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PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Hopkins Pratt born Dec. 18, 1791 – photographs

This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1)   Hopkins Pratt Biography and Genealogy (1791 -…

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PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 7 – First welcome speech ever made on Alabama soil was voiced in Talladega county

PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER VII The Indian occupancy of Talladega county began in those primeval ages, "whereof…

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PATRON – A robbery, the fire department, a double murder and schoolhouse make news in Girard, Alabama in 1909

(Excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) SOMETHING FROM A "CITIZEN" EDITOR JOURNAL: In regard to the article in Wednesday's Ledger…

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PATRON – December 14, 1901 – Tuscaloosa elephant piano Montevallo murder, Bank runner missing, and Lawrence Co. murder, and more

(Transcribed extracts from The Silent Eye, Avondale, Jefferson County, Alabama December 14, 1901) MONTEVALLO MURDER Walter S. Cary, attorney, was shot and killed Friday…

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PATRON + In 1918, Surgeon General said flu epidemic over, while statistics reported increase death rate

(Transcribed from The Weekly Herald (Wetumpka, Alabama, December12, 1918) STATISTICS SHOW INCREASED MORTALITY FROM INFLUENZA Notwithstanding the newspaper quotations from Surgeon General Blue to…