Edythe Rucker Whitley

" Format: Paper Pages: 135 pp. Published: 1981 Reprinted: 1999 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 9780806309200 Item #: CF6324 Robertson County, abutting the western flank of Sumner County, was erected from old Tennessee County in 1796, the year that Tennessee became a state. The early marriage records of Robertson County, unfortunately, have not survived--neither in the form of a marriage register nor as unrecorded bonds--and the earliest extant records begin only...

"Rutherford County, Tennessee was erected in 1803 from Davidson County and at one time occupied territory extending all the way south to the Alabama state line. With the exception of a few deed books, destroyed during the Civil War, most of the old records of Rutherford County are extant, and most--like the marriage records--can be found at the courthouse in Murfreesboro. What is singular about the Rutherford County marriages is their extent: they...