CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Grundy County:  1850-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1850-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Grundy County census records in book form:  *1850, *1860, *1870, *1880, *1900, *1910

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• Forgotten Colony (Clayton, 1971?)
• German Swiss Settlement at Gruetli, Tennessee (Jackson, 1933) [name index]
• *Grundy County (Nicholson, 1982) [name index]
• *Grundy County Tidbits (Harris, 1999) [name index]
• *Homecoming '86 : History of the Elk River Valley (Pelham Valley of Grundy County, TN) (Bean & Coats, 1986) [surname index]
• Pioneer Days, Pelham, Tennessee, Grundy County (Ray, 1983)
• Sweet Days, Precious Memories : A Brief History of the Hixson-Skymont Community, Grundy County, Tennessee (Lane, 1984)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1880 Census, Grundy County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1993) [alphabetical by head of household]
• *Death Certificates of Grundy County, Tennessee : Including Death Dertificates, 1908-1925 and Selected Newspaper Death Notices, 1893-1914 (Sherrill, 1991) [name index]
• *Grundy County Tennessee, Earliest Deeds, 1852-1867 (Sherrill, 1996) [name index]
• Grundy County, Tennessee, Estate Settlement Book, 1852-95 (WPA, 1939) [name index]
• *Grundy County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1844-1880 (Sherrill, 1984) [alphabetical by groom; bride index]
• Grundy County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1850-74 (WPA, 1938)
• Grundy County, Tennessee Marriages, 1850-1874 (Douthat, 1982)
• Grundy County, Tennessee Marriages, 1921-1936 (Turner & Taylor, 1996)
• Grundy County, Tennessee, Records : Information Taken from the Unfinished W.P.A. Records (Allen, 1991) [name index]
• *Grundy County, Tennessee, Special Census Records, 1850-1880 : Agricultural Schedules, Slave Population Schedules, Mortality Schedules, Products of Industry (Sherrill, 1996) [name index]
• *Grundy County, Tennessee, Will Book [1838-1874] (198?) [name index]
• *Grundy County, Tennessee, Will Book, vol. 1, 1838-74 (WPA, 1938) [name index]
• *Grundy County, Tennessee, Wills and Estates, 1844-1900 (Sherrill, 1986) [name index]
• *Inventory of Grundy County Loose Records on Microfilm at the Tennessee State Library & Archives (Cooper, 1994)
• *Neighbors in Grundy County, 1850 (Tylor, 1999) [name index]
• Neighbors in Grundy County, 1880 (Tylor, 2003) [name index]
• Private Acts of Grundy County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1994)
• Swiss Colony Cemetery, Gruetli, Tennessee (Tylor, 1996) [name index]
• Tennessee, Records of Grundy County, Minute Book 1, 1844-55 (WPA, 1936) [name index]
• *Tombstone Inscriptions of Grundy County, Tennessee (Sherrill, 1986) [surname index]
• *United States Census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1850 (Hobbs, 1986) [surname index]
• *United States Census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1860 (Wilhelm, 1988?) [surname index]
• *United States Census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1870 (Hobbs & Goins, 1989?) [surname index]
• *United States Census, Grundy County Tennessee, 1880 (Hobbs, 1994?) [surname index]
• *United States Census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1900 (Wilhelm, 1987?) [surname index]
• *United States Census, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1910 (Hobbs, 1990?) [name index]
• Vital Records from Grundy County, Tennessee, Newspapers (Tate, 1998) [name index]

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1850
• wills from 1838
• deed index from 1882
• chancery court minutes from 1856
• county court minutes from 1844
• circuit court minutes from 1848
• tax books from 1850

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Administrators' & Guardian Settlements -- 1841-1929  (#23, 1 reel)
• *General Index to Deeds -- 1859-1952  (#52, 1 reel)
• *Insolvent Estates -- 1856-1954  (#26, 1 reel)
• *Inventory Books -- 1857-1968  (#27, 1 reel)
• *Marriage Records -- 1850-1894  (#29, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1838-1966  (#51, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Grundy County  (Record Group #107, Roll 26,  1 reel)    Roll includes Will Book 1 (1838-1874),  County Court Minute Book 1, Pts. 1 & 2 (1844-1855),  Marriage Records (1850-1874) and Estate Settlement Book (1852-1895).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Altamont and Tracy City.  Scattered early issues are available from 1887, and a complete run begins in 1946.  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.

• Beersheba Springs Museum Family Name Files, 1881-1996 (Microfilm Manuscript #1813, 1 reel)
• *Brashear Family Papers, 1918-1943  (Microfilm Manuscript #1365, 1 reel)
• *Eugene Plumacher Papers, 1877-1947  (Microfilm Manuscript #1324, 1 reel)
• *German Swiss Settlement at Gruetli, Tennessee, by Frances Helen Jackson   (Microfilm Manuscript #303, 1 reel)
• *Gruetli Swiss Colony Records, 1869-1936  (Microfilm Manuscript #1717, 1 reel)
• *Highlander Folk School Clippings. Monteagle, 1932-1961  (Microfilm Manuscript #214, 1 reel)
• Highlander Folk School Collection, 1932-1966  (Microfilm Manuscript #990, 9 reels) RESTRICTED
• *Medical Account Books, 1871, 1883-1891  (Microfilm Manuscript #142, 1 reel)
• *Monteagle Sunday School Assembly Records. Grundy County, 1882-1971  (Microfilm Manuscript #390, 3 reels)
• *Northcut Family Papers, 1854-1942  (Microfilm Manuscript #1280, 9 reels)
• *Samuel Hervey Laughlin Diary, 1845  (Microfilm Manuscript #40, 1 reel)
• *Zilphia Horton folk music collection, 1935-1956

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.