Stewart County, Tennessee Genealogy

Research Databases

Be sure to consult the Master Index on the home page for a comprehensive index to the record types listed here.

Stewart County Genealogy Research Guide

List of Stewart County Records Which Have Survived


African-American Database  
(last updated 12/12/2022)

A downloadable Excel spreadsheet containing over 19,000 entries that mention persons of color in sources relating to, or from, Stewart County.
(Cemeteries, Census records, Church records, Court minutes, Deeds, Marriage records, Newspapers, Wills, etc.)


Bible Records
(Atkins-Darr, Brigham, Darr-Brinton, Earhart, Free, Guinn, Smith, Stavely-Largent, Vinson families)  


Birth Records  1881-1883



Business Records


Edmond James Vinson day book, 1856-1891, Index 


Cemeteries

Stewart County Cemeteries
(click for a listing of cemeteries online)

Cemetery Sign Program
The Stewart County Historical Society has a goal of placing new signs at all of the county's cemeteries, to ensure that these historical places are not lost or disrupted.
The cost for a sign and post is $50.00.
So far, 234 signs have been posted.

If you would like to 'adopt' a cemetery or make a general donation, please contact Kim Schmidt.

Houston County Cemeteries
originally part of Stewart County

Chuck Allen's Cemetery Atlas
(directions and maps to area cemeteries listed below)
Barrow Cemetery ; Barrows (2) Cemetery ; Boswell Cemetery ; Cherry Cemetery ; Dennis Cemetery ; Dover Christian Church Cemetery ; Fort Donelson National Cemetery ; Hendon Cemetery ; Hendon Cemetery (2) ; Hart Cemetery ; Hicks Cemetery ; Hillcrest Cemetery ; Largent Cemetery ; Memorial Gardens ; Mount View Cumberland Presbyterian Church ; Outland Cemetery ; Petite Cemetery ; Trinity Methodist Church and Cemetery ; Wofford Cemetery-Walnut Grove


Census Records

1820 Stewart County census
1830 Stewart County Census
Explanation of Civil Districts created in 1836
1840 Stewart County Census
1840 Pensioners From American Revolution
1850 Stewart County census
1850 Stewart County Slave census
1850 Stewart County Mortality Schedules
1860 Stewart County census
1860 Stewart County Agriculture census
1860 Stewart County Slave census
1860 Stewart County Mortality Schedules
1870 Stewart County census
1880 Stewart County census
1880 Stewart County Mortality Schedules
1890 Federal Special Census of Union Veterans
1891 State Census of Male Inhabitants, 21 and Over 
1900 Stewart County census (partial)
1900 Stewart County census map
1910 Stewart County census
1920 Stewart County census
1920 Stewart County census map
1930 Stewart County census
1930 Stewart County census maps: Northwest | Northeast | Southwest | Southeast
1940 Stewart County census
1940 Stewart County census maps: Northwest | Northeast | Southwest | Southeast

Tennessee Census Records at CensusFinder.com

1940 Census at FamilySearch.org


Churches

Early Churches and Their Beginnings

Bear Spring Methodist Church Register, 1928-1933 - see original at Stewart County Archives
Carlisle Baptist Church Minutes, 1913-1966 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 8474119
Corinth Baptist Church Records, 1910-1939, 1946-1967 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 986353
Crockett's Creek Baptist Church deed
Cross Creek Baptist Church Records, 1851-1953 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 986361
First Baptist Church, Cumberland City, 1914-1964 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 986384
Hopewell Methodist Church Records, 1861-1912 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 570833
Indian Mound Methodist Church abstracts - see also FamilySearch.org film number 570833
Liberty Baptist Church excerpts and membership
Lick Creek Methodist Church excerpts and membership  
McKendree Church Bible and membership, 1815-1862
Neville's Creek Baptist Church Minutes, 1887-1963 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 8474119
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Minutes, 1919-1968 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 986360
Pugh Flat Baptist Church (Trigg Co.) Minutes, 1905-1965 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 986335
Rushing Creek Baptist Church minutes - see also FamilySearch.org film number 8474119
Walnut Grove Baptist Church Minutes, 1892-1904 - online at FamilySearch.org, film 8474119

