WHAT'S
AT THE SUMNER COUNTY ARCHIVES???
WHAT'S
AT THE SUMNER COUNTY ARCHIVES???
The Sumner County Archives accepts research requests by e-mail at sumnersettlers@yahoo.com. Please refer to home page "Welcome to the Official Website of the Sumner County Archives" for instructions.
The Archives has acquired the following books and microfilm:
Rutherford County, Tennessee Land Grants compiled by Ernest K. Johns and Susan G. Daniel.
North Carolina Revolutionary War Land Grants for Rutherford County, Tennessee compiled by Ernest K. Johns and Susan G. Daniel.
Liberty Gap by John Lee Fults.
Buchanan, Virginia: Gateway to the Southwest by Harry Fulwiler, Jr.
Hoover's Gap by John Lee Fults.
Below the James Lies Dixie, Smithfield and Southside Virginia by Parke Rouse, Jr.
Old Kent County, Some Account of the Planters, Plantations and Places...by Malcolm H. Harris.
Cows on the Campus, Williamsburg in Bygone Days by Parke Rouse, Jr.
Marriages and Deaths from Richmond, Virginia Newspapers, 1780-1820 by VA Genealogical Society.
Virginia, the New Dominion by Virginius Dabney.
Always a Virginian by Alice Winn.
The Byrds of Virginia by Alden Hatch.
Old Virginia Houses along the James by Emmie Ferguson Farrar.
Old Virginia Houses along the Fall Line by Emmie Ferguson Farrar.
Old Virginia Houses , the Mountain Empire by Emmie Ferguson Farrar.
Old Virginia Houses, the Mobjack Bay Country by Emmie Ferguson Farrar.
Military Pension Laws, 1776-1858 by Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG.
A History of Bristol Parish, Virginia with genealogies of families connected there with... by Rev. Philip Slaughter.
Reminisces and Reflections: African Americans in the Kentucky-Tennessee upper Cumberland since the Civil War by Wali Rashash Kharif and William Lynwood Montell.
Emigrants in Chains; a social history of forced emigration to the Americas...by Peter Wilson Coldham.
Virginia Colonial Abstracts, vol. 21, Henrico County-Southside, 1736 by Beverly Fleet.
Marriages of Henrico County, Virginia, 1680-1808 compiled and published by Joyce H. Lindsay.
Lord Mayor's Court of London Depositions Relating to American, 1641-1736 by Peter Wilson Coldham.
Historical Marker placed by the Tennessee Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, compiled by Martha Lynn Fuquay Cummings.
Patriot Sons, Patriot Brothers by Hugh Owen Nash, Jr.
Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th edition, Vol. III, Families R-Z, comp. by John Frederick Dorman. This completes the 3 volume set of these highly acclaimed books commemorating the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the First Settlement at Jamestown in 1607.
Sumner County, Tennessee, Living, Working, Playing with history essay by William Puryear; photos by Allen Haynes, David Wright & Jim Spitler; with journalist Tena Lee.
World War I Records of Sumner County Soldiers comp. by Mrs. Rutledge Smith , historian of the Tennessee Department of the American Legion Auxiliary, 1933-1934.
MICROFILM:
White County Probate Records, Wills and Inventories, Feb. 1810 - April 1828.
White County Probate Records, Wills, August 1888 - August 1938.
WPA Records - 8 reels for counties of Bedford-White. [Many church records are contained in these reels.]
War of 1812 Bounty Land Warrants - 6 reels.
Marriage Records of various Tennessee counties -- 16 reels.
Davidson County, TN Deeds, 1784-1796.
Smith County, TN Deeds, 1801-1839.
Wilson County, TN Deeds, 1793-1835.
World War I Draft Registration Cards (Sumner County, Tennessee soldiers).
July, 2008