By: W.G. Robertson, Pub. 1892, reprinted 2024, Index, soft cover, ISBN #987-1-63914-235-4. Montgomery County was created in 1816 from Monroe County. It is located in the south-central portion of the state. This book starts with a brief history of the county. The bulk of this book is devoted to mini biographies of these early settlers that was written from memory of a young man who assisted his father as a 1832 Census Enumerator who had visited every family in the county and later became the Tax Collector. Surnames of individuals are: Allen, Armistead, Arrington, Ashley (2), Ashurst, Barnett (3), Barton (2), Bellinger, Bibb, Blakey, Bonham, Brown, Bunting, Bullard, Burch, Caffey, Calloway (2), Cleveland, Cowles, Crommelin, Dabney, Daniel, DeYampert, Elsberry, Emerson, Falconer, Forniss, Foster, Frazier, Gilmer (2), Gray, Green, Gunter, Hagerty, Hails, Haynes, Hogan, Holmes, Holt, Jones (2), Lamar, Livingston, Lucas (3), Malloy, Marks, Mastin, Mathews (2), McDade, McGehee, McLemore, Meriwether, Middleton, Mitchel, Moony, Mosley, Oliver, Pinkston (2), Ponder, Porter, Powell, Ray, Robertson, Robins, Ross, Sankey (2), Shackelford, Sledge, Spear, Stone, Talliferro, Taylor (4), Thomas, Underwood, Vickers, Wall, Walters, Ware, Wilkins, Wood, and Young,

By: James E. Saunders, Pub. 1899, Reprinted 2015, 556 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-061-6. This excellent book on the history of northern Alabama and most especially of Lawrence County is a MUST. The volume is in two parts, part one being "Recollections of the Early Settlers of North Alabama ", written by Col. Saunders. This part contains a brief history of Lawrence County, AL. and the Tennessee River Valley, sketches of many early families and personalities of the area and their origins as well as Col. Saunders writings on the Civil War. Part two, "Notes and Genealogies", was compilied by Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs, a granddaughter of Col. Saunders. The genealogies cover not only families in Northern Alabama but in other areas of the state, and also other states as well, giving much detail and family origins in this country and abroud. Among the families covered are: Banks, Bankhead, Bibbs, Billups, Blair, Cantzon, Clark, Clay, Coleman, Cox, DuBose, Dudley, Dunn, Eliott, Flint, Foster, Fry, Gholson, Goode, Gray, Harris, Hill, Hopkins, Kennedy, Lanier, Ligon, Lowe, Maclin, Manning, Maury, McCarthy, McGehee, Moore, Oliver, O'Neal, Phelan, Poellnitz, Ray, Richardson, Saunders, Shelton, Sherrod, Shorter, Speed, Swoope, Tait, Taliaferro, Thompson, Tillman, Urquhart, Walthall, Waykins, Webb, Weeden, Wells, White, Withers, Yates, and Young