Published Records for Grundy County TN
Census Record Sources
1850
U.S. census, Grundy County, Tennessee.
John F. Schunk.
(editor) (S-K Publications, 1987). A photographic copy of the
entire census,
with a surname index added. This version of the 1850 census
is useful because
you can see the original handwriting of the census taker.
United
States census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1850.
Norma Hobbs. (Dunlap, Tenn., 1986). A transcription
of each entry
from the 1850 census.
United
States census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1860.
Mae K. Wilhelm. (Dunlap, Tenn: Goins & Hobbs
Genealogy
Service,
1988?). A transcription of each entry from the 1870 census.
United
States census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1870.
Norma Hobbs. (Dunlap, Tenn.: Goins & Hobbs Genealogy
Service,
1989?). A transcription of each entry from the 1870 census.
United
States census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1880.
Norma Hobbs. (Dunlap, Tenn.: Goins & Hobbs Genealogy Service,
1994?).
A transcription of each entry from the 1880 census.
United
States census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1900.
Mae K. Wilhelm. (Dunlap, Tenn.: Goins & Hobbs
Genealogy Service,
1987?). A transcription of each entry from the 1900 census,
including most
of the detailed information such as month and year of birth, years
married,
number of children, and birth state of parents.
United
States census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1910.
Norma Hobbs. (Dunlap, Tenn.: Goins & Hobbs Genealogy
Service,
n.d.). A transcription of each entry from the 1900 census,
including detailed
information similar to 1900 transcription.
Grundy
County, Tennessee, Special Census Records 1850-1880.
Charles
A. Sherrill. (Nashville: privately printed,
1996.) Includes the
agricultural census showing the crops & animals on each farm,
slave
schedules, mortality schedules detailing deaths in the census year, and
industrial schedules describing businesses in the county.
Franklin
County, Tennessee in the year 1840 : featuring the 1840
census with abstracts of the 1840 court minutes and deeds.
Judy
Henley Phillips (J.H. Phillips, 1985.) Includes that portion
of Franklin
County which was cut off into Grundy in 1844.

Cemetery and Death Record Sources
Tombstone
inscriptions of Grundy County, Tennessee.
Charles
A. Sherrill. (Euclid, Ohio: privately printed,
1977, revised
1986). A listing of tombstones (including dates,
etc.) Grundy County's
67 public and private cemeteries, with a surname index. In
the largest
cemeteries, only stones with death dates prior to 1950 are listed.
A
guide to the City Cemetery. Ladies
Memorial Association.
(Tracy City, Tenn., ca. 1995). A listing of graves in the Tracy City
Cemetery,
including dates and other information from the tombstones.
Arranged alphabetically,
but indicating the section and lot where the grave is located.
Death
certificates of Grundy County, Tennessee ... including death
certificates 1908-1925 and selected newspaper death notices 1893-1914.
Charles A. Sherrill (Cleveland, Tenn.: Southeastern Front,
1991). Includes
data on every recorded death in the county 1908-1925.
Provides name, dates
of birth and death, place of birth, parents' names, cause of death,
place
of burial. Obituaries are scattered because few copies of
early Grundy
newspapers survived. Contains a full name index.
Grundy
County, Tennessee, records: information taken from the
unfinished W.P.A. records. (Signal Mtn.,
Tenn.: Mountain Press,
ca. 1992). Primarily cemetery records from 19 cemeteries, as
copied by
federal workers about 1940. Also contains five pages of
church records,
nearly all from the 1930s.
Obituaries
of Grundy County, Tennessee. Mae K.
Wilhelm
(1986). Contains newspaper obituaries from the 1980s.
John
Armfield and Beersheba Springs. Isabel
Howell (Beersheba
Springs Historical Society, 1983). Reprinted article from a Tennessee
Historical
Quarterly of 1944, including a selected bibliography of sources.
Grundy
County, 1946-60: a chronology. James L.
Nicholson,
editor. (Altamont: Grundy County Herald, 1977).

Wills and Estate Record Sources
Grundy
County Tennessee wills and estates 1844-1900.
Charles
A. Sherrill. (Chattanooga: privately printed, 1986). Although
some of the
will books for Grundy County were apparently destroyed long ago, those
that remain are abstracted here. Also includes settlements,
administrators'
and guardians ' appointments and other relevant material from will
books
and other records. Full name index.

Marriage Record Sources
Grundy
County, Tennessee, marriages 1844 to 1880.
Charles
A. Sherrill (Cleveland, Ohio: privately printed,
1984). Abstracts all
the recorded marriages, plus additional information from marriage bonds
and licenses formerly stored in the attic of the Grundy County
courthouse
(destroyed by fire in 1990). Full name index.
Grundy
County marriage records 1844-1968 (in 8
volumes).
John E. Sweeton. (Tullahoma, Tenn., ca. 1990).
These 8 volumes contain
abstracts of all recorded marriages during the period.
Surname index in
each volume.
Grundy
County, Tennessee, Earliest Deeds 1852-1867.
Charles
A. Sherrill (Nashville: privately printed,
1996). Abstracts of
deeds, slave sales, estate land divisions. Includes early
maps and Altamont
town lots.

General History and Biography Sources
Memorial
and biographical record ... of the Cumberland region
of Tennessee (Chicago: Ogle & Co., 1898;
reprinted by Southern
Historical Press, 1980) Includes biographical sketches of
Grundy County
men, as well as many from surrounding counties. The reprint
has an excellent
every-name index.
Grundy
County by Nicholson, James (Memphis: Memphis State
University Press, 1982). Part of the Tennessee County History
series, this
slender volume offers an excellent general history of the
county. You probably
won't find your ancestors listed herein, but you will find a wealth of
information about the place and times they lived in.
Homecoming
'86 history of the Elk River valley (Pelham valley)
of Grundy County, TN. Arlene Bean and
Janelle Coats (compilers)(Manchester,
Tenn.: Beaver Press, 1986). Local history c entering on the
Pelham area.
Includes genealogical information on many area families.
Partially indexed
by surname.
Sweet
days, precious memories: a brief history of the Hixson-Skymont
community. Patricia G. Lane(Knoxville:
U.T. Anthropology
Dept., 1984).
Reminiscence:
senior citizens of Tracy City. (Tracy City:
Grundy County Historical Society, 1990). Interviews conducted by Renice
Curtis for the historical society.
Pioneer
days, Pelham, Tennessee, Grundy County.
Henrietta Bowden Ray (1983). 26 pages of historical
information, most of
this was reprinted in the Bean-Coats book listed above.
Forgotten
colony. David E. Clayton (Swiss-American Historical
Society, 1971?). Historical information about Gruetli,
Tennessee, and its
early Swiss settlers.
Beersheba
Springs: 150 years, 1833-1983: a history and celebration.
Margaret Brown Coppinger (Beersheba Springs Historical Society, 1983)
A special
thanks goes to Charles Sherrill for supplying this list.
Thanks Chuck!