Inez E. Burns
By: Inez E. Burns, Pub. 1957, reprinted 2025, 400 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-626-0. Blount County was formed in 1795 out of a part of original Greene County. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as trade and transportation, labor, farming, politics, and race relations - all important in the development of the county - are carefully discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents. The author has also included other items of use for the genealogist, such as: list of passports to enter the Cherokee Country in 1798, A list of North Carolina Land Grants which are registered in Blount County, a List of Revolutionary Soldiers from Blount, list of Militia Captains who served from 1792-1827, several lists of taxable property and tax for 1801, Blount County Tax List 1800, 9 sets of Muster rolls or Pay Rolls for the War of 1812, list of soldiers involved in the 1836 Cherokee Removal, list of soldiers in the Mexican War and Spanish-American War, a list of surnames of Family Data collections that are held at the Lawson McGhee Library, and other items of possible use. The Index mentions approximately 4,000 person.
