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The Tennessee General Assembly passed a law in 1881 requiring counties to record births and deaths. The law was repealed in early 1883, apparently due to the lack of compliance and enforcement.
Stewart County has both the Birth Records and Death Records volumes surviving for this period, though just a few pages were used in each volume due to the short lifespan of the state law. The Birth Records pages were microfilmed in the late 1960s. The information from those pages has been on the Stewart County TNGenWeb site for 11 years. Tucked inside the Birth Records book were a few loose birth certificates and five loose death certificates, also from the 1881-1883 period, which have also been on the TNGenWeb site for over a decade. We realized only recently that the Death Records book not only had never been microfilmed, but that its contents had *not* been transcribed. The 74 death records contained in the book have been seen by very few researchers until now. These death records contain great information for researchers, including parents' names and place of residence. This is a thrilling find that has been hiding in plain sight here at the Archives for a long time. See the attached images for a full transcription of the recorded death information. A transcription of all the death information, plus images from the original book, are available on the Archives' Google Drive, as a PDF file, at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_7r_THHdOKo5_me9XmdDQEiG0CgwZrB4/view?usp=drive_link The names, ages and dates of death mentioned are: Acree, Grien Ann 40 Mar 9, 1882 Allen, Grace 1 Sep 8, 1881 Anderson, Cliff 8 Jul 9, 1881 Anderson, Evan 3 Oct 7, 1882 Andrews, Robert Allen 1 May 11, 1882 Bachelor, John Henry Erwin 2 Oct 2, 1881 Barnes, Lydia 63 Aug 11, 1881 Black, George Franklin 11 mos. Aug 11, 1881 Blaine, Sylvia Lorana 17 Mar 1, 1882 Bond, Rosella 5 Jul 20, 1881 Bradford, Ambrose B. 5 Aug 6, 1881 Bradshaw, James Emmerson 26 Dec 31, 1881 Brown, Curtis Scott 3 Aug 27, 1881 Brown, Willie Gertrude 10 mos. Mar 8, 1882 Burk, William 41 Burke, James Walter 9 Sep 18, 1881 Carter, Margaret 28 Aug 27, 1882 Cherry, Charles Cullen Oct 12, 1881 Chester, Fannie 19 Apr 18, 1881 Choat, Joseph Michael 6 mos. Sep 10, 1881 Crane, Isaac Crow 2 Sep 12, 1881 Dennis, ---- 0 Sep 5, 1881 Dilday, Henry 27 Jul 14, 1881 Doolin, Nicholas 75 Jun 30, 1881 Dortch, Columbus 41 Apr 11, 1881 Doyle, John 40 Jun 15, 1882 Duncan, Louella 10 Nov 2, 1881 Ferguson, Alosious 2 Aug 2, 1881 Fielder, Joseph A. B. 20 Sep 20, 1881 Futrell, William Dawsey 20 May 22, 1881 Giffin, J. W. 42 Apr 5, 1881 Givins, James 23 Jun 15, 1882 Green, Elizabeth Ann 29 Sep 19, 1881 Griffin, Nelson 81 May 3, 1881 Hargis, Mary Ann Martha 68 Jul 24, 1881 Harris, Chattee Bratton 8 Sep 18, 1881 Hodges, George Warner 37 Sep 18, 1882 Hues, John 22 Sep 23, 1882 Johnson, William Rufus 30 Apr 15, 1882 Kirksey, Alice Edna 1 Oct 21, 1881 Lee, ---- 0 Dec 18, 1881 Lee, Addie Lenora 16 Dec 21, 1881 Lee, Mary Catherine 30 Feb 27, 1883 Marberry 5 hrs. Aug 6, 1882 May, Phillip S. 18 Aug 8, 1881 McCarty, John Lee 8 Aug 19, 1882 McElroy, Anna 3 Sep 26, 1881 McKinney, Milley Jun 30, 1881 Milam, Lorance 4 Aug 16, 1881 Morris, William Gray 70 Nov 7, 1881 Nolan, Ellan 40 Mar 7, 1882 Pace, ---- 0 Dec 2, 1881 Parker, William N. 30 Feb 12, 1882 Price, Martha Parelee 24 Jul 25, 1881 Richardson, John 38 Jan 23, 1882 Riggins, Isabel 35 May 17, 1882 Ross, James 68 May 26, 1881 Ross, Mary H. 20 Feb 15, 1882 Ruggles, C. 21 Jun 30, 1881 Ruggles, Christian Jun 30, 1881 Sikes, C. C. 63 Aug 23, 1881 Stacker, Mary E. 12 Jun 4, 1882 Stubblefield, Willie 6 mos. May 22, 1881 Stumbelfield, Willie 1 May 22, 1881 Taylor, Albert Lee 5 days Dec 25, 1882 Taylor, Mary Green 24 Dec 21, 1882 Taylor, Walter Lee 28 Nov 12, 1882 Thompson, William 40 May 1, 1881 Tidwell, Anna Bell 10 mos. Dec 12, 1881 Townzen, Henry Coleman 83 Jan 28, 1882 Venable, Carneygan E. 32 Sep 2, 1881 Wallace, ---- 1 day Jul 2, 1881 Wallace, Lydia 25 Aug 25, 1882 Wallace, Mary Catharine 2 Jul 21, 1881 Walter, Mary Woods Jan 8, 1882 Welker, Hettie 3 Sep 27, 1881 Will, Henry 30 Jul 31, 1881 Williams 1 day Dec 26, 1881 Woods, Clifton 19 Nov 3, 1881
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