I am trying to get a death certificate on Margret (Margaret) Mathis (Mathus) Brooks. She died on 3-12-l879, but I am unable to get one because Tenn. wasn't required to issue them during that time. She is buried in Hickman County. I have contacted Archives in Nashville (they couldn't help me, but suggested I contact Tenn.State Library & Archives). Our county health dept. said they only keep them 3 years and said probably others do the same. Any suggestions? They lived at Tenn. City at one time and I thought maybe she might have died in Dickson Co. Jason's Chapel Nazarene Church in Tenn. City was named after him but he was a Methodist instead of Nazarene. I'm assuming it was a Methodist church before Nazarene.