Local Genealogy / History Authors

Local Genealogy / History Authors

Judy Henley Phillips

  • Franklin County, Tennessee In The Year 1840, Featuring the 1840 Census with Abstracts of the 1840 County Court Minutes and Deeds. Full name index, including a slave and place name index
  • The 1870 Franklin County, Tennessee Census, with full name index
  • The 1880 Moore Co., TN Census, with full name index. (Remember, Moore was formed from Bedford, Franklin and Lincoln Counties in 1871).
  • The Gipson Family of Franklin County, Tennessee, Their Ancestors and Descendants.This book traces the Gipson family from Laurens Co., S.C. to Franklin Co., TN and beyond. Some Major surnames included are: COKER, GARNER, HENLEY, HILL, LONG, with MORRIS, PARTIN, PERRY, RICHARDSON, ROSE, SHERRILL, etc.

Joy Gallagher

  • Glimpses Into the Lives and Times of the Confederate Soldiers Known to be Buried in City Cemetery, Winchester, Tennessee, Researched and compiled by Joy Gallagher 1998. Surname index to the 303 paged hard bound book. Limited amount printed.
  • The Ancestors and Descendants of William Shasteen (circa 1786-1841) of Franklin County, Tennessee. Published in 1998, 431 pages, full name index, 2,265 family members for 10 generations.

Patricia Short Makris

  • Sewanee History – she has researched much about Sewanee, TN area history
  • A Journey Through History With The Short And Barnes Families (1992), a family history of her father’s side of the family tracing his family back to England in 1600s.
  • Passons’ Family Connections (1995), her mother’s family history to include O’Sullivan/Sullivan and Passons (Parsons) families to the 1700s.
  • The Other Side of Sewanee (1997), spotlights the town of Sewanee, Tennessee, and its people. Much has been written about the University of the South, but hardly anything was known about its people and adjacent communities. This book helps fill in that gap. It includes the 1870 thru 1920 Sewanee census.
  • Early Episcopal Church Records, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths (1999) is a compilation of Sewanee Episcopal church records to include Baptism Records 1872-1942; Marriage Records 1877-1949; and Burial Records 1875-1944.
  • Sewanee-Echoes Of Its Past (1999), includes stories from descendants of early settlers including their family’s history as described by the families of early Cumberland Plateau builders and settlers. It includes the O’Dear/St. Mary’s Cemetery list.
  • SEWANEE – PEOPLE, PLACES AND TIMES (2006), provides many firsthand diary entries from soldiers that were in the Sewanee, Tennessee area around 1863, during the Civil War. This book includes the 1916 Sewanee Leaseholders, 1930 census and 1932 telephone directory.

Larry Stephens

  • Not Enough Whiskers to Line a Bird’s Nest, The story of General B.J. Hill and the 28th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment in the Closing Days of the Civil War.
  • Franklin Co., Tenn. Vital Statistics 1908-1912
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