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.