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This serendipity moment told the whole story
Recently, I asked readers to send in their personal serendipity moment to Alabama Pioneers. This is William W. McCollum’s moment. Donna Serendipity Moment told the whole story by William W. McCollum My McCollum ancestors descend from a Scottish exile who arrived in the colony of East Jersey in 1685. His descendants made their way south […]
PATRON – Kellett-Gilbreath nuptials and reopening of Agricultural and City schools were in the local news in Albertville, Alabama in January 1903.
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PATRON + Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XIII
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BIOGRAPHY: Elisha David Acker born February 14, 1861
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UPDATED WITH PODCAST Nobles brothers built the first locomotive south of the Mason and Dixon line
A WAR TIME FOUNDRY A Story of a Confederate Foundry at the present Anniston By Kate Quintard Noble Roberts1 My Grandfather, James Noble, left England in 1837 and settled first in Pennsylvania, but wearying of the unfriendly climate, he became enamored of the Sunny South, and with his family, made his home in Rome, Georgia, […]
PATRON+ Native American Stockades in Alabama
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Trail of Tears was one of the most regrettable episodes in American history
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 marks a dark time in American history regarding the new country’s relationship with the Native American population. It called for the “voluntary or forcible removal of all Indians” residing in the eastern United States to the state of Oklahoma. Many did not leave voluntarily May 1838 was set as […]
PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 29 – Talladega tries to recover from War
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PATRON + The Trial of the Judges and other early impeachments in Alabama
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PATRON + “Turkey Town was where treaties were formed”
Turkey Town was established sometime prior to 1770 and was one of the most important of Cherokee establishments. It was here that Col. Campbell, the noted British soldier, and superintendent, lived at times during and after the Revolutionary War.
PATRON – Genealogy notes on DUNAWAY FAMILY of Perry, Marengo, Dallas & Wilcox Counties
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PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers payment for lost limbs -Feb. 1877
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Did you know that honeybees have not always been prevalent in Alabama?
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PATRON – “Names of early settlers in Cleburne, Alabama”
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BIOGRAPHY: Rev. J. D. Anthony born October 12, 1825 – photograph
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! REV. J. D. ANTHONY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1825-aft. 1875) (The following sketch of the Rev. J. D. Anthony, author of “Cherokee County”, published in this issue of the Quarterly, was prepared by Hugh W. Cardon, of Birmingham, a portion of an address made by him to a group of ladies in Centre, Alabama, […]
BIOGRAPHY: Frederick Forney Foscue (September 11, 1819 – March 3, 1906)
FREDERICK FORNEY FOSCUE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (September 11, 1819 – March 3, 1906) Virginia, Texas, and Coosa, Marengo, Monroe Counties, Alabama (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George Evans Brewer, 1887) Rev. Benjamin Foscue was a pioneer settler of Coosa, about Hanover or Weogufka, and was a Primitive Baptist preacher of good […]
PATRON – Alabama Death Notices – 1851 from newspaper
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PATRON + General Coffee was Wounded in this battle of the Creek-Indian War
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PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: William Jasper Alexander born in May 1842
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PATRON + Bangor cave raid, Murder and Searcy family in the news of August 2, 1937
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Biography: William Harrison Barnard born March 22, 1864
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PATRON + Remarkable 1876 letter from Texas to Alabama mentions how former resident Walker K. Baylor died in Texas in 1845
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News accounts reveal how W. A. Smith was killed and possible reasons why
GRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF THE DEATH OF W. A. SMITH Coosa River News”, Centre, Alabama, Friday August 21, 1908: Volume 31, #24 Rome Tribune” Borden Springs, Alabama, August 17: After tying the horses on the station platform here, the body of William A. Smith slain by the hand of Will Chandler, has been removed to his […]
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XIV
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XIV 1 Henry C. Sanford Cherokee County A son of Hezekiah P. and Priscilla Sanford, Henry C. was born on May 20, 1808, in Greenville District, South Carolina and died on May 28, 1888, in Cherokee County, Alabama. Attending school only ten months, Sanford was […]
PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 21 – More sketches of early bar members (continued)
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Many Native American Mounds in Counties in Alabama found in 1901
The State of Alabama had many ancient Native American mounds in the early days. Many of these are no longer visible, but in 1901 before highways were built, mounds were located in the following places. Known Native American Mounds in Counties in Alabama1 Written in 1901 Baldwin County Mound on Perdido Bay, near Josephine post-office, containing […]
PATRON – Names of men who were involved and delegates to an 1875 Constitutional Convention
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PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: William Proncy Acker born August 17, 1868
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PATRON – Biography: Charles W. Lokey born August 13, 1874
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