GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Tennessee: TN-8
St. William of Montevergine Church. Office
719 North Main Street
Shelbyville, TN 37160
Phone: 931-735-6004
Email: See website
History: St. William Church, Shelbyville, Tennessee, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Nashville (Archives: Nashville, Tennessee). Glenmary Home Missioners (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1967-1996, Salvatorians (U.S. Province, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), 1996-1990s, and Pallottines (Eastern Province, South Orange, New Jersey), 2000s-present, have administered the parish, which has had some Native American (e.g. Maya) parishioners, 1970s-present.
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1970s-ongoing
Volume: Few records
Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. William Church.
Unless noted otherwise, the repository named above holds (or held) the records described and not the ˜·Í¸²Ê Archives. However, Marquette’s holdings, e.g. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, include related records about these Native and Catholic groups and places.
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