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East Tennessee History Center, Knoxville

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The East Tennessee History Center in downtown Knoxville has a wealth of resources for Bledsoe County researchers.

McClung Collection

The Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection (click here) is Central East Tennessee’s premier research repository with

  • More than 75,000 books
  • More than 3,000 printed genealogies
  • More than 15,000 folders of First Families of Tennessee materials
  • Genealogical manuscript holdings that have been processed for research use — this is an incredible compilation of original documents and research deposited there by individuals over the course of decades
  • More than 19,000 rolls of microfilm including census records, state and local government records, newspapers, and other valuable primary source material
  • Subscriptions to web-based genealogical databases
  • Significant holdings of historic maps, photographs, and manuscripts  

The Special Collections include

  • Manuscripts, photographs, and newspapers — those not on microfilm are NOT available during evening and weekend hours, except by prior arrangement with the manager of the McClung Collection.
  • The McClung Digital Collection (click here) of photographs and documents

Knox County Archives

The archives receive, process, and preserve the non-current, permanent records created by county government since 1792.
 
Click here to visit the Archives’ Web site.

The Knox County Archives provides information on the origins and history of the court systems, court records, genealogy, and history of Knox County, Tennessee. The Archives provides public access to all holdings, with the exception of juvenile records and those restricted by Tennessee laws. It provides local government source material to court officials, genealogists, legal professionals, historians, and the general public.

Hamilton District Superior Court of Law and Equity

Of particular importance to Bledsoe County researchers, the records of the Hamilton District Court are housed in the Knox County Archives.  The early Superior Courts of Law and Equity of Tennessee were tasked with handling criminal matters and cases of relatively high dollar value, generally greater than $50. In this way, they were “superior” to the County Courts that adjudicated matters less than $50. The Superior Court also served as an appellate court. They were held in five districts and existed from 1793–1809 with the Hamilton District Superior Court sitting in Knoxville and serving the middle East Tennessee region. The records of this court are held at the Knox County Archives and the surviving cases are indexed here.
 
Click here to search the index to case files.

Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound

The mission is “Preserving the audio, video, and film history of East Tennessee.”
 
Dating back to 1915, the moving image collection currently contains more than 5,000 reels and videotapes of home movies, documentaries, advertisements, industrial and training films, commercial films, television programming, and newsreels, all with local or regional connections. Its audio collection includes vintage radio programming, sound recordings, and oral histories and field recordings from the region, which date back to the 1930s.
 
Some of the iconic programming(link is external) preserved by TAMIS includes the early television shows of Cas Walker(link is external), 1982 World’s Fair(link is external) footage, and Jim Thompson’s 1915 home movies of the Great Smoky Mountains(link is external), which helped spawn the National Park movement. TAMIS recently unearthed early unreleased demo recordings by a young Dolly Parton. For requests or information regarding TAMIS resources, please click here to e-mail TAMIS.

FamilySearch Memories: User-Submitted Photos, Audio Files, and Documents

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FamilySearch Memories is a crowd-sourced compilation of photos, audio recordings, stories, and documents attached to persons in the FamilySearch communal tree.

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Searching for Bledsoe Tennessee (without quotation marks) returns the maximum of 10,000 hits. Many of those results are connected to individuals with the surname Bledsoe, rather than the location.

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FamilySearch Research Wiki Pages

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FamilySearch Wiki is a crowd-sourced compilation of resources available on the FamilySearch site, in the FamilySearch Catalogue, FamilySearch (digitized) Books, and items available elsewhere.

Tennessee Wiki

Bledsoe County Wiki

Cumberland County Wiki

Hamilton County Wiki

Marion County Wiki

Rhea County Wiki

Roane County Wiki

Sequatchie County Wiki

Van Buren County Wiki

Bledsoe County 1815 Tax List

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Submitter: Elizabeth Parham Robnett

Transcriber: Wanda Gant (her notes include a recommendation to check the original document for accuracy)

Ms. Robnett wrote this tax list was “to delay enactment of the land law during the War between Great Britain.”

