Henry County, Alabama Genealogy

United States   Alabama    |Henry County

County Courthouse
Henry County Courthouse 101 West Court Square, Abbeville, AL 36310, Phone: (334) 585-2753

Probate Judge has marriage records from 1821 land records from 1824, birth records 1895-1906 and probate from 1839

Parent County
1819--Henry County was created 13 December 1819 from Conecuh County. County seat: Abbeville

Neighboring Counties

 * Barbour
 * Clay County, Georgia
 * Dale
 * Early County, Georgia
 * Houston
 * Quitman County, Georgia

Biography

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

Cemeteries

 * Dothan City Cemetery, Dothan BillionGraves


 * Hutto Family Cemetery, Henry County, Alabama. 1956. Digital version at - free.


 * Scott, Marvin. Tomb Inscriptions and Obituary Notices of Henry County, Alabama. Climax, Ga., 1958. Digital version at - free.

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

Land and Property
To place a grant or deed on a map within context of see:


 * Boyd, Gregory A. Family Maps of Henry County, Alabama: with Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More. Norman, Okla.: Arphax Pub. Co., 2008. This is a definitive work and can be used as an index to land grants. Digital version at HistoryGeo.com ($). Website includes free surname index..

Newspapers

 * 1959 - Indiana Progress (Abbeville, Ala.) at Ancestry ($).

Probate Records

 * 1830-1976 - Probate Records, 1830-1976 at  - free.

Taxation

 * 1865-1866 - U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 at Ancestry ($). Henry County is in District 1.

Birth

 * 1881-1930 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Marriage

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

Death

 * 1881-1952 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection


 * 1908-1974 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Voting Registers
Alabama Voting Registers for 1867 are available online at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Henry County has two books:


 * Book 1
 * Book 2

Family History Center
Dothan Alabama 3199 Ross Clark Cir NW Dothan, Dale/Houston/Henry/Geneva, Alabama, United States Phone: 334-793-7425

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.
 * County ALGenWeb ~ record transcriptions and information pertinent to the county.
 * Henry County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Henry County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)