Cocke County TNGenWeb
County Records
BIBLE RECORDS
CEMETERY
RECORDS
CENSUS RECORDS
- Manufacturers
Census, 1820 - 11/04
- Census
Index, 1830 - courtesy of Bruce Price - 11/04
- Census
Index, 1840 - courtesy of
S-K Publications - 9/10
- 1850 Census, US GenWeb Archives
- Mortality
Schedule, 1850, District 11 - courtesy of Bruce Price -
2/09, 4/09 updated
- Census
Index, 1870 - courtesy of Bruce Price - 2/09
Section
A to F
Section
G to M
Section
N to S
Section
T to Z
- Census
Index, 1880 - courtesy of Bruce Price - 2/09
Section
A to E
Section
F to J
Section
K to O
Section
P to T
Section
U to Z
- 1900 Census, District 9, English Creek
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CHURCH RECORDS
- History
of
the Synod of TN
Deaths Mentioned
from 1817 to 1887
- Literary
Institutions of the TN Synod
From History of the Synod of
Tennessee 1890 with Institutions, Surnames
and Histories
- Big
Pigeon
Baptist Church Minutes, very early records - courtesy of Glen Bayless
- 2/09
- Methodist
Episcopal Church South, 1851 to 1894 - courtesy of Ronnie Lane/Carolyn
Whittaker - 2/09
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, 1838
to 1860 - courtesy of Chuck Robinson - 2/09
- Slate Creek Baptist Church, 1812 to 1876 - courtesy of
Carroll Reed - 4/04
- Slate Creek
Baptist Church Minutes (microfilm images) 1818-1876 - NEW 10/15!
- Union
Baptist Church of Christ Minutes, 1833 to 1877 - courtesy of Ronnie
Lane - 7/07
COURT RECORDS
- Circuit
Court Minutes, Vol 2, 1879 - 1880 (Item 2 of TSLA Microfilm
#4) - courtesy of Bruce Price - 7/07
- Chancery
Court Minutes, Vol 1 - 2, Feb 1877 - Aug 1888, TSLA
Microfilm #1 - courtesy of Bruce Price - 7/07
- Chancery
Court Papers - pre-1880 to 1889 - courtesy of Bruce Price -
3/15 UPDATED
10/15
- East
TN Supreme Court - Various cases 1812 to 1861 - courtesy of
Bruce Price - 8/09
- East TN Supreme Court - Index at TSLA, courtesy of
Bruce Price
- 9/13
- Abstracts of
Petitions to General Assembly, 1799 - 1850 (includes some divorces)
-
courtesy of Bruce Price - 9/13
- Abstract
of Jonathan Birdseye vs Lorenzo D. Turner, E TN Supreme
Court, 1855-1860 - courtesy of Bruce Price - 2/09
- Hartsell
Court Summons, 1852 - 2/09
- John
Bird Heirs Guardian Bond
(mentions Templin, Hicks, Denton)) - courtesy of Carolyn
Whittaker - 2/09
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DEATH RECORDS
LAND
DEEDS AND SURVEYS
- Early
Settlers of the old 12th District, 1824 - 1831 - courtesy of
Bruce Price - 7/07
- District
12 Map - courtesy of Bruce Price - 7/07
- Early East
Tennessee Land Grants - courtesy of Bruce Price - 2007-09
Notes
from Bruce: Land
Grants - These are state records, not stored at the
courthouse. The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA)
has these and has microfilmed them. Cocke County falls in the "East
Tennessee Land Grant" group of records, with a total of 1,792 grants
across thirty-four volumes. (All Tennesse land grants are
indexed in a single series. TSLA has this series. County Archives in
Tennessee may have a set; I know that the Lawrence County Archives has
a set. And you can borrow them through a Mormon
Family History Library or through inter-library loan.) Grants for
counties were often
done in groups, so if you find one for your county, check the pages
before and after.
Land entries - These were done at the county level and eventually led
to land grants at the state level. There was a book from the mid-1820's
into early 1830's that survived. It was copied in the late 1800s. That
copy
is on microfilm and has been transcribed verbatim by the Sevier County
Public Library and is available for purchase.
