Alamance County

Early Obituary Index to the Alamance Gleaner, State Dispatch, Mebane Leader, and Times-News for the time period 1875-1914. These newspapers are available on microfilm in the Local History Collection at May Memorial Library. The Alamance Gleaner and the Mebane Leader are also available in digital format at the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center website. This database was compiled by the Alamance County public Library. This database represents 4563 obituaries recorded in Alamance County newspapers between the years of 1875 and 1914. It is not all inclusive, but does a fair job of representing the vast number of obituaries recorded. Thanks … Read more

This database contains 1938 marriage notices published in the time period between 1875 until 1914 in the weekly Alamance Gleaner newspaper. Brides are listed by maiden name unless otherwise indicated. This database was compiled by the Alamance County Public Library.

These Almance County North Carolina marriage records have been extracted from public records. The 1262 records represent all of the marriages which were recorded in Alamance County records between the years of 1868 and 1899.

The earliest city directory for Alamance County, North Carolina was published in 1910 by Piedmont Directory Company of Burlington and Asheville, North Carolina. Starting in 1920 these city and business directories continued approximately every two years until the modern day telephone book would replace them. This page provides a listing of online directories for Almance County, North Carolina; while most are available for free, there are some years that I can only locate at Ancestry (1937, 1939, 1941, 1954 and 1957) At the bottom of this page are several church directories independently published, that are viewable online.