Compiled from a variety of county court records, these notes treat a total of 4,000 persons who lived in the contiguous Alabama counties of Bibb, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hales, Marengo, Monroe, Perry, Shelby, Sumter, and Wilcox. Among the families notes are Abercrombie, Abston, Adams, Anderson, Auberry, Bates, Belk, Bird, Chapman, Cranford, Day, Derden, Dunaway, Elliott, Eubanks, Ford, Fuller, Bigson, Givhan, Haggard, Hardee, Harper, Harris, Hendrix, Lolly, Lovelady, Lyles, McDonald, Maham, Mobley, Morgan, Morrisette, Pace, Packer, Parker, Patton, Payne, Phillin, Pickens, Rhodes, Tubb, Ware, Webb, White, and Wilkes.