Marshall County, Tennessee Genealogy

United States Tennessee  Marshall County

Marshall County, Tennessee ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to Marshall County (established 1836) genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, Revolutionary War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

Quick Dates
Marshall County's civil records start the following years:

County Courthouse


Marshall County Courthouse 207 Marshall Courthouse Lewisburg, TN 37091 Phone: 1-931-359-1072

County Clerk has marriage and probate records from 1836. Register of Deeds has land records.

Marshall County Clerk Marriage and probate records 1107 Courthouse Annex Lewisburg, TN 37091 Phone: 1-931-359-1072

Marshall County Registrar of Deeds Land records 1103 Courthouse Annex Lewisburg, TN 37901 Phone: 1-931-359-4933

Marshall County Clerk and Master Court records 201 Marshall County Courthouse Lewisburg, TN 37091 Phone: 1-931-359-2181

Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

History


Middle Tennessee county in the Chestnut Ridge region. Established 1836.

The county is named after U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835).

Parent County
1836--Marshall County was created 20 February 1836 from Lincoln, Bedford and Maury Counties. County seat: Lewisburg

County Pronunciation

 * 1) Hear it spoken (female)
 * 2) Hear it spoken (male)

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Tennessee county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Tennessee County Boundary Maps" (1777-1985) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
For a list of record loss in Tennessee counties see: Tennessee Counties with Burned Courthouses

Marshall County's courthouse caught fire in 1872 and 1927, but no records were lost. County records are complete.

Lost census: 1890

Research Guides

 * Genealogical "Fact Sheets" About Tennessee Counties: Marshall County, courtesy: TSLA. (Identifies published county histories, published local records, census records, newspapers and local records on microfilm, and select manuscripts.)

African American
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Biographies

 * Douthat, James L. Marshall County, Tennessee Biographies. 1887; reprint, Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press. Free Surname Index and purchase details at Mountain Press website.

Cemeteries
Tennessee cemetery records often identify birth, death, relationship, and military information, as well as religious affiliation.


 * Find A Grave can be searched by the name of a person or family to find where a person is buried. Usually gives birth and death dates often with a picture of the tombstone.  May give obituaries, names of family members and links to their information in Find A Grave.


 * Find A Grave also gives a list of cemeteries in Marshall County linking to the information about the people buried there,


 * The TNGenWeb Project has has two sections about county cemetery records:  1) TNGenWeb Cemetery Database, Marshall County and 2) Marshall County Cemetery Records.  Both may list cemeteries in the county, often with indexes and transcripts of the burials,


 * Marshall County, Tennessee, USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project lists many cemeteries in the county and has transcripts of the tombstones arranged by cemetery.


 * The FamilySearch Catalog lists some records of . Some of the books or others may be on Google Books or available at public libraries.


 * ePodunk list of Marshall County cemeteries


 * Timothy Richard Marsh, Helen Crawford Marsh, Ralph D. Whitesell Cemetery records of Marshall county, Tennessee Shelbyville, Tennessee : Marsh Historical Publications, c1981 Free lookups available!

Census
1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 federal population schedules of Marshall County are available online. For tips on accessing census records online, see Tennessee Census. If you're having trouble finding your ancestors in online indexes, try checking printed indexes. Created by local experts familiar with the area's families, these indexes are often transcribed more accurately than nationwide online indexes.

See Tennessee Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.

See Marshall County, TN census assignments, including links to transcribed files. The USGenWeb Census Projectundefined®

1810 - 1891


 * Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891 at Ancestry.com — index $

1840 Revolutionary War Pensioners


 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1967. . 1841 edition digitized by the U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books et. al. [See Tennessee, Middle District, Marshall County on page 156.]

1850


 * Lightfoot, Marise P. and Evelyn B. Shackelford. Maury County Neighbors : Records of Giles, Lewis and Marshall Counties, Tennessee.Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee : s.n., 1967.
 * Porch, Deane. Marshall County, Tennessee, 1850 Census. S.p., 1967.

1857

Marshall County, Tennessee Agricultural Census, 1857.Nashville, Tennessee: Filmed by TSLA, 197-?. Item 1 Lists of people by districts with pertinent data such as number of slaves, livestock, value of each, corn, tobacco, etc.. Each district is alphabetically arranged by first letter of surname.

1880


 * Sistler, Byron H. 1880 Census Marshall County, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee : Byron Sistler &amp; Associates, 1999.

1891 Male Voters


 * 1891 Tennessee Enumeration of Male Voters 1891 at Ancestry.com — index $

Church
Church records include baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as information about family members and clues about family migration. For additional information about church records, religions, and religious archives in Tennessee, see Tennessee Church Records.


