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Tennessee Electronic Library — Free for Tennesseans

Tennessee Electronic Library — Free for Tennesseans

The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual online library that gives Tennessee residents access to magazines, journals, newspapers, essays, e-books, primary source materials, test preparation, homework help, genealogy records, career search, and more! TEL resources are available free to the public from any computer with Internet access in Tennessee. That’s access to more than 400,000 electronic resources including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test preparation materials, federal census records and Tennessee primary source materials! The Tennessee Electronic Library is made…

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Tennessee Genealogical Society Journals On-line

Tennessee Genealogical Society Journals On-line

The Tennessee Genealogical Society’s quarterly publication is  known as Ansearchin’ News.  Digitized versions are viewable on-line for free from 1954 through ten years ago.  More-recent issues are available on-line to TGS members at the Web site. The publications are loaded with transcribed and abstracted records from across the state. You may search by keyword (unreliable) or browse issues. You may also download issues for your personal use. Click here to read more.  

History of Wilder’s Chapel Community

History of Wilder’s Chapel Community

Authors Donald Hill, of Birmingham, Alabama, and Willie Sue Partin Hill, of Decherd, Tennessee, compiled a history of the Wilder’s Chapel community in 2009 and deposited the text at the USGenWeb Archives. Click here to read the text.

The Leonidas Polk Memorial Society

The Leonidas Polk Memorial Society

Leonidas Polk  was a Civil War General and an Episcopal Bishop. He founded The University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. Click here to visit the Web site dedicated to Bishop-General Polk.

Little Mountain Cemetery

Little Mountain Cemetery

Copied by Jane & Randy Nichols, John & Sue Pittman, May 23, 1999. This cemetery is located at a dead end on Keith Springs Mountain Road. This is a very old cemetery, but it appears to be well kept.There are many flat headstones without names or dates and many unmarked graves. BRADFORD, J.T. – No Dates STEELE, Bill & Palestine, Two Infants, No Dates BRADFORD, Lizzie Jane – No Dates MILLER, Bud – No Dates KELLEY, Thulma – No Dates…

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Keith Springs Baptist Church Cemetery

Keith Springs Baptist Church Cemetery

Copied by Jane & Randy Nichols, John E. Pittman, May 23, 1999. This cemetery is located on Keith Springs Mountain Road beside the Keith Springs Baptist Church. This is a very well kept cemetery, fenced in and still in use. PARTIN, Allen Ray 4-9-1966 – 6-2-1996 WILKERSON, James Monroe 9-12-1940 – 1-20-1995 SP 4 US Army DANIEL, W. Murray (Boone) 7-10-1932 – 9-14-1994 DANIEL, Macy H. 3-8-1906 – 2-25-1983 STEELE, Myrtle 5-16-1925 – 1993 (Death is on a Funeral Home…

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Rice Cemetery

Rice Cemetery

Copied by Jane Nichols and Sue Pittman, April 29, 1999. Submitted by Jane Nichols. This cemetery is located on Alabama Hwy 79. Highway 16 goes across Keith Springs Mt and at the Alabama line it becomes AL Hwy 79. It is not far from the Jackson Co., AL line. The readings have been double checked for accuracy. This pleasant cemetery is very well maintained. Walter Hodges MOORE 3-23-1899 – 7-1-1986 & Amy Marie MOORE 8-15-1900 – 2-11-1991. Doris J. Wright…

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Benjamin Franklin Morris Cemetery

Benjamin Franklin Morris Cemetery

This cemetery is located on Spur Road in Franklin Co., TennesseeThis cemetery was read by Nancy Taylor. It is not in the Franklin County Historical Society Cemetery Book. 1. Jacob Bradley Saunders, 17 May 1825 – 14 Feb. 1910. Husband of Elizabeth Morris. 2. Elizabeth Morris 16 May 1835 -13 Nov. 1911. Daughter of Benjamin Morris Sr. 3. Benjamin Morris Saunders 5 April 1862 – 20 July 1880 son of Elizabeth Morris Saunders. 4. George Washington Saunders 22 Jan 1867…

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Crownover Cemetery

Crownover Cemetery

Copied by Jane and Randy Nichols 15 June 1999 “In Memory Of Turney D. Crownover.”This cemetery is located on road 56 in Franklin County, TN, fairly close to the Jackson County, AL line. It is down the road from the Franklin Industrial Minerals Anderson Plant. The cemetery is very well kept. Jane WELLS CROWNOVER 7-4-1848 – 7-5-1926 & J.C. CROWNOVER 1-1-1833 – 1-3-1912 Cannon CROWNOVER 1835 – 1902 Edward B. BOLTON 9-3-1862 – 8-12-1913 Cora C. WYNNE 1870 – 1928…

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