BRIGHT-HASTINGS CEMETERY, John Campbell Rd, LINCOLN COUNTY TENNESSEE
 Mapping the Location

 

Bright-Hasten Cemetery photo overviews: 4474/4475/4476/4477/4478/4479/4480/4481/view from near the farm silos: 4482

BRIGHT, William, 1769 - Oct 23, 1858. 4446/4445/4447/4448
BRIGHT, Dorothy, 1773 - Jul 30, 1844. 4443/4444
BRIGHT, James, Jan 15, 1798 - Sep 2, 1873. 4450/4451/4449
BRIGHT, Miss C.E., (no dates) (is this Cynthia or Catherine Bright in the Census below) 4432/4433
BRIGHT, R.C., (no dates);(might be born & died between 10 year census records)
BRIGHT, Charles Thomas, died May 25, 1868, age, 19 yrs. (no stone found and no match found in the Census records, there was one Charles T. Bright which was born in 1839 in Subdivision 2)
BRIGHT, W.C., (no dates) 4435/4436/4437/grave sink:4438
BRIGHT, W.D., (no dates)(was unable to identify this stone, but the census has three William Bright's and so has this graveyard.)
DUNLAP, Mary E., (no dates) 4468/4467/4468L/4469
HAMBLIN, M.M.A., (no dates) 4441/4442/4439/4440

Some headstones broken off leaving protruding basses: 4434
Many Graves marked with fieldstones: 4452/4453/4454/4455/4456/4457/4458/4459/4460/4461/4462/4463/4464/4465/4466/4471/4472/4473
Crumbled marker too far gone to read - same style as others with only a name: 4470
I am not privy as to why this cemetery carries the name Hasten.  Be it one of hte land owners or maybe burials here before the time of marked graves (1810)

This is one of the farm family of Brights' in Lincoln County Tn. The Bright families of Dist. 8 & 9 Lincoln County who were living in Fayetteville were Lawyers and Doctors with John Morgan Bright becoming a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army & later a US Congressman. Subdivision 2 such as James & Charles Bright were also farm families, but some of the sons were Lawyers and Physicians. Family # 1219 in the below census is the one in this cemetery. Some or all of the farm families were slave owners so the slaves adopted the name Bright as their surname after becoming freedman. There is therefore African Americans with the Bright surname in Lincoln Co. today.


1850 Census of Brights in Lincoln Co Tn Subdivision 1
Name                  / Subdivision                                 /     Birth yr/ age/birth state     /  M/F    /     Family #

Wm Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1770 80 Virginia Male  1219
James Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1800 50 Virginia Male  1219
Elizabeth Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1802 48 Virginia Female  1219
Wm Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1809 41 Virginia Male  1218
Elizabeth Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1812 38 South Carolina Female  1218
Mary Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1834 16 Tennessee Female  1218
William Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1836 14 Tennessee Male  1218
James Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1837 13 Tennessee Male  1218
Elizabeth Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1839 11 Tennessee Female  1218
Cynthia Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1840 10 Tennessee Female  1218
Catharine Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1842 8 Tennessee Female  1218
Thomas Bright Subdivision 1, Lincoln, Tennessee 1849 1 Tennessee Male  1218
             
James Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1783 67 Virginia Male  200
Nancy Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1797 53 Tennessee Female  200
James R Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1822 28 Tennessee Male  200
Pricilla M Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1825 25 North Carolina Female  200
Malinda C Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1826 24 Tennessee Female  200
Charles T Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1828 22 Tennessee Male  200
Charles Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1784 66 Virginia Male  427
Francis Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1807 43 Tennessee Female  427
Martha Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1839 11 Tennessee Female  427
Lilly A Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1846 4 Tennessee Female  427
William H Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1815 35 Tennessee Male  267
Elizebeth E Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1819 31 Virginia Female  267
Emaly Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1832 18 Tennessee Female  267
James B Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1838 12 Tennessee Male  267
John W Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1840 10 Tennessee Male  267
Lucius B Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1842 8 Tennessee Male  267
Julia C Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1843 7 Tennessee Female  267
Nancy M Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1846 4 Tennessee Female  267
William I Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1847 3 Tennessee Male  267
Martha P Bright Subdivision 2, Lincoln, Tennessee 1850 0 Tennessee Female  267
             
John Bright District 8, Lincoln, Tennessee 1817 33 Tennessee Male  12
Judith Bright District 8, Lincoln, Tennessee 1822 28 Kentucky Female  12
James Bright District 8, Lincoln, Tennessee 1842 8 Tennessee Male  12
Collins Bright District 8, Lincoln, Tennessee 1844 6 Tennessee Male  12
John Bright District 8, Lincoln, Tennessee 1846 4 Tennessee Male  12
Robert Bright District 8, Lincoln, Tennessee 1849 1 Tennessee Male  12
Preston Bright District 9, Lincoln, Tennessee 1815 35 Kentucky Male  229 Living George Hall home
Amanda Bright District 9, Lincoln, Tennessee 1823 27 Kentucky Female  229 Living George Hall home
John Bright District 9, Lincoln, Tennessee 1842 8 Kentucky Male  229 Living George Hall home

 

Photographed on a sunny Friday afternoon of 14 Apr 2015. The inscriptions were updated with exceptions found or known by C. Wayne Austin. This publication culminated from various sources. Listed on page 479 of the book Lincoln County County Cemeteries by Tim & Helen Marsh, abt 1978. Added here 3 May 2015.