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Genealogical "Fact Sheets" About Tennessee Counties

McMinn County

McMinn County

Anderson County was formed in 1801 from
parts of Knox and Grainger counties
(Private Acts of Tennessee 1801, Chapter 45).

The county seat is Clinton.


SELECTED PUBLISHED COUNTY HISTORIES

  • Hard Times Remembered : A Study of the Depression in McMinn County (Wiggins, 1983)*
  • Hidden History of McMinn County : Tales from Eastern Tennessee (Guy, 2007)*
  • McMinn County (Byrum, 1984)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee and Its People, 1819-1997 (McMinn County Heritage Book Committee, 1997)*
  • "Over Here" and After: McMinn County, Tennessee, During World War I and the Twenties (Wiggins & Akins, 1986)*

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

 

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS


  • 1880 Census, McMinn County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1995)*
  • Chancery Court Records of McMinn County, Tennessee (Boyer, 1980)*
  • Chickamauga Reservoir Cemeteries (Douthat, 1986)
  • Index to McMinn County, Tennessee Tax Lists, 1829-1832, 1836 & Detail from 1836 Tax List (Reksten & Boyer, 1996)
  • McMinn County, Ninth Federal Population Census, 1870 (Broyles, 1983)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee cemeteries (Templin, 2000?)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Court Proceedings, 1819-1829 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1937)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Deeds and Other Data, 1820-1880 (Boyer, 1986)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Eastern Cherokee Claims, 1797-1909 (WPA, 1938)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Loose Marriage Records, 1821-38 (WPA, 1936)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1838-1848 (WPA, 1936)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, Vol. D & E, 1848-59, 1859-64 (WPA, 1936)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee marriages [sic] records, March 1871 thru December 1885 (Wilson, 2004)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Records : W.P.A. Transcript (Douthat, 1991)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Tombstone Inscriptions, vol. 1 (WPA, 1940)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Tombstone Inscriptions, vol. 2 [2 pts.] (WPA, 1940)
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1914 Through 1925 (Wiefering, 1993)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1926 Through 1930 (Wiefering, 1997)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1931 Through 1935 (Wiefering, 1998)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1936 Through 1941 (Wiefering, 1999)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1942 Through 1946 (Wiefering, 1999)*
  • McMinn County, Tennessee, Wills and Inventories, Vol. 2, 1828-1834 (WPA, 19??)
  • McMinn County, TN death certificates [sic] records [vol. 1 1914-1921 (Templin, 2005)
  • McMinn County, TN death certificates [sic] records, 1922-1929 (Templin, 2005)
  • Marriage License Records of McMinn County, 1838-1880 (Wilson, 2005)
  • Marriage Records of McMinn County, Tennessee, 1820-1870 (Boyer, 1964)
  • Marriages of McMinn County, Tennessee, 1821-1864 (Whitley, 1983)*
  • Population Schedule of United States Census of 1850 for McMinn County, Tennessee (East Tennessee Historical Society, 1961)*
  • Private Acts of McMinn County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1994)
  • Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records : counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier (WPA, 1938)
  • Wills and Estate Records of McMinn County, Tennessee, 1820-1870 (Boyer, 1966)*
  • Wills and Inventories, 1838-1848 [vol. 1 1838-41; vol. 2 (2 pts.) 1841-48] (WPA, 1936-37)

 

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

  • marriages from 1838
  • wills from 1819
  • deed index from 1893 (deeds from 1820)
  • chancery court minutes from 1844
  • county court minutes from 1819
  • circuit court minutes from 1860
  • tax books from 1829

 

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan from TSLA:

  • Marriage Records -- 1838-1879  (#68, 1 reel)*
  • Wills -- 1819-1848  (#104, 1 reel)*
  • Wills -- 1849-1862  (#105, 1 reel)*
  • WPA Records, McMinn County (Record Group #107, Roll 52, 1 reel). Roll includes Court Proceedings, pts. 1 & 2 (1819-1829), Eastern Cherokee Claims (1797-1909), Wills & Inventories, Vol. 2 (1828-1834), Wills & Inventories, Vol. C (1838-1841), Will Book D, pts. 1 & 2 (1841-1848), Loose Marriage Bonds (1821-1838), Marriage Records (1838-1864), Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. 1 (undated) and Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. 2, pts. 1 & 2 (undated).*

 

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Athens, Calhoun, Englewood and Etowah.  Scattered early issues are available from 1827, and a complete run begins in 1924.  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 McMinn County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
  • State-wide census index:  1830-1880
  • State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
  • McMinn County census records in book form:  1850*, 1870*, 1880*

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR MCMINN COUNTY

 

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

 

 

Updated December 18, 2008