Saline Creek Baptist Church:
Saline Creek Baptist Church Minutes excerpts
Saline Creek Baptist Church Minutes additional abstracts
Saline Creek Baptist Church Minute Books (1810-1883) - original images
index to Saline Creek Baptist Church Minute Book 1 (1810-1849)  PDF format  XLSX format
index to Saline Creek Baptist Church Minute Book 2 (1850-1883)  PDF format  XLSX format

see Stewart County Baptist Association History for information on:
Crockett's Creek Baptist Church
Model Baptist Church
Neville's Creek Baptist Church
Oak Grove Baptist Church
Tip Top Baptist Church

...and from the NCGenWeb site...
Index of Skewarkey Baptist Church (Martin Co., NC) minutes, 1786-1830


Court Records

Chancery Court (Clerk and Master)
(for Chancery Court records from 1822-1847, see Dickson and Montgomery county records)

Stewart Co. Chancery Court began in 1848. All 1848-1862 Chancery Court records were destroyed in 1862, except for two docket books.
Chancery Court Minute Book Index, 1865-1892

Circuit Court
Circuit Court Minutes

Stewart Circuit Court Minutes, Vols. 1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3 & 4, 1821-1850 (book for sale from County Archives)
Index to Stewart Circuit Court Minutes, Vols. 1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3 & 4, 1821-1850

County Court (Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions)

Stewart County Court Minutes, 1804-1812 (book for sale from County Archives)
Stewart County Court Minutes, 1813-1819 (book for sale from County Archives)
Stewart County Court Minutes, 1819-1828 (book for sale from County Archives)
Stewart County Court Minutes, 1828-1831 (book for sale from County Archives)
Stewart County Court Minutes, 1831-1844 (book for sale from County Archives)

Index to Stewart County Court Minutes, 1831-1878  


Excerpts of County Court Minutes:
1804 - 1807
1808 - 1812
1813 - 1817
Nov. 1817
Feb. 1818 - Feb. 1819
Nov. 1819 - May 1821
Aug. 1821 - May 1824
1828
Feb. 1829
May 1829
Aug. 1833
Aug. - Nov. 1835
1844
Jan. - July 1845
July - Dec. 1845

Free Persons of Color mentioned in County Court Minutes, 1851

State Court Records


Acts of the Tennessee Legislature, 1803-1841
Tennessee Legislative Petitions

Stewart County Cases Heard in the Tennessee Supreme Court, 1822-1923  

1828 Petition to Gov. Sam Houston by "Walker's Line" Stewart Co. residents

Stewart Co. Inmates at the TN State Penitentiary, 1831-1850 and 1851-1870

Private Acts of Tennessee affecting Stewart County


Death Records

Early Deaths

Death Certificates, 1908-1958  

Genealogical Abstracts of Reported Deaths from The Nashville Christian Advocate, 1839-1919
Genealogical Abstracts of Reported Deaths from The Banner of Peace and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, 1843-1953
Genealogical Abstracts of Reported Deaths from The Tennessee Baptist, 1844-1862
1850 Stewart County Mortality Schedules
1860 Stewart County Mortality Schedules
1880 Stewart County Mortality Schedules
1882-1883 Misc. Death Records

Undertaker Reports from Model Area 1915-1918

Tennessee Death Records 1908-1959 online, via Ancestry.com  (subscription required), or Tennessee Electronic Library (free to TN residents, click on ‘Genealogy’, then ‘Tennessee Death Records’)

 


For a partial index to 1949-2005 death records, consult the Archives section of the Shelby County Register of Deeds web site.


