CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Marshall County:  1840-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1840-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Marshall County census records in book form:  1840, 1850, *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• Goodspeed Histories of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford & Marshall counties of Tennessee (Goodspeed, 1971)
• History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, [includes Marshall County] (Goodspeed, 1988)
• *History of Marshall County, Tennessee (Wright, 1963)
• *Marshall County, Tennessee : A Sesquicentennial History (Marshall County Historical Society, 1986)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1880 Census, Marshall County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1999)
• *Cemetery Records of Marshall County, Tennessee (Marsh, 1981)
• Cornersville Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Register, Cornersville, Tennessee (Platt, 2000)
• First (1840) Census of Marshall County, Tennessee (Marshall County [Tenn.] Historical Society, 19??)
• Land Deed Genealogy of Marshall County, Tennessee [vol. 1 1836-1840; *vol. 2 1840-1845] (Marsh, 1988)
• *Marriage Record(s), Marshall County, Tennessee, 1836-1870 (Porch, 1976)
• Marshall County, Tennessee 1850 Census (Whitesell, 1967)
• *Marshall County, Tennessee Court Minutes, 1836-1845 (Marshall County Historical Society, 1980)
• Marshall County, Tennessee Court Minutes, 1845-1848 (Marshall County Historical Society, 1980)
• Marshall County, Tennessee, Court Minutes, vol.A, 1836-1840 (WPA, 1936)
• Marshall County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, vol.1, 1838-1849 (WPA, 1936)
• Marshall County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, vol.2, 1849-1865 (WPA, 1936)
• Marshall County, Tennessee Tax Record, 1839-1841 (Porch, 1966)
• Marshall County, Tennessee, Will Book, vol.A, 1835-1855 (WPA, 1936)
• *Marshall County, Tennessee Wills, 1835-1865 (Porch, 1978)
• Maury County Neighbors; Records of Giles, Lewis, and Marshall Counties, Tennessee (Lightfoot & Shackelford, 1967)
• Name Index to History of Tennessee ... : Together with ... Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford and Marshall Counties (Marsh, 1971)
• New Hope Cemetery, Near Talley Station, Marshall County, Tennessee (Nicholas, 1977)
• Private Acts of Marshall County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1994)
• *Revolutionary War Patriots of Marshall County, Tennessee (Alford, 1976)
• Service Record, World War I and II Marshall County, Tenn (Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Bill Lowe Wheatley Post, 1948?)
• South Central Tennessee Regional Polk City Directory : Including Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall and Moore Counties (R.L. Polk & Co., 1999)
• *Tombstone Inscriptions of Marshall County, Tennessee (Whitesell, 1968)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1836
• wills from 1835
• deed index from 1836
• chancery court minutes from 1840
• county court minutes from 1836
• circuit court minutes from 1836
• tax books from 1839

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Administrators' & Executors' Settlements -- 1839-1873 (#11, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1836-1940 (A-O) (#59, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1836-1940 (P-Z) (#60, 1 reel)
• *Estate Inventories -- 1839-1880 (#14, 1 reel)
• *Estate Inventories -- 1850-1871 (#15, 1 reel)
• *Insolvent Estates -- 1857-1872 (#A2188, 1 reel)
• *Marriages -- 1836-1877 (#22, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1835-1912 (#42, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Marshall County (Record Group #107, Roll 57, 1 reel) Roll includes County Court Minutes, Vol. A, pts. 1 & 2 (1836-1840), Will Book A (1835-1855) and Marriage Bonds, Vols. 1 & 2 (1838-1865).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Lewisburg.  Scattered early issues are available from 1838, and a complete run begins in 1945.  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.

• *Bear Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records. Marshall County, 1902-1938  (Microfilm Manuscript #203, 1 reel)
• *Bethbirei Presbyterian Church Records. Marshall County, 1810-1975  (Microfilm Manuscript #548, 2 reels)
• *Bethbirei Presbyterian Church Records. Marshall County, 1817-1875  (Microfilm Manuscript #76, 1 reel)
• *Caney Spring United Methodist Church Records. Marshall County, 1831-1963  (Microfilm Manuscript #586, 1 reel)
• Chapel Hill Masonic Lodge (#160) Records. Marshall County, 1831-1927  [Restricted] (Microfilm Manuscript #827, 1 reel)
• *Ferguson Family Papers, 1797-1945  (Microfilm Manuscript #102, 1 reel)
• *James W. Franks Diary, 1883-1884  (Microfilm Manuscript #788, 1 reel)
• *Macon Brown Prince Genealogical Collection, 1889-1971  (Microfilm Manuscript #1125, 1 reel)
• *Marshall County Miscellaneous Records, 1841-1857  (Microfilm Manuscript #556, 1 reel)
• *Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records. Chapel Hill, 1840-1899  (Microfilm Manuscript #345, 1 reel)
• *Robert B. Freeman Diaries, 1876-1877, 1885-1886  (Microfilm Manuscript #457, 1 reel)
• *Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records. Marshall County, 1814-1851  (Microfilm Manuscript #386, 1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.