Madison County, North Carolina

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Madison County, North Carolina
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Location in the state of North Carolina
Location of North Carolina in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	1851
County Seat	Marshall
Courthouse
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County Courthouse

Madison County Courthouse, Marshall, N.C.

History

Parent County

1851--Madison County was created 27 January 1851 from Buncombe and Yancey Counties.
County seat: Marshall ^[1]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Buncombe
• Cocke County, Tennessee
• Greene County, Tennessee
• Haywood
• Unicoi County, Tennessee
• Yancey

Resources

African American

• Freedman Bank Records, 1865-1874 - search this freely available database for bank records of African-American individuals. This database includes records from all 29 branches of the bank. North Carolina bank locations included Wilmington, Raleigh & New Bern.

Cemeteries

• Madison County cemeteries at the NCGenWeb Archives
• Madison County cemeteries at Find-A-Grave

Church

Court

Education

• Mars Hill College yearbooks - from 1917-2008; digitized by the NC Digital Heritage Center
• Madison County College Students - a name list of students at various NC colleges with identified hometowns in the county

Land

Local Histories

Maps

• Madison County Maps

Military

• Military records at the Madison County NCGenWeb Archives

Civil War

Civil War Confederate units - Brief history, counties where recruited, etc.

-2nd Battalion, North Carolina Infantry

Newspapers

• Madison county newspapers - a listing of newspapers published in the county & libraries that hold them; via the Library of Congress. If you find a paper of interest on microfilm, you may be able to request it via Interlibrary Loan with your local public library.
• Madison County residents in the newspaper - name listing of people from the county as located in misc. newspaper articles; time span varies. Articles indexed in the NC People in the Papers database.
• See the "Deaths" category in the Vital Records section for information on obituaries

Probate

• Wills and Estate records of Madison County - on the NCGenWeb Archives

Taxation

Vital Records

Uncertified copies of vital records can be ordered for a small fee from the Register of Deeds. Please visit their website for more information.

Births

• North Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964 - search this name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state; via FamilySearch

Marriages

• North Carolina Marriages, 1762-1979 - search this database of marriages from across the state - images included; via FamilySearch
• Madison County marriages - may be included throughout Carrie Broughton's 6-volume index of the Raleigh Register & State Gazette newspaper (1799-1893). Marriages are listed by year and PDF files are searchable. Available on the North Carolina Digital Collections website

Deaths

• Obituaries from The Record and The French Broad News - being placed online by the Madison County Genealogical Society; an ongoing project.
• North Carolina Death Certificates, 1906-1930 - search a statewide collection of freely available death certificates - images are included; via FamilySearch.
• Madison County deaths - list of county area deaths reported in various newspapers; dates range from late 1700s to 1900s.

Societies and Libraries 

• Madison County Genealogical Society
• Madison County Public Library

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• Madison County, NCGenWeb - free genealogy resources; part of the USGenWeb Project
• Family History Library Catalog

References