This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII ALBERT TAYLOR GOODWYN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1842-1931) Elmore…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) RICHARD HOPKINS PRATT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1827…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I AND First Families of Lawrence County, Alabama Volume I …
No bacon or grease for the beans and cabbage? This was the solution in early days of Alabama CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA REMINISCENCES OF ITS…
MAIL ROBBERY AND MURDER Delivering the mail in 1838 required a lot of skill and courage as these news articles reveal. (Transcribed from North…
(Personal excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) "MARIE" WRITES FROM HATCHECHUBBEE, ALA . The Knighterian Club met with the Misses…
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable & Some Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol VII in EBook, Paperback & Hardcover format WILLIAM…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V WALTER KENNON McADORY Biography and Genealogy (b. 1868 Alabama…
REV. CHARLES STEWART BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY Pickens County, Alabama (Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) The following…
Below are four brigadier-generals who served in the Civil War for the Confederacy. We are publishing photographs of interest to researchers on Alabama Pioneers.…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VII The Indian occupancy of Talladega county began in those primeval ages, "whereof…
Read the whole story about Aaron Burr’s treason in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 3) First Edition Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron/Patreon…
(Excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) SOMETHING FROM A "CITIZEN" EDITOR JOURNAL: In regard to the article in Wednesday's Ledger…
Transcribed from The Shelby Guide, Columbiana, Alabama May 7, 1868 PRESERVING PICKLES FROM SCUM A Correspondent of the Rural New Yorker gives the following:…
WILLIAM TEMPLE ALLAN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1855-1922) Dallas, Talladega, and Etowah County, Alabama William Temple Allan was an Episcopal clergyman, for a number of…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VI John Box was appointed the first coroner of the county on Monday,…
(Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his…
These abstracts and more are available in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume V PERSONALS FROM TIMES DAILY DEC. 15, 1894 FLORENCE, LAUDERDALE…
TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Two interesting tombstones New England epitaph of 1872: "My father and mother were both insane I inherited the terrible stain, My grandfather,…
I found this in some old records. Wouldn't it be nice if a letter "bridge of love" could bring our country closer together today…
(Transcribed extracts from The Silent Eye, Avondale, Jefferson County, Alabama December 14, 1901) MONTEVALLO MURDER Walter S. Cary, attorney, was shot and killed Friday…
DR. JAMES W. or H. CRAWFORD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1822-1844) Bibb County, Alabama This is an excerpt from Compiled Records of BIBB COUNTY ALABAMA…
(Transcribed from The Weekly Herald (Wetumpka, Alabama, December12, 1918) STATISTICS SHOW INCREASED MORTALITY FROM INFLUENZA Notwithstanding the newspaper quotations from Surgeon General Blue to…
Have you ever wondered if you are reading accurate accounts of events in history books? Can we really believe everything we read and have learned…
Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers included in volume 4 WASHINGTON P. MELTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1846 - 1905) Tallapoosa, Tallladega County, Alabama…
It is hard to understand why the driver of this carriage did not stop to assist the women he hit. The Astor House was the…
These inscriptions and more can be found in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV Evergreen Cemetery Inscriptions Before 1942 HISTORIC EVERGREEN CEMETERY, TUSCALOOSA,…
(Personal excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) ANNIE KATE BOOKER BROKE HER ARM Annie Kate, the little daughter of Mr.…
GUSSIE WOODRUFF BIOGRAPHICAL and GENEALOGY (Dec.1844- Dec. 28, 1928) Montgomery County, Alabama During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VII 1 William H. Davis Pickens County William H. Davis was born in York…
