Freedmen and Colored Marriage Records, 1865-1890, Sumter County, Alabama


Book Description

Containing over 6,000 marriage records, this book is a valuable tool to the Sumter County researcher who is examining Black genealogy. These are some of the earliest records in existence of the county's freedmen and freedwomen, and the first complete list













Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Four Families, 1835-1936


Book Description

Neill McLaurin was born 1 August 1792 in Richmond, North Carolina. His parents were Duncan McLaurin and Catherine. He married Jane McCall in 1816 and they had a daughter, Christiana McLaurin (1827-1908). Christiana married James Lovett Simmons (1822-1905) in 1854. Their daughter, Sorintha Lillian, married William Joel Stevenson (1856-1918), son of William G. Stevenson and Eliza Jane Sheppard in 1884. Their daughter, Kate Sheppard Stevenson (1888-1960) married Nelson Elder Smith (1889-1946), son of Robert Baker S. Smith (1854-1905) and Mary Elder McClure (1853-1897) in 1913 in Lauderdale, Mississippi. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Scotland, Ireland, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina.