Cocke County, Tennessee
Stokely Memorial Library

383 East Broadway
Newport, Tennessee   37821
PHONE & FAX 423-623-3832
Meschelyn Barrett, Librarian
Pauline Profitt and Marie Kozlik, Assistants

Genealogy Research Services

Stokely Memorial Library, located in a modern stone building in downtown Newport was founded in 1925.  A genealogy section, created in the 1960's contains dozens of files crammed with data on Cocke County families, schools, churches, businesses and communities.  Surnames are indexed here. Published material and microfilmed documents includes:

• NEW - Two volumes of Cocke County cemeteries, compiled by Duay O'Neal -  available for purchase also
  


• Newspapers on microfilm
  
  
• Public records on microfilm
  
  
• Cocke County census 1830-1920
  
  
• Marriage, birth and death records
  
  
• Deeds and Court Minutes
  
  
• Partial funeral home records
  
  
• Land Survey  1824-1840
  
  
• Big Pigeon Church Minutes
  
  
• Cocke County Taxpayers: 1839
  
  
• Cocke County Tax List 1821, 1827
  
  
• Several Books on Cocke County History
  
  
• Other area historical books
  
  
• Cemetery records

Staff can provide the following research services:

Search and Advice

$5.00 per surname (Payable in advance).

Includes searches of family files, census and cemetery records for data pertaining to your family.
You will be advised concerning available material and the approximate cost for further research.

Actual search of records and making copies:

$5.00 per hour

Copies from Microfilm    $.50 each page

Other Copies    $.15 each

Postage and Handling will be quoted

(Please send as much data as you can about your ancestor(s), especially birth, death and marriage records.  If exact dates are unknown, approximate dates can be very helpful.)

RESEARCH REQUEST FORM to print out.

Books on Cocke County

OVER THE MISTY BLUE HILLS  - By Lady Ruth O'Dell

COCKE COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND ITS PEOPLE, A COLLECTION OF GENEALOGY RECORDS - Submitted by family members

NOTE:  As with all libraries and archives, this one is also understaffed and usually overworked.  Their research time is very limited.  If you have request information, please be very patient.  WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING LOOK-UP VOLUNTEERS FOR THIS AREA.

Early public records of Cocke County do not exist.  Nearly everything was destroyed in the Courthouse fire on December 29, 1876.  If you have Cocke County data that would be helpful to other researchers and would like to see the data posted on this site please contact us.