 Unknown Butler County children
(are these YOUR ancestors?) |
PUBLICATIONS available from The Butler
County
Historical
& Genealogical Society
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Annie
Laurie's People ...
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New in Print -
A Hundred Years
of Duty and Service
in Greenville,
Alabama
 
2 volumes of FAMILY &
MILITARY
HISTORY $25.00 plus $3.00 shipping per 2-book set Format: 325 pages, hardback with photo-collage dustjackets
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Buutler County Historical & Genealogical Society
LIST of PUBLICATIONS
| ___ A Taste of Butler
County,
Alabama: Treasured Family Recipes of The Butler County Historical
Society
- $10.00. Over 250 pages of recipes, memories, stories and
wonderful family photographs contributed by members of the Historical
Society
for our 40th Anniversary Celebration year in 2004. This is truly a book
to read and enjoy! NOTE: Shipping
$3.00
per book ___ Butler County 1853 Tax List - $19.95. Personal property and real estate tax lists, an invaluable record for a "burned county" that lacks many deeds, wills, estates, etc. before 1853. Real estate taxes are especially helpful as they identify ancestors' exact land ownership by section, township and range. This book is not a typed extract of records, but is composed of photocopies of ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN ledger pages. ___ Butler County Probate Minutes Index, 1853-1929 - $29.95. Alphabetical typed name index to probate books and page numbers (complete books available on microfilm at BCHGS library room and other locations). These miscellaneous records include estate settlements, guardianships, land sales and purchases, and more. An ancestor's will may have burned in the courthouse fire, but his estate can appear in courthouse records for years and even decades afterwards. Invaluable clues to kinship and migrations! ___ Butler County Tract Book, 1817-1860 - $39.95. Butler County's earliest land entries, typed by township, range and section from original tract books that were begun when Alabama was still the "Mississippi Territory." Many of these entries are NOT included on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management web site (BLM), which begins its index in 1820 -- while Butler County land records date back to 1817. ___ Business Conditions, Logging and Sharecropping: A South Alabama Trade Area with European and Birmingham Connections - $25.00. (2002) by the late Dr. William Frazer. An extensively-researched account of the Greenville area in the century after the Civil War. Includes early county history, Alabama's black belt and cotton industry, history of sawmills, banking, cotton and farming, John T. Milner and railroads, Gulf Red Cedar Company, W. T. Smith Lumber Company, McGowin and Stallworth families of Chapman, Greenville's courthouse and Commerce Street neighborhoods, mercantile businesses and families, and more. Charts, maps, photos, fully indexed. ___ Annie Laurie's People.... A Hundred Years of Duty and Service in Greenville, Alabama - $25.00. (2006) by the late Dr. William Frazer. Two volumes of family genealogy and military history focusing on extended family of Annie Laurie Riley Frazer Rouse of Bullock County and Butler County, Alabama. 325 pages with numerous photos, illustrations, maps, fold-out genealogy chart, and music CD. Note: Shipping $3.00 per 2-book set. ___ History of Moriah Baptist Church - $50.00. This
volume by
late BCHGS member Richard Gibson has a transcription of the original
Moriah
church minutes with additional information on members and their
families. ___ INDEX to Quarterly Articles, 1965-2005 - $6.00
(includes
postage).
Special BCHGS Quarterly Vol. 41, No. 4. From cemeteries to censuses,
settlers,
sharecroppers and Civil War soldiers, you may find an article on your
ancestor,
family, church, school, community or business -- then, order the back
issue
containing this article. ___ 1999 Membership List/Ancestor Research
Exchange - $5.00 (includes postage) Double issue of BCHGS Quarterly
(Vol. 35, No. 2 & 3, April-July 1999). 52 pages with surname index,
nearly 1000 family names! A great resource for finding connections with
other researchers whose family trees and records may be in our research
room. Also includes genealogical articles and more. BCHGS Quarterly Back
Issues (1964-current) - $4.00 per copy (excluding double issues and
special issues; discounted if picked up from research room). Over 40
years
of genealogical records, family histories, cemetery records, private
collections
of letters and diaries, photographs, territorial and state papers
pertaining
to Butler County -- many NEVER published anywhere else!! Discount for
full
set of back issues. Inquire by specific issue number/title for cost and
postage. What a great gift for yourself, a fellow researcher, your
local
library or genealogical society!
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 And, from other authors (these are not our society's publications but are interesting resources for Butler County history and genealogy): Butler County
Obituaries - $18.00
plus $2.50 shipping. This great resource book by the late Marilyn
Davis
Hahn (Mrs. Fred Jackson) is available again. The author indexed
hundreds
of 19th century newspaper obituaries from The
Greenville Advocate, The
Southern Messenger, The
Butler
County News, The Spirit
of
the Times, The Weekly Echo,
The Living Truth, The
South
Alabamian, and The
Alabama
Christian Advocate. The majority of obituaries pertain to people
who livied in Butler County, but many are also about people in other
parts
of the state, with Butler’s neighboring counties Wilcox, Lowndes,
Monroe,
Dallas, etc., mentioned frequently. Order from BCHGS, P. O. Box 561,
Greenville, AL 36037, with check for $20.50
per copy (includes postage) payable to "Debra Hahn".
Little's History of Butler
County,
Alabama, 1815 to 1885 (1885, reprinted 1999) by John Buckner
Little.
The only early history of the county ever printed, an invaluable
resource
on pioneer settlers, Indians, communities, churches, early industries,
businesses, county officials, The War Between the States and more.
Contact:
Higginson Books, 148 Washington Street, Salem, Massachusetts
01970.
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