Early Blount County Newspaper Extracts

One of the microfilm reels available to Blount County researchers is a roll of various county area newspapers spanning 1832-1905.  Researcher Elly Davis, has been working on extracting details from the newspapers below.

You can access her index online here.

  • Religious & Literary Intelligencier (July 24, 1832)
  • Millenial Trumpeter (Mar. 7,1835)
  • Maryville Intelligencier (Aug. 19, 1837)
  • Advocate (Nov. 19, 1853)
  • The East Tennessean  (Jun. 8, 1855-Jul. 16, 1858)
  • Soldier’s Gazette (May 7, 1870)
  • Maryville Monitor (Apr. 1872-Jun. 1873)
  • The Independent (Nov. 3, 1875-Jun. 21, 1876)
  • Blount County Standard (Dec. 25, 1877-Feb. 21, 1878)
  • Maryville Democrat (May 25, 1878-Jun. 26, 1878)
  • Maryville Index (Mar. 2, 1878-Jun. 5, 1879)
  • The Maryville Weekly Index (Nov. 5, 1897-Mar. 5, 1880)
  • The Weekly Index (Apr. 2, 1880-Apr. 23, 1880)
  • The Watchman (Mar. 21, 1882-Dec. 20, 1882)
  • The Maryville Watchman (Jan. 10, 1883-Apr. 27, 1883)
  • East Tennessee News (May 1, 1883-Sept. 17, 1883)
  • ToDay’s News (Nov. 4, 1887)
  • Maryville Record (Mar. 4, 1904-Aug. 25, 1905)

 

Note for genealogists: No papers listed marriages or the type of obituary we now use until The Maryville Index in 1878, so you may save time searching those early editions. Elly listed all obit & marriages present by name for your search.