CENSUS RECORDS 

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

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• *Heritage of White County, 1806-1999  (White County Heritage Book Committee,  1999)
• History of a Pioneer Church [Macedonia Baptist Church] (England, 1969?)
• History of Tennessee From the Earliest Time to the Present : Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Cannon, Coffee, Dekale [sic], Warren, White (Goodspeed, 1979)
• History of White County, Tennessee (Seals, 1974)
• Memorable Historical Accounts of White County and Area  (Rogers,  1972)
• Pictorial History of Sparta-White County, Tennessee (First National Bank, Sparta, Tennessee, 1984)
• *Pioneers of White County, Tennessee (Phillips, 2003)
• Schools of White County Tennessee 1806-2006 (White County Teachers' Association, 2006)
• *White County, Tennessee in a Nut-shell (White County (Tenn.) Immigration Bureau, 19??)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1880 Census, White County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1999)
• *Cemeteries of White County, Tennessee [3 vols.] (Clark, 1995)
• Cookeville-Sparta Tennessee Polk City Directory : Including the Following Communities : Baxter, Bloomington Springs, Buffalo Valley, Cookeville, (2002, 2003)
• *Fred Clark Book of Cemeteries of White County, Tennessee [2 vols.] (White County Genealogical-Historical Society, 2003)
• History of White County, Index  (Kirkeminde,  1982?)
• Minute Book, 1806-1820 [vol. 1-2  1806-1811 & 1811-1812;   vol. 3  1812-1814;   vol. 4  1814-1817 (in 2 pts.);    vol. 6  1819-1820] (WPA, 1938-40)
• Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions [vol. 1 1817-1819; vol. 2 1820-1823 (in 2 pts.); vol. 3 1824-1827 (in 3 pts.)] (WPA, 1940-41)
• Name Index to History of Tennessee ... Together with ... Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb and Cannon (Marsh, 1972)
• Private Acts of White County, Tennessee (McIntyre, 1994)
• *United States Census White County, Tennessee 1850 (Lindstrom, 1991)
• *White County Marriage Records. Part of Book I, January 11, 1859 to June 11, 1881 (Rhinehart, 1985)
• White County Tennessee, 1870 Federal Census USA (McComb, 1990)
• White County, Tennessee, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1835-1841 [2 vols.] (WPA, 1941)
• White County, Tennessee Death Records, 1926-1935 (Freeman, 2004?)
• White County, Tennessee Death Records, 1936-1945 (Freeman, 2003?)
• *White County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts [vol. 1 1801-1820; vol. 2 1820-1834] (Murray, 1992-1995)
• White County, Tennessee, Inventories and Old Wills, 1831-1840 (WPA, 1936)
• White County, Tennessee, Inventories and Will Book, A, 1810-1828 (WPA, 1936)
• White County, Tennessee, Minute Book, 1820 (WPA, 1936)
• *White County, Tennessee, Oldest Marriage Book, 1809-1859 (Mitchell & Doliante, 1977)
• *White County, Tennessee, Vital Statistics, 1914 Through 1925 (Wiefering, 1995)
• White County's G.I. Honor Roll Book : The Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps (1946)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1838
• wills from 1806
• deed index from 1809
• chancery court minutes from 1842
• county court minutes from 1806
• circuit court minutes from 1859
• tax books from 1811

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Deed Index -- 1809-1925 (#59, 1 reel)
• *Inventories -- 1841-1942 (#37, 1 reel)
• *Marriage records -- 1838-1910 (#40, 1 reel)
• *Settlements and Wills -- 1810-1828 (#151, 1 reel)
• *Settlements and Wills -- 1831-1893 (#53, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, White County  (Record Group #107, Roll 89,  1 reel)    Roll includes Inventories & Will Book A (1810-1828), Inventories & Will Book B [not complete] (1831-1840),  County Court Minute Book (1806-1811 & 1812-1814), County Court Minute Book, pts. 1 & 2 (1814-1817) and Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Minutes (1817-1819).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Bon Air and Sparta.  Scattered early issues are available from 1820, and a complete run begins in 1967.  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.

• * Bon Aire Methodist Episcopal Church, South Records. White County, 1906-1972  (Microfilm Manuscript #456, 1 reel)
• * Charles Leonard Papers, 1855-1992  (Microfilm Manuscript #1421, 8 reels)
• * Curtis McDowell Papers, 1858-1881  (Microfilm Manuscript #1207, 1 reel)
• * First Methodist Church Records. Sparta, 1825-1962  (Microfilm Manuscript #271, 1 reel)
• * James A. P. Fancher Diary, 1864-1865  (Microfilm Manuscript #6, 1 reel)
• * John Steele Cooper Scrapbook and Diary. White County, 1889-1930  (Microfilm Manuscript #1018, 1 reel)
• * Joyce Bradley McComb Collection, 1778-1991  (Microfilm Manuscript #1731, 4 reels)
• * Methodist Episcopal Church Records. Sparta, 1882-1937  (Microfilm Manuscript #508, 1 reel)
• * Mount Gilead Methodist Episcopal Church Records. White County, 1830-1933  (Microfilm Manuscript #507, 1 reel)
• * Sparta Methodist Episcopal Church Records. White County, 1825-1964  (Microfilm Manuscript #532, 2 reels)
• * White County Cemetery Records, 1762-1970  (Microfilm Manuscript #784, 1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.