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Guide to Greene 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 for Major General Nathanael Greene. The County is located in the northeast area of the state.

County Courthouse
Greene County Courthouse 101 South Main Street Greenville, TN 37743 Phone: 423.798.1708 County Clerk has marriage and probate records; Register of Deeds has land records.

Greene County Courthouse 101 South Main St. Greeneville, TN 37743 Phone: 1-423-798-1708

Greene County Clerk Marriage and Probate records 204 North Cutler St., Suite 200 Greeneville, TN 37745 Phone: 1-423-798-1708

Greene County Clerk and Master Court records 101 South Main St. Greeneville, TN 37743 Phone: 1-423-798-1742

Hours: Mon.- Fri. 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

County Pronunciation
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 * 2) Hear it spoken (female)

History Timeline
Additional Information

The county is named after Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene (1742-1786).

Greene County was created in 1783 by the North Carolina legislature from Washington. In 1784 Greene joined two neighboring counties in declaring their independence from North Carolina. In 1785 these counties applied for admission to the United States as the State of Franklin. The request was denied and hope for Franklin statehood faded by 1789. In 1789, when North Carolina was admitted to the United States, she ceded her westernmost counties including Greene County to the United States. The United States turned these counties into the Southwest Territory. In 1792 the Southwest Territory created Jefferson County partly out of Greene County. 1796 all the land in these Southwest Territory counties became part of the new State of Tennessee.

East Tennessee county established in 1783. From 1784 to 1788, this land was claimed by the abortive, short-lived State of Franklin.

Biographies

 * Crockett, David. Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas. (New York Wm. H. Graham, Tribune Buildings, 1848.Free digital copy.

Business, Commerce, and Occupations

 * Miller, Alan N. East Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1778 to 1911. Baltimore, Md.: Printed for Clearfield Company, Inc., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000. . Digital version at World Vital Records ($). Purchase at Genealogical.com. Includes Greene County.

Cemeteries

 * Tennessee cemetery records often identify birth, death, relationship, and military information, as well as religious affiliation.
 * Tennessee Cemeteries Hometown Locator
 * Greene County, Tennessee Cemetery Records at Ancestry $)
 * Charles A. Reeves Jr. has drawn a detailed map showing the locations of Grainger County cemeteries. It may be purchased for a small fee through his Cemetery Maps Catalog$

Census Records
1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 federal population censuses of Greene 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 Greene County, TN census assignments, including links to transcribed files. The USGenWeb Census Project®

1790- Lost, only statistics survive, but substitutes are available, see Greene and:


 * Eakle, Arlene. Tennessee Research. 2010. Purchase information at Arlene Eakle's Tennessee Genealogy Blog. Includes a reconstructed 1790 census, sources: "Contemporary lists–tax lists, militia rolls, land grants and deeds, claims for pre-emption lands, names recorded in diaries and journals. And numerous histories compiled by local historians from records that we have not seen or read ourselves."
 * Jackson, Ronald Vern. Ohio, 1790, Volume Two. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1986. . Includes "Territory Southwest of the River Ohio," i.e. East Tennessee.
 * McGhee, Lucy Kate. Partial Census of 1787 to 1791 of Tennessee as Taken from the North Carolina Land Grants. 3 Parts. Microfilmed in 1990..

1800

1810 Lost, but a substitute is available:


 * Sherrill, Charles A. The Reconstructed 1810 Census of Tennessee: 33,000 Long-lost Records from Tax Lists, Court Minutes, Church Records, Wills, Deeds and Other Sources. Mt. Juliet, Tenn.: C.A. Sherrill, 2001..

1810-1891


 * Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891 at Ancestry

1820 Lost

1820 Manufactures

The original manufactures schedules for the Eastern and Western Districts of Tennessee are kept at the NARA, Washington, D.C. FHL copies:.

The following book is a useful aid for finding the original records. Aonline index, provided by Lineages, will help researchers determine if this resource can be of assistance:


 * National Archives. Indexes to Manufactures Census of 1820. 1920; reprint, Knightstown, Ind.: Bookmark, 1977. ; digital version at Lineages. Covers this county.

