Overton County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This county is available for adoption. We're looking for folks who share our desire to put data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested joining our group as County Host for this website, or any of our websites, view our Volunteer Information page and Email Kim. A desire to transcribe data and know-how to make a basic webpage is required. In the meantime, we'd be very happy to accept any data you'd care to contribute and would like to see displayed on this site. We're looking for "raw data" - the birth/death/marriage records, obituaries, cemetery headstone readings, biographies, county histories, census data, pensions and other military data. In short, we'd like to display all the items you used to put together your family tree (rather than the tree itself). Email your transcribed data to us and we'll take care of putting it online. Overton County was founded in 1806. It was named in honor of John Overton, pioneer attorney in Nashville. Not only was he a close friend of Andrew Jackson, but a judge of the State Supreme Court 1804-1809. He was co-founder along with Jackson & Gen. James Winchester, of the city of Memphis. It is said that he named it. ONLINE DATA (COMING SOON!) Birth Records Biographies Cemeteries Census Church Histories Death Records Land Records Local History Marriage Records Military Records Photo Gallery Wills Surrounding Counties Clay -- Cumberland -- Fentress -- Jackson -- Pickett -- Putnam © Genealogy Trails 2007 Contributors retain all copyrights