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Mf. 1900 -- Bethesda United Methodist Church Records, 1823-2007. TSLA. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This is a collection of membership register books for the Bethesda United Methodist Church, also known as the Bethesda Methodist Church, in Williamson County, Tennessee.
Mf. 1901 -- Russellville Methodist Churchand Conference Records, 1894-1935. Hamblen County. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
The Russellville Methodist Church, an African American church in Russellville, Hamblen County, East Tennessee, is now known as Bewley’s Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. This record book contains lists of the baptized children, members, probations, pastors, stewards and leaders meetings, stewards, presiding elders, missionaries and sextons. The list includes death dates of members, members who were expelled, withdrew or were removed. There are a number of missing pages.
Mf. 1902 -- Hamblen County Miscellaneous Funeral Home and Cemetery Records, 1940-1957. GSU. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This is a collection of funeral home and cemetery records from Hamblen County, Tennessee. Included are Horton Funeral Home Records, January 1940-September 1957; cemetery survey of Hamblen Memorial Gardens; Bethesda Cemetery; and Cemeteries of Hamblen County, Tennessee, Volumes 1-3.
Mf. 1903 -- Hamblen County Church Records, 1804-2007. GSU. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
Item one consists of records from the St. Paul Presbyterian Church, including Clerks of Session, 1818-April 11, 1977; Elders, 1818-1978; Deacons, 1860-2004; Trustees; 1804-2004; Membership list 1818-2003; and, a cemetery survey of St. Paul Cemetery.
Item two contains records of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Dover, which was organized December 12, 1870 and date to January 25, 1963. Records include Minutes of Session; Register of Elders; Register of Deacons; Register of Communicants; Adult and Infant Baptisms; and a Register of Deaths.
Item three are the records of Cumberland Presbyterian Church which include Roll of Members; Register of Clerks; Register of Elders; Register of Deacons; Register of Trustees; Register of Ministers; Record of Baptisms; Record of Marriages; Record of Deaths; and Financial Record of the Congregation. Records date from 1961 to January 7, 1989.
Item four consists of the 2008 Dover Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Morristown, Tennessee. Included is the Church Directory; Church History; Records of Interest; Church Officials; Membership; Burials; Dover Cemetery Survey; and Marriages.
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Mf. 1905 -- Buffalo Springs Bird Farm and C.C.C. Camp Scrapbook, Grainger County, Tennessee, 1930-[1937-1938]- 2008. TSLA. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
The Buffalo Springs Bird Farm (also known as the Buffalo Springs Game Farm) and Civilian Conservation Corps Camp was located in Rutledge, Grainger County, Tennessee. It was started as a New Deal program in the 1930s, utilizing the C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corps). Land was purchased in Grainger County to develop a C.C.C. Camp in 1935 with plans to create a game propagation program. The facilities included quail and wild turkey hatcheries, a brooder building, and growing pens. By 1938 the facility was known as the Buffalo Springs Fish and Game Preserve, C.C.C. Co. 3465, Camp Lynn W. Hoskins.
This collection includes newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence and several newsletters. In the scrapbook, some of the captions were written in ink that has faded, making them difficult to read.
The scrapbook is the property of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA), located at 3030 Wildlife Way, Morristown, Tennessee.
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Mf. 1907 -- West End Methodist Church Ledger, 1880-1889. TLSA 1 reel. 35 mm.
The West End Methodist Church Ledger contains recorded minutes of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society’s minutes. Also included are membership lists and attendance records.
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Mf. 1909 -- Beersheba Springs Ledgers and Scrapbooks, 1879-2000. TSLA. 2 reels. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
There are four Beersheba Springs Ledgers that date 1879 to 1915, and are from the Northcut Store in Beersheba Springs, Grundy County, Tennessee. They consist of account information. The Northcut store was originally across the street from the Beersheba Springs Hotel but has been moved to the heart of Beersheba Springs. The store is now known as The Beersheba Market.
There are two Laura Barnes Hunerwadel scrapbooks dating 1873-2000 and 1932-1949. They contain photographs relating to the Barnes and Hunerwadel families, as well as newspaper clippings, greeting cards, and letters to Mrs. A.P. Hunerwadel from her son, Robert Hunerwadel, and brother, Stanley Barnes, who were in the United States Army Air Corp during World War II. There are also photographs of the Hege, Hunerwaldel, Plumacher, Kershaw, and Baumgardner families, no date.
