BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TENNESSEE LOCAL HISTORY SOURCES : JOHNSON COUNTY

County Historian:  Thomas W. Gentry, 508 Hospital Dr., Mountain City, TN 37683

For a more extensive listing of sources see Tennessee State Library and Archives:

Churches & institutions of Hamblen, Johnson, Cocke & Greene counties, TN. Milligan College, the college, 1994. 161 pp.

Goodspeed's history of east TN (Johnson County, pp. 922-925, 1312-1317). Goodspeed, 1887.

History of Johnson County, 1986. Sesquicentennial ed. Johnson County, Johnson County Hist. Soc., 1986. 511 pp.

Lawrence, Robert A. "A new manganese mine in Johnson County, TN." Journal TN Acad. Sci. 15 (1940), pp. 396-401.

Scott, Samuel W. & Samuel P. Angel. History of the 13th regiment, TN volunteer cavalry, USA. Knoxville, n.p., 1903. 510 pp.

US Geol. Survey [topographic maps] issued periodically. Quadrangles: Shady Valley, Laurel Bloomery, Grayson, Carter, Doe, Mountain City, Baldwin Gap, Watauga Dam, Elk Mills, Sherwood, Zionville.

Also available from TSLA:  Local Records Microfilm:

An inventory of microfilmed county records is available for purchase. Individual reels may also be purchased. Earliest records include: county court minutes, wills, and deeds from 1836; marriages from 1838; and settlements from 1837. The following are available on interlibrary loan: marriage records 1838-1902 (1 reel); wills 1836-1932 gaps (1 reel); settlements 1837-1884 (1 reel); administrator's settlements 1848-1874 (1 reel); and deed index 1836-1910 (1 reel).

Also available from TSLA:  Newspapers:

Newspapers were published in Mountain City. Scattered early issues are available from 1882, and a complete run begins in 1954. Microfilms are provided to Tennessee libraries on interlibrary loan. Individual reels of microfilm may also be purchased.

Also available from TSLA:  Selected Manuscript Material:

*Paul Fink [Civil War] collection (#146, 1 reel); Confederate Veterans Association

of Upper East Tennessee (#167, 1 reel);

Shoun [and related] families data (#460, 1 reel).

Library of Congress Resources:

66-4886: Ray, Worth Stickley, 1877- Tennessee cousins; a history of Tennessee people, Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1966 c1950] viii, 811 p. illus., maps. 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: F435 .R3 1966

. 61-65520: Daughters of the American Revolution. Tennessee. Membership roster and soldiers. Nashville?] 1961-70. 2 v. group port. 29 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: E202.5 .T22

28-6851: Ramsey, James Gettys McGready, 1797-1884. The annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century, comprising its settlement, as the Watauga association, from 1769 to 1777; Kingsport, Tenn., Kingsport press, 1926] p. cm. LC CALL NUMBER: F436 .R24

20-20171: Fain, John Tryee. Fain's critical and analytical index and genealogical guide to Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn.,Printed by P. Hunter, 1920. 86 p. 1 l. 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: F436 .R2

92-140919: Eddlemon, Sherida K. Genealogical abstracts from Tennessee newspapers, 1821-1828 / Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 1991. 266 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: F435 .E35 1991

92-103507: Neal, Carl B., b. 1887. Leonard Shoun and his wife, Barbara Slemp, of Johnson County, Tennessee, and their descendants / Johnson City, Tenn. : Overmountain Press, 1985. viii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: CS71.S5592 1985

Other types of resources:

Genealogy: Microfilm Records and Resources for the State of Tennessee - ©1998 Heritage Quest

Tennessee Today: Newspapers by County .

TNGenWeb, Goodspeed's History of Tennessee - The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Nashville TN, 1887 A TNGenWeb History Project This page is hosted by Jane Norton Powell

Johnson County, Tenn. The Political Graveyard

Tennessee's 1992 Census of Agriculture State and County Highlights - United States Census of Agriculture Information

Johnson County Tennessee Information on Johnson County from the Hills of Tennessee

Communities in Johnson County Tennessee

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Last modified on:  June 23, 1999.