Monroe County (Tenn.)

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Bethlehem Baptist Church Minutes. 1858-1901. The full name of the church is given only on an interior page. It appears to be in Monroe County, Tenn.

Scope and Contents Papers of the family of John Cannon (1744-ca. 1806) and Ann (Nancy) Whitlow Cannon (1747-1830), from Sevier, Knox, Roane, Monroe and Loudon Counties, Tenn. Papers include personal and business correspondence; account books; receipts; bills; pamphlets; and survey maps of parts of Hamilton, Roane, and Monroe Counties. Most of the papers are about John and Ann Cannon’s sons: Robert (1781-1854), a merchant at Philadelphia, Tenn.; John (1779-1864); and William (1771-1868). Robert’s son William...

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Aug. 5, 1938, vacation church school certificate, Toqua Presbyterian Church, Monroe County, Tenn., to John Carson, Jr. 1 pc. April 12, 1944, letter from Lissie, Newport, Tenn., to Aunt Lucy. TLS 1 p. Re: request for family information for tombstones, family news. + copy of ca. 1907 resolution in memory of Fannie Wiggins. By R. H. Carson. TS 1 p.

Scope and Contents Athens, East Tennessee. April 29,1865, contents include Lincoln Assassination and local Bushwhackers. To James H. Lowery, Esq., Athens, Tenn. From H. W. McNabb, Sand Springs. Mc Nabb anxious to collect money due him, he wants to buy a mower. Settlement of a relative's will and how soon to receive the money. "Please hurry up your collections, the Fall is a bad time to travel, as all the bushwhackers are not yet dead. Times are quiet here and the prospects for peace are brightening. I, with...

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One box of files of newspaper clippings with a few photographs and negatives of subjects related to Monroe County, Tenn. Combined with an earlier gift including a Mss book “Madisonville Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 1895-1899” and a daily diary of Louise Hicks for 1954. Other books with this gift added to the library collection.

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Diploma of Lillian Bowman, Sweetwater High School, Monroe County, Tennessee, May 18, 1917.

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Land grant in the Hiwassee District to Nathan Hendrix et al. Signed by Governor William Carroll. 1823. ADS 2 pp. (torn) + 1841 description of Madisonville, Monroe County, Tenn., by James Perry. 1 p. (Photocopy).

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Slave receipts to John Blair, Monroe County, Tenn. + ca. 1820s-1830s land grants, deeds, etc. of Charles McClung. (Photocopies)

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Loudon County and Monroe County pocket ledger books, Jos. Perkins and James Mahoney - items bought and sold, labor performed, and labor received. Calligraphy lesson in middle of one book.

Scope and Contents Loudon County Historian Rhea Alexander’s collection includes correspondence and papers, photographs, research on families of Loudon, Blount, Monroe, Rhea, and Roane counties, Cherokee Indian families and records, typescripts of treaties with the Cherokee, Colony of Virginia Fort, historic buildings, “Beloved Landmarks of Loudon County,” Hiwassee District, Loudon Co. Bicentennial Film, tax lists, Civil War soldiers, Pioneers of Roane County, James Wyly grave, Regent Hiwassee Chapter DAR. Some...

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Photostat copies of three letters from George Snider, Monroe County, Tenn., to his family: October 1840 (Political); May 1846 (death of mother); September 1846 (death of father). + Snider Family Bible records (Photostat; photocopies placed in Snider Genealogy VF in 1979) + 1953 correspondence with donor, Mrs. Leo Hedgepeth.

Scope and Contents Business and personal papers, photographs, documents of John Monroe Clark (1868-1950) of Blount County, Tennessee and the allied families of Cates, Brabson, Foute and Pinkerton. John Monroe Clark was a successful banker, civic leader, businessman, and an active participant in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was instrumental in preserving and maintaining Clark’s Grove Cemetery and operated a large farm in Blount County. Other important individuals in the...

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Tuskega, the Charles McClung McGhee house, Monroe County, Tenn. B&W 8x10” copy photographs.

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Will of John McGhee, Monroe County, Tenn. 1849. ADS 8 pp. (Pages treated many years ago with fabric for mending and hand sewn into a binder).