CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Maury County:  1820-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1820-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Maury County census records in book form:  *1820, *1850, 1860, 1870, *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• *Century Review, 1805-1905 [of] Maury County, Tennessee : A Condensation of the Most Important Events of the Past One Hundred Years (Maury County Historical Society, 196?)
• Civil War in Maury County, Tennessee (Garrett & Lightfoot, 1980)
• *"Footprints in Stone" : Historical Sketches (Garrett, 1966)
• *Frank H. Smith's History of Maury County, Tennessee (Maury County Historical Society, 1969)
• *Goodspeed Histories of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford & Marshall counties of Tennessee (Goodspeed, 1971)
• Hampshire Then and Now (Patton, 1996)
• Historic Maury (Maury County Historical Society, 19??)
• *Historic Maury County, Tennessee, in Pictures (Maury County Historical Society, 1966)
• Historic Places in Davidson, Williamson, Maury and Giles Counties (Tennessee Historical Commission, 1921?)
• *Historical Sketch of Maury County : Read at the Centennial Celebration in Columbia, Tennessee, July 4th, 1876 (Fleming, 1967)
• *History of Maury County, Tennessee (Turner, 1955)
• History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson (Goodspeed, 1988)
• *"Hither and Yon" : The Best of the Writings of Jill K. Garrett (Garrett, 1999)
• * Maury County Remembered (Orr, 1999)
• Maury County, Tennessee Historical Sketches (Garrett, 1967)
• Maury County, Tennessee Newspaper (Abstracts) [vol. 1 1810-1844; vol. 2 1846-1850] (Garrett, 1965
• *Maury County, the Blue-Grass Region of Tennessee. Its Agricultural and Mineralogical Resources, Including a View of the County Seat, the City of Columbia (1887)
• Study in Continuity : Maury County, Tennessee, 1850-1870 [thesis] (Alcock, 1985)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1880 Census - Tennessee : Transcription for Maury County (Sistler, 1979?)
• *Ancestor Charts : Bicentennial Project of the Home Demonstration Clubs of Maury County, Tennessee (Cole & Glenn, 1976)
• Chancery Court Records Maury County, Tennessee 1810-1860 (Garrett & Lightfoot, 1965)
• *Churches of Maury County, Tennessee : Prior to 1860 (Tenassee Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1980)
• *Confederate Soldiers and Patriots of Maury County, Tennessee (Garrett, McAnally & Alexander, 1970)
• History of Hunter Meetinghouse and its Cemetery Records, Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee (McKennon & Hendrix, 1983)
• History of Zion Church, 1806-1858 (WPA, 1938)
• *Index to Maury and Williamson Counties : Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, 1886 (Lightburne, 1964)
• *Index to Maury County, Tennessee, Wills & Administrations, 1807 to 1861
• Index to Maury County Wills and Minutes, Vol. I, Book B, 1810-1825 (1963)
• Let the Drums Roll : Veterans and Patriots of the Revolutionary War who Settled in Maury County, Tennessee (Lightfoot, 1976)
• *Marriages of Maury County, Tennessee, 1808-1852 (Whitley, 1982)
• *Maury County Cousins : Bible and Family Records [2 vols.] (Maury County, Tennessee Historical Society, 1967-)
• *Maury County Remembers World War II [2 vols.] (Ashton & Alexander, 1991)
• *Maury County, Tenn., Marriage Records, 1838-1852 (Alexander & Garrett, 1963)
• Maury County, Tennessee 1860 Census (Thurman, 1981)
• Maury County, Tennessee 1870 Census (McKennon, 1984)
• Maury County, Tennessee : A Genealogical Abstract of Minute Books 2A and 3, June 1813 to November 1816 (Wells, 1988)
• Maury County, Tennessee Bible, Family and Tombstone Records (WPA, 19??)
• *Maury County, Tennessee, Cemeteries : With Genealogical and Historical Notes (Hawkins, 1989)
• *Maury County, Tennessee Census of 1850 (Whitley, 1966)
• Maury County, Tennessee, Chancery Court Minutes, 1823-29 (WPA, 1939)
• Maury County, Tennessee Court Minutes, 1807-1809 (Garrett, 1965?)
