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Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
Millie Francis was the first woman and Native American to be awarded a medal from the U. S. Government. Millie was the daughter…
Early Alabama Impeachments The first impeachment case in the State was the famous attempt in 1829 to depose three justices of the Supreme Court.…
See more info on Mark Smith in the book Descendants of Mark Smith (1778-1861) Perry County, Alabama (Alabama Pioneer Descendants Book 19) MARK SMITH…
Removing stains and spots has always been a problem. Here is how our ancestors dealt with most stains and spots according to a…
The Methodist Circuit Rider had a difficult life in the early days of Alabama as can be seen by the narrative below. THE METHODIST…
Marriage & Death Notices in the January - March 1878 Shelby Guide This was published in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL Fall 1985 It has been…
Peter A. Brannon was a pharmacist chemist, 1900-1910. He spent the remainder of his career with the Alabama Department of Archives and History,…
"There is no child so bad that he/she can't be used as an income tax deduction." "It's tax time. I know this because I'm…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Despite all efforts by the federal government, few Native-Americans, except for the Choctaws,…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
SOME EARLY SETTLERS AND NOTABLE MEN OF AUTAUGA COUNTY ALABAMA PHILLIPS FITZPATRICK was a representative to the General Assembly in 1819, 1820 AND…
¾ cup sugar 2 tbs. flour ¼ tsp. salt 3 eggs, separated 2 cups milk 1 tsp. vanilla vanilla wafers sliced bananas 3 tbs.…
Names of many African-Americans who attended Selma University from 1884 - 1895 This excerpt has been transcribed from The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of…
The early Baptist Church in Alabama1 by S. W. Wilson The settlement of the first Baptist in Alabama is believed to have been in…
(Transcribed and unedited (with misspelled and grammar errors) excerpt from a story written by WPA (Works Projects Administration) writer, Annie L. Bowman, Escambia County,…
From a tombstone in Oxford, N. H.: To all my friends I bid adieu; A more sudden death you never knew: As I was…
Slaves for sale and new grocery open in Pickens County in 1855 (CONTINUED BELOW) (Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama…
EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL OF MRS. GOVERNOR JOHN GAYLE 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama's seventh Governor, left a journal which her descendants…
More details of this massacre can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation KIMBALL/KIMBELL-JAMES MASSACRE in Clarke County, Alabama A brutal massacre occurred on September…
(Are you looking for your British ancestry? Here are some tips on how to research them.) Tips on British Ancestry....(from British Origins of American Colonists…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
Below are some Genealogy Queries published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol 1, No. 3, Fall Issue 1930 that may be of interest to…
{The Downing Industrial School was an early school in Alabama for young ladies - and the life-long passion of one man} Rev. J. M.…
The following warning and advisory lines are on the tombstone of a quack doctor: I was a quack and there are men who say…
The city of Atmore is located in the southwest corner of Escambia County, Alabama. It was settled in 1870 and incorporated in 1907. (continued…
Below are five captains who served in the Civil War for the Confederacy. We are publishing photographs of interest to researchers on Alabama Pioneers.…
Lt. David Moniac, a Creek Native American, was the first minority graduate of West Point Can you imagine the culture shock and difficulties this young…
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol.…
FIRST BOAT TRIP OVER MUSCLE SHOALS—1828 By GEORGE W. SWARTZ The Tennessee Valley is rich in history and the beautiful Tennessee River lying like…
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