The Claybrook community of Madison Co. is where Law Road intersects Highway 412, about a mile west of the Henderson Co. line. Closest railroad would have been about 5 miles away at Beech Bluff on the Tennessee Midland Railroad built from Memphis to Perryville in the 1880s. It was later acquired by the L&N controlled NC&StL Railroad. The line was abandoned in Decatur Co. in 1930s and abandoned at Beech Bluff in 1980s. You mention 1873 in connection with your ancestor. My guess would be that that was when the Illinois Central was built to Jackson. The Mississippi Central reached Jackson about 1855 and the Mobile and Ohio reached Jackson about 1860. David Jerry Allen wrote: >David, > > Just a personal note to tell you how much I appreciated "The Wedding >Trip," and to say thanks for all your contributions to the furtherence of >genealogical research in the area that coincides with my father's old >stomping grounds. "The Wedding Trip" was especially interesting as I had >recently learned of how the son of an Irish immigrant from Dutchess County, >N.Y. name of Frederick Mortimer met and married my great-grandmother Martha >Betty in Madison County, TN in 1873. Frederick was likely working on the >railroads at the time. > Maybe somebody can tell me if the railroad ran through or near Claybrook >at that time. --Jerry Allen > > > > >