Life on Shades Mountain in 1940 was very different from today. Shades Mountain is part of Hoover, Alabama. My Grandparents on Shades Mountain by…
Amos Elliott, Sr. was born in 1760-1770 in Edgefield, South Carolina. He died in 1844 in Shelby County, Alabama. Some Descendants of Amos "Stump"…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART III By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth We had Sunday School one Sunday a month…
John Washington Mackey was an early pioneer of Perry County, Alabama is believed to have been the son of John G. and Mary Mackey…
As a savings to our readers, we now have the first eight books of the ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Lost and Forgotten Stories series in…
The stories in Alabama Footprints - Exploration - A collection of lost & forgotten stories of Alabama, concerns the discovery of Alabama and the initial settlement era.…
Reflections from the Blue Rocking Chair by Joyce Ray Wheeler PROLOGUE: Just when my grandchildren were beginning to outgrow their early childhood, I was…
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BELLS LANDING by Sherry S. Johnston Several weeks ago, I took a tour of Vredenburg, Hybart, Franklin, Bells Landing communities in Monroe County, AL.…
(FEATURED BOOK is the place we share books by Alabama Pioneers authors on www.alabamapioneers.com ) I enjoyed reading this delightful book! Brings back so…
(This story will make you watch where you walk) A Snake Story I have always hated snakes. Living in the country I hated snakes.…
Save time and money on Revolutionary War Soldier Charles Abercrombie research with the book. Some Descendants of CHARLES ABERCROMBIE (1742 -1819) Born in 1742 Charles…
Alabama Descendants of ELISHA COTTINGHAM (ca. 1755-ca. 1820) is the Cottingham family mentioned in the best-selling novel, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans…
During the "Alabama Fever" period of United States history, early settlers migrated to Alabama from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, and…
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The biographies of the Alabamians in Biographies of Notable & Not-so-Notable : Alabama Pioneers Volume V come from many sources. A good deal of the…
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Cute story reveals a little about life in the 1950s..... China Teardrops by Joyce Ray Wheeler It was September of the year 1953. A…
WHO I THINK I AM BY INEZ HAMRICK MCCOLLUM There is a TV series, "Who Do You Think You Are?" Several years ago, a cousin…
A Relic Left Behind – Heartwarming Reminder of Kindness in the War Between the States submitted by Virginia Tuttle (She is the 4th cousin once…
Mobile Alabama 1901 (Detroit Photography Co. Library of Congress) Check out our Biography books The biographies of Alabamians in the Ebooks are from many sources.…
When Leland Barton and Mamie Cork were married in the little Wesley Chapel Church in 1897, the father of the groom presented the bride…
John Pool was a Revolutionary War Soldier and early pioneer from South Carolina who first settled in Shelby County, Alabama then later moved to…
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REVIEW: Some ancestors I haven't found elsewhere. By Valerie J. R. Atkinson The Aldrich family of Alabama can trace their family tree back to the…
After the Revolutionary War, free bounty land was offered by the federal government to citizens and soldiers for their service. Bounty land on western…
The Arnold Family has been in Alabama since the early days of statehood. This compilation includes notes, sources and information found on descendants of…
Aftermath by Joyce Ray Wheeler My newest dictionary simply defines "aftermath" as "results or consequences" with the idea being that the consequences are not…
Malachi Hinton was born March 5, 1730, in Chowan Co., North Carolina. He married Sarah Wimberly June 16, 1764, in Edgecombe co., North Carolina.…
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