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PATRON – Valentine Parties were popular in Alabama in 1916 – some names of attendees
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BIOGRAPHY: J. M. Huston (February 3, 1826 – June 23, 1882)
COLBERTIANS By R. L. James SECTION III OBITUARIES AND CEMETERY RECORDS To the Readers of the Alabama Historical Quarterly: (The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 07, No. 03, Fall Issue 1945) I am releasing another section. No. 3, of my article “Colbertians.” I hope it will be possible for me to add one more section but […]
PATRON + Amazing – Some letters from John Hunt and his brother William from 1835
JOHN HUNT By Robert C. Hunt, Chattanooga, Tenn. The first white man known to have settled in the Huntsville area was an Indian trader by the name of John Ditto and usually referred to as “Old Man Ditto”.1 Ditto’s Landing was located at the present site of Whitesburg on the Tennessee River about ten miles […]
PATRON + Francis Scott Key who wrote, The Star-Spangled Banner, came to Alabama to help solve problems
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PATRON – Biography: Mary F. Keller (January 12, 1796 – September 28, 1875)
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PATRON + Margaret Austill (b. 1805) – her life in the Alabama frontier from her diary
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PATRON – Biography: Jeremiah Clemens December 28, 1814 – photograph
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PATRON + Many Uchess went northwest with the Shawnees
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Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 14 – 15 Descriptions of early Pioneers
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XIV – XV The Circuit Courts, in the beginning of the Judicial history of the County, were eight in number composed of not less than three nor more than six counties. Talladega was the third Circuit, and Greene, Tuscaloosa, Shelby, Randolph and Benton were […]
PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 8 the Talladega Indian was always the implacable enemy of the Georgian.
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PATRON + A treasured find, the actual words of Jeremiah Austill who was born in 1794
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BIOGRAPHY: Jehu Wellington Vandiver (1850 – 1934)
JEHU WELLINGTON VANDIVER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY September 17, 1850 – August 16, 1934 Talladega, Alabama Lawyer, editor, lecturer, Mr. Vandiver was born September 17, 1850, at Alexandria, Calhoun County; son of John Harrington and Mary Eliza Emma (McAfee) Vandiver, the former who was born in Spartanburg District, S. C., practiced medicine, was selected as electoral […]
PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Guntersville, Alabama named after John Gunter born 1765
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Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part X
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part X 1 Robert Jemison Tuscaloosa County A lawyer, businessman, legislator and leader of the minority in the Secession Convention, Robert Jemison was born September 17, 1802, in Lincoln County, Georgia, and died in Tuscaloosa, October 17, 1871. The son of William and Sarah (Mims) Jemison, […]
PATRON + Diary Of Traveling To Alabama In Early 1800s – Part I
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Did you know the French occupied Alabama for sixty-five years?
This story is also an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) available at Amazon.com (continued below) FRENCH OCCUPATION OF ALABAMA (Excerpt from: The Great Southeast or Clarke County and its Surroundings, pub. 1882) For sixty-five years the French held the territory now included in Alabama. The population of […]
Battle of Horseshoe Bend Part I
This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) The last and decisive engagement between the Creek Indians and the United States forces under General Andrew Jackson was fought at Horseshoe Bend in what is now Tallapoosa County on March 27, 1814. For two months General Jackson had been increasing his forces and […]
1826 Frontier Evangelist, Henry Bryson – Part I
(Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980 ) Continued below FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON PART I Henry Bryson was born February 20, 1799, to Scotch Irish parents in Laurens District, South Carolina. He studied at Union Academy in Abbeville District, and in 1823 […]
PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Engraving Trades on Tombstones?
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Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British?
Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British? (Text continued below) Speculation in Muscle Shoals “In 1783, six North Carolinians formed a company for the purpose of establishing a colony at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. The company was composed of both easterners and frontiersmen, the […]
PATRON + Alabama Power Company – origins date back to experiments in Attalla
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PATRON + This mansion in North Alