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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Alabama.= Official Website =Jackson County was established on December 13, 1819, after the federal government arranged a treaty to remove the Cherokee from the area and extinguish their land claims. It was named for Andrew Jackson, general in the United States Army and afterward President of the United States of Ameri...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Lowndes County, Alabama.=History=The Battle of Holy Ground, or Battle of Econochaca, was a battle fought on December 23, 1813 between the United States militia and the Red Stick Creek Indians during the Creek War. The battle took place at Econochaca, the site of a fortified encampment established in the summer of 1813 by Josiah Franc...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lee County, Alabama.= Official Website =Lee County was established by the State Legislature on December 5, 1866 and was named for General Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), who served as General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States in 1865. Adjacent Counties * Harris County, Geo. * Chambers County * Muscogee County, Geo. * Macon C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Etowah County, Alabama.= Official Website =The territory of Etowah County was originally split among the neighboring counties. It was separated and established as Baine County on December 7, 1866, by the first postwar legislature, and was named for General David W. Baine of the Confederate Army. Because of postwar tensions and actions...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morgan County, Alabama.= Official Website =The county was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818 from land acquired from the Cherokee Indians in the Treaty of Turkeytown, and was originally called Cotaco County. On June 14, 1821 it was renamed in honor of American Revolutionary War General Daniel Morgan of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Limestone County, Alabama.= Official Website =Limestone County was established by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818 and was named after Limestone Creek. Adjacent Counties * Lawrence County * Lauderdale County * Giles County, Tenn. * Morgan County * Lincoln County, Tenn. * Madison County Cities, Towns & Communities
This subportal is part of the State of Alabama Portal . Wikipedia Please go to following link for further information: United States with Counties, Areas & Communities Project . Projects on Geni Cities Auburn Birmingham Huntsville Mobile Montgomery
Benton County was established on December 18, 1832, named for Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate from Missouri. Its county seat was Jacksonville. Benton, a slave owner, was a political ally of Vice President John C. Calhoun , U.S. senator from South Carolina and also a slaveholder and planter. Through the 1820s-1840s, however, Benton's and Calhoun's political interests div...
This project is for those buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located at the old Byrd Hill home place in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama. It is on the south side of County Road 33 1.5 miles east of Snodgrass Road. There are many graves there but just a few with headstones. There is evidence of other headstones that have been there. There were many slaves buried in this cemetery also. This cemetery is very old and is not taken care of ...
Butler County was formed from Conecuh County, Alabama, and Monroe County, Alabama, by an act passed December 13, 1819, by the Legislature while in session at Huntsville. This was the first session of the Legislature of Alabama as a State. The name of Fairfield was first proposed for this county, but was changed on the passage of the bill to Butler, in honor of Captain William Butler. The preci...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Alabama.Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Alabama.= Official Website =In historic times, the county was primarily the territory of the Creek peoples, who became known to European-American settlers as one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast.The county seat, Monroeville, is...
Bullock County was established by act of the state legislature dated December 5, 1866, with areas partitioned from Macon, Pike, Montgomery, and Barbour counties. The boundaries were changed in February 1867. It was named for Sen. Edward C. Bullock . Prior to the arrival of white settlers, the future Bullock County was inhabited by Creek Indians. The Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814) ceded much of ...
Barbour County was established on December 18, 1832, from former Muscogee homelands and a portion of Pike County. Between the years of 1763 and 1783 the area which is now Barbour County was part of the colony of British West Florida. After 1783 the region fell under the jurisdiction of the newly created United States of America. The Muscogee Creek Confederacy was removed to territory west of th...
The cemetery is located on 3360 Brookside Drive Millbrook, Elmore County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Brook Cedron Cemetery, Barnwell, Baldwin County, Alabama. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in Brightwater Cemetery, Brightwater, Choctaw County, Alabama. Find a Grave AL Gen Web
Wikipedia Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 20,000 undergraduate students, and a total of over 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the ...
