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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Campbell County, Tennessee. Official Website Campbell County was formed in 1806 from parts of Anderson and Claiborne counties. It was named in honor of Colonel Arthur Campbell (1743–1811), a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and an officer during the American Revolutionary War. New Mammoth Cave, located in Elk Valley, just ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grundy County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was formed January 29, 1844 and is named after U.S. Attorney General Felix Grundy (1777–1840). Grundy County is known for its spectacular views, saltpeter mines. It was also known for arson starting in 1917 and continuing off and on until 1990. These fires and explosions destroy...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crockett County, Tennessee. Official Website Crockett County was formed in 1871 from portions of Haywood, Madison, Dyer and Gibson counties. It is named in honor of David Crockett (1786–1836), frontier humorist, soldier, Tennessee state legislator and U.S. congressman, and defender of the Alamo. Adjacent Counties Gibson Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fentress County, Tennessee. Official Website Fentress County was formed in 1823 and was named for James Fentress (1763–1843), who served as speaker of the state house, chairman of Montgomery County Court. Fentress County was the site of several saltpeter mines. Saltpeter is the main ingredient of gunpowder and was obtained by leach...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Claiborne County, Tennessee. History Claiborne County was established on October 29, 1801, created from Grainger and Hawkins counties and extended the southern boundary to Anderson County. It was named for Virginia tidewater aristocrat William C. C. Claiborne, one of the first judges of the Tennessee Superior Court and one of the ...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles associated with the Tennessee Titans franchise when it was called the Tennessee Oilers .
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McNairy County, Tennessee.= Official Website =McNairy County was formed in 1823 from parts of Hardin County, and was named for Judge John McNairy.Buford Pusser served as the sheriff of McNairy County from 1964 to 1970. The courthouse and jail in Selmer were his base of operations. He gained prominence for his fight against illegal dis...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chester County, Tennessee. Official Website Chester County was the last county formed in Tennessee, created by the General Assembly in 1875 from adjacent parts of neighboring Hardeman, Henderson, McNairy, and Madison counties. This land was used to create a county named Wisdom County, but "Wisdom County" was never organized, and in ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lawrence County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Created by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly on October 21, 1817, it was named for Captain James Lawrence (1781–1813), who while commanding the USS Chesapeake in an 1813 battle with the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon, issued his famous command: "Don't give up the ship! Blo...
The Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, named for the Tennessee River.It appears that the term "Army of the Tennessee" was first used within the Union Army in March 1862, to describe Union forces perhaps more properly described as the "Army of West Tennessee"; these were the troops under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Union'...
This cemetery is located on 2130 Old McKenzie Highway, Paris, Henry County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Roots Web
This project is for those buried in Blountville Cemetery, Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Find a Grave TN Gravestones
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Official Website Rutherford County was formed in 1803 and was named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Council...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cheatham County, Tennessee. Official Website Cheatham County was created by an Act of the Tennessee General Assembly in 1856, from lands formerly of Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, and Robertson counties. Cheatham County was named for Edward Saunders Cheatham, a state legislator. Adjacent Counties Robertson County Davidson C...
This cemetery is located on Scottsville Road at Haysville Circle, Haysville, Macon County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knox County, Tennessee. Official Website History Knox County was created after the American Revolutionary War on June 11, 1792, by Governor William Blount from parts of Greene and Hawkins counties. It was one of the few counties created when this area was still known as the Southwest Territory. It is one of nine United States counti...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sevier County, Tennessee. Official Website History In the mid-16th century, Spanish expeditions led by Hernando de Soto (1540) and Juan Pardo (1567) passed through what is now Sevier County, reporting that the region was part of the domain of Chiaha, a minor Muskogean chiefdom centered around a village located on a now-submerged i...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Lincoln County was created in 1809 from land occupied by the Cherokee and Chickasaw Peoples.The Lincoln County Process, used in the distillation of Tennessee whiskey, is named for this county, as the Jack Daniel Distillery was originally located there. Adjacent Counties * Bedford County * ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Weakley County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was established by the Tennessee General Assembly on October 21, 1823 and is named for U.S. Congressman Robert Weakley (1764–1845). Adjacent Counties Hickman County, Ken. Graves County, Ken. Henry County Carroll County Gibson County Obion County Cities, Tow...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meigs County, Tennessee. Official Website History Before 1819, the area that is now Meigs County was part of the Cherokee nation. Especially following the American Revolutionary War, land-hungry European-American settlers began to enter this territory in greater number. They established ferries across the Tennessee River from Rhe...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Putnam County, Tennessee. Official Website Putnam County is named in honor of Israel Putnam, who was a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War. The county was initially established on February 2, 1842, when the Twenty-fourth Tennessee General Assembly enacted a measure creating the county. ...
The land for Evergreen Cemetery was donated to the town of Murfreesboro by Dr James Maney of Oaklands Plantation in May 1872; but a portion was a slave cemetery for the plantation in the mid 1800s. When it opened, local residents purchased family lots and often moved their deceased family members to the new cemetery, so according to some researchers there are older memorials including Revolutio...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hardeman County, Tennessee. Official Website Hardeman County was created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1823. It is named for Thomas J. Hardeman (1788-1854), a veteran of the Creek War and War of 1812 and a prominent figure in the fight for Texas independence. He served as a congressman in the Republic of Texas. The Battle of...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hamblen County, Tennessee. Official Website Hamblen County was created in 1870 and was named in honor of Hezekiah Hamblen (1775–1854), an early settler, landowner, attorney, and member of the Hawkins County Court for many years. Adjacent Counties Greene County Hawkins County Cocke County Jefferson County Grainger Coun...