Newspaper Abstracts from Pike County, Alabama 1855-1861. ( Volume #1 ) - Paperback

by Susie K. Senn (Author)

By: Susie K. Senn, Pub. 1999, 314 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-424-7. Pike County was created in the 1821 from Henry County, Alabama. It is surrounded by the present-day counties of: Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, and Montgomery counties. Due to the many counties carved out of Pike County, (Bullock, Barbour, & Crenshaw Counties), this book will be extremely helpful for researchers looking for individuals in this southeastern portion of the state. These newspaper abstracts were taken from the Independent American, a newspaper published in the town of Troy. Within this book, information will be found on deaths, marriages, administrative notices, murders, trials, hangings, and many, many other items of genealogical interest.