Sumter County (Ala.)
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records
A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.
W.E. Dearman paper
Typescript copy of Judge W.E. Dearman's "The Town of Gaston, Alabama," a history of Gaston, an abandoned town in Sumter County, Alabama.
John K. and William M. Elliott daybooks
Photocopies of the daybooks of John K. Elliott and his son, William M. Elliott, of the Payneville, Sumter County, Alabama area, spanning the years from 1870 through 1911.
John Matthews Land Records
Papers pertaining to the land purchases of John Mathews, a Sumter Coutny, Alabama planter between 1836 and 1856.
John Norr and Richard S. Jones Letters, 1844
Ralph M. Lyons Paper
A paper written by Ralph M. Lyons documenting the history of the Livingston Presbyterian Church in Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama.
Sumter County, Alabama, Election Records
This collection contains local, state, and federal election returns for Sumter County, Alabama, from 1834 to 1863.
William P. Abrams diaries
Diaries of travels from New Hampshire to Alabama; to Havana, Cuba; and to the midwestern United States. The majority of entries were written in Gainesville, Alabama, where this New Hampshire native settled.