Wikipedia =The county is named for Johann de Kalb .
Birmingham was founded on June 1, 1871, by the Elyton Land Company whose investors included cotton planters, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs. It sold lots near the planned crossing of the Alabama & Chattanooga and South & North Alabama railroads including land formerly a part of the Benjamin P. Worthington Plantation. The first business at that crossroads was the trading post and country sto...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Alabama.= Official Website = Overview Jefferson County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Legislature. It was named in honor of former President Thomas Jefferson. In a study of lynchings in the South from 1877 to 1950, Jefferson County is documented as having the highest number of lynchings of any c...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, Alabama. Official Website Shelby County was established on February 7, 1818, and it was named for the Revolutionary War hero and the first Governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby. The county has a long history in agriculture, and since about 1990, it has become an important location for growing soybeans, which has excee...
The cemetery is located on 20058 US-90, Robertsdale, Baldwin County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Weogufka First Baptist Church Cemetery, Weogufka, Coosa County, Alabama. It is also known as Old Weogufka Cemetery . Find a Grave Cemetery Walkthrough
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Alabama.= Official Website =Marshall County was established on January 9, 1836 and was named in honor of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States. Adjacent Counties * Jackson County * Madison County * Morgan County * DeKalb County * Etowah County * Blount County * Cullman County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Talladega County, Alabama. Official Website Talladega County was established on December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek Indians near the state's geographic center. The name Talladega is derived from a Muscogee (Creek) Native American word Tvlvteke, from the Creek tålwa, meaning "town", and åtigi, or "border" -- "Border To...
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lauderdale County, Alabama.= Official Website =Lauderdale County was established in 1818 and was named in honor of Colonel James Lauderdale, of Tennessee. Four Alabama governors were from the county - Hugh McVay, Robert M. Patton, Edward A. O'Neal and Emmett O'Neal. Adjacent Counties * Colbert County * Hardin County, Tenn. * Wayne Co...
Blount County was created by the Alabama Territorial Legislature on February 6, 1818, formed from land ceded to the federal government by the Creek Nation on August 9, 1814. This county was named for Gov. Willie Blount of Tennessee, who provided assistance to settlers in Alabama during the Creek War. This county lies in the northeastern quadrant of the state, which is sometimes known as the min...
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Magnolia Cemetery Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Find a Grave
Elmwood Cemetery Also known as Elm Leaf Cemetery LOCATION 600 Martin Luther King Jr Drive Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, 35211 USA PHONE 205-251-3114 MEMORIALS 103,095 added (91% photographed) cemetery will disclose plot information over the phone to non-relatives, but not more than about two at a time, assuming someone is available to do the research. For a $20 charge, you can, at the...
The cemetery is located on 6121 Highway 27, Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama. Find a Grave
Wikipedia =Alabama National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Montevallo, Alabama, 15 miles south of Birmingham, Alabama.3133 Highway 119 Montevallo, AL 35115 Phone: 205-665-9039 FAX: 205-665-7790Burial status - Open Find a Grave
Wikipedia =The county is named for Hon. Anderson Crenshaw .
Wikipedia The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System. Founded in 1831, UA is one of the oldest and the largest of the universities in Alabama. UA offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, Education Specialist, and doctoral degrees. T...
Take Hwy 31 south to Falkville, Morgan County, Alabama. Turn right on County Highway 55 and go about three miles. Cemetery is on the right, behind the church, at the intersection of Barkley Bridge Road. Find a Grave
Directions: From the intersection of Highway 31 and Highway 67, in Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama, (Beltline Rd), go west on Beltline Road to Danville Road. Turn right, and after you pass 8th Street, it becomes Memorial Drive. Go a short distance, and the cemetery will be on your left. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Sumterville, Sumter County, Alabama, USA:
Beasley Family Cemetery=== Pratts, Barbour County, Alabama, USA ==Barbour County, Alabama, USA Near Pratt's Station, outside of Clayton# Beasley, John 11 May 1792 - 24 July 1883 # Beasley, William 17 Nov 1801 - 7 May 1877 # Beasley, Martha Alums 4 Jan 1802 - 11 Aug 1881 # Beasley, Elizabeth 29 March 1814 - 6 Sept 1902 # Beasley, John C. 23 Oct 1823 - 8 Feb 1864 # Beasley, John 2 Dec 1836 - 5 Se...
