There is a file of marriage records marked colored and filmed together. Other black or colored marriage records are intermixed with other marriage records.

NOTE: This county was established 29 Dec. 1841 from Dale County and has two (2) courthouses. One at Elba and a second at Enterprise what was established in 1907. The first courthouse was a Wellborn and was destroyed by fire in 1851. In 1863 a band of Confederate deserters and other renegades known as "Ward's Raiders" burned the new courthouse at Elba (which was 5 years old at the time), as well as the bridge across Pea River in a failed effort to...

This county was established 29 Dec. 1841 out of Dale County and has two courthouses, one at Elba and a second at Enterprise, established in 1907. The first courthouse was at Wellborn and was destroyed by fire in 1851. In 1863 a band of Confederate deserters and other renegades known as "Ward's Raiders" burned the new courthouse at Elba (5 years old) as well as the bridge across Pea River in a failed effort to escape the Home Guard. Records since 1863...

Coffee County, Alabama was created December 29, 1841.