Scott
County, TennesseeDeath Records
Scott
County, Tennessee| ***IMPORTANT*** Obituaries and
headstones posted to
this website after 10 Nov 2006 are now found in the
Death Records Database. You will still need to use the links
below to access obituaries, headstones, and death certificates posted to this website prior to 10 Nov
2006. I will be moving the old obituaries, headstones, and
death certificates to the new database
over the next several months so you will need to check the database
and the links below to find all of the obituaries, headstones, and
death certificates found on this
website. Once I've completed the transition, obituaries,
headstones, and death certificates will
only be found in the database. Thanks for your patience.
The new database allows new searching capabilities such as soundex searching, searching by maiden name, last name, first name (or partial first name), or combinations there of. The new database also allows you to add comments to specific death records. THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO ADD CONDOLENCES. PLEASE DO NOT ADD CONDOLENCES. Use the comment capability to add information about the individual referenced in the death record or correct the information contained in the record. Those who insist on adding condolences will loose their ability to comment. |
This page began when the Scott County Historical Society graciously allowed me to post the entirety of the book Scott County, Tennessee Death Records, 1901-1968. The names and dates from that book were gathered over the years by Alta Presley of Oneida, TN and the book donated to the society by Clyde Reed. In the book, names are sorted by the first letter of the surname and then date ordered by that surname letter. For example, all surnames beginning with A are presented first and then date ordered within the A's. Unfortunately, the book contained a number of alphabetical and date ordering errors. I corrected those errors in this on-line edition; however, any errors introduced by my ordering or transcribing are unintentional, but my fault.
Since I first posted this page in October 1997, the page has grown considerably and taken on its own identity. Besides the original death dates, the page now includes death dates for other Scott County citizens not part of the original book, links to related obituaries, links to related death certificates, and links to related headstone pictures. These new records are highlighted in maroon.
Click on the letter above that corresponds to the first letter of the surname for death records you are interested in seeing. If the letter is not underlined, then there are no death records for surnames beginning with that letter.
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Let me know if you find errors or if you want to add additional death records. I will gladly add new death records but only if they are substantiated by a copy of an obituary, death certificate, tombstone, or bible record. |
The Tenn. State Library and Archives has published an online index to deaths 1908-1912 that was retyped by hand (not scanned) and includes more than 97,000 entries. The index include the first and last name, county and year of death, and the record number. You can find the index and an explanatory introduction at:
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital/death2.htm
The Cleveland (Tennessee) Public Library took on a project in 1990 to publish abstracts of Tennessee death records. Since then, their staff and volunteers have published the 1914-1925 death records of thirty-seven counties. Scott Co, TN abstracts from this project (as well as other counties ) are now available on-line at
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital/death.htm#index
courtesy of the Tennessee State Archives and Library (TSLA) and the Cleveland (Tennessee) Public Library. The abstracts provide name, age at death, year of death, county of death, cause of death (only for other than natural causes), and record number.
There TSLA has also a published online a statewide index for 1914-1916 and is available at:
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/vital/tndeath.htm
Interesting Note: In preparing this on-line version of the original book, I noticed a number of interesting facts. The book claims to identify deaths between 1901 and 1968 but I found two deaths outside this range. Reason Marcum died 13 Jun 1872 and Joel Chitwood died 29 Aug 1884. There are also references to deaths of famous people who obviously didn't die in Scott County. Ms. Presley notes the deaths of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, Senator Robert Taft in 1953, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962, Alvin C. York in 1964 (the famous WWI hero who died in next door Fentress County), and President Kennedy in 1963.
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