Welcome to the

Madison County, NC

NCGenweb^TM Page

Welcome to the official NCGenWeb^TM site for Madison County!

Madison County was formed in 1851 from Buncombe and Yancey Counties and was named in honor of James Madison, 4th president of the US. It is bordered by Yancey, Buncombe, and Haywood Counties in NC and by Greene, Washington, and Unicoi Counties in TN. The county seat (which was originally called Lapland) is Marshall, which was named for U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. Other towns in Madison County include Mars Hill (home of Mars Hill College) and Hot Springs.

My name is Dee and I'm the CC for Madison County. This is not MY site, it is yours. This site would cease to exist without your contributions. Please feel free to contact me with any comments, additions or questions you many have. See below for information on the new Madison County Public Library complete with a genealogy/history room! Please check back on a regular basis to find new additions.

Madison County Genealogy Society

Madison County Query Board

Submit your queries about Madison County

surnames, families, and places here.

Please consider contributing materials to this site and help keep online genealogical research free.

Why you should respect your living ancestor's rights to privacy.

Families of Madison County

Family histories, stories, news and items of interest

to researchers of Madison County families

Rathbone Family

Surnames of Interest

Connect with other researchers of the same family names

This link will open a new window in the Madison County Genealogy Society website.

To return to the Madison County Genweb site, simply close the new window.

You will also find a link on the surname page to come back to the Madison Genweb Site

Family Reunions

Family reunions of Madison County Families

and other western North Carolina families.

List yours - listing is free!

All the contributed documents (cemeteries, census lists, court records, military records & pension requests, obits, and wills & estate records) are now archived at one site for the researcher's convenience.