• Maury County, Tennessee, Court Minutes, book 1, 1808-1809 (WPA, 1940)
• *Maury County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts [vol. 1 Books A-C; vol. 2 Books D-F] (Alexander & Priest, 1965?-1972?)
• *Maury County TN Deeds [vol. 1. Books C1-D, November, 1809 - April, 1814] (Hutchings, 2003)
• Maury County, Tennessee, General Index to Deed Book [vol. 1 Bargainee, 1807-1843; vol. 2 Bargainor, 1807-1843] (WPA, 1939-1940)
• *Maury County, Tennessee, History & Families (Maury County Historical Society, 1998)
• *Maury County, Tennessee, Marriage Records 1807-1837 (Alexander & Priest, 1962)
• Maury County, Tennessee, St. Peter's Episcopal Church History Register, 1828-1840, and Minutes, 1914-1919 (WPA, 1938)
• Maury County, Tennessee, Will Books A, B, C-1, D, and E, 1807-1832 (Garrett & Lightfoot, 1984)
• Maury County, Tennessee Wills & Settlements, 1807-1824 and 1820 Census (Garrett & Lightfoot, 1964?)
• Maury County, Tennessee, Wills and Minutes, Vol.1, Book B, 1810-1825 (WPA, 1942)
• *Maury County, TN Marriages, 1852-1867 (Sistler, 1986)
• Minute Book, 1810-1821 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1938-39)
• Private Acts of Maury County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1988)
• Records of Ebenezer Church, Maury Co., Tenn., 1805-1921 (Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, 1939)
• *Tennessee Census 1820 Maury County (Presley, 19??)
• *"They Passed This Way" [vol. 1 cemetery records; vol. 2 death records] (Lightfoot & Shackelford, 1964-)
• *War of 1812 Soldiers of Maury County, Tennessee (Garrett, 1975?)
• West Central Tennessee Regional Polk City Directory : Including Giles, Lawrence, Lewis and Maury counties (R.L. Polk & Co., 1999)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1808
• wills from 1807
• deed index from 1808
• chancery court minutes from 1818
• county court minutes from 1807
• circuit court minutes from 1810
• tax books from 1808

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Deed Index -- 1807-1905 Direct (#193, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1807-1905 Reverse (#199, 1 reel)
• *Estate Settlements -- 1853-1889 (#81, 1 reel)
• *Inventories and Settlements -- 1854-1857 (#105, 1 reel)
• *Inventories and Settlements -- 1857-1863 (#106, 1 reel)
• *Marriage bonds -- 1809-1823 (#132, 1 reel)
• *Marriage bonds -- 1825-1833 (#133, 1 reel)
• *Marriage bonds -- 1835-1838 (#134, 1 reel)
• *Marriages (whites) -- 1808-1867 (#119, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1806-1821; 1823-1824 (#179, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1826-1832 (#180, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1832-1840 (#181, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1840-1847 (#182, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1847-1853 (#183, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1851-1898 (#184, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Maury County (Record Group #107, Roll 58, 1 reel) Roll includes General Index to Deeds, Vol. 1 [Bargainee] & Vol. 2 [Bargainor] (1807-1843), County Court Minute Book 1 (1808-1809), Circuit Court Minute Book A (1810-1815), Circuit Court Minutes (1817-1821), Chancery Court Minutes (1823-1829), Wills & County Court Minutes, Book B (1810-1825), Index to Wills & County Court Minutes, Book B (1810-1825), History of Zion [Presbyterian] Church (1806-1858), St. Peter's Episcopal Church History & St. Peter's Church Records (1828-1890), St/ Peter's Church Minutes (1914-1919) and Bible, Family & Tombstone Records (undated).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Columbia, Spring Hill and Mount Pleasant.  Scattered early issues are available from 1810, and a complete run begins in 1899.  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.