 * Marshall County Church Records


 * - FamilySearch Catalog -


 * If the records you need are not in the Family History Library collection, contact the church(es) in the area where your ancestor lived. Two sites that give information about churches in McMinn County are:


 * - List of Marshall County churches with addresses and phone numbers (Yellowbook)
 * - List of Marshall County churches (TN HomeTownLocator)

Baptist
Bethbirei Baptist Church


 * 1810-1910 - Bethbirei Baptist Church. Nashville, Tennessee: Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 196-?

Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church


 * 1814-1851 - Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records. Marshall County, 1814-1851. TSLA Reel #386
 * 1814-1851 - Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Vital Statistics from 19th Century Tennessee Church Records. Nashville: Sitler and Associates, 1979. vol.2   Index to original Rock Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records. Marshall County, 1814-1851.

Presbyterian
Bear Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church


 * 1902-1938 - Bear Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Marshall County, Tennessee). Nashhville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 19--. Items 1 and 2

Bethbirei Presbyterian Church


 * 1810-1895 - Bethbirei Presbyterian Church, Lewisburg, Marriage Index 1810-1895 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free.
 * 1810-1910 - Bethbirei Presbyterian Church Records(Marshall County, Tennessee). Nashhville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1989. TSLA Reel #24 Items 1-3
 * 1810-1900 - Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Vital Statistics from 19th Century Tennessee Church Records. Nashville: Sitler and Associates, 1979. vol. 1 Index to original Bethbirei Presbyterian Church Records.

Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill


 * 1840-1885 - Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, Baptism Index 1840-1885 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free. Batch.
 * 1840-1885 - Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, Marriage Index 1840-1885 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free. Batch.
 * 1840-1899 - Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records. Chapel Hill, 1840-1899. TSLA Reel #345
 * 1840-1899 - Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Vital Statistics from 19th Century Tennessee Church Records. Nashville: Sitler and Associates, 1979. vol. 1 Index to original Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church Records.

Court
• [1836-1840] ''County Court Minutes, Volume. A''. These records were transcribed and indexed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and published by TSLA on Roll 57 of Record Group 107. Free online index, created by Steve Carson, courtesy: GSC Associates Historical Records Products(the pages may load slowly). For a small fee, the company sells one Marshall County CD, which includes a digitized version of these records, and a variety of other local records.

DNA
DNA has been collected from men claiming descent from the following Marshall County residents. Attempts have not been made to verify the lineages of those tested.


 * [Brown] Descendant of William Bird Brown, resident of Marshall County, Tennessee. Y-DNA 37 Marker Test, FTDNA (Kit 64963). Genetic signature available online (labeled Group No. 52), genealogical description available online, courtesy: Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study. Matches have been found.

Family Histories
It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:


 * Locate publications about direct ancestors
 * Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
 * Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]

General

As of August 2010, a query for persons born in Marshall, Tennessee at World Connect, results in more than 25,000 entries.

