Author: Donna R Causey

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
Patron Past Stories

PATRON + They came by wagon train and pitched their tents in the forest . . .

The first part of a transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899 EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON + “I was about fifteen years old at that time, and I remember distinctly those Indians coming to Nashville”

(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) O. P. Williams, a citizen of Nashville, was around fifteen years old when the Cherokees were driven…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON + Photographs of Gee’s Bend – two years after the assistance of the Federal Resettlement program in 1939 – new homes

The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the…

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PATRON – Do you know the name of the college in Alabama (still exists) that was once the leading college in the South?

Today, LaGrange College is a private, four-year liberal arts and sciences college, affiliated with the Methodist Church in LaGrange, Georgia. LaGrange College actually opened…