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This project is used to relate all units from Tennessee who served in the Confederate Army.
This project is part of the State of Tennessee Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Tennessee. You can add profiles for: People born in Tennessee People who lived in Tennessee People who died in Tennessee When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit...
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Bring your pioneer ancestors on over. Profiles must be set to public. The Territory South of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Southwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26, 1790, until June 1, 1796, when it was admitted to the United States as the State of Tennessee . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George Washington Philadelph...
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Traders in Some Southeast Indian Nations 1750 ~ 1754 from First People of Tennessee Traders to the Catawbas Robert Steel Robert Tool Mathew Toole Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina James Adair The Augusta Company James Baldridg Charles Banks William Bates James and Thomas Beamer Samuel Benn Robert Bunning John Butler Cornelius Daugherty ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Williamson County, TN.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Coffee County, Tennessee. Official Website Coffee County was formed in 1836 from parts of Bedford, Warren, and Franklin counties. It was named for John Coffee, a prominent planter, land speculator, and militia officer. Similar to other counties in this area of the state, planters here cultivated mostly tobacco and hemp, produced ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville is the county seat of Knox County and was the first capital of Tennessee. History One of the oldest artificial structures in Knoxville is a burial mound constructed during the early Mississippian culture period (c. A.D. 1000-1400). By the 18th century, the Cherokee had become the dominant tribe ...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Blount County, Tennessee. Official Website History What is today Blount County was for many thousands of years Indian territory, passed down to the Cherokee tribe that claimed the land upon the arrival of white settlers in the late 18th century. Shortly thereafter, on July 11, 1795, Blount County became the tenth county establis...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nashville, Tenn. Nashville is the county seat of Davidson County. Nasville is known as "Music City, USA" It is the home of the Grand Ole Opry. It is also known as "Athens of the South", and the "Buckle of the Bible Belt"
According to the Tennessee State Constitution of 1870, the General Assembly is a bicameral legislature and consists of a Senate of thirty-three members and a House of Representatives of ninety-nine members. The representatives are elected to two-year terms; according to a 1966 constitutional amendment the senators are elected to four-year terms which are staggered, with the districts with eve...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cocke County, Tennessee. Official Website Before the arrival of European settlers, the area that is now Cocke County was inhabited by the Cherokee. The first recorded European settlement in the county was in 1783 when land near the fork of the French Broad and the Pigeon Rivers was cleared and cultivated. The earliest European set...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga borders Georgia and the Tennessee River. It lies within 150 miles of Atlanta, Georgia, Knoxville, Tennessee, Huntsville, Alabama, Nashville, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama, which makes it a major transit hub. Chattanooga has several nicknames which are: "Scenic City", "River City", "Chatt", "...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bedford County, Tennessee. Official Website History The county was created in 1807 when the citizens of Rutherford County living south of the Duck River and the Stones River successfully petitioned the governor to split Rutherford County in two. The new county was named after American Revolutionary War officer and large landowne...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Tennessee. History Clay County was formed in 1870 by combining pieces from surrounding Jackson and Overton counties. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's first law office (now a museum) was located in Clay County. Clay County's early inhabitants farmed and worked the Cumberland River, which was the major method of tran...
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The 5th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 5th Tennessee Infantry was organized at Barbourville, Kentucky and Harrison, Tennessee February through March 1862 and mustered in for a three year enlistment. The regiment was attached to 25th Brigade, 7th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October 1863. 1st ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Roane County, TN.
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 ...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee. Official Website Clarksville is the county seat of Montgomery County. It's nicknames include "Queen of the Cumberland", "Gateway to the New South" and "Tennessee's Top Spot". The city was named after Brig. Gen. George Clark and his brother Capt. William Clark of the Lewis & Cl...
University of Tennessee (also referred to as the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, UT Knoxville, UTK, or UT) is a public sun-grant and land-grant university headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee entered the Union as the 16th state, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate ...
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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 i...
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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 ...
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Alexander Clark of Jura Research of the line from Alexander Clark of Jura to the Clarks that settled near Canton, NC and other branches including those that moved on to Tennessee, Arkansas and eventually settled Clarksville, Texas. Scottish Influence in Early Southern American Culture – Alexander Clark Alexander Clark Alexander Clark and his family represent an example of what must have...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carter County, Tennesee. Official Website History The area was originally claimed by Britain as part of the Clarendon settlements of the Province of Carolina, although actually populated at the time by the Cherokee. The county is named for General Landon Carter,[4] the son of John Carter of Virginia, who was "chairman of the c...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carroll County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was established by the Tennessee General Assembly on November 7, 1821, and was named for Governor William Carroll. Adjacent Counties Henry County Benton County Decatur County Henderson County Madison County Gibson County Weakley County
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cannon County, Tennessee. Official Website Cannon County was established by the Tennessee state legislature on January 31, 1836. It was formed from portions of Rutherford, Smith, Wilson, and Warren counties and was named for Governor Newton Cannon. Adjacent Counties DeKalb County Warren County Coffee County Rutherford ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Campbell County, Tennessee. History 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 west o...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anderson County, Tennessee. History Before the formation of Anderson County, Tennessee, that territory was initially land of what is today called the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which had been settled by several pioneer families including the Wallace, Gibbs, Freels, Frost and Tunnell families. Although the Treaty of Holston,...
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Project for those from Minor Hill,Giles County,TN.
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Giles County, Tennessee. )
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Melungeon (pronounced /məˈlʌndʒən/ or "muh'lun-jun" or "muh-lun'jun") is a term traditionally applied to a tri-racial isolate group centered in Newman Ridge and Blackwater in Hancock County, Tennessee. They are found mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of east Tennessee (Hancock and Hawkins Counties), southwest Virginia (Lee County), and eastern Kent...
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The Overmountain Men were American frontiersmen from west of the Appalachian Mountains who took part in the American Revolutionary War. While they were present at multiple engagements in the war's southern campaign, they are best known for their role in the American victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The term "overmountain" refers to the fact that their settlements were west of, o...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, TN.
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bradley County, Tennessee. Official Website History Bradley County was likely first seen by Europeans on June 2, 1540 by Hernando De Soto and his expedition while traveling through the North American continent. Until the early 19th century, the land that is now Bradley County was part of the Cherokee Nation. In anticipation of f...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meigs County, TN.
Wikipedia Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private non-denominational Protestant university in Greenville, South Carolina, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions. It has approximately 2,800 students, and is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. In 2008, the university estimated the number of its graduates at 35,000. The university's...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Humphreys County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. History Bledsoe County was formed in 1807 from land that was formerly Indian Land as well as land carved from Roane County. The county was named for Anthony Bledsoe (1739–1788), a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was an early settler of Sumner County. He was killed in an Indian attack at Bledsoe's St...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Benton, Polk County, TN.
Wikipedia Bethel University is a Christian institute of higher education in Tennessee, accredited to bestow degrees to the master's level. Bethel University’s main campus is located in McKenzie, Tennessee, with satellite campuses located in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Jackson, Paris, and Clarksville.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Benton County, Tennessee. It is not to be confused with the town of Benton in Polk County Official Website Overview Benton County is located in northwest Tennessee, bordering the western branch of the Tennessee River and 30 miles south of the Kentucky border. Aside from Camden, other major communities include agrarian communit...
Wikipedia Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is the largest Christian university in Tennessee and the second largest private university in the state, behind nearby Vanderbilt University. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia Belhaven University ("Belhaven" or "BU") is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded by Lewis Fitzhugh and later donated to the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the school has been independently run by a Board of Trustees since 1972. Belhaven is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associate, Bac...
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United States Senators from Tennessee List of United States Senators from Tennessee (from U.S. Senate web site--no links) List of United States Senators from Tennessee (with wikipedia links)
Please join and bring your pioneer ancestors with you. Cumberland Compact from Westerly Journeys - COLONIAL KENTUCKY FRONTIER In the spring of 1780 despite the hazards of life at the frontier, Judge Richard Henderson initiated the Cumberland Compact and obtained the signatures of 236 would-be settlers to the land south of Kentucky called "Tennessee." Many of his own family were among ...
Wikipedia Austin Peay State University /ˈɔːstən pi/ is a four-year public university located in Clarksville, Tennessee, and operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. The University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and is the fastest-growing university in Tennessee. Notable Alumni
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Wikipedia The Andrew Johnson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery on the grounds of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville, Tennessee. Established in 1906, the cemetery was built around the resting place of Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth President of the United States, and holds more than two thousand graves. Find a Grave
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