Index to Tennessee State Death Certificates 1914 - 1925
Tennessee State Library and Archives

Tennessee birth and death registration officially began in 1908, but it was not until 1914 that the death certificate form included such genealogically important information as the person's date and place of birth, and parents' names.

The Cleveland (Tennessee) Public Library's project to publish abstracts of Tennessee death records began in 1990. Since then, their staff and volunteers have published the 1914-1925 death records of thirty-three counties. It should be noted that the records of children under two years of age have been omitted from this project.

Edna Wiefering, the volunteer who spearheads the project, and the Cleveland Public Library generously offered to permit the State Library and Archives to mount the indexes to these records on its web site.

These indexes contain the name, age, year of death, county and certificate number for each individual. The cause of death has been indicated on some records. Where the age of the individual is not given, notes have been added to indicate the person's occupation or marital status.