Cahawba County was established ("erected") on February 7, 1818, named for the Cahawba River (now more commonly known as Cahaba River). This name came from the Choctaw language word meaning "water above." On December 4, 1820, it was renamed as Bibb County. The county is named for William Wyatt Bibb , the Governor of Alabama Territory and the first Governor of Alabama. In the wake of the America...
Located on 3146 County Road 33, Fyffe, DeKalb County, Alabama. Find a Grave I Dream of Genealogy
The cemetery is located on 1365 County Road 421, Grandview, Cullman County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Bethlehem United Methodist Cemetery, Locust Fork, Blount County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Calhoun County, Alabama. Find a Grave USGW Archives
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lawrence County, Alabama.= Official Website =Lawrence County was established by the legislature of the Alabama Territory on February 6, 1818 and was named after James Lawrence, a captain in the United States Navy from New Jersey. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the U.S. government forced most of the members of these Southeast tr...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Marengo County, Alabama.= Official Website =Marengo County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818, from land acquired from the Choctaw by the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens on October 24, 1816. Like the other four of the "Five Civilized Tribes", over the course of the following twenty years the Choctaw we...
Wikipedia =The county is named for frontiersman Samuel Dale .
This project is for those buried in Bethel Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Babbie, Covington County, Alabama. Find a Grave
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA: Wikipedia Oakwood Cemetery was begun by donations of land from Andrew Dexter and General John Scott in the years 1817 and 1818 respectfully. The earliest part of the graveyard was known as Scott's Free Burying Ground, with Mary Pouncey Jones, 1790-1818 being the first recorded burial. Scott's Free Ground 1-6 are the original bur...
The Battle of Selma, Alabama (April 2, 1865), formed part of the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the American Civil War. Union Army forces under Major General James H. Wilson, totaling 13,500, invaded southern Alabama, opposed by Confederates under Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who a force of only 2,000, with mainly bo...
Wikipedia =The county is named for George Colbert - Chickasaw Nation Chief and his brother Maj. Levi "Itawamba Minco" Colbert .Colbert County is the home to the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound . and the birthplace of Helen Keller. From Wiki: Residents in Muscle Shoals created two studios that have worked with numerous artists to record many hit songs from the 1960s to today. These are FAME Studio...
Wikipedia =The county is named for Gen. John Archer Elmore .
The cemetery is located on 1805 County Road 533, New Brockton, Coffee County, Alabama. Find a Grave US Gen Net Church Website
Official Website The town was founded in the postbellum era by the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, named after Henry Bessemer and owned by coal magnate Henry F. DeBardeleben. He had inherited Daniel Pratt's investments. The mayor and councilmen voted to incorporate the city of Bessemer on September 9, 1887. Located 16 miles southwest of Birmingham, Bessemer grew rapidly and its promoter...
Approximately 120 years ago, a plot of land, east of Sweetwater Creek, was given to a group of people to build a church. The land was given to them by Mr. Robert "Bob" Lowery. The group built and organized the Sweetwater Baptist Church on the said plot. The church moved to its present site in the late 1880's. In 1919 the church was destroyed by fire. The cemetery is located in Crenshaw County. ...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilcox County, Alabama. Wilcox County was established on December 13, 1819. The county was named after Joseph M. Wilcox, a US Army lieutenant who was killed in Alabama during the Creek War. Adjacent Counties Dallas County Lowndes County Butler County Monroe County Clarke County Marengo County Cities, Towns & Comm...
