Tallapoosa County, Alabama Genealogy

United States   Alabama    |Tallapoosa County

County Courthouse
Tallapossa County Courthouse 125 North Broadnax Dadeville, AL 36853 Phone: (256) 825-1098

Probate Judge has a few birth and death records 1881-1991 Marriage and probate records from 1835 Clerk Circuit Court has divorce and court records

History
90 acres of land were swapped between Tallapoosa and Coosa Counties in 1963.

Parent County
1832--Tallapoosa County was created 18 December 1832 from the Creek Cession of 1832. County seat: Dadeville

Boundary Changes
90 acres were swapped between Tallapoosa and Coosa Counties in 1963.

Neighboring Counties

 * Chambers
 * Clay
 * Coosa
 * Elmore
 * Lee
 * Randolph

Biography

 * Tallapoosa County Biographies at The USGenWeb Archives Project - free.

Cemeteries

 * Alexander City Cemetery
 * Antioch Cemetery
 * Antioch Cemetery
 * Bethel Cemetery
 * Bethlehem Cemetery
 * Beulah Cemetery
 * Bice Cemetery
 * Buttson Cemetery
 * Canaan Cemetery
 * Carver Heights Cemetery
 * Concord Cemetery
 * Craft Cemetery
 * Darian Cemetery
 * Daviston Cemetery
 * Daviston Cemetery
 * Dillard Cemetery
 * Dudleyville Cemetery
 * Eagle Creek Cemetery
 * Ephesus Cemetery
 * Fargason Cemetery
 * Farrow Dennis Graveyard
 * Fellowship Cemetery
 * Friendship Cemetery
 * Germany Family Cemetery
 * Gillam Cemetery
 * Graham Cemetery
 * Guthrie Cemetery
 * Hackneyville Cemetery
 * Hackneyville Presbyterian Cemetery
 * Harmony Cemetery
 * Harper Cemetery
 * Harper Hill Cemetery
 * Hillabee Campground Cemetery
 * Hillabee Campground Methodist Church Cemetery
 * Hillview Cemetery
 * Holley Cemetery
 * Holley Cemetery, Harpersville
 * Hutchinson Cemetery
 * Jackson Field Cemetery
 * John Johnston Cemetery
 * Kennedy-Christian-Sasser Cemetery
 * Langley Cemetery
 * Lebanon Cemetery
 * Liberty Cemetery
 * Liberty Cemetery
 * Lockhart Cemetery
 * Macedonia Cemetery
 * Mask Cemetery
 * Maxwell Cemetery
 * Meadows-Robinson Cemetery
 * Milam Cemetery
 * Morgan Cemetery
 * Mount Zion Cemetery
 * New Hope Cemetery
 * Old Providence Cemetery
 * Old Rocky Mount Cemetery
 * Old Salem Cemetery
 * Old Sharon Primitive Batist Cemetery
 * Old Vickers Cemetery
 * Pentecost Cemetery
 * Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
 * Punkin Hill Cemetery
 * Red Ridge Cemetery
 * Reeltown Baptist Church Cemetery
 * Sardis Cemetery
 * Seleta Cemetery
 * Shepard Graveyard
 * Shiloh Cemetery
 * Slaughters Cemetery
 * Spain Cemetery
 * Spring Hill Cemetery
 * Sunny Level Cemetery
 * Tallapoosa County Memorial Gardens
 * Union Cemetery
 * Union Cemetery
 * Valley Grove Cemetery
 * Williams Cemetery
 * Woods Cemetery
 * Wright Cemetery

Additional Tallapoosa County cemeteries are included in Alabama Cemetery Records at FamilySearch Books Online - free.

Local Histories

 * Golden, Virginia Noble. A History of Tallassee for Tallasseeans. Tallassee, Ala.: Tallassee Mills of Mount Vernon-Woodberry Mills, 1949. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Taxation

 * 1865-1866 - U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 at Ancestry ($). Tallapoosa County is in District 2.

Birth

 * 1881-1930 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Marriage

 * 1816-1957 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection. Incomplete.


 * Tallapoosa Marriages at ALGenWeb - free.

Death

 * 1881-1952 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection


 * 1908-1974 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection


 * Tallapoosa Deaths at ALGenWeb - free.

Voting Registers
Alabama Voting Registers for 1867 are available online at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Tallapoosa County has two books with a working link to one:


 * Book 2

Societies
Tallapoosa County Historical Society 151 Pearson Circle Dadeville, AL 36853

Libraries
Horseshoe Bend Regional Library includes the following libraries in Tallapoosa County:


 * Adelia M. Russell Library 318 Church St. Alexander City, Alabama 35010 Telephone: 256-329-6796
 * Library collection includes local history, census, marriage records, cemetery records, and family histories.


 * Dadeville Public Library 205 N. West St. Dadeville, Alabama 36853 Telephone: 256-825-7820

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * USGenWeb Archives Project~ contains record transcriptions from Bibles, obituaries, court records and more.
 * Tallapoosa County ALGenWeb~ record transcriptions and information pertinent to the county.
 * Tallapoosa County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Tallapoosa County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)