Category: Patron Past Stories

Patron Past Stories

A Drowning, Marriage and visitors to Elba, Alabama May 23, 1901

(Transcribed excerpts from The Elba Clipper, Elba, Alabama, May 23, 1901) MARRIED Last Thursday afternoon at the residence of Mr. A. G. Hutchison in…

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Surnames – Simonton, Steagall, Brown, Smith, Espy, and many others visited during Easter of 1920 around Abbeville

(Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) (Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) (Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama…

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This personal diary of Alabama pioneers from 1816 reveals what life was like in surveying the wilderness of Alabama for a place to settle

(Imagine what it was like traversing Alabama alone when it was a wilderness. You can hear the tension in Richard Breckenridge's words as he…