• Early Canal System Employed Germans, Irish
• Early Road Building And Transportation Involved Lots Of Planning, Manpower
• Sequoyah Had Profound Impact On Educating, Improving Cherokee Nation
• Confederate Major Kept Superiors Notified Of Troop Status In Campbell
• East Tennesseans Voted Against Referendums For Civil War Secession
• Each Of Tennessee's Three Grand Divisions Has Its Own Distinctive Manners, Culture
• Death Certificate for Kelly Calony Sexton
• Link to Death Certificate Form
• Robert Coker/Rebecca "Becky" Allen Reunion

• February 8, 2004
  
  • Anthras Got Its Name from Anthracite Coal; Block's Name Came from Thick Coal Vein
  • 'Blue Gem Coal' Name Coined After Its Blue Blaze Captured Attention at Woolridge Home
  • Campbell County Muses Trace their History to Isaac Muse, Who Married Here in 1873
  • Iron Works Established on Grant's Creek in 1801, Became Baker's Forge In 1822
  • Tennessee Working Man Described as Free Spirited, Arising From Frontier Past
• February 7, 2004
  • Applied new template to main page for easy formatting
  • Knoxville, LaFollette, Jellico railroad completed April 3, 1905; Jellico-Knoxville line built in 1893
  • Yoakum ancestors were among German immigrant victims of cruel, vicious conflict
  • Davy Crockett describes bear hunting exploits, boat building experience during Fall of 1825
  • Fur trade contributed to white exploration, opening of wilderness north of Mexico

