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 death certificates
Tennessee Death Records and Index, 1914-1966 from FamilySearch (free with registration)

Tennessee: City Death Records, 1872-1923 for Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga (at Ancestry/requires payment) coverage varies
Tennessee Death Indexes, 1908-1912 and 1914-1933 from the Tennessee State Library and Archives
- You can search both indexes at once from: Tennessee State Library and Archives Search Death Records
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 Index for 3 Counties for Jackson County 1914-1947, Putnam County 1914-1947, White County 1926-1947

Online Tennessee Obituaries - Recent

Tennessee Newspapers Obituaries Archive (recent) (copies of individual obituaries can be obtained online for a fee) includes...
- Chattanooga Courier (2/10/2011-Current)
- Knoxville News-Sentinel (1/4/1991-Current)
- Lenoir City News-Herald (9/27/1999-Current)
- Maryville Daily Times (12/1/2003-Current)
- Memphis Commercial Appeal (6/27/1990-Current)
- Newport Plain Talk (7/1/1998-Current)
- Oak Ridger (Oak Ridge, TN) - (2/17/1997-Current)
- And about 20 more Tennessee newspapers

Tennessee Cemetery Burials

TNGenWeb Cemetery Database for several counties; has nearly 450,000 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

Anderson County: City of Oak Ridge Public Library Obituary Index, September 1943-Recent from the Oak Ridge Journal and Oak Ridger newspapers
Blount County Death Records Database - includes obituaries includes more than 42,000 entries from Blount County newspapers and funeral home records
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
Clarksville - see the Montgomery County section below
Davidson County and Nashville...
- Index to Obituaries in the Nashville Tennessean Newspaper, 1964-2002
- Davidson County, Death Records, 1900-1913 from FamilySearch; includes digitized images of the death certificates
- 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
- 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)
- Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Archives Genealogy Indexes includes Wills Index, 1783-1924, Nashville Globe Obituaries Index 1907-1918 (African American Newspaper), Birth and Marriage Indexes, and other items
  - Davidson County Death Records Index, 1900-1913
- 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 Transcribed from WPA Project
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 Genealogical Society - Assorted Indexes includes cemeteries, obituaries and death indexes
- Hamilton County: Forest Hills Cemetery Burials in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Henderson County Cemeteries
Knox County...
- Knox County Death Records, 1914-1925
- Knox County Cross Index Search indexes obituaries, 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...
- Montgomery County Archives Search includes indexes for obituaries, early wills or probates, marriages, and other items
- Montgomery County Death Sources Database and Leaf-Chronicle Obituary Index the death sources database is derived from cemetery burials, funeral home records, obituaries and other items; from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library
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 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 and 1894-1900 (except 1850) PDFs
- Elmwood Cemetery Daily Burial Record, 1853-1919 cemetery in Memphis; handwritten ledgers; not searchable by name
- Zion Christian Cemetery Burials African American cemetery in Memphis
- Baron Hirsch Jewish Cemetery Burials (Memphis)
Sullivan County Obituary Index, 1990-1999
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

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 Records Guide