Online Tennessee Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Tennessee Death Indexes and Death Certificates

Tennessee Death Records and Index, 1908-1965 (except 1913) (at Ancestry/requires payment) includes digitized copies of the death certificates
Tennessee Death Records and Index, 1914-1966 from FamilySearch (free with registration) includes digitized copies of the death certificates

Tennessee: City Death Records, 1872-1923 for Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies by city; includes digitized images of the death certificates or registers
Tennessee Death Indexes, 1908-1912 and 1914-1933 from the Tennessee State Library and Archives
Note - Statewide birth and death records were not recorded in Tennessee for 1913
Tennessee Death Index, 1949-2014 (not complete) "Partial Indexes from 1949-2014"
Tennessee Death Certificates and Index for 3 Counties for Jackson County 1914-1947, Putnam County 1914-1947, White County 1926-1947; includes digitized images of the death certificates

Tennessee Cemetery Burials

TNGenWeb Cemetery Database for several counties; has over 550,000 burials listed

Online Tennessee Probate Records

Tennessee Wills and Probate Records, 1727-2008 (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies by county

Tennessee Death Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County

Blount County Death Records Index and Obituaries Index also has indexes for two funeral homes
Bradley County Obituary Index, 1865-Current from the Cleveland Bradley County Library
Carroll County Cemeteries
Chattanooga - see the Hamilton County section below
Chester County Cemeteries
Claiborne County Court Clerk - Vital Statistics (Births and Deaths), 1908-1912 digitized microfilm from FamilySearch
Clarksville - see the Montgomery County section below
Davidson County and Nashville...
- Davidson County, Death Records, 1900-1913 from FamilySearch; includes digitized images of the death certificates
- Davidson County: Nashville Public Library Genealogy Indexes includes Wills Index, 1783-1924; Nashville Globe Obituaries Index, 1907-1918 (African American Newspaper); Birth and Marriage Indexes; Cemetery Records Indexes; and other items
  - Davidson County Death Records Index, 1900-1913
- Nashville City Cemetery...
  - Davidson County, Nashville City Cemetery Records, 1843-1962 from FamilySearch; includes digitized images of the death registers
  - Nashville City Cemetery Grave Search, 1846-1979 also has an obituary index, tombstone inscriptions, and other items
  - Historic Nashville City Cemetery Interments, 1846-1979 and 1980-present
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery Burials - Diocese of Nashville
- Davidson County Cemetery Survey
- Mount Olivet Cemetery Records, 1855-1906 cemetery in Nashville
- Davidson County and Nashville Obituary Indexes includes...
  - Nashville Obituaries and Death Notices Index for 1913
  - Death Notices in Nashville Newspapers, 1855-1907 (not complete)
- Davidson County: Abstracts from Methodist Publications includes some Nashville Christian Advocate death notices and other items
Greene County...
- Greene County Genealogical Society Indexes includes cemetery transcriptions; Doughty-Stevens Funeral Home Records, 1908-1949; and other items
- Greene County Cemetery Records
Hamilton County...
- Chattanooga Public Library Newspapers Obituary Index, 1897-2014 from the Chattanooga Times, News Free Press, and the Chattanooga Times Free Press
- Hamilton County Cemeteries through 1937 (WPA)
- Hamilton County: Forest Hills Cemetery Burials in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Haywood County: African American Funeral Programs, 1958-2005 from the Geneva Miller Historical Society
Henderson County Cemeteries
Knox County...
- Knox County Death Records, 1914-1925
- Knox County Cross Index Search indexes Knoxville obituaries, 1885-1906 and 1991 to present; also indexes Knox County wills, marriages, and other items
Loudon County, Tennessee Cemetery Inscriptions (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
Madison County Cemeteries also has many other genealogy indexes
McNairy County Genealogy Indexes includes indexes for births, marriages, deaths, cemeteries and more
Memphis - see the Shelby County section below
Montgomery County, Tennessee, Obituary Collection, 1911-2009 at Ancestry/free to search
Nashville - see the Davidson County section above
Rutherford County Cemeteries
Scott County Death Indexes includes some obituaries and cemeteries
Shelby County and Memphis...
- Shelby County Death Records Search, 1848-1967 "partial index and images...;" includes digitized images of some of the death certificates for the later years; also has other Shelby County genealogy indexes
- Shelby County: Memphis, Board of Health Death Records, 1848-1913 at FamilySearch; includes digitized copies of the death certificates (called "burial permits")
- Index to Obituaries in the Memphis Appeal, 1843-1894 (except 1850) PDF
- Elmwood Cemetery Burials cemetery in Memphis
  - Elmwood Cemetery Daily Burial Record, 1853-1919 handwritten ledgers; not searchable by name
- Baron Hirsch Jewish Cemetery Burials (Memphis)
Sullivan County Obituary Indexes and Cemetery Burials
Sumner County Genealogy Indexes includes cemeteries and funeral home records
Tipton County: Covington Leader Obituaries Index, 1917-1953 also has a marriage records index
Williamson County Obituaries Database Search from the Williamson County Public Library

Tennessee Valley Authority Cemetery Relocation Records...
- Tennessee Valley Authority Cemetery Relocation Database a list of more than 20,000 graves removed from areas that were to be flooded or from isolated sites to nearby burial places; for Tennessee and nearby states
- Tennessee Valley Cemetery Relocation Files, 1933-1990 at Ancestry/requires payment; includes digitized images of the files

Ordering Tennessee Vital Records

Order Tennessee Vital Records by Mail (fees and restrictions apply) for birth certificates 1914-present; death, marriage and divorce certificates for the past 50 years
For older records try the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Also Helpful...

For a list of some Tennessee birth indexes, see the Tennessee section at: Birth Records and Indexes on the Internet (USA)
Ancestry's Tennessee Genealogy Records Collection (requires payment)
includes census records, cemetery burials, military records, vital records and more

Online Tennessee Death Records & Indexes

A Genealogy Guide for Finding Obituaries, Cemetery Burials & Death Certificates