Bibliography


 * [Bedwell] William Talbert Bedwell, Ruth Lucas Bedwell, Judith Bedwell FitzPatrick Hugh M. Bedwell and related families Center Line, Michigan : J.B. FitzPatrick, c1993 (Baltimore, Maryland : Gateway Press) Digital version available at
 * [Drake] McCutcheon, Larry. Our Drake and Crutcher Families of Marshall County, Tennessee. Hohenwald, Tenn.: L. McCutcheon, 2007..
 * [Duncan] Harris, Olive and Joe Cleatus Harris. William Duncan of Scotland, Chatham Co., N.C., Maury and Marshall Counties, Tennessee and His Eleven Known Children and Their Descendants. MSS..
 * [Ferguson] Ferguson, Herman W. Descendants of James and Elizabeth Fleming Ferguson: Bedford County (now Marshall), Tennessee. Rocky Mount, N.C.: H. Ferguson, 1988..
 * [Glenn] Glenn, Wayne. The Glenn Family of Lancaster County, Pa., Orange County, N.C., Caswell County, N.C., Lincoln County, N.C., White County, Tenn., Marshall County, Tenn., and Christian County, Mo.: Related Families Include Ramsay, Simpson, Reynolds, Wilson, Simmons, Clark, Grigg, Phillips, Beard, Collins. Nixa, Missouri: W. Glenn, 1985..
 * [Hardison] Hawkins, Fred Lee and Dorothy Westmoreland Gilliam. Hardison and Allied Families: Especially Those of Maury and Marshall Counties of Tennessee. Columbia, Tenn.: F.L. Hawkins, 1992..
 * [Hunt] Allen, William A. and Allen Family Reunion. History of George Hunt &amp; Mary Ogilvie Allen and Their Descendants: and Related Families Ogilvie, Ewing, and Fonville: Prepared for the Allen Family Reunion, August 8-11, 1985, Caney Spring, Marshall County, Tennessee. Brentwood, Tenn.: W.A. Allen, 1985. Original edition: ; 1995 revised edition:.
 * [Larwood] Larwood, James. Morphology of Larwood Genealogy: Being a Prefatory Tabulation of the Relationships and Descents of Members of the Larwood Family in America since Circa 1720: Preparatory to a Full Account of the History and Nomenclature of the Name in England since Circa 1300, with its Transitions through De La Wode, Larwode, (Delawood), Larawode, Larrawood to Larwood. Unknown: unknown, 1933. Available at Ancestry ($); and Heritage Quest Online ($).
 * [Neathery] Neathery, Milton W. and Marie Bradley Neathery. Neatherys of Marshall County, Tennessee. Athens, Ga.: Athens Printing Co., 1998..
 * [Poarch] Koetter, Wilba Delores Poarch. Poarch - Creed Family Genealogy, 1836-1974. Typescript, 1974. Item 37
 * [Williams] Schack, Elizabeth Thompson. The Williams Family of Granville County, North Carolina and Marshall County, Tennessee: Ancestors -- Descendants -- Connections to the Allison, Boyd, Camden, Haislip, Harris, Ogilvie and Peace Families. New York, New York: E.T. Schack, 2002..
 * [Wilson] Smith, Othella Boyd. Descendants of Hiram and Mariah Wilson of Marshall County, Tennessee. Typescript, National Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. Microfilmed in 1971..

Land

 * Marshall County Register of Deeds has Land Records from 1836 and is located at 207 Marshall Courthouse, Lewisburg, Tennessee 37091-2020; Telephone: (931) 359-1072. Land and property records include transfer of real estate or personal property, mortgages, leases, surveys, and entries
 * The Family History Library has miscrofilm copies of deed records 1836-1891 with indexes 1836-1940; land ownership maps at the Library of Congress 1899.
 * Marsh, Timothy Richard and Helen Crawford Land deed genealogy of Marshall County, Tennessee Greenville, South Caorlina : Southern Historical Press, c1998 Free lookups available!

Law and Legislation

 * Tennessee State Library and Archives, Acts of Tennessee 1796-1850: Index to Names. January 25, 2005. [In addition to creating new laws, legislative acts were often required to obtain a divorce, grant legitimacy to a child, or for appointments to or grant payments for public service.] TSLA has created an index to names that appear in these acts covering the years 1796 to 1850. To read more about this valuable resource Click here. The searchable index is available at TSLA; another version is available at World Vital Records.

Maps

 * Maps of Tennessee (1777-1985)

Military
Revolutionary War


 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1967. . 1841 edition digitized by the U.S. Census Bureau and Google Books et. al. [See Tennessee, Middle District, Marshall County on page 156.]

War of 1812


 * Embry, Hermione D. "War of 1812 - Tennessee Pensioners on List - January 2, 1883," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan. 1961):20-23. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 B2a v. 8 (1961); digital version at journal website. [Includes Marshall County pensioners (p. 22).]

Civil War


 * Civl War Research Database $
 * Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

Civil War service men from Marshall County served in various regiments. Men often joined a regiment or a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are the military units that were formed in or had many men from Marshall County.

Confederate Soldiers


 * 4th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry - CSA - Company A.
 * 4th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (McLemore's) - CSA
 * 8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Smith's) - CSA - Company A.
 * 8th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry - CSA - Company I.
 * 11th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Holman's) - CSA - Companies B, C and E.
 * 17th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry - CSA - Companies C, F and H.
 * 22nd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Nixon's) - CSA
 * 23rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Martin's) - CSA - 2nd Company F.
 * 32nd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry - CSA - Companies A and G.
 * 41st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry - CSA - Companies E and H.
 * 53rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry - CSA - Companies B, D and E.
 * Douglas' Battalion, Tennessee Partisan Rangers - CSA - T. C. H. Miller's Company
 * Holman's Battalion, Tennessee Partisan Rangers- CSA - Companies A and C.

