Hawkins County, Tennessee Compiled Genealogies

General
Gordon Aronhime (1911-1983) collected information on hundreds of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee pioneers. His note cards, which reference more than 4,000 early settlers of the Holston-Clinch River area and East Tennessee (1770s-1790s), are held at the Library of Virginia. The cards have been digitized and made available online.

As of August 2010, a query for persons born in Hawkins (County), Tennessee at World Connect, results in more than 150,000 entries!

For early settlers (pre-1796), start with:


 * East Tennessee Historical Society. First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-day Descendants. Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 2000. . [Identifies families that had settled in Tennessee before it achieved statehood in 1796.]

Books that discuss multiple local families include:


 * Hawkins County Genealogical and Historical Society. Families of Hawkins County, Tennessee. 2 vols. Rogersville, Tenn.: n.p., 1999. ff.
 * Old Family Records Collection, ca. 1783-1966: Hawkins County, Tennessee. MSS.,.
 * Trent, William S. Across the Mountain, Over on Clinch: A Folk History. Talbott, Tenn.: W.S. Trent, 2008. . [Includes Brown, Cole, Collins, Cope, Hardin, Martin, Stapleton, Trent and other families.]