

In 1834 the Haggard's left the church and moved up the Oakmulgee Creek about 12 miles where they joined the Pisgah Baptist Chruch. Noah and family settled on 320 acres, purchased by Noah from James Husky on June 11, 1834. Nearby lived Noah's niece Dorothy Lovelady and her family. By 1840 son John G. as well as the older daughters had married.

They remained members of that church for the next 12 years watching the congregation grow from 46 to 159 members. Meanwhile son Martin who had become a deacon and in 1834 a licensed preacher had settled on 120 acres a half mile west of Noah's land and son Gentry had settled about 4 miles up the Oakmulee on land purchased from Jesse Lovelady.

In 1847, Noah Haggard, now 59 years old, became pastor of Cahaba Valley Baptist Church in neighboring Bibb County, the same church he had been associated with some 30 years earlier. In 1849 Noah served on the Association's Indian Mission Committee and in 1850 was a delegate to the Association along with his nephew, A.F. Clabaugh, sons James R. and John G. became ordained ministers also.
(Continued with the notes of Sarah Haggard)
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Noah Haggards original will is on file at the Samford University Library in Birmingham, Alabama.
"State of Alabama, Shelby County". Before me Wm McMath and acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally came Alamoth Woods, he being duly sworn deposed and says the he is the executor of the estate of NOAH HAGGARD, deceased. that in the above account he has charged himself with all the assets of the deceased which have come into his possession and what he has credited himself with the credit that he believes himself to be entitle to by law. Sworn and subscribed before me, this 14th day of July 1873. Wm M. McMath S/Alamoth Woods.

"The state of Alabama, Shelby County} To the Hon Probate Court of said county the undersigned executor of the estate of NOAH HAGGARD, deceased respectfully represents unto your honor, that he files this as a statement of the heirs and legatees of said decedent accompanying his account for final settlement of said estate this day filed in said court viz: James R. Haggard, Tennessee, Martin Haggard, Texas, John G. Haggard's children, Texas, children of Mary Jones, Perry County, Children of Henry Haggard, Perry County, Alabama, NANCY A. HERRING, Texas, children of Sallie McCullough, Texas, Sue R. Woods, Shelby County, Alabama, and Lucy Wood, Gadsden, Etowas County, Alabama, who are alone the heirs and legatees of said estate"

The above two items are both on page 107 of the probate records in Shelby County.

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