CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Madison County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1830-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Madison County census records in book form:  *1850, *1870, *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• Ezekial Brownlee Mason : His Contribution to Early Madison County, Tennessee, History (Smith, 1993)
• Goodspeed Histories of Madison County, Tennessee (Goodspeed, 1972)
• *Historic Madison : The Story of Jackson and Madison County, Tennessee, from the Prehistoric Moundbuilders to 1917 (Williams, 1986)
• History of Tennessee : From the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of the City of Jackson and the County of Madison (Goodspeed, 1979)
• Mt. Pinson, Madison County, Tennessee : a study (Smith, 2000)
• Our Claybrook Heritage (Smith, 1993)
• *Tales of Madison : Historical Sketches on Jackson & Madison County (Alexander, 2002)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1880 Census, Madison County, Tennessee (Sistler, 2001)
• Abstracts of Last Wills and Testaments, Madison County, Tennessee, 1927-1937 (Smith, 2000)
• Annotated Gleanings, Circuit Court Minutes, Madison County, Tennessee, 1869-1885 (Smith, 2000)
• Antebellum Militia, Justices and some Early Taxpayers, Madison County, Tennessee (Smith, 1998)
• Cemetery Records of Madison County, Tennessee [*vol. 1 - southern half of the county; vol. 2 - northern half of the county] (Mid-West Tennessee Genealogical Society, 1995)
• Deed Book ... Madison County, Tennessee [vol. 1 1803-1828; vol. 2 1828-1833] (Crumpton, 2000)
• Directory of Jackson, Tennessee (WPA, 19??)
• Federally Approved Southern Claims for Tennessee, 1873-1889 : and, Marriage Announcements, Jackson, Tennessee, Newspapers, 1824-1833 (Smith, 1996)
• Freedmen's Labor Contracts, Madison County, Tennessee, 1866-1867 (Smith, 1996)
• Genealogical Abstracts from Antebellum Circuit Court Records, Madison County, Tennessee (Smith, 1997)
• Genealogical Abstracts from Madison County, Tennessee [will books: vol. 1 1862-1894; vol. 2 1894-1914; vol. 3 1914-1927] (Smith, 1994-)
• Genealogical Abstracts from Madison County, Tennessee Deed Books 31-40, 1873-1883 (Smith, 1999)
• Genealogical Gleanings from ... Madison County, Tennessee [deeds 1822-1870 -- 3 vols.] (Smith, 1995-)
• Genealogical Miscellany, Madison County, Tennessee [4 vols.] (Smith, 1996)
• Historic Denmark Baptist Campground and Church, Madison County, Tenn. (Smith, 1993)
• Historical Configurations of the Magisterial Districts of Madison County, Tennessee : A Study (Smith, 1992)
• *Index to Madison County Tombstone Inscriptions (Maszaros, 2002)
• Jackson, Tennessee, Polk City Directory (1998)
• *Last Will and Testament Abstracts, Madison County, Tennessee, 1821-1854 (Smith, 1995)
• *Madison County, Tennessee, 1870 Census (Wiggins, 1992)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Chancery Court Minute Book, no.1, 1846-54 (WPA, 1939)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Circuit Court Minute Book, no.1, 1821-28 (WPA, 1939)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Circuit Court Minutes, no.2, 1828-1836 (WPA, 1942)
• Madison County, Tennessee County Court Minutes [1821-1853; 6 vols. in 10 pts.] (WPA,
• Madison County, Tennessee, Guardian Renewal Bonds, 1868-79 (WPA, 1938)
• *Madison County, Tennessee, Loose Marriage Bonds, 1823-1832 : Taken from the W.P.A. Records (Stovall, 1991)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Loose Marriage Bonds, 1846-66 and Deed Record vol.1, 1822-28 (WPA, 1939)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Marriage License Book, vol.2, 1838-1847 (WPA, 1937)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1823-1950 : An Inventory of Loose Records in the Madison County Courthouse (Genealogical Society of Utah, 1997)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1866-68 (WPA, 1938)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1868-71 [5 vols.] (WPA, 1938)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, Colored, 1868-71 (WPA, 1938)
• *Madison County, Tennessee Marriages, 1838-1871 (Sistler, 1983)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Tax Book, 1822-1832 (WPA, 1937)
• Madison County, Tennessee, Tombstone Inscriptions (WPA, 1937)
• Magisterial Resolutions of Respect and Other Records, Madison County, Tennessee (Smith, 1996)
• *My Old Salem Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions Scrapbook (Smith, 2000)
• Persons Appearing on the Federal Direct Tax, Madison County, Tennessee, 1865-1866 (Smith, 1996)
• Public Marriage Records of Black Persons in Madison County, Tennessee, 1868-1888 (Smith, 1998)
• Reported Deaths in Nineteenth Century Jackson, Tennessee, Newspapers (Smith, 1996)
• *Seventh Census of the United States, 1850: Madison County, Tennessee, Free Population Schedules (Carpenter, 1971)
• Several Genealogical Vignettes of Madison County, Tennessee (Smith, 1993)
• Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records : Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier (WPA, 1938)
• Tombstone Inscriptions from Black Cemeteries in Madison County, Tennessee [2 vols.] (Smith, 2000)
• Tombstone Inscriptions in Historic Riverside Cemetery in Jackson, Tennessee (Smith, 1998)
• *Will Book ... Madison County, Tennessee [1825-1835] (Crumpton, 2000)
• Wills and Inventories, no.2, 1835-1839 (WPA, 19??)
• Wills and Inventories, vol.1, 1822-1835 (WPA, 1938)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1838
• wills from 1825
• deed index from 1821
• chancery court minutes from 1846
• county court minutes from 1821
• circuit court minutes from 1821
• tax books from 1897

