Interesting news article from the Daily State Sentinel (Montgomery, Alabama) April 13, 1868
The oldest woman in Alabama is Mrs. Sallie Samson, living in Bibb County. She is native of Jasper County, Georgia, but has been living in Bibb County since 1817, in the same neighborhood she now resides in, and is 109 years old.
Bibb County, Alabama courthouse ca 1960
Still rides horseback at night
She is as active now as she was thirty years ago, frequently riding horseback in the night time, ten and fifteen miles, to answer professional calls. She is considered one of the best “doctors” in the county, in her particular line, as hundreds of the well-developed boys and girls, now living in Bibb and Autauga Counties, will fully testify.
Knew stories of first settlements
She is a lady of remarkable memory, quite intelligent, and her stories of olden times and the first settlements of Alabama, are most extraordinarily interesting and thrilling. Long may she live in her career of usefulness in welcoming the advent of boy and girl babies into the world.
SOURCE
ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS – Volume I – IV: Four Volumes in One
- ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration
- ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement
- ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers
- ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood

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Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey
Re: 109 yr old Mrs. Sallie Samson article – The photo of the courthouse indicates ca. 1960, but the van in the picture appears to be from the mid to late 70s.
Thanks for the great blog!
Frank
Do you have any stories or history of Crenshaw or Butler County?? That is the area my family and relatives lived. I was born in Crenshaw County, AL but moved in 1959 to TX.
Thanks,
Shannon Gardner Kelemen