Pinson Mounds Community Remembered

 
	 Mt. Pinson--Post Office by 1834

	 Five Points--Big Springs Community--Pinson Mounds Community

	 Madison Co., Tennessee

     Johnny Sauls lived on Big Springs Road opposite Ozier House and Farm. His daughter Margaret (Mrs. Ray Childress) and family lived on old Wilde Road near Hart's Bridge Road. Dr. Obe Watlington's home place is about one mile south of Five Points, and in 1972 the house was still standing and in use, much as it was when he lived. His farm adjoined the old Ralph Daniel farm which was behind the Obe Watlington farm and was where Eula Daniel lived. Both of these farms are in Madison County but join the Chester County line.   The Paulin Anderson farm is in Chester County about a mile further down the road, on the crest of the hill to the right and extending into the river bottom (south fork of the Forked Deer River). John Tacker bought the Anderson place and his daughter and son-in-law Dwight Nash now own and farm the place.

The old Parchman place (Jim Parchman) is in Chester County, just across the line from Five Points and the old Obe Watlington Place (now occupied by Burros). The Parchman house burned recently. David Parchman still lives there, son of J. C.

The Daniel place was near Five Points Community in Madison County. Eula Daniel's father Ralph (Rafe) died there while Eula was in Texas, Feb. 4, 1891. Ralph married America Anderson, daughter of Paulin Anderson, who had lots of land in Chester and Madison Counties, Forked Deer Bottom. Paulin slipped off a log and drowned in the Forked Deer River bottoms while feeding hogs in high waters. His dog gave warning and guided the family back to the body. Later the dog grieved himself to death over the loss of his master.    There were three sons of Paulin Anderson: one (Alvin) died in Galveston, Texas in a flood; one died in a cotton gin accident in Henderson, Tenn; and one was a Deputy Sheriff in Chester Co., and noted for a big white stallion.

Uncle Frank Watlington also married an Anderson girl, making double cousins with children of Frank Wallace Watlington and Grandpa (Mack Rob) Watlington. Frank W. owned a farm toward Pinson from Five Points, near the Ozier Mound. The Oziers and Sauls owned land north of Five Points toward Mason Wells. The Cemetery here, which included a cemetery for slaves, was older than the Methodist Church at this site. When the church was rebuilt it was located adjoining the older Cemetery.  -- from U. A. Watlington, 1972,
and Beers 1877 Madison Co. Landowners Map [10]