{"id":4,"date":"2011-10-19T03:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester2\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2017-09-18T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T04:17:30","slug":"records-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/records-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Records &amp; Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CEMETERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/index-to-lewis-jones-cemeteries-of-chester-county\/\">Index to Lewis Jones&#8217; Cemeteries of Chester County<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/list-of-cemeteries\/\">List of Chester County Cemeteries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cemeteries\/include\/map.php?county=chester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Map of Chester County cemeteries<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000\">see local cemeteries on a Google Map<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cemeteries\/chester\">Chester County Cemetery Database<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 16px\">CENSUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/census-records-at-familysearch-org\/\">1850-1940 Census Records at FamilySearch.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>DEATHS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chester County Obituaries\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/chester-county-obituaries\/\">Chester County Obituaries<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000\">misc. obits submitted to this site<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"1914-1933 Chester County Death Certificate Index\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/1914-1933-chester-county-death-certificate-index\/\">1914-1933 Chester County Death Certificate Index<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000\">more than 2,000 deaths<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1417505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee Death Certificates, 1914 &#8211; 1955<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000\">free from FamilySearch.org. Must create free registration to view certificates.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Misc. Education Items From Newspapers\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/misc-education-items-from-newspapers\/\">Misc. Education Items Extracted from Newspapers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/the-four-bells-of-freed-hardeman-university-1\/\">Four Bells of Freed-Hardeman University &#8211; #1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>HISTORY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/brief-history-of-chester-county-by-s-e-reid-1967\/\">Brief History of Chester County by S.E. Reid (1967)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/goodspeeds-history-of-chester-county\/\">Goodspeed&#8217;s History of Chester County<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: medium\">LAND<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tncenturyfarms.org\/chester-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heritage Farms of Chester County<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: medium\">MAPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/1895-map-of-chester-county\/\">1895 Map of Chester County<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>MARRIAGES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Marriages Extracted from the Newspapers\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/marriages-extracted-from-the-newspapers\/\">Marriages Extracted from the Newspapers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1619127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1790-1850 \u00a0Tennessee Marriages<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000\">database from FamilySearch.org<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>MICROFILM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/share.tn.gov\/tsla\/preservation\/countymicro\/ches.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chester County Records on Microfilm at the TN State Library &amp; Arc<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/share.tn.gov\/tsla\/preservation\/countymicro\/ches.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>MILITARY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/index-to-chester-county-confederate-pension-applications\/\">Index to Chester County Confederate Pension Applications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wwi-veterans-from-chester-county\/\">WWI Veterans from Chester County<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>NEWSPAPERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Misc. Newspaper Extracts\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/misc-newspaper-extracts\/\">Misc. Items Extracted from the Newspapers<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000\">dates vary<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/titles\/places\/tennessee\/Chester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chester County Newspapers<\/a> &#8211; a list of libraries that have them on microfilm; via the Library of Congress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEMETERIES Index to Lewis Jones&#8217; Cemeteries of Chester County List of Chester County Cemeteries Map of Chester County cemeteries\u00a0&#8211; see local cemeteries on a Google Map Chester County Cemetery Database CENSUS 1850-1940 Census Records at FamilySearch.org &nbsp; DEATHS Chester County Obituaries &#8211; misc. obits submitted to this site 1914-1933 Chester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/chester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}