State of Tennessee Department of State Tennessee State Library and Archives 403 Seventh Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0312
GARRETT, JILL KNIGHT COLLECTION ca. 1800-1969
Processed by:
Mary Washington Frazer (1970), Marylin Bell (1975), and Cathi Carmack (1997) Archival Technical Services Accession Numbers: 1621, 1969.338, 1970.057, 1970.072, 1970.081, 1970.096, 1971.076, 1971.123, 1971.128, 1971.158, 1971.160, 1972.033, 1972.044, 1975.014, 1975.080, 1976.205, 1994.143, 1994.144, 1994.145, 1994.146 Location: VII-C-4-6 and Mss drawer #3 Microfilm Accession Number: 1196
MICROFILMED INTRODUCTION
The Jill Knight Garrett Collection contains material primarily concerning Maury County, Tennessee, and those counties of Middle Tennessee located along the east back of the Tennessee River between the Buffalo, Duck, and Cumberland rivers. Some material on northern Alabama is also included. Mrs. Garrett collected these materials during her career as a historian, writer, and genealogist and donated the collection to the State Library Archives in numerous small accessions. The collection was reprocessed in early 1997, involving the removal of numerous published items for transfer to the State Library holdings and the addition of approximately 5 cubic feet of materials not previously processed. The materials in this finding aid measure 10 linear feet. There are no restrictions on the materials. Single photocopies of these materials may be made for purposes of scholarly research. Copying on a large scale is prohibited. In 2019, in accordance with replevin laws, a portion of the physical collection was deaccessioned and repatriated to the Maury County Archives. This repatriation only impacted official county records generated in Maury County, Tennessee. As a result, boxes 2-13 are available at TSLA on microfilm only.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Jill Knight Garrett Collection is composed of materials collected by Mrs. Garrett during her career as a historian, genealogist, and writer. The collection is divided into twelve series; there are also two oversize maps housed separately. Most of the collection deals with Maury County, Tennessee, but there is also material concerning Giles, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, and Humphreys counties in Tennessee and counties in northern Alabama. The Cemetery Records Series (Series I) includes data for Houston, Humphreys, Marshall, and Maury counties, Tennessee as well as Lauderdale County, Alabama. A folder of records for the Freeman family of Pike County, Illinois (former residents of Dickson County, Tennessee) is also included. The Civil War Records Series (Series II) includes claims, lists, and five rosters of Confederate units from Tennessee. The Clippings series includes articles on various historical sites and events in Alabama and Tennessee as well as on Jesse James, “Johnny Shiloh”, and Ed O’Neal. The Correspondence Series (Series III) includes letters of 29 different correspondents, most writing during the Civil War. Many letters are original, but some are typescripts. The letter from C. D. Bailey, 1886, chiefly concerns the running of trains into Scottsville, Kentucky. A letter from John Brahan to Thomas Jefferson in 1809 discusses the death of Meriwether Lewis. A. B. Cathey’s letter to Frank H. Smith in 1903 deals with the mapping of Wayne County, Tennessee. An original letter of Judge John Catron, 1827, concerns a court case. William Cochran’s letter from Texas to his mother in Maury County, 1849, tells of farming conditions, reports of Indian trouble, and his election to the Texas legislature. A circular letter, 1886, contains affidavits from M.E.M. Ellis, Sarah J. Brashears, Wm. F. Hinton, and M. E. Brashears