By: Thomas E. Partlow, Pub. 1999, 117 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-723-8. This middle Tennessee County was created in 1803 from Davidson, Williamson and Wilson Counties. Chancery Court records have provided many detailed breakthroughs in family research not found elsewhere. This is a MUST for the serious Rutherford County researcher. This book is a valuable research and reference tool that often supplies that missing link of the family, frequently naming fathers, mothers, children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles.