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Marengo County (Ala.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n81020374

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0064
Overview The business and personal papers of John G. Allen (1810- 1891) and his son Charles Edward (1860-1943), planters of Marengo County, Alabama, including Civil War letters, tenant farmer contracts, mortgages and indentures, bills and receipts, personal letters, insurance policies, and miscellaneous items relating to the family.
Dates: 1848-1906

Askew family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0091
Overview Biographical sketch, ledger, diaries, church histories, newspaper clippings, copies of poetry and pieces written about Confederate history in Alabama, address and appointment books from this Dayton, Alabama, family.
Dates: 1844-1993

Bogy and Smith Families genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.
Dates: undated

Canebrake collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0267
Overview Materials relating principally to the community of Dayton in Marengo County, Alabama. It includes land grants, the Dayton city code, town council minutes, and some family records.
Dates: circa 1837?

Dayton Female Institute announcement

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Identifier: MSS-0415
Abstract An 1867 announcement containing information for students of this Dayton, Alabama girls school overseen by the Rev. J.F. Tarrant and his wife.
Dates: 1867

Demopolis, Alabama, bonds

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0426
Overview Bonds for the "sixteen-hundred and eightieth part" interest in the Company of the town of Demopolis, Alabama, in 1819.
Dates: 1819 April 21

Early Alabama Land Grants and Applications for Purchase

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0465
Overview Applications for grants and for the purchase of land, mainly in Marengo and Washington counties in Alabama. There are also a few other legal documents pertaining to disputed applications.
Dates: 1812 - 1846

City of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, correspondence

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Identifier: MSS-0509
Overview Letters created and received by the city of Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama, mainly relating to routine matters in this small town, including city maintenance concerns.
Dates: 1927-1933

Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Overview Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.
Dates: 1959-1984

Harris family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0640
Overview Includes typewritten copies of letters written between James William and Robert Harris, both serving in the Confederate States Army, and their family in Marengo County, Alabama.
Dates: 1861

Joel Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0781
Abstract Copies of newspaper articles written by Jones, most of them on historical or social topics.
Dates: 1939 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1946

John Cocke Papers

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Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates: 1810-1899

John Witherspoon DuBose papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0086
Overview Contains newspaper serialization of John Witherspoon DuBose's Chronicles of the Canebreak, as well as photographs, correspondence, biographical sketches and newspaper clippings related to this Alabama historian.
Dates: 1893 - 1918

Lena E. Lockhart papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0871
Overview Autobiographical sketch, inspirational materials, the papers "Woman's Part in Making Alabama History - the Past" presented to the Thomaston, Marengo County, Alabama Study Club, which focuses on female educators, and "History of The Thomaston Parent-Teacher Association", as well as a history of Thomaston, Alabama, by Alma Jean Compton, and materials relating to teaching.
Dates: 1951-1963

Marengo County, Alabama Circuit Court docket

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0905
Overview Contains materials on court cases in Marengo County, Alabama, from 1844-1848.
Dates: 1844-1848

Marengo County, Alabama Court records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0906
Overview Contains court records for Marengo County, Alabama, from 1818-1966
Dates: unknown

Marengo County, Alabama, Families Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0907
Abstract Material about families dwelling in Marengo County, Alabama including Jewish families, cemetery surveys, and miscellaneous family records. Copied from material in the Demopolis Public Library.
Dates: 1940 - 1991

Old Spring Hill Methodist Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1071
Abstract Church register of this Marengo County, Alabama, Methodist church, which records names of members received before 1917, baptisms, and deaths.
Dates: 1911 - 1973

George and James Skinner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1280
Overview Material concerning the business and plantation activities of George (1812-1879) and James Skinner (1801-1883) of Marengo County.
Dates: 1829-1950

Union Baptist Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1461
Overview A ledger containing membership lists, lists of pastors, and minutes of deacons' meetings of this Baptist church in Sweetwater, Marengo County, Alabama.This collection contains two record books of the Union Baptist Church. Both of the books end in 1874, but the first one begins in 1839 and the second one begins in 1852. They include a church history, church record book index, meeting minutes, constitution of the church, a lineage chart of Brenda Englebert, plot map of Marengo County, a church...
Dates: 1862-1873

Union Baptist Church of Christ records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1462
Abstract Contains membership lists (including black members), regulations, doctrine, minutes, and membership letters for this Sweetwater, Marengo County, Alabama, church.
Dates: 1839-1992

Paul Turner Vaughn diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1496
Abstract Civil War diary of a soldier from Marengo County, Alabama. It contains entries describing camp life, marching, and fighting in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia; including the Battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain.
Dates: 1863-1864

William A. Stickney diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0057
Overview Diary of Episcopal minister William A. Stickney contains entries dated from 1841-1847. The diary documents Stickney's life as a college student at LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama, the University of Alabama, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Entries provide information about Stickney's daily life, as well as descriptions of religious services he attended and led, and a description of his personal devotions.
Dates: 1841-1847