Deeds

Deed Index, Vols. I, II and III (1804-1905)
Direct (Grantor) Surnames A-Z
Reverse (Grantee) Surnames A-Z
Download the Deed Indexes (1804-1905) as an Excel spreadsheet  
also includes Number of Acres, Year and Description, not listed in the original indexes

Stewart County Deed Book Indexes, 1786-1884 (book for sale from County Archives, print version of online content above)

Deed Book Extracts:
Deed Book A (1): Deeds registered 1803-1804
Deed Book B (2): Deeds registered 1804-1809
Deed Book C (3): Deeds registered 1809-1811
Deed Book D (4): Deeds registered 1811-1813
Deed Book E (5): Deeds registered 1813-1818  
Deed Book O (6): Deeds registered 1819-1823  
Deed Book F (7): Deeds registered 1823-1826  
Deed Book G (8): Deeds registered 1826-1829  
Deed Book 9: Deeds registered 1829-1832
Deed Book H (10): Deeds registered 1832-1834  

Misc. Deed Extracts 1834-1942

Misc. Deeds
Stewart County lands in Davidson County Deed Books (1788-1795)  
Stewart County lands in Montgomery County Deed Books (1789-1809)
Kentucky Grants South of Walker's Line 1825-1923
1828 Petition to Gov. Sam Houston by "Walker's Line" Stewart Co. residents

Deed Maps between Cub Creek and North Cross Creek, 1800-1841
These hand-drawn maps, based on Stewart County deed records, show the land ownership along the lower ends of Cub Creek and North Cross Creek, between the years 1800 and 1841. Each map is 250-400Kb in size.
1800 | 1803 | 1808 | 1813 | 1814 | 1815 | 1816 | 1818 | 1819 | 1824 | 1831 | 1841


Deeds of Trust / Mortgages
(for 1804-1868, see the Deed Index above; for 1868-1901, see the Master Index on the home page)


Election Records

Original loose returns from 1841-1879 are at the Stewart County Archives

Election Records 1804-1879 (book for sale from County Archives)


Guardian Records

(for 1804-1842, see Settlements, Wills and Bonds section below)
(1842-1955 Guardian Records are at the Stewart County Archives)

Guardian Records 1806-1842 (book for sale from County Archives)

Guardian Records 1842-1850 (book for sale from County Archives)


Letters

William Williams Letters (1814-1855)  


Marriage Records

Marriage Records submitted by volunteers

Stewart County Tennessee Marriages Revisited, 1804-1881 (book sold through the County Archives)

Early Marriages inferred from Stewart County records

Marriage Book "4", 1838-1848 transcription (County Archives website)  

Marriage Records by Family (note: please send e-mail if you wish your family marriages to be listed here)
Brown; Carney; Coppedge; Dortch; Downs; Green; Jones; Lightfoot; Parchman; Hargis-Hinson license

Stewart County Divorces 1817-1833, from Tennessee Divorces 1797-1858


Masonic Records

Masonic Lodge members, 1820s-1910s  


Military Records

Revolutionary War Veterans

Record of Commissions of Officers in the Tennessee Militia, 1809-1815

War of 1812

Civil War

1890 Stewart County Union Veterans census

W.W. I Soldier Abstracts

War Dead from World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict and Vietnam


Newspapers

List of Stewart County Newspapers

Stewart County Newspaper Archive, 1859-1960

Newspaper Clippings

Excerpts from 1859 issue of the Dover Weekly Intelligencer  

List of Dover newspapers available on microfilm at TSLA

Library of Congress' Chronicling America web site
Online newspaper collection from 1836-1922: use the Advanced Search engine to search Tennessee newspapers, especially Clarksville and Nashville

Stewart County in Newspapers: 1804-1875
A collection of over 800 newspaper articles which mention Stewart county people and places, culled from various newspapers, microfilm and web sites. This collection is available at the Stewart County Archives and at the Stewart County Public Library.  The index for this collection is below, and contains names of over 1,900 persons:
Name Index for Stewart County in Newspapers:  1804-1875
Place Index for Stewart County in Newspapers:  1804-1875

Articles, 1804-1830


Obituaries

Misc. Obituaries

Rootsweb Message Board for Stewart County

Genealogical Abstracts of Reported Deaths from the Nashville Christian Advocate, 1839-1919
Genealogical Abstracts of Reported Deaths from the Banner of Peace and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, 1843-1953

