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Libraries with Genealogical Resources

Libraries with Genealogical Resources

Jasper Library Address:   14 West 2nd Street, Jasper, TN 37347 Phone:   (423) 942-3369 Contact:   Carolyn Stewart Hours:    Open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)                 Closed Sunday and Thursday Special Notes:   All county records and newspapers on microfilm. Orena Humphries Public Library Address:   900 Main Street, Whitwell, TN 37397 Phone:   (423) 658-6134 Contact:   Linda Powell Hours:    Open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)                 Closed Sunday and Thursday Special Notes:   The county’s main library for genealogical holdings: censuses,…

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ORME TRAIN DEPOT

ORME TRAIN DEPOT

This is the old abandoned train depot at Orme. The tracks are gone long ago. The ticket booth can be seen protruding from the front outside wall like a bay window. A lot of the glass is broken out of the windows, but luckily that is not so evident from this angle. This depot was on a railroad line that ran from Chattanooga to Nashville, and was owned by the NC and St. Louis Railroad. One branch of the tracks…

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Nickajack Cave

Nickajack Cave

This cave currently is flooded by Nickajack Lake. The water area in the photo once was dry land on a farm. In the 1960’s I remember finding arrowheads all around in front of the cave. This was the site of some of Marion County’s first residents- Cherokee (or the branch called Chickamauga) Indians. It was the Nickajack Indian Settlement, and it seems several Indians from there assimilated into the “white man’s” world and are ancestors of some of the present-day…

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Local Genealogy / History Authors

Local Genealogy / History Authors

Note: All books listed below by local authors are located in the Genealogy Section of the Orena Humphreys Library in Whitwell, TN.   Euline Harris, 6611 Old Dunlap Road, Whitwell, TN 37397 Cemeteries of Marion County, TN Deed Book A – Marion County, TN Deed Book B – Marion County, TN Early Land Grants, 1824 – 1830, Vol. 1 – Marion County, TN 1836 Tax List (1st tax list Marion County, TN) 1862 Tax List Marion County, TN Obituaries –…

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LAND OWNERS In MARION COUNTY, TN by 1824

LAND OWNERS In MARION COUNTY, TN by 1824

See Research books available for details on each Land owner Deed Number, Land Location, & Next to neighbor land owner. (Land “next to” earlier owner may not be listed here.) ARNETT, Wm. ASHBURN, Edsin AUSTIN & OATES AUSTIN, Hezekiah ANDERSON, Geo. T. AUSTIN, Dan’l. Sam’l William Wm. T. AUSTIN, Dan’l. BAKER, Dan’l. O. John BALLARD, Sam;l. BARBEE, Matthew, BARBEE, Matthew BARGES, John Hopkins, & Turney. BARNES, WM BEAN, Allen BENNETT, Alsey Obediah Robert BLAIN, Jonathan BLEDSOE, Abra BLEVINS, John S.A….

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Marion County Cole Mines

Marion County Cole Mines

The map below was created in 1863 and shows some of the mine locations before the Civil War: Etna, Battle Creek, Whitwell, Victoria, Needmore, Orme, Inman, Whiteside, Tracy City, Dorans, Kelly’s Ferry, Vulcan, Sweeden’s Cove, Sequatchie, and Summit, with Castle Rock and Russell Gordon Mines below the State line, in Georgia. (Two very old coal mines near Mt. Eagle are not identified.) Below the map you will find excerpts from the book: “OLD MINES and MINERS of MARION CO.,TN” by…

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Residents of Indian Lands Sequatchie & Marion Counties, TN & Jackson County, AL

Residents of Indian Lands Sequatchie & Marion Counties, TN & Jackson County, AL

Indian Lands in Sequatchie & Marion Counties, TN & Jackson County, AL Doyal, T. Hayter, J. J. Tatton, Robert Taylor, Joseph Pryor, John? Trigg, Abram B. Doughterty, John Dixan, W. D. Burritt, W.  McKinney, Thomas [Kinney?] Henderson, A. Burton, R. Young?, Joseph Jr. Clayton, R. B. Klepper, Powel _ Buttrite, Thomas Estill, Isaac Hill, James Raines, William M. Dickson, James Wilson, Zacheus Robinson, W. H. McLaughlin, Wm. B. Brittain, William Kinningham, William Robinson, Jonas Bradford, Benjamin M. Sharp, Robert P….

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First Settlers of Marion County, Tennessee

First Settlers of Marion County, Tennessee

  Year Name Land Location 1794 David & Amos Griffith Griffith Creek 1806 Condra Marion/Sequatchie Line 1807 James Raulston Doran Cove 1808 Robert Bean Sweedens Cove 1808 David Rankin Rankins Cove 1811 James Doran Doran Cove 1816 David Tate Fiery Gizzard 1820 John Bible Gains Cove 1820 Washington Ladd Ladd Cove 1820 Mathew Pryor Pryor Cove 1826 Josiah Thach Tennessee River 1828 Robert Patton Sweedens Creek 1835 Samuel Raulston Raulston Cove 1838 McDaniel near Shallmound

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