CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Henry County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1830-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Henry County census records in book form:  *1850, *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• Exploring Henry County, Tennessee (Crutchfield, 1995)
• Henry County History and Families (Henry County Bicentennial Commission, 1996)
• *Henry County Sesquicentennial, 1823-1973 (Baggett, 1973)
• Henry County Tennessee Courthouses (Tayloe, 2003?)
• History of Black Familys [sic] (Tayloe 2004?)
• *History of Henry County, Tennessee : Descriptive, Pictorial Reproductions of Old Papers and Manuscripts (Johnson, 1958)
• History of Henry County, Tennessee, Through 1865 (Van Dyke, 1966)
• History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Carroll, Henry and Benton Counties (Goodspeed, 1978)
• *History of the Henry County Commands which Served in the Confederate States Army Including Rosters of the Various Companies Enlisted in Henry County, Tenn. (Rennolds, 1904)
• Old Homes of Henry County Tennessee [2 vols.] (Tayloe, 2004?)
• *Pen Sketches : An Historical Pen Sketch of Henry County, Tennessee (Inman, 1976)
• Sisters of Temperance, 1850 (Tayloe, 2003?)
• Women of Distinction (Tayloe, 2003)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• 1822-1988 Wills Index, Henry County, Tennessee (McNutt, 1988)
• 1827 Tax List, Henry County, Tennessee (McNutt, 1989)
• *1880 Census Henry County, Tennessee (Sistler, 2001)
• 1890 Tax List, Henry County, Tennessee (McNutt, 1988)
• Benton Co., Tennessee, Carroll Co., Tennessee, Henry Co., Tennessee, Houston Co., Tennessee, Stewart Co., Tennessee [1891 enumeration of male voters] (Reed, 1989)
• Bible Records of Henry County, Tennessee (Sanders, 1988)
• City of Paris and Henry County, Tennessee : Historical, Descriptive, and Biographical (Greene, 1987?)
• *Compendium of Henry Co., Tennessee, Cemetery Records (Reed, 1988)
• *Deed book ... Henry County, Tennessee [1822-1831] [3 vols.] (Crupmton, 2000)
• Districts of Henry County Tennessee (Tayloe, 2003?)
• Genealogical Scrapbook of the Weekly Intelligencer, Paris, Tennessee, 1866-1881 (Smith, 2004)
• *Henry Co. Tennessee Newspaper Gleanings, 1887-1893 (Robbins, 19??)
• *Henry Co. Tennessee Newspaper Gleanings, 1893-1903 (Robbins, 1985?)
• Henry County, Tennessee, 1836 Tax List & Civil Districts (Douthat, 1993)
• *Henry County, Tennessee, Census of 1850 (Gossum & Simmons, 1994)
• Henry County Tennessee Court Minutes Book C, 1832-1836 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1941)
• Henry County Tennessee Index to Deeds, Grantor no. 1, 1822-83 (WPA, 1940)
• *Henry County, Tennessee Marriages [vol. 1 1838-1852; vol. 2 1853-1867; vol. 3 1868-1880] (Inman, 1974-)
• Henry County Tennessee Minute Book A, 1824-1825 (WPA, 1936)
• Henry County Tennessee Tax Book 1827-1835 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1942)
• Henry County Tennessee Tombstone Records (WPA, 1937)
• *Henry County, Tennessee, Wills [Dec 1837 - May 1841] (Simmons & Willis, 1995)
• *Henry County, Tennessee Wills 1822-1830 (Simmons & Willis, 1995)
• Henry County Tennessee Wills and Inventories 1844-56 [3 vols.] (WPA, 1940)
• *Inscriptions in Stone : Henry County, Tennessee [2 vols.] (Henry County Cemetery Committee, 1989)
• *McEvoy Funeral Home Records, 1901-1991, Henry County, Tennessee (1996)
• Minutes of the County Court of Henry County, 1836-1849 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1942)
• Minutes of the County Court of Henry County, Book A, 1825-1828 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1941)
• *Old 23rd District (Robbins, 1984)
• Private Acts of Henry County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1994)
• Record of Marriages, Henry Co., Tenn. [vol. 1 1881-1890; vol. 2 1891-1900] (Robbins & Walker, 1983-)
• Slave Account[s] From the Old Records in the Archives [2 vols.] (Tayloe 2004?)
• Tennessee Genealogical Records: Henry County Old Time Stuff (Whitley, 1991)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1838
• wills from 1833
• deed index from 1822
• chancery court minutes from 1846
• county court minutes from 1824
• circuit court minutes from 1834
• tax books from 1827

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Administrators', Executors' Guardians' Settlements -- 1839-1870 (#44, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1822-1908 (#108, 1 reel)
• *Marriage Records -- 1838-1882 (#70, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1822-1844 (#102, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1844-1863 (#103, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Henry County (Record Group #107, Roll 35, 1 reel) Roll includes General Index to Deeds [Grantor], Vol. 1 (1822-1883), Minute Book A (1824-1825), Tax Book, pts. 1 & 2 (1827-1835) and Wills & Inventories, pts. 1-3 (1844-1856).
• *WPA Records, Henry County (Record Group #107, Roll 36, 1 reel) Roll includes County Court Minutes, pts. 1 & 2 (1825-1828), County Court Minutes, pts. 1 & 2 (1836-1849), County Court Minute Book C, pts. 1 & 2 (1832-1836) and Tombstone Records (undated).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Lexington, Sardis and Scotts Hill.  Scattered early issues are available from 1858, and a complete run begins in 1932.  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.

• *Blood River Church of Christ Records. Henry County, 1867-1885  (Microfilm Manuscript #281, 1 reel)
• *Daniel Montgomery Papers, 1788-1964  (Microfilm Manuscript #763, 1 reel)
• *First Baptist Church Records. Paris, Henry County, 1833-1983  (Microfilm Manuscript #833, 1 reel)
• *First Baptist Church Records. Paris, Henry County, 1897-1977  (Microfilm Manuscript #839, 1 reel)
• *Henry United Methodist Church Records, Henry (Henry County), Tennessee, 1862-2002  (Microfilm Manuscript #1801, 1 reel)
• *Hopewell Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records, 1871-1980  (Microfilm Manuscript #658, 2 reels)
• *North Fork Baptist Church Records. Henry County, 1827-1976  (Microfilm Manuscript #529, 2 reels)
• *Oak Hill Union Church Records. Paris, Henry County, 1885-1976  (Microfilm Manuscript #848, 1 reel)
• *Obion Association of Old School Baptists Records. Henry County, 1823-1957  (Microfilm Manuscript #279, 2 reels)
• Papers of Hugh W. and John H. Dunlap, 1824-1905
• *Thompson Creek Baptist Church Records. Weakley and Henry Counties, 1831-1982  (Microfilm Manuscript #732, 1 reel)
• *Walnut Fork Primitive Baptist Church Records. Cottage Grove, 1821-1960  (Microfilm Manuscript #280, 1 reel)
• *Walnut Fork Primitive Baptist Church Records. Henry County, 1821-1956  (Microfilm Manuscript #769, 1 reel)
• * West Tennessee Funeral Home Records: Benton, Carroll, Gibson, Henry, and Weakley Counties  (Microfilm Manuscript #1786, 86 reels)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.