RESEARCH SOURCES FOR SMITH COUNTY, TENNESSEE

 

 

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2-27-2000

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MICROFILM COLLECTIONS

 

The Tennessee State Library and Archives at Nashville has virtually every Smith County official document still extant up until the 1967 or so on microfilm.  This includes newspapers and the records of the Cities of Gordonsville, Carthage, and South Carthage.  Most of these same records are available on microfilm at the Smith County Public Library

 

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BIRTH RECORDS

 

Stevens, Merle.  “Tennessee Birth Records.”  SCHQ.  Vol VII, No 4 (1995) pp 145-146.  Abstracted from the State records.

 

 

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CEMETERIES

 

Cemeteries, Smith County.  3 vols.  Photocopy of a manuscript in Tennessee State Library III-F-s ac. No. 69-118.  Includes 162 cemeteries, mostly in the south side of the county.

 

Gibbs, Bessie, et al.  Bible and Tombstone Records, Smith County, Tennessee. Copied under the Works Progress Administration.  Historical Records Project # 465-44-3-115, 1938.

 

Key, F. Carmack, Sue Maggart, and Jane Turner.  Corps of Engineers Grave Removals from Center Hill Dam Area.  Compiled from Corps of Engineers Records.  Np 13 pp.

 

Key, F. Carmack, Sue Maggart, and Jane Turner.  Smith County Cemeteries South of the Cumberland River. Utica, KY:  McDowell, Publishing, 1984. Includes also, information from the Brush Creek Baptist Church Minutes [not the Primitive Baptist Church], miscellaneous newspaper records, Removals from the Cordell Hull Lake area, Smith County, TN Mortality Records for 1881-1882 and 1908-1911, and Death Certificates issued in the Rome area.  Most of the large cemeteries have addendums including those buried in the cemeteries between the time of their transcription and the publication These deaths were gleaned from the Carthage Courier Obituaries.

 

Lynch, Louise Gillespie.  Cemetery Records of Smith County, Tennessee.  Nashville:  Byron Sistler and Associates, 1978.  152 pp.

 

Smith County Historical and Genealogical Society and Caney Fork Chapter, DAR.  Smith County Tennessee Cemeteries, North of the Cumberland River.  Utica, KY:  McDowell Publishing, 1981.

 

Tennessee Cordell Hull Project Completion Report:  Cemetery Relocations.  U.S. Army Engineer District Nashville, Corps of Engineers, Nashville:  March 1974.  Cemetery relocations from Smith and Jackson County before the building of the Cordell Hull Dam.  Includes maps of the cemeteries and maps.

 

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CENSUS

Bently, Elizabeth Petty. Index to the 1820 Census of Tennessee. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981. Pp. 287.

Brooks, Richard D. Smith County, Tennessee, 8th Census of the United States, 1860. Carthage, TN: Published by R.D. Brooks, 1995

Burns, Annie Walker. Family Records of Smith County, Carthage, Tennessee, as given the United States Census Taker of 1820. Washington, 195_ .

Burns, Annie Walker. Family Records of Smith County, Carthage, Tennessee, as given the United States Census Taker of 1830. Washington, 195_.

Burns, Annie Walker. Family Records of Smith County, Carthage, Tennessee, as given the United States Census Taker of 1840. Washington, 195_.

Burns, Annie Walker. Family Records of Smith County, Carthage, Tennessee, as given the United States Census Taker of 1850. Washington, 1955 [?].

Burns, Annie Walker. Family Records of Smith County, Carthage, Tennessee, as given the United States Census Taker of 1870. Washington, 1954 or 55.

Houston, Martha Lou. Tennessee Census Reports. Washington: 1933-36. Includes the remaining portions of the 1800 and 1810 Census of Tennessee and the complete 1820 Census including Smith County. These are mimeographed copies of the original federal census reports.

Key, F. Carmack, Sue Maggart, and Jane Turner. Family Records of Smith County, Tennessee, United States Census of 1880. Transcribed from original by Mary Beth Smith. Utica, KY: McDowell Communications.

Parker, Nancy C. “1830 Census of Smith County, Tennessee.” The Southern Genealogists Exchange Quarterly. Vol. XVI, No. 73, 1975. 17 pp.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County Census of 1850. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1988. 283 pp. Is indexed.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County, Tennessee Slave Schedule of the 1850 Census. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1996.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County Census of 1860. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1994. 271 pp. With index.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County, Tennessee Slave Schedule of the 1860 Census. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1996. 64 pp.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County Census of 1870. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1994. 349 pp. With Index.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County Census of 1880. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1993. 378 pp. With Index.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County Census of 1900. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1994. 398 pp. With Index.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County Census of 1910. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1995. 417 pp. With Index.

Partlow, Thomas E. Smith County Census of 1920. Lebanon, TN: T. E. Partlow, 1995. 387 pp. With Index.

Sistler, Byron and Barbara. 1830 Census of Tennessee, in Three Volumes. Nashville: Byron Sistler and Associates, 1969-71. Is in three sections, one for each grand division.

Sistler, Byron and Barbara. 1840 Census of Tennessee. Nashville: Byron Sistler and Associates, 1986. 597 pp.

Sistler, Byron and Barbara. 1850 Census of Tennessee. Evanston, IL: Byron Sistler and Associates, 1974.

Sistler, Byron and Barbara. 1860 Census of Tennessee. In five Volumes. Nashville: Byron Sistler and Associates, 1981-82.

Sistler, Byron. Index to the 1870 Census of Tennessee (in two volumes). Nashville, TN: Byron Sistler and Associates, 1985.