regarding the confession of robbery by Elias Woodall of Allen County, Kentucky. Two typescripts of letters from Jesse James, using the alias J. D. Howard, were written from Nashville, Tennessee in 1879. A letter from Park Marshall of Nashville in 1914 concerns a controversy over the Natchez Trace involving the U. S. Bureau of Ethnology. Thirty-three letters of John R. Peacock to Jill Garrett concern Mrs. Garrett’s research into the Civil War in Maury County. Elyzabeth Ridings’ letter to her nephew Alfred Tomlinson in 1871, written from Waverly, Tennessee, describes her large family and how they came through the Civil War. Twenty typescripts of John W. Robinson’s letters to his family during the Civil War were written from Clarksville, Tennessee, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Port Hudson, Louisiana. Pleasant F. Russell’s letter of 1927 describes his Spanish-American War service with Company B, 1st Tennessee Infantry. Neppie Rushing Smith’s correspondence, 1956-1957, transcribed by Mildred Sullivan Gambill, chiefly concerns genealogy and the history of Benton County, Tennessee. Judge John Stanton’s letter to Jill Garrett informs her of her selection as Maury County Historian in 1970. A typed transcript of a letter of unknown origin concerns the death of John Sidney Branch in the
Mexican War, 1847. Other Civil War letters are from George D. Armstrong, James Lowery Davis, Joshua Delk, J. N. Fitzpatrick, Edgar Allen Foster, J. Thilman Hendrick, John T. Hodges, Ike P. Howard, John McClanahan, John D. McGill, Frank Gillette Smith, and John Trotter. Series V and VI, Maury County Court Cases and Maury County Court Records, are original records collected by Mrs. Garrett. The court cases are arranged alphabetically by plaintiff’s name. With a few exceptions, most cases are dated in the 1820s or 1860s. Court records are arranged by type of document. Many of these loose records may contain information duplicated in the bound records located in Maury County and on microfilm at the State Library and Archives. The largest groupings of records include judgments, pauper’s records, and road records. The researcher will note that road records are arranged in two different groups: by name of road and by date. Those arranged by name of road were part of Mrs. Garrett’s original collection and were presumably arranged in this manner by her. Those filed by date were part of a later accession of materials which have been added in reprocessing of the collection. Because of the large volume of material, these have not been rearranged to fit Mrs. Garrett’s original filing scheme. The Diaries and Memoirs Series (Series VII) includes 18 excerpts or complete diaries/ memoirs, most dealing with the Civil War. These are all either typescripts or photocopies. Writers include Redick C. Carnell telling of his boyhood impressions of Waverly at the time of the war, Carroll Henderson Clark of Van Buren County, who served with the 16th Tennessee Infantry, and Thomas Maitland Hogan of Hickman County, who served with Company G of the 48th Tennessee Volunteers. Four from Maury County who wrote of this period are Whitfield McConnell, who wrote in detail of his imprisonment at Johnson’s Island and his escape; William James Moore, who served in Coleman’s Scouts; Robert D. Smith, Ordinance officer in the 2nd Tennessee Infantry; and John Thomas Williamson, who served in the 51st Tennessee Infantry. Also included in this series is a memoir of Rowena Webster giving glimpses of life during the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a young girl. Much of the memoir tells of life at “Beechwood,” home of her brother-in-law and sister, Colonel and Mrs. Andrew Erwin, near Wartrace, Tennessee, although parts of it describe incidents