Adam Huntsman

Adam Huntsman wore a wooden leg, and Davy Crockett reportedly mocked him as timber toe. Huntsman, a criminal lawyer and Jacksonian Democrat, won the 1835 congressional race anyway, and Crockett left for Texas. Huntsman also held people in slavery. His daughter Anne Huntsman Scurlock later placed a stone in the Black section of Riverside Cemetery in Jackson for an enslaved man named Silas, who died in 1857. Its wording says he is not forgotten by his attached mistress, a line that speaks for her feelings and tells nothing of his life.

What the plaque says

Adam Huntsman Coming to Tennessee from his native Virginia about 1807, he was a prominent figure for five terms in the State Senate between 1815 and 1829. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1834, and defeated David Crockett for Congress in 1835. He is buried in Old Salem Cemetery, about four miles south of here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park — 12 mi
  The largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States, about two thousand years old, with the second tallest mound in the country, a museum and paved trails.

More markers nearby

• The Battle of Salem Cemetery — 2.4 mi
• John Luther Jones — 3.4 mi
• Lane College — 3.6 mi
• Lambuth College — 4.7 mi