1830


 * Sistler, Byron H. 1830 Census, East Tennessee. Evanston, Ill.: n.p., 1969..

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, Eastern District, Greene County on page 152.

1880


 * Sistler, Byron. 1880 Census Greene County, Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn.: B. Sistler &amp; Associates, 1993..

1890 Lost, but substitutes are available:


 * Reed, Sue S. Enumeration of Male Inhabitants of Twenty-one Years of Age and Upward, Citizens of Tennessee, January 1, 1891, as Provided for by an Act of General Assembly of Tennessee, Passed January 15, 1891, and Approved January 22, 1891. 8 vols. Houston, Texas: S.S. Reed, 1989. . Greene County is included in Vol. 7.
 * Sistler, Byron H. and Barbara Sistler. 1890 Civil War Veterans Census, Tennessee. Evanston, Ill.: Byron Sister and Associates, 1978..

1891 Male Voters


 * 1891 Tennessee Enumeration of Male Voters 1891 at Ancestry

1920


 * Godwin, William. 1920 Greene County, Tennessee Census Index: Includes Heads of Households and Persons Whose Surnames Differ from Those of Heads of Household. Greeneville, Tenn.: Greene County Genealogical Society, 2002..

Church Records

 * Greene County Bank. Faith of Our Fathers. Greeneville, Tenn.: n.p., n.d. . [Includes photographs of 21 Greene County churches with short histories.]

Lutheran


 * 1802-1870 - Sinking Springs Lutheran Church Baptism Index 1802-1870. Batch in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch

Quaker


 * Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages from Monthly Meeting of Friends, New Hope, Green County, Tennessee: Notes of Mildred S. Grimsley in Possession of the Las Vegas Nevada Family History Center. Las Vegas, Nev.: Las Vegas Nevada Family History Center, 1989..

Court Records
Circuit court https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/402892

Chancery court https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2485467

Court of Common Pleas https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/149305

Minutes https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/239131

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. The 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 the TSLA; another version is available at World Vital Records.

Emigration and Immigration
During the War of 1812, American officials reported finding a total of 11 British aliens, many of whom had families, living in Greeneville and Greene County.

Genealogies
More than 90 genealogies have been published about Greene County, Tennessee families. For more information visit Greene County, Tennessee Compiled Genealogies.

Land and Property Records
Deeds

The TSLA microfilmed the original Greene County Deed Books 1 to 50 (1785-1887) and Indexes (1785-1931). Copies of their films are also available at the Family History Library:.

The organization Strictly By Name providesonline indexes to early Greene County land records. They offer a research service to photocopy and transcribe microfilm copies of the original documents for a small fee. Available indexes:


 * 1) Deed Book 1: 1785-1793
 * 2) Deed Book 2: 1785-1797
 * 3) Deed Book 3: 1787-1797
 * 4) Deed Book 4: 1790-1802

Local Land Entries Issued by North Carolina

The original Greene County land entries issued by North Carolina are kept at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh. On their website, users can bring up a list of land entries issued in Greene County, both before and after it became a part of the state of Tennessee. Years covered: 1778-1803.

Instructions:


 * 1) Follow this link to conduct a "Call Number Search" using the MARS Catalog on their site.
 * 2) Using the pull down window, change "Call Numbers starting" to "A MarsID matching."
 * 3) Type 12.14.6 (Windows Vista users may need to include a period after the last digit, for example 12.14.6.) and click Search. This is the specific MarsID for Greene County.
 * 4) Click on the entry that is returned: "Tennessee, Greene County."
 * 5) In the window that pops up, click Show List of Child Records and a list of Greene County land entries will be produced. Browse to find abstracts of the original records.

N.B. You can also search by name through the Basic Search, but it lacks soundex capabilities.

Published abstracts:


 * Burgner, Goldene Fillers and Betty Goff Cook Cartwright. North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791. [Greenville, S.C.]: Southern Historical Press, 1981..
 * Burgner, Goldene Fillers. North Carolina Land Grants Recorded in Greene County, Tennessee. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981..

Local Histories

 * Brandon, Connie B. Step Back in Time to Laurel Gap / Baileyton: (Late 1700s through Early 1900s) in Greene County, Tennessee. Greenville, Tenn.: C. Brandon, 2005..

