Early East Tennessee Marriages, 2 Volumes. Byron & Barbara Sistler. Hardcover, (1987), Index, 800 pp.

In this two-volume set, Volume 1 is arranged by grooms, Volume 2 arranged by brides. There are approximately 76,000 marriages (152,000 names), including all extant antebellum records from East Tennessee. All pre-1861 marriages are set forth and, where feasible and convenient (primarily because of cutoff dates of the original books), the authors have also included many later records as well.

The information in the Brides Book (Volume 2), is a duplication of that in the Grooms, the difference being in the order in which they appear. Each volume is a single area-wide alphabetical listing of the records.

Where two dates appear on an entry, the first one is the date the license was issued, the second (in parentheses) the date the marriage was solemnized. If only one date is present, it usually means that the date of execution was the same as the date of license issuance. At the end of the entry is the county in which the marriage was executed.

The source of the information documented in these 2 volumes is from microfilm located at The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.

Following are the counties that are the subject of this work, followed by the years represented:

• Anderson 1838-1882
• Blount 1795-1865
• Campbell 1838-1881
• Carter 1796-1876
• Claiborne 1838-1868
• Grainger 1796-1866
• Greene 1783-1868
• Hamilton 1857-1863
• Hawkins 1789-1865
• Jefferson 1792-1870
• Johnson 1838-1880
• Knox 1792-1865
• McMinn 1820-1870
• Meigs 1838-1865
• Monroe 1838-1870
• Rhea 1808-1861
• Roane 1801-1875
• Scott 1854-1880
• Sevier 1856-1873
• Washington 1780-1870

Book #: SA16