This is a link that was sent to me via another list. However I found it very interesting and found some persons who died there but came from Bradley County. Here are a few excerpts: http://www.tngenweb.org/madison/smith/nca4-01.htm page 15 ELIZABETH TIBBS w/o William Tibbs, born Buckingham Co., Va. Nov. 15, 1792; died Bradley Co., Tenn. June 12, 1861; her oldest son died September 1859. Page 29 Not only humorous but also a good example of the way they talked & spelling words in those days. A good-natured spoof on the excessive types of panegyrical obituaries which were submitted for publication appeared in the October 17, 1861 issue. It read, "A Western Obituary -Mitter Edgtur:Jem bangs we are sorry tu stait, has dezeized, departed this life last mundy. Jem was generally considered a gud feller. He dide at the age of 23 years old. He went 4th without ary as peper-grass, migty smart. tu morrer we are cut down like a cowcumber of the ground. Jem kept a nice stoar, which his wife now waits on. His vischews was numerus to behold. Men ny is the things we bot at his grocery and we are happy to stait to the admirin world that he never cheated. We neve knew him to put sand in his sugar, tho' he had a big sand bar in front of his house; nur water in his lickers, tho' the Ohio River runs past his dore. He leaves a wife. 6 children. cow. 4 horses. qrocery stoar and other quodrepeds to mourn his loss, but in the splendid langridge of the past, his loss is there internal gane. page 39 CHARLOTTE DENTON d/o Benjamin V. McCarty of Bradley Co., Tenn.; w/o G. J. Denton, died Washington Co., Ark. March 12, 1872. HARRIET E. PRESSWOOD died Calhoun Co., Ala. (no date given), aged 65 years. page 40 JENNIE WOOD w/o Ben S. Wood of Cleveland, Tenn., born Aug. 4, 1848; died Bradley Co., Tenn., Feb. 13, 1872; consumptive; joined MECS Sept. 1866; left widower and "little" girl.