Talbot County

Books

BOOKS & LOOKUPS FOR TALBOT COUNTY

County Histories

A Rockaway in Talbot: travels in an old Georgia County by William H. Davidson Hester Printing, 1983

Vol 1-The city of Talbotton, county seat, its Le Vert Historical District, historic hotels, stagecoach and hack lines, old houses, and families in Talbotton G.M.D. 685, & Valley GMD 902.

Vol 2-The militia districts of Pleasant Hill, Red Bone, Prattsburg, Centerville, Hart's and Junction City, and land district maps

Vol 3 - Geneva G.M.D. 889, Box Springs GMD 688, O'Neal's GMD 894 and land district maps

Vol 4-Information on the Cotton World of the South, the militia districts of Rough Edge & Flint Hill, Old Talbot in Taylor County, The Way of Politics in 1878, Flint River Reflections.

There Was a Land by Judge Robert H. Jordan 1916-1992. pub.1971. Unindexed. General County history, including a small family history section.

History of Pleasant Hill. Features families of Goolsby and Nelson, Brooks, Foster, Hendricks, Ferguson, McCoy, Cosby, Hight, Daniel, Hancock and McDonald. Goolsby, Nelson. 1993. (Alpharetta, GA) 422 pgs. Indexed

They Helped Make a Great America: Six distinguished Talbot Co patriots. Published by Historical Society of Talbot Co, 1966. (Robert Morris/ Charles W. Kellogg, John Dickinson/ Gordon Fisher, Jr, Lieut Col Tench Tilghman/ Daniel C. Buchanan, Samuel Hambleton/Robert Sharp II; Brig Gen Perry Benson/G.A. Van Lennep, Jr; Adm Franklin Buchanan/Howard C. Eley.

Biography-Towns, George Washington. Archive/Manuscript. Includes Talbot Co info.

Published Records:

Deed Book A (1827-1830) 1957 published by the DARChapter

Cemetery Records. Torbert, Robert Ellington , 1987; 98 pgs.

Cemetery Markers of Talbot Co. Morgan, Jack. 1979. 73 pgs. map

Marriages (1828-1844). Hageness, MariLee Beatty. MLH Research 1996; 32 pgs

Marriages (1828-1844). Ingmire, Frances Terry . 1985.

Church Histories:

Columbus Baptist Association (36th Annual session). Held at County Line, Talbot Co, Sept 24-26, 1864.

Columbus Baptist Association (34th Annual session) Held at Mt. Zion, Talbot Co. Sept 28-30, 1862.

Family Histories:

Glass Family. (1758-1938) Archive/Manuscript . Correspondence, clippings, and legal records documenting the life of John Glass (1794-1878) as a newspaper editor in Columbia and Fairfield, S.C. and as railroad bookkeeper in Talbot county, GA. Indexed University South Caroliniana Society Program. 1981, pp 10-12

James Daniel Woodall and Frances Wheeless of Pleasant Hill, Talbot Co. Miller, Fannie Woodall. 1949 Publisher: W.C. Bradley Memorial Library

Edwards Family. (Papers) Genealogy compiled by Herbert Carlton Edwards of the family of Isham Edwards, whose widow and children moved from Talbot Co, GA to Macon Co, now Lee Co, AL in 1861.

Lumsden Family. Virginia K. Preston. Lumsden Family and Related Lines: Day, Greer, Leonard, Lowe, Richardson, Sanford, Taylor, and Williams. [Macon: Jones and Grissom Printers, 1994].

FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY CATALOG

Title

Source Film Info

Marriage Bk E
(1870-1875)
#0848249

Marriage Licenses
1843-1880
DAR #0848249

Minutes
(1882-1905)
Bd of Commissioners #0249415 (1882-1896)
#0249416 (1896-1905)

Annual Returns
(1828-1926)
Court of Ordinary #0249385 (1828-1848)
#0249386 (1848-1853

#0249387 (1853-1859)

#0249388 (1859-1867)

#0249389 (1867-1876)

#0249390 (1874-1926)

Court Records and Petitions
(1879-1922)
Court of Ordinary #0249381 (1879-1910)

Estrays(1828-1941)

Court of Ordinary #0249429

Guardian Bonds
(1845-1938)
Court of Ordinary #0249394 (1845-1857)
#0249395 (1857-1895)

#0249396 (1830-1881)

#0249397 (1897-1938)

Homestead Records
1879-1932
Court of Ordinary #0249418

Inferior Court Minutes
1828-1855
Court of Ordinary #0249413 (1828-1855)
#0249414 (1844-1868)

Inventories-appraisements
(1829-1924)
Court of Ordinary #0249382 (1829-1855)
#0249383 (1855-1877)

Letters of Administration
1852-1943
Court of Ordinary #0249392 (1852-1943)
#0249393 (1894-1943)

Letters of Dismission
(1852-1960)
Court of Ordinary #0249412

Marriage Records
(1828-1903)
Court of Ordinary #0249366(1828-1867)
#0249367(1866-1875)

#0249368 (1875-1886)

#0249369 (1886-1898)

#0249370 (1898-1903)

Memo of all vital orders
1849-1852
Court of Ordinary #0249379

Minutes of Schools Court of Ordinary #0249420

Muster Rolls of CSA(1861-1899)
Pension Rolls (1861-1915)
Court of Ordinary #0249422

Retail liquor Licenses (1828-1833) Court of Ordinary #0249366

Vouchers (1850-1914) Court of Ordinary #0249398 (1850-1855)
#0249399(1854-1856)

#0249400 (1856-1857)

#0249401 (1856-1859)

#0249402 (1858-1860)

#0249403 (1856-1865)

#0249404 (1867-1873)

#0249405 (1875-1879)

#0249406 (1879-1886)

#0249407 (1886-1896)

#0249408 (1894-1914)

Sales Books (1829-1924) Court of Ordinary #0249409 (1829-1865)
#0249410 (1856-1875)

#0249411 (1877-1924

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