Chester County was the last county in Tennessee to be created by the State Legislature in 1875 from parts of Hardeman, Henderson, McNairy and Madison Counties and was to be named Wisdom County. This county was never organized and in March 1879 the request was repealed by the Legislature and the creation of Chester County was organized but delayed until 1882. It was named for Colonel Robert I. Chester, a quartermaster in the War of 1812. Chester was one of the early Postmaster in Jackson as well as a Federal Marshall. This small book was produced around 1924 to give some of the background of the county in its formation and early days.
S. E. Reid
(?), 2011, 8.5" x 11", paper, full name index, 25 pp.
ISBN: 9780788486180
101E-TN1324