This project is used to relate all units from Alabama who served in the Confederate Army. Wikipedia
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama.= Official Website =Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County. It was established in 1702 by the French as the first capital of colonial La Louisiane (New France). During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the Uni...
Wikipedia Samford University is a private, coeducational, Christian university located in Homewood, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. In 1841, the university was founded as Howard College. Samford University is the 87th oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford University is Alabama's top-ranked private university. The university enrolls 5,471 students from 47 states a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pickens County, Alabama. Official Website Pickens County was established on the western border of Alabama on December 20, 1820, and named for revolutionary war hero General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina. Adjacent Counties Lamar County Fayette County Tuscaloosa County Lowndes County, Miss. Noxubee County, Miss. S...
This cemetery is on Easley Drive, Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The cemetery is located on 5th Street, Bay Minette, Baldwin County, Alabama. Find a Grave
The Battle of Ebenezer Church was a battle that was fought in Stanton, Alabama near Plantersville, Alabama between Union Cavalry under Brigadier General and Brevet Major General of volunteers James H. Wilson and Confederate States Cavalry under Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest on April 1, 1865 during Wilson's Raid into Alabama in the final full month of the American Civil War . Forrest had at ...
The Battle of Decatur was a demonstration conducted from October 26 to October 29, 1864, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War . Union forces of 3–5,000 men under Brig. Gen. Robert S. Granger prevented the 39,000 men of the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. John B. Hood from crossing the Tennessee River at Decatur, Alabama .
The Battle of Newton was a minor skirmish that took place in the small town of Newton, Alabama, on 14 March 1865, during the final days of the U.S. Civil War . It was fought between local Home Guard troops and elements of the 1st Florida Cavalry (US) , who had invaded the Wiregrass region of Alabama . This operation had not been approved by Brig. Gen. Alexander Asboth , commanding Union forces ...
Air University is a professional military education university system of the United States Air Force . It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award master's degrees.
Important Note: As of 1/26/2023 this Project will be a Work in Progress(WIP). I (CLM) will have to format it but please continue to add profiles. Important Notice/Disclamer: This project is not endorsed by any Civil Rights Organization or persons mentioned in this project. This project is for genealogical and educational purposes only. Also, this project is an attempt at a comprehensive study ...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Alabama .Virtual Jewish World: Alabama, United States Virtual Jewish World: Table of Contents | North America | United States Early History While Jewish traders are known to have been active in Alabama as early as 1757, and a number of Jews lived in Mobile in the 1760s under British rule, it was not until the 1820s that the firs...
The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was a naval and land engagement of the American Civil War in which a Union fleet commanded by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay: Morgan, Gaines and Powell. Farragut's order of "Damn the torpe...
Alabama Territory was formed on March 3, 1817, from Mississippi Territory. It had only one governor appointed by the President of the United States before it became a state; he became the first state governor.=Governors of the Territory of Alabama=* William Wyatt Bibb (1817-1819)For the Governors of the State of Alabama see Alabama Governors
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Macon County, Alabama.= Official Website =The historic tribes encountered by European explorers were the Creek Indians, descendants of the Mississippian culture.Macon County was established by December 18, 1832, from land ceded by the Creek, following the US Congress' passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Creek were removed t...
Wikipedia =The county is named for Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA .
Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico, along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 231,767. The county seat is Bay Minette. The county is named after senator Abraham Baldwin, though he never lived in what is now Alabama. Baldwin...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature.=Place project portals= Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. ==Geographical==* Australia * Canada * Europe** Al-Andalus ** Austro-Hungarian-Empire ** Belarus ** Czech Republic-Bohemia ** Croa...