• *Advent Chapel, Episcopal Records. Maury County, 1874-1927  (Microfilm Manuscript #440, 1 reel)
• *Antebellum Southern Plantations  (Microfilm Manuscript #1370, 20 reels)
• *Bear Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records. Marshall County, 1902-1938  (Microfilm Manuscript #203, 1 reel)
• *Bolling Gordon Family Papers, 1797-1960  (Microfilm Manuscript #1191, 4 reel)
• *Booker Family Papers, 1950-1987  (Microfilm Manuscript #1531, 3 reels)
• *Branham and Hughes Military Academy Records. Spring Hill, 1892-1932  (Microfilm Manuscript #63, 2 reels)
• *Brown-Ewell Papers, 1803-1919  (Microfilm Manuscript #819, 7 reels)
• *Cheairs and Hughes Family Papers, 1636-1967  (Microfilm Manuscript #1178, 1 reel)
• *Civil War Papers of John Bell Hamilton and Thomas Hamilton Williams, by Alleen Williams Cater  (Microfilm Manuscript #424, 1 reel)
• *Cooper Family Papers, 1716-1968  (Microfilm Manuscript #810, 6 reels)
• *D’Heur Collection, 1780-1935  (Microfilm Manuscript #1268, 1 reel)
• *Delk Family Records, 1813-1960  (Microfilm Manuscript #183, 1 reel)
• *Derryberry, Hardison, and Lovett Papers, 1825-1928  (Microfilm Manuscript #1348, 1 reel)
• *Figuers Family Papers, 1764-1965  (Microfilm Manuscript #1153, 1 reel)
• *Foster Family Papers, 1799-1918  (Microfilm Manuscript #1145, 2 reels)
• *General Store Account Book. Rockdale, 1851-1852  (Microfilm Manuscript #105, 1 reel)
• *Gordon and Avery Families Papers, ca. 1800-1945  (Microfilm Manuscript #479, 3 reels)
• *Grace Chapel, Episcopal Records. Spring Hill, 1878-1969  (Microfilm Manuscript #441, 1 reel)
• *Hamilton-Williams Family Papers, 1850-1971  (Microfilm Manuscript #1303, 1 reel)
• *Holy Cross Episcopal Church Records. Mt. Pleasant, 1900-1969  (Microfilm Manuscript #439, 1 reel)
• *James K. Polk Memorial Association Auxiliary Scrapbooks, 1913-1972  (Microfilm Manuscript #601, 1 reel)
• *James Knox Polk Papers, 1780-1972  (Microfilm Manuscript #805, 3 reels)
• *James Norman Smith Memoirs, 1789-1860  (Microfilm Manuscript #157, 1 reel)
• *James Percy Priest Papers, 1940-1956  (Microfilm Manuscript #968, 1 reel)
• *James Washington Matthews, 1858-1869  (Microfilm Manuscript #1712, 1 reel)
• *Jill Knight Garrett Collection, 1800-1969  (Microfilm Manuscript #1196, 5 reels)
• *John F. Stephenson Family Papers, 1881-1924
• *Joseph Brown Papers, 1772-1965  (Microfilm Manuscript #747, 1 reel)
• Joseph H. Fussell Family Papers, 1809-1921  (Microfilm Manuscript #1843, 1 reel)
• *Lasting Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records. Maury County, 1884-1919  (Microfilm Manuscript #718, 1 reel)
• *McCains Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records. Maury County, 1848-1954  (Microfilm Manuscript #347, 1 reel)
• *Mary Polk Branch Scrapbooks, 1861-1865  (Microfilm Manuscript #106, 1 reel)
• *Nimrod Porter Journals, 1861-1871, 1880-1898  (Microfilm Manuscript #229, 1 reel)
• *Old Lasea Church of Christ Records. Maury County, 1894-1974  (Microfilm Manuscript #681, 1 reel)
• *Orr Family Diaries, 1859-1866, 1884-1885  (Microfilm Manuscript #89, 1 reel)
• *Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records. Marshall County, 1814-1851  (Microfilm Manuscript #386, 1 reel)
• *St. Mark's Episcopal Church Records. Maury County, 1838-1883  (Microfilm Manuscript #437, 1 reel)
• *St. Peter's Episcopal Church Records. Columbia, 1828-1973  (Microfilm Manuscript #438, 1 reel)
• *United Methodist Church Records. Spring Hill, 1840-1965  (Microfilm Manuscript #448, 3 reels)
• *Wallace Alexander Jones Genealogical Collection, 1860-1963  (Microfilm Manuscript #1202, 2 reels)
• *Westminster Presbyterian Church Records. Columbia, 1819-1997  (Microfilm Manuscript #1572, 1 reel)
• *Zion Presbyterian Church Records. Columbia, 1805-1939  (Microfilm Manuscript #125, 1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.