Maps and Gazetteers

 * 1777-1985 - Maps of Tennessee (1777-1985)
 * 1783 Reeves, Charles A. Davidson &amp; Greene Counties, Tennessee - Created in 1783. Published 2000. Purchase at ReevesMaps.com; website includes a scaled-down version of the map.

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 Greene County click on the following town:


 * Greeneville

Other Records
Private Papers
 * Stephens - Stephens Bible. [Tex.]: Texas DAR, Genealogical Records Committee, 1998. . "This Bible was owned by A. Stephens, Jr.; S. L. Stephens in 1848; and S. S. Stephens in 1862 of Greene Co., Tennessee."

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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;


 * The Blount Journal


 * East Tennessee Roots: Published by East Tennessee Roots The table of contents for some issues are available on their website;.


 * The Greene County Pioneer
 * The Greene County Pioneer. 25+ vols. Limestone, Tenn.: Greene County History and Genealogical Society, 1986-present. ff.


 * The Pellissippian: Published by the Anderson County Historical Society (formerly called, Pellissippi Genealogical and Historical Society). The table of contents for some issues are available on their website..
 * Watauga Association of Genealogists Bulletin: Published by Watauga Association of Genealogists. The table of contents for some issues are found on their website; ; Bulletin Subject Index: The First Thirty Years, 1972-2001 (Johnson City, Tenn.: Watauga Association of Genealogists, 2002).

Probate Records
TSLA microfilmed the original Greene County Will Books 1 to 5 (1828-1931). FHL copies:.

Online Records


 * 1779-2008 Tennessee Wills and Probate Records 1779-2008 at Ancestry
 * 18-18 - [ Greene County] portion of at FamilySearch - images only; handwritten indexes may be found at the front or back of some volumes.
 * Inventories, Wills, 1802-1810
 * Wills, 1828-1931 (6 vols.)
 * Insolvent estate records, 1853-1901 (2 vols.)
 * Inventories, 1828-1920 (8 vols.)
 * Inventories, Sales, 1828-1843

The organization Strictly By Name providesonline indexes to early Greene County probate records. They offer a record retrieval service to photocopy and transcribe microfilm copies of the original documents for a small fee. Available indexes:


 * Will Book 0: 1780-1828
 * Will Book 00: 1780-1828
 * Will Books A-F: 1780-1883
 * Will Books G-M: 1780-1883
 * Will Books N-Z: 1780-1883

Book Abstracts and Indexes


 * 1780-1883 - Strictly By Name (see above).
 * 1783-1890 - Burgner, Goldene Fillers. Greene County, Tennessee, Wills, 1783-1890. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981..
 * 1783-1861 - 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 probate records. Free Lookups Available!

Tax Records
The original Greene County Tax Books (1809-1892) are held at the County Courthouse. Microfilmed by TSLA; FHL copies:.

The original Greene County Tax Records (1828-1832) are held at the County Courthouse. Microfilmed by TSLA in 1960s; FHL copy:.

