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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]