The surname Boshears used in Campbell County, Tennessee is a derivative of the surnames
Brasseur and Brashear(s).

The first six generations of the family have been researched on a national basis, including the highly
acclaimed work of Dr. Charles Brashear.

Additionally, I have prepared a booklet on the history of the Campbell County, TN Boshears
family. Here is a brief summary of my findings:

Using the surname Brashears generically, Robert Brasseur (French Huguenot, settled in America in
about 1635) to Benoit (Benjamin) Brashears to Robert Brashears to Samuel Brashears. Two sons
of Samuel, Robert C. and Basil, moved to North Carolina about 1750. Robert C. Brashears was
the father of Asa Brashears who was the father of Nathan Brashears/Boshears.

According to the late Dr. Norman Parks from his book on the history of the Boshears family, ""Two
sons of Asa Brashear, who was among the first Brashears to settle in North Carolina, moved to
Tennessee. Jesse settled in Rutherford County and his descendants there spell the family name
Brashear. Nathan took his family to Campbell County at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. There
his numerous descendants use the family name Boshears."

Nathan Brashears/Boshears, b. c1789, m. Priscilla Hunt 1819; Priscilla is daughter of Thomas Hunt
and Phebe Coffin Hunt, b. Guilford County, NC 1802 (Quaker meeting minutes); it is not clear if
Priscilla Hunt Brashears moved to Campbell County, TN with Nathan; possible that she moved to
another Quaker settlement in Indiana where some fellow Guilford County Quakers moved to
establish another Quaker colony in 1820's; a Priscilla Coffin Hunt remarried in 1827 in Indiana and
presented herself as a widow (Quaker meeting minutes); Nathan m. Jane ?, a Cherokee, sometime
after 1820; oral family history indicates that a Nathan Boshears is head of this part of the family;
Nathan and Priscilla/Jane had the following children:
Melinda Boshears, b. c1820, possibly m. James Paul 1841, no return given
Linna Boshears, b. c1823, did not marry
Jeremiah Nathan Boshears, b. c1825, m. twice (see below); 1844 and 1871
[Jeremiah Nathan Boshears was known in his later years as Nathan Boshears]

1820 Guilford County, NC census shows Nathan Brasher and wife; no children
1830 Campbell County census shows Nathan Boshears, wife, and 2 small children (age 0-5)
1840 Campbell County census [0001-000111] shows Jane Boshears as head of household
Jane, age 30-40, head of household (2nd wife of Nathan)
male, age 15-20, b. 1820-1825; Jeremiah Nathan
female, age 15-20, b. 1820-1825; Linna
female, age 20-30, b. 1810-1820; Melinda

Therefore, Nathan Brashears/Boshears moved to Campbell County after 1820 and died between
1830 and 1840.

Jeremiah Nathan Boshears shown on public records as Jeremiah, J., J.N., and he appears as
Nathan Boshears on his TVA grave removal record. He is buried next to his wife Sally at Bakers
Forge Reinterrment Cemetery in Campbell County. The graves are unmarked, but a map shows the
exact location.

1850 Campbell County census records reveal 3 Boshears families: Jeremiah Nathan Boshears, Jane
Boshears with daughter Linna Boshears, and Melinda Boshears:

Jeremiah Nathan Boshears, 25
Sarah Boshears, 25
Amanda K. Boshears, 8
Neil S. B. Boshears, 8 months

Jane Boshears, 46
Linna Boshears, 27
Clary Boshears, 8
Levi Boshears, 4
Sarah Boshears, 1

Melinda Boshears, 30
Alvis Boshears, 3
Hulda Boshears, 8 months

Jeremiah Nathan Boshears married Sarah "Sally" Malicoat on June 3, 1844. They had the following
children:

Amanda Catherine (Kate); born around 1842 (likely Sarah's daughter prior to marriage)
Neil S. Brown; born around 1849 (my gg grandfather; see below)
Daniel; born around 1853
Martha J.; born around 1854
George W.; born around 1857
Andrew; born around 1863
Nancy; born around 1865

Sarah "Sally" Malicoat Boshears died between 1870 and 1871.

Jeremiah Nathan Boshears married Mary "Polly" Wilhoite on December 23, 1871. They had the
following children:

William C.; born around 1874
Johnny; born around 1874; died in a fire or from burns in 1878
Henry; born around 1879
Jeremiah; born around 1881
David; born around 1883
Garfield; born around 1887

Neil S. Brown Boshears married Margaret Tidwell about 1867-68. Neil S. and Margaret Boshears
had the following children:

Jerry; born 1868
Daniel; born 1871
George; born 1873 (my g grandfather)

George Boshears married Sarah Elizabeth Wilson in 1893; they had 10 children that lived to
adulthood, including their oldest son Neales Brown Boshears (my grandfather; b. 1897).

Neales Brown Boshears married Bertha Alice Gross in 1916; they also had 10 children that lived to
adulthood.

I am one of the 38 grandchildren of Neales Brown Boshears and Bertha Alice Gross Boshears.

If anyone has additional or supplemental information, please contact me. The booklet on the history
of Campbell County, Boshears family has more detail. If anyone would like an electronic copy
(saved in Word) of the booklet, please let me know. Thank you.