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:
Bob & Alf Taylor; their lives and lectures by Paul Deresco Augsburg
Military Pension Laws, 1776-1858 by Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG.
A History of Bristol Parish, Virginia with genealogies of families connected therewith ...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.
Climbing Up the Family Tree, compiled by Dr. Ron Crews.
Historical Marker placed by the Tennessee Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, compiled by Martha Lynn Fuquay Cummings.
The Chaffins by John Lee Fults.
Patriot Sons, Patriot Brothers by Hugh Owen Nash, Jr.
Myrtle Arthena Sanderson, "Mama" Hackett, 1886-1945 by Bill K. Kemp.
Susan "Susie" Beasley "Mammy" Kemp, 1887-1937 and related Beasleys by Bill K. Kemp.
The Austin and Freedle Family in Upper Sumner County, Tennessee by Joe and Johnnie Freedle.
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.
John Yates 1712-1779 and His Descendants to 1989 by Evelyn Yates Carpenter.
Jackson County, Tennessee Church Records taken from WPA records, Microfilm roll no. 3.
First Land Grants of Sumner County, Tennessee, 1786-1833 by Timothy R. & Helen C. Marsh.
MICROFILM:
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).
January, 2008