The Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War is located in Hoskins Library at the University of Tennessee. It is our mission to research, archive, and disseminate the stories of all the people in Tennessee who have been involved … Continue reading →
Tennessee Code Annotated §8-13-118 provides for registration of military discharge documents in the County Register’s office. Note that military discharge documents recorded before the first book may be in other volumes. Consider those if you are unable to find a … Continue reading →
Roberta Tuller has created a tremendous resource for individuals seeking information about pre-Statehood residents in the Wataugah Settlement and surrounding area. She has a list of settlers’ names with links to documents connected to them. She has transcribed numerous original … Continue reading →
Click here to read the biography John Joseph McCorkle.
Continue reading →The Carter County government’s Web site is at https://www.cartercountytn.gov/ Office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time Carter County Courthouse Main St. & East Elk Avenue Elizabethton, TN 37643 Carter County Justice Center 900 East Elk Avenue … Continue reading →
Title Author and year Publisher An Appalachian Gamekeeper’s Soliloquy of Humorous Tales: Selected Game Warden Stories of People and Places of Upper East Tennessee Volume 1 Click here for Amazon listing R. L. Pete Wyatt, 2023 Polecat Press The Wataugah … Continue reading →
Compiled by Jackie & Dawn Peters Several acts have been passed by congress to award pensions to people that served in the Revolutionary War. The Act of 1818 only granted pensions base on the financial need of the applicant. … Continue reading →
Source: Goodspeed’s Biographical Appendix of Carter County – History of Tennessee (Chicago, 1887). Transcribed by Dawn and Jackie Peters. John C. Smith, clerk and master of the chancery court, was born near Elizabethton, August 26, 1844, the son of James … Continue reading →
Source: Goodspeed’s Biographical Appendix of Carter County – History of Tennessee (Chicago, 1887). Transcribed by Dawn and Jackie Peters. Judge J. P. Smith, chancellor of the first chancery division of Tennessee, was born in Johnson County, March 30, 1846, the … Continue reading →
Source: Goodspeed’s Biographical Appendix of Carter County – History of Tennessee (Chicago, 1887). Transcribed by Dawn and Jackie Peters. Andrew J. Peebles, a minister and farmer, was born in Carter County, January 16, 1829, the son of William and Elizabeth … Continue reading →
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