Lewis Co, TN Digital Archives

General Resources of Note

• TN Historical Newspaper Indexing Project
• TN Virtual Archive TSLA Information here is in the public domain.
• Historic American Buildings Survey
• Library of Congress photos catalogue (public domain!)
• TVA archaeology photos (public domain!)
• Unidexed records (microfilm frames!) at FamilySearch
• FamilySearch Wiki — select your county or the topic of interest — You can sign up to add and edit these pages!
• Tennessee Probate Records — IMAGES found at FamilySearch
• 1795–1927 Tennessee Probate Court Books, 1795–1927 
• 1795–1927 Tennessee Probate Court Files, 1795–1927 — Not all counties. Organized by county 
• Gold Star Veterans from World War I, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam — There is a page for every state BUT the site is migrating to a new server and is misbehaving– so links may need to be updated once the dust settles at their new server location. I have changed the link so it goes to their main page where you can select a state from a drop down menu.  Lewis County is listed but the webpage is currently under migration so check back often.  The main page seems to be up and running. 
• Some county records with every-name index abstracts 
• The Stories of Mrs. Eula Gray Anderson and Rosenwald Schools in Tennessee —  written by Matthew Gailani, TN State Museun Curator, this article details the Rosenwald School built in Lewis County where Mrs. Alison Gray Anderson taught.  Today, the former Hohenwald Rosenwald School still stands as part of the Lewis County Senior Citizens Center. This is just one of the stories told in the Tennessee State Museum’s new exhibition Building a Bright Future: Black Communities and Rosenwald Schools in Tennessee, which runs from June 16, 2023 to February 25, 2024.

Internet Archives

• Lewis Co Public Library and Digital Archives

Bible Records

• Family Bible transcriptions

Biographies

• DABBS, Z.V. (b. 1827)
• MASSEY, Samuel L. (b. 1845)
• STOCKARD, James W. (b. 1819)

Births

• Lewis County Herald 2004 Birth Announcements

Cemeteries

• Lewis Co & Perry Co, TN Burial Association
• TNGenWeb Cemetery Database – Lewis  County
• Tennessee Gravestone: Lewis Co, TN
• Billion Graves for Lewis Co, TN
• Find A Grave for Lewis Co, TN
• Political Graveyard for Lewis Co, TN

Census

• 1850 Census Index
• 1880 Census Index
• 1880 Census by Town
• 1900 Census
• 1930 Census Enumeration Districts
• 1950 Census of Lewis Co, TN Informaton
• Tennessee Census Maps
• Population Statistics 1850-2000

Church Records

• Gordonsburg Church of Christ
• Town of Hohenwald Church Directory
• Kimmins Church of Christ
• Lomax Church of Christ

• Court Record – Cooper, Johnson, Dodson
• Lewis County, TN Court House History

Deaths

• McDonald Funeral Home Obituary Collection
• Adair Funeral Home Obituary Collection
• Lewis County Herald Death Notice Collection
• Nashville, TN Death Notices for Lewis Co, TN Residents
• Death Records 1949-2005
• Social Security Death Indexes 1964-2011
• Lewis Co, TN Death Records: 1909-1921
• Miscellaneous Contributed Obituaries

Education/School

• History of Garrett Elementary School
• Hazel Bell’s 5th Grade Class (1930)
• Salem School – Class of 1915 photo
• Early Hohenwald School Teachers Before 1938
• Lewis County High School Class of 1928
• Grinder’s Creek School Fire (1921) – Newspaper Article from the Hohenwald Star

Families

• Duncan-Lindsey Marriage
• Cooper Family and the Civil War
• Robert Melville Cooper Family
• Meriwether Lewis Story

Genealogy & History Pages

• Lewis Co, TN Genealogy Trails History Group
• TNLewis Google Group List  [replaces the Rootsweb Group List effective 2 March 2020]