around Huntsville and LaFayette, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee, as the family moved in an attempt to stay out of the direct line of battle. There are personal accounts of Gen. Pat Cleburne and Gen. W. J. Hardee. The Miscellaneous Documents Series (Series VIII) includes wills, legal documents, land records, photographs, and other documents arranged by name of person or group. The Genealogical Data Series (Series IX) contains information filed by family name, with the exception of one folder of materials on families from Santa Fe, Tennessee. The Organizations Series (Series X) chiefly concerns Maury County, Tennessee organizations such as the Columbia Temperance Society, Concord Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, the Phintias Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, the Maury County Historical Society, the Napier Iron Company, and the Order of Pale faces. Types of records include minute books, constitutions, treasurer’s reports, and a church session book. The Historical and Biographical Sketches Series (Series XI) contains collected sketches by other authors filed by title, mostly concerning historical events or places in Middle Tennessee and northern Alabama. Many deal with the Civil War. Series XII, Writings of Jill Knight Garrett, includes four unpublished manuscripts reflecting Mrs. Garrett’s research on early Maury County history, guerrillas and bushwhackers in Civil War-era Middle Tennessee, the Ku Klux Klan in Maury County, and Lauderdale County, Alabama. The oversize items consist of two Maury County maps and a Columbia, Tennessee, hotel registry, 1899-1900.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Jill Knight Garrett was a Maury County, Tennessee, historian, writer, and publisher. In 1965, the Maury County Historical Society was organized in her home with Mrs. Garrett serving as the editor of the quarterly, Historic Maury. She and her mother, Iris McClain, wrote and published numerous books on Maury, Humphreys, Hickman, Dickson, Rutherford, and Houston Counties. She published The Maury Genealogist and The River Counties, both quarterlies, and contributed to numerous scholarly publications such as the Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly. She contributed feature stories to the Columbia Daily Herald, and many articles from her column “Hither and Yon” were reprinted in two volumes. Mrs. Garrett was recognized in historical circles as an authority on the Civil War as well as the War of 1812. A graduate of the University of North Alabama, she was a life member of the James K. Polk Memorial Association and held memberships in the U. S. Daughters of 1812, the Maury County chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities, the Students’ Club, and the Maury County Creative Arts Guild. Mrs. Garrett died at age 72 on May 4, 1996.
SERIES INDEX
Series Title Box Number(s)
I. Cemetery Records 1
II. Civil War Records 1
III. Clippings 1
IV. Correspondence 2
V. Court Cases ( Maury County, Tenn.) 2-3
VI. Court records (Maury County, Tenn.) 4-13
VII. Diaries and Memoirs 14
VIII. Documents, Miscellaneous 15
IX. Genealogical Data 16
X. Organizations 17-18
XI. Sketches, Historical and Biographical 19
XII. Writings of Jill Knight Garrett 19
CONTAINER LIST
Microfilm Roll #1______Box 1 Series I: Cemetery Records 1. Freeman family (Pike County, Ill.) 2. Houston and Humphreys counties (Tenn.) – TVA retirement records 3. Lauderdale County (Ala.) 4. Marshall County (Tenn.) – Bethlehem Cemetery 5. Maury County (Tenn.) – Fleming, Gooding, Maxwell, McKee, Garrett, John Mack, Mt. Evergreen, Old Morrow Farm, and Ramsey cemeteries
