Works Progress Administration Samuel Sistler (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1190 2012 J-WPA1062 (1936), 2007, 2012 During the Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Transcriptions Unit, transcribed all of Coffee County, Tennessee Will Books for the years 1833 to 1860. This book contains these original transcriptions. Information in this work include the Name of the Deceased, date of death, dates on court filings and actions, sales of personal property of the deceased, Recorded Wills, Lists of Personal Property and Inventories of estates, the names of Witnesses, Executors, Creditors, Judges, Lawyers, etc., and Notes executed by debtors (including names of individuals). In many instances, the net worth of an individual's estates can be determined by the inventories and court records and notations. This volume is an excellent genealogical source. Paperback, (1936), repr. 2007, 2012, Index, 118 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1189 2011 J-WPA1059 (1936), 2007, 2011 Taken from the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) transcriptions of 1936. This volume contains a well-balanced mixture of Sumner County, Tennessee, records, including family information, bible records, as well as tombstone records and inscriptions. The result is this collection, which provides the dates of birth and death, as well as family relationships, of approximately 2,500 persons listed in the index. The final section includes numerous colorful letters from the Civil War. Paperback, (1936), repr. 2012, Index, xii + 187 pp.