ALABAMA GENEALOGY TRAILS Welcomes
you to CALHOUN COUNTY Volunteers dedicated to putting
Free Genealogy Data online
This
website needs a host. If you
like to transcribe genealogical data for the free use of
all researchers and can make a basic webpage, please
view our
Volunteer
Page
and
contact Kim
.
If you can't be a County
Coordinator, you can still be a great deal of help. We
need volunteers who will ferret out Calhoun County
History of any kind..... who will find interesting
documents to transcribe and email to us so we can place
it here online.
In the meantime, we'll be
doing our best to create a website that you will find
helpful, useful and meaningful as you trace your
ancestors. Our goal with our websites is to add enough
raw data that you will be able to trace your ancestors
through time - wherever their trails led them! What we
can do is try to provide the data and early history to
help you along. At the same time we hope you will share
what information you have that might be of help to
others. Send your contributions to
Christina.
Brief
History:
Calhoun county is named in honor of
John C. Calhoun, member of the United States Senate from
South Carolina. Its county seat is Anniston. Benton
County was established on December 18, 1832, named for
Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate
from Missouri, with its county seat at Jacksonville.
Benton, a slaveowner, was a political ally of John C.
Calhoun, another slaveholder and a U.S. senator from
South Carolina. Through the 1820s-1840s, however,
Benton's and Calhoun's political interests diverged,
with Calhoun increasingly using secession as a weapon to
maintain and expand slavery throughout the United
States. Benton, on the other hand, was slowly coming to
the conclusion that slavery was wrong and that
preservation of the union was paramount. On January 29,
1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to
Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as
Calhoun County. The county seat was moved to Anniston
after years of controversy and a State Supreme Court
ruling in June 1900.
CITIES AND TOWNS in
CALHOUN COUNTY.....
Alexandria
Anniston
Blue
Mountain
Bynum
Glencoe (part of Glencoe is in Etowah
County)
Hobson City
Jacksonville
Ohatchee
Oxford (part of Oxford is in
Talladega County)
Piedmont (part of Piedmont is in
Cherokee County)
Saks
Southside (part of Southside is in
Etowah County)
Weaver
West
End-Cobb Town
ONLINE
DATA
We'll be short on data
for awhile, but we're working hard to gather
it. We're looking for the
following types of
data:
Website
Updates: DEATH NOTICES & OBITS; MISC NEWS ITEMS; BIOS May
2009
COUNTY History Mar. 2009
Revolutionary Soldiers
January 2009
Cemeteries
October 2008
Obituaries
August 2008 Obituaries
July 8, 2007 Obituaries
Jan. 3, 2007 Obituaries
Nov. 1, 2006
