Special Collections
This database is culminated from the original index books of Montgomery County Marriages. They have been corrected to show the correct book and page numbers, and can be searched by either the name of the bride or groom. The Volume and page are given. The actual record is on microfilm in the Brown Harvey, Sr. Genealogy Room. The dates covered are 1838-1975 for the index, but the microfilm covers 1838-1963.
This online database is accessible only by being in the library. It offers viewing of article from The Leaf Chronicle ranging from 1819 to present.
Resources
The James Killebrew Collection
Mr. James Killebrew, long-time genealogy researcher, donated his entire collection of personally-compiled genealogy books to the library in 2011. He also donated an antique book case, formerly located at Clarksville’s first college, Stewart College, to house the collection. This lovely book case is located in the Brown Harvey, Sr. Genealogy Room. Many of the items refer to Christian County, KY, Mr. Killebrew’s main focus of his research. It contains court records, old school yearbooks, and personal letters Mr. Killebrew has collected over the years. This is a great asset to the genealogy department and to the local researchers, as well.
Faces of Valor
Faces of Valor is a series of booklets presenting the pictures and records of Montgomery County military veterans of all services and eras.
Montgomery County Death Sources
Death Sources Database
This database covers a large range of years from many sources. They range from the formation of the County from history books, cemetery and funeral home records, obituaries from the earliest Clarksville newspapers through 1979, military records, or any other historical record found in the Brown Harvey, Sr. Genealogy Room that has death dates of Montgomery Countians included in its pages. A list of sources is as follows:
- AWW: American Women Writers
- BAR: John Nick Barker Diary
- CEM: Cemetery Books Vols 1-2-3
- CIV: (2 volumes)
- CRY: Cry Havoc; A History of the 49th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment 1861-1865 by C. Wallace Cross
- DC: Death Certificates 1908-12
- FIRE: Ordeal by Fire
- FOS: Foston’s Funeral Home
- GENAS: Tennessee General Assembly
- GOO: Goodspeed History of Montgomery County
- GRE: Greenwood Cemetery
- HISTN: History of Tennessee
- HUNT: Hunt Funeral Home Records
- IBT: It’s a Black Thing!
- MCR: McReynolds Funeral Home Records
- MGS: Montgomery County Genealogy Quarterly
- MOR: Mortality Schedules 1850, 1860, 1880
- OBIT: Gannaway Obituary Books
- PIC: Pictureque Clarksville
- RIV:Riverview Cemetery Book
- SAD:Warm Hearts and Saddlebags
- SOU:Southside Cemetery
- SKE: Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans
- TARP: Tarpley Funeral Home Records
- TBD:Tennessee Biographical Dictionary
- TNATN:Tennessee and Tennesseans
- TVOL: Tennessee: The Volunteer State
- WATO:Along the Warioto
- WPA: Tennessee Montgomery County Bible and Family Records Tombstone Inscriptions by WPA
This is a listing of all personal files left in the genealogy room by people doing research. They include family information, church histories, histories of communities, events, etc. These files are listed alphabetically and, we hope, will eventually have links that will allow the researcher to see the actual records held in each folder.