In 1815, Bledsoe County’s boundaries included Roane, Morgan, White, Warren, and Marion Counties.

Names are arranged alphabetically.

Abel, John
Alexander, Epth
Alexander, Givens
Allen, James
Allen, John
Allen, Josiah
Allred, Thomas
Anderson, George [2]
Anderson, James [2]
Anderson, Reuben
Anderson, William
Archer, Cornelius
Archer, John
Archer, Spencer
Ashburn, M.
Atchley, Daniel
Atchley, Joshua Sr.
Atchley, Joshua Jr.
Atchley, Martain
Atchley, Thomas
Austin, Daniel
Austin, Hezekiah
Austin, John
Austin, Moses
Baird, A.
Baker, Norris
Barden, John
Bargdon, James
Barman, Daniel
Barrett, Thomas
Basham, J.
Basham, John [2]
Basham, Jonathan
Basham, William
Basham, Arthur
Beard, John N.
Beard, William
Bennet, James
Bennet, Jessy
Bernoston, William
Beson, Thomas
Billingsley, John
Billingsley, Samuel
Bishop, Joseph
Black, James
Blevins, Stephen
Boling, Lewis
Borden, Joel
Bow, Rheubin
Branson, Andrew
Branson, John
Branson, Thomas
Branson, Valentine
Brogdon, James
Brown, James
Brown, James
Brown, John
Brown, Joseph
Brown, Samuel
Brown, Stephen
Bull, John
Burden, Hall Sims
Burk, John
Burk, Robert
Burk, William
Cardhey, Ben
Carland, Joshua
Carmack, John
Catcham, Joseph
Chambers, Elijah
Chambers, Elisha
Chambers, John
Chambers, William
Chaney, Yoray?
Cherry, Benjamin
Cherry, Elijah
Cherry, Quals
Childers, James
Childress, Joseph
Chitman, James
Christian, William
Christian, William
Cirklin, Robert
Clark, Arthemus
Clark, Coker
Clark, John
Clark, Thomas
Clemmons, Adam C.
Clemmons, Jacob
Clemmons, John
Cook, Tholmas
Cook, William
Cooper, George
Cooper, Nathaniel
Coplen, James
Copp, James
Copp, Mikel
Corden, James
Corden, James Jr.
Coulter, Thomas
Cow, John
Cow, Nick
Cowen, Samuel
Cozby, George E.
Cozby, Robert
Crafford, Gannoway
Crafford, Matthias
Cranmore, James
Currith, Boyd
Damrory, James M.
Dauese, William
Dauthit, James
Dauthit, John
Davis, John
Dever, James
Disly, John
Dorety, James
Dose, John
Doss, James
Doss, John [2]
Douthit, Absolem
Duff, Jonah
Durran,William
Dustin, Hezekiah
Dwigens, John
Eden, Alexander
Eden, Archibald
Eden, James
Eden, William
Edens, Samuel
Ellig, Thomas
Ellis, John
Euying, Andrew
Fansher, Isaac
Farmer, Ant.
Farmer, William
Forester, Enoch
Foster, James
fryer, Jery
Gaberman, Reuben
Galbreath, Thomas
Ghillion, Henry
Gibson, Jacob [2]
Gilbreath, David
Golston, John
Golston, Thomas
Goode, William
Gooding, James
Gosbourn, George
Goshin, John
Goss, Samuel
Gott, Richard
Grass, John
Graves, John
Graves, Lathern
Grayson, Ben
Grayson, Berry
Griffith, David
Griffith, George
Griffith, Matthew S.
Griffith, Thomas
Griffith, Thomas
Griffith, Timothy