Mf. 1910 -- Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1862-1869 (Employment Records of Negroes Employed in the Defenses of Nashville, Tennessee, 1862-1869 and Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tennessee, 1863.) National Archives – RG 77. TSLA maintains negative copy and permission to duplicate 4 reels, 35mm.
The first three rolls are Captain George Burroughs’ employment records of free Negroes and slaves who were hired or impressed into the Union Army to work as laborers on fortifications of Nashville, Tennessee. The fourth roll is from the records of Captain Frederick E. Prime and is the index and list of non-payment rolls of persons employed on Fort Pickering, Memphis, Tennessee, 1863. See also Mf. 1797.
Mf. 1911 -- Beersheba Springs Historical Society – Subject Files, 1806-1983. Grundy County. TSLA. 2 reels 16mm, 1 reel 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
The Beersheba Springs Historical Society subject files consists of several individual families histories and photographs for the Creighton, Green, King, Pease, Savage, and Tate families. Also included are numerous Grundy County records which include cemeteries, census records, newspaper clippings, court records, history notes, schools, churches, birth, marriage, and death records. The collection also contains historical material on Burritt College, Irving College, Warren County, and Sumner County. There are two ledgers included in the collection: Beersheba Springs Hotel Company, 1879, and, H.B. Northcutt General Merchandise, Altamont, Tennessee, December 1858 – December 1959. There are also several items concerning the Beersheba Springs Historical Society, such as financial records, newspaper clippings, and newsletters.
Mf. 1912 -- Journal of Moses Fisk, 1759-1840. Overton County. TSLA. 1 reel. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This collection is the personal journal of Moses Fisk (ca 1759-1843), early Tennesseesurveyor, educator and politician, who resided in the upper Cumberlandregion. The journal consists of notes on land laws and legal matters, statistics, currency exchanges among neighboring states, and miscellaneous data. Most of the information in this journal is written in a form of personal shorthand, or cipher. The key is given on the back page of the ledger.
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Mf. 1915 -- Dale Hollow Dam and Reservoir Project, Obey River, Tennessee, 1943. Clay County. 1 reel. 35mm.
This microfilm consists of a report by the Army Corps of Engineers on disinterment and reinterment of burials in cemeteries in the Pool area, 1943.
Mf. 1916 -- Moses Helm Family Research Papers. 6 reels. 35mm.
This collection contains the research material used to produce the book, Moses Helm Family, by Bobby Cromwell Law & Clyde Smith.
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Mf. 1918 -- Brown Family Genealogical Materials. Jackson County, Tennessee. 1 reel. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This is a collection of genealogical research materials regarding the descendants of Thomas Brown (1773-1862) of Jackson County, Tennessee. Thomas was born in Fincastle (Botetourt County), Virginia and married Nancy Litton in 1795. They moved their family to about 8,000 acres of land along the Dry Fork of Flynns Creek in what would become Jackson County, Tennessee in about 1800. After Nancy’s death, he married Elizabeth Billingsley.
Mf. 1919 -- Watertown First Methodist Church Records, 1904-2008. Wilson County. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
Included in this collection are photographs of children at the Holmes Gap School, ca. 1930, and of Poplar Hill School children dated 1921, 1929, and 1933. There are two registers for the Watertown Methodist Episcopal, South Church dated October 1899 through 1962, although there are two marriages listed in the second register dated 2008. The third register is for the Watertown Methodist Church and is dated 1962. These registers are listings of members, preachers, marriages, baptisms, and deaths.
Mf. 1920 -- Armstrong Family Letters, 1832-1901. Fayette County, Tennessee. 1 reel. 16 mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
The Armstrong Family Letters consists primarily of correspondence between two brothers, Thomas Lapsley Armstrong (1810-1861), teacher and planter, of Somerville, Tennessee, and Anderson Armstrong, of Orange County, North Carolina.
Mf. 1921 -- Walter L.K. Buckingham, Sr. Genealogical Collection, 1781-2007. 9 cubic feet. 6 reels. 16mm.
Walter L. Karnes Buckingham, Sr. (1926-2007) was born to Arnet and Blanche Belcher Buckingham in the Beasleys Bend community of Trousdale County, Tennessee. He married Louise Agnes Birchett (1928-2008) of Davidson County in 1947. Mr. Buckingham worked as a truck driver, a minister for the Church of Christ, a certified genealogist, Trousdale County Historian, volunteer at the Fred A. Vaught Memorial Public Library in Hartsville, Tennessee, as well as serving on the County Commission in Trousdale County.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by subject and retains the creator’s original order. It contains genealogical research on various families from around Tennessee as well as out-of-state, including correspondence between families and Buckingham concerning the research; research topics such as the Battle of Hartsville; newspaper clippings; funeral home records; copies of census records, indentures, wills, photographs, and other documents.
