The Nashville Room of the Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County has a book indexing the obituaries published in the Tennessean: Book Title: Index to classified obituaries, the Tennessean I'm not sure which years it covers (except they are not recent). I wrote the library several years ago and they located an obituary for me in the book index and then printed a copy from their microfilm collection of the Tennessean and mailed it to me. The fee was quite reasonable at the time. I don't know if they still offer this service.