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(Transcribed from The Guntersville Advertiser, Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914) Tom Thumb weddings were popular in the early 1900s, inspired by the 1863 wedding of GeneralTom…
Community News and names for Albertville, Alabama October 23, 1919 (The following genealogical information with names of Albertville citizens has been transcribed from The…
Early Days and People of Marshall County, Alabama One of the first white men to settle in Madison County was a Scotchman named John…
EXCERPT FROM REFLECTIONS OF AN ALABAMA TEACHER, 1875-1950 by Julia L. Willard (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol 38, No. 04, Winter…
(Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 22, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) ALBERTVILLE ITEMS T. J. Hinds spent Tuesday Gadsden. Theo. Clemons is in St. Louis…
(Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 15, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) CORRESPONDENCE HYATT Frank Lang and family of Decatur, who have been visiting in this…
(Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 15, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) CORRESPONDENCE ALBERTVILLE ITEMS Henderson Walker is visiting friends at Anderson, Tenn. Miss Ira Vanzant…
LOUIS WEISS WYETH BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1812-1889) By Lavone Johnson Anglen Louis Wyeth was a County Judge of Marshall County. He received a land…
Many visitors names for the Holidays were included in the news 1916 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) WHITESVILLE NEWS…
Holiday events were prominent in Boaz in 1915-1916 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) SEMINARY NEWS One of the social…
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 marks a dark time in American history regarding the new country's relationship with the Native American population. It…
(Excerpt transcribed from The Daily Huntsville Confederate, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, Feb. 19, 1862) STATE OF ALABAMA – MARSHALL COUNTY Court of Probate, December…
Roosters for sale and names of Boza citizens sick from Flu epidemic (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) Death rates…
(Transcribed from The Guntersville Advertiser, Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914) PERSONAL NEWS Mrs. Arthur Rains spent a day in Gadsden last week. Miss Berta…
(Transcribed from The Guntersville Advertiser, Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914) Mr. J. W. Hunnicut, merchant, capitalist, banker and farmer, proposes to experiment in the…
The following article is an excerpt from The Birmingham News May 18, 1924, written by Frank Willis Barnett a staff Correspondent to The Birmingham…
REV. JOHN ALLAN BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1788-1843) By Lavone Johnson Anglen Reverend John Allan wrote an autobiography of his life which was found at…
Newspaper clippings found at the Alabama Department of Archives and History NEWTON BRUMMETT MURDER FROM "THE ANNISTON HOT BLAST", Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama Issue…
There is probably a very interesting story behind this deed! ONE PEPPERCORN PER ACRE (The Guntersville Democrat, Guntersville, Alabama April 06, 1899) The record…
(Transcribed from The Guntersville Advertiser, Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914) GUNTERSVILLE LOCAL ITEMS Guntersville will have a big celebration on the 4th of July.…
Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. The…
Albertville, Marshall County, Alabama was inhabited by the Cherokee Indians until their removal to Oklahoma in the 1830s. The first non-indigenous settlement in what…
(Transcribed from The Guntersville Advertiser, Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914) SOUTH TOWN NOTES Miss Della Shipp is expected home from Talladega today. Mrs. Tom…
JAMES M. ADAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1790- 1856) Marshall and Madison County, Alabama James M. Adams, of Marshall, was a young lawyer, and…
THE "GOOD OLD DAYS" IN MARSHALL COUNTY By C. G. FENNELL (Transcribed from summer issue of The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol 1 No 2,…
(Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 22, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) COTTONVILLE I Butler and I. M. Hunt were over New Hope on the 14th…
(Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 15, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) LOCAL AND PERSONAL Our esteemed patron, Wm. Boling, has presented to the DEMOCRAT one…
People were suffering from LaGrippe around Boaz, Alabama in 1915 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) ROUTE 7 Health of…
Health was bad in surrounding communities of Boaz in 1915 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) LIBERTY NEWS Health of…
