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Sumner County
The county seat is Gallatin.
SELECTED PUBLISHED COUNTY HISTORIES
- African-American Life in Sumner County (Brinkley & Malone, 1998)*
- Around Gallatin and Sumner County [2 vols.] ( Lester & Thomson, 1998)*
- Brief Study of the History of Sumner County (Yokley, 194?)
- Early History of the South-West (Hall, 1968)*
- Great Leap Westward; A History of Sumner County, Tennessee From its Beginnings to 1805 (Durham, 1969)*
- Historic Sumner County, Tennessee : With Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Gage and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families (Cisco, 2002)*
- History of Tennessee From the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of Sumner, Smith, Macon (Goodspeed, 1979)*
- Old Sumner: A History of Sumner County, Tennessee From 1805-1861 (Durham, 1972)*
- One Step Further : A History of the Thirteenth District of Sumner County (Kilgore & Scruggs, 1986)
- Pictorial History of Sumner County, Tennessee, 1786-1986 (Durham & Thomas, 1986)*
- Rebellion Revisited : A History of Sumner County, Tennessee From 1861 to 1870 (Durham, 1982)
- Some Early Settlers of Upper Sumner County, Tennessee: the Hobdy, Cotton, Durham, Gillespie, Perdue, Absher, Mattox, Cochran and Mayes Families (Absher, 1966)
- Short History of Sumner County, 1786-1957 (Hendrickson, 1957)*
- Sumner County (Guill, 1968)*
- Sumner County Sesqui-centennial, 1787-1937. Souvenir Book (Todd, 1937)*
- Sumner County, Tennessee in the Civil War (Ferguson, 1972)
- Study of Two Early-Nineteenth-Century Houses in Sumner County, Tennessee: Cragfont and Wynnewood (Thompson, 1977)
- Sumner County (Spivey, 1968)
- Sumner County, Tennessee in the Civil War (Ferguson, 1972)*
Additional county and community histories can be found at the Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources: Sumner County. The items in the bibliography may not all be available at TSLA.
PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS
- 1770-1790 Census of the Cumberland Settlements : Davidson, Sumner, and Tennessee Counties (in What is Now Tennessee) (Fulcher, 1987)*
- 1850 U.S. Census, Sumner County, Tennessee (1997)*
- 1860 U.S. Census, Sumner County, Tennessee (Sumner County Archives, 1996)*
- 1870 U.S. Census, Sumner County, Tennessee (Sumner County Archives, 1995)*
- 1880 Census, Sumner County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1991)*
- 1916-1920 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- 1921-1925 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- 1926-1930 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- 1931-1935 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- 1936-1940 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- 1941-1945 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- 1946-1950 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- 1951-1955 Sumner County, TN death certificates (Denning, 2007)
- Beech Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery Directory (Robinson, 1999)
- County Court Minutes, 1787-1805 [vol .1 1787-1791; vol. 2 1791-1796; vol. 3 1796-1802; vol. 4 1801-1804; vol. 5 1804-1805] (WPA, 1937)
- First Land Grants of Sumner County, Tennessee 1786-1833 (Marsh, 2003)*
- Index to Original Records Collection, Deeds, 1786 to 1914 (Patton, 1997)*
- Land, Slaves, and Other Courthouse Transactions, 1808-1863 : Abstracts of Sumner County, Tennesse (Patton, 2005)*
- Maple Hill Cemetery : An Indexed Guide to the Location of Graves by Section Including a Short History of the Cemetery (1995)
- Marriages of Sumner County, Tennessee, 1787-1838 (Whitley, 1981)
- Red River Settlers : Records of the Settlers of Northern Montgomery, Robertson, and Sumner Counties, Tennessee (Whitley, 1980)
- Sumner County Miscellaneous Records (Bowen, 1997)
- Sumner County, Tennessee : Abstracts of Will Books 1 and 2 (1788-1842) (Whitley, 1999)
- Sumner County, Tennessee : Index to the Loose Records, 1786 to 1930 (Wilson, 1988)*
- Sumner County, Tennessee, 1850 census (Porch, 1972)*
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Bible Records (Bowen, 1997)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Bible, Family, and Tombstone Records (WPA, 1936)
- Sumner County, Tennessee Bond Book, 1787-1835 (Wilson, 1994)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Cemetery Records (Snider & Yorgason, 1981)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Court Minutes, 1787-1805 and 1808-1810 (Wells, 1995)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts, 1793-1805 (Murray, 1988)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts, 1806-1817 (Murray, 1989)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Inventories, Settlements, and Guardian Accounts, Volume A, March 1808-February 1821 (Bamman & Spero, 1984)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1787-1838 (Porch, 197?)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Marriages, 1839-1875 (Stinson & Spurlock, 1985)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Minutes of Beech Cumberland Presbyterian Church, vol. 2, 1869-1899 (WPA, 1938)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Miscellaneous Church Records (WPA, 1938)
- Sumner County, Tennessee Newspapers, Vol. 1, 1820-1907 (Shrum, 2004)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Population Schedules of the United States Census of 1820 (Presley, 1970?)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Probate Data 1787-1808 (Bamman & Spero, 1984)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Tax List, 1787-1794 (WPA, 1936)
- Sumner County, Tennessee, Will Abstracts, 1788-1882 (Wilson, 1987)
- Sumner County, TN Deed Books [vol.1 Books 8-12, May 1818-Oct 1831; vol. 2 Books 13-16, Oct 1831-Oct 1839; vol. 3 Books 17-20, April 1840-July 1851] (Denning, 2007-)
- Tennessee, Sumner County, Marriage Records, 1787-1838 (WPA, 1939)
- Will Book, 1789-1842 [Vol. 1 1789-1822; Vol. 2 1823-1842] (WPA, 1936)
LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM
An inventory of microfilmed Sumner County records is available on our web site. Individual reels of microfilm may also be purchased.