• February 4-6, 2004
  • Veteran of World War I: Namon Levi Adkins
  • Civil War Veteran: Clem Chapman
  • Updated 1839 tax list pages
  • Miscellaneous court records 1813 - 1817
  • Tennessee's first agricultural bureau organized under Gov. Andrew Johnson; Fair held following year
  • Spiritual gloom pervaded America at end of 1700s, no more than 5 percent claimed church membership
  • Observer says American Indians feasted on venison, green corn, 'kind of hominy' potatoes during 1700s
  • Campbell County's Col. Joseph A. Cooper organized Union 6th Tennessee regiment in Kentucky in 1862
  • Cumberland Gap played crucial role in transition of frontier; some 8,000 whigs met there in 1840
  • Completion of knoxville, Ohio railroads opened up East Tennessee: one of nation's richest areas
• December 12, 2003
  • Veteran of War of 1812:John Roberst
  • Civil War Veteran: John R. Craig
  • WWI Veterans: Maynard Cummins, Dave H. (D.H.) Rosier, Joseph Cecil Rosier, Henry Martin Rookard
  • WWII Veteran: James Monroe Walden 
  • At The End Of 19th Century, Mountain Lumbering Was Done By Man, Animals Without Machines
  • Baird, Dosset Families Go Back To Early 1800s In Campbell County, Says Goodspeed's History
  • Campbell County Had 150 War Dead During Wwii; First, George Lamb, Won Distinguished Service Cross
  • Coal, Timber Turned Sleepy Town Of Smithburg Into Bustling Jellico, Spurred Building Of First Baptist
  • Discovery Of Coal In Jellico Mountains Changed Small Village Of Smithburg From 1833 To 1878
  • Frank, William Hancock Became First Settlers Of Walnut Grove, Between Rivers
  • Like Melungeons, There's Not Definite Record Of Beginnings Of 'Black Dutch,' Writer Finds
  • Mining Town Of Beech Grove Was Well Managed, With Large Commissary, Movie Theater, Game Room
  • One Million Native Americans Occupied Present United States In 1500 Spoke Over 100 Dialects
  • Political History Of Tennessee Began In 1772 With Adoption Of 'Written Articles Of Association'
  • Revolutionary War Figure Thomas Paine Proposed Plan For 'Modern' Social Insurance In 1795
  • Smithburg Came A Long Way In Five Years Before Arrival Of Railroads, Renaming Of Town To Jellico
  • Sure-Footed, Sturdy Mules, Stabled Underground, Often Used To Haul Coal Cars Inside Mines
  • Walnut Grove, At Forks Of Clinch, Powell Rivers, Had One-Room Frame School That Burned In 1889
  • Well Spring Methodist Church Began In 1893; It Operated 9 Months As Private School, 3 As Public
• November 25, 2003
  • Miscellaneous Court Records
  • Jacob Queener Survey
  • Henry Queener Survey (2 Surveys)
  • America's First Bible Belt Began In Northeast, Spread During Great Awakening Of The 1700s
  • Caryville Got Its Name From William Carey, Land Owner, County Judge, Freight Line Operator
  • Cherokee 'Mountaineers' Claimed Roughly 40,000 Square Miles Through Eight States
  • Coal Dust Memories Of Block, Tennessee
  • Confederate Newspaper Described Geography Facing 'Vandal Abolition Hordes In The North'
  • Confederate Soldier John Wesley Pitts Wrote Wife, Vin, From Encampments Near Cumberland Gap
  • Early Pioneers Lived In One-Room Log Cabins, Heated By Fireplace In Which Wood Was Cooked
  • Hundreds Of Boys Worked In Area Coal Mines From Early Morning To Evening, Missing School
  • Longhunters Were First To Penetrate Wilds Of Tennessee, Kentucky, Then The West
  • New River Lumber Industry's Existence Depended On Railroad That Reached Into Area From Oneida
  • Overhill Cherokees, Who Sold Land To Henderson & Co., Caught In Struggle Between English, French
  • Pete Ellison Recalls Early Funerals In Jellico; One Minister's Service Went 7 Hours With 16 Speakers
  • The New River Lumber Industry
  • Union Army's Hardtack Considered Nutritious All-Purpose Meal For Soldiers - Weevils And All
  • Woodsons, Kincaids, Agees Trace Their History In Campbell County Area Back To Mid-1800s
• November 24, 2003
  • 1883 Train Trip From Knoxville To Jellico Described In Old Knoxville Daily Tribune
  • Ausmus Family Roots Spring From Germans Who Fled To Holland To Escape Persecution
  • Blockhouses, Often Crudely Built, Vigilance Were Settlers' Defense Against Indians
  • Daniel Boone's 1775 Wilderness Road First Platted By White Man Into Tennessee Territory
  • First Settlements In Powell's Valley Followed Purchase Of Land By Henderson And Company
  • Irish William Murphy First Baptist Minister To Preach Word In Campbell County - In 1797
  • Life Of A Coal Miner; Its Slow Progress: Boy Begins In Breaker, Old Man Ends In Breaker
  • Philip Francis,. Pennsylvanian Of Welsh Descent, Spent 72 Years Mining Coal Here
  • Tennessee's Name Dates Back To 1567 Spanish Explorer Captain Juan Pardo
  • Thomas Mclain Tangled With Indians, Built Stone House That Still Stands In 1806-08
  • Who Are The Melungeons? There Are As Many Theories As Researchers On Puzzling Question
  • Women Had Difficult Time In Early Years - Worked Hard, Girls Hardly Ever Had Schooling
  • Young Civil War Recruits Had To Learn Process Of Soldiering Hard Way - On Long Marches
• November 12, 2003
  • American Indians' Ways Changed World's Culture More Than Any Other Civilization, Says Writer
