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Genealogical "Fact Sheets" About Tennessee Counties

Hickman County

Hickman County

Hickman County was formed in 1807 from Dickson County
(Acts of Tennessee 1807, Chapter 44).

The county seat is Centerville.

There was a fire at the Hickman County courthouse in 1864.


SELECTED PUBLISHED COUNTY HISTORIES

  • Account of Negro Sunday Time at Mount Aetna Furnace, 1854-1863 (WPA, 1938)
  • Glimpses of Hickman County History (Columbia State Community College, 1975)
  • Hickman County Sesquicentennial Commemorating 150 Years of Progress (Hickman County (Tenn.) Sesquicentennial Corporation, 1957)
  • Hickman County, Tennessee : A Pictorial History (Hickman County Historical Society, 1999)*
  • Hickman County, Tennessee History (Dotson, 1993)*
  • Historical Events of Hickman County, Tennessee [v.1 1900-1950; v. 2 1951-2000] (Mayberry, Sawyer & Armistead, 2007) [name index]
  • Historical Sketches of Hickman County, Tennessee (Garrett, 1978)
  • History of Hickman County, Tennessee (Spence, 1981)*
  • History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman and Lewis (Goodspeed, 1979)
  • Patchwork History of Hickman County : Hickman County, 1807-1984 (Dye, 1984)
  • Primm Springs : Where Time Stands Still (198?)*

Additional county and community histories can be found at the Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources:  Hickman County. The items in the bibliography may not all be available at TSLA.  

 

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS


  • 1820 Census of Hickman County, Tennessee (Pierce, 1987)*
  • 1836 Tax List of Hickman County, Tennessee (Linn-Shell Publishing Co., 1987)
  • 1850 Census of Hickman County, Tennessee (Garrett & Gilliam, 1967)*
  • 1880 Census Hickman County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1999)*
  • 1910 Census Hickman County, Tennessee (Tatum, 1984)
  • Census of Hickman County, Tennessee, 1820 (1987)
  • Cheatham County, Tennessee, Dickson County, Tennessee, Hickman County, Tennessee, Humphreys County, Tennessee, Lawrence County, Tennessee [1891 enumeration of male voters] (Reed, 1982)
  • Columbia & Surrounding Counties, Tennessee Polk City Directory [1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004] (R.L. Polk & Co.)
  • Court Records of Hickman County, Tennessee, 1833-1856 (Leeper, 1968)
  • Death Records of Hickman County, Tennessee (Lynch, 1986)
  • Deed Books A, B, C, 1808-1817, Hickman County, Tennessee (Crumpton, 2000)*
  • Excerpts from Quarterly and Monthly Minutes of Hickman County, Tennessee, 1881-1932 (Dotson, 2001)*
  • Family and Military Records from Spence's History of Hickman County, Tennessee (Leeper, 1965)
  • Hickman County, Tennessee, 1850 Census (Linn-Shell Publishing Co., 199?)*
  • Hickman County, Tennessee, Cemetery Records (Garrett & McClain, 1982)*
  • Hickman County, Tennessee Cemetery Records, Part II (Garrett & Lynn, 1976)
  • Hickman County, Tennessee, Cemetery Records. Part II (United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1989)*
  • Hickman County, Tennessee Court Records 1814-1829 Land Grants, Deeds, Plats, Bills of Sale (Dotson, 1982)
  • Hickman County, Tennessee Death Records [vol. 1 1947-1951] (Hickman County, Tennessee Historical Society, 2004-)*
  • Hickman County Tennessee Deed Book B, 1811-1813 (WPA, 1937)
  • Hickman County, Tennessee Deeds [December 1807 - March 1835] (Hutchings, 2002)
  • Hickman County Tennessee Deeds, Volume A, 1808-1811 (WPA, 1937)
  • Hickman County Tennessee Guardian & Administrative Settlements, 1844-1852 [vol. 1 1844-1846; vol. 2 1847-1852] (WPA, 1937)
  • Hickman County Tennessee Minute Book, 1844-55 (WPA, 1938)
  • Hickman County, Tennessee, Quarterly and Monthly Minutes, 1867-1878 (Dotson, 1984)*
  • Hickman County, Tennessee United States Census, 1860 (United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1982)
  • Hickman County Tennessee Wills 1866-1982 (Dotson, 19??)
  • Marriage Records of Hickman County, Tennessee, 1907-1912; Death Records of Hickman County, Tennessee, 1912,1914,1915 ; Establishments of Business 1900-1920 City of Centreville [sic] Tennessee (Mayberry, 2003)*
  • Name Index to History of Tennessee ... : Together With ... Sketch of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties (Marsh, 1972)
  • Old Marriage Records of Hickman County, Tennessee [2 vols.] (Daughters of the American Revolution, 1979)
  • Private Acts of Hickman County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1985)
  • Rainey-Moss Cemetery, Hickman County, TN (Rainey, 1996)
  • Sacred to the Memory : Hickman County, Tennessee, Cemetery Records, Part I (Garrett & McClain, 1966)
  • Surname Index to A History of Hickman County, Tennessee (Gilliam, 1965)
  • Tennessee Hickman County Bible, Family and Tombstone Records (WPA, 1938)

 

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

An inventory of microfilmed Hickman County records is available on our web site.  Individual reels of microfilm may also be purchased.   

Earliest records include:

  • marriages from 1868
  • wills from 1866
  • deed index from 1884
  • chancery court minutes from 1854
  • county court minutes from 1866
  • circuit court minutes from 1847
  • tax books from 1867

 

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan from TSLA:

  • Administrators Settlements -- 1842-1923 (#A-260, 1 reel)*
  • WPA Records, Hickman County (Record Group #107, Roll 37, 1 reel). Roll includes Deed Book A & B (1808-1813), Guardian & Administration Settlements (1844-1846), Guardian & Administration Settlements, Book D (1844-1855), Account of Negro Sunday Time at Aetna Furnace (1854-1863) and Bible, Family & Tombstone Records (undated).*

 

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Centerville.  Scattered early issues are available from 1878, and a complete run begins in 1949.  Microfilms are loaned to Tennessee libraries.  Individual reels may also be purchased.  An Inventory of Newspapers on Microfilm at TSLA is available on our web site.

 

 

SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS MATERIAL

 

CENSUS RECORDS

  • Census on microfilm for Hickman County:  1820-1880, 1900-1930
  • State-wide census index:  1820-1880
  • State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
  • Hickman County census records in book form:  1820*, 1850, 1860, 1880*

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR HICKMAN COUNTY

 

* Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan from TSLA.

 

 

Updated November 7, 2008