Madison County, KY Data Collection

The County Data Collections are dependant on submissions by individual researchers. Please consider contributing your genealogical data. 

Biographies

• Chambers Family of Madison and Clark County

Deeds & Civil Cases

• Comstock Surname - Deeds & Civil Cases Naming Slaves and Free Persons of Color

Madison County Resources

• Madison County Message Board

• Madison County KYGenWeb

• Madison Co. KyGenWeb Archives

  • Bluegrass Army Depot Removed Graves - mentions African American burials, no names listed.

• Madison County Court Clerks Office, 101 W Main St, Suite 7 Richmond Ky   40475-1415 (859) 624-4703 (859) 623-3071

• Eastern Kentucky University Libraries African American Transcription Project

  • Madison County African American Oral History Transcription Project

  • American Slavery Collection [PDF], 1796-ca.1870 The 13 items in this collection consist of ten bills of sale, one receipt, one document relating to manumission and the autobiography of a former slave who lived in Madison County, KY as a “free black” prior to 1850.

• Kentucky Oral History Commission

  • Eastern Kentucky University Archives

  • African-American Community -- Madison County

• Documenting the American South - UNC at Chapel Hill Libraries

  • Lewis Clarke - born 1815 Madison Co.

• Digital History-African American Voices  

  • Lewis Clarke - on the subject of family

  • Lewis Clarke - on the subject of punishment