I hope this information is helpful, especially to black Broadnax families who hail from Rockingham County, NC, and would like a starting point for their genealogy research.

Around 1820, Robert Brodnax and his youngest brother, Dr. Edward Travis Brodnax, moved from Brunswick Co., VA, to settle near each other around Leaksville (now Eden), NC. I have also heard "Cascade" mentioned in connection with Robert and "Saura" or "Lower Saura (Town)" mentioned in connection with Edward. Robert married my gggg-grandaunt, Nancy Russell Wilson of "Dan's Hill", Pittsylvania County, VA, while Edward married my ggg-grandaunt, Janet Hamilton Chalmers of "Springfield", Halifax County, VA. Janet's younger sister, Lucinda Chalmers, married Thomas Spraggins Gallaway/Galloway of "Rose Hill", Rockingham County, NC, while her older sister, Sarah Lanier Chalmers, married John Wilson Glenn (a nephew of Nancy Wilson) of "Bloomsburg", Halifax County, VA. Nancy Wilson's siblings also married into the Hairston ("Upper Saura Town" and "Berry Hill"), Tunstall ("Belle Grove" and "Belle Grade"), Pannill ("Green Hill"), Clark, and Cunningham families of the area, and her brother George married Robert and Edward's sister, Elizabeth Epes Brodnax, and settled at "Laurel Cliff" in Pittsylvania County, VA.

On Sarah (Chalmers) Glenn's deathbed, she requested that Edward Brodnax, her brother-in-law, raise her infant youngest son, Chalmers Lanier Glenn (my gg-grandfather), as his own child. That caused much confusion to later genealogists (including me), because Chalmers Glenn, as Dr. Brodnax' sole heir (because Janet and Edward had no children of their own), had no need to be listed in his grandmother Isabella (Wilson) Glenn's will, and people thought he was a descendant of the Surry County, NC, Glenns (an unrelated Glenn family).

Anyway, if your family tree points to Rockingham County and contains Brodnax/Broadnax and/or Glenn, Wilson, Hairston, Tunstall, Pannill, Clark, or Cunningham family names, you may want to look at Rockingham County records for Robert Brodnax (first) and then Edward Brodnax.