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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sumner County, Tennessee. Official Website History British colonial longhunters traveled into the area as early as the 1760s, following existing Indian and buffalo trails. By the early 1780s, they had erected several trading posts in the region. The most prominent was Mansker's Station, which was built by Kasper Mansker near a s...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sullivan County, Tennessee. Official Website Sullivan is Tennessee's second-oldest county; it was established in 1779 when the area was still part of North Carolina. From 1784 to 1788, it was part of the extra-legal State of Franklin. It was named for John Sullivan, a Patriot general in the Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties ...
University of Nashville was a private university in Nashville, Tennessee. It was established in 1826 as Cumberland College. It existed as a distinct entity until 1909; operating at various times a medical school, a four-year military college, a literary arts (liberal arts) college, and a boys preparatory school. Educational institutions in operation today that can trace their roots to the Unive...
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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 Towns & Communities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in DeKalb County, Tennessee. Official Website DeKalb County was formed in 1837 from land in Cannon, Warren and White counties. Historian believes that the first settlers in the county were at Liberty and came from Maryland in 1797. If so, Addison Puckett was the first settler. She may have come over the Cumberland Mountains, although ...
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...
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...
Wikipedia The 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 nin...
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...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in White County, Tennessee. Official Website On September 11, 1806, an act of the Tennessee General Assembly created White County, responding to a petition signed by 155 residents of the area. The origin of the county's name is disputed. The county is officially held to be named for John White (1751–1846), a Revolutionary War soldier...
Please add those buried in this cemetery. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on Old Bon Air Road, Bon Air, White County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
The cemetery is located on 151 Robert Crocker Road, Bradford, Gibson County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Roots Web
The cemetery is located on 135 Poplar Springs Road and is also known as Poplar Springs Baptist Church Cemetery . The oldest markers date back to the Civil War era. Find a Grave Roots Web USGW Archives
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...
This project is for those buried in New Bethel Cemetery, Bedford, Bedford County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Willow Mount Cemetery was established in the mid 1840's, at a time when the Old City Cemetery was reaching full capacity. The first recorded burial was Frances, infant daughter of James and Catherine M. Wortham, who died October 19, 1844. She was buried on the brow of the hill near the circle drive in range eight. The original survey ran 858 feet east and west. Nearly six hundred unknown falle...
This project is for those buried in Rosebank Cemetery, Flat Bank, Bedford County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
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 Wilson County, Tennessee. Official Website Wilson County was created in 1799, and named for Major David Wilson, a Revolutionary War veteran and statesman.[1] The county remained predominantly agrarian throughout the 19th century. The arrival of the railroad after the Civil War boosted the county's timber sector, and several large f...
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 Coun...
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...
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 . Official Website 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 Wi...