Description: This 496-page publication is a transcription of Stewart County, Tennessee election records for the period 1804-189. Over 35,000 names of voters and elected officials are included.The primary sources of transcribed records are original election returns, created in each of the county’s 12 civil districts, in a total of 89 local, state and national elections between 1840 and 1879. These returns were prepared and signed by district election Judges and Clerks, showing the names of each voter participating in each election. Additionally, election results from the county’s State Militia elections for the period 1804-1840 are included in this book.Election returns are a great complement to census records, as they can document a person’s residence in the county between census years. They are also a great complement to tax records, which largely survive for the county: many people who voted in elections are not found in the county’s surviving tax records, and for the time period covered by this book, the payment of a poll tax was not a requirement in order to be able to vote in an election. Additionally, election records survive for years in which the county’s tax records do not, namely 1813-1826, 1844, 1845 and 1867-1876. Because the election returns were signed by local election Clerks, Judges and witnesses, they are also a great source of original signatures of county residents. This book includes pictures of hundreds of those original signatures.About the Compiler: Jim Long has been doing genealogical work in Stewart County records for over 38 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 Election Notices • List of County Officers • 1836 District Map • Election Returns, 1804-1879 • Index Please note that you can preview the index for this book before choosing to purchase, by visiting the Stewart County Archives home page, scrolling to the bottom, and opening the flyer for this book, which contains a link to the index.
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Location: Clarksville, Tennessee
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