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan from TSLA:

• *Deed Index -- 1821-1899 Direct (#A, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1821-1899 Reverse (#B, 1 reel)
• *Marriage Records -- 1838-1871 (#516, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1825-1839 (#532, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1839-1854 (#533, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1854-1862 (#534, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Madison County (Record Group #107, Roll 54, 1 reel) Roll includes County Court Minute Book 1 (1821-1825), County Court Minute Book 2 (1825-1828), County Court Minute Book 3, pts. 1 & 2 (1828-1833), County Court Minute Book 4, pts. 1 & 2 (1833-1840) and County Court Minute Book 5, pts. 1 & 2 (1840-1848).
• *WPA Records, Madison County (Record Group #107, Roll 55, 1 reel) Roll includes County Court Minute Book 6, pts. 1 & 2 (1849-1853), Circuit Court Minute Book 1 (1821-1828), Circuit Court Minute Book, pts. 1 & 2 (1828-1836), Chancery Court Minute Book 1 (1846-1854), Tax Book (1822-1832) and Marriage License Book 2 (1838-1847).
• *WPA Records, Madison County (Record Group #107, Roll 56, 1 reel) Roll includes Marriage License Book 3 (1846-1866), Marriage License (1866-1868, 1868-1871), Marriage License [Colored] (1868-1871), Loose Marriage Bonds (1846-1866), Deed Records, Vol. 1 (1822-1828), Wills & Inventories, Vol. 1, pts. 1 & 2 (1822-1835), Wills & Inventories, pts. I-IV (1835-1839), Guardian Renewal Bonds (1868-1879), Tombstone Inscriptions (undated) and Directory - Jackson, TN (undated).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Jackson.  Scattered early issues are available from 1824, and a complete run begins in 1936.  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.

• *Francis McGavock Papers, 1784-1854  (Microfilm Manuscript #742, 1 reel)
• Frank Love Collection of Martin Family Papers, 1756-1952
• *George A. Smith & Sons Funeral Home Records, 1930-1993  (Microfilm Manuscript #1759, 2 reels)
• Hutchings family papers, 1804-1970 
• *Memphis Conference Female Institute Records. Jackson, Madison County, 1846-1924  (Microfilm Manuscript #913, 2 reels)
• *Mrs. Frank Robbins Diary, 1897-1898  (Microfilm Manuscript #111, 1 reel)
• Murrell Family Papers, 1833-1941 
• Railroads Collection 
• *Robert H. Cartmell Papers, 1849-1915  (Microfilm Manuscript #1076, 4 reels)

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