Series II: Civil War Records 6. Claim – Jackson College, 1900 7. Claim – Mays, Jesse, 1865 8. List – Cheatham’s Division sick and wounded in hospital at Murfreesboro, 1863 9. List – Deaths as found in Nashville and Middle Tennessee newspapers, 1862- 1865 10. Miscellaneous notes 11. Roster – 1st Tennessee Cavalry (Co. F), CSA 12. Roster – 21st Tennessee Infantry (Co. B) CSA 13. Roster – 24th Tennessee Infantry (Co. I) CSA 14. Roster – 48th Tennessee Infantry (Co. F) CSA 15. Roster – Humphreys Light Artillery, CSA
Series III: Clippings 16. Alabama – Colbert County 17. Alabama – Florence – Sesquicentennial 18. Alabama – General 19. Alabama – Lauderdale County 20. Alabama – Shoals area – Civil War 21. Clem, John L. (“Johnny Shiloh”) 22. James, Jesse 23. O’Neal, Ed 24. Tennessee – Fort Donelson 25. Tennessee – Fulton, founding of 26. Tennessee – General 27. Tennessee – Maury County
Box 2 Series IV: Correspondence 1. Armstrong, George D. (2), 1861-1862, to wife 2. Bailey, C. D., 1886, to E. Scott Brown 3. Brahan, John, 1809, to Thomas Jefferson 4. Cathey, A.B., 1903, to Frank H. Smith 5. Catron, John, 1827, to A. Balch 6. Cochran, William M. and Nancy J., 1849, to Margaret Cochran 7. Davis, James Lowery, 1861?, to family 8. Delk, Joshua, 1863, to J. B. Delk 9. Ellis, M.E.M., and others (circular letter) 1886 10. Fitzpatrick, J.N., 1864, to G. M. Mulligan 11. Foster, Edgar Allen H., 1860, to brother 12. Hendrick, J. Thilman, 1862, to Mrs. Lizzie Armstrong 13. Hobson, William E., 1874, to E. Scott Brown 14. Hodges, John T., 1861, to family 15. Howard, Ike P. (3), 1861 16. Howard, John D. (Jesse James) (2), 1879, to H. E. Warren 17. McClanahan, John, 1862, to wife 18. McGill, John D., 1862, to Mrs. George D. Armstrong 19. Marshall, Park, 1914, to unknown 20. Peacock, John R. (33), 1966-1968, to Jill Garrett 21. Ridings, Elyzabeth, 1871, to Alfred Tomlinson 22. Robison, John W. (20), 1861-1863, to family 23. Russell, Pleasant F., 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Walker 24. Smith, Frank Gillette, 1863, to Robert _____ 25. Smith, Neppie Rushing (11), 1956-1957, to G. B. Holladay and others 26. Stanton, John S., 1970, to Jill Garrett 27. Trotter, John, 1862, to children 28. Underwood, Warner W., 1868, to G. M. Mulligan 29. Unknown, re: Death of John S. Branch in Mexican War, 1847
Series V: Court Cases, Maury County (Tenn.) – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 30. Alford, James D., vs. James Wyatt, 1823 31. Ayres, Joseph, Jr., vs. Gerrard T. Greenfield, 1823-1824 32. Brown, John T., vs. Lacy L. Brown, 1853 33. Cheatham, Peter, vs. B.W. Hardin, 1825 34. Conner and Howard vs. Joseph Kelso, 1824 35. Copeland, Anthony M., vs. Joshua Bowdry, 1821-1825 36. Cowsert, James, vs. John C. Wormley, 1824 37. Davidson, John O., vs. Aaron V. Brown, 1823-1824 38. Dowell, Benjamin F., vs. John W. P. McGimsey, 1823-1827 39. Greer, George, vs. Robert Oakley, 1824 40. Gunn, James, vs. James Walker, 1823 41. Hall, Joseph G., vs. Brevard Huggins, 1822-1824 42. Hardison, Thomas, vs. Alexander Younger, 1824 43. Harrison, William, vs. Nathaniel Simmons, 1823 44. Hood, William J. D., vs. Signer Cawley, 1824 45. Ireland & Co. vs. James Gunn, 1823 46. Jackson, Andrew, vs. Heirs of David Allison, 1811 47. Johnson, Amos, vs. James Love, 1823 48. Jossey, James, vs. John McKenzie, 1822 49. Kilcrease, Davis, vs. William Lane, 1823 50. Leigh, Lilbourn, vs. Robert Shaddon, 1823 51. Maguire, Patrick, vs. Alexander McKay, 1823 52. McKay, Alexander, vs. John Arnold, 1823-1824