Book Abstracts and Indexes


 * 1783 Tax List, 1783, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. Washington DC: Apr 1919. Vol. 53 Iss. 4.
 * 1783, 1805 Creekmore, Pollyanna. Early East Tennessee Taxpayers. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1980. and Silas Emmett Lucas's Revised Index . Includes 1783 and 1805 tax lists.
 * 1783 Tax List, 1783, Greene County Pioneer, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Sep. 1985); Vol. 1, No. 3 (Dec. 1985).
 * 1783, 1805, 1812 Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Index to Early Tennessee Tax Lists. Evanston, Ill.: B. &amp; B. Sistler, 1977. Includes 1783, 1805, 1812 tax lists.
 * 1783 "First Tax List for Greene County, 1783," The Blount Journal, (Nov. 1988). For FHL access, or to purchase back issues, see Greene.
 * 1783 Tax List, 1783, A-F, Pellissippian, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Oct. 1988).
 * 1785 Tax List, 1785, Greene County Pioneer. Greeneville TN: May 1991. Vol. 7 Iss. 2.
 * 1785-1800 - Tax Lists, 1785, Greene County Pioneer. Vol. 9, No. 2 (Nov. 1993), Vol. 10, No. 1 (May 1994). For FHL access, see Greene.
 * 1787-1792 - Tax Lists, 1787-92, Greene County Pioneer, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Feb. 1989).
 * 1788 Taxable Property in State of Franklin, 1788, Genealogist's Post. Danboro PA: Jan 1965. Vol. 2 Iss. 1.
 * 1788, 1789 Clerk's Taxes, 1788, 1789, North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal. Raleigh NC: Nov 1992. Vol. 18 Iss. 4
 * 1796 Tax List, 1796, Greene County Pioneer. Greeneville TN: Jun 1987. Vol. 3 Iss. 2.
 * 1796 Taxables, 1796, Greene County Pioneer. Greeneville TN: May 1989. Vol. 5 Iss. 2.
 * 1797 Taxables, 1797, Greene County Pioneer. Greeneville TN: Aug 1989. Vol. 5 Iss. 3.
 * 1798 Taxables, 1798, Green County Pioneer, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Nov. 1989); Vol. 6, No. 1 (Feb. 1990).
 * 1799 Tax List, 1799, Greene County Pioneer, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Aug. 1990).
 * 1805 - "1805 Enumeration, Greene County, Tennessee," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Winter 1981):159-163. For FHL and online access, as well as indexes, see Greene. Free digital versions at Sevier County, Tennessee, Genealogy &amp; History website and Jefferson County, Tennessee, Genealogy &amp; History website.
 * 1805, 1812 Curtis, Mary Barnett. Early East Tennessee Tax Lists. Fort Worth, Texas: Arrow Printing Company, 1964. . Includes 1805 and 1812 tax lists.
 * 1805 Tax List, 1805, Wagoner Genealogist. Wagoner OK: Mar 1988. Vol. 8 Iss. 1.
 * 1809 - Standefer, Jewel B. "Petitioners of Green County, Tennessee, Asking for Reduction in Taxes, Etc., 1809," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 1964):121-124. For FHL and online access, as well as indexes, see Greene.
 * 1809-1817 - Historical Records Project (Tennessee). Tax Books, 1809-1817, Greene County, Tennessee. Typescript, Nashville, Tenn..
 * 1809-1817 - Burgner, Goldene Fillers. Greene County Tax Digests, 1809-1817. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1986..
 * 1809-1817 - Sherrill, Charles A. The Reconstructed 1810 Census of Tennessee: 33,000 Long-lost Records from Tax Lists, Court Minutes, Church Records, Wills, Deeds and Other Sources. Mt. Juliet, Tenn.: C.A. Sherrill, 2001. . [Cites Burgner's tax digests as source.]
 * 1809 - "Tax List-1809 Greene Co., Tennessee," available online at TNGenWeb. Source: TSLA Microfilm.
 * 1814 - "Direct Federal Tax-Delinquent Property Owners Listed for 1814," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Fall 1996):115-120. For possible FHL and online access, as well as indexes, see Greene. Includes Green(e) County.
 * 1814-1816 - Direct Tax, 1814-16, Greene County Pioneer. Greeneville TN: May 1996. Vol. 12 Iss. 1.
 * 1825 "Greene County Property Sold in 1825 for Unpaid Federal Taxes," Ansearchin' News, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter 1996):187. For possible FHL and online access, as well as indexes, see Greene.
 * 1830 - Houston, Sandra Kelton. Greene County, Tennessee Guardians and Orphans Court Records, 1783-1870 and 1830 Tax List. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1984..
 * 1836 Douthat, James L. Greene County, Tennessee, 1836 Tennessee Civil District and Tax List. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1993. ; online: index and purchase details.
 * Tax Reduction Petitioners, Ansearchin' News. Memphis TN: Jul 1964. Vol. 11 Iss. 3.

The Greene Co., Tennessee GenWeb site includes abstracts of tax payers by the surnames Brown and Willis.

