ALGenWeb: County Index: Cleburne County

Cleburne County

Formed from portions of Calhoun, Randolph, and Talladega Counties, Cleburne County was created by an act of the Alabama Legislature in 1866. The county was named for Major General Patrick R. Cleburne. The county seat was established at Edwardsville, but moved to Heflin in 1906.

The western portion of the county is part of the Talladega National Forest.

Researching Cleburne County

• Cleburne County Courthouse
  406 Vickery Street
  Heflin, AL 36264
  (256) 463-5655

• The Alabama Room of the Anniston-Calhoun County Public Library contains local history and genealogical records of Cleburne County as well as Calhoun, Clay, Randolph, and Talladega counties.

• The AlaBenton Genealogical Society meets in the Ayers Room of the Anniston-Calhoun County Public Library.

• Cleburne County Historical Society
  120 Vickery St., Room 105
  Heflin, AL 36264

• There are a number of published books containing historical and genealogical reference information.

• Cleburne County School System
  93 Education Street
  Heflin, Al 36264

• The Cleburne News
  P.O. Box 67
  Heflin, AL 36264
  Phone (800) 408-2872 or (256) 463-2872
  Fax (256) 463-7127

• Anniston Star
  P.O. Box 189
  Anniston AL 36202-0189

Online resources

• History of Cleburne County from the Alabama Department of Archives & History
• County Statistics from the University of Alabama at Huntsville
• Detailed county map from the University of Alabama's Cartographic Research Laboratory
• East Central Alabama Researchers
• RAN-CLAY. A mailing list for anyone who has an interest in genealogy related to the East Central Alabama, including Randolph, Clay, Talladega, Tallapoosa, Chambers, and Coosa counties. Address mail to ran-clay-l@rootsweb.com to post a message to all subscribers of the list. Please read these instructions to subscribe to the list.
• Creek Indian Census of 1832

Queries

• Place a query for Cleburne County.
• View Queries Submitted by others
  • Most Recent Queries
  • Index to Queries, Surnames, and Researchers
• Visit the RootsWeb mesage boards for Cleburne County
• Amelia Willcut accepts queries for Alabama ancestors. The queries are organized by surname instead of county, and Amelia maintains a cross-index when several surnames are supplied in the query.

Genealogies on the WWW

Surname	Researcher	URL
Cheatwood	Brian Davis	http://www.med.virginia.edu/~bd2m/davis/SURNAMES.html
Parker Coleman	Leigh Compton	http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lcompton/myfamily/surnames.htm
Crawford Martin	Donna A. Sherrell	http://www.abraxis.com/tuckahoe
Morgan Pearson Roberts Teague	Dave Larrimore	http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Concorde/6017/

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