This is a reprint, by permission to the Stewart County Archives, of Iris Hopkins McClain's 1965 history of Stewart County, Tennessee, the first comprehensive county history ever published. Chapters include Early Settlement, Early Economic Development, Early Transportation, Early Soldiers, Slavery, The Civil War, The Postwar Years, and The Recent Years. Mrs. McClain also included a Biographical Directory of Stewart County past residents, the 1812 county tax list, extracts from the earliest County Court Minute Books and Deed Books, and an abstract of the 1850 Census for the county.