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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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PATRON + BIOGRAPHY: Captain John William Tobin born April 21, 1827
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PATRON + Alabama Folklore Part IV, Creole Lore and Using the Same Means of Travel
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Part 4 Alabama in Mexico War – personal letter about the war
ALABAMA IN MEXICO WAR Letter to DR. W. S. WYMAN From S. F. NUNNELEE (Written June 14, 1906) Mexico War Correspondence, Military Records Division Department Archives and History) Part 4 The next day after the surrender, our Brigade was ordered to prepare for a march to Alvarado, a town of some size down the coast, 60 […]
Simpson Manuscript – Inauguration of Governor and Temporary Quarters selected
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 INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR COLLIER Before the destruction of the Capitol the vote of the State election cast in the preceding month had been counted and it was declared […]
PATRON + The Trial of the Judges and other early impeachments in Alabama
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PATRON + The Coosa River Crossing of British Refugees in 1781
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Simpson Manuscript Details of when Capitol Building burned, & temporary quarters sought
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 CAPITOL DESTROYED BY FIRE The second session of the Legislature, to meet in the Capitol at Montgomery, assembled on the 12th of November, 1849, and in one particular […]
PATRON + I Can’t be Beat – the life story of Myrtle Morris Adams written in 1939
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PATR0N – These genealogy queries from the 1930s may provide links for researchers
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PATRON + Did you know that the University Club in Tuscaloosa was once the Governor’s Mansion? [vintage pictures]
The history of the beautiful University Club in Tuscaloosa dates back to the very beginning of the state of Alabama. Captain James H. Dearing, who built the mansion, arrived in Tuscaloosa before Alabama became a state. Dearing-Bagby house 1939 by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (Library of Congress) No man had a better right to be […]
PATRON + Amazing pictures of a boat ca. 1800 pulled from the Escambia river by the Greenwall family
(We know that early settlers of Alabama settled in southwest Alabama from historical accounts below and the pictures of this 1800s era boat discovered by the Greenwall family validate this fact.)
AUTHOR SUNDAY: “Social Security – a 1st grader served as a witness” and vintage film of Pres. Roosevelt
My Childhood Part in Social Security Carolyn Kracke Beyer One day, when I was in the first grade in 1946, Daddy said, “If you’ll learn to write cursive and not print, I’ll take you with me as a witness to sign some important papers”. Since he was a Notary Public I was used to seeing […]
PATRON + Little Tallassee, Alabama was the home of Lackland McGillivray
Little Tallassee, four miles above Wetumpka, was later on the farm owned by Howell Rose, and not far from where he built his house. This town had incidents of interest occurring about it.
PATRON + “Presbyterian Ministers traveled in pairs in the wilds of early Alabama”
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PATRON + Creek Indian Nation occupied this county for years – forced to evacuate after 1832
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AUTHOR SUNDAY – You’ll never make me believe that the Lord didn’t watch over us – Wilcox County, Alabama
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART III By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth We had Sunday School one Sunday a month in the p.m. and preaching every quarter (3 months apart). My Granddaddy Champion was a religious man (Christian) and he always carried me to every service, foot as he called it. […]
PATRON +”After we had been in the Fort six months, the Indians became very hostile, burned houses, corn, destroyed cattle”
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PATRON + The word Alabama, Jewish origin? Have you heard this story?
This story was written in 1858 by Gen. Thompson Simpson Woodward of the Alabama militia. He was in Alabama from very early days
PATRON + “Can you imagine how difficult it was to travel in early Alabama?”
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PATRON +”Alabama Hotel dates back over 150 years – still exists” [old photographs]
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PATRON+ “His disease was dyspepsia in its most aggravated form.”Autauga County 1886
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PATRON + Mississippi Territory Created, Governor Blount Ousted, First School Opened
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PATRON – Native Americans, The McGillivrays, Weatherford, David Tate and Sam Moniac stories about them written in 1874
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PATRON + Amazing! Jeremiah Austill describes Andrew Jackson’s inauguration from personally being there
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PATRON – Here are the Governors of Alabama – the first hundred years
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PATRON – 1836 was a violent year in Jefferson County, Alabama
About the year 1836 great excitement was caused in Jefferson County, Alabama in consequence of the hostile attitude of the Seminole and Creek Indians, especially the latter