Box 3 Series V (cont’d): Court Cases, Maury County (Tenn.) – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. McKenzie, Jeremiah, vs. William Kirk, 1824 2. McNiel, William, vs. James N. Smith, 1827 3. Napier, Richard C., vs. William Kendle, 1827 4. O’Reilly, James C., vs. Ann Burns, 1824 5. Orr, Joshua, vs. John Wright, 1824 6. Parker, Francis, vs. Joseph Pugh, 1824 7. Pickard, John, vs. James W. Jennings, 1824 8. Pillow, William, vs. Thomas Wifeman, 1828 9. Polk, Ezekiel, deceased, vs. James Notgrass, 1828 10. Rhodes, Tyree, vs. William Terrell Lewis, 1809 11. Royal, John, vs. William Miller, 1825 12. Shaw, Simpson, vs. Robert G. Kelsey, 1824 13. Simmons, Nathaniel, vs. William Harrison, 1823 14. Smith, Jacob T., vs. William A. Johnston, 1831 15. Spence, Joseph, vs. James T. Aklen, 1865 16. State vs. James N. Smith, 1865 17. State vs. Jonas T. Akin, 1861 18. State vs. Littleberry B. Andrews, 1861 19. State vs. Elijah Ashton, 1861 20. State vs. James C. Cooper, 1861 21. State vs. William Dempsey, 1839 22. State vs. Thomas Douglas, 1861 23. State vs. James Evans, 1861 24. State vs. John Evans, 1861 25. State vs. George W. Ferguson, 1861 26. State vs. Uriah Galloway, 1861-64 27. State vs. Polly Ann Gilmor, 1839 28. State vs. Pinkney C. Gray, 1861 29. State vs. John H. Grisham, 1861 30. State vs. Thomas A, Harris, 1860 31. State vs. Alfred M. Harrison, 1861 32. State vs. Isabella Hill, 1839 33. State vs. Tennessee Hunt, 1861 34. State vs. Henry Johnson and Barney B. Stephens, 1860 35. State vs. James Johnson, 1861 36. State vs. William Johnson, 1859-1862 37. State vs. Lewis F. Lanier, 1861 38. State vs. Alfred Loftin, 1861 39. State vs. _____ McClanahan, 1861 40. State vs. Joseph McDonald, 1860-61 41. State vs. Jonathan McManus, 1838 42. State vs. Mack Miller, 1878 43. State vs. John and Riley Neeley, 1878 44. State vs. James Paul, 1861 45. State vs. Jefferson Peay, 1861 46. State vs. Robert T. Perry, 1838 47. State vs. Robert T. Perry, 1861 48. State vs. Henry Pickens, 1865 49. State vs. Gideon J. Pillow and Powhatan D. Franklin, 1838 50. State vs. Gideon J. Pillow and Richard G. Looney, 1839 51. State vs. William H. Polk, 1839 52. State vs. William H. Polk and Robert C. Love, 1837 53. State vs. Rufus C. Puckett and James A. Richardson, 1860-61 54. State vs. Stanford Ray, 1837 55. State vs. John A. Revier, 1864-65 56. State vs. John A. Revier, 1883-85 57. State vs. Benjamin Rutledge, 1816 58. State vs. Thomas Scruggs, 1837 59. State vs. Ira Shires, 1861 60. State vs. Isaac Smith, 1839 61. State vs. Milton Turbeville, 1861 62. State vs. Anderson Webb and John Johnson, 1858 63. State vs. Felix K. Zollicofer, 1839 64. Thompson, John, vs. John Grimes, 1824 65. West, William M., vs. John Hatchett, 1825 66. Willis, Francis, vs. Jeremiah H. McKenzie, 1821-1823 67. Wood, John L., vs. Samuel McDaniel and Mark Jackson, 1824 68. Winn, Samuel, vs. William Kirk, 1823 69. Wynne, Albert H., vs. Abner Pillow, 1824 70. Zollicofer, F., cases of indebtedness to, 1830-32 Box 4 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.) – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Accounts, 1815-1878 2. Appointments and resignations, 1816-1860 3. Bastardy bonds, 1818-1857 4. Bastardy cases (abstracts), 1836-1896 5. Changes in voting districts, 1840-1860 6. Election and juror records, 1811-1865 7. Estate and guardianship records, 1811-1865 8. Fieri facias, 1819-1861 9. Insanity records, 1836-1882
Microfilm Roll #2______Box 4 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 10. Inquests, 1814-1882 11. Jail records, 1816-1878 12. Judgments, 1812-1814 13. Judgments, 1815-1816 14. Judgments, 1817 15. Judgments, 1818
Box 5 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Judgments, 1819 2. Judgments, 1820-1821 3. Judgments, 1822 4. Judgments, 1823-1824 5. Judgments, 1825-1826 6. Judgments, 1827 7. Judgments, 1827 8. Judgments, 1828 9. Judgments, 1829 10. Judgments, 1830-1831
