HAYSLOPE - Russellville, TN
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vhasler
N 36° 15.091 W 083° 11.701
17S E 302783 N 4014080
Home originally of Col. James Roddye awarded for services in the Battle of King's Mountain.
Waymark Code: WM9WV8
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2010
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Left from Russellville on a graveled road 0.5 m. to HAYSLOPE, Roddye's home. It was a hewn-log cabin with steep shingled roof and outside fieldstone chimney. The house has been remodeled several times. In early times this house sheltered many leading citizens of the Territory and of the new State. The owner's hospitality was not limited by religious bias; any itinerant preacher was sure of a bed, a meal, and a meeting-room when he reached this place. At one time mass was held in the cabin. Roddye, however, was a member of the Bent Creek Baptist Church which, like other frontier churches, took responsibility for the conduct of its members; on one occasion the congregation reproved him for "the transaction of fighting." At
the next meeting, two members appointed to "labor with him" recommended that he be "restored to fellowship in the church when he feels satisfied with himself."
In the immediately preceeding paragraph in the guide, this "land [was] awarded Col. James Roddye for services in the Battle of King's Mountain. [Russellville] was named for his second wife, who had been a Miss Russell. Roddye was a delegate to the North Carolina convention of 1788, a member of the first Tennessee constitutional convention, and a signer of the State's first Constitution."
----- TENNESSEE - A Guide to the State (third printing 1949)
The house, maintained in fair condition, is on now-paved Warrensburg Road just across the railroad tracks on the right (west).
Further information about Hayslope (here)
The Bent Creek Baptist Church referenced can be found over in Whiitesburg, TN (Waymark WM57WE).