Memphis, Tennessee

Quick Facts
Indian names:

1819: Founded by, and 1826: Formally incorporated as a city.

African-American Research

 * A researchers's guide to African materials in the John Willard Brister Library at Memphis State University: with supplemental data of interest to Africanists

Archives and Libraries

 * The West Tennessee Historical Society guide to archives and collections. Housed in the Mississippi Valley Collection of the Memphis State University Libraries.

Biography

 * Literary Memphis, a survey of its writers and writings
 * The old guard in gray : researches in the annals of the Confederate Historical Association, sketches of Memphis veterans who upheld her standard in the war, and of other Confederate worthies
 * History of the city of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent citizens

Business Records and Commerce

 * The first Orgill century, 1847-1947

Cemeteries

 * Roman Catholic Cemeteries

All Saints Catholic
7500 East Holmes Road Memphis, TN 38125 Phone: (901) 948-1529
 * Find A Grave

All Saints Episcopal Church Columbarium
1508 South White Station Road Memphis TN 38117 901/685-7333
 * Find A Grave

Anshei Sphard
2160 Airways Blvd Memphis, TN 38114
 * Find A Grave

Baron Hirsch
1523 South Rozelle Memphis, TN 38120 Contact: Baron Hirsch Congregation 400 South Yates Memphis, TN 38120 (901) 683-7485
 * Find A Grave

Beth Sholom Memorial Gardens
Thought to contain the oldest marked grave in Shelby County, that of Sally Carr Bettis, who died giving birth to her ninth child in 1826. Memphis, TN
 * Find A Grave

Bettis Family
Memphis, TN
 * Find A Grave

Calvary Catholic
1663 Elvis Presley Boulevard Memphis, TN 38106 Phone: (901) 948-1529
 * Find A Grave

Elmwood
Memphis, TN
 * Find A Grave
 * Elmwood: charter, rules, regulations and by-laws of Elmwood Cemetery Association of Memphis, history of the cemetery, biographical sketches, attractive monuments, names of proprietors
 * Confederate burials, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee
 * Confederates of Elmwood
 * Elmwood 2002 : in the shadow of the elms

Memphis National
formerly known as Mississippi River National Cemetery
 * Civil War soldiers buried in the Memphis Tennessee National Cemetery

Zalowitz-Beth El Emeth
4431 Horn Lake Road Memphis, TN 38109
 * Find A Grave

1870

 * 1870 name index, wards, 1, 3-8, 10 (Memphis, Tennessee)

1865, 1869, 1897

 * Memphis, Tennessee census, 1865, 1869, 1897

Church Biography, History and Records

 * Black pastors and leaders : Memphis, 1819-1972

Baptist

 * A brief history of the Central Avenue Baptist Church from its organization, July, 1873 to January 1, 1937

Methodist

 * From the corner of Peabody and Bellevue: the history of St. John's Methodist Church, Memphis, Tennessee
 * The great book: Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, 1832-1972, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee

Presbyterian

 * Baptisms, communions, burials, and marriages, 1841-1995 (St. Peter's Cumberland Presbyterian) 
 * Baptisms, 1841-1943
 * Communions, 1872-1893, 1946-1995
 * Burials, 1889-1995
 * Marriages, 1842-1995
 * Church records, 1845-1903 (Memphis First Cumberland Presbyterian)

Roman Catholic
The Catholic Center<BR> 5825 Shelby Oaks Drive<BR> Memphis, Tennessee 38134-7316
 * Diocese of Memphis<BR>

Epidemics
1870s: Series of yellow fever outbreaks

1878: Yellow fever outbreak reduced city population by nearly 75 percent, as result of either dying or fleeing the city permamently.