Alexander “Little Page” Green (1806-1874) joined the Methodist Episcopal Churches Nashville Conference in 1829. He was elected vice-president of the Tennessee Conference’s Temperance Society in 1835. Green was instrumental in the Southern Methodist Publishing House’s move to Nashville in 1854, and also helped establish Shelby Medical College (1857) and Vanderbilt University (1875). Whites Creek’s first school was renamed Alex Green Academy in 1887. Pictured here are students in the mid-1920s including Eloine Duke. as well as the Alex Green Elementary school in the 1960s. Pictures courtesy of the Hudson Estate
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Zachariah White came from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. White had worked as a millwright in Pennsylvania where he had a wife and family. In 1778, he travelled with a party led by James Robertson going west over the Cumberland Mountains. Others in the party were George Freeland, James Freeland, William Neely, William Overall, William Fletcher, James Harris, Mark Robertson, Edward Swanson and Cornelius, a slave of James Robertson. According to Founding of Cumberland Settlements, Volume 1, “they planted a field of corn on the ground where Nashville now stands…and the
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Edmund and Helen Graves (see Graves-Campbell-Thompson house) were renting a house in Whites Creek  and owned eight to ten family slaves, including Winney. In February 1849, there was spring like weather and Winney attempted to gain her freedom by fleeing to Nashville. She stayed with Shed Peters, a free mulatto blacksmith who lived on Charlotte Pike. During this time there was a deadly outbreak of cholera. Graves recaptured Winney who was said to value $600. He sued Shed Peters for negro stealing and for harboring a fugitive, but the jury was unable
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Frederick Stump (1724-1820), founder of Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania came to settle in Whites Creek by way of Georgia. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who is said to have killed five British officers during this war. Married to Anna Snavely, they had numerous children several of who were killed by Indians during the French and Indian War while they still lived in Pennsylvania. After the Stump Massacre of 1768, where Frederick killed and scalped a small group of Indians, he was jailed for a few days but released by sympathizers and fled
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There are two Knights brothers that came from NC, of course Tennessee was part of NC at that time. One of them was my great-great-grandfather, Peter Knight and he married the daughter of the Governor of NC, believe it or not. I don’t know why she was agreeable to come over here to the woods, coming to a new territory with nothing. Peter had a brother named Allen. Allen came first so the story goes and started to settle up here. Allen was granted a land grant for services in
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