CENSUS RECORDS 

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

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• *Along the Warioto: or A History of Montgomery County, Tennessee (Beach, 1964)
• Child's History of Clarksville and Montgomery County, Tennessee (Williams, 1986)
• Clarksville and Montgomery County in Tennessee (Chamber of Commerce of Clarksville and Montgomery County, Tennessee, 19??)
• Historic Clarksville : The Bicentennial Story, 1784-1984 (Waters, 1983)
• Historical Sketches of Adams, Robertson County, Tennessee and Port Royal, Montgomery County, Tennessee, from 1779 to 1968 (Winters, 1978)
• *History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart (Goodspeed, 1979)
• Montgomery County (Beach, 1988)
• Montgomery County; Its Agricultural & Mineral Wealth; Its Topography and Geology; Its Healthfulness and Desirableness (Killebrew, 1870)
• "Southern Half" : Montgomery County, Tennessee (Davidson, 1998)
• Southside : Then to Now (Davidson, 1998)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• 1798 Property Tax List and 1820 Census of Montgomery County, Tennessee (Beach & Alley, 1969)
• *1850 Federal Census of Montgomery County, Tennessee (Beach & Alley, 1971)
• *1880 Census, Montgomery County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1998)
• *Abstracts of Wills and Records : Recorded in Books A & B, Montgomery County, Tennessee, 1796-1818 (Darnell, 1976)
• Bible and Family Records, Tombstone Inscriptions [bound with Minutes of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Clarksville, 1893-1925] (WPA, 1938)
• *Cemetery Records of Montgomery County, Tennessee [2 vols.] (Darnell, Jones & Alley, 1965-)
• Clarksville, TN, Polk City Directory : Including Montgomery County (1998, 2002, 2003, 2004)
• County Court Minutes, 1805-1825 [13 vols.] (WPA, 1937-1941)
• *Index to Montgomery County, Tennessee, Wills & Administrations, 1795 to 1861 (Sistler, 1990)
• Minutes of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Clarksville, 1893-1925 (WPA, 1939)
• *Montgomery County, Tennessee County Court Minutes [Dec. 1805 - Dec. 1807] (Willis & Dublin, 1998)
• *Montgomery County, Tennessee, Family History Book 2000 (Montgomery County Historical Society, 2000)
• Montgomery County, Tennessee Loose Marriages 1799, 1802, 1808, 1813, 1814, 1818, 1836, 1837, 1841 (Townley, 1965)
• Montgomery County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, vol. 1-2, 1838-1854 (WPA, 1937)
• *Montgomery County, Tennessee Wills and Administrations [vol. 1 1796-1804; vol. 2 1805-1814; vol. 3 1799-1814; vol. 4 1814-1817; vol. 5 1817-1819; vol. 5 1819-1821] (Willis, 1995-)
• Montgomery County, TN, Deeds [vol. 1 1796-1800; vol. 2 1797-1804; vol. 3 1802-1807; vol. 4 1805-1809; vol. 5 1808-1812] (Willis & Simmons, 1996-)
• *Montgomery County, TN Marriages, 1838-1867 (Sistler, 1986)
• *Name Index to History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery (Marsh, 1972)
• Obituaries Compiled from Clarksville Newspapers, Montgomery County, Tennessee [vol. 1 1869-1810; vol. 2 1883-1870; vol. 3 1893-1884; vol. 4 1903-1894; vol. 5 1913-1904; vol. 6 1914-1921; vol. 7 1922-1926; vol. 8 1927-1930; vol. 9 1931-1934; vol. 10 1935-1938; vol. 11 1939-1948 (Index); vol. 12 1949-1958 (Index)] (Gannaway, 1989-)
• Primal Families of the Yellow Creek Valley : A Chronicle of the Pioneer Families of the Regions of Dickson, Houston, and Montgomery Counties in Middle Tenn (Nesbitt, 1985)
• Private Acts of Montgomery County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1994)
• *Red River Settlers : Records of the Settlers of Northern Montgomery, Robertson, and Sumner Counties, Tennessee (Whitley, 1980)
• T E McReynolds and Sons, Funeral Directors, Clarksville, Tenn., Funeral Records, 1897-1923 (Weakley, 1986)
• *Tennessee County, North Carolina, Early Deeds [2 vols.] (Willis, 1994)
• Wills & Inventories, Guardian and Bond Books, 1797-1818 [vol. 1 1797-1810; vol. 2 1811-1818] (WPA, 1936)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1838
• wills from 1796
• deed index from 1789
• chancery court minutes from 1840
• county court minutes from 1805
• circuit court minutes from 1896
• tax books from 1949

