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Pickett County, Tennessee
Genealogy

Courthouse built 1935

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Pickett County was formed in 1879 (Established 1879-Organized April 4, 1881) from Fentress and Overton counties.
The county seat is Byrdstown. Pickett County is located in the northeastern corner of Middle Tennessee, bordering the Tennessee Counties of Clay, Overton, Fentress and the Kentucky counties of Wayne and Clinton

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Read & Post Queries	County Addresses For Pickett County, Tennessee
Older Queries	Pickett County Resource Page at Rootsweb
Upcoming Events Calendar Enter your Reunions and special events for Pickett County here	USGenWeb Archive Search Engine
Join the PICKETT County Mailing List	powered by FreeFind *Note - This search engiine will only locate material contained within this website
Pickett County Library Community Center Byrdstown TN 38549-2214	Pickett County Clerk 1 Courthouse Sq., Box 5 Byrdstown 38549-0280 Phone: (931) 864-3798 Fax: (931) 864-6615

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BOOKS
Announcing the publication of the second volume of Tennessee Convicts: Early Records of the State Penitentiary. This volume covers records from 1850 through 1870, including more than 2,200 prisoners and their family members who are named in the original ledger volumes. For more information on this book please see this web page: www.angelfire.com/tn3/sherrill You may also contact the author, Chuck Sherrill, by e-mail	Bibliography Index for Pickett County, Tennessee	Books by Gary Norris PICKETT COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK: Bye and Bye. It has over 7,000 names in an alphabetical data base. The book is 211 pages with directions to each cemetery and a map provided. The price is $40.00 plus an additional $5.00 for shipping. Click on the above link for mailing info.

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CENSUS
1930 Pickett County Census Index	Current  Pickett County, Tennessee Census Information	1880 Census An Offlink Site
	Electronic census spreadsheets An Off Site Link

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CEMETERIES
	Knight-Sevier Cemetery

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DEATHS
Pickett County Deaths for 1914	A list of early soldiers buried in Pickett County	Political Graveyard for Pickett County
Statewide Index to Tennessee Death Records 1914 - 1916   An Off Site Link

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EVENTS
	Streetfest 2003

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FAMILY PAGES
Josephine’s Journal - Great Stories that include some families from Pickett County	CONNER Family
Biography of Cordell HULL	KEISLING Family
MATTHEWS Family	PHILLIPS Family
	SWALLOW's in Tennessee	ZACHARY Family

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HISTORY
History of Pickett County TN	Read about the man that Pickett County was named for!	The formation of Pickett County An Offsite Link
	Private ACTS of Pickett County, Tennessee	Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
Historical Collections of Tennessee	Historic Rural African-American Churches in Tennessee, 1850-1970 *Requires Adobe Acrobat

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LIBRARIES
Pickett County Library	Tennessee State Library and Archives - Pickett County Records on Microfilm

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MAPS
Tennessee Road Map showing Counties and Cities Requires Adobe Acrobat (SLOW Loading)	1834 Tennessee Map	MAPS by Charles A. Reeves
1895 Map of Pickett County	These maps are from 1923 and it shows people who lived down on the river. This land is now covered by Dale Hollow Lake. It includes families of Clay, Pickett and Overton County. This provided by Carl C. Conner and Harold Kesling  Map 1  Map 2  Map 3 Map 4	Current map of Pickett County
TNGenWeb Goodspeed’s 1886 Tennessee Map Showing Early Settlements, Forts, Battle Grounds, Stands, and Stations	Another Map of Pickett County	Another current map of Pickett County Requires Adobe Acrobat

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MILITARY
WWI Veterans of Pickett County  at the Tennessee State Library & Archives	1890 Pickett Civil War Veterans Census	Pickett County World War II Casualties
List of Pickett County Civil War Veterans An Offsite Link	Great Civil War Information on Pickett County An Offsite Link
Letters from Sergeant James Forrester Parrott of the 28th Consolidated Infantry to his wife, Mahala Bowman Parrott		James I. LACY, Union soldier 1863, 2nd lieutenant, Co G 9th regiment Tn. Cavalry

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NEWSPAPERS
Abstracts from the Nashville Christian Advocate 1857-1884	Abstracts from Tennessee Newspapers An Offsite Link	Pickett County Press Main Street, 23 Courthouse Square Byrdstown 38549 Phone: 615-864-3675 circulation: 615-864-3675
The Crossville Chronicle  (Includes some Pickett County Obituaries)

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ORGANIZATIONS
Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society

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PHOTOGRAPHS
Spurrier Post Office, 1905 Contributed by Loren Lacy	Help identify the children in this school picture provided by Rex Bertram	Help identify people in the Robbinstown Singing School picture taken about 1900
Pickett County Courthouse Prior to 1935	Pickett County Family Photos	Some Photos of Pickett County An Offsite Link
Historic Byrdstown Photos An Offsite link

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PLACES
Pickett State Park	Cordell Hull Birthplace & Museum State Park	State of TN page on Pickett State Park
Dale Hollow Lake	Dillon/Amonett House An Offsite Link	Tennessee Communities An Off Site Link
Olympus, TN - the first post office established in present day Pickett County, TN An Offsite Link	Century Farms in Pickett County

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TOWNS
Post Offices of Pickett County

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Chamber of Commerce P. O. Box 447 / 109 W. Main St. Byrdstown, Tennessee 38549 Toll-Free 1-888-406-4704 or Phone 1-931-864-7195

Pickett County Tourism Page

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GENEALOGY HELPERS
Geographic Nameserver Put in a city name and find out what county it is in	USGenWeb Archive Search Engine, State-by-State	CENSUS A list of questions asked on each census
Search the LDS website	The Association for Gravestone Studies	Search the DAR Library Catalog
	Create a timeline of History	Epidemics in the United States

USGenWeb
TNGenWeb State Page
Fentress TNGenWeb
Overton TNGenWeb

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Union Army Regimental Histories
Confederate Army Regimental Histories

 

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Tami P. Ramsey, Pickett County Coordinator