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Sumter County
Cemeteries & Church Histories & Records
  • Abstracts from Orphans' minutes book #1, 1833-1839, Sumter County, Alabama; letters, marriage records 1833-39, poll lists, Presbyterian Church records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (vol. 70)
  • Bigbee's first 125 years : a history of Bigbee Baptist Association, Greene and Sumter Counties, Alabama, 1852-1976
  • Cemetery records
  • Extant Antebellum churches of Sumter County, Alabama
  • History of Elizabeth Church, Sumter County, Alabama
  • History of Oxford Presbyterian Church (in Sumter County, Ala., near Lauderdale, MS.)
  • Liberty Baptist Church, Sumter County Alabama
  • Public cemeteries of Sumter County, Alabama, 1834-1972
  • Sumter County, Alabama : index wills and estate administrations, 1834-1884 : Register of deaths, 1881-1892 : cemetery records
Census Records
  • 1840 U.S. census, Sumter County, Alabama
  • 1850 slave schedule, Sumter County, Alabama
  • 1850 U.S. census, Sumter County, Alabama
  • 1855 census Sumter County, Alabama
  • Alabama 1860 agricultural and manufacturing census ... (vol. 4)
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1850 : seventh census of the United States
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1860 : eighth census of the United States
  • Sumter County, Alabama, voting list, 1834-1861
  • Sumter County, Alabama, voting lists, 8/5/1861 and 11/6/1861 : also a list of Confederate States candidates
County / City / Family Histories
  • A bibliography of writings about Sumter County, Alabama and it's people
  • The Canebrake planters of Alabama : a collection of antebellum plantations, historical homes, and genealogy
  • Dead towns of Alabama
  • Free at last to vote : the Alabama origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
  • Gabr'l blow sof' : Sumter County, Alabama slave narratives
  • The heritage of Sumter County, Alabama
  • A history of Livingston University, 1835-1963
  • A history of Sumter County, Alabama, through 1886
  • A history of the town of Livingston, Alabama
  • "Honey in the rock" : the Ruby Pickens Tartt collection of religious folk songs from Sumter County, Alabama
  • The Moore Place community : remnant of a time gone by
  • Old Gainesville, 1832-1875 : you are there, July 4th, 1876 (Celebrating the forty-fourth year of Gainesville, Alabama)
  • Pioneer families of Sumter County, Alabama
  • The place names of Sumter County, Alabama
  • Quilt of souls : a memoir
  • Scrap book of Colonel R.G. McMahon of Gainsville, Ala
Court Records
  • Abstracts from Orphans' minutes book #1, 1833-1839, Sumter County, Alabama; letters, marriage records 1833-39, poll lists, Presbyterian Church records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (vol. 70, 91, 117, 128, 132, 164)
  • Inventory of the county archives of Alabama (no. 60)
  • Sumter County, Alabama : index wills and estate administrations, 1834-1884 : Register of deaths, 1881-1892 : cemetery records
  • Sumter County, Alabama, wills: 1828-1872 ; mortality schedules: 1850-1880
Death Records, Obituaries, & Notices
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1850 : seventh census of the United States
  • Alabama mortality schedule, 1860 : eighth census of the United States
  • Sumter County, Alabama : index wills and estate administrations, 1834-1884 : Register of deaths, 1881-1892 : cemetery records
  • Sumter County, Alabama, wills: 1828-1872 ; mortality schedules: 1850-1880
Land Records
  • Family maps of Sumter County, Alabama : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more
  • Sumter County, Alabama ancestral homesteads
Maps
  • Alabama Maps website (Sumter Co.)
Marriage Records & Notices
  • Abstracts from Orphans' minutes book #1, 1833-1839, Sumter County, Alabama; letters, marriage records 1833-39, poll lists, Presbyterian Church records
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (vol. 91, 117, 128, 132, 176)
  • Freedmen and colored marriage records, 1865-1890, Sumter County, Alabama
  • Jackson County, Alabama, 1851-1855 : Sumter County, Alabama, 1833-1850
Military History & Records
  • Alabama 1907 census of Confederate soldiers
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (vol 70)
  • Choctaw, Sumter and Washington Counties' C.S.A. companies
  • Scrap book of Colonel R.G. McMahon of Gainsville, Ala
Newspaper Abstracts
  • Abstracts from Alabama newspapers (vol. 1)
  • Alabama records / compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud (vol. 16, 44, 52, 70, 164, 176)
  • Scrap book of Colonel R.G. McMahon of Gainsville, Ala
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