Stewart County, Tennessee TN Guardian Records, 1806-1842

Description

Direct from the Stewart County Archives:
This 407-page publication is a
word-for-word transcription
of the Stewart County, Tennessee county records involving guardianship for the period 1806-1842.
Transcribed records include
court orders
,
guardian bonds
,
guardian returns
and
guardian settlements
.
Primary sources of the transcribed records are the County Court Minute Books and the Settlements and Bonds (will) Books.
Some transcribed records come from the Loose Records of the Circuit Court.
Also included in the publication is a complete list of the 19
th
-century Tennessee state laws that affected the guardianship process.
This is the first publication for the county focusing on records relating to guardianship.
Guardianship records often include, but are not limited to:
•
Statements of family relationships among guardians, their wards and the benefactors, useful for proving family relationships in the absence of recorded wills
•
Financial accounts of monies received and spent by the guardian, useful both for proving family relationships and for insight into the life of the wards
•
Indications of when a ward reached maturity or married, useful for pinpointing birth years or identifying names of spouses
About the Compiler
:  Jim Long has been doing genealogical work in Stewart County records for over 39 years.  He is a volunteer at the Stewart County Archives, is the County Coordinator of the TNGenWeb Stewart County web site (tngenweb.org/stewart), and is a Board Member of the Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society.  He has previously published fifteen books of genealogical research material on Stewart County.
Table of Contents
The Guardianship Process and the Records it Created • 19th-Century Guardianship Laws in Tennessee
• Stewart County Guardian Records, 1806-1842 • Index
Please note that you can preview the index for this book before choosing to purchase, by visiting the Stewart County Archives website, scrolling to the bottom of the page, and clicking on the flyer for this book.