Please add profiles of those buried in Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery, Southside, Etowah County, Alabama. Find a Grave
Autauga County was established on November 21, 1818, by an act of the Alabama Territorial Legislature (one year before Alabama was admitted as a State). As established, the county included present-day Autauga County, as well as Elmore County and Chilton County. At the time, Autauga (aka, Tawasa) Indians lived here. They were concentrated in a village named Atagi (meaning "pure water") situated ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in St. Clair County, Alabama. Official Website St. Clair County was established on November 20, 1818, by the Alabama Territory. Its name is in honor of General Arthur St. Clair, an officer in the French and Indian War. Adjacent Counties Etowah County Calhoun County Blount County Shelby County Jefferson County Talladeg...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Auburn, Lee County , Alabama. Official Website History Auburn was incorporated on February 2, 1839, in what was then Macon County , covering an area of 2 square miles. By that time, Methodist and Baptist churches had been established, and a school had been built and had come into operation. In the mid-1840s, separate academies f...
Please add profiles of those buried in Ashland City Cemetery, Ashland, Clay County, Alabama. Find a Grave USGW Archives
Wikipedia =The county is named for US Senator Henry H. Chambers .
Wikipedia =The county is named for Rep. William Parish Chilton .
Wikipedia The county is named for Henry Clay , Speaker of the House, Seantor & Secretary of State.
Wikipedia =The county is named for Gen. John R. Coffee .
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Wikipedia =The county is named for Brig. Gen. Leonard Covington .
Wikipedia =The county is named for John G. Cullmann .
Wikipedia =The county is named for Alexander James Dallas , US Secretary of the Treasury.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Alabama.Fayette County was established on December 20, 1824, during Marquis de Lafayette's historic tour of the 24 United States. Adjacent Counties * Marion County * Walker County * Tuscaloosa County * Pickens County * Lamar County Cities, Towns & Communities *Belk*Berry*Bankston*Bazemore*Bluff*Boley Springs*Covin*Faye...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Alabama.= Official Website =Franklin County was established on February 6, 1818 and named after Benjamin Franklin.Many musicians and songwriters are from Franklin County including Billy Sherrill, Ricky Pierce, Eddie Martin and many others. Adjacent Counties * Colbert County * Itawamba County, Miss. * Lawrence County *...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Geneva County, Alabama.= Official Website =Geneva County was established on December 26, 1868. The county was named after its county seat, which in turn was named after Geneva, New York which was named after Geneva, Switzerland, by Walter H. Yonge, an early town resident and Swiss native.On March 10, 2009, a gunman, identified as Mich...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Alabama. History Greene County was established on December 13, 1819. It was named for Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island.The Greene County Courthouse in Eutaw was burned by arson in 1868, in a year with considerable election-associated violence throughout the South. On March 31, 1870, there were ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Henry County, Alabama.= Official Website =Henry County was established on December 13, 1819 by the Alabama Territorial Legislature. The area was ceded by the Creek Indian Nation in 1814 under the Treaty of Fort Jackson. From 1877 to 1950, whites lynched 13 African Americans in the county, most in the decades on either side of the turn...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Houston County, Alabama.Houston County was established on February 9, 1903 and was named after George Smith Houston, the 24th Governor of Alabama. Adjacent Counties * Henry County * Early County, Georgia * Seminole County, Georgia * Dale County * Geneva County * Jackson County, Fla. Cities, Towns & Communities Ardilla | Ashford | Avon...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lamar County, Alabama.On February 8, 1877, the county was renamed Lamar in honor of Senator Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, II of Mississippi. Adjacent Counties * Fayette County * Marion County * Pickens County * Lowndes County, Miss. * Monroe County, Miss. Cities, Towns & Communities *Beaverton*Detroit*Henson Springs*Hightogy*Kenne...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Walker County, Alabama. Official Website Walker County was established on December 26, 1823. It was named after Senator John Walker, who represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate from 1819 to 1822. Adjacent Counties Jefferson County Blount County Tuscaloosa County Fayette County Marion County Winston County Cullman...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Alabama. History The area of today's Washington County was long inhabited by various indigenous people. In historic times, European traders encountered first Choctaw, whose territory extended through most of present-day Mississippi, and later Creek Indians, who had moved southwest from Georgia ahead of early Eur...