Box 6 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Judgments, 1832 2. Judgments, 1833 3. Judgments, 1834-1838 4. Judgments, undated 5. Land records, 1829, 1847 6. Merchants licenses, 1854, 1865 7. Minutes, 1816-1827 8. Minutes, 1828-1895, n.d. 9. Oaths, 1818, 1866, n.d. 10. Ordinary bonds (tavern, lodging, or eating house), 1808-1835 11. Pauper records, 1814-1839 12. Pauper records, 1844-1859 13. Pauper records, 1860-1869
Box 7 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Pauper records, 1870-1879 2. Pauper records, 1880-1889 3. Pauper records, 1890-1892 4. Pauper records, undated 5. Petition – Hardin, Swan, 1816 6. Petition, Maury County Citizens, 1852 7. Petition – Otey, James H., n.d. 8. Pension application (Revolutionary War) – Lingo, William, 1826 9. Pension application (Revolutionary War) – Parker, Abraham, 1828 10. Power of attorney – Polk, James K., 1837 11. Registration of brand – Polk, Ezekiel, n.d. 12. Report – Commissioners of Duck River, 1814 13. Request for building permits, 1817-1837, n.d. 14. Road records – Beech Grove Road 15. Road records – Benton Road (now Santa Fe Road) 16. Road records – Booker Ferry Road 17. Road records – Carter’s Creek Road 18. Road records – Centerville Road 19. Road records – Chambers Ferry Road 20. Road records – Charlotte Road (or Dickson Courthouse Road) 21. Road records – Chumbley Ford Road 22. Road records – Davis Ferry Road 23. Road records – Doublehead Trace 24. Road records – Franklin Road 25. Road records – Hall Ford Road- Hall’s Trace 26. Road records – Hunter’s Ford (Mt. Pleasant Road) 27. Road records – Hunter’s Road-Hunter’s Ford Road 28. Road records – Huntsville Road 29. Road records – Jackson College Road (Union Seminary) 30. Road records – Johnson Ford Road 31. Road records – Jones Shoals 32. Road records – Lewis Road 33. Road records – Lytle Creek Road (now Mooresville Pike) Box 8 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Road records – McCutchan’s Trace 2. Road records – McGee’s Road and Pond Spring Road 3. Road records – McGraw Ford Road 4. Road records – Military Road 5. Road records – Muscle Shoals Road 6. Road records – Natchez Trace 7. Road records – Old Elk Trace 8. Road records – Old Stage Road 9. Road records – Perryville Road 10. Road records – Pillow’s Road 11. Road records – Pope Road 12. Road records – Randall River Road 13. Road records – Sandford’s Road 14. Road records – Sand Spring Road 15. Road records – Suck Island Road 16. Road records – Townsan’s Trace 17. Road records – Vernon Road 18. Road records – Webster Road (now Hampshire Pike) 19. Road records – Whitaker’s Path 20. Road records – 1809 21. Road records – 1810 22. Road records – 1811 23. Road records – 1812 24. Road records – 1813 25. Road records – 1814 26. Road records – 1815 27. Road records – 1816 28. Road records – 1817 29. Road records – 1818 30. Road records – 1819 31. Road records – 1820
Microfilm Roll #3______Box 9 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Road records – 1821 2. Road records – 1822 3. Road records – 1823 4. Road records – 1824 5. Road records – 1825 6. Road records – 1826 7. Road records – 1827 8. Road records – 1828 9. Road records – 1829-1830 10. Road records – 1837 11. Road records – 1838 12. Road records – 1839 13. Road records – 1840 14. Road records – 1841 15. Road records – 1842 16. Road records – 1843-1844 17. Road records – 1845 18. Road records – 1846
Box 10 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Road records – 1847 2. Road records – 1848 3. Road records – 1849 4. Road records – 1850 5. Road records – 1851 6. Road records – 1852 7. Road records – 1853 8. Road records – 1853 9. Road records – 1854 10. Road records – 1854
Box 11 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Road records – 1855 2. Road records – 1856 3. Road records – 1857 4. Road records – 1858 5. Road records – 1859 6. Road records – 1860 7. Road records – 1861
Box 12 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Road records – undated