Additional sources for Civil War soldiers from Marshall County:


 * Tennesseans in the Civil War : a military history of Confederate and Union units with available rosters of personnel Nashville, Tennessee : Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.  Free lookups available! Volunteer will also lookup other Civil War resources, particularly Confederate and Marshall county soldiers and units.
 * USGenWeb Archives, Marshall County Tennessee Archives, (accessed 31 Jan 2012). Civil War Records.
 * Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications : Marshall County, (accessed 31 Jan 2012). Includes soldier's name, county, pension #, unit or widow.
 * United States Pension Bureau, List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883: Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for ...(Washington Printing Office; 1883), (accessed 30 Jan 2012). Online at Internet Archive. Marshall County, page 363.
 * TNGenWeb, Marshall County Tennessee Military Records, (accessed 31 Jan 2012).

Newspapers
Many Tennessee newspapers are filmed and available at TSLA. Most of these newspapers may be accessed by interlibrary loan to libraries within Tennessee, although there are some newspapers which are not available in or outside of Tennessee. For further information regarding interlibrary loan policies and newspapers not available for interlibrary loan click here. For a list of newspapers available at the archives for Marshall County click on the following city:


 * Lewisburg

Occupations

 * Miller, Alan N. Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1784 to 1902. Baltimore, Md.: Printed for Clearfield Company, Inc., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2004. . Purchase at Genealogical.com. [Includes Marshall County.]

Periodicals

 * Marshall County Historical Quarterly
 * The Family History Library has volumes 1-13 (1970-spring 1982) Indexed in PERiodical Source index (PERSI) For further information including a link to the Master Table of contents see Marshall County Historical Society website. Free lookups available!

Probate Records
The Marshall County Court has responsibility for the probate records.

Online Records
 * 1779 – 2008 Tennessee Wills and Probate Records 1779-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $


 * Index to wills, 1835-1935
 * Wills, 1835-1912 (4 vols.)
 * Bonds, Letters, 1859-1880
 * Insolvent estate records, 1869-1897
 * Inventories, 1839-1896 (9 vols.)
 * Letters, 1859-1904 (3 vols.)
 * Sales, 1872-1877
 * Settlements, 1836-1917 (18 vols.)

The following Marshall County probate records have been abstracted, indexed, or both:


 * [1835-1861] Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Index to Tennessee Wills &amp; Administrations 1779-1861. Nashville, Tenn. Byron Sistler &amp; Associates, Inc., 1990. . [Includes an index to this county's wills.] Free lookups available!
 * [1835-1861] Porch, Deane Marshall County, Tennessee, wills, 1835-1865 Franklin, Tennessee : Louise G. Lynch, 1978 Free lookups available!

The Marshall County pages of USGenWeb have online indexes, with links to some transcriptions, for the following Will Books:


 * Will Book A, transcribed by Rachel Combs
 * Will Book B, Nov 1855-April 1877, transcribed by Dana Hill
 * Will Book C, Dec 1875-Feb 1912, transcribed by Dana Hill
 * Will Book D, July 1912-Nov 1927, transcribed by Dana Hill
 * Will Book E, Nov 1927-July 1955, transcribed by Dana Hill

Taxation
The following Marshall County tax records have been abstracted:


 * [1836] "Marshall County, Tennessee Tax List 1836," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 31, No. (1984):. For FHL and online access, as well as indexes, see Periodicals.
 * [1839-1841] Porch, Deane. Marshall County, Tennessee, Tax Record, 1839-1841. Manuscript, 1966.
 * [1839-1843] List, People Paying Taxes on Lots, 1839-43, Marshall County Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 1979).

Vital Records
See also How to order Tennessee Vital Records or order electronically online.

Marriage
The original Marshall County marriage records are kept at the County Courthouse. Marriages have been recorded since August 1836.

The following Marshall County marriage records are microfilmed:


 * 1836-1987 Available at the TSLA. Marriages 1836-1882 are available for interlibrary loan.


 * 1836-1960 Available at the Family History Library. Indexes are at the front of each volume.

The following Marshall County marriage records have been indexed:


 * - covers all counties in Tennessee.

Update: Possible location to search.


 * 1780 - 2002 Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002 at Ancestry.com — index $


 * 1790 - 1950 at FamilySearch.org — index and images


 * 1796 - 1950 at FamilySearch.org — index


 * 1836-1895 - Marshall County Marriage Index 1836-1895 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free.


 * 1836-1870 - Porch, Deane. Marriage record, Marshall County, Tennessee, 1836-1870. Franklin, Tennessee : Louise G. Lynch, 1976


 * 1836-1870 - Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Early Middle Tennessee Marriages. 2 vols. Nashville, Tenn.: B. Sistler &amp; Associates, 1988. ff. [Indexes names of brides and grooms, and marriage dates for weddings in this county for the specified years.]  Free lookups available!


