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Monroe County


Updated:  January 18, 2005

Monroe County was formed in 1819 from Indian lands.

The county seat is Madisonville.

There were fires at the Monroe County courthouse
in the 1820s and 1960.

 

CENSUS RECORDS 

  • Census on microfilm for Monroe County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
  • State-wide census index:  1830-1880
  • State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
  • Monroe County census records in book form:  *1840, *1880

 

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

  • Coker Creek: Crossroads to History (Brown, 1991)
  • Early Days in Monroe County, Tennessee. [With] "In the Long Long Ago" by Vastine Stickley (Ray, 1943)
  • *Fort Loudoun on the Little Tennessee (Hamer, 1925)
  • Historic Sites in Blount, Cocke, Monroe and Sevier Counties (Carberry, 1973)
  • *History of Monroe County, Tennessee : From the Western Frontier Days to the Space Age [2 vols. in 3 pts.] (Sands, 1980-89)
  • *History of Sweetwater Valley, Tennessee (Lenoir, 1976)
  • *I Grew Up with Sweetwater (Abernathy, 1982)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Heritage, 1819-1997 (Monroe County Heritage Book Committee, 1997)

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

 

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

  • *1840 Monroe County, Tennessee, Census (McConkey, 1986)
  • 1880 Census, Monroe County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1991)
  • *1880 Monroe County Census (McConkey, 1992)
  • Abstracts of Ocoee District Early Land Records-Entries (McClure, 1990)
  • Blount County, Tennessee Cemetery Records : Including Blount Section of Loudon and Monroe Counties, Tennessee (Little, 1980)
  • Index to the Ocoee District Early Land Records (McClure, 1990)
  • Marriage Record Book, 1838-1868 [vol. 1 1838-1843; vol. 2 1843-1845; vol. 3 1847-1852; vol. 4 1856-1868] (WPA, 1938)
  • *Marriage Records of Monroe County, Tennessee, 1838 Through 1890 (McConkey, 1995)
  • Marriages, Monroe County, Tennessee, 1868-1880 (McConkey, 1983)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Cemetery Records (Steed, 199?)
  • Monroe County, Tennessee, Chancery Court Minutes, 1832-42 (WPA, 1940)
  • Monroe County, Tennessee, Chancery Court Records, 1832-1887 (Boyer, 1988)
  • Monroe County, Tennessee, Christianburg Baptist Church Minutes [vol. 1 1828-1872; vol. 2 1872-1892; vol. 3 1892-1901; vol. 4 1901-1908; vol. 5 1909-1917] (WPA, 1938)
  • Monroe County, Tennessee, Circuit Court Minute Book, 1827-32 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1940)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, County Court Records [vol. 1 1858-1874; vol. 2 1875-1888] (McConkey, 1993)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Death Records, 1908-1925 (McConkey, 1992)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts from Deed Registration Books [1819 - Dec. 4, 1837] (McConkey, 1994)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Deed Books [vol. 1 A-D, 1820-1834; vol. 2 E-H, 1834-1836] (Hayes, 1995)
  • *Monroe County Tennessee Population Schedule of the Sixth Census of the United States, 1840 (Broyles, 1983)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee; Records, 1820-1870 [2 vols.] (Boyer, 1969-70)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee Vital Statistics, 1908-1912, 1914-1925 (McConkey, 1995)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1914 through 1925 (Wiefering, 1994)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1926 through 1930 (Wiefering, 1997)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1931 through 1935 (Wiefering, 1998)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1936 through 1941 (Wiefering, 1999)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1942 through 1946 (Wiefering, 1999)
  • Monroe County, Tennessee, Will Book A, 1825-69 (WPA, 1939)
  • *Monroe County, Tennessee Wills 1824-1945 (McConkey, 19??)
  • Tax Lists, 1899 and 1912, Monroe County, Tennessee (McConkey, 1991)
  • Tennessee Negro Cemetery Records and Marriage Records : Counties of Campbell, Dickson, Madison, McMinn, Monroe, Roane, Sevier (WPA, 1938)

 

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

  • marriages from 1838
  • wills from 1836
  • deed index from 1820
  • chancery court minutes from 1832
  • county court minutes from 1858
  • circuit court minutes from 1827
  • tax books from 1868

 

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

  • *Deed Index -- 1820-1910 (#38, 1 reel)
  • *Inventories -- 1853-1902 (#20, 1 reel)
  • *Marriages -- 1838-1845;1847-1852; 1856-1883 (#29, 1 reel)
  • *Marriages -- 1856-1885 (#30, 1 reel)
  • *Wills -- 1833-1922 (#37, 1 reel)
  • *WPA Records, Monroe County (Record Group #107, Roll 60, 1 reel) Roll includes Chancery Court Minute Book (1832-1842), Circuit Court Minute Book, pts. 1 & 2 (1827-1834), Will Book A (1825-1869), Marriage Records Books I-IV (1838-1845, 1847-1852, 1856-1868) and Christianburg Baptist Church Minutes, Vols. I-V (1828-1917).

 

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Madisonville and Sweetwater.  Scattered early issues are available from 1839, 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.

 

SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS MATERIAL

 

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.

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