Historic Sumner County Tennessee

Jay Guy Cisco's monograph on Sumner County was assembled from a series of articles that the author had published in the Nashville American in 1907 and that he subsequently revised and expanded for this book. In the preparation of his opus the author had occasion to interview many survivors of the original settlers of Sumner County. Cisco's opus emphasizes the founder and foundation of Sumner County and in fact the work is substantially genealogical in content. The first fifty pages of the volume move rapidly over such topics as early exploration of the county local topography territorial laws and officials early land owners and of course Sumner County in the wars particularly the Civil War. Thereafter the work focuses on Sumner County pioneers and their families in a series of genealogical and biographical sketches of varying lengths some of them illustrated. In addition to the featured families of Bledsoe Cage and Douglass Sumner County researchers will discover essays on the following pioneers and their progeny: Anderson Barrow Barry Bate Bell Bertinatti Blackmore Belmont Bowen Bowie Breckenridge Campbell Carmack Carr Cisco Clark Desha Donaldson Ellis Fulton Gaines Garth Guild Gwin Hall Hallum Hammond Hatton Head Judd Lauderdale Lindsey Malone Mansker Martin McKendree Morgan Morris Odom Parker Peyton Pickett Read Rogan Rogers Rutherford Sanders Sharkey Shelby Scurry Smith Spencer Trousdale Vanderbilt Walton Weatherred Williams Wilson Winchester and Wynne.