Garret's Shop
First Settlers
Richard, David and William
Bragg - (1818) Children of Thomas Bragg and Hannah Knott from
Virginia, developed the area on the Tombigbee River known as
Bragg’s Bluff. David Bragg married Elizabeth Knott
James K. Durden- (1820)
from South Carolina, was a planter in the Bluff Port area.
Richard Garrett - Miller
and Physician, born in North Carolina married Charlotte Taylor in
1847 in Mobile County, Alabama.
William H. Knott - (1819)
Born in Virginia, was a planter in Bluff Port area. He married
Elmira J. Bragg
Edwin Robinson (1820)
from Virginia, married Caroline Sherine in 1836, born about 1820 in
North Carolina. Edwin was a planter in the Bluff Port area.
Col. James Innes Thornton
(1830)
Thornton established the 2,600
hundred acre estate known as the Thornhill Plantation northwest of
Forkland. Thornton, from Fredericksburg, Virginia,
was the first Secretary of State of Alabama and held this office
for thirteen years.
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