History of Rutherford County, Tennessee

By: Carlton C. Sims, Pub. 1947, Reprinted 2018, 256 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-700-9. This middle Tennessee County was created in 1803 from Davidson, Williamson and Wilson Counties. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as trade and transportation, labor, farming, politics, and race relations - all important in the development of the county - are carefully discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents. A particular useful feature of this book are the hundreds of mini biographees inter dispursed through out the various chapters within this book.