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Montgomery County, Alabama

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  • Thomas Jefferson Childerson (1839 - 1906)
    Thomas Jefferson Childerson was the son of John W. and Nancy Ann (Skaggs) Childerson of Talladega, Alabama. He served in the Civil War under Capt. Bowie in Company A of the 8th Confederate Cav. (Alabam...
  • Norma Etta Pou (1880 - 1982)
    Note: Buried in Saint John's Cemetery,Pensacola,Escambia County, Florida When Norma Ette Childerson was born on 18 January 1880, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, her father, Pvt Thomas Jefferson...
  • John Avery (deceased)
    Note: Unable to find correct John Avery due to many John Averys in the system. P=1B-P-LF-RF. T=Montgomery Dodgers/Red Sox.MD/RS.AL.NSL. Pg.92
  • Samuel Swingley Harvey (1837 - 1913)
    26th Mayor of Pensacola 1885-86 Samuel was born in Sangamon County, Illinois and was a clerk in Springfield until 1859. He joined the Confederacy and was a member of Third Alabama Infantry, Comp...
  • Amos Harkley Runyan (1803 - 1872)
    Father - John Runyon 1713 - 1815 When John Runyan was born about 1713, in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Runyon, was 10 and his mother, Mary ...

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Montgomery County was established by dividing Monroe County on December 6, 1816, by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature. It is named for Lemuel P. Montgomery, a young U.S. Army officer killed at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the final battle of the Creek Indian war, which was waged concurrently with the War of 1812.

The city of Montgomery, which is the county seat, is named for Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada.

Over much of the 19th century great wealth was derived from the cotton crop, with the Civil War producing a temporary setback. More lasting trouble came in 1914 with the arrival of the boll weevil, which became very destructive to the cotton harvest from 1915 on. By the 1940s county farms earned more from cattle than cotton.

Adjacent Counties

Cites, Towns & Communities

  • Ada
  • Boylston
  • Cecil
  • Currys
  • Dublin
  • Grady
  • Hope Hull
  • Lapine (part)
  • Le Grand
  • Mathews
  • McDade
  • Montgomery (County Seat)
  • Mount Meigs
  • Pike Road
  • Pine Level
  • Pintlala
  • Ramer
  • Red Level
  • Snowdoun
  • Waugh

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Alabama

Wikipedia

National Register of Historic Places

Selma To Montgomery Historic Trail