Thomas J. Brandon Papers, 1877 – 1902

​The Thomas J. Brandon Papers contain personal, family and official documents of Thomas Jefferson Brandon (1856-1919) of Stewart County.  He was the son of Nathan Brandon (1820/1891) and Minerva E. Morris (1828-1881), who married in Stewart County in 1853.  He served as Chancery Court Clerk & Master from 1881-1886, Justice of the Peace for District 7 of Stewart County from 1888-1894, and Circuit Court Clerk from 1886-1902.

The T. J. Brandon Papers have always been part of the loose papers of the Circuit Court, given Brandon’s long (and last) tenure as Circuit Court Clerk, and have therefore been located in the courthouse, and for many years at the Stewart County Archives.
 
The personal papers of the collection involve:

• deeds of trust executed to T. J. Brandon and his brother W. M. Brandon;
• the estate papers of his father Nathan Brandon (for whose estate he was the administrator);
• the estate papers of his stepmother Josephine Brandon (died 1896, for whose estate he was the administrator);
• the estate papers of D. H. Gatlin (died 1896, for whose estate he was the administrator);
• the estate papers of J. P. Weaks (died 1899);
• pension correspondence on behalf of Civil War veterans Henry Brake, George W. Hart (his father-in-law) and Jesse Glasgow;

 
Note:  the pension papers of Jesse Glasgow, originally part of the collection, were donated by the Archives to a Glasgow descendant in 2020; only a digital copy of those papers is now in the collection
 
Separate from this collection of loose papers are four (4) Justice of the Peace dockets used by T. J. Brandon during his tenure as JP.  The dockets are stored with other JP dockets housed at the Archives.
 
The T. J. Brandon Collection is arranged in 1 archival box.

FOLDER LIST
 
Brake, Henry

• pension correspondence, 1892

 
Brandon, Josephine

• estate papers, 1897

 
Brandon, Nathan

• estate papers, 1877-1894
• pension correspondence, various dates

 
Brandon, T. J.

• private papers

 
Brandon, W. M.

• private papers

 
Gatlin, D. H.

• estate papers, 1896-1901

 
Hart, George W.

• pension correspondence, 1891-1893

 
Miscellaneous
 
Weaks, John P.

• estate papers, 1899