General Records on Microfilm

• Consolidated Listing of Microfilmed Lewis County Records

History

• Goodspeed’s History of Lewis County
• Tennessee Historical Society: Tennessee Encyclopedia – Lewis County
• Cane Creek Massacre
  • TN Mormon History: Cane Creek Massacre
  • Amateur Mormon Historian: Cane Creek Massacre
  • Genealogy Trails History Group: Terrible Tragedy
  • Deseret News: 1884 slayings recall bitter time; today is more peaceful
  • Tennessee State Historical Markers
• Death of Meriwether Lewis
  • Meriwether Lewis’ Mysterious Death
  • Caught in the Devil’s Backbone:  The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
  • Legends of America: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
  • History News Network: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

Letters

• Letter from Capt. Biffle, 4 November 1861
• Letter from James S. Cooper to Albert G. Cooper, 25 Jul 1850
• Letter from James S. Cooper to His Parents, January 1, 1850
• Letter from James S. Cooper to His Parents, June 6, 1850
• Letter from James S. Cooper to R. M. Cooper, 15 Sep 1851
• Letter from Jesse Coble, 16 August 1861
• Letter from L. B. Cooper, 10 June 1863
• Letter from L. B. Cooper, 30 October 1861
• Letter from S. G. Cooper, 31 December 1861
• Letter from W. L. Bramly to E. C. Edwards,

Maps

• Tennessee Historic Cemetery Register and Statewide Cemetery Map

Marriages

• 1844-1894 – First 50 Years of Lewis Co, TN Marriages
• 2004 Lewis County Engagement & Marriage Announcements

Military

• Civil War in Lewis County
• Civil War letters
• 1890 Civil War Veterans [Union Soldiers] Census
• Combat Casualties – Lewis County
• World War I Veterans – Lewis County
• World War II Veteran Photographs
• Lewis Co, TN: World War I Draft Registration Cards
• Lewis Co, TN: U.S. WWII Draft Cards from 1940-1947

Newspapers

• Tennessee Online Historical Newspapers Summary This is a clickable list of newspapers available online for the state of Tennessee.  Great information for genealogists.

Wills

• Will of James K. Pollock
• Will of Anderson Churchwell
• Will of John Akin
• Will of Ephraim McLean, Jr.

 

Bibliography of TN Local History Sources: Lewis County

General  Sources for Lewis County

• • Bingham, Roy H. Well water for home supplies in Lewis County. Nashville, TN Dept. Conservation, 1964. 12 pp.
  • Biographical directory, TN General Assembly, 1796-1969 (Lewis County, Preliminary #2). Nashville, TSLA, 1968. 42 pp.
  • Goodspeed’s history of TN (Lewis County, pp. 801-807, 923-934). Goodspeed, 1886.
  • Graves, Marjorie & Petty Hedge, comps. Lewis County pictorial history. Hohenwald, Lewis County Sesquicentennial Comm., 1994. unp.
  • Holliday, M. Lynne. Preparing for economic growth & change, Lewis County. Nashville, TN Advisory Comm. on Intergovernmental Relations, 1990. 80 pp.
  • Lewis County, 1980-1987: an economic analysis. Nashville, TN Dept. Emp. Sec., 1988. 12 pp.
  • Lewis County pictorial history. Compiled by Lewis County Sesquicentennial committee, Marjorie Graves & Patty Hedge, co-chairmen. N.p., the committee, 1993. 192 pp.
  • Phase II archaeological investigations at site 40LS203, Lewis County, TN. Memphis, MSU Dept. Anthrop., 1985. 43 pp.
  • Sublett, Harold. History of Lewis County, TN. Hohenwald, Subletts Studio, 1976. 134 pp.
  • TN Dept. Transportation [county maps] issued periodically.
  • TN Valley Authority. Ind. Div. Agricultural-industrial survey of Lewis County, TN. Knoxville, TVA, 1934. var. pp.
  • US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Beaverdam Springs, Sunrise, Greenfield Bend, Graves Spring, Kimmins, Gordonsburg, Mt. Joy, Topsy, Riverside, Henryville, Summertown.

Mormon Massacre

• • Nicholson, John. The TN massacre & its causes; or, the Utah conspiracy, a lecture by John Nicholson, delivered in the Salt Lake Theater, on Monday, Sept. 22, 1884. Stenographically reported by John Irvine. Salt Lake City, UT Juvenile Instructor Off., 1884. 48 pp.
  • Wingfield, Marshall. “TN’s Mormon massacre.” THQ 17 (1958), pp. 19-36.