Descendants of Early Settlers of Shelby County and Adjoining Counties
We are a heritage organization devoted to promoting the history and genealogy of the pioneer and ear Others stayed a while before moving on.
In 1972, Clarene Pinkston Russell and Ruth Wyckoff Hunt convened a group of enthusiastic friends, relatives, and acquaintances at the Schlitz Belle to found a new Memphis-area history club. The single attribute that those attending had in common was that all were descended from pre-1871 residents of Shelby, Tipton or Fayette Counties in Tennessee, Marshall or DeSoto County in Mississippi, or Critt
03/12/2022
12/24/2021
If you are not are following the Shelby Archives page, you should here is a little Christmas local history.
Christmas in Shelby County has always been a special time of year. For instance, here is a “Toys in Ice” promotion from the 1930s; a Goodfellow's Santa Claus Club letter signed by Lloyd Binford, head of the Memphis Motion Picture Censors Board; a cartoon from the Memphis Press-Scimitar showing the difference passage of Tennessee Prohibition in 1909 made; and another cartoon showing all the great goodies Memphis hoped to receive for the year 1912.
Search for your ancestors within the Gravestone Inscriptions Indexes, on our website.
http://register.shelby.tn.us/gravestone
Your source for local historic Shelby County government records.
Shelby County Archives
980A Nixon Rd.
Memphis, TN 38134
901-222-8175
[email protected]
www.register.shelby.tn.us
12/22/2021
Stewartville in Shelby County TN Map from the 1800's
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