Guith, William
Gunter, William
Hail, George
Hail, Isom
Hail, James
Hail, John
Hail, Luke
Hail, Willie
Hall, Joseph
Ham, John
Hammelton, Abraham
Hamon, William
Hankins, John
Hany, Francis
Hany, James
Hany, John
Hany, Richard
Harbison, Alexander
Hasfield, George
Hawkins, Richard
Henderson, Edward
Henderson, John
Henderson, Shadrack
Henderson, William
Hesen, Benjamin
Hickman, John
Hicks, Isaac
Hillard, Joel
Hinson, Houston
Hinson, John
Hitson, John
Hixson, Ephraim Jr.
Hixson, Ephraim Sr.
Hixson, John
Hixson, Joseph
Hixson, William [2]
Hoge, James
Hoge, John
Hoge, Robert
Hogen, Richard
Hoil, John Jr.
Hoil, Luke
Hoil, Richard
Hoil, Robert [2]
Hoil, Thomas
Hoil, William
Hol, John
Holeman, John
Holman, John
Holman, William
Holms, Daniel
Holt, Irby
Hooper, Innis
Hopkins, Elias
Hopkins, John
Hopkins, Lucas
Horner, Andrew
Hort, Druery
Howard, Reason
Howe, William
Hughes, Aaron
Hughes, Jhn
Hull, Joseph
Hunter, Welcom?
Hunter, William
Huson, William
Hutcheson, Charles
Hutcheson, Thomas
Ing, James
Jacks, Jeason?
Jacks, William
Jayson, F.
Jeters, Joseph
Jinkins, Josiah
Johnson, Alexander
Johnson, David
Johnson, Francis
Johnson, Isaac
Johnson, John
Johnson, Moses
Johnson, Thomas
Joiner, James
Joiner, William
Jones, Jeremiah
Jones, John
Jones, Richard
Jones, Richard
Keesey, Thomas
Keeth, David
Keeth, Ely
Keeth, James
Keeth, James
Keeth, Nichodmus
Keeth, Stephen
Kelly, Alex Sr.
Kelly, Alex Jr.
Kermit, William
Ketchem, Jacob
Kilburn, Gooden
Killian, Andrew
Killian, Michael
Kirkland, Archibald
Kirkland, Archibald
Kirkland, Daniel
Kirkland, Elisha
Lamb, A.
Lamb, Aaron
Lamb, Adam
Lamb, Alexander
Lamb, Alexander
Lamb, Hugh
Lany, Ruben [Hany?]
Lasacte, Burrel
Lawrence, Martin
Lay, C?
Lay, William
Lee, John
Lee, John
Lewis, William
Lewiston, John
Lewiston, William
Long, James
Long, Reuben
Long, Silas
Looney, Peter
Looney, Peter
Loony, David
Lord, Benjamin
Louis, James
Lowe, Andrew E.
Lusk, Joseph
Mackenny, John
Marcan, Reubin
Marshall, Joel
Martin, Joseph
Mascander, David
May, James
Mazy, Solomon
McCannon, Cornelius
McClenden, Weller
McClenham, Robert
McColley, Andrew
McDonough, William
McEntire, John F.
McGee, Ralph
McGill, William
McGuire, William
McKinny, Jesse
McNeil, George
McNull, Clark
McVane, Will
McWhorten [r?], John
McWilliams, Andrew
McWilliams, John
McYoung, John
Mechin, Isham?
Merriman, Briant
Merriman, Charles
Miars, John
Miller, Andrew
Miller, Henry
Miller, John
Miller, William
Mizen, John
Moirs, John
Molley, Andrew
Montgomery, James
Moon, Rich
Moore, Jacob
Moore, James
Moore, Nimrod
Moors, Lewis
More, John
Morgain, Chuck
Narramore, J.
Narramore, John
Nechrors, John
