Calhoun County

"Benton County was established on December 18, 1832, named for Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate from Missouri, with its county seat at Jacksonville. Benton, a slave owner, was a political ally of John C. Calhoun, another slaveholder and a U.S. senator from South Carolina. Through the 1820s-1840s, however, Benton's and Calhoun's political interests diverged, with Calhoun increasingly using secession as a weapon to maintain and expand slavery throughout the United States. Benton, on the other hand, was slowly coming to the conclusion that slavery was wrong and that preservation of the union was paramount. On January 29, 1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as Calhoun County. The county seat was moved to Anniston after years of controversy and a State Supreme Court ruling in June 1900."
--from wikipedia.org

• Calhoun County, AL Queries/Join eMail Group
• Calhoun County, Alabama Genealogy
• "Jacksonville Republican" Newspaper abstracts: (Summer 1840)
• "Jacksonville Republican" Newspaper 1837-1895
• 1844 Benton County, Alabama Poll List
• 1860 Calhoun Co., AL Deaths
• 1870 Mortality Census of Colored Persons
• Southern Claims Commission: Alabama Claims 1871-1880
• 1883 Pensioners
• 1890-91 List of Licenses (business), Calhoun County, AL
• Calhoun County Cemeteries (Bethlehem)
• Champion Cemetery
• Creswell Cemetery-Eastaboga, AL
• "The Anniston Star" Obituaries (Oct 1997-Jan 1998)
• "The Anniston Star" Obituaries (Jan 1998-Sept 1998)
• "The Anniston Star" Obituaries (Now online at their own personal web site!)
• Lucius Funeral Home Records 1938-40
• English surname marriages

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