Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Mt Lebanon Cemetery 2 mi so of Gibsland LA
• Name: James J. Brinson Jr
• Birth: Abt 1761, New Bern Craven County NC

Notes:

He was a Captain in Wilson Co. Tennessee Tax District. He lived in
Sumner Co. Tennessee in 1799. Served in the war of 1812. Left
Tennessee about 1816-1817 for Louisiana with wife's parents. He
established Baptist churches in North Louisiana. Lived in Claiborne
Parish Louisiana in the earely 1820's. He and his wife were charter
members of Providence Church (June 11, 1825) near Athens, Louisiana.

Family/Spouse: Martha Williams Kounce. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Patience Elizabeth Purser on 14 Apr 1783 in Craven County North Carolina. Patience was born about 1761 in Bath County, VA; died on 4 Oct 1850 in Athens, Claiborne Parish, LA; was buried in Athens, Claiborne Parish, LA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Laurett Brinson
2. Mitchell Brinson
3. Mary Ann Brinson was born on 30 Oct 1786; died in 1825.
4. Elizabeth Brinson was born about 1789.
5. Enoch Brinson was born on 1 Dec 1791.
6. Josiah Brinson was born in 1793.
7. Helen (Holland) Brinson was born on 10 Apr 1795 in Craven County NC; died in Athens LA; was buried in 1859 in Old Athens Cemetary, Claiborne Parish, LA.
8. Phillip Purser Brinson was born on 31 Dec 1802 in Wilson County, TN; died on 24 May 1882 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, LA.
9. Sarah Ann Brinson was born in 1804 in Wilson County, TN.
10. Keziah Brinson was born in 1805.

Notes:

Elders James Brinson & Arthur McFarland, Alexander F. Nelson, and Christopher Koonce
Baptist minister James Brinson and his wife Patience Elizabeth Purser, together with their daughter Holland and her husband Arthur McFarland, arrived in the Upper Pine Hills shortly before 1820 from Wilson County Tennessee. Accompanying them were Brinson's brother-in-law, Alexander F. Nelson, and son-in-law, Christopher Koonce. Together with the Honeycutts and Farmers, these Tennessee newcomers founded the Pine Hills Baptist Church in the Upper Pine Hills, in the vicinity of modern Vienna and Downsville. Brinson preached the first documented Baptist sermons in the Ouachita Valley, and he ordained his son-in-law, Arthur McFarland, soon after arriving in Louisiana. Brinson established churches across northwestern Louisiana in the 1820s, including many in modern Claiborne and Webster Parishes. In addition, he became active in the Louisiana Baptist Association in the early 1820s after his church joined that body. The delegates elected him as the moderator of the 1827 Associational Meeting held near Minden at the Black Lake Church that Brinson had helped to found a few years earlier. When they first arrived in Louisiana from Tennessee, Brinson, McFarland, Nelson, and Koonce first settled in the Upper Pine Hills, on the upper reaches of the waters of Bayou d'Arbonne near Vienna and Downsville. By 1826, Brinson had temporarily moved to Natchitoches Parish, leaving McFarland in Ouachita. By 1830, Brinson, McFarland, Nelson, and Koonce moved into the far reaches of Bayou d'Arbonne into Claiborne Parish, where Brinson died on 5 September 1831. In November 1832, Arthur McFarland, Haywood Alford, and John Impson served as ministers of Pine Hills Baptist Church. McFarland continued his ministry in Claiborne Parish until sometime after 1860 [20].

James married Kezia Linton about 1755. Kezia was born in Hayword County, NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cason married Frances Marsh about 1718 in Princess Anne County VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mathew + Mary Cason. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]