And Away They Go - they disappeared overnight by Inez McCollum A few years ago, a painter was putting a fresh coat of paint…
Front Porch Dentistry by Shannon Hollon I remember my grandmother(Pauline Campbell Bearden) telling me a story once when they were staying with her grandparents(…
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$85 dollars worth of Indian blood I can remember growing up and always hearing older family members speak at reunions and gatherings of our…
Blood Flows in Big Coon, Alabama submitted by Ethel Crisp Taylor This story was in the “Bean Sentinel”, which is published by Ed…
Summer Camps, Then and Now by Jean Butterworth My summer camp experiences seem like yesterday. Going to church camp was a happy event for…
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Are you ready to celebrate Mother's Day today? Mother's Day was officially designated by President Truman as Mother's Day on the same day that…
I have friends from Scotland I met on a cruise from Cyprus to Egypt in 2000. I have visited them in Scotland and they…
COL. JAMES EDMONDS SAUNDERS BIOGRAHPY and GENEALOGY (May 7, 1806 – 1896) Lawrence County, Alabama James Edmonds Saunders was born in Brunswick County, Virginia,…
Some beautiful songs of World War II - Do you remember these? SONGS OF WORLD WAR II written August 2009By Joyce Ray Wheeler…
This sad story has been transcribed from Greenville Advocate (Greenville, Alabama May 2, 1867 Accidental Poisoning A very unfortunate case of sudden death from…
Work at a sawmill was hard in the good old days! Can you imagine the strength it took to do this? MEMORIES OF WALKER…
BARBERSHOP SINGING BY INEZ MCCOLLUM Barber Shop Singing began in America in the last half of the 19th Century. Barber Shop Quartets originated with…
Have you ever been attacked by the Genealogy Police? You will if you ever write a historical book or post genealogy information on the…
THE FACE IN THE WINDOW CARROLLTON, PICKENS COUNTY, ALABAMA Carrollton is the county seat of Pickens County, in the central part of the county…
Spring moved twice The spring at Blue Springs State Park actually moved by itself to two other locations before finally settling in at the…
(Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled, capitals and grammatical errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer Annie L. Bowman, Escambia…
The Way We Were by Joyce Ray Wheeler Edmonson County in rural Kentucky where I grew up was known as the poorest county in…
Once Gen. LaFayette agreed to the invitation of Governor Israel Pickens to visit Alabama, Gov. Pickens began to make preparations for his visit. The city…
GROWING UP IN A SMALL TOWN by Inez McCollum Attalla, the small Alabama town I grew up in, was so safe that we walked…
Horse Trading with Hounds by Shannon Hollon Coon hunting and hound trading has had a long tradition in Alabama history. We got to experience…
Early 1950s High School Fashions by Jean Butterworth It is almost funny to recall those days of high school in the early 1950s. What we…
Serendipity Story by Mynda Holman McGuire While searching for my namesake, a great aunt who had died 20 years before my birth, I visited…
Serendipity Moment by Frances M. Meservy My cousin was having a hard time finding information on her Father, Andy Seaburg. We had a census…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART IV By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth This community had an open range. Everybody turning…
Moore: Need info on James Matheson Moore who died 31 Aug. 1891 near Addison, Winston County, AL. Married, 64 years old at time of…
Many Alabama ancestors originate in the DelMarVa (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) on the Eastern Shore of the United States. Seeking more land for planting, pioneers…
Francis M. “Franc” Paul established the Chattanooga Daily Rebel in August 1862, after the town’s two newspapers had merged, then suspended publication earlier that year. "The Rebel was…
From Cecile Ashworth Brown Thought someone may be interested in why I became interested in genealogy. My Dad used to tell me that one…
![On September 30, 1945: Aliceville Camp, a prisoner-of-war camp in Pickens County for members of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Africa Korps, was deactivated.[pics & film]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/German-prisoners-of-war-marching-to-camp-in-Aliceville3-220x141.jpg)
![AUTHOR SUNDAY: Growing up in a small town like Attalla had many benefits [old photographs]](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/attalla-downtown-220x178.jpg)
