Alabama Room - History and Genealogy : Local History

• A Social and Economic History of Sumter County, Alabama, in the Antebellum Period by Marylee Reynolds

           330.90761t R338s

• Place Names in Alabama by Virginia O. Foscue

            917.61 F785p

• A History of Sumter County, Alabama, through 1886 by Louis Roycraft Smith, Jr.

            976.0976141 Sm61h

• Historical Record, Sumter County, Alabama: 1735-1975 [Dearman Collection]

            VAULT 976.10976141 H629

• A Bibliography of Writings About Sumter County, Alabama, and Its People by Ralph M. Lyon

            976.16 L995

• The DUD in Livingston, Alabama by D.P. Culp

            976.141 C899

• The Place Names of Sumter County, Alabama by Virginia O. Foscue

            976.141 F785p

• Gabr'l Blow Sof': Sumter County, Alabama, Slave Narratives edited by Alan Brown and David Taylor

            976.141 G114b

• The Heritage of Sumter County, Alabama by Charles Walker, Chair, and The Heritage Book Committee

            976.141 H425

• The Regional Background of Sumter County, Alabama by Clarence Le Roy Johnson

            976.141 J62r

• History of Sumter County, Alabama by Betty Lawrence

           976.141 L435h

• A History of the Town of Livingston, Alabama by R. D. Spratt

           976.141 Sp76h

• Pioneer Families of Sumter County, Alabama by Nelle Morris Jenkins

           976.1410922 J417p

• The Daily Army Argus and Crisis (Gainesville) 1865 May 8.

• The Gainesville Times (Gainesville) 1909 April 16 - 1910 March 17.

• The Independent (Gainesville), 1854 November 18 - 1865 September 23.

• The Livingston Journal (Livingston), 1865 July 15 - 1895 October 24. Missing issues: 1869 January - 1870 December.

• The Livingston Messenger (Livingston) 1867 June 3.

• Our Southern Home (Livingston), 1895 November 7 - 1961 June 29.

• Sumter County Journal (York), 1922 November 10 - 1995 June 29.

• Sumter County Record Journal (Livingston) 1995 July 6 - 1998 December 31.

• Sumter County Sun (Livingston) 1889 March 23 - 1913 June 26. 
  

• Sumter County Whig (Livingston), 1843 May 2 - 1856 April 23. Missing issues: 1845 May - 1851 March.

• The Sumter Democrat (Livingston), 1851 May 3 - 1854 April 22.

• The Sumter Enterprise (Epes), 1907 April 11 - 1911 December 21.

• The Voice of Sumter (Livingston), 1836 March 15 - 1840 June 27.

• Colgin and Related Families: Genealogy and History

            REF 929.2 C681

• Tartt Family History by Sylvia Tartt Gilder

            REF 929.2 G387t

• Alabama and Mississippi Connections: Historical and Biographical Sketches of Families who Settled on Both Sides of the Tombigbee River by Judy Jacobson

            REF 929.2 J158a

• Giles and Joan (Pearce) Gilbert, Sr. and James Edward and Catherine Smith (Preston) Poythress by Betty Lawrence

            REF 929.2 L435g

• Richard Bracewell, Gentleman and Robert and Mary Peele and their Descendants by Betty Lawrence

            REF 929.2 L435r

• Robert and Elizabeth McKinley and Descendants by Betty Lawrence

            REF 929.2 L435ro

• History of Oxford Presbyterian Church (In Sumter County, Ala., near Lauderdale, MS) by James T. Dawson

            285.0976141 D325h

• History of Livingston First Baptist Church: Sesquicentennial 1834-1984 by BB Williamson, Jr.

            286.176141 W676h

• Bigbee's First 125 Years: a History of Bigbee Baptist Association Greene and Sumter Counties, Alabama 1852-1976 by BB Williamson, Jr.

            286.1976141 W676b

• Public Cemeteries of Sumter County, Alabama, 1834 - 1972 by Jud K. Arrington

            REF 929.5 P96

* Church histories can also be found in volumes of the Dearman Collection located in the vault.

• Sumter County, Alabama, Election Returns, 1834-1861 by Joseph F. Stegall

            324.9 St32

• Marriage, Death and Legal Notices from early Alabama Newspapers, 1819-1893 compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud

            929.3761 M349

• Sumter County, Alabama Wills: 1828-1872 Mortality Schedules: 1850-1880 by Gwendolyn Lynette Hester

            929.376141 H469s

• Sumter County, Alabama: Index to Wills and Estate Administrations, 1834-1884: Register of Deaths 1881-1892; and Cemetery Records by Joseph F. Stegall and Jud K. Arrington

            929.376141 St32s

• Inventory of the County Archives of Alabama No. 60. Sumter County (Livingston) by Alabama Historical Records Survey Project, Work Projects Administration

            976.1 In8s

• Marriage and Death Notices from Alabama Newspapers and Family Records, 1819-1890 compiled by Helen S. Foley

            976.10922 M349f

• Sumter County, Alabama Voter List: 1834-1861 compiled under the direction of James T. Dawson

            976.10976141 D325su

• Abstracts from Orphans' Minutes Book #1 1833-1839 Sumter County, Alabama Vol. 1 by Nelle Morris Jenkins

            976.141 J413a

• Orphans' Minutes Vol. 2 and other Sumter County, Alabama records by Nelle Morris Jenkins and Elizabeth B. Stegall

            976.141 J413ab

• Freedman and Colored Marriage Records, 1865-1890 Sumter County, Alabama by Gwendolyn Lynette Hester

            976.141061 H469f

Microfilm:

• Sumter County Deed Books: 1883-1993
• Sumter County Orphan Court Records: 1834-1884
• Sumter County Probate Court Records and Minutes
• Sumter County Will Books: 1833-1892; 1924-1937; 1946-1993
• Sumter County Plat and Tract Books: 1948, 1953, 1971
• Sumter County Poll List: 1910-1993
• Sumter County Power of Attorney: 1962-1968
• Sumter County Circuit Court Civil: 1960-1972
• Sumter County Lien Book: 1962-1968
• Sumter County Circuit Court in Equity: 1962-1968
• Sumter County Archives: Miscellaneous
• Sumter County Mortgage Books: 1949-1990
• Sumter County Marriage Books: 1847-1968