Obituaries from Early Tennessee Newspapers, 1794-1851
By S. Emmett Lucas.
Description
As described in the book Marriages from Early Tennessee Newspapers, 1794-1851, these Obituaries taken from the earliest Tennessee Newspapers have been available ONLY at the Tennessee State Library & Archives in Nashville. These approximately 7,000 death notices contain date and place od death, sometimes the cause of death, survivors, age at time of death, etc.... A glance at these notices show for instance: one person dying in 1807 aged 60, another dying in 1815 aged 88, another in 1832 aged 95. Thus the reader can readily see that these obituaries will often carry a person back well in...
ISBN(s)
0893080934, 9780893080938
