Joseph Cason, Deceased 1835, and His Descendants


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Joseph Cason (ca. 1776-1835) was probably born in North Carolina. Rebecca Miller (ca. 1773-1835) was born in Laurens County, South Carolina, the daughter of John and Mary Anderson Miller. They were married in Georgia, close to the Mississippi border, before 1799. They had ten children, ca. 1798-ca. 1820. The family was living in North Carolina for the birth of their oldest child, in Abbeyville District, South Carolina, by 1800 and in Tennessee by 1812. Joseph and Rebecca Cason died in a cholera epidemic in Wilson County, Tennessee. Descendants lived in Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere.




Rucker Heritage


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Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children


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Just as he did for the 29 counties of East Tennessee and the 19 counties of West Tennessee, Dr. Alan Miller has sifted through the apprenticeship records of Middle Tennessee and brought them within the reach of the genealogy researcher. This second volume of Tennessee's "forgotten children" contains some 7,000 apprenticeship records scattered among the minutes of the county courts for Middle Tennessee. These records span the period from 1784 to 1902 and list in tabular form the apprenticeships created in the following 35 Tennessee counties: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Overton, Perry, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Van Buren, Warren, Wayne, White, Williamson, and Wilson.







Tennessee Records


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This is an exhaustive cemetery-by-cemetery listing of Tennessee mortuary inscriptions, with a separate section of over 100 pages devoted to biographical and historical sketches.




Index to the 1820 Census of Tennessee


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Overall, this is an alphabetical index to 35,000 Tennessee heads of households listed in the fourth federal census, taken in 1820, with reference to the individual's county of residence and the page number of the census schedule wherein full data on the household and its occupants may be found.




Index to Early Tennessee Wills and Administrations 1779-1861


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This invaluable index, by two distinguished genealogists, has long been regarded as one of the most important sourcebooks in Tennessee genealogy. It documents over 41,500 entries covering all 62 counties for which antebellum estate records have survived. It is arranged by surname, so the entire list of wills of any given family in the state can be found under one heading. With few exceptions, the names in the index were taken from microfilmed copies of the original county records.




A History of Hickman County, Tennessee


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