|
|
|
|
|
|
Welcome
To
Calhoun
County
Alabama
Genealogy and
History |
Volunteers Dedicated to Free
Genealogy
This Site is
Available for Adoption
Our goal is to help you track
your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical
and historical data for the free use of all
researchers.
We're looking for folks who share
our dedication to putting data online and are interested
in helping this project be as successful as it can be.
If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view
our Volunteer Page for further information and then
contact Nancy.
(Enough knowledge to make a basic
webpage and a desire to transcribe data is
required)
We regret that we are
unable to perform personal research for
folks.
All data we come across will be added
to this site.
We thank you for visiting and hope
you'll come back again to view the updates we make to
this site.
We
hope you will consider contributing your Obits,
Biographies and Pioneer Family History.
Send
your contributions to Veneta
-
If you would like to be
kept informed of our state and county website updates,
subscribe to any or all of our mailing
lists
Alabama is covered under our
"Southern States" mailing list.
-
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.
Towns and
Cities:
* Alexandria *
Anniston* Blue Mountain *
Bynum*
-
*Glencoe (Part in Etowah County) *
Hobson City * Jacksonville *
-
*
Ohatchee * Oxford (Part in Talladega County) *
Piedmont (Part in Cherokee County) *
-
* Saks
* Southside (Part in Etowah County) * Weaver * West
End _ Cobb Town *
-
-
Website
Updates:
-
May
2013: Crime news: MYERS, JONES
-
Death
News; THORNTON
-
April
2013: Bio: SAVAGE, TATUNS; Sick news: KELLY, McCARTY;
Death news:
REED
-
March
2013: Industrial News; Anniston's new furniture
company - 1903; Death News: DAVIS
-
Community news; WILLIAMS won
scholarship; History of Calhoun County by Smith
and DeLand - 1888
-
Bios:
ALEXANDER, ALLEN, BARRY, BORDERS, BULLARD,
DAILEY, DODSON, GUNNELS, HARRIS, HIGGINS, HILL,
HUGHES, LAIRD, McCLELLEN, MOODY, RUSSELL, SHARP,
SMITH, SNOW, THOMASON, WHITESIDE, WILLIAMS,
WILSON
-
Feb
2013: Sick News: ROPER; 1837 Advertisers, Estate Notices:
TURNER, MCREYNOLDS, Estray notice: STEWART,
NORMAN, GRAY - Transcribed by KT; Estate Notices: BROTHERS,
HUGHS, WEIR - transcribed by Cathy Danielson;
Vietnam
Casualties List - Transcribed by Mary Kay
Krogman; Early
births - Submitted by Sandy Denney; WW2 Honor List of Dead and
Missing Army & Army Air Force Personel from
Alabama 1946 - Transcribed by Peggy
Thompson; Community news; missing boy - HARMON;
Sick list News:
WHITE
-
Jan
2013: Crime News: BURNS, HUMPHRIES, THOMAS;
Schools: 1908 - cigarette ban;Industrial news;
1908 DAVIS; Community news: HUBBARD; Sick
news: SMITH, SELLERS;
-
Marriage News; ARMISTEAD, REID,
SMITH, CRAWFORD, HEATH, POOR, HANSON, GILL,
HYGOOD, EVANS; FERRELL, MORELAND;
Mil:
Span-American: Southern Martyrs - Roster of
Anniston Rifles - transcribed by Sandra
Stutzman; Obits:
CROSS, PHILLIPS, BAGLEY, BOOTH, CHAMPION,
HINDMAN, MATTOX, MORTON, PARKER, WELLS, WHITLOCK
- transcribed by FOFG mz
-
Cane Creek Cemetery, Morrisville
Cemetery, Prisoner of War Cemetery (also
known as German Italian Memorial Cemetery), and
Fort McClellan Cemetery - transcribed by Mary
Saggio
-
Death
Records of State Convicts 1901-19014 -
Transcribed by Dawn Conway
-
Dec
2012; Obits: MCKIEROY
-
Nov
2012: Industrial news: Anniston Pipe and
Foundry; Obit: BLAKE; Rev War: BARRY;
-
Advertiser 1894: FORBES
-
Oct
2012: 1883 Pensioners; Obit: REGNER - Submitted
by Janice Rice
-
Sept
2012: Death News; Marriage news: BRINDLEY,
MCGHEE, PORTER, DODSON; Sick List News:
ALEXANDER, AIKEN, BLANKENSHIP, BURNS, FERGUSON,
MATTISON, NEELY, SNARES, THOMAS, TRAMMEL;
Community News; School News; Land News;
Advertiser News; Church News; Crime News; List
of Letters from 1836; Slavery notices, native
American News; Bio: ANDERSON
-
Aug
2012: News:Death: CHASTINE, JONES, FINCH, WELCH,
KILGORE, LIVINGSTON, CrimeNews;
Community
News; Slave notice:GREEN, Military: WWI Gold Stars,
Woodstock Guards
-
July 2012: Listing of
Churches, Post Offices, and Schools
-
Jan
2012: News Articles: Letters at the Post
Office;
2009: County
History, Revolutionary Soldiers
2008:
Cemeteries, Obituaries
2007:
Obituaries
2006:
Obituaries |
| | | |
