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PATRON – Confusing shooting and homicide took place in Walker County in 1886.
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Gen. Woodward tells of coming to Alabama Governor’s aid during a fistfight in this letter written Nov. 1858
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PATRON – Transcriptions from the February 26, 1874, of The Birmingham Iron Age newspaper, Birmingham, Alabama
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Legal notices & robbery in news of 1867 Greenville, Alabama
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Transcriptions of personals notes from around the State of Alabama in the 2nd edition of the Birmingham Iron Age Newspaper published February 19, 1874.
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Dexter Avenue Montgomery, Alabama- history and posterity – written 1942
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PATRON -This denomination traces its origin to the early nineteenth century
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PATRON – Simpson Manuscript – Names & details of the ordinance passed on January 11th to dissolve the union between Alabama and US
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PATRON + The Freemasons of Alabama were very involved in General LaFayette’s famous visit to Alabama in 1825
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Curious story of Marital fraud in Huntsville reported in The Tuscaloosa News
On December 8, 1937, this curious story was reported in The Tuscaloosa News from Huntsville, Alabama. SISTERS ADMIT MARITAL FRAUD Three Confess They Obtained Money, Clothes, Rings From Prospective Husbands Huntsville, Alabama Dec. 8 (1937) (AP) Three Alabama sisters, charged with using the mails to defraud in connection with ‘fake marriage’ proposals, pleaded guilty in […]
An old settler of Fairhope, Alabama tells about old times in 1919
(Transcribed from Fairhope Courier, August 1, 1919) OLD SETTLER TELLS ABOUT OLD TIMES One of the old-time settlers of Fairhope who arrived here when the land was simply a wilderness and really knows what pioneering is, dropped into the Courier office the first of the week and gave the writer a few illustrations of what […]
Alabama Folklore, Part V – Hill Billy Lore and Divine Wrath from Pioneer days, and Quivering oaks
(Continued – from Alabama Folklore Part IV) Unemployed authors were employed through the Works Project Administration WPA to record the life and culture of Americans during the Great Depression era. Many were employed in Alabama. In 1937, this excerpt was part of an essay written about Alabama Folklore. The author stated this purpose in writing […]
Biography: Wade Hampton Allen born April 16, 1794
Is this your ancestor? If you are an Alabama Pioneers Patron, you can Update and/or correct info in the Comments. JOIN US Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron – share, connect with cousins, correct and and preserve your ancestry through the comments! WADE HAMPTON ALLEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1794 – 1851) Montgomery, Alabama. Wade Hampton Allen, […]
PATRON – Biography: Andrew Dexter Jr. born March 28, 1779 – photographs
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A precious gift was given to me by my grandmother and other women before her . . .
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Part 1 – Alabama in the Mexican War – a personal letter describing the experience
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Alabama Folklore, Part III – The Earth Shake, White Folklore, – Famous Brigande
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MONDAY MUSINGS: Important words to remember by Archivist Peter A. Brannon (1882 -1967)
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Part 1 – Joseph F. Roper Diary excerpts from 1846 -1853
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Transcribed excerpts from the Birmingham Iron Age published on March 19, 1874, about people and events
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Death Notices from the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama in 1884
(This was transcribed for the 1st edition of THE CAHABA JOURNAL and it is included here using the same words from as published in THE CAHABA JOURNAL) DEATH NOTICES FROM THE BIBB BLADE Bibb Blade, January 3, 1884 Died at his residence near Woodstock, in this county, Ala., Mr. J. M. WOOD, on the 24th. […]
Some Alabama Bible Records: Wiggins/Sparks & Wiggins/Skelley
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VIII- Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents of the book WIGGINS/SPARKS & WIGGINS/ SKELLEY family bible This is the bible originally owned by JOHN C. WIGGINS & ISABELLA SPARKS. It was passed on to Jean BRODHAGAN of Tulsa […]
UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Madame Wooster cared for the sick in Birmingham & had a romance with John Wilkes Booth is honored at UAB
[The Lou Wooster Public Health Award at the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Public Health is presented annually by the University of Alabama School of Public Health to recognize individuals, groups, or organizations who are unconventional public health heroes. – This is who it is named after] LOUISE CATHERINE WOOSTER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY […]
Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 28 – The days after the War ends
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVIII The story of the desperate struggle of the people of this county during the Civil War will never be written—no pen is adequate to the task—and yet it should not be relegated to oblivion without some slight chronicle of its stress and suffering. […]
Progress on school well, J. B. McCrory ill, and visitors in Sumter County, Alabama August 3, 1923
Local news about people from around Sumter County, August 3, 1923 (Transcribed from Sumter County Journal, York, Alabama, August 31, 1923) Only Patrons can comment or chat Join our Alabama Pioneers Patron Community!’ See how to Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron EMELLE ETCHINGS Mr. Jack Smith of Geiger is making good progress on the bored […]
Part 2 War Diary of Dr. Joseph Dill Alison – Vicksburg
Dr. Joseph Dill Alison, the author of this diary was born December 23, 1828, at Charleston, S. C., and died at Carlowville, June 3, 1905. He was the son of Hugh Lee and Mary Catherine (Beekman) Alison, South Carolinians who removed from Charleston to Carlowville, in 1833. The former was educated in Charleston and graduated […]
TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: He died for his master
Unusual Monument and Epitaph In the Magnolia Cemetery in the lot of W. S. Metcalf is a monument to a FAITHFUL FRIEND. This is the story about the tombstone. Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama 2010 by Carol Highsmith (Library of Congress) In 1903, a mill located near Cedar Point Road, known as the Metcalf Mill, was […]
Simpson Manuscript – Secession Convention – representatives & how they voted and Mr. Whatley’s test
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 ALABAMA’S SECESSION CONVENTION The convention met in the hall of the House of Representatives in the Capitol building on the day fixed for the assembling, and so keen […]
Part 1 -War Diary of Dr. Joseph Dill Alison 1861
Dr. Joseph Dill Alison, the author of this diary was born December 23, 1828, at Charleston, S. C., and died at Carlowville, June 3, 1905. He was the son of Hugh Lee and Mary Catherine (Beekman) Alison, South Carolinians who removed from Charleston to Carlowville, in 1833. The former was educated in Charleston and graduated […]