Coffee County Courthouse300 Hillsboro Boulevard, 2nd Fl; PO Box 629Manchester, TN 37349The picture shows the courthouse in 1836 Coffee County Website Phone: 931-723-5110County Clerk Phone: 931-723-5106Circuit Court Clerk Phone: 931-723-5110 Chancery Court Phone: 931-723-5132Register of Deeds phone: 931-723-5130 …
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Below is a list of marriages in Coffee County. Source: Tennessee Marriages 1796-1950
Click on on the link for the history of the War of 1812
In the Southeastern section of Coffee Co., is a large and modern Military Facility, called Arnold Air Force Station. This project and the story behind it is the biggest event in local history, since the Civil War. It marks a drastic turning point from a small town, mostly agrarian society of the 1800’s and early 1900’s to a modern era, putting Coffee Co. into the Space Age and ready to advance into the 21st Century. In 1926, the State of…
The Tennessee State Library & Archives has compiled a state-wide index to death certificates from 1914-1933. The pages below contain more than 3,300 deaths recorded in Coffee County from 1914-1933. Please visit the TSLA website. To access images of the death certificates, you may search FamilySearch for free. Be aware however, that it is always best to follow-up with the original death certificates for information not captured in the microfilm records.
The Tennessee State Library & Archives (TSLA) houses the surviving records of the Tennessee State Penitentiary. The following list are individuals in the index from Coffee County. For information on how to get more information about these records, please contact TSLA.
The following news items appeared in the newspaper just prior to the articles by Robert Carden’s description of his Civil War experience. May 30, 1911 — B.H. Carden, who lives on the Tom Clark place in Adamson Grove, [Iowa] is enjoying a visit from his father, R. C. Carden of Manchester, Tennessee, who is here for a visit until after the 4th of July. Comrade Carden was a confederate soldier in Co. B, 16 Tennessee Infantry and served during the entire…
James G. Aydelott, lawyer and one of the most prominent citizens of Tullahoma, Tenn., was born in Hickman, Ky., November 3, 1845, and is the son of John D. and Sarah (Grizzard) Aydelott. The father was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., in 1818, and died at Hickman, Ky., in 1852. The mother, born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1827, is the daughter of James Grizzard, the pioneer merchant of Tullahoma. When a small boy our subject removed with his mother to Tullahoma,…
John H. Ashley, high sheriff of Coffee County, and a prominent citizen of Manchester, was born in Rutherford County, June 13, 1848. He is the son of W. F. and Lidia a. (Mankin), both natives of Tennessee and of english descent; the former was born near Beech Grove in 1822 and died November 5, 1878; the latter, still living, was born in Rutherford county, in 1822. The elder Ashley was a farmer and a sound Democrat. Our subject was the…