Meigs County, Tennessee Marriages, Volume 1, 1838-1846

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Meigs County in the lower eastern part of the state was once part of the Cherokee nation. The name sake of the county, Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, operated a fort on the north s ide of the river beginning as early as 1807. Later in 1817, this fort was moved across the Tennessee River to Calhoun. The county was created in 1836 with lands taken from Rhea County. These marriage records are the first ones recorded in a permanent book. WPA Records (?), 2014, 8.5" x 11", paper, full name index, 46 pp.ISBN: 9780788486739 101E-TN1390 Show more