Marshall County, Tennessee Genealogy

Guide to Marshall County, Tennessee ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Description
The County was named the American jurist, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The County is located in the south-central area of the state.

County Courthouse
Marshall County Courthouse 207 Marshall Courthouse Lewisburg, TN 37091 County Courthouse Phone: 931-359-1072 County Clerk Phone: 931-359-1072 County Clerk and Master Phone: 931-359-2181

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

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

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

History Timeline
Additional Information

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

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

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.

Business, Commerce, and 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.

Cemeteries
Additional Cemetery Resources
 * Tennessee Cemeteries - Hometown Locator

Census Records
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 ($)

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 ($)

Church Records
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
 * 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. Batch
 * 1840-1885 - Pleasant Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, Marriage Index 1840-1885 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch. 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 Records

 * 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.

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.

Genealogies
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.

General


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


 * 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 FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * 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 and Property Records

 * 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!

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Maps of Tennessee (1777-1985)

Military Records
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

Online Records
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1861-1865 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1861-1865 - U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 at Ancestry
 * 1891-1965 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

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. Civil War Records.
 * Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications: Marshall County. 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). Online at Internet Archive. Marshall County, page 363.
 * TNGenWeb, Marshall County Tennessee Military Records.

Naturalization and Citizenship
United States Passport Applications are available from 1796-1925 - Indexed at Family Search

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


 * 1847 - 1851 - 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. (Largely Methodist?)

Prisons

 * 1831-1850 - Inmates of the Tennessee State Penitentiary 1831-1850 at Tennessee State Library and Archives
 * 1851-1870 - Inmates of the Tennessee State Penitentiary 1851-1870 at Tennessee State Library and Archives

Periodicals

 * Ansearchin' News: Quarterly magazine of the Tennessee Genealogical Society. For a keyword search, go to the county index. Read previous issues on their website;


 * Marshall County Historical Quarterly:


 * The Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy and History: Quarterly magazine of the Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society. For surnames, use the volume-by-volume index, or do a keyword search of the Article Index..

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

Online Records and Indexes
 * 1779-2008 - Tennessee Wills and Probate Records 1779-2008 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1835-1855; 1855-1877; 1875-1912 - Probate Records - Images of Wills 1835-1855; 1855-1877; 1875-1912 at Southeastern Genealogy ($)
 * 1835-1935 - Marshall County portion of at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; handwritten indexes may be found at the front or back of some volumes.

Book Abstracts and Indexes
 * 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.
 * 1835-1861 - Porch, Deane Marshall County, Tennessee, wills, 1835-1865 Franklin, Tennessee Louise G. Lynch, 1978
 * Index to Will Book A, Marshall County pages of USGenWeb transcribed by Rachel Combs

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.


 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.

Tax Records
Book Abstracts and Indexes


 * 1836 "Marshall County, Tennessee Tax List 1836," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 31, No. (1984). For FHL and online access, as well as indexes, see Marshall.
 * 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).

Birth

 * 1908-1912 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection

Marriage
Online indexes and Records


 * 1625-1966 - Tennessee, United States Marriages at FindMyPast ($)
 * 1780-2002 - Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1780-2002 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1790-1962 - - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection. Covers all counties in Tennessee.
 * 1796-1950 - (Indexes only) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1836-1870 - Marriage record, Marshall County, Tennessee, 1836-1870.  FHL Book 976.8585 V25p  (Digital copy)
 * 1836-1895 - Marshall County Marriage Index 1836-1895 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch
 * 1838-1865 - Marriage Bonds, Volume 1, 2  Available at Tennessee State Library & Archives: TSLA Free online index
 * 1838-1865 - Marriage Records, 1838-1865, Marshall County, Tennessee. FHL Film 24762 Items 5-7 click on camera icon
 * 1838-1888 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1851-1900 - Tennessee Marriages 1851-1900 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1980-2014 -Marriage Records Index 1980-2014 at Shelby County Register of Deeds - index

Book Abstracts and Indexes


 * 1836-1870 - Early Middle Tennessee Marriages. 2 vols. .  ff. Indexes names of brides, grooms, marriage dates for this county for specified years.

Death

 * 1874-1955 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1908-1933 - Tennessee Deaths, 1908 - 1933 at MyHeritage ($) — index
 * 1908-1958 - Tennessee Death Records 1908 - 1958 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1908-1912 - Tennessee Death Records 1908-1912 at Tennessee State Library & Archives - index
 * 1914-1933 - Tennessee Death Records 1914-1933 at Tennessee State Library & Archives - index
 * 1949-2014 - Death Records Index 1949-2014 at Shelby County Register of Deeds - index

Divorce
Online Records Online Titles
 * 1796 - 1850 Acts of Tennessee 1796-1850 at Tennessee State Library & Archives - index
 * 1980-2014 Divorce Records Index 1980-2014 at Shelby County Register of Deeds - index
 * W.P.A. Guide to Public Vital Statistics in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn.: The Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941. FamilySearch Books Online;

Libraries
Marshall County Memorial Library 310 Farmington Pike Lewisburg, TN 37091 Phone: 931-359-3335 Website


 * 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.

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

Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society PO Box 330948 Nashville, TN, USA 37203-7507 Website
 * 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.

Websites

 * Chestnut Ridge Cousins Genealogy Records, Surname Exchange, Maps, Obituaries, Photos, History
 * Marshall County, TNGenWeb (USGenWeb)
 * Marshall County TN Genealogy (ldsgenealogy.com)
 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.

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.)