Selected Reading References for Sumter County Alabama

 
Arrington, Jud.  Public Cemeteries of Sumter County, 1834-1972.  Livingston, Alabama:  Livingston Press, 1998.
Brown, Alan, and David M. Taylor.  Gabr'l Blow Sof':  Sumter County, Alabama Slave Narratives.  Livingston, Alabama:  Livingston Press, 1997.
Brown, Virginia Pounds, and Laurella Owens.  Toting the Lead Row:  Ruby Pickens Tartt, Alabama Folklorist.  Tuscaloosa, Alabama:  University of Alabama Press, 1981.
Carmer, Carl.  Stars Fell on Alabama.  New York:  Farrar and Rinehart, 1934.  (Alabama republished this in the early 1990s with a wonderful critical introduction)
Foscue, Virginia O.  The Place Names of Sumter County, Alabama.  American Dialect Society, Tuscaloosa, Alabama:  University of Alabama Press, 1978.
Jenkins, Nelle Morris.  Pioneer Families of Sumter County.  Livingston, Alabama:  Livingston Press, 2002.  (Previously published in 1964; the new text has been updated and an index has been installed)