We have created these Finding Aids for navigating our Manuscript collections - collections of donated or scanned records that are often full of family-specific history.
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The Acree-Steele Family Collection was loaned to the Archives for scanning in November, 2020. It primarily deals with the Acree and Steele families of the Between the Rivers part of Stewart County. This is a digital-only collection.
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The Thomas J. Brandon Papers contains personal, family and official documents of Thomas Jefferson Brandon (1856-1919) of Stewart County. He was the son of Nathan Brandon (1820/1891) and Minerva E. Morris (1828-1881), who married in Stewart County in 1853. He served as Chancery Court Clerk & Master from 1881-1886, Justice of the Peace for District 7 of Stewart County from 1888-1894, and Circuit Court Clerk from 1886-1902.
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The Rose Marie Reed Brigham scrapbook was loaned to the Archives for digitization in November, 2020. She was born in 1927 in Louisiana and was married to Will Riggins Brigham of Dover, with whom she owned and operated Brigham Hardware in Dover for many years.
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The Bruton-Geurin Photo Collection was loaned to the Archives for scanning in February, 2022. It primarily deals with the Bruton and Geurin families of the Dover area.
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The Brandon Buhler Collection contains personal documents and photographs of Brandon Lee Buhler (1928-2023) of Clarksville, Tennessee and Christian County, Kentucky, who grew up in the northeast part of Stewart County. He was the son of Frank and Gladys (Edwards) Buhler, and was the last of several generations of the Buhler family who lived in Stewart County.
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The Cleo Cherry Grogan Collection contains family history research done by Cleo (Cherry) Grogan on the Byrd, Brigham, Cherry, Grogan, McKinney and Bailey families.
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The Crow Family Papers Collection contains documents, photographs and ephemera belonging to Dover resident Dr. Charles Henry Crow.
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The Crutcher-Lyons Scrapbooks Collection was loaned to the Archives for scanning in July, 2022. The scrapbooks were compiled by the late Nelma Crutcher and deal primary with the Crutcher and Lyons families of Stewart County.
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The Walter F Daniel Collection contains personal documents and ephemera of Walter F. Daniel (1870-1947) of Stewart County. He was the son of Minerva Ann Bogard (1849/1922) and Richard D. Daniel (c. 1846), who married in Stewart County in 1868. After Mr. Daniel’s death, Minerva married T. S. Norden in Stewart County in 1876.
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The Carol Gray Photo Collection contains photographs primarily from the northeastern corner of Stewart County, that in 1942 became Camp Campbell, and from the Gray’s Landing area of western Stewart County on the Tennessee River. The Gray and Buhler families are prominent in the collection.
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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.
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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.
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The Law Enforcement Photo Collection contains photographs of persons who have served Stewart County in the field of law enforcement. The framed collection had been assembled in the 1970s by Sheriff David Hicks, and hung in the Stewart County Jail on Main Street for many years.
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The Jarrett O. Lewis Family Collection contains family documents, photographs and ephemera from 1877 to 1962.
Jarrett Oneal Lewis and Ella Esterlee Walker married in Stewart County in 1904. They had 6 children, 2 of whom survived to adulthood, Virginia (Lewis) Honeyman (1912-1958) and Jesse Lahiff Lewis (1920-1962). |
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The Jim McGee Photo Collection is a small family collection of photographs belonging to Stewart County native James A. McGee. The collection includes early-to-mid 1900s photographs of the McGee and Sexton families.
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The Joyce Melton Collection was loaned to the Archives for scanning in November, 2020. It primarily deals with the Melton and Sills families of the Between the Rivers part of Stewart County.
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The Mary Ann Scurlock Collection contains documents, photographs and ephemera belonging to Dover resident Mary Ann (Bruton) Scurlock (1927-2020). She 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.
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The Weaks Sexton collection contains photographs and memorabilia of George Weaks Sexton (1921-1976) of Dover. This is a digital-only collection. Of special interest in the collection are photographs from the court room in the Stewart County Courthouse, and photos from his World War II service years.
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The Stewart County Riding Club collection contains documents relating to the Stewart County Riding Club, which existed from 1965 to 2004.
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The Iva Augustus Wallace Collection contains personal documents and photographs of the Iva Augustus Wallace family of the Bumpus Mills / Shelby Creek community. Born in 1889, he was the 3rd child of Augustus Henry and Lou Ella (Cobb) Wallace. He was married in 1910 to Eunice Walker, also of the Bumpus Mills community.
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The Orlean Brandon Walter Collection contains personal documents, photographs and ephemera of Orlean (Brandon) Walter (1886-1980) of Stewart County. She was the daughter of Morris Newton Brandon (1863/1896) of Dover and Corinne King (1860-1908) of Meridian, MS.
Orlean Brandon Walter’s home in Dover was the William M. Brandon house, built about 1888 by her stepfather, which in the 1990s became the W. D. Sykes Museum. Of special interest in the collection are 5 photographs showing William Milton Brandon, who was Adjutant General of the Tennessee National Guard during the term of office of Governor Benton McMillin (1899-1903). |
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The Carolyn Griggs Whitford Collection contains photographs and a few documents of the Whitford family of Stewart County.
Of special interest in the collection is an often-reproduced original of a photograph of a group of men in front of the Stewart County Courthouse, with names identified on the back of the photograph, dated to about 1906-1908. |
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The Yearbook Collection contains local and area school yearbooks donated by individuals.
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