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Deed Index -- 1789-1870 (#107, 1 reel)
• *Marriage records -- 1838-1874 (#65, 1 reel)
• *Will Books -- 1796-1821 (#91, 1 reel)
• *Will Books -- 1818-1834 (#92, 1 reel)
• *Will Books -- 1829-1840 (#93, 1 reel)
• *Will Books -- 1840-1848 (#94, 1 reel)
• *Will Books -- 1845-1850 (#95, 1 reel)
• *Will Books -- 1853-1858 (#96, 1 reel)
• *Will Books -- 1858-1869 (#97, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Montgomery County (Record Group #107, Roll 61, 1 reel) Roll includes Wills & Inventories, Guardian Bond Book A & B (1797-1810, 1811-1818), Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Minute Books 1-9 (1805-1819).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Clarksville.  Scattered early issues are available from 1834, and a complete run begins in 1904.  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.

• *Austin Peay and Peay Family Papers, 1863-1977  (Microfilm Manuscript #559, 1 reel)
• *Clarksville Tax Records, ca. 1952-ca. 1976  (Microfilm Manuscript #1300, 10 reels)
• *Drane Family Papers, 1719-1928  (Microfilm Manuscript #1143, 3 reels)
• *Drs. Aristotle and Edwin Eldridge Papers, 1856-1881  (Microfilm Manuscript #1361, 1 reel)
• *First Presbyterian Church Records. Clarksville, 1953-1980  (Microfilm Manuscript #667, 1 reel)
• *Gannaway, Workman, Smith, and Allied Families Genealogical Data. Montgomery County, 1720-1987  (Microfilm Manuscript #969, 1 reel)
• *George H. Nolon Papers, 1902-1942  (Microfilm Manuscript #1451, 4 reels)
• *Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Palmyra Lodge #427 Records. Montgomery County, 1904-1938  (Microfilm Manuscript #706, 1 reel)
• *Indian Mound Methodist Church, Stewart County, 1842-1962; Hopewell Methodist Church, Montgomery County, 1861-1961  (Microfilm Manuscript #128, 1 reel)
• *John Elliott Mabry Account Book, ca. 1850-1863  (Microfilm Manuscript #95, 1 reel)
• *John Nick Barker Diaries, 1843-1868  (Microfilm Manuscript #126, 1 reel)
• *Little Hope Baptist Church Records. Montgomery County, 1869-1960  (Microfilm Manuscript #1227, 1 reel)
• *Louise Dickson Townley Genealogical Collection  (Microfilm Manuscript #1500, 1 reel)
• *Lucy Catherine Bailey Papers, 1828-1878  (Microfilm Manuscript #1200, 1 reel)
• Madison Street United Methodist Church Records. Clarksville, 1829-2005  (Microfilm Manuscript #1787)
• *Madison Street United Methodist Church Records. Clarksville, 1832-1882  (Microfilm Manuscript #720, 1 reel)
• *Martha’s Chapel United Methodist Church Records. Cunningham, 1872-1997  (Microfilm Manuscript #1534, 1 reel)
• *Nannie (Haskins) Williams Diary, 1869-1890  (Microfilm Manuscript #73, 1 reel)
• *New Providence Baptist Church Records. New Providence, 1851-1921  (Microfilm Manuscript #497, 1 reel)
• *Peterson-Priestly Family Papers, 1822-1977  (Microfilm Manuscript #549, 1 reel)
• Provost Marshal’s Records. Montgomery County, 1862-1864  [Restricted]  (Microfilm Manuscript #822, 1 reel)
• *Ralph Lyles Winters, Addition, 1874-1974  (Microfilm Manuscript #1682, 2 reels)
• Robertson Yeatman Johnson Papers, 1861-1909 
• *Robertson Yeatman Johnson Papers, 1870-1900  (Microfilm Manuscript #1770, 2 reels)
• *Ross Family Journals, 1851-1871  (Microfilm Manuscript #449, 1 reel)
• *Sailor's Rest Plantation Records. Montgomery County, 1844-1881  (Microfilm Manuscript #127, 1 reel)
• *Samuel Stacker Journals. Davidson, Stewart, and Montgomery Counties, 1820-1959  (Microfilm Manuscript #749, 1 reel)
• Talbot - Fentress Family Papers, 1817-1953 
• *Thomas Lawson Mabry Account Book & Ledger. Poplar Hill, 1869-1880  (Microfilm Manuscript #1075, 1 reel)
• *Thomas W. Atkinson Account Book. Montgomery County, 1841-1844  (Microfilm Manuscript #317, 1 reel)
• *Trinity Episcopal Church Records. Clarksville, 1832-1965  (Microfilm Manuscript #400, 1 reel)
• *U.S. Tariff Records. Palmyra, Montgomery County, 1797-1802  (Microfilm Manuscript #560, 1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.