  • American Indians Had Plenty Of Dogs, But Spaniards Introduced Horses To Continent 
  • Boston Tavern Handled First Overseas Mail Sent From European Countries In 1639
  • Bullocks, Among The First Americans In East 
  • Campbell County Authorized By General Assembly In 1806, County Seat Chosen The Following Year
  • Col. Joseph A. Cooper, Campbell County Native, Beat Confederate Cavalry In Pine Mountain Fight
  • Confederacy's Railway Deficit, High Damages May Have Contributed Heavily To Loss Of War
  • Daniel Boone, 30 Woodsmen Blazed Famed 200-Mile Wilderness Road In Spring, 1775
  • Lafollette Presbyterian Church Traces Its Roots To 1920s Gathering Over Drug Store
  • Maj. Gen. Joseph Alexander Cooper Tried To Muster Union Support In Campbell County
  • Pine Mountain Stretches As Fault Ridge From Elk Gap At Pioneer To Sandy Breaks, Kentucky
  • State Of Franklin Created Before Tennessee Was Carved Out Of North Carolina Territory
• October 29, 2003 
  • Death Certificate for William Henry Tidwell
  • Articles on Campbell County History by Dallas Bogan:
  • Balmy Days Of Indian Summer's American Origins Date To Revolutionary War Times
  • Before Iron Tools, Indians Felled Trees With Fire; Bow, Arrow Fell Into Disuse When Trading Began
  • Bow, Arrow Tipped With Quarried Flint Was Great Labor-Saving Invention For Native Americans
  • Coffee Rations, Though Small, Were Considered Godsend To Soldiers During Civil War Period
  • Disastrous 1906 Dynamite Explosion In Jellico Killed 8, Injured 200 More, Wrecked Downtown
  • Early Appalachian Marriage Customs: Most Relationships Prearranged By Family Members.
  • Famed Naturalist John Muir's Journal Reported Travels In Remote Tennessee, North Carolina
  • First Methodist Church In Area Established Before 1840, But 1842 Revival Spurred Growth
  • Jellico Got Its Name From ???????
  • Long Before I-75, Dixie Highway Was Main Route Through Lafollette As First North-South Interstate
  • Official Records Of Civil War Recount Various Skirmishes In Powell's Valley, Cumberland Gap
  • Old Newspaper Article Describes 'Pure Italian Blue Gem Coal,' Mined In Jellico, Market's Best
  • Stinking Creek Traces Its Name To Bitterly Cold Winter Of 1779-80 When Animals Perished
  • Surveyors Error In Drawing 'Walker Line' Kept Tennessee, Kentucky At Odds For Many Years
  • Surviving Wives Desperately Fight Off Attack By Indians On Their Settlement At Ennis Bottom
  • Taking Cattle And Hogs To Market Common Sight In Early Tennessee Days As Drover Business Thrived
  • Tobacco, Cash Crop For Many Campbell Countians, Was In Use By American Indians As Early As 1 B.C.
  • Zie Muse Recounts Experience Of Being Lost, Desperate In Maze Of Abandoned Coal Mine 
• October 24, 2003 (Articles on Campbell County History by Dallas Bogan)
  • Appalachian Music Mostly Based On Ballads, Instrumental Dance Tunes Of Anglo-Saxons
  • Area Names in early Campbell County$Blacksmithing, One Of The Oldest Crafts, Was Important Trade In Early History Of County
  • Campbell County's Early Post Offices Included Jacksborough, Big Creek Gap, Primroy, Girl, Agee
  • Church Of God Got Its Start With Small Band Of Believers On Banks Of Barney Creek
  • Early Resident Tells Of Timber Harvesting Here During 1800s
  • First Recorded Indian Massacre On Powell's River Claimed Daniel Boone's Son, Others
  • Good Poplar, Pine White Oak Logs Brought $5 Apiece When Rafted Down The Clinch River
  • Laban Sharp, Entrepreneur Of 1800s, Predicted Town Would Stand Where Lafollette Is Located
  • Prominent Residents Of Jacksboro In April 1900 Included Familiar Campbell County Family Names
  • Snake Tales And May Snowstorms Pepper The Writings Of Local Resident Ozias Muse
  • Spanish American War Camp, Banks, Church Revival, Store Move Made Page 1 In 1930
  • They Weren't Superhighways, But Buffalo, Indian Trails Were First 'Roads' Used By American Pioneers
  • Unprecedented Lafollette Fire Of 1904 Left 31 Businesses, 10 Saloons, In Ashes
    
• October 22, 2003 (Articles on Campbell County History by Dallas Bogan)
  • Bloomeries - Early Iron Forges - Were Among First Industries In Campbell County; Earliest Was In 1824
  • Campbell County Seat Named For Judge Jack, Spared By Friendly Indian; Location Led To Bitter Court Dispute
  • 'Coal Mining Towns' Tells Story Of East Tennessee
  • County's Namesake, Col. Arthur Campbell, Moved From Virginia To Middlesboro, Died There In 1911
  • County's Revolutionary War Veterans Listed
  • Ginseng, In Use For More Than 2,000 Years In China, Has Been Prized Cash Crop For Mountain Residents
  • Long Hunters Got Their Name From Duration Of Hunt
  • Modern-Day Practice Began In Tennessee Church In 1910
  • Progenitor Of Family Here Died In Indian Battle
  • 'Southern Baptists' Grew Out Of Civil War Strife, Shaping, Characterizing Southern Society
  • Yoakum History
    
• October 14, 2003
  • Death Certificate image for Betty Leach
  • Death Certificate image for Henry Leach
  • Death Certificate transcription and image for Joseph Leach
  • PDF Version (Adobe Reader) of the 1895 Campbell County Tax Records for download.