Probate Records (Needs Work)
Index to Will Books A, 1836-1895 Misc. Cannon County Wills – at the USGenWeb Cannon County, TN site
Military
Revolutionary War The following Cannon County Revolutionary War records are available online through TNGenWeb: 1835 Pension Roll 1852 Rejected or Suspended Pensions Additional resources include: A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1967. FHL Book 973 X2pc 1840; Film 2321. 1841 edition digitized by the U.S. Census…
Marriages (Needs Work)
Index to Marriage Records, Volume 6, 1850-1866
Goodspeed’s History of Cannon County (1887)
More than half of Cannon County lies in the Central Basin, and the remainder on the Highland Rim. Spurs shoot out from the highlands, forming numerous valleys, through which course mountain streams, giving the county probably as much varied and picturesque scenery as any in the State. The soils on the highlands are light colored, and are for the most part thin and unproductive, save of a rank, barren grass which affords good summer grazing. Fruits and tobacco will also…
King Family Files
Rufas A. Dennis b. 18 June 1868 Cannon Co.,TN d. 12 Jan 1958 Cannon Co.,TN This is a family history manuscript written by R.A. Dennis. (I am not sure if anyone knows the exact time frame for when this began or when the last notes were made. There are events or dates mentioned in the manuscript that indicates 1940 – 1959) Keep in mind as you read this that the language and terms used were typical for that time period….
Ward & Elizabeth Barrett Land Deed
CANNON COUNTY, TN – DEEDS – Ward and wife Elizabeth Preston Barratt to Thomas Preston, 3 Nov 1854. Cannon County Deeds, November 3, 1854, Cannon County, Tennessee; Whereas, John Preston late of Cannon County State of Tennessee, died seized and possessed of a certain tract of land lying and being in Cannon County District No 6th, State of Tennessee, and bounded as follows to wit, on the North by the Lands of Elijah or James Neely on the East by…