Mf. 1922 -- William G. Clark Family Letters, 1861-1864. Rutherford County, Tennessee. 1 reel. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
These family letters are to William and Emily Clark of Jordan’s Valley, Rutherford County, Tennessee from their three sons, James A., R. Newton, and William G., and a son-in-law, Moses Woodfin, who served in Co D of the 45th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry during the Civil War. James A. was a prisoner at Rock Island, Illinois; both Newton and William G. were killed at the battle of Missionary Ridge in 1863. The letters concern family news, prison conditions and the deaths of the two sons.
Mf. 1923 -- Daniel Smith Papers, 1784-1973). Smith County, Tennessee. TSLA. 47 items. 2 reels. 1 16mm & 1 35mm.
The Daniel Smith Papers are composed of items related to Senator Daniel Smith (1748-1818), the early Tennessee surveyor in whose honor Smith County, Tennessee, was named. This small but valuable collection begins in1784 with land and surveying records, and contains correspondence, photographs, legal documents, including wills, oaths of office, and a commission (signed by President George Washington and Thomas Jefferson), and genealogical information.
The twelve items of correspondence in the collection include a letter (in appreciation of Smith’s service as Secretary of the Southwest Territory) and a dinner invitation to Daniel Smith from Thomas Jefferson; a letter from Governor William Blount, turning over governmental authority to Smith while Blount accompanies a group of Cherokee chiefs to Philadelphia; and letters from Daniel Smith to Governor John Sevier, thanking the Governor for his recent commission to fill Andrew Jackson’s unexpired term in the Senate.
Land records and deeds in the collection include the 1784 North Carolina land grant #56 to Daniel Smith for his service in the American Revolution – 3,140 acres “On the North side of Cumberland River at the mouth of Drakes creek,” in Davidson (now Sumner) County, Tennessee. This is the property that would become Smith’s home, Rock Castle.
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Mf. 1930 -- Cumberland and Stones River Turnpike Toll Collections and Notes, Log Book, 1858-1901. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This logbook documents the construction of a major thoroughfare in Middle Tennessee, the Cumberland and Stones River Turnpike which survives today as the road bed for Highway 231-North or Lebanon – Murfreesboro Road. The exact date of construction is uncertain. 1858 is the earliest date gleaned from the log book which supports the likelihood that the road was constructed in the 1850s time frame.
There were various different contractors involved in the building of the road. William Summerhill was awarded a total of seven miles, and thus he was the largest contractor. The other contractors included Hiram Drennon, Joseph H. Johnson, Isaac Hunter, Seldon E. Baird, Jacob Castleman, Bird A. Arrington, William Petty, Allen H. Goodwin, Lester Bonds, John C. Organ, C.S. Organ, Rolley Organ, William McGrigger, Charles Dement, and F.N.W.Burton.
Also included in the log are financial records for the payment of the turnpike and listings of stockholders. Finally, there are entries of names of individuals who used the road for their travel purposes along with dollar amounts beside each name, mostly amounting to $2 to $18.
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Mf. 1933 -- Daniel Family Collection, 1750-2005. Franklin, Moore and Bedford counties. 1 reel. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
The Daniel Family Collection was compiled by Evelyn Daniel VanMeter. It includes original materials related to the Joseph (Job), Robert Calaway, Andrew Jackson Daniel, and Finis Daniel families. Mrs. VanMeter also compiled, researched, and answered correspondence related to numerous allied families. They include the Bennett, Bomar, Chrisco, Daniels, Evans, Kimsey, Long, Motlow, and Shofner families.
The Job Daniel family settled in Franklin County in 1808. The Robert C. Daniel family settled Daniel Hollow, near the “headwaters” of Flat Creek and Thompson Creek in Bedford County in 1810, which became part of Moore County in 1872.
Mrs. VanMeter collected a series of issues of the Moore County Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter and they are included in this collection.
Also included in the collection is a series of letters of the Motlow family of Moore County. The Felix, Lem, and Reagor Motlow family descended from the Job Daniel family line. They also were the owners and operators of the Jack Daniel Distillery after Jack Daniel passed away in 1911. Duplicated separately are many historic photographs of Lynchburg and surrounding area. The Motlow families’ materials were collected and loaned by Mike Northcutt, Mrs. VanMeter’s son-in-law.
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