The latter comprised a majority in Greene County and others in the Black Belt. The Greene County Courthouse in Eutaw was burned by arson in 1868, in a year with considerable election-associated violence throughout the South. On March 31, 1870, there were at least two insurgent attacks in Greene County.
- Eutaw
- Nathanael Greene
The Eutaw riot was an episode of white racial violence in Eutaw, Alabama, the county seat of Greene County, on October 25, 1870, during the Reconstruction Era in the United States. It was related to an extended period of campaign violence before the fall gubernatorial election, as white Democrats in the state used racial terrorism to suppress black Republican voting. White Klan members attacked a Republican rally of 2,000 black citizens in the courthouse square, killing as many as four and wound
- October 25, 1870
- Eutaw, Alabama, U.S.
- Riot
- Black civilians and Republicans
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Alexander Boyd was notable as the Republican County Solicitor and Register in Chancery of Greene County, Alabama in 1870 during Reconstruction who was murdered by a lynching party of Ku Klux Klan members. He was fatally shot on March 31, 1870 in Eutaw, the county seat. The Klan members apparently intended to hang him in the square in a public lynching, to demonstrate their power during this period and their threat to Republicans. Boyd fiercely resisted their taking him from his hotel room. In th
Mordecai Barbour; Following the death of Elizabeth, Barbour married Sally Haskell Byrne. Sally was the widow of James Byrne of Petersburg and the mother of Barbour's daughter-in-law, Elizabeth A. Byrne. Death. Barbour died at "Weston", the residence of his daughter Frances Barbour Minor, in Boligee, Greene County, Alabama on January 4, 1846.
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Nimrod Snoddy (July 4, 1821 - May 16, 1886) was an A. M. E. preacher who served in the Alabama Legislature during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1876 representing Greene County, Alabama. He held substantial property in 1870 and was living in Greene County, Alabama.
Greene County Courthouse 400 Morrow Avenue PO Box 307 Eutaw, AL 35462 Phone: 205-372-3598 Fax: 205-372-1510 Greene County Website. Probate Judge has marriage records from 1823, probate records from 1821, land records from 1820 and military discharge records. Greene County, Alabama Record Dates [edit | edit source]
Greene County vital records can be found at the Alabama Department of Public Health which has Birth And Death Records from 1908, Marriages from 1936 and Divorce Records from 1950. Please refer to the information to the Statewide Vital Records in Alabama for current fees and application process.
In 1822, his family moved to Greene County, Alabama, where Maxwell would attend private school. Maxwell studied law at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1841 and was admitted into the Alabama State Bar in 1843. After practicing private law in Eutaw, Alabama, he moved to Tallahassee, Florida in 1845.
Greene County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,045.[1] making it the least populous county in Alabama. Its county seat is Eutaw.[2] Its name is in honor of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island. Greene County was established on December 13, 1819. It is the least populated county in Alabama. According to the U.S. Census ...
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- Eutaw
- December 13, 1819
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