Claiborne County, located in upper east Tennessee along the Kentucky border, was created on October 29, 1801 from portions of Grainger and Hawkins counties. This county was named for a Virginia tidewater aristocrat William C. C. Claiborne, one of the first judges of the Tennessee Superior Court and one of the first representatives from Tennessee to the United States Congress. These marriage records were all taken prior to the Civil War during which Claiborne County voted not to secede in the Tennessee referendum on June 8, 1861. In the marriage records, like most all of Tennessee's records, you get the name of the couple, the official and dates of license being issued and the wedding.
WPA Records
(?), 2014, 8.5" x 11", paper, full name index, 106 pp.
ISBN: 9780788486777
101E-TN1395