Land grants were issued by: 1. the State of North Carolina (1777-1784);
2. the Watauga Association (1769-1777); 3. The State of Franklin
(1784-1788); 4. the State of Tennessee (1796-). From
1790 to 1796 land was considered to be in The Territory of the United
States, South of the Ohio.
(Many thanks to Jim Rader and Bruce
Price
for
this information).
- Volume
One, No dates - 8/07
- Volume
Two, No dates - 8/07
- Volume
Three, 1810 to 1813 - 8/07
- Volume
Four, 1795 to 1816 - 8/09
- Volume
Five, 1810 to 1823 - 8/09
- Volume
Six, 1810 to 1821 - 8/09
- Volume
Seven, 1811 to 1823 - 8/09
- Volume
Eight, 1811 to 1822 - 8/07
- Volume
Nine, No dates - 8/07
- Volume
Ten, No dates - 8/09
- Volume
Eleven, No dates - 8/09
- Volume
Twelve, 1824 to 1825 - 8/09
- Volume
Thirteen, Mid 1820's - 8/09
- Volume
Fourteen, 1830's to 1850's - 8/09
- Volume Sixteen contains no Cocke County names
- Volume
Seventeen, No
dates - 5/13
- Volume
Eighteen, 1824 to 1834 - 8/09
- Volume
Nineteen, No
dates - 5/13
- Volume
Twenty, No
dates - 5/13
- Volume
Twenty-two, 1817 to 1838 - 8/09
- Volume
Twenty-four, 1826 to 1840 - 8/09
- Volume
Twenty-five, No
dates - 5/13
- Volume
Twenty-seven, 1826 to 1849 - 8/09
- Volume
Twenty-eight, 1826 to 1850 - 8/09
- Volume
Twenty-nine, no dates - 8/13
- Volume
Thirty, 1826 to 1858 - 8/09
- Volume
Thirty-one, no dates - 8/13
- Volume
Thirty-two, no dates - 8/13
- Volume
Thirty-three, no dates - 8/13
- Volume
Thirty-four, no dates - 8/13
- Deeds: Notes from contributor Bruce Price - "Lots
of old
deeds were recorded late or re-recorded after the fire, so all deed
books contain older deeds. All the early deeds were destroyed in the
courthouse fire of 12/30/1876 except old deed book 17, which a lawyer
had taken home to use on a case. Old 17 (which I call Deed
Book #0, as it comes before #1) has deeds from the mid-1860's.
Deed book #1 began right after the fire.
But many people brought in their deeds to be
re-registered. Also, keep in mind that it was not convenient
for our ancestors to get to Newport to register their deeds.
They often waited years, even decades, to register the deeds. And when
they sold their land, they often re-recorded the old deed to prove they
had the right to sell the land. So, some of the later deed
books have deeds from prior decades. As I am abstracting the deeds, I
have seen deeds from as far back as the 1830's and I often see
references to land grants."
Listings here include only those whose abstracted versions have
definite genealogical value.
Contact Bruce
for further information. Deed books 1-10 go from 1807 to 1827, books
11-19 are from 1876 to at least 1900.
