GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM THE OFFICIAL STATE DEATH CERTIFICATES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED IN MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1914-1919 WHO WERE BORN BEFORE AND INCLUDING THE YEAR 1860
Abstracted and Prepared by Jonathan K. T. Smith
1994

FOREWORD

            The official state-wide registration of deaths occurring in the State of Tennessee began in 1914. In the death certificates presently abstracted, 1914-1919 period for Madison County, there are many misstatements and errors of fact. Many of the early registers were simply careless in recording information. Some records could not be read by me, so dim had the ink or typewritten letters become or else were poorly microfilmed about 1981. Names, given and surnames, are often misspelled, rendered so by careless registers or their informants. Even so, these are quite valuable records, containing as they do, essential genealogical data, much of it unavailable elsewhere. This compilation is not an index; an officially prepared index for each year is available in the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville up to and including the year 1943. These present abstracts were made to assist researchers in a genealogical overview for the period covered.

            In this compilation, the decedent's name is given; his or her vital statistics, place of birth and death; his or her parentage, with birthplaces of parents; name of cemetery where decedent was buried. If this information was not furnished in the original death certificates, or else the cemetery name could not be read by me, a complete listing cannot be given. Researchers are advised to obtain photocopies of the original death certificates of interest to them. Some records almost certainly were overlooked as I coped with the task of reading and copying the data in these certificates.

 

ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY USED WORDS/PLACES

(w)=white person
(colored)=for a black person
CD=Civil District, local government unit

RC=Riverside Cemetery, Jackson
HC=Hollywood Cemetery, Jackson
BC=Brown's Church, Madison County
CAL=Mt. Calvary, Roman Catholic Cemetery, Jackson
MO=Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Jackson
BCH=Blair' s Chapel Cemetery, Madison County
BAS=Bascom Chapel Cemetery, Madison County
AR=Ararat Cemetery, Huntersville
BEC=Bemis Cemetery

 

(Addresses of the cemeteries were listed sparingly in the original death certificates. If the name of the burial place was left bank or could not be read by me, for a certainty, that information will not be given herein.)

Jonathan K. T. Smith Jackson, Tennessee

 

 

[HTML editor's note: Based on Decatur County entries, when the place of burial lists a town outside Madison County, that town probably is the railroad station to which the body was shipped, not actual place of burial.]

 

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