Obituary Extracts from The River Counties
1970 Obituaries from the Stewart-Houston Times  
1971 Obituaries from the Stewart-Houston Times  
1972 Obituaries from the Stewart-Houston Times  
1973 Obituaries from the Stewart-Houston Times  
1974 Obituaries from the Stewart-Houston Times  
1975 Obituaries from the Stewart-Houston Times  
1976 Obituaries from the Stewart-Houston Times  


Origins

Other counties mentioned in Stewart County records

Other counties whose records mention Stewart County


Post Offices and Postmasters


Schools
Schools Between the Rivers
Tip Top School History


Tax Lists
(a great alternative to early census records, since tax lists were compiled every year, and listed all males aged 21-50, plus all landowners)

Stewart County, Tennessee Tax Lists, 1804-1840  book from the Stewart County Archives, index here
Stewart County, Tennessee Tax Lists, 1841-1866  book from the Stewart County Archives, index here

1798 Montgomery Co. Tax List (partial - lands later part of Stewart Co.)
1799 unpaid Montgomery Co. Taxes (some lands later part of Stewart Co.)
1800 Montgomery Co. Tax List (on the Montgomery Co. site)
1801 unpaid Montgomery Co. Taxes (some lands later part of Stewart Co.)
1802 unpaid Montgomery Co. Taxes (some lands later part of Stewart Co.)
1804 Tax List (partial)
1805 Tax List (partial)
1806 Tax List
1807 Tax List
1808 Tax List
1809 Tax List
1810 Tax List
1811 Tax List
1812 Tax List
1827 Tax List
1829 Tax List
1830 Tax List
1836 Tax List
1837 Tax List
Selected Records from 1828-1851 Tax Lists
Selected Records from 1852-1866 Tax Lists

Explanation of Civil Districts created in 1836

Note: In 1846, portions of District 8 and District 9 were organized into a new District 9. The remainder of the original District 9 was renamed District 10. The original District 10 was renamed District 11, and the original District 11 was renamed District 12.


Settlements, Wills and Bonds

Index of Wills

Extracts of Settlements, Wills and Bonds books:

Settlements and Bonds, 1804-1807
Settlements and Bonds, 1806-1812
Settlements and Bonds Book A, July 1809 - May 1814  
Settlements and Bonds Book 3, Nov 1814 - Nov 1824
Note: Settlements & Bonds records from Feb. 1818 - May 1824 are missing; as an alternative, use County Court Minutes
Settlements and Bonds Book B, Nov 1824 - Feb 1829
Settlements and Bonds Book C, May 1829 - May 1836
Settlements and Bonds Book D, June 1836 - June 1840
Settlements and Bonds Book E, Aug 1840 - Feb 1843
Settlements and Bonds Book F, Mar 1843 - Jun 1848
Settlements and Bonds Book G, Apr 1848 - Dec 1851
Settlements and Bonds Book XX, Jan 1852 - Aug 1854
Settlements and Bonds Book H, Aug 1854 - Jul 1858
Settlements and Bonds Book I, Aug 1858 - Feb 1866
Settlements and Bonds Book J, Feb 1866 - Nov 1869
Settlements and Bonds Book K, Aug 1869 - Jul 1876
Settlements and Bonds Book L, Feb 1876 - Sep 1882
Settlements and Bonds Book M, Sep 1882 - Aug 1889
Settlements and Bonds Book N, Sep 1889 - Jun 1896
Settlements and Bonds Book O, Jul 1896 - Aug 1916

Abstracts of Settlements, Wills and Bonds, 1804-1896 (book for sale from County Archives, print version of online content above)

Selected Settlements and Bonds Extracts, 1896-1910

Insolvent Estates, 1836-1841

Digital images of microfilmed Stewart County probate records at FamilySearch.org

includes

Conservator's Bonds and Letters, 1958-1967

Administrator's Bonds & Letters, 1883-1967

Executors Bonds & Letters, 1901-1941

Settlements, Wills & Bonds books, Vols. A-O, 1812-1916

Administrator's and Guardian Settlements, 1919-1927

Will Books E-F, 1917-1968

Claims Against Estates, 1921-1934

Insolvent Estates, 1870-1914 and 1896-1911

Inventories, 1903-1968

Settlements, 1836-1839

Wills and Bonds, 1899-1966


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