- County
Deed Book Index, 1865 - 1867 - from Microfilm #36 - courtesy
of Ron Green - 7/07
- Index
to Surveys, 1845 - 1900 - includes names, acreage, dates -
courtesy of Bruce Price - 7/07
- Deed
from Rhoda Huff to W.E. Banks, 1920 - courtesy of Sandy
Rosenkrans - 2/09
- Click-Templin
Deeds - (includes Waters, Shults, Hicks, Denton, others) -
courtesy of Carolyn Whittaker - 2/09
- Kyker
Deeds - courtesy of Bruce Price - 8/09
- Denton
Deeds - courtesy of Bruce Price - 8/09
- Nave
Deeds and Grants - courtesy of Arian - 2/09
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MARRIAGE
RECORDS
MILITARY
RECORDS
- Captain
James Cumings' Company of Volunteer Mounted Gun Men
War of 1812
- Captain
William Gillenwaters' Company of Volunteers in the East TN
Militia
War of 1812
Roster
- Captain
George Argenbrights' Company of Riflemen in the TN Militia
War of 1812 Roster
- Nave
Family in War of 1812 - courtesy of Arian - 2/09
- Jonas
Jenkins, Sr. 1814 Militia Service - 2/09
- Matthew
Maddux 1814 Militia Service - courtesy of Jeanne Bornefeld -
8/08
- George
Thomas 1814 Service Records - courtesy of Russell G Thompson - 2/15
- Revolutionary
War Pension Roll of 1935 - 7/07
- Elizabeth
Bugg Revolutionary War Widow's Pension Documents -
courtesy of Gordon Stokely, Jr. - 6/09
- Henry Click Pension,
1833 - 11/04
- Henry Jackson Click, Sr. Pension File,
War of 1812 - courtesy of Carolyn Whitaker - 5/11
- Abraham
Emory/Hembree Revolutionary War Pension Application - 6/07
- Thomas
Robertson Revolutionary War Pension Application - courtesy of
Barbara Cantrell
- 6/07
- Civil
War
Units formed in Cocke County - courtesy of Ed Burke - 2/09
- 9th
Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, USA - Company "F" (Civil War) -
2/09
- 60th
Tennessee Mounted Infantry, CSA - Company "I" (Civil
War) - courtesy of Russell James - 11/10
- 62nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA -
Company "I" (Civil War) - courtesy of Carolyn Whitaker - 5/11
- 26th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, (3 East TN
Vols.), CSA - Company "C" (Civil War) - courtesy of Carolyn
Whittaker - 6/4
- Remembering the Civil War in 2011
at the 150th anniversary of its start - courtesy of Carolyn Whitaker
(Yett and Faubion) - 5/11
- Cocke County Home Guards -
courtesy of Carolyn Whitaker - 3/12
- Cocke
County Civil War Ancestors - now includes pension and service
record abstracts for Widows and Heirs - UPDATED 10/15. ADD
YOUR ANCESTORS!!
- Tennessee
Civil War Claims Index, 1871 to 1873 - TSLA - 2/09
- Confederate
Applications for Pardon - courtesy of Bruce Price - 8/09
- Selected
Confederate Pensions, Soldiers and Widows - courtesy of Bruce
Price - 8/09
- 1890
Civil War Veterans, 12th District - courtesy of Bruce Price -
8/09
- 1890
Civil War Union Veterans, 13th District - courtesy of
Russell James - 10/10
- Spanish-American War
Volunteers from Cocke County -
courtesy
of Russell James - 10/10
- Casualties
from World War II - 11/04
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TAX LISTS
MISCELLANEOUS
RECORDS
- TSLA Microfilm
Records at
Lawson-McGhee Library - Knoxville, Tennessee - courtesy of
Bruce Price - 11/04
- Microfilm
Records at Stokely Library, Newport, Tennessee - 7/07
- Family
Surname Files at Stokely Library - 7/07
- Index
to
Cocke County names in Acts of Tennessee, 1797 to
1850 - courtesy of Bruce Price - 2/09 Added jpgs, thanks to Lori
Baxter 5/13
- Library
of
Congress mentions - 11/04
- Cocke
County Divorce Records Index - courtesy of Bruce Price - 2/09
- Post
Offices in County - from TSLA records - 11/04
- Sam McGinty Store
and Inn
Ledger, Wilsonville, 1860-1869 -
courtesy of Jacky Witt - 3/12
- Fagala
Ledger Index, Newport TN photography studio, 1876-1878 -
courtesy of Sharon McCormack - 8/07
- 1802
newspaper advertisement of George Hyand's Tavern - 11/04
- Old
Mills
- Essay by Ruth Webb O'Dell, 1945, for Tennessee Folklore
Society - 2/09
- Early Delayed Birth Certificate
list from SC residents born in
Cocke County - 10/15 - NEW!
- Early State Prison Inmates
from Cocke County - 10/15 - NEW!
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