Always enjoy the annual Homecoming at Pettusville Church. Judge (Coach) Mike Davis offering up this Sunday's sermon . Just as inspiring as when he preached American Government atop his desk at Ardmore High School.
Brady got his picture made at tombstone of Dr. Thomas Coleman Pettus.
Wonder what the doctor would think about his 8th generation of grandchildren
going to Church in Pettusville ?
Kenny Jordan
More about Pettusville
Thomas Coleman Pettus (1816-1890), the son of David Walker Pettus II and Elizabeth Boswell,
was born on July 27, 1816 in Lunenburg, Virginia. He came as a boy
about 1824 or so with his parents to Madison County, Alabama. He married Mary Catherine Fowlkes (1824-1898) on March 25, 1844 in Madison County, and settled near Athens. Although the order of events is uncertain, Dr. Thomas purchased from the Federal Government 40 acres of land in Limestone
County, near the Alabama-Tennessee state line, and received in 1849 a
patent (full ownership) to the property. The U.S. census then shows that he was living with his wife and children in 1850 just across the state line in Giles County, Tennessee on a plot of land next to his brother David Walker Pettus. About this same time, but possibly earlier, he built in Limestone County a home, and twelve-room hotel not far from a mineral spring in the SE/4 of Sec 10-1S-4W rich that was rich in iron salts (chalybeate) said to have healing powers.
Relocating to this new home, he donated land nearby in 1850 for a church and cemetery, and succeeded in 1852 in getting a post office established there for a growing community that by now was being called Pettusville. He also acquired additional property, including in late 1850 another 40 acres of public lands in the general area.
Dr. Pettus sold the Pettusville Hotel to Mr. Trotter, but remained an investor in a company that Trotter set up to bottle the healing waters from the Pettusville Spring and to turn the hotel into a health resort.
However, the resort plans never quite came
to fruition , and the Pettus family sold off their interests in the
project around the turn of the century, a few years after Dr. Pettus had
passed on. The hotel in 1928 burned to the ground, and little remains
of Pettusville today, except for the Pettusville Church.
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