Microfilm Roll #4______Box 12 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 2. Road records – undated 3. Road records – undated 4. Road records – undated 5. Road records – undated 6. Road records – undated
Box 13 Series VI: Court Records, Maury County (Tenn.)cont. – MICROFILM ONLY (Original physical records returned to Maury County in 2019) 1. Slave and free black records 2. Subpoenas, 1819-1838 3. Subpoenas, 1857-1862 4. Subpoenas, 1865-1867 5. Subpoenas, 1878-1885 6. Tax records, 1811-1878 7. Tippler’s bonds, 1853-1856 8. Tippler’s bonds, 1861-1866 9. Vagrancy records, 1876, 1878 10. Warrant, 1878
Box 14 Series VII: Diaries and Memoirs 1. Campbell, A.J. (diary excerpt), 1862 2. Carnell, Redick C. (memoir excerpt), 1930 3. Clark, C.H., “Little History of the Civil War,” 1922 4. Gilbert, A.F., “Recollections of Fort Donelson,” 1928 5. Hamilton, Thomas (memoir), 1878 6. Harris, Benjamin Rust (diary excerpts), 1864-1865 7. Hill, Mary E. Richardson (memoir) 8. Hogan, Thomas Maitland (diary), 1862-1863 9. Lusk, Samuel Scott (diary), 1886-1912 10. McConnell, Newton Whitfield (Civil War memoir) 11. Moore, William James (Civil War memoir) 12. Porter, Nimrod (diary excerpts), 1864 13. Smith, Frank Harrison (notebook) 14. Smith, Robert Davis (diary), 1862-1864 15. Webster, Rowena (memoir) 1862-1865 16. Williamson, John Thomas (Civil War memoir) 17. Wray, James G. (Civil War memoir) 18. Writer unknown (diary), 1864-1865 Box 15 Series VIII: Documents, Miscellaneous 1. Anderson, Richard – Will, 1858 (Maury County, Tenn.) 2. Banks, William – Will, 1830 (Moulton County, Ala.) 3. Brevard, Alexander – Will, 1828 (Lincoln County, N.C.) 4. Brevard land (Humphreys County, Tenn.) – Chain of Title 5. Brown, Joseph – legal papers 6. Columbia Company Hotel – Articles of agreement, 1841 7. Farragut, David – Carte de visite photograph 8. Hickman County (Tenn.) citizens – Petition (to U.S. Congress), 1814 9. Hopkins, C.G. – Insurance certificate, 1902 10. Hunt, M. – plat of land grants, n.d. 11. Jones, David S. – Affidavit for Confederate pension, 1904 12. Keesee, Thomas W. – Livery stable account book, 1851-1852 13. Lemaster, Joseph – Legal papers 14. Lincoln, Abraham – Carte de visite photograph 15. Martyn, William P., home – photograph 16. Maury County (Tenn.) Health Office – Notices, 1891 17. McClellan, George, and wife – Carte de visite photograph 18. Mooresville (Tenn.) citizens – Subscription list for community dinner, 1829 19. Porter, Joseph B. – Survey book, 1819 20. Potts, A.M.L. – Carte de visite photograph 21. Ross Company – Scrip, 1832, (Nos. 348 and 367) 22. Tate, Charles R., Lt. – Bill of sale for gravestone, 1871 23. Unidentified woman – Carte de visite photograph 24. Wallace, J. T. – Statement, ca. 1903 25. Whiteside, Bettie – Statement, 1880
Box 16 Series IX: Genealogical Data 1. Anderson family 2. Brandon family 3. Dodson family 4. Flowers and Forsee families (Humphreys and Hickman counties) 5. Fowlkes family (Humphreys and Hickman counties) 6. Garrett family 7. Haile family (Humphreys County, Tenn.) 8. Hopkins family 9. Houston-Lamb families (Lauderdale County, Ala.) 10. Jones family (Houston County, Tenn.) 11. Joyce family (Maury County, Tenn.) 12. Knight family 13. Looney family 14. McClain family 15. McMillan family (Houston County, Tenn.) 16. Miller family (Houston County, Tenn.) 17. Miscellaneous 18. Nichols family (Houston County, Tenn.) 19. Perry family (Maury County, Tenn.) 20. Pillow family 21. Roby family (Houston County, Tenn.) 22. Santa Fe (Tenn.) families 23. Shofner family (Tennessee) 24. Thompson family (Absolom Thompson) 25. Walker, Fitzgerald, and Hight families (Maury County, Tenn.) 26. Webster family (Jonathan Webster) 27. Wollard family (Maury County, Tenn.)
