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

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 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 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: 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