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Knox County Archives

Mission Statement

The purpose of the Knox County Archives is to receive, process, and preserve the non-current, permanent records created by the Knox County, Tennessee government from 1792 to the present. The Knox County Archives provides information on the origins and history of the court systems, court records, genealogy, and history of Knox County, Tennessee. The Archives provides public access to all holdings, with the exception of juvenile records and those restricted by Tennessee laws. It provides local government source material to court officials, genealogists, legal professionals, historians, and the general public.

A long list of records available follows here:

http://knoxrooms.sirsi.net/rooms/portal/page/21590_Knox_County_Archives




History

Knox County was created on June 11, 1792 by Governor William Blount from parts of Greene and Hawkins counties, and has the distinction of being one of only eight counties created during territorial administration. It is one of nine United States counties named for Revolutionary War general and first United States Secretary of War Henry Knox. Parts of Knox County later became Blount (1795), Anderson (1801), Roane (1801), and Union (1850) counties.

In 1786 James White built a fort five miles below the junction of the French Broad and Holston Rivers on the southernmost edge of frontier settlement in present-day East Tennessee. William Blount, governor of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, selected the site of James White's Fort as the territorial capital in 1791. He gave it the name Knoxville in honor of his direct superior as territorial governor, Revolutionary War hero General Henry Knox (1750-1806), who served as the first U.S. Secretary of War from 1785 to 1794.

Governor Blount designated Knoxville as the capital of the Territory South of the River Ohio from 1791 to 1796. Knoxville also served as the capital of the State of Tennessee from 1796 to 1812, with the exception of one day in 1807, when the legislature met in Kingston to fulfill a treaty obligation with the Cherokee, and briefly again in 1817-18. Frontier leader General John Sevier, a resident of Knox County, served as governor of Tennessee from 1796 to 1801 and 1803 to 1809, most of Knoxville's years as the state capital. Since no state capitol building was constructed until 1845, when work began on the capitol building in Nashville, the general assembly met in taverns and public buildings. The William Blount Mansion (1792), the home of Territorial Governor Blount, is the most historically significant dwelling surviving in Knox County from the pre-statehood era. It is the only National Historic Landmark in the county.

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_County,_Tennessee

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Keeping Up With the Joneses: Hawkins County History Book

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

Keeping Up With the Joneses:
Descendants of Peter Paul Jones of Hawkins County, Tennessee

http://jonesbook.net23.net/index.php

Peter Paul Jones was an almost legendary character in the Clinch/Lee Valley area of Hawkins County. He married at least twice. His son William Asa “Ace” Jones was a primary person in the famous Greene-Jones War and was accused of the murder of Thomas J. Berry, the father of well-known Hawkins County benefactor, George L. Berry. This book traces eight generations of Peter’s family and over 2000 descendants who are described in this almost 300-page volume. There are more than 10,000 connected people in the large index. Original court cases and Civil War pension documents are transcribed in this volume which give us much insight into the family and times.

Because so many of the Jones descendants do not have the name of Jones, a complete index to the book has been posted on the web so you can see if any of your people are included. Copy and paste this link into your web browser if it doesn’t link directly.

http://jonesbook.net23.net/index.php

There are dozens of other surnames besides Jones—with substantial numbers of the surnames of Short, Trent, Pearson, Cope, Collins, Davis, Day, Price, Rippetoe, Greene, Drinnon, Amyx, Byrd, etc.

Mrs. Garner, a genealogical and historical researcher, published the award-winning East Tennessee companion books, The Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Price Jr. and Cantwell-Greene Families of East Tennessee and, in order to keep the price as low as possible, has Greene Families of East Tennessee and, in order to keep the price as low as possible, has chosen to forego the recovery of all expenses she incurred over her years of dedication to this project so that she could provide for you this book for only the printing, binding, and shipping costs. Printed on pH neutral paper, conforming to Library of Congress standards, with an every-name index, the book has many pictures, documents and obituaries and that will be treasured for generations.

If you would like your own copy of this book, please reserve by phone or email the number you want by Sep 18, as that is the date I will place the order with the printer. To complete your order, please fill out the order form below and send with a check for the total amount made out to Hallie Garner. This book will be mailed hopefully in October, but certainly before Christmas if you wish to use as a Christmas present for anyone in the family. Each book will be autographed and can be inscribed to the recipient if that information is given. If ordering multiple copies to one address, reductions can be made in shipping costs.

For additional information contact: Hallie Garner, 214-349-3869 or hallie.garner@gmail.com.
http://jonesbook.net23.net/index.php

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Print an order form here:

http://www.genpage.com/JonesBookFlyer.PDF

If you look closely you can
see the handwritten
inscription Peter Jones on
this hand-made tombstone
in Treadway. He is buried
beside his first wife.

















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