Guide to Winston County, Alabama ancestry, genealogy and family history , birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records. The County was named in honor of John A. Winston, a Governor of Alabama. Information for this chart was taken from various sources, often containing conflicting dates. Winston County had a destructive courthouse fire in See Research in Alabama: A Genealogical Guide page 29 for suggested alternative sources to overcome this loss.
The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in Winston County: [8]. For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper.
They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date.
For general information about Alabama denominations, view the Alabama Church Records wiki page. Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents. See Alabama Land and Property for additional information about early Alabama land grants.
After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where records are currently housed. Local histories are available for Winston County. The histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. Population: Addison is a town in Winston County. It incorporated in December At the U. Census, it had a population of , up from in As of the Census Addison had a population of The population was Digital Alabama rates Addison as one of the best small towns in Alabama.
Lynn is a town in Winston County. It incorporated in April Delmar is a small, rural, unincorporated community in west-central Winston County, United States. John A. Winston Winston County gained notoriety during the Civil War because the residents of the county did not want to join the Confederacy. The county had no large plantations and virtually no enslaved labor.
During the war, the county suffered a number of raids by Confederate soldiers, who considered the residents of Winston to be traitors to the Southern cause. Leaders of Winston County met at Looney's Tavern in Double Springs, where they attempted to declare the independent Republic of Winston and made plans to secede from the Confederacy.
Though the secession never occurred, Winston County continues to be referred to as the " Free State of Winston. Houston served as the first county seat, although little is known about the courthouse s there. In , the county seat was moved to the more centrally located Double Springs. The first wooden courthouse burned in The main section of the present stone courthouse was completed shortly thereafter in Several additions have since been made to the courthouse, which remains in service to the residents of Winston County.
Of that total, From Vol. Winston in opposing Yancey and standing for that course which would be most likely to perpetuate the Union. Hancock County was carved very early in , with the county seat at old Houston, east of Brushy Fork Creek. In , the name was changed to Winston County, in honor of John A.
Winston, who had been Governor, and whose political record had been more nearly approved than any other outstanding leader in Alabama in recent years. The population from to more than doubled. In there were 14 slave owners in the County, owning slaves. Of this number, Dr. Andrew J. Kiser [Kaeiser], who was born in Pennsylvania in , owned 20 slaves, and a Mr. We have already said that Winston County was settled by the followers of Andrew Jackson.
Our people were born in Union homes and went to Union schools, whose teachers were Washington and Jackson. Winston County in supported the regular Democratic Ticket by a substantial margin. They opposed secession through the years because they felt like it was to their best interests and to the best interests of the country to do so. They were loyal Democrats and had been for years. They were Jeffersonian, Jacksonian Democrats.
They were loyal Democrats, one of the brothers being named for Andrew Jackson. We have already said that Winston County was democratic in , by a large majority, but in , when the war closed, an overwhelming majority had changed their politics.
There must have been a reason for this, and there was. Now, what were the causes that brought about this change in so large a group in politics? There are at least four Revolutionary soldiers whose brave hearts turned to dust in the territory now embraced in Winston County. From to , period of 60 years, the Democrats had charge of the Country, with the exception of only 12 years, and the people of Winston County were proud of that fact.
If the Democrats in had agreed upon and nominated one ticket, as the people of Winston County so earnestly desired, that ticket would have been elected. In , the Democrats, met in convention at Charleston, South Carolina, but a great many of the Southern delegates bolted. But in order to get together they agreed, and did meet in Baltimore in June , and a majority of the Democrats nominated Stephen A. Under the domination of the slave owners, a minority nominated John C.
Winston County did not support Lincoln in Lincoln electors were not on the ballot in Alabama in as a great many people may suppose, but it supported Stephen A. Now why did the Southern delegates bolt? They did it because they wanted to extend slavery, and they believed they had a right to do that, and they did under the Dredd-Scott Decision.
In other words, the people of Winston County, in , felt toward the bolters like the Al Smith Democrats in felt toward the Hoovercrats.
He named December 24, , as the day for the election of Delegates. Winston County elected Charles C. Sheets to that convention, who campaigned, and was overwhelmingly elected on a platform pledged to "vote against secession first, last, and all the time. Sheets told the voters that the same crowd that bolted the Democratic Ticket because they were not permitted to carry their property, namely slavery, into the states as well as territories, where the people had overwhelmingly voted it out, now intended to secede because they thought that would be the best method to perpetuate slavery.
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