By: Thomas Partlow, Pub. 2006, reprinted, 2021, 138 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-635-5.


Wilson County is a pivotal county in the early settlement of Tennessee and in the subsequent migration of people westward. It is surrounded by the counties of: Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith and Sumner. Circuit court records are another unique source for tracing those elusive family members. The type of records found within this book are: Petitions for divorce, breach of peace, assault & battery, guardianship, horse stealing, indictments for murders, indictments for larceny, bigamy charges, oaths relating to service in Revolutionary War, Deeds of gifts possession of counterfeit money, and many, many other interesting tidbits of information concerning persons of Wilson County that are not available elsewhere.