Earliest records include:
- marriages from 1787
- wills from 1789
- inventories of estates from 1786
- deed index from 1787
- chancery court minutes from 1826
- county court minutes from 1787
- circuit court minutes from 1810
- tax books from 1795
The following reels are available on interlibrary loan from TSLA:
- Administrator's & Executor's Settlements -- 1852-1857; 1870-1928 (#42, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (A-D) Direct (#96, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (A-D) Reverse (#97, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (E-K) Direct (#98, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (E-K) Reverse (#99, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (L-R) Direct (#100, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (L-R) Reverse (#101, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (S-Z) Direct (#102, 1 reel)*
- Deed Index -- 1787-1947 (S-Z) Reverse (#103, 1 reel)*
- Inventories and Settlements -- 1836-1861 (#69, 1 reel)*
- Inventories and Settlements -- 1847-1852; 1879-1887 (#330, 1 reel)*
- Marriage Records -- 1845-1882 (#72, 1 reel)*
- Wills -- 1789-1904 (#91, 1 reel)*
- WPA Records, Sumner County (Record Group #107, Roll 81, 1 reel). Roll includes County Court Minutes (vols.1-5), Tax Records (1787-1794), Marriage Records (1787-1838), Will Book 1 & 2 (1789-1842), and Miscellaneous Church Records.*
NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM
Newspapers were published in Gallatin. Scattered early issues are available from 1827, and a complete run begins in 1950. 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.
- Andrew Jackson papers, 1780-1905. Stanley Horn Collection *
- Bell Family Papers, 1833-1946 (Microfilm Manuscript #1875, 1 reel)*
- Butler Family Papers, 1834-1949 *
- Castle Hall Rowena Lodge No. 21, Knights of Pythias and Howard Lodge No. 13, International Order of Odd Fellows Records. Sumner County, 1900-1909 (Microfilm Manuscript #664, 1 reel)*
- Daniel Montgomery Papers, 1788-1964 (Microfilm Manuscript #763, 1 reel)*
- Eli Odom Papers, 1863-1869 (Microfilm Manuscript #762, 1 reel)*
- First Presbyterian Church Records. Gallatin, 1852-1990 (Microfilm Manuscript #1129, 1 reel)*
- First Presbyterian Church Records. Gallatin, 1969-1976 (Microfilm Manuscript #580, 1 reel)*
- First Presbyterian Church Records. Gallatin, Sumner County, 1977-1985 (Microfilm Manuscript #894, 1 reel)*
- James Winchester and William Cage Account Book, 1811 (Microfilm Manuscript #180, 1 reel)*
- John Allen Journal. Gallatin, Sumner County, 1806-1807 (Microfilm Manuscript #984, 1 reel)*
- Peyton Family Papers, 1790-1999 (Microfilm Manuscirpt #1836, 1 reel)*
- Samuel H. Bailey Papers, 1828-1935 *
- Spring Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, Robertson County, 1830-1920 (Microfilm Manuscript #504, 2 reels)*
- Sumner County Bank and Trust Company Records. Gallatin, 1904-1917 (Microfilm Manuscript #582, 1 reel)*
- United Daughters of the Confederacy Records. Sumner County, 1900-1915 (Microfilm Manuscript #583, 1 reel)*
- William Trousdale Papers, 1828-1940 (Microfilm Manuscript #806, 3 reels)*
- Wynne Family Papers, 1801-1972 (Microfilm Manuscript #813, 7 reels)*
CENSUS RECORDS
- Census on microfilm for Sumner County: 1820-1880, 1900-1930
- State-wide census index: 1820-1880
- State-wide census index on microfilm (Soundex): 1880, 1900-1930
- Sumner County census records in book form: 1820, 1850, 1860, 1870*, 1880*
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR SUMNER COUNTY
* Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan from TSLA.
Updated September 24, 2009
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