Nichols, Michael
Night, Alphard
Night, Soloman
Norman, John Sr.
Norman, John Jr.
O’Neil, Robert
Oggdon, Francis
Oldridge, Andrew
Owen, Samuel
Owings, William
Page, Robert
Page, Robert
Pankey, James
Pankey, Smith
Pankey, Stephen [2]
Parker, John
Parker, Phillip
Parker, Roaly
Parsons, James
Penn, Richard
Penn, William
Petmore, John
Petson, Richard
Pillips, Robert
Porter, Robert
Portman, John
Portman, John
Pryor, William
Radford, David
Radford, George
Randolph, Samuel
Rawling, Ishael
Rawlings, John
Rawlings, Michael
Rayns, Robert
Real, George
Real,Edward
Reynolds, Joe M.
Reynolds, Samuel
Rich, John
Richards, Steven R.
Riddle, Thomas
Riddle, William
Rigwell, John
Rippetoe, John
Rippetoe, William
Rippley, Thomas
Roberson, Jacob
Roberson, James
Roberson, John Jr.
Roberson, John
Roberson, Rison
Roberson, William
Robinson, Mills
Rodgers, Ruben
Rodgers, William
Rogers, Amanuel
Rogers, Dauswell
Rogers, Jeremiah
Rogers, Jesse
Rogers, John
Rogers, Joseph
Runel,William
Rushall, John
Russell, James
Russell, John
Sailes, Thomas
Sapp, Walker
Scott, Shockley?
Seaborn, John
Sears, John
Self, Hezekiah
Self, Jesse
Self, Levy
Self, Spencer
Sharp, Daniel
Sharp, Leroy
Sharp, William
Sheles, William
Sherr, Sam
Sherrell, Charles R.
Sherrell, Jesse
Shinault, Walter
Shookmaker, Sol.
Short, Uriah
Shropshire, John
Simpson, Moses
Sisco, J.
Sixson, Thim?
Skiles, John
Sloan, Thomas
Sloan, William
Slone, James
Slone, John
Smith, William [2]
Smith, John
Smyth, Taylor
Spears, John H.
Spring, John
Spring, Lawrence
Spring, Nicles
Spring, Valentine
Spring, Valentine
Standefer, James
Standefer, Luke
Standefer, Skelton
Stenet, James
Stephens, Isaac
Stevenson, Adam
Stewart, George
Stewart, James
Stewart, William
Stone, William
Stuct, John
Stuett, Samuel
Sulavn, John
Sulivan, Henry
Sutherland, Daniel
Sutherland, John
Sutherland, Thomas
Sutherland, Thomas
Swofford, Aaron
Swofford, Abraham
Tannerhill, Ben
Tateson, David
Tatum, Edward
Taylor, George
Terry, Clement
Terry, Samuel
Thurman, Eli
Thurman, James
Tollason, Erasmus [2]
Tollet, David
Tollet, Henry
Tollett, John Sr.
Tollett, John Jr.
Tollett, Mark
Tomson, Joseph
Tulley, Mark
Upshur, Dawrey?
Vernon, Miles
Vernon, Thomas Jr.
Vernon, Thomas Sr.
Wakefield, John
Wakefiled, Jospeh
Walker, George
Walker, James
Walker, Jesse Jr.
Walker, Jesse [2]
Walker, John Jr.
Walker, John
Walker, Samuel
Walker, William
Ware, Joseph
Warner, John
Welbron, Featherstone
Weld, Jonathan
West, William
Wheeler, Joel
Whethen, Robert
White, Silas
Whitten, William
Whittenburg, Peter
Wick, Elijah
Wilson, Rily
Wilson, William
Woods, James [2]
Woods, Nathan
Yancey, James

Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/bledsoe/taxlists/1815/1815tax.txt

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Message Forum, E-mail List, and Query Board Resources

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Social Media Options

Facebook groups have become extremely popular for genealogical and historical research sharing on-line.  Click here for links to relevant groups.

Current Web-based Options (non-social media)

The most-popular on-line message sharing forum is  Ancestry.com’s message boards system. A paid Ancestry user account is not required to use the system.

Bledsoe County

Cumberland County

Sequatchie County

Defunct Options; Data Remains Available On-line

Over the years, several options for researchers to post family and local history inquires have existed.  Many of those systems are now defunct, but the data remain available.  Other sites remain on-line.  The predominance of social media groups has caused other on-line options to wither.  Some links are provided for those who wish to dig through the archives.

Genforum – State of Tennessee (“view by county” does not work)

Rootsweb: Bledsoe County Genealogy Mailing List

Rootsweb: Cumberland County Genealogy Mailing List

Rootsweb: Sequatchie County Genealogy Mailing List

 

Andrew Parker Wiley Pension Record

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In Individuals & Families, Military Records

submitted by Joyce Hines Stone (before 2015)

Just received my ancestors pension Records for Civil war. The Records give me the full name of Andrew Parker Wiley Married Sarah Ann Smith in Bledsoe County, TN. Their Marriage date is June 8, 1856, as recorded in “Pikesville,” County seat of Bledsoe County, TN. Paperwork also lists living children’s names:

W. A. Wiley male, born Feb. 24, 1857
I. H. Wiley male, born Dec. 8, 1859
G. W. Wiley male, born April 2, 1865
J. N. Wiley male, born July 23, 1867
Mary J. Wiley female, born Feb 10 1872, Pension documents list her as M. J. Shackelford
Thomas Wiley male born, Oct. 27th 1873

Andrew P. Wiley died June 18, 1906 in Keller, Tarrant County, Texas. Sarah Ann Smith Wiley died Mar. 1, 1917, in Willis, Montgomery County, Tx.

He joined the service in Nashville. I think he was a Union soldier.

They were on the census 1840-50-60 census in Bledsoe County, then to Warren County, then to Coffee County then to Texas.

His mother was Sarah Wiley. Her sister was Frances or Fanny Wiley.

Aaron Higginbotham Land Survey in Bledsoe County, 1808

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possibly submitted by Jim Standifer (before 2015)

Aaron Higginbotham Land Grant Plat

State of Tennessee
Third District

Surveyed the fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eight for Aaron Higginbotham (assee. of William Mitchell one hundred & ninety eight acres of land his occupant claim as assee of James Standefer by virtue of a warrant issued by the register of West Tennessee No. 1 not having a sufficient bounds to satisfy an entry made by the said Higginbotham for two hundred acres within the calls of said location leaving a ballance of said warrant to be satisfied of two acres located this day of August eighteen hundred & seven location No. Five situate in the county of Bledsoe in the fifty sixth & fiftieth sections of said district beginning on hickory and white oak and running with a condition with Alexander Coulter south eighty east eighty eighty poles to Sequatchee river thence on the on one hundred & fifty eight poles in all to post oak thence east ninety poles to pointers thence north one hunderd & thirty five poles to hickory thence west two hundred & fifty poles to pointers thence south one hundred and twelve poles to the beginning.

A Higginbotham D.S.

Alexr. Coulter
&
Israel Standefer C.C.

 

Standifer Family

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submitted by Jim Standifer (before 2015)

The following marriages were conducted Bledsoe County. Thomas Alexander Standifer is my grandfather, William Carroll Standifer is my great-grandfather, and Skelton Carroll Standifer is my great-great-grandfather. These dates are recorded in family records.

Thomas Alexander Standifer (26 Sep 1865 – 30 Jun 1931), son of William Carroll Standifer of Bledsoe County, married Sarah “Sally” Elizabeth Hitchcock (24 Jul 1870 – 17 Dec 1958), daughter of Loranzie Dow Hitchcock and Frances Ray York Hitchcock of Van Buren County on 2 October 1887 with James Hale officiating. James Hale owned property adjacent to the Skelton Carroll Standifer (father of William Carroll Standifer) and was pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Skelton Carroll Standifer farm was on the Sequatchie River just north of the Sequatchie County line.

William Carroll Standifer (14 Jan 1846 – 22 August 1921) married Elvy Jane Austin (17 Nov 1847 – 9 Feb 1892) in 1867. She was the daughter of James and Susan Minton Austin of Bledsoe County. After Elvy’s death, William married Nancy Moffitt (1831-1931) on 12 Jul 1892. (Thomas Alexander was born before William was married. His mother was Elizabeth Epperson Jones.)