Birth

 * 1908-1912 - at FamilySearch

Marriage
The original Greene County marriage records are kept at the County Courthouse. In 1965, Soderberg provided the following description: "Few bonds exist for the earliest years and almost no licenses were returned or kept until after 1800. Some years show heavy losses. There is but one bond and twenty-six licenses for the year 1815. Bonds for the last part of the year 1818 have been misplaced since this compilation was started. These had been copied, however, and only the final rechecking was lost." Two organizations have microfilmed these records since the time of Soderberg's remarks:


 * 1) Marriages 1780-1960. Microfilmed in 1970s and 1980s by TSLA; FHL copies:.
 * 2) Marriage Records 1780-1981. Microfilmed between 2005 and 2008 by the Genealogical Society of Utah: ff.

Book Abstracts and Indexes


 * 1625-1966 - Tennessee, United States Marriages at FindMyPast
 * 1780-1895 - Greene County Marriage Index 1780-1895 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch
 * 1780-1837 - Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). Greene County, Tennessee Marriage License &amp; Bonds, 1780-1837. 1937; reprint, Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, (199-?). . Abstracts names of brides, grooms, perhaps bondsmen, and officiators, as well as a date associated with the marriage; W.P.A. workers assigned each document a number; includes W.P.A. index.
 * 1783-1818 - Soderberg, Gertrude L. and Pollyanna Creekmore. Tennessee Marriage Records, Volume 3, Greene County, Volume 1, 1783-1818: Being Transcriptions from the Original Bonds and Licenses at the County Courthouse, Greeneville. Knoxville, Tenn.: Clinchdale Press, 1965. . Abstracts names of brides, grooms, bondsmen, and officiators, dates of bond, license, and/or marriage, as well as W.P.A. reference numbers and "All information of possible genealogical value," such as distinctions for men of the same name, and signatures by marks. Source: original bonds and licenses at the courthouse.
 * 1783-1820 - Peterson, Mrs. Z.R. Greene County, Tennessee Early Marriage Bonds 1783-1820. Typescript, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Ind., 1968. . Abstracts names of brides, grooms, bondsmen, and a date associated with each marriage. Miscataloged as a cemetery record on FamilySearch Catalog (14 July 2010), correction requested same day.
 * 1783-1868 - Burgner, Goldene Fillers. Greene County, Tennessee Marriages, 1783-1868. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981. . Abstracts names of brides, grooms, bondsmen, and officiators, as well as dates of bond, license, and/or marriage. Source: original licenses and bonds at the courthouse.
 * 1783-1870 - Lucas, Silas Emmett and Ella Lee Sheffield. 35,000 Tennessee Marriage Records and Bonds 1783-1870. 3 vols. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981. ff. Abstracts include names of brides, grooms, bondsmen, marriage bond dates, and officiators for weddings in this county for the roughly specified years. Marriage data taken from an index card file at the TSLA. Authors do not specify whether or not the card index completely indexes this county's marriages.
 * 1783-1868 - Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Early East Tennessee Marriages. 2 vols. Nashville, Tenn.: Byron Sistler &amp; Associates, Inc., 1987. . Indexes names of brides and grooms, and marriage dates for weddings in this county for the specified years. Free Lookups Available!
 * 1790 – 1950 - at FamilySearch
 * 1838-1888 - at FamilySearch

Death

 * 1874-1955 - at FamilySearch
 * 1908-1958 - Tennessee Death Records 1908 - 1958 at Ancestry
 * 1914-1966 - at FamilySearch

For deaths of Methodists in Greene County between the 1830s and the 1920s, try the following records:

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

Greene County Genealogical Society T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library 229 N. Main St. Greeneville, TN 37745Website

(423) 638-9866

East Tennessee Historical Society 601 S. Gay Street P.O. Box 1629 Knoxville, TN 37901-1629 Phone: 1-865-215-8824 E-mail: eths@east-tennessee-history.orgWebsite

Greeneville-Greene County Library 210 N. Main St. Greeneville, TN 37745-3816 Phone: 1-423-638-5034 Hours: Mon. and Thurs. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Tues., Wed. and Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Website

Mosheim Public Library 730 Main St. Mosheim, TN 37818-0611 Phone: 1-423-422-7937 Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Fri. 12 p.m.-5 p.m.Website

Websites

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