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Tecumseh FAREWELL TO THE CHEROKEES (transcribed excerpt from Recollections on North Alabama by James Edmounds Saunders (1806-1896) Even when Tecumseh harangued every tribe, with…
These photographs of students and teachers at Skyline Farms in the Resettlement Community at Jackson County, Alabama during the Great Depression, reveal how far we've…
(Here is another story told to me by my late grandmother Pauline Campbell Bearden(1923-2009) she loved to sit on her front porch and tell…
SECOND MT. OLIVET REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi (This transcribed excerpt was written before 1958) First Church…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! NATHANIEL BROWN LINDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1822-1908) Talladega County, Alabama…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! Rev. James Hugh Blair Hall Biography and Genealogy (1855 -…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To…
There has been a rumor that slave tunnels are under a mansion in Tuscaloosa. A news crew investigated the story in a three-part video at…
Ummmmm good baking tips from old recipes TEN BAKING TIPS FROM AN OLD COOKBOOK.... 1. To see whether old yeast is still good, put…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! JOHN McRAE ALFORD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1861-1928) Geneva County, Alabama…
A Monument in Horsley-Down Church, Cumberland, England, bears the following singular and admonitory inscription (1768): Here lie the bodies Of Thomas Bond and Mary…
Alabama Pioneers Patron query: Do you know anything about Thomas McAfee born 1837? Thomas McAfee, born 1837. Have been seeking the name of his…
Helen Keller, even though she was unable to hear or see, was famous from the age of 8 until her death in 1968. Her…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer (biography continued below) Happy Birthday! WARREN RANDOLPH BELL BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1839-1908)…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! GEORGE ELMER CROWELL BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1873-1961) Talladega County, Russell…
The Barbecue at Cha-Che’s submitted by Jean Butterworth My mother was Ara Ann Williams Champion and her mother was Ollie Rebecca King Williams. ”Miss…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK. Books…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer ZACHARIAH ABNEY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1835-1911) Bibb, Chilton and Autauga County,…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume VI THEODORE ACKLAND/ACKLEN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1833 - 1870) Madison…
Small Town USA during World War II The Invasion of Normandy by the Allies occurred more than sixty-three years ago on June 6,1944. As…
Do you wonder why your ancestor frequently moved around the State of Alabama? Sometimes our ancestors didn't move – the county did. Photograph of…
Continued from Part III (This has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical QuarterlyThe Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, Nos. 03 & 04, Fall and…
Here are some interesting recycling tips from the past: "Do not throw away that old popcorn. If you can't make it pop, put it…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers included in volume 5 ROBERT ELBERT BOWDON (1874 - 1959) BIOGRAPHY…
Dallas Cotton Mill, in Huntsville, Alabama burned in the summer of 1991. It operated from 1892 to 1949 and ghost stories about a man…
Observations and advice from an 1875 newspaper about life (Transcribed from The Athens Post Apr 2, 1875) Some Short Observations for Children When a…
DR. ALEXANDER W. AGNEW BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1824-1897) Pickens and Fayette County, Alabama A. W. Agnew was a physician, born September 17, 1824, in…
BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY Revolutionary War Soldier (1743 Virginia d. 1839 Alabama) Tuscaloosa, Alabama John Webster was born in Caroline county, Virginia., in 1743. Early…
Nicholas Baggett was born in North Carolina May, 1721 in North Carolina to Nicholas Baggett, Sr. and his wife Mary Hardy died in January,…
A community in Greene County, Alabama was first known as "Mesopotamia." This name is perpetuated in the title of "The Mesopotamia Female Academy." In…
![PATRON + Schools have changed in many ways since these days when life was so much simpler – Notice how the teachers are dressed [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 5](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Skyline-farms-1936-school-19-e1432129505216-220x143.jpg)
![PATRON + Helen Keller – [rare films] of Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan and love of her life, Peter Fagan](https://www.alabamapioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/helen-keller-1887-220x334.jpg)
