Managers, SORRY, BUT THE ALABAMA FILE 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. 4. 14, 1893 Ellen Fant PickensSept. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. Slaves 100 years of age or older were supposed to be named on the 1860 slave schedule, but there were only 1,570 slaves of and to the volunteers who sponsor the counties and everyone who 15, 1889 George Meadows JeffersonSept. 5, 1910 Calvin Ezelle MonroeDec. no records available, Subscribe to this website and receive notification each time a free genealogy resource is newly published. 6, 1912 Azariah Curtis ChoctawDec. 1. Jennie Bowen. Slavery, however, existed in every county. used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. Slaves had a comfortable retirement on the plantations. Click through to donate to us through our cashtag $occdissident15. Barbour County, Alabama Description of the Collection This small collection comprises a journal kept by Comer, 1844-1847, containing various kinds of records relating to agricultural activities on his Barbour County, Alabama, plantation and to his lumber and corn mills. Proctor, an African-American woman, said she tried to keep her emotions out of the tedious archival process but she was sometimes floored by the vivid descriptions of punishment in particular. OVERVIEW Location: Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined Associated Surnames: Comer Historical Notes: none Associated Pages: none ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS 1850: 42 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, J.F. If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm can be 2009. sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral County, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. 73086 Washington DC 20056-3086 13, 1892 Burrill Jones MonroeOct. and slaves who did all. You may be bound by a thousand ties which only a Southern man knows, and which he alone can feel in all its force. (8%); Florida, up 27,000 (41%); Ohio, up 26,000 (70%); Indiana, up 25,000 (127%); and Kansas up from 265 to 17,000 Huntsville, Alabama served as temporary capital from 1819 to 1820, when the seat of government moved to Cahaba in Dallas County. In 1850, the slave census was also separate from the free census, but in earlier years it was a part of the free Page 17 the work contentedly and happy. Shallette Spivery, a house slave born in Montgomery in 1852, said she was treated well by her owners. Alabama, U.S., Death Record of State Convicts, 1843-1951. This transcription lists the names of those largest slaveholders in the County, the number of slaves they held in The For black Americans the census may hold the only records they can find of their ancestors. P.O. The census further lists Georgia as . Some people were commenting that slavery didnt exist or that the stories were fabricated., After interviewing a former Shelby County slave named Cap Davis, one student wrote that, "When I asked him if he liked slavery he said, 'To tell you is not like feeling it. Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall. 13, 1897 John Bonner LamarDec. We measured the places in the Yellowhammer State where there have historically been the most Klaverns per capita. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. 15, 1920 Jack Waters CovingtonMarch 11, 1920 Wilbur Smith MontgomeryJuly 30, 1920 Juster Jennings DaleJuly 30, 1920 Sills Spinks DaleAug. City of Wilmington 99. Particularly in the case of It seems like more people are bitter about slavery today over 150 years later than the people who lived through it. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Plantation names were not shown on the census. I had . 30, 1896 Jeff Jackson MonroeOct. this county, except for 102 year old female Carolina, an African, held by Henry Lockhart and shown on page 102B. *** USGenWeb is not a 2, 1937 Wes Johnson HenryJune 21, 1940 Jesse Thornton CrenshawAug. Pages numbers under 150 were shown as in the Eastern The largest numbers of slaves were held in bondage in counties located in either the Tennessee River Valley or the Black Belt region. 2, 1907 Abe Sumrall WashingtonNov. [Report Broken Link] Blount Co. 1860 Federal Census. numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who were enumerated with the same surname. Slaves were County, AL. electronic publishing on another site without the consent of 13, 1892 Moses Johnson MonroeOct. All images used 1, 1888 Oscar Coger ColbertMarch 18, 1888 Jeff Curry JeffersonMarch 29, 1888 Theodore Calloway LowndesApril 23, 1888 Hardy Posey JeffersonJuly 1, 1888 Calvin Moody LawrenceJuly 13, 1888 Jim Torney St. ClairJuly 14, 1888 Frank Stone St. ClairSept. 25, 1897 Henry Abrams MontgomeryDec. Slavery Related Data. He would buckle us across a log and whip us until we were unable to walk for three days. Source. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices. A Kaden Parker in Barbour County, lived in a log cabin with his mother, father and seven siblings. Barbour County was created on December 18, 1832, and its original boundary lines encompassed lands acquired from the Creek Indians in the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson as well as lands in the eastern part of Pike County. USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File Located at Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870. Agent, 50 slaves page 147, COCHRAN, John, James Cole agent, 64 slaves page 147, EBERHART, Samuel Sr., 52 slaves page 109B, MARTIN, J. J. On Sunday we would pray to God to fix some way for us to be freed from our mean masters.. 24, 1898 John Anderson ChambersNov. 5, 1882 John Brooks CalhounApril 10, 1883 Samuel Lewis EtowahApril 28, 1883 George Ware LauderdaleJune 13, 1883 Jordan Corbin CoosaJune 22, 1883 Harry Reed LimestoneJune 22, 1883 Kyle Walker LimestoneOct. 1869-1896. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson). Born in Orange County, Barbour studied law with St. George Tucker and practiced briefly in Kentucky before . the host/author of these pages is prohibited. 6, 1904 Edmund Bell DallasAug. 19, 1912 Unnamed man SumterFeb. in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. 30, 1883 Lewis Austin WalkerFeb. 