Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part IX 1 J. G. Hawkins Washington County No information for sketch is available. Jeremiah Augustus Henderson Pike County Jeremiah Augustus Henderson (Alabama Department of Archives and History) Born June 12, 1831, near Troy, Pike County, Alabama, and dying in the same county on April 6, […]
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Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VIII
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part VIII1 Henry Mitchell Gay Randolph County A son of Gilbert Gay, he was born March 8, 1812, and died March 17, 1865. Moving to Randolph County, Alabama, Gay was a state senator from that county in 1853. He was a Methodist. Gay was married to […]
PATRON – Visiting relatives, Sickness and Deaths make the news in Guntersville, Alabama June 9, 1914
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PATRON-Personals from The Florence Times Oct. 6, 1905 – Is your ancestor mentioned?
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PATRON -Alabama Bible Records: Yeildings of Blount County, Alabama
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Description of people in the first Wave Of Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory
This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants First Wave Of Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory and future Alabama The first wave of migration began in the Mississippi Territory around 1798. Around 4,500 people, including slaves, were living along the lower Tombigbee at the time. Many of these early settlers […]
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part V
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part V 1 John Cochran Barbour County Son of a farmer in Cocke County, Tennessee, John Cochran was born in the early part of the nineteenth century. After graduating from Greenville College, where he studied law, Cochran came to Jacksonville, Alabama, in 1835 to practice. Cochran […]
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention -Part II
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part II – 1 William Hodges Barnes Chambers County Upper left corner, William H. Barnes, Composite photograph at Alabama Department of Archives and History Son of Isaac and Ruth Barnes, William Hodges was born in Monroe County, Georgia, April 21, 1824, and died July 29, 1887, […]
Do you have an ancestor who served in the War of 1812?
ALABAMA DIVISION OF UNITED STATES DAUGHTERS OF 1812 The United States Daughters of 1812 is a patriotic society founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1892, whose object is to perpetuate the memory of the founders of America, with their records of service in the French War, the Revolution, and the War of 1812. It was incorporated […]
PATRON – On May 17, 1836, Sumter County, Alabama, Advertisements in Voice of Sumter included runaways
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Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part III
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part III- 1 John S. Brasher Blount County Although little is known of his family, John S. Brasher was the grandson of a soldier of the American Revolution. He was born near Yellow Leaf Creek in Shelby County, Alabama, on December 29, 1820, but the identity […]
“Have you ever heard of Captain John Linder from Switzerland”who settled in the Alabama wilderness
Prior to becoming the Alabama Territory on August 15, 1817, the whole area of Alabama was an immense wilderness, with American trading-posts on the east upon the Oconee, and those of Spain upon the south and west, while it was uninhabited by whites as far as the distant Cumberland settlements on the north. Captain John […]
Do you know which school [click to see films & pics] in Alabama still exists after four moves, two fires, the Civil War, and a name change?
Founded in 1833, on a farm near Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama. The College was first opened in 1833 as a manual labor institution as a result of the feeling of the Baptists that they needed an institution for the training of indigent young men who felt called to the ministry. Hale County, Alabama Six dormitories were […]
PATRON + The ghosts of Dauphin Island – have you seen them?
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AUTHOR SUNDAY – Are you documenting your memories? This is how we use to do it…
Scrapbooks the Old Fashioned Way by Jean Butterworth Cleaning out drawers is always a tiresome chore, but here is what I discovered after many years of staying hidden in a drawer…… my baby book and a scrapbook. Now, the modern ways of keeping scrapbooks are called “Scrapbooking” or create your memories. I have a friend […]
PATRON – Personals from Guin and a death in Haleyville are in the news January 17, 1896
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PATRON +”Inhabited By Some Interesting Characters in early Montgomery, Alabama”
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Did you know the ghost town of Old St. Stephens, Alabama had a Lover’s leap?
Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens PART V – Lover’s leap (continued) PART V (Read at the Centennial Celebration, May 6, 1899. It was published in four installments in the Washington County News, St. Stephens, May 25, and June 1, 8, and 15, 1899.) By Miss Mary Welsh,2 of Shuqualak, Missi TAILORS As may be supposed, […]
“Indian Trails and Early Roads in Alabama” – story written in 1900
Indian Trails and Early Roads written in 1900 by Peter J. Hamilton Scroll down to read story (Unedited Transcription from Publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Miscellaneous.. Volume 1 by Alabama Historical Society) Roads made Roman history, and with the development of roads everywhere comes the evolution of a country. A wagon road in the settlement […]
PATRON + Alabama Belonged To France For Sixty-five Years
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PATRON – On April 30, 1874 Tuscumbia was out of debt and able to strut
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PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 29 – Talladega tries to recover from War
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PATRON – CIGAR FACTORIES & OWNERS IN ALABAMA 1917
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PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 27 – no legal excuse for being at home
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Part II Mexican War Reminiscences by Judge Zo. S. Cook
MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part II By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April, 1897, and were made to the Wilcox Progressive Era, published at Camden) Article 2 In my former communication, I left the first battalion Alabama Volunteers camped at Camp Toulmin. Like all other boys and soldiers, […]
Simpson Manuscript – It took 16 ballots before Montgomery, Alabama was declared the capital
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co., Montgomery, Ala,, Printers THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR REMOVAL At the election in the fall of 1845 the people voted on these propositions and they were carried. The total popular vote for […]
PATRON + A famous poet, Theodore O’Hara, spent his last days on an isolated Alabama plantation near Guerryton, Alabama.
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Part I Mexican War Reminiscences by Judge Zo. S. Cook
MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part I By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April 1897, and were made to the Wilcox Progressive Era, published at Camden in several news articles – They have been transcribed with no spelling or grammar corrections) Article 1 Thinking that your readers might […]
A Ruse Saved Immigrants Lives While Traveling Through Indian Territory
A Ruse Saved Immigrants Lives While Traveling Through Indian Territory This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) continued below…. When war finally broke out between England and France in 1752 the Chickasaws remained true to the English, and Bienville’s successor, the Marquis De Vaudreuil, determined […]
PATRON + Guerryton, Bullock, Alabama – had high hopes because of the railroad.
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