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  Dallas County, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dallas County is a county of the State of Alabama.
Dallas County is located in the Black Belt region of the west-central portion of the state.
It is traversed by the Alabama River and bordered by Perry, Chilton, Autauga, Lowndes, Wilcox, and Marengo counties.
www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Dallas_County,_Alabama   (526 words)

  
 Dallas, Texas article - Dallas, Texas Dallas (disambiguation) United States Texas Dallas County Collin - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States and the heart of the largest metropolitan area in Texas.
While Dallas County was established three years later in 1844 and was named after George M. Dallas, who was the United States Vice President at the time and supported Texas' annexation, the origin of the city's name is debatable.
Dallas, as is the surrounding area, is mostly flat and lies at an elevation ranging from 450 to 550 feet.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Dallas,_Texas   (3681 words)

  
 Dallas County, Alabama -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dallas County is a (A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) county of the (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) State of (A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Alabama.
Its (The town or city that is the seat of government for a county) county seat is (A town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters) Selma.
Dallas is located in the Black Belt region of the west-central portion of the state.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dallas_county,_alabama.htm   (685 words)

  
 Alabama Counties: Dallas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dallas County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on 1818 Feb. 9, from portions of the Creek cession of 1814 Aug. 9.
Dallas County is located in the Black Belt region of the west-central portion of the state, and is traversed by the Alabama River.
Dallas is bordered by Perry, Chilton, Autauga, Lowndes, Wilcox, and Marengo counties.
www.archives.state.al.us /counties/dallas.html   (123 words)

  
 Biographies, Dallas County, Texas
Myers has spent forty-three years of his life in Dallas county, and is a veritable encyclopedia of interesting historical facts linking the early days of the county and city with the present.
The total vote cast was 460, Dallas receiving 244, and her fair opponent, 216, giving the city the victory by a close majority of only 28 votes.
Dallas has a citizen who is ninety-four year of age; who makes his way about town alone and unassisted; who keeps up his correspondence, writing remarkably firm and clear hand, and whose voice is as strong as many men half his age.
freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~jwheat/biographies.html   (6906 words)

  
 Marengo County, Alabama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Marengo County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on 1818 Feb. 6, from land acquired from the Choctaw Indians by the treaty of 1816 Oct. 24.
The name of the county was suggested by Judge Abner Lipscombe, and was given as a compliment to the first white settlers, expatriated French citizens and commemorative of Napoleon's great victory at Marengo over the Austrian armies on 1800 June 14.
The county seat was originally known as "Town of Marengo." In 1823 the name was changed to Linden, a shortened version of "Hohenlinden," scene of a French victory in Bavaria in 1800.
www.archives.state.al.us /counties/marengo.html   (162 words)

  
 Autauga County, Alabama Genealogy
The commercial facilities are the Alabama river, whose sinuous course waters its southern boundary, and is navigable the greater portion of the year; seven miles of the railway from Selma to Rome, and thirteen miles of the railway from Montgomery to Decatur.
The lands of the county are generally light, with a clay subsoil, and capable of the highest degree of fertilization; but there are bottom and creek lands of great natural fertility.
The pine forests of the county are valuable for lumber, and a number of mills are in operation.
www.alabamagenealogy.org /autauga/index.htm   (622 words)

  
 Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John Fletcher Comer (1811-1858), a native of Jones County, Georgia, was the son of Ann Trippe and Hugh Moss Comer, and grandson of Elizabeth Moss and Samuel Comer.
In several letters, 1866-1868, D. Connerly of the Stonewall Institute in Dallas County, Alabama, discussed the education of Johnston's grandsons, and there is a 15 January 1868 letter from Lida McFaddin to Connerly about her brothers.
Thomas Nicholas McClellan was a state senator from 1880 to 1884, attorney general from 1884 to 1889, associate justice of the Alabama supreme court from 1889 to 1898, and chief justice from 1898 to 1906.
www.lexis-nexis.com /cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj7.htm   (17392 words)

  
 AMENDMENT 46 RATIFIED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The county governing body shall have the same authority in regard to the employment of persons for the county, and the fixing of their compensation, other than the employees in the above named offices, as provided by law.
The salaries of the employees in the above enumerated offices shall be paid out of the county treasury in equal monthly installments; provided, however, that no payment of compensation for any such employee shall be made until the employee has actually rendered the service for which the payment is to be made.
The legislature of Alabama is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, by general or local laws, to fix, regulate and alter the employment and compensation of the employees in said offices, including the number and the method and basis of their compensation.
www.legislature.state.al.us /CodeOfAlabama/Constitution/1901/CA-245889.htm   (261 words)

  
 ALGenWeb: Alabama Genealogy on the Internet
Alabama became a part of the Mississippi Territory in 1798 after Indian cessions in north Alabama.
Alabama law did not require the recording of birth or death certificates until 1908.
County Locations Here's a map of Alabama showing the present-day counties and their locations within the state.
www.rootsweb.com /~algenweb   (271 words)

  
 Dallas County Alabama 1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans
The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Dallas County, Alabama (NARA microfilm series M653, Roll 29) reportedly includes a total of 25,760 slaves, which ranks as the highest total in the State and the 4th highest in the U.S. in 1860.
In Alabama in 1860 there were 482 farms of 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,359 farms of 500-999 acres.
Dallas, Montgomery and Mobile counties in Alabama all saw increases in the colored population between 1860 and 1870, so that could be where some of these Alabama freed slaves went.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~ajac/aldallas.htm   (1804 words)

