Chester County, TNGenWeb

CEMETERIES

• Index to Lewis Jones’ Cemeteries of Chester County
• List of Chester County Cemeteries
• Map of Chester County cemeteries – see local cemeteries on a Google Map
• Chester County Cemetery Database

CENSUS

• 1850-1940 Census Records at FamilySearch.org

 

DEATHS

• Chester County Obituaries – misc. obits submitted to this site
• 1914-1933 Chester County Death Certificate Index – more than 2,000 deaths
• Tennessee Death Certificates, 1914 – 1955 – free from FamilySearch.org. Must create free registration to view certificates.

 

EDUCATION

• Misc. Education Items Extracted from Newspapers
• Four Bells of Freed-Hardeman University – #1

 

HISTORY

• Brief History of Chester County by S.E. Reid (1967)
• Goodspeed’s History of Chester County

 

LAND

• Heritage Farms of Chester County

 

MAPS

• 1895 Map of Chester County

 

MARRIAGES

• Marriages Extracted from the Newspapers
• 1790-1850  Tennessee Marriages – database from FamilySearch.org

 

MICROFILM

• Chester County Records on Microfilm at the TN State Library & Archives

 

MILITARY

• Index to Chester County Confederate Pension Applications
• WWI Veterans from Chester County

 

NEWSPAPERS

• Misc. Items Extracted from the Newspapers – dates vary
• Chester County Newspapers – a list of libraries that have them on microfilm; via the Library of Congress