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Search aids provided through the USGenWeb Project:
Cherokee County Resources
About Cherokee County --Profile, statistics, county and town histories
Historical Preservation Society of Cherokee County
On
Facebook
Cherokee County Historical Museum
A Picture of Cherokee County in 1860,
researched and presented by Alan J. Pitts of Shelby County, Alabama.
Cherokee County
Statistics from U.S. Census Bureau
Brief History from ADAH
Cherokee County Boundary through the years
Welcome to the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce
USCounties.com/Alabama-commercial site
Bluffton (Hardin)
Bluffton at Digital Alabama
Cedar Bluff
Centre
Political Graveyard - Cherokee County
Political Graveyard - Where dead politicians are buried (A database
of historic cemeteries )
The Path of De Soto, and Where is Costa?
African Americans
African American Cemeteries Online
Alabama African American Geneological Research by
Alabama Genealogy
Alabama African American Genealogy (Access
Genealogy.com)
Uncle Jerry Akin -- county's oldest man?
AfriGeneas Online-The Web's premier African American genealogy
destination. Transcriptions, databases, message boards, chats and much, much more.
African and Native American History and Genealogy Web Page
Alabama Arfican American Genealogy from AlaGenWeb (not sure if
this is maintained, and it is on the defunct Rootsweb. Download and keep the site if it is important to you. )
Freedmen's Bureau Operations from Bluffton, Alabama
1865-1872
American Indians
History of the Cherokee from Roadside
Georgia
NativeWeb , Resources for Indigenous
Cultures around the World, including American Indian
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet - WWWVL
American Indians
Indian Land Cessions Maps, all states
Biographies
Bass, Arthur Lee "Tommie" of Cherokee County, who at the
time of his death (August 31, 1996) at age 88, was probably the most well-known herbalist in the United States.
Film by Allen Tullos.
Savage, Judge Joseph LaFayette
Cemeteries
African American Cemeteries Online--The oldest and largest
African American cemetery transcription site
All county cemeteries at USGenWeb Archives
All county cemeteries at
files.usgwarchives.net/al/cherokee/cemeteries/
Bankson Cemetery (FTP)
Barkley Family Cemetery, Sand Rock
Bethel Church Cemetery (partial)
Traditional decoration day is second Sunday in May (James Conaway)
Black Oak Cemetery
Broomtown/Bethel Baptist
Cedar Bluff Cemetery
Sue of Cedar Bluff points out Harton is ocassionally misspelled
Horton here.
Clark Cemetery - partial
Davis Cemetery, Blanch
Friendship Baptist
Church
Goshen
Gnatville (Pisgah Baptist)
Hardman Cemetery, Farill (Travis Hardin) decoration day-first
Sat. June
Hardman Cemetery, Farill (Johnny
Williams)
Henderson Hill
Laney/Moshat Baptist Cemetery
Lawrence/Demaris decoration
day-last Sun. May-
Russelecr[delete]@aol.com
Matthews Cemetery, Pollards Bend
Moseley
Mountain Springs Cemetery, southern Cherokee County
Mount Olive Church
Cemetery, Ellisville
Randle Cemetery, Gaylesville (Hardin)
Salem
Baptist Church Cemetery at Findagrave.com (incomplete)
Salem Baptist Church Cemetery at Tracking Your Roots
®
Sewell Cemetery, Pollards Bend
Shiloh-Bothwell Cemetery, Pollards Bend
Smith Chapel Cemetery, Pollards Bend
Steele Cemetery, Pollards Bend
Taylor's Chapel
Weaver's (private)
Tracking Your Alabama Roots ® - includes these Cherokee
cemeteries: Salem, Goshen Valley, Friendship, Lawrence/Demaris, Mt. Olive, and Cedar Bluff. (Scroll to see all
cemeteries.)
Findagrave.com
Political Graveyard - Cherokee County
Political Graveyard Where dead politicians are buried (A database of
historic cemeteries )
Links to cemetery history and preservation, and cemetery
lists, from politicalgraveyard.com
Census Extracts and Indexes
Census Districts and geographical features of Cherokee County
Census Districts of Neighboring Floyd County, Georgia
1840 Census Aggregate Population Facts for Cherokee, Blount, Benton, St. Clair, and DeKalb
Counties
Page1
Page2
Page3
1850 census index (FTP)
Church History
Cedar Bluff Baptist Church history
Salem United Methodist Church history
The Civil War and the 1860's in Cherokee County
A Picture of Cherokee County in 1860, including civil war units raised in that county.
