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Barbour County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Church Records of southeast Alabama book I
  • Directory of the First Baptist Church of Eufaula, Ala., containing church covenant, articles of faith, a brief history of the Church and lists of officers and members.
  • Pea River Presbyterian Church : Clio, Barbour County, Alabama
  • Transcript of the Pea River Presbyterian Church : Barbour County, Alabama session book
Census Records
  • 1833 State census for Barbour County, Alabama
  • 1850 U.S. census, Barbour County, Alabama
  • U. S. census of 1840, Barbour County, Alabama ...
  • U.S. census of 1850 for Barbour County, Alabama
  • U.S. census of 1860 for Barbour County, Alabama
County / City / Family Histories
  • Backtracking in Barbour county, a narrative of the last Alabama frontier
  • Along Broad Street : a history of Eufaula, Alabama, 1823-1984
  • Bible records, Barbour County, Alabama
  • Biography of Maximilian Bethune Wellborn. Published by his children
  • Blue Springs
  • Chattahoochee trails : short, factual, historical stories about the Chattahoochee Valley
  • Chattahoochee Valley sources and resources : an annotated bibliography
  • Civil War Eufaula
  • Clio, Alabama, a history
  • Early settlers of Barbour County, Alabama
  • Eufaula and Barbour County in vintage postcards
  • Eufaula's gracious lady : Caroline Copeland Clayton, 1882-1983 : "Miss Caro"
  • Events about people
  • Fendall Hall : a true story of good times and bad times on the Chattahoochee River
  • Flowing through time : a history of the lower Chattahoochee River
  • The heritage of Barbour County, Alabama
  • History of Barbour County, Alabama
  • Historic Eufaula : a treasury of southern architecture, 1827-1910
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  • Index to History of Eufaula, Alabama
  • Introduction and index to the John Horry Dent farm journals and account books, 1840-1892
  • John Horry Dent, South Carolina aristocrat on the Alabama frontier
  • Never Forget : the Lattimore Story
  • Reminiscences of Judge Joseph Vernon Chambers, a lifetime resident of the Chattahoochee River Valley
  • Something to prove : Ann Cole Lowe, America's forgotten designer
  • The very worst road : travellers' accounts of crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian territory, 1820-1847
  • To remember a vanishing world : D.L. Hightower's photographs of Barbour County, Alabama, c. 1930-1965
  • Toils, snares & tender mercies : one southern family's story
  • Witness to injustice
Court Records
  • Abstracts of wills and estates, Barbour County, Alabama
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • Barbour county funeral records : Godwin Funeral Home from January 1, 1935 through January 12, 1940
  • Bible records, Barbour County, Alabama
  • Marriage & death notices from Barbour and Henry Counties, Alabama newspapers, 1846-1890
  • Obituaries from Barbour County, Alabama, newspapers, 1890-1905
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  • Barbour County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
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  • 1860 marriage records, Barbour County, Alabama
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  • Marriage abstracts from Barbour County, Alabama, newspapers, 1890-1905
  • Marriage & death notices from Barbour and Henry Counties, Alabama newspapers, 1846-1890
  • Marriage records, 1838-1859, Barbour County, Alabama
  • Marriage records, 1850, Barbour County, Alabama
Military History & Records
  • Army of Alabama administrative files, 1861
  • In the land of the living : wartime letters by Confederates from the Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
  • Navy gray : a story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers
  • Service record book of men and women of Eufaula, Alabama, and community
  • The Valley in World War II
  • "Young men of Barbour, why stand ye idle?" : a review of Confederate soldiers from Barbour County, Alabama, 1860-1865
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Candid comments : selected columns from the Eufaula tribune, 1958-2006
  • Chattahoochee trails : short, factual, historical stories about the Chattahoochee Valley
Periodicals
  • Deep south genealogical quarterly
  • Pea River trails
  • Wiregrass roots
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