State & Local, World, History 

As described in the book Marriages from Early Tennessee Newspapers, 1794-1851, these Obituaries taken from the earliest Tennessee Newspapers have been available ONLY at the Tennessee State Library & Archives in Nashville. These approximately 7,000 death notices contain date and place od death, sometimes the cause of death, survivors, age at time of death, etc.... A glance at these notices show for instance: one person dying in 1807 aged 60, another dying in 1815 aged 88, another in 1832 aged 95. Thus the reader can readily see that these obituaries will often carry a person back well into the early 1700's. Newspapers from which these Obituaries have been taken: The Knoxville Gazette, The Daily Republican Banner, The Western Weekly Review (Franklin, TN), The Political and Weekly Nashville, The Nashville True Whig and Weekly Commercial Advertiser, National Banner, Impartial Review and Cumberland Repository, Nashville. - from Amzon