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We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for anybody. Warren County Located on the Cumberland Plateau in Middle Tennessee, Warren County was founded in 1807, from a portion of White county. It was named in honor of Gen. Joseph Warren of Massachusetts - a Revolutionary War patriot. He was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775. The county was largely developed for farming of such crops as tobacco and hemp and numerous families held enslaved African Americans as workers.  During the Civil War era, Warren County citizens voted to secede from the Union in February 1861 in a state referendum - at a time when the rest of Tennessee had voted against seceding. Warren County was the site of several saltpeter mines. Saltpeter is the main ingredient of gunpowder and was obtained by leaching the earth from several local caves. Hubbards Cave, near Camp Woodlee, was a major operation. Henshaw Cave on Cardwell Mountain (now part of Cumberland Caverns) and Solomon Saltpeter Cave on Ben Lomond Mountain were relatively small mining operations. Most saltpeter mining occurred during the War of 1812 and in the Civil War. City McMinnville (county seat) Towns Centertown * Morrison * Viola Unincorporated Communities Berea * Bratchers Crossroads * Campaign * Daylight * Irving College * Midway * Rock Island * Shady Rest * Smartt * Spring Creek * Stewart Chapel

Warren County Data Biographies A-H | I-Z Birth Records Cemeteries Census Records Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles and Records History Topics Marriage Records Military Records Miscellaneous Data News Gleanings Obituaries and Death Notices School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2022: Burials in Liberty cemetery obits for HOPKINS, TROTT, SMARTT, JORDAN Deeds, Vol. 1, Book A, 1808-1818 Deed Book D - April 1820 - January 1824 Inventories, Sale Bills, Settlements, Wills from Book 1, 1827-1844 1830 Census  Marriage News for JONES-RICE, CRENSHAW-MARBURY, SMITH-PARKER, GINGRICH-HAMILTON, DAVIS-WHITEMAN, MULLICAN-PEPPER Gossip News for WAINWRIGHT, SUMMERS, TARPLEY SEARCH OUR SITES Submit an Obituary to Us for any of our county sites. Email Us [No Research Requests Please!] Join our Genealogy Trails "Southern" States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For those researching in the States of : Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky   Surrounding Counties DeKalb County (north) White County (northeast) Van Buren County (east) Sequatchie County (southeast) Grundy County (south) Coffee County (southwest) Cannon County (northwest) Visit Tennessee State Site   Visit the national site of GENEALOGY TRAILS © Genealogy Trails 2025 All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.