  
 Selma, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selma is a city in Alabama located on the banks of the Alabama River in Dallas County, Alabama, of which it is the county seat.
After capturing a Confederate courier who carried dispatches from Forrest describing the strengths and dispositions of his scattered forces, Wilson also sent a brigade to destroy the bridge across the Cahaba River at Centreville.
They were anchored on the north and south by the Alabama River.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Selma,_Alabama   (2325 words)

  
 Dallas County Alabama Real Estate - Homes.com
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realestate.homes.com /files/416182/realestate_co_AL_DALLAS.html   (254 words)

  
 Alabama Genealogy
This series contains information about individual soldiers from Alabama and was compiled from original sources such as muster rolls, pension files, and records at the National Archives.
Service cards typically include the name of the soldier, his home county, his age at the date of his enlistment, the date and place of enlistment, and the company and regiment.
When a genealogist encounters a "brick-wall" in their research, an understanding of the history of the state, county, or town at the time their ancestor was living may bring an understanding as to where the researcher should next set engage their research skills.
www.accessgenealogy.com /alabama/index.htm   (176 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Dallas County, Ala.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
Delegate to Alabama secession convention, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama,
U.S. Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1935-51; elected unopposed 1942.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/AL/DS.html   (945 words)

  
 Alabama Archives: Vital County Records On Microfilm At ADAH
The Alabama Department of Archives and History has indexes to those records, but original certificates must be obtained from the Alabama Center for Health Statistics.
Prior to 1908 some vital records were recorded at the county level.
Click here for a map of Alabama counties that have had courthouse fires.
www.archives.state.al.us /referenc/vital.html   (345 words)

  
 Dallas County, Alabama, whitetail deer, hunting guides, whitetail deer hunting,
Dallas County, Alabama, whitetail deer, hunting guides, whitetail deer hunting,
Dallas County is located in the heart of the famed "Blackbelt" which has an excellent reputation for producing trophy whitetails.
Dallas County, Alabama approximately 10 miles south of Selma, Alabama
www.worldwidefishing.com /b259ah.htm   (258 words)

  
 Amelia Boynton Robinson: 'A Vote-Less People Is a Hopeless People'
Robinson returned to Selma, Alabama to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a keystone battle for the right to vote—the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, which had its baptism by fire on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.
Of course, being county and home-demonstration agents, the people in the rural district—and that was the masses of people who lived on plantations—they were the ones that we worked so feverishly with.
Robinson: This was in Selma and Dallas County, Alabama.
www.larouchepub.com /other/interviews/2005/3211amelia.html   (4999 words)

  
 Dallas County Alabama - Mortgage Loans and Dallas Alabama Mortgage Loans
Dallas County Alabama Mortgage Loan Totals by Applicant Race
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Dallas County Alabama Mortgage Loan Totals by Denial Reason
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 The SS HyperTree: John Edmund V. Rials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In that household there was a female 60-70 years old (probably Nancy), another female 20-30, a male 30-40, and two boys under the age of 5.
But of course my Edmund's family may have moved on from the county by the time the census was taken.
The following are images of land patents issued to a Nancy Rials in Dallas County, AL, on the dates shown.
www.hypertree.com /rials/jev   (826 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - U.S. - Alabama - Localities
County records on microfilm held by the Alabama Department of Archives & History.
Sponsored by the Mobile Genealogical Society, for anyone with a genealogical interest in the Mobile Bay, Alabama, area -- specifically Mobile and Baldwin Counties in Alabama plus the bordering counties in Mississippi (George, Greene, Jackson), Alabama (Clarke, Escambia, Monroe, Washington), and Florida (Escambia).
For anyone who has an interest in genealogy related to the east-central Alabama counties of Autauga, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Elmore, Etowah, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Randolph, Russell, St.Clair, Shelby, Talladega and Tallapoosa, and the Georgia border counties, all of which was once Indian territory and subject to boundary changes.
www.cyndislist.com /al-local.htm   (1105 words)

  
 Dallas County Alabama Fractional DS3 Price Quotes Comparisons in Real-Time!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Sell your fixer upper house in Dallas County, Alabama... fast!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Selma Alabama Chamber of Commerce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Selma was designated the Butterfly Capital of Alabama by the state legislature in an effort to stimulate the return of the butterflies in gardens around the city.
Today, the city and county have a diversified industrial and business base and is home to some 100 manufacturing facilities, employing over 17,000 workers.
The Alabama Entrepreneurial Research Network (AERN) in partnership with the Selma &; Dallas County Chamber of Commerce is working together to encourage small business development in our region.
www.inselma.com   (379 words)

  
 Alabama Free Genealogy Look Ups from GeneaSearch Lookup Volunteers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alabama genealogy free look ups for Alabama census, marriage records, cemetery records and other offline Alabama genealogy resources from our volunteers.
Cemeteries in Cleburne and Calhoun Counties of Alabama
Conecuh County, AL Microfilmed Conecuh County newspapers dating from the mid 1800's up to current years.
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