Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee
Map
Shelby County's location in the state of Tennessee
Facts
Founded	1819
Seat
Address	City Hall 125 N. Main St. Room 700 Memphis, TN 38103
Website: www.memphistn.gov/

United States Tennessee Shelby County Memphis

Quick Facts

Indian names:

1819: Founded by John Overton, James Winchester and Andrew Jackson

1826: Formally incorporated as a city.

Resources

African-American Research

• A researchers' guide to African materials in the John Willard Brister Library at Memphis State University: with supplemental data of interest to Africanists FS Catalog Collection

Archives and Libraries

• Memphis Public Library and Information Center
  3030 Poplar Ave.
  Memphis, TN 38111
  Phone: 1-901-415-2700
  Hours:
  Mon.-Thurs. 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
  Fri.-Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
  Sun. 1-5 p.m.
  Genealogical Resources: The History, Genealogy, Travel, and Social Sciences Department includes Newspapers, Manuscript Collections, City Directories, Marriage Records, Death Records, Probate Records, Church Records, Cemetery Records, Funeral Home Records, etc.
  Note: The Memphis Library and Information Center also includes eighteen branch libraries located throughout Memphis and surrounding communities. For a complete list of branch libraries, check out Library and Information Center's website above.

• The West Tennessee Historical Society guide to archives and collections. Housed in the Mississippi Valley Collection of the Memphis State University Libraries. FS Catalog Collection

Biography

• Literary Memphis, a survey of its writers and writings FS Catalog Collection
• The old guard in gray : researches in the annals of the Confederate Historical Association, sketches of Memphis veterans who upheld her standard in the war, and of other Confederate worthies FS Catalog Collection
• History of the city of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent citizens FS Catalog Collection

Business Records and Commerce

• The first Orgill century, 1847-1947 FS Catalog Collection

Cemeteries

• Roman Catholic Cemeteries

All Saints Catholic

7500 East Holmes Road, Memphis, TN 38125, Phone: (901) 948-1529

• Find a Grave

All Saints Episcopal Church Columbarium

1508 South White Station Road, Memphis TN 38117, 901/685-7333

• Find a Grave

Anshei Sphard

2160 Airways Blvd, Memphis, TN 38114

• Find a Grave

Baron Hirsch

1523 South Rozelle, Memphis, TN 38120
Contact:
Baron Hirsch Congregation
400 South Yates, Memphis, TN 38120, (901) 683-7485

• Find a Grave

Beth Sholom Memorial Gardens

Thought to contain the oldest marked grave in Shelby County, that of Sally Carr Bettis, who died giving birth to her ninth child in 1826.
Memphis, TN

• Find a Grave

Bettis Family

Memphis, TN

• Find a Grave

Calvary Catholic

1663 Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, TN 38106, Phone: (901) 948-1529

• Find a Grave

Elmwood

Memphis, TN

• Find a Grave
• Elmwood: charter, rules, regulations and by-laws of Elmwood Cemetery Association of Memphis, history of the cemetery, biographical sketches, attractive monuments, names of proprietors FS Catalog Collection
• Confederate burials, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee FS Catalog Collection
• Confederates of Elmwood FS Catalog Collection
• Elmwood 2002 : in the shadow of the elms FS Catalog Collection

Memorial Park South Woods

BillionGraves

Memphis National

formerly known as Mississippi River National Cemetery

• Civil War soldiers buried in the Memphis Tennessee National Cemetery FS Catalog Collection

Zalowitz-Beth El Emeth

4431 Horn Lake Road, Memphis, TN 38109

• Find a Grave

Census

Federal

1870

• 1870 name index, wards, 1, 3-8, 10 (Memphis, Tennessee) FS Catalog Collection

State

1865

• 1865 Census of Memphis, available online, courtesy: Shelby County Register of Deeds.

1865, 1869, 1897

• Memphis, Tennessee census, 1865, 1869, 1897 FS Catalog Collection

Church Biography, History and Records

• Black pastors and leaders : Memphis, 1819-1972 FS Catalog Collection

Baptist

• A brief history of the Central Avenue Baptist Church from its organization, July, 1873 to January 1, 1937 FS Catalog Collection

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Record of members, [1901]-1942 {FHL|198557|item}}

Methodist

Methodist Episcopal

• Journal of the Proceedings of the South-Western Convention Began and Held at the City of Memphis, on the 12th November, 1845. Memphis, Tenn., 1845. Digital version at Google Books.
• From the corner of Peabody and Bellevue: the history of St. John's Methodist Church, Memphis, Tennessee FS Catalog Collection
• The great book: Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, 1832-1972, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee FS Catalog Collection

Presbyterian

Cumberland

The Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America
The Historical Library and Archives
8207 Traditional Place
Cordova, TN 38016
Telephone: 901-276-8602
Fax: 901-272-3913
Email: archives@cumberland.org
Internet: www.cumberland.org/hfcpc

• Baptisms, communions, burials, and marriages, 1841-1995 (St. Peter's Cumberland Presbyterian) FS Catalog Collection
  
  • Baptisms, 1841-1943
  • Communions, 1872-1893, 1946-1995
  • Burials, 1889-1995
  • Marriages, 1842-1995
• Church records, 1845-1903 (Memphis First Cumberland Presbyterian) FS Catalog Collection

Roman Catholic

• Diocese of Memphis
  

The Catholic Center
5825 Shelby Oaks Drive
Memphis, Tennessee 38134-7316

Epidemics

1870s: Series of yellow fever outbreaks

1878: Yellow fever outbreak reduced city population by nearly 75 percent, as a result of either dying or fleeing the city permanently.

History

• Davis, James D. History of Memphis: The History of the City of Memphis, Being a Compilation of the Most Important Documents and Historical Events Connected with the Purchase of Its Territory, Laying Off of the City and Early Settlement: Also, the "Old Times Papers," Being a Series of Reminiscences and Local Stories Written by the Author, and Published in the Daily Appeal Over the Signature of "Old Times," Corrected, Revised and Enlarged, with Other Important Matters Pertaining to the Same, Never Heretofore Published, and, Beyond the Author, but Partially Known. Memphis, Tenn.: Hite, Crumpton & Kelly, Printers, 1873. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
• Keating, J.M. A History of the Yellow Fever. The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, in Memphis, Tenn: Embracing a Complete List of the Dead, the Names of the Doctors and Nurses Employed, Names of All Who Contributed Money or Means, and the Names and History of the Howards, Together with Other Data, and Lists of the Dead Elsewhere. Memphis, Tenn.: Printed for the Howard Association, 1879. Digital version at Google Books.
• Keating, J.M. History of the City of Memphis, Tennessee with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888. Digital version at Google Books.
• Memphis Riots and Massacres. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1866. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
• Young, John Preston and A.R. James. Standard History of Memphis, Tennessee: From a Study of the Original Sources. Knoxville, Tenn.: H.W. Crew & Co., 1912. Digital version at Google Books.

FamilySearch Center

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