Box 17 Series X: Organizations 1. Columbia Temperance Society – Constitution, 1835 2. Concord Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Maury County, Tenn.) – Register and Session Book
Microfilm Roll #5______Box 17 Series X: Organizations 3. Knights of Pythias, Phintias Lodge No. 37 – Minute Book, 1884-1891 4. Knights of Pythias, Phintias Lodge No. 37 – Minute Book, 1891-1893 5. Knights of Pythias, Phintias Lodge No. 37 – Minute Book, 1893-1896 6. Knights of Pythias, Phintias Lodge No. 37 – Minute Book, 1896-1898
Box 18 Series X: Organizations cont. 1. Knights of Pythias, Phintias Lodge No. 37 – Minute Book, 1899-1902 2. Knights of Pythias, Phintias Lodge No. 37 – Minute Book, 1902-1904 3. Knights of Pythias, Phintias Lodge No. 37 – Roll of Officers, 1894-1905 4. Maury County Historical Society – Minutes, 1905-1908 5. Napier Iron Company – Minute Book, 1879-1882 6. Order of Pale Faces – Constitution and By-laws, 1868 7. Order of Pale Faces – Pale Face Sentinel, 1870 8. Order of Pale Faces – Treasurer’s Report
Box 19 Series XI: Sketches, Historical and Biographical 1. “Bugle Echoes from Fort Donelson” 2. “Columbia Female Institute” 3. “Early Cross Bridges and the Websters” 4. “Ebenenzer Presbyterian Church, Hopewell Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Matthews Cemetery” 5. “First Execution for Deserting Confederacy” 6. “Fort Donelson” 7. “G.B. Holladay” (autobiographical sketch) 8. “Gen. Forrest, C.S.A. and his Scout Company” 9. “General Van Dorn and Mrs. Peters” 10. “Indian Camp” (Humphreys County) 11. “Kauffman Assassination” 12. “Keg Springs Stand” 13. “Lauderdale County (Ala.) Courthouse” 14. “Old Mr. Lamastus” 15. “Opportunity Knocks in Houston County” 16. “Richard Rapier of Nashville and Florence” 17. “St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Columbia, Tenn.: The First 125 Years of the Parish, 1829-1954” 18. “The ‘H --- and High Water’ of Fort Henry” 19. “The Forks of Cypress, Home of James Jackson” 20. “The Lost City of Reynoldsburg” 21. “The Veteran and the Boy”
Box 19 Series XII: Writings of Jill Knight Garrett 22. Guerillas and Bushwhackers in Middle Tennessee During the Civil War 23. History of Lauderdale County, Alabama 24. Ku Klux Klan, the Pale Faces in Maury County 25. Maury County: The First 100 Years
Oversize (Map Cases – Mss. Drawer 3)- Not on microfilm Map – Columbia, Tenn. Map – Maury County Court with old and new courthouses, 1807-1974
Oversize (VII-C-6) Hotel Registry, Columbia (Tenn.) 1899-1900