Skelton Carroll Standifer (12 Apr 1815 – 1903) married Nancy King (1813- 1899), daughter of Richard King, on 14 March 1830. (Skelton and Nancy raised their grandson, Thomas Alexander Standifer. They also had a son names Thomas Alexander Standifer who was born in 1851).

Skelton Carroll Standifer was the son of Congressman James Israel Standifer and Martha “Patsy” Standifer from Bledsoe County. (They were married in Knox County on 2 Feb 1801.)

Narramore Family

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This submission is courtesy of Ed Dunn, who while searching the National Archives for the Revolutionary War record of his ancestor, Charles PRIESTLY, happened upon the following NARRAMORE records and has graciously shared them (before 2015).

Affidavit of John Narramore

State of Tennessee, Bledsoe County. This day personally appeared John Narramore aged seventy seven before me Peter D. Wilson a Justice of the peace for sd County an being sworn saith on oath that in 1786, 1787, 1788 I lived a near neighbor to a certain Charles Priestly in South Carolina in now Carshaw district near Camden in the above years and this same Widow Presley now in Bledsoe County is the same Woman that then lived with said Charles Presley then said to his wife Sworn to Before me this 22 day of March 1839

Signed John Narramore and Peter D. Wilson, acting Justice of the Peace for said County

Narramore Family Records

[pages appear to be from a Family Bible, signed on top by Peter D. Wilson, JP]

Births

John Narramore Senr was born January the 22 in the year of our Lord 1762
Mary Narramore Senr his wife was born in the year of our Lord May the 14 1761
Nancy Narramore Senior his wife was born in the year of our Lord august the 18 1775
These are the sons & Daughters of John & Mary & Nancy Narramore his Wives
Sarah Narramore was born in the year of our Lord August the 22 1781
Fradrach Narramore was born in the year of our Lord February the 23 1784
John Narramore Junr was born in the year of our Lord July the 21 1787
Martha Narramore was born in the year of our Lord October the 4 1789
Mary Narramore was born in the year of our Lord June the 2 1792
Nancy Narramore was born in the year of our Lord Jny the 31 day 1796

Marriages

John Narramore Senr was married to his wife Mary July the 25 day in the yeare of our Lord 1780
John Narramore Senr was married to his wife Nancy in the year of our Lord October the 16 day 1803
Fradrach Narramore was married [to his] wife Gane …[illegible]… day of November in the year of our Lord 1805
Nancy Narramore was married to her husband Jesse …[illegible]… February the 6 day 1812
[next entry completely illegible, faded]
Calvin W. Narramore was married to his wife Nancy April the 2 day in the year of our Lord 1826
Calvin W. Narramore started to Alesua[?] the 15 day of January 1830
Lucia K. Narramore was maried to her husband George F. Smithe May the 1 day 1831
Sopha[?] [illegible] Narramore was married to her husband …[illegible]… the 11 day of October 1831[or 4]

Hoge Family

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submitted by Connie Lehman (before 2015)

Isaac Easterly Hoge, Born May 3, 1877, Bledsoe County, TN, Died January 27, 1941 and buried Bledsoe County, Tennessee (Swaffords Chapel Cemetary)

Married Sara (Sallie) Greer, July 02, 1873, Bledsoe County, Tennessee.  Died July 28, 1955, Hamilton County, Tennessee (Ooltewah) (Swaffords Chapel Cemetery)

This couple (my great-grandparents) were married December 30, 1899, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and children are as follows:

Born Died
1)  Lillis Rowena Hoge-Female December 07, 1902
2) Anice Hoge-Female September 03, 1905
3)  Bernice Hoge-Female November 10, 1907
4)  Rachel Hoge-Female September 06, 1910
5) Preston Alexander Hoge-Male-June 22, 1912 February 06, 1993

All children were born at home at the old Ross Lee place/Bledsoe County/Melvin Community.

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