Cavender Brummett
and Elizabeth Dean

Cavender Brummett (aka Brumit or Brummitt) b 1803 SC,  m. 8 Nov 1829 in home of Thomas Gillis, Carter Co TN to Elizabeth Dean b 1802 VA, burial Hopson Cemetery, Skeetrock, Dickenson Co VA. (1860 Wise Co VA Census). Children of Cavender Brummett and Elizabeth Dean;

I. George Washington Brummett b 13 Nov 1833 Carter Co TN d 31 Jan 1912 Mullins Fork, Bold Camp, Wise Co VA, burial Riley Mullins Cemetery, Mullins Fork, Bold Camp VA, m. 24 Jan 1856 Scott Co VA to Martha Jane "Patsy" Riggs b 2 Nov 1834 Scott Co VA d 11 Aug 1922 Mullins Fork, Bold Camp, Wise Co VA buried 13 Aug 1922 Riley Mullins Cemetery, Mullins Fork, Bold Camp VA, d/o David Riggs and Frances Blevins. (Source).

II. Alexander Brummett (aka Brumit or Brummitt) b 3 Mar 1834 Carter Co TN d Wise Co VA, m. 7 Feb 1856 to Catherine Sabrina Masters b 1 Mar 1834 Yancy Co NC. Catherine Sabrina Masters Brummett lived her last days with her son, Calvin Washburn Brummit.

III. Mary Emiline Brummett (aka Brumit) b 2 Nov 1837 Washington Co TN d Dickenson Co VA; buried Hopson Cemetery, Skeetrock, Dickenson Co VA, m. 30 Aug 1855 Scott Co VA to Littleton W Hopson b 24 Apr 1835 Yancy Co NC d about 1888 Dickenson Co  VA; buried Hopson Cemetery, Skeetrock, Dickenson Co VA, s/o Littleton Hopson and Disa Dicey McIntyre.

More About Cavender Brummett

(Source): Cavender Brumit is the oldest ancestor of the Brummetts who settled in Wise County. His parents have not been proven. A Thomas and a William Brumit lived in Carter County at the same time Cavender was there, and proof exists they were from Greenville County, South Carolina. However, two trips were made to Greenville by the compiler and no connection could be made to Cavender. Some researchers believe he may have been a younger brother of Thomas and William.

Cavender married Elizabeth Dean on November 8, 1828 in the Thomas Gillis home, Carter County, Tennessee. They had three known children who were born in Carter County: George Washington (1833), Alexander (1837) and Mary Emiline (1840).

Subsequently, Cavender moved to Scott County, Virginia. Proof of this move is the 1850 Scott County Census reporting the family residing there and the birthplace of the children as Tennessee. The three children married in Scott County.

Cavender next appears in the 1860 Wise County Census. He is shown owning a small farm in the 1860 Wise County Agriculture Census. Wise County Deed Book #1, page 313, records on February 26, 1866, Cavender purchased from Wilbern Phipps for $100, 112 acres located South of the Mountain, north of Pound River on Bear Pen Creek.

The 1860 Census records Cavender being born in 1803 in South Carolina and Elizabeth being born in Virginia in 1802. There is no record of either of them in the 1870 Census, so it is assumed Elizabeth died after 1860 and Cavender died after February 26, 1866.

One researcher believes they both are buried in unmarked graves in the Hopson Cemetery, Skeetrock, Dickenson County, Virginia, which is the family cemetery of their daughter, Mary Emiline Brumit, who married Littleton W. Hopson.