Researched and presented by Alan J. Pitts of Shelby County, Alabama.
Stories from the 1860's
Cherokee County Soldiers and Veterans
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
(Search, National Parks Service)
Southern Claims Commission Claims, 1871-1880,a PDF
at Tracking Your Roots
Alabama in the Civil War Message Board
from HistorySites.com
Freedmen's Bureau
Operations from Bluffton, Alabama 1865-1872
Deeds
Diaries
Espy, Sarah Rousseau, Private Journal 1859-1868
(On this site in RTF, with notes, transcribed by Martha Bankson Lyle)
Sarah Rousseau and Thomas Espy owned a warehouse in Cherokee County prior to the Civil War. The diary
describes the lives of the family, relatives, neighbors, and friends during the period of Mr. Espy's death, the
sons' activities in the military, and the hardships of life during and after the War - Posted by Martha
Lyle.
Espy Diary at USGenWeb archives (text format,
transcribed by Martha Lyle)
Espy Diary at
Alabama Department of Archives and History (original)
Family histories, famous people, stories
Political Graveyard - Where dead politicians are buried (A database of
historic cemeteries )
Letters and memorabilia
Barkley 1849-"Cherokee Co. Alabama, Letters From Forgotten
Ancestors "(click on Alabama then Cherokee.)
Tucker, Mrs. M. C., clipping 1935
Libraries
Libraries in Alabama
Anniston-Calhoun County Public Library -
[Genealogy]
Birmingham Public Library -
[ Catalog ]
[Genealogy]
Cheaha Regional Library System (includes Cherokee Co.)
Cherokee County Library on
Facebook
About Cherokee County Library (librarytechnology.org) 310
Mary St Centre, AL 35960 (256) 927-5838
Gadsden Public Library , Etowah County
Sara Hightower Regional Library, Floyd County, Rome, GA
Maps
The National Map from USGS -- Quickly make a map of
Cherokee County or any U.S. area
Alabama Public Land
Survey System Locator with Townships, Ranges, and Sections. at alabamamaps.ua.edu interactive
All U.S. Indian Land Cessions Maps, all states -- Contains many
Indian place names and villages; also Township and Range numbers. From USGenWeb Map Project.
Aerial Photos from U. of Ala., some pre-Weiss Reservoir
Cherokee County with Township and Range Numbers
Atlas of Historic County Boundaries from The Newberry
Library.
Alabama map 1915, with Township and
Range numbers
Cherokee County now with
highways, from the University of Alabama
Historical maps from the University of Alabama.
Cherokee County historical maps
from UA.
USGenWeb Archives Alabama maps
GNIS -- USGS Geographical Names Data Base for U. S. and
territories
US GenWeb Digital Map Library
Deedmapper software (commercial), land record reference, deed data pool
Military, except Civil War
The Revolutionary War
Newspapers
Cherokee County Herald (news site)
Cherokee County Herald, Centre (e-edition)
The Cherokee County Herald on Facebook
The Post, Centre
The Gadsden Messenger
The Gadsden Times
Rome News-Tribune
Alabama Newspapers with Web sites
Newspapers on microfilm at Alabama State
Archives
Hardbound Newspaper Availability (ADAH)
Obituaries
Pensions
Photographs
Before 1890
Uncle Jerry Akin -- county's oldest man in 1895?
1891-1930
1951-1970
1971-present
Clicking will take you to thumbnail photos. You may optionally view a larger photo.
Reunions
School History
Cedar Bluff School
Societies
Societies statewide listed at the Alabama
State Archives
AlaBenton Genealogical Society - Calhoun
County/Anniston on Facebook
Birmingham Genealogical Society (also see Facebook)
Historical Preservation Society of Cherokee
County
On Facebook
Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society , PO Box 8268, Gadsden, AL 35902.
Publication: Northeast Alabama Settlers.
Northeast Alabama Settlers,Quarterly of the Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society.
Link is to the full archives at the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Vital Records
Cherokee County Vital Records at ADAH
Social Security Death Index 1962-2014
(familysearch.org)
Social Security Death Index at MyTree.com
Social Security Death Index (SSDI) at GenealogyBank
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