 * 1838-1865 - Marriage Records, 1838-1865, Mashall County, Tennessee. Nashville: TSLA, Historical Records Project, 1940.  Typescript.  Items 5-7


 * Lightfoot, Marise P. and Evelyn B. Shackelford. Maury County Neighbors: Records of Giles, Lewis and Marshall Counties, Tennessee. Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee: [s.n.], 1967.


 * - covers all counties in Tennessee.


 * Many county marriage records are indexed with images at Ancestry's Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. ($) Be aware that this index is not complete for many counties.


 * 1836-1866 - Marriage Records.


 * 1835-1850 - Marriage Records: Early–1850.


 * 1838-1849 - Marriage Bonds, Volume 1. These records were transcribed and indexed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and published by TSLA on Roll 57 of Record Group 107. Free online index, created by Steve Carson, courtesy: GSC Associates Historical Records Products (the pages may load slowly). For a small fee, the company sells one Marshall County CD, which includes a digitized version of these records, and a variety of other local records.


 * 1849-1865 - Marriage Bonds, Volume 2. These records were transcribed and indexed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and published by TSLA on Roll 57 of Record Group 107. Free online index, created by Steve Carson, courtesy: GSC Associates Historical Records Products (the pages may load slowly). For a small fee, the company sells one Marshall County CD, which includes a digitized version of these records, and a variety of other local records.

Update: Possible location to search.


 * 1851 - 1900 Tennessee Marriages 1851-1900 at Ancestry.com— index and images $

Divorce
In 1940 and 1941, W.P.A. workers pinpointed the location of Marshall County divorce papers in diverse County Courthouse records, including some separate divorce cases, see:


 * W.P.A. Guide to Public Vital Statistics in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn.: The Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941. FHL US/CAN Book 976.8 A3gp.

Death

 * 1874 - 1955 at FamilySearch.org — index


 * 1908 - 1958 Tennessee Death Records 1908 - 1958 at Ancestry.com — index and images $


 * 1914 - 1955 at FamilySearch.org — index and images


 * Tennessee Deaths and Burials 1874-1955 at Record Search Pilot at FamilySearch. Name index with extracted death certificate information. Search by surname then browse through the results. You may need to supply variant spellings of the names].

For deaths of Methodists in Marshall County between the 1830s and the 1920s, try:


 * Smith, Jonathan K.T. Genealogical Abstracts from Reported Deaths, the Nashville Christian Advocate. [1847-1914] 10 vols. [Jackson, Tenn.]: J.K.T. Smith, 1997-2003. ff; digital versions at David Donahue Memorial: Tennessee Records Repository. [Website expands upon the publications and includes deaths from the 1830s, 1840s, 1910s and 1920s.]


 * 1835-1855 Will Book A. These records were transcribed and indexed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and published by TSLAon Roll 57 of Record Group 107. Free online index, created by Steve Carson, courtesy: GSC Associates Historical Records Products(the pages may load slowly). For a small fee, the company sells one Marshall County CD, which includes a digitized version of these records, and a variety of other local records.

Societies and Libraries
See also a List of Tennessee Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies

Marshall County Memorial Library 310 Farmington Pike Lewisburg, TN 37091 Phone: 931-359-3335 Hours: Mon., Tues, and Thurs. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed. and Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. The Gabard-Haynes Genealogical Room houses all local newspapers on microfilm, an excellent historical records section, memorabilia from three governors, and Dr. William Gabard's personal library. Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest databases are available on the public access computers at the library. HeritageQuest may also be accessed from a home computer.

Marshall County Historical Society PO Box 1352 Lewisburg, TN 37901-0352

Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society PO Box 330948 Nashville, TN, USA 37203-7507 The society serves the 40 counties of middle Tennessee of which Marshall County is one. It publishes The Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy and History, a quarterly containing articles of genealogical and historical interest. Little-known Tennessee records are published and indexed, along with family genealogies, Bible records and material submitted by members. There is an alphabetical Index to articles in the Journal 1988-summer 2005

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Marshall County, TN History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Tennessee Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Tennessee Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * Chestnut Ridge Cousins Genealogy Records, Surname Exchange, Maps, Obituaries, Photos, History
 * (FamilySearch)
 * Marshall County, TN Family History and Genealogy Message Board (Ancestry)
 * Marshall County, TN Genealogy Forum (GenForum)
 * Marshall County, TNGenWeb (USGenWeb)
 * RootsWeb Mailing List: TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L (Chestnut Ridge Region Genealogy List)
 * RootsWeb Mailing List: TN-SOUTHCENTRAL-L (South Central Tennessee List)
 * Marshall County TN Genealogy (Tennessee Genealogy)