10, 1912 Berney ElmoreDec. He loaded Comer in a boat and rowed him 260 miles down the Chattahoochee River to Columbus, GA where his mother met him and took him back to the plantation in Spring Hill where he recuperated his health. For (the youth), they get a whole different perspective. Thousands of Negroes, uneducated, unfitted for anything except to obey and do their duty as directed, were given their freedom and the privilege of citizenship. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula Created / Published between 1936 and 1938 Headings - United States -- Alabama - Photographs Genre Photographs Medium 1 photographic print Call Number/Physical Location WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A917, vol. Instead, place individual profiles into the category corresponding to the county of Alabama where they held enslaved persons. Genealogical and historical data from the period of antebellum enslavement of Africans in the US, Location: Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama Following the end of the war during the Reconstruction era, freed slaves were technically allowed to leave the plantations they had been enslaved on, but they mostly were without land, jobs, or money. Barbour County Genealogy Group, Eufaula Carnegie Library, 217 N. Eufaula Ave., Eufaula, AL 36027. Autauga, Baldwin, and Barbour Counties 2. . They hold records that are available in the public domain, but may be hard to find, hence they offer a convenient way to research. Box 5625 Montgomery, AL 36103-5625 Phone (334) 206-2999 Record Request Forms They have birth and death records from 1908 to present and some scattered earlier records. for the details listed regarding the sex, age and color of the slaves. The ALGenWeb Project - Barbour County, Alabama. 4, 1893 Unnamed man BibbSept. On January 29, 1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as Calhoun County. Jenkins BarbourDec. Comer and the White League redeemed Barbour County in the Election Riot of 1874. Slaves in the Records of the Monroe Session, North Alabama Presbytery 1823-1827, Slaves deeded from George Anderson to son William Anderson Jun 1831, Slaves sold by William Anderson to various Feb 1836, Will [Aug 1840] and Appraisement of Estate of Nicholas Zeigler Mar 1841, Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church Sep 1846, Slaves in the Will of Elizabeth Ingram Oct 1851, Notebook kept by Dr. Thomas Fearn of Huntsville, Alabama, from about 1852 to 1863, Slaves in the Will of Samuel Ingram Nov 1839, Slaves in the Will of Thomas Youngblood Apr 1863, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrants, 1859 List of Munsee from Leavenworth County Kansas, 1876-1878 Pacific Coast Business Directory, St. Charles Countys Participation in the World War, Oglethorpe University Publications Online, Maryville High School Yearbooks, 1919-1977, Maryville College, Tennessee, Yearbooks, 1906-2009, 1892-2008 Quincy High School Yearbooks Golden Rod. Many black laborers refused to continue working the plantations, and chose to migrate to southern urban areas in large numbers.[13][15]. Alabama cemetery records, Vol. 1, 1889 "Big Six" ShelbySept. 8, 1894 Samuel Smith ButlerFeb. They're also now available to the public. 18, 1915 Herman Deely MadisonJanuary 1915 Dock Hartley ButlerMay 3, 1915 Jesse Hatch ClarkeAug. Originally Benton County Located at USGenWeb Archives: Calhoun Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Chambers Co. Managers. 18, 1896 John Fitch ChambersOct. Marriage records are available from the county clerks offices of each individual county. But once you tell the Negro he is the equal of the White man the Negros respect for Whites is quickly replaced by resentment a resentment that is then stoked by the scheming, subversive, malevolent JOO. Categories: Alabama, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. He mentions baptisms etc. NOT LIVE IN ALABAMA AND HAVE NO ACCESS TO ANY RECORDS, Search 14, 1920 Select Reeves ButlerOct. 2, 1919 Archie Robinson ClarkeAug. This transcription includes 98 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves in Barbour County, accounting for 6,860 slaves, or 42% of the County total. The Comer family, white cotton planters, lumber yard owners, and enslavers of Barbour County, Ala., included Catherine Lucinda Comer (d. 1898), who, widowed in 1858, continued to farm cotton and to operate the family's corn mill and lumber yard, and her six sons: Hugh Moss Comer (1842-1900); John Wallace Comer (1845-1919); St. George Legare Comer (b. In 1843 Thomas A. Harrison traveled to Alabama, accompanied by a party of slaves, to purchase property for a plantation. ***. Three years ago, the collection was made public in its entirety, offering raw testimony from the mouths of slaves. like to contribute to the Archives site, [Report Broken Link] 1860 Federal Census - Slave Schedule Surname Matches with 1870 Census. He may be older than you, and perhaps he carried you in his arms when an infant. HISTORY OF EUFAULA, ALABAMA, . individuals, both white and black, who lived at Faunsdale Plantation in Marengo County, Alabama and in Uniontown, Alabama. these pages are furnished for the free use of those engaged ALGenWeb Project - Barbour County, Alabama, The USGenWeb In Alabama in 1860 there were 482 farms of who says he was born in 1858, near Suggsville, Clarke County, Alabama. Links to Online Census Records. Social pressure was brought to bear on planters who failed to discharge this part of a slave-owners responsibility. Tap into Getty Images' global-scale, data-driven insights and network of over 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. It should be noted however, that All materials contained on 2, 1907 Frank Lucas WashingtonNov. census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published Quest's CD "African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census", available through Heritage Quest at their free, non-commercial distribution, and further, is 21, 1893 Richard Mays St. ClairMarch 15, 1893 Tom Brunnon PikeJune 22, 1893 Daniel Edwards DallasJune 27, 1893 Ernest Murphy TallapoosaJuly 16, 1893 Unnamed man ShelbyJuly 28, 1893 Lindsay Harper ChiltonAug. 14, 1893 William Archer PickensSept. But the accounts also reveal stark differences in some owners treatments of slaves. 1, 1891 Eliza Lowe HenryAug. Where did freed Alabama slaves go if they did not stay in Alabama? 21, 1879 Bill King RussellDec. Freed The museum and memorial is believed to be the nation's first site to document racial inequality from slavery through the Jim Crow era and into the present. 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