Stewart County History

Stewart County Virtual Museum

Click on the link above to tour our Virtual Museum, a collection of photographs of Stewart County events and artifacts, contributed by our Stewart County Genealogy Mailing List members.

Goodspeed's History (published 1880's)
Furnaces	Mills & Cotton	County Creation	Military History	Schools
Early Settlement	Slave Insurrection	Courts & Records	Early Cities	Churches

Other Stewart County History helps:
1803 Petitioners to form Stewart County	Stewart County Timeline	Settlements	Stewart Countians in the Revolutionary War	War of 1812
Stewart County and the Civil War	1865 Maps of Stewart County	Stewart Countians in The Great War	Depression Years	Early History of Middle Tennessee By Edward Albright, 1908 (1909)
Between the Rivers website	Life and Times of Elder Reuben Ross (for life in early Stewart Co.)	List of Rolling Mills, Forges & Furnaces

Stewart County Historical Places and Faces Photo Album:
Bear Springs Furnace	Great Western Furnace	Surrender House	Cumberland River
Mt. Zion Church	Ft. Donelson Cemetery

Stewart County Ancestors

Stewart County Family Gateway Information and photos shared by family researchers. Although GEDcoms are not allowed, we welcome descendency lists covering as many as six to eight generations, NO living individuals PLEASE, just family histories, family narratives, marriage/death records, etc. Please document your sources. Just click on the family name below to be taken to that family's Gateway page.
Bass	Bayer	Bell	Boswell	Boyte	Brake
Vinnie Maurice Brunson	Burgess	Byrd	Cherry Men	Cherry-Gardner Wedding Photo	Cherry-Wyatt-Guinn
Jefferson Davis Cherry	Wallace Roy Cherry	Collins	Collins (2)	Cranford - Simpson	Dawson
Dunaway-Lancaster Marriage License	Edwards	Ellis	Fitzhugh-Carney ca 1910	Ford	Gray
Green(e)	Griffin	Hargis	Hawkins	Hayes	Jameson
Jones	Knott	Levi & Ona Martin homeplace (John Jones Place)	Joyce Family ca 1920	Keel	Kirksey
Lancaster-Rougemont 1904 Wedding Photo	Lee-Atkins-Milam-Bell	Lockhart	Manning	G. W. Mathis	W. E. Mathis
McGee	McGee (2)	Michaels	Morgan	Pace	Vinson Page
Parchman	C. M. Parker	Cigmarion Parker	Exum Parker	Petty	Dill & Novella Phillips
Jonathon Phillips	Pinner	Powers	Reynolds	Rice	G. C. Robertson
Rogers	A. B. Ross	Sexton	Singer-Page	Smith	Stalls
Vick	Vinson	A. G. Wallace	Pinkney Wallace	Weaks	Wynn

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Goodspeed's Biographies (published 1886)
Biographies A & B		Biographies C-D-E-F-G		Biographies H-J-K-L-M
Biographies P-R-S		Biographies T-V-W-Y
Other Research Resources for Stewart County Ancestors:
Early Settlers & Biographies		Surname Volunteers		Stewart's Cherokee Connections
Ira Shares (Sharing and information about the Stewart area, locations, history, families by Ira Bell, native of the area)
Group Photos of Ancestors:
Hog Killing Group, c. 1900 1906 Church Group to Identify? 1910's Group to Identify? Antioch School Abt. 1923 Bear Spring School, 1925-26 Bear Spring School, 1935 Bear Spring School 8th grade class Big Rock High School basketball team, 1936 Big Rock High School 1938 Senior Class Bumpus Mills flood, 1933 Bumpus Mills High School 4-H Club, Dec. 1938 Carlisle School 1900-1901 Center Point School, ca. 1937 Chestnut Grove School, ca. 1928 Cumberland City Academy, 1907-08 Lineport Masonic Lodge, ca. 1900 Mount View School Abt. 1922-1923 New Haven School, 1913 Pine Bluff School 1906-1907; 1910-1912 Pugh Flat School, ca. 1905-1910
Folklore, Sayings, Folk Remedies, Etc. of the Area
The Tales They Told...: Stories and folklore about Stewart County and the people who called it home shared by their descendents.
Folk Remedies contributed by subscribers Folk Medicine by B.W. Dortch
The Way They Lived....pj Thompson Shares... "Come Sit in the Swing Under The Shade Tree and Let Me Tell You Of Days Gone By"
Hog Killing Day ...... Making From Scratch: Woodstove Recipes ..... Making Do: Old Time Household Recipes & Remedies ....Wash Day ... Laying a Corpse...Patsy and Paula Saga...More to come! ...About the author: Meet pj

Stewart County Research

Stewart County Public Library The Library's official web site

Now for sale at the Stewart County Public Library and the Houston County Public Library: 1838-1871, Marriage Licenses Applied For, Stewart County Tennessee, published by Friends of the Library, Houston County, TN Price for the book: $8.00 (checks payable to Friends of the Library). Also for sale, FROM THE HILLS AND HOLLOWS: A CHRONICLE OF SMITH AND WILSON FAMILIES IN STEWART AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES OF TENNESSEE BY JAMES MEREDITH SMITH, (c) 2007, hardback, $45.00 Send orders for either book to: Stewart County Public Library 102 Natcor Drive Dover, TN 37058-3524

And from our friends across the border in Trigg County: Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County, Kentucky compiled by David Sumner, Kim Fortner, Pam Metts & Charles Morris. To be released in May 2008. To reserve your copy send $30 plus $5 shipping ($3 shipping each additional book) to: Kim Fortner or Pam Metts 244 Main St. Cadiz, KY 42211 or local residents - come by the John L. Street Library in Cadiz and see Kim or Pam, Monday-Friday, 9AM-5PM Hardback book, 450+ pages Contains over 400 Trigg Co. cemetery listings 100+ cemeteries never before recorded Full name index Driving directions to each cemetery NOTE: This book does NOT contain Trigg Co. cemeteries located in LBL / Between the Rivers.

Ask Jim Do you have questions about HOW to do Stewart County research? WHERE to find information? How to decipher what you DO find? Then click on the Ask Jim link above, and send your question in to someone who's been around the courthouse a few times. NOTE: This page is about general research, not specific persons. If you want to ask about specific people, please post a query.

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