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The Mary Ann Scurlock Collection contains documents, photographs and ephemera belonging to late Dover resident Mary Ann Scurlock. The collection is arranged in 1 box, with some loaned items available as digital scans only. The collection was donated to the Archives in 2020. Mary Ann (Bruton) Scurlock (1927-2020) was the daughter of Harvey and Lora Seay (Brandon) Bruton. She founded Mary Ann’s Flower Shop in Dover and was a member of the Ft. Donelson Memorial United Methodist Church. She was the widow of James T. Scurlock. The collection includes several 1930s issues of the Stewart County Times newspaper, various family and Dover photographs, souvenir scarves, the 1963 Dover Grade School yearbook, and an interesting compilation of Civil War research material. A 48-star U. S. Flag is also in the collection (proudly hanging on the wall at the Archives). Digital-only items include Bruton family research and photos, letters from William Henry Oliver, and funeral cards of Nancy Bufford Webb (1897-1915). A list of the contents of this collection can be found on the Finding Aids page.
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The Ella Lee Keatts Hilliard Collection contains 6 store ledgers from the Cumberland Valley Drug Company, a pharmacy / drug store at Indian Mound, Tennessee, and covers the years 1926 through 1948. Also included is a circa-1953 Army regulation manual and a savings book from the First Trust and Savings Bank, Clarksville, TN. The items were found in a shed behind Mrs. Hilliard's former home by the current owner, who donated them to the Archives. The Cumberland Valley Drug Company began operations about 1921. Its President was Dr. Cyrus Nathan Keatts, MD, and the Secretary/Treasurer was his brother, Clarence Kincaid Keatts. Dr. Cyrus Nathan Keatts was born in 1876, a native of Montgomery County who moved to Stewart County at age 14. He died in 1963, having been a physician at Indian Mound for 61 years. Clarence Kincaid Keatts, a native of Montgomery County, was born July 5, 1874 and died February 10, 1942. His obituary stated that he had been in the drug business in Indian Mound for 21 years. The 1913-14 edition of the Era Druggists Directory lists Keatts & Co., Smith and Stewart, and H. B. Smith as retail druggists in Indian Mound, Tenn. Ella Lee (Legate) Keatts Hilliard was born January 2, 1909 in Stewart County, the daughter of Morris and Minerva (Byrd) Legate. She was married about 1925 to Clarence Kincaid Keatts, and in 1948 to Freeman J. Hilliard, who died in 1956. Mrs. Hilliard died May 16, 1990 at Memorial Hospital, Clarksville, TN. The store ledgers contain accounts due from customers of the drug company, and are indexed. From 1976-1990, the Tennessee Historical Commission sponsored surveys of historic (pre-1930) buildings across the State. In Stewart County, the work was carried out in 1981 via a grant to the Mid-Cumberland Youth Conservation Community Improvement Project. Workers traveled around the county inventorying the surviving historic man-made structures, using state-provided forms. Photographs of the structures were made where possible. The collection includes not only residences, but also out buildings, and a few historic structures that were no longer standing. The original documents and photographs produced by the project are housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Record Group 189 (County Architectural Surveys, 1976-1990). The Stewart County Archives has a copy of the Stewart County part of that collection, and they are useful for researching the history of historic homes in the county. A list of the 827 structures that were inventoried was also created, and each structure was assigned a number. You can view that list in this file: 
Samples of the completed survey forms are shown here. Each structure typically has 2 survey forms and 2 photographs. In 2021, Jane (Smith) Bagwell loaned four 3-ring binders to the Stewart County Archives for digitization, consisting of research notes, correspondence and documents compiled by her late mother-in-law, Lorena (Lewis) Bagwell, a longtime county and family historian. Topics and families covered in the binders include:
Vertical files are a grab-bag, shot-in-the-dark at any research location. They're typically stored 'vertically' in a filing cabinet, as opposed to how books are stored on shelves. They can contain all sorts of research material compiled by other researchers or staff members. You may find family research, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. Be sure to ask for them when you visit! Here is a (mostly complete) list of the vertical files at the Archives.
The Fred Parker Killebrew Collection is a digital-only collection of documents, photographs and ephemera belonging to Stewart County native Fred Parker Killebrew (1926/2012), who was born and raised in the Parkertown community of northeastern Stewart County. The collection includes photographs of the Parker and Killebrew families, as well as documents and ephemera from those families. Fred Parker Killebrew was the son of David Brunson Killebrew and Cynthia Frances Parker of Parkertown, Stewart County. He graduated from Stewart County High School in 1944. Items in the collection include:
The Archives does not hold original church records (except as noted below), but we have collected digital images of many records of county churches. Our collection of church records currently contains the following:
 Standing Rock Church In 2022, Jane Bagwell donated to the Archives the 'field notes' created for the cemetery book that was published in 1983 by the Stewart County Historical Society. Each cemetery received its own yellow file folder, and each folder contains one or more transcriptions of the cemetery. The field work was done largely by employees of the Mid-Cumberland Human Resource Agency, of which Jane was the local Director. Transcriptions were typed and proofread by volunteers with the Historical Society. The cemetery book was published in 1983, and had been out-of-print for years, but was recently republished by the Historical Society and is available on Amazon. These folders provide great information that didn't make it into the cemetery book, such as a sketch of the cemetery showing the layout of graves. Digital images of this collection are available on our Google Drive.  The Brandon Buhler Collection was donated to the Archives in 2008 by Brandon Buhler of Clarksville. It documents the Buhler family that lived near Parkertown in northeastern Stewart County (present-day Fort Campbell). The family descends from brothers Ulrich (1838), Frederick (1842) and John (1849) Buhler, natives of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. Ulrich came to Stewart County in 1869, with Frederick and John joining him in 1871. Included in the collection are
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