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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 Cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, TN.
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...
Wikipedia Knoxville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, United States. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee. Knoxville is the county seat of Knox County and was the first capital of Tennessee. Official Website History Wikipedia 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, t...
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 co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, TN.
This project is used to relate all units from Tennessee who served in the Confederate Army.
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Meigs County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Williamson County, TN.
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"
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 Rhea County, TN.
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 dest...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Johnson County, Tennessee. Johnson County was created in 1836 and was named after Thomas Johnson, an early settler. Adjacent Counties Ashe County, NC Grayson County, Virg. Watauga County, NC Avery County, NC Carter County Sullivan County Washington County, Virg.
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 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 Le...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sevier 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 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...
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 le...
Springer Cemetery, Lewis County, Tennessee, USA: ?
Oxford Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
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 for those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, TN.
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...
Booth Chapel Cemetery, Minor Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gibson County, Tennessee. Official Website Gibson County is located in what was known as "Indian Land": territory that was legally occupied by Chickasaw Native American people. The Chickasaw Cession, proclaimed on January 7, 1819, eliminated those rights and opened the region for settlement and exploitation by white settlers and s...
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 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Tennessee. It is not to be confused with the city of Jackson in Madison County. Official Website Jackson County was created by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly on November 6, 1801 and was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, who by 1801 had already served as a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Tennessee, a T...
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...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Robertson County, TN.
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 ori...
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 Lincoln County, TN.
Red Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA:
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...
Shoal Bluff Cemetery,Giles County, Tennessee, USA :
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Humphreys County, Tennessee. Official Website Humphreys County was established in 1809 and was named for, Judge and future Congressman, Parry Wayne Humphreys. During the Civil War, the Battle of Johnsonville was fought in the western half of the county in late 1864. The remnants of the battle site are the focus of Johnsonville S...
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...
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 .
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Smith County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Houston County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was founded in 1871 and was named for Sam Houston. Adjacent Counties Dickson County Benton County Stewart County Humphreys County Montgomery County Cities, Towns & Communities Erin (County Seat) McKinnon Stewart Tennessee Ridge (part) Links Wi...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Official Website The land was given to William Armstrong as a land grant in the 1780s. His landholding was established as a county in 1787 and was named for Benjamin Hawkins, a U.S. Senator from North Carolina, the state which it was a part of at that time. The county was both Spencer County, State of Fr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilson County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hickman County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was established in 1807 and was named for Edwin Hickman, an explorer and surveyor who was killed in an Indian attack at Defeated Creek in 1791. Adjacent Counties Dickson County Humphreys County Lewis County Maury County Perry County Williamson County
Aaron Brown Cemetery,Aspen Hill, Giles County, Tennessee, USA:
Abernathy Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA : African American Cemetery. Location: highway 31N at Riversburg; turn right into African Hollow, pass A.M.E. Church
Abernathy Cemetery, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: Highway 31S, left into Old Stage Road on right at foot of hill, on the west side of Hardy Road. This is the former Larkin Birdsong land, and before that the James Abernathy land. Only 3 marked graves are known here (I.M. Abernathy, Annie Abernathy, and Laura E. Abernathy). Other sources say that most likely James B. "Jimmy Dry" Abernathy a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Henderson County, Tennessee. Official Website The county was founded in 1821 and named for Lt. Col. James Henderson, a soldier in the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties Carroll County Decatur County Hardin County Chester County Madison County Cities, Towns & Communities Cedar Grove Chesterfield Crucifer Dar...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Benton, Polk County, TN.
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
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 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 plante...
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Stella, Giles County, Tennessee, USA: ?
Happy Valley Memorial Park, Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, USA :
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...
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 r...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Tennessee. Jewish Settlement in Tennessee By Peter J. Haas , Vanderbilt University The settlement of Jews in Tennessee reflected the larger migration and settlement patterns of Jews within the United States over the last two centuries. These patterns created distinctive forms of Jewish life in the major Jewish communities o...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lauderdale County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hardin County, Tennessee. Official Website Hardin County was formed in November, 1819. The county was named for Revolutionary War veteran, Joseph Hardin, a former colonial assemblyman for the Province of North Carolina, Speaker of the House for the unrecognized State of Franklin and a territorial legislator of the Southwest Territ...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Belarus Czech Republic-Bohemia Cro...
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...
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee:
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McMinn County, TN.
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 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", "...
CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS 28th TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGIMENT Also called "2nd Tennessee Mountain Volunteers" Organized September 28th, 1861; Confederate service October 2, 1861; reorganized May 8, 1862; merged with 84th Tennessee Infantry March 8, 1863 to form 28th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment; merged into 1st Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment April 9th, 1865; paroled ...
This project is for the Players ,Staff, and Fans. Disclaimer: This project is not endorsed by the Engel Stadium Foundation. This project is for genealogical purposes only. Engel Stadium,1130 East Third Street ,Chattanooga, Tennessee:
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hancock County, Tennessee. Official Website The act establishing the county was passed by the state legislature in 1844, but several Hawkins residents sued to block its creation. In 1848, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled in favor of the new county. The county was named after the Revolutionary War patriot John Hancock Adjacent ...
A previous project was merely for connecting my grandmother's paternal side, but this is literally for connecting ALL of the related Tennessee / North Carolina (as greene county came out of North Carolina) - families. This is extremely useful for me myself and anyone related to these families, as trying to connect and correct isn't easy.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Loudon County, TN.
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 la...
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 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 ...
Wikipedia Great Locomotive Chase The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army, led by civilian scout James J. Andrews, commandeered a train and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Ra...
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 Macon County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sumner County, TN
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 econo...
Gospel Music Hall of Fame Wikipedia (with incomplete list of those inducted) The Gospel Music Hall of Fame, created in 1971 by the Gospel Music Association, is a Hall of Fame located in Detroit, Michigan and is dedicated exclusively to recognizing meaningful contributions by individuals and groups in all forms of gospel music. Official Website Inductees by Year Southern Gospel Music H...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, TN
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison County, TN.
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
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Perry County, TN.
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sullivan County, TN.
Wikipedia Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which Union Army Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote captured three Confederate forts and opened two rivers, the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River, to control by the Union Navy. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Fisk University is a historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The 40-acre (160,000 m2) campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1930, Fisk was the first African-American institution to gain accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Accreditations for specialized progra...
The governor's term in office is limited by the Tennessee state constitution. The first constitution, enacted in 1796, set a term of two years for the governor and provided that no person could serve as governor for more than six years in any eight-year period. The term of office was lengthened to four years, without the possibility of consecutive terms, by constitutional amendments adopted in ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McNairy County, TN.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lawrence County, TN.
Wikipedia Cumberland University is a private university in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1842, though the current campus buildings were constructed between 1892 and 1896. Notable Alumni