Source Information

Bush, Marisa, ed.. Cheatham County, Tennessee Census, 1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. 1920 Federal Census of Tennessee. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920.

About Cheatham County, Tennessee Census, 1920

Home to about 10,000 residents in 1920, Cheatham County, Tennessee is located about twenty miles west of Nashville. Compiled from records published by the federal government, this database is a collection of census records for the county in 1920. Researchers will find the person's age, birthplace, relationship to the head of the household, and parents' birthplaces. It also reveals the house number given by the enumerator, to aid in connecting family groups. For those Ancestry.com patrons seeking early twentieth century Tennessee ancestors, this can be a useful database.