The LDS FamilySearch site has two remarkable databases of Tennessee death records. Please note that, while these databases are awesome, they are the output from a world-wide indexing project. Despite meticulous attention to detail, errors in the extractions could have … Continue reading →
This handout was developed for school teachers by the TN State Library & Archives, but it is equally excellent for everyday use by family and local historians. Click to view the PDF file.
Continue reading →Many organizations have planned a large number of events to span 2011-2015 in recognition of the Civil War’s Sesquicentennial. The Tennessee State Library & Archives has a Web site with a great deal of information and numerous links.
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Continue reading →These articles are specific to Grainger County, and many can be viewed on-line at the TGS Web site. Click here to search the articles for locations, surnames, or items of interest. 1799 petition to improve Holston River navigation, four other … Continue reading →
This table contains claims presented to the Southern Claims Commission in Washington, D. C., following the end of the Civil War for losses suffered as a result of military action or uncompensated appropriation of their property by federal troops. This … Continue reading →
Hon. John W Yoe, mayor of West Knoxville, died at his residence on Clinch Avenue at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. He health began to fail more than a year ago. He appeared as attorney for the City of Knoxville in … Continue reading →
Died near the same place [Blains X Roads,], Mr. Benj. Mitchell, a few days ago and was buried in the family burying ground near Y Z, thus passeth away two of the old land marks of East Tennessee. [This was … Continue reading →
At the residence of his son, Pascal Nance, near Blains X Roads, Grainger County, Tenn., April 11, 1895, John Nance in the eighty-second year of his age, being one of the most prominent business men in the county and at … Continue reading →
Walter M Cocke, the brilliant attorney, died of heart failure at 8:10 o’clock last night at his room at the New Schubert Hotel. The Cocke family has figured prominently in the early history of the state. His great-grandfather, William Cocke, … Continue reading →
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