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Griggs – Stewart Slaying
CHARGE DUE IN SLAYING CASE The Times Decatur Bureau Union Grove-A Morgan County man was to be charged this morning in the shooting death of a neighbor Tuesday afternoon at Union Hill, said Morgan County Sheriff. Sheriff John McBride said this morning that formal...
Letter from Rhodum L. Griggs
Letter from Rhodum L. Griggs to his sister Nannie Morrow; written from Gadsden, Al. on Dec. 08, 1940. Marshall County, Al. Mrs. Nannie Morrow, Arab, Ala. Dear Sister: Almost every Sunday or some time thru the week I have been accustomed to taking time off to either...
Postcard from Sarah Elizabeth Griggs
Postcard from Sarah Elizabeth (Bowers) Griggs to daughter, Nannie (Griggs) Morrow,Nov. 25, 1940, Marshall County, Al. My Dear Daughter, Would be glad to see you all, trust you all are well. I am not able to walk good yet. I feare it will be a long time's before I can...
Postcard from Rhodum L. Griggs to his sister, Pearl Ferguson
Postcard from Rhodum L. Griggs to his sister, Pearl Ferguson; written Dec. 03, 1915. (Rhodum lived in Gadsden, Al. and Pearl lived in Goetz, Texas). Marshall County, Al. Dear Sister: We rec'd. your letter and glad to hear from you all. I heard from home yesterday. All...
Owen-Griggs Marriage Certificate
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: OWEN GRIGGS (posted with permission of parties named) State of Alabama-Cullman County This Certifies that Owen Griggs (9-22-22) and Helen Smith (12-9-29) were united in the HOLY BONDS OF MATRIMONY by H. H. Kinney, Judge of Probate, on the 31st...
Marshall County was created by an act of the legislature January 9, 1836. Its original territory was taken from Jackson, Blount and the last Cherokee cession. It has been greatly reduced in size to form Etowah County, but compensated by a small strip from Jackson County. It has a total area of 610 square miles, or 390,400 acres. The county was named “to perpetuate” the name of Chief Justice John Marshall. The county has a total area of 623 miles, and a population of 82,231 as of the 2000 census.
The first inhabitants of the county were Cherokees, who had a village at Guntersville, as early as 1790, which they called Kusa-nunnahi, meaning “Creek Path,” because it was situated near the great passage leading from the Creek country in middle Alabama to the hunting grounds in the valleys of the Tennessee, the Cumberland and Ohio River.
The county was first settled by immigrants from Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas. Upon the formation of the county in 1836, Claysville, a small village north of the Tennessee River, became the county seat by popular election, though more votes were cast for the place now known as Guntersville. In 1838 Marshall, became the county site, and continued as such unitl 1841, when in a general election Warrenton was chosen; in 1848 Guntersville was successful and has remained the county site ever since.
Marshall County AL Research:
- Marshall County AL Official Addresses
- Marshall County AL Books
- Marshall County AL Cemeteries
- Marshall County AL Census Records
- Marshall County AL Churches
- Marshall County AL Death Records
- Marshall County AL Families
- Marshall County AL Land Records
- Marshall County AL Marriages
- Marshall County AL Military Records
- Marshall County AL Surname Research
This website has undergone a complete conversion. I hope you find the new format easier to get around with! To access the various pages (which have been updated and corrected) please use the links to the right of every page.
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This site is a county site for Alabama GenWeb, a state organization of USGenWeb. GenWeb is a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. You have apparently stumbled upon my contribution to this effort. My name is Dennis Partridge, and I am the ALGenWeb county coordinator (cc) for Madison County, Alabama.
The goal of this website is to freely provide you with as much genealogical and historical information concerning Madison County, Alabama as is practical. Since I do not reside in the county, I cannot provide onsite genealogical assistance, but can provide guidance and online assistance to your genealogical research. If you don’t ask a question then I definitely cannot help you… so please ask!
If you would like to contribute data to this website please contact me, using the contact us!
Marshall County Coordinator: Dennis Partridge
Current State Coordinator: Ann Allen Geoghegan
Assistant State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp
Neighboring counties are; Madison, Jackson, DeKalb, Etowah, Blount, Cullman and Morgan.
Webspace is provided by Alabama Genealogy.
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