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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History White settlement began around 1800, and the county was formally organized in 1807 and named for Benjamin Franklin. One of the most notable early settlers was frontiersman Davy Crockett, who came about 1812 but is not thought to have remained long.The University of the South, foun...
This project is for those buried in Marble Plains Cemetery, Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
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 TennesseeWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you have project...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Tennessee.= Official website = History Greene County developed from the "Nolichucky settlement," established by pioneer Jacob Brown on land leased in the early 1770s from the Cherokee people. The Nolichucky settlement was aligned with the Watauga settlement, centered in modern Elizabethton.Greene County was formed in 17...
This project is for those buried in Rosebank Cemetery, Flat Bank, Bedford County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
This project is for those buried in Little Hurricane Cemetery, Estill Springs, Franklin County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
The cemetery is located on East Gaines Street, Lawrenceburg, Lawrence County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Henry County, Tennessee.= Official Website =An act of the General Assembly of the state of Tennessee which was passed on November 7, 1821. It is named for the Virginia orator and patriot Patrick Henry. Adjacent Counties * Calloway County, Ken. * Stewart County * Graves County, Ken. * Weakley County * Benton County * Carroll County Cit...
Dabney Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Daly Cemetery #1, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Daly Cemetery #2, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: From Google Maps: From Pulaski head north on N 1st St, toward Columbia, for 0.7 miles then make a right angle (about a 45-degree)onto Bledsoe Road and continue for 0.8 miles then turn left onto Johnson Rd for another 0.7 miles. Cemetery is in clearing in a group of trees next to a house. Note: African American Cemetry
Daniel Abernathy Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Old Highway 15, left into Blooming Grove Road, 1/2 mile past church, down the land on the left. On hill at old Poor Farm
Daught Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
David Daniel Bridgeforth Old Home Place Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
This project is for those buried in Union Grove Cemetery, Brownington, Franklin County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add those buried in this cemetery. Find a Grave
Calvary Catholic Cemetery is the second largest Catholic cemetery in Memphis replacing St. Peter Cemetery which was located at Madison and Dunlap, presently within the campus of the University of Tennessee. Consecrated in 1867 to serve the booming populations of German, Irish, Italian and other Catholics it contains memorials and mass burials pertaining to the Yellow Fever epidemics of the 19th...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Maury County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History The county was formed in 1807 andwas named in honor of Abram Maury, Sr. (1766-1825), a member of the Tennessee state senate from Williamson County. The rich soil of Maury County led to a thriving agricultural sector, starting in the 19th century. The county was part of a 41-county ...
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", "Nooga"...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hamilton County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Hamilton County was formed on October 25, 1819 and was named after Alexander Hamilton, an officer in the American Revolutionary War, member of the Continental Congress, the first US Secretary of Treasury, and one of the founding fathers of the United States.The area was originall...
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 of...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Smith County, Tennessee. Official Website Smith County was established in 1799 and was named for Daniel Smith, a U.S. Senator and former Secretary of the Southwest Territory. Smith County was the site of a large saltpeter mine. Piper Cave, located near Monoville, contains the poorly preserved remnants of dozens of saltpeter leach...
Con Smith Cemetery, Elkton, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: The cemetery is between Ardmore and Elkton. It is located off Ardmore Ridge Road from Ardmore, TN or off Hwy 31 at Ardmore Ridge if coming from the north. You turn at Lofton Hall Road and then later you will turn into a driveway on a hill going to a house. From this hill you can see the entire area. At certain times of the yesr, it i...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = This is the master project for Tennessee and its history. =State of Tennessee=* Nickname(s): The Volunteer State* Motto(s): Agriculture and Commerce* Demonym Tennessean* Capital Nashville* Largest city Memphis==Welcome to the Tennessee project==The Tennessee project is created in order to facilitate those researching ancestors or relatives in Tenness...
Clifton Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Colbert Graveyard, Campbellsville, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Cole Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Cool Spring Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Cothron Cemetery, Prospect, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
County Farm Cemetery ,Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA :
Cox Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Note: African-American Cemetry
Crescent View Cemetery, Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Note: African American Cemetry African American Cemetery. The Crescent View Cemetry is located on the old Crescent View Plantation, approximately three miles south of Pulaski, Tennessee. The cemetery is on the hillside just below the Meredith Cemetery. The Crescent View Cemetery dates back to the days when the plantation was l...
This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Giles County, Tennessee.= Wikipedia =The county is named for Hon. William Branch Giles .
Alan Abernathy Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
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. Once the state's largest and most populous county, Bedford County's size (in terms...
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 by...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Official Website 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 Col. Anthony Bledsoe (1739–1788), a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was an early settler of Sumner County. He was killed in an India...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lauderdale County, Tennessee. Official Website Lauderdale County was created in 1835 and was named for Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale, who was killed at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. Planters developed large cotton plantations along the waterways, and used slaves in gangs to work and process this commodity cro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Haywood County, Tennessee. History Haywood County was created from part of Madison County in 1823–24, and was named for Tennessee judge and historian John Haywood. For much of the county's history, agriculture, especially growing cotton as a commodity, was the basis of the local economy. After Emancipation in 1865, many planters hired...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Tennessee. Official Website History Washington County is Tennessee's oldest county, having been established in 1777 when the state was still part of North Carolina. Watauga and the Washington District Washington County is rooted in the Watauga settlements, which were established in the early 1770s in the vi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Roane County, Tennessee. Official Website History Roane County was formed in 1801, and named for Archibald Roane, the second Governor of Tennessee. Upon the creation of the Southwest Territory in 1790, the territory's governor, William Blount, initially wanted to locate the territorial capital at the mouth of the Clinch River, b...
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 Counci...
Chicken Creek Cemetery, Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Note: African-American Cemetery
Choates Creek Cemetery, Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Claud Cemetery,Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: This cemetery is located near Prospect, Giles TN. Exact location is not known. Information gathered from Giles County Historical Society.
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...
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 cou...
This project is for those buried in Buffalo Christian Church Cemetery, Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, Tennessee. Official Website Warren County was created in 1807 and named for Joseph Warren (1741–1775), a soldier in the American Revolution. The county was largely developed for farming of such crops as tobacco and hemp. Adjacent Counties DeKalb County White County Cannon County Coffee County Grundy C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grainger County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Grainger County was formed from Knox and Hawkins Counties in 1796, the year Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States. It is named for Mary Grainger Blount, wife of William Blount.During the American Civil War, a state of near-guerrilla warfare brought economic, p...
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 destroyed...
Brown Cemetery # 5, Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave Location: Highway 31N, south of Stiversville, one mile south of the Maury-Giles County line, two and one half miles nort of Waco Cemetery behind a house now occupied by the Bonds family. The old Brown home was torn down several years ago at this site and a smaller house built on the same site. Fred Hawkins reported th...
Brown Cemetery #3, Bethel, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Brown-Baugh Cemetery, Tarpley, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave People whose surnames are Brown & Baugh are interred here. The Baughs were much more recent being born after 1850 whereas the Browns were born a 100 years earlier. The Baugh's added an iron fence around their family memorial & graves leaving the Brown tombs east and outside the fence. For more photos & listings see th...
Brown-Knight Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Brown and Hayes Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: AKA Brown-Hayes Cemetery Find a Grave
Brown Cemetery #2, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Brown Cemetery #4, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: AKA Davis Brown Cemetery Find a Grave
Brown Cemetery #1, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
The Battle of Rogersville was a conflict in and around the town of Rogersville, Tennessee on the morning of November 6, 1863, between the Union Army 3rd Brigade, 4th Cavalry Division and the Confederate States Army Jones' Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Brigade and the 8th Virginia Cavalry . Because Federal forces were caught largely by surprise, the Confederates, under Brig. Gen. William E. Jones , were ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rhea County, Tennessee. Official Website History Rhea County is named for the Tennessee politician and Revolutionary War veteran John Rhea. A portion of the Trail of Tears ran through the county as part of the United States government's removal of the Cherokee in the 1830s. During the American Civil War, Rhea County was one of...
The Second Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War . It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army . Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood 's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj....
The Battle of Missionary Ridge was fought on November 25, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War . Following the Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain on November 24, Union forces in the Military Division of the Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee , commanded by Gen. Braxton...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Fayette County was established by Tennessee General Assembly in 1824. The county was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolution. Fayette County is culturally alike to the Mississippi Delta and was a major area of cotton plantations dependent on slave labo...
Wikipedia Rhodes College is a private, predominantly undergraduate, liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee. Affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), Rhodes is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and enrolls approximately 2,000 students. Alumni
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, Tennessee. Official Website This area along the Mississippi River valley was long occupied by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. In historic times, the Chickasaw controlled much of this area. They are believed to be descendants of the important Mississippian culture, which established fortified and complex citi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Madison County was formed in 1821, and named for founding father and president, James Madison. The county was part of lands the United States purchased from the Chickasaw in 1818. After Congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, most Chickasaw were forced out of the state and...
Brooks/Baugh Cemetery, Bunker Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Brooks Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
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 County...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Jefferson County was established on June 11, 1792, by William Blount, Governor of the Southwest Territory.[8] It had been a part of Caswell County during the State of Franklin period (1784–1789). During the Civil War, a railroad bridge at Strawberry Plains was among those targeted by the...
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...
Briggs Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Please add those buried in this cemetery. Find a Grave Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
This appears to be a Baptist Church Cemetery in Jones Cove, Sevier County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Smoky Kin
Wikipedia Sewanee: The University of the South, also known as Sewanee, is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church. The university's School of Letters offers graduate degrees in American Literature and Creative Writing....
Bridgeforth Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Brick Church Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Marion County was established in 1817 and was named after "The Swamp Fox" Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Marion (c1732-1795).In 1779 Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe moved down the Tennessee River from Chickamauga Creek to Running Water creek, and he helped establish the town of N...
Briar Ridge Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave Note: African-American Cemetery
This historic cemetery, at the site of the old Spring Hill Meeting House, is located in Madison, which was incorporated into metro Nashville in the 1960s. The cemetery holds the remains of many country music stars. A photo volunteer reports that plot information is only released to the deceased's family members. Official Website Find a Grave Cemetery.com Billion Graves Historica...
Wikipedia = Find a Grave Nashville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Madison, a suburb of Nashville, in Davidson County, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 64.5 acres (26.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 34,637 interments.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Nashville, Tennessee.Nashville is the county seat of Davidson County and is the state capital.Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779. The city grew quickly due to its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River and, in the 19th century, a r...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Davidson County, Tennessee. It contains the state capital of Tennessee, Nashville . History Davidson County is the oldest county in the 41-county region of Middle Tennessee. It dates to 1783, shortly after the end of the American Revolution, when the North Carolina legislature created the county and named it in honor of William Lee Da...
Bradshaw-Center Point Cemetery, Frankewing, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Bradley Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
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...
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 H...
Braden Cemetery, Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave AKA Round Hill Cemetery Note: African-American Cemetery
Boyd Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
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 County...
Bowers-Phillips Cemetery, Elkton, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
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 Rhea C...
Boswell Cemetery, Elkton, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Booth Chapel Cemetery, Minor Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Find a Grave
Carter Cemetery, Bodenham, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Case Cemetery ,Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Centerpoint Cemetery, Diana, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Chapman Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Chestnut Grove African American Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Note: This is an African-American Cemetery, yet I have found other races in this cemetery.