Early Middle Tennessee Marriages. Two Volumes. Byron Sistler and Barbara Sistler. Hardbound, (1988),reprint 2013, Biblio., Indexed, 1,226 pp.

In this two-volume set, Volume 1 is arranged by grooms, Volume 2 arranged by brides. There are approximately 109,000 marriages (218,000 names), excluding antebellum records from the area of Middle Tennessee, which do not exist. 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:

• Cannon 1838-1873
• Cheatham 1856-1881
• Coffee 1853-1870
• Davidson 1789-1863
• DeKalb 1848-1880
• Dickson 1817-1870
• Franklin 1838-1874
• Giles 1818-1864
• Grundy 1844-1880
• Lawrence 1818-1870
• Lewis 1844-1880
• Lincoln 1838-1871
• Marshall 1836-1870
• Maury 1807-1867
• Montgomery 1838-1867
• Robertson 1839-1861
• Rutherford 1804-1864
• Sequatchie 1858-1881
• Smith 1838-1870
• Stewart 1838-1866
• Sumner 1787-1875
• Van Buren 1840-1875
• Warren 1852-1865
• Wayne 1857-1871
• White 1809-1870
• Williamson 1800-1879
• Wilson 1802-1865

Book #: J-SA1311
ISBN: 9781596413115