Talk:Decatur County, Alabama

Proof?
Can someone give me proof that this county exists? The census has no record of it, my atlas at home has no record of it. Woodville, Alabama is in Jackson County. -- Zoe

http://www.decaturcvb.org/ --KQ

Sorry, KQ, that's the CITY of Decatur, Alabama, which is in Morgan County, Alabama -- Zoe

It's not technically named "Decatur/Morgan County" (as in both, not one or the other)? --KQ


 * Not according to the census, nor to my atlas. Morgan County is a different entry -- Zoe

http://www.archives.state.al.us/counties/decatur.html (don't bother with that one in Mozilla; it won't work. IE 5.5 does though). The county seems to have existed for 12 years in the early 1800s. --KQ


 * Yeah, but the entry says Woodville is the county seat. That entry says Fort Payne WAS the county seat.  Different place.  -- Zoe
 * Eh. [throws up hands].  Well, I tried.  --KQ


 * LOL. Thanks.  I'll leave it for a couple of days, then delete the entry if nobody can justify it.  -- Zoe
 * Sounds good. --KQ

Decatur County no longer Exists The County seat was Woodville in Jackson County Al.

Decatur County Alabama
Decatur County was created by an act of the Alabama state legislature on Dec 7, 1821, out of Jackson County and the part of Madison County east of the Flint River.The description in the act stated, "...all that tract of county lying west of Jackson County south of the Tennessee state line, east of Madison County and north of the Tennessee River." All of Marshall county north of the Tennessee River was included in Decatur County. The county was abolished by an act of the legislature on Dec. 28, 1825. The reason given was that it did not have the necessary land mass as required by the state constitution. Woodville, Al. was the county seat. Hesekiah Bayles, a revolutionary war soldier from Virginia who resided in Madison Co., was its first county court judge. (Ref:"History of Jackson County Alabama" by J.R. Kennamer; "Chronicles" published by the Jackson Co Historical Assn.; Alabama State Archives; Univ. of Alabama Cartography Dept.) G.L. Morgan, Scottsboro, Al.