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Date: Meets
every 4th Tuesday of the month during most of the year
(no January meeting)
Time: 1:30 pm
Place: The Stewart County
Public Library
Contact: Nelda Saunders
660
Old Hwy. 79
Dover,
TN 37058
(931)-232-7062
Membership dues are $15.00 for a lifetime membership or $5.00 annually. If you would like to join the Stewart County Historical Society or renew your membership, send in you dues by July 1, 1997 to:
Stewart County Historical Society
c/o Vanetta Stavely, Treasurer
PO Box 297
Dover, TN 37058
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History and Family Volume II are $69.95*
New Stewart County Cemetery Book To Be PrintedStewart County, Tennessee is located along the eastern shore of the Tennessee River/Kentucky Lake with its northern border stretching along the Kentucky State Line. Its eastern boundry is along the Montgomery County line, and on the south lies Houston County. Dominated by ridges and valleys, this beautiful section of our state was early settled by pioneers who were mostly from North Carolina. Stewart County was once a part of Davidson County, North Carolina. In 1788, the western part of Davidson County was formed into Tennessee County with Clarksville as the county seat. In 1796, the year that Tennessee became a state, Tennessee County was divided into Robertson and Montgomery Counties.
By and act of the General Assembly, passed November 1, 1803, Stewart County was created and named in honor of Duncan Stewart, one of the pioneer farmers of the county.
The act to establish the county reads, in part:
Section 4 directed for the first county court to be held at the home of William Martin, near Bald Island. Bald Island was located in the Cumberland River above the mouth of Cross Creek. The June term of court for 1804 was held at the home of George Martin. And, again in 1805, the June term of court was held at the home of George Martin. We have not established a direct connection with William and George Martin, but either of these men could have been the father of our John Martin.
It is uncertain when the first settlers arrived in Stewart County, or even who they were. Probably the first settlers of the county were George Petty, James Andrews, Samuel A. Smith, Brittain Sexton, Elisha Dawson, and Samuel Boyt. These men, all from North Carolina, came about 1795.
When Brittain Sexton first came to Stewart County from Wake County, North Carolina about 1795, it was actually Tennessee County. In 1796 Tennessee County was divided in Robertson County and Montgomery County. The area that comprises present day Stewart County, which was to be formed in 1803, was included in this new Montgomery County.
"On November 1, 1803, the General Assembly passed an Act, the first section of which is in substance as follows: Be it enacted, etc: that Montgomery County be divided by a line which shall commence on the Kentucky line 13 miles west of the meridian of Clarksville and run south to the southern boundary of the state, and all of the territory west of said line shall constitute a separate and distinct county to be called Stewart.
"This embraced all of what is now Stewart, Houston, Humphreys and Perry and about one half of Wayne together with all of West Tennessee. Thus you see that the old Chicksaw towns, Fort Assumption, Fort Pickering and the great metropolis of Memphis were all within the borders of Stewart County and under her protecting care and control.
"In 1803 Humphreys was formed from Stewart; in 1819 Hardin was formed from Stewart; in 1819 Shelby was formed from Hardin; in 1821 Henry was formed from Stewart; in 1821 Carol was formed form Stewart; in 1821 Henderson was formed from Stewart; in 1821 Madison was formed from Stewart; in 1823 Hardeman was formed from Stewart; in 1823 Haywood was formed Stewart; in 1823 Dyer was formed from Stewart; in 1823 Gibson was formed from Stewart; in 1823 Weakley was formed from Stewart; in 1823 Obion was formed from Stewart; in 1823 Tipton was formed from Stewart; in 1824 Fayette was formed from Hardin and Shelby."
Source: Letter to the Editor, Memphis commercial Appeal, June 7, 1920. Copy of article was found in the estate of Mrs. Effie Robertson.
The parallel of latitude of 36 degrees and 30 minutes north was made by royal charters the boundary line between the Colonies of Virginia and North Carolina, and that parallel on projection was the line dividing Kentucky from Tennessee.
In 1779, the legislature of Virginia named Dr. Thomas Walker and Daniel Smith on the part of that State, and North Carolina named Col. Richard Henderson and William Bailey Smith as members of a joint commission to run and mark an extension of this line into the West where it had never been run between those States, of which the territories within Kentucky and Tennessee were parts, respectively. The representatives of the two States disagreed as to the course of the line early in the survey; and they separated. The commissioners of Virginia continued independently, and ran what has ever since been known as Walker's line to the Tennessee River. They, however, deflected toward the north, owing to improper allowances for variation of the needle, and as a result the Tennessee (river?) was reached about seventeen miles north of the true latitude line. The later discovery of this deflection led the State of Kentucky in the opening years of the Nineteenth Century to stand for a correction with a consequent reclamation of the long, narrow strip held by Tennessee under the Walker survey. West of the Tennessee the line had not been run and Kentucky was there less embarrassed.
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Nostalgiaville - Stewart County Tennessee
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Stewart County Clerk
Jimmy Fitzhugh
Stewart County Courthouse, first floor
(931)-232-7616
Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mon., Tue.,
Thur., Fri.; 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Wed., Sat.
Keeps records of court minutes, old wills and old
marriage records
Stewart County Register of Deeds
Stewart County Courthouse, first floor
(931)-232-5990
Records all the instruments required by law, including
deeds, powers of attorney, mortgages, wills, court
orders, liens, contracts, plats, leases, judgements,
military discharges, notices of completion, papers under
the Uniform Commercial Code
Dover City Hall
Dover, TN 37058
(931)-232-5907
Stewart County Chamber of Commerce
Van Riggins
Watson Building
Dover, TN 37058
(931)-232-8290
Lawrence & Nelda
Saunders
660 Old Hwy. 79
Dover, TN 37058
(931)-232-7062
Dan Martin
DanMartin@cei-inc.org
Stewart County Library (Use your browser back button to return to this page)
226 Lakeview Drive
Dover, TN 37058
(931)-232-5839
FAX: (931)-232-3118
Director: Pam Ford
Assistant Director: Donna Stinson
Houston County Library (Good research section)
Spring Street
Erin, TN 37061
(931)-289-3858
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Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri. - 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tue: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thur: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat: 9:00 am - Noon
Sunday: Closed
Montgomery County Library (Very nice research
department)
Clarksville, TN
Pouge
Library (Excellent research facility)
Murray State University
P. O. Box 9
(Corner of N. 15h & Olive)
Murray, KY 42071
502-762-6152
502-762-4998
Archives: 502-762-4287
Tennessee
State Library and Archives
403 Seventh Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37243-0312
615-741-2764 (Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday -
Saturday)
Stewart County Genealogical Sources at the TSL&A
Office of Vital Records (For birth and death
records)
Tennessee Department of Health
3rd Floor, Tennessee Towers
Nashville, TN 37247-0350
615-741-1763
The Stewart-Houston Times
P. O. Box 425
Dover, TN 37058
(931) 232-5421 (Dover)
(931) 289-3345 (Erin)
Subscription Rates:
One
Year $16.00
Two
Years 28.00
Senior citizen, one
year 8.50
(County residents only)
Out of County, one
year 30.00
Anglin Funeral Home
402 Donelson Parkway
Dover, TN 37058
(931)-232-5454
Sykes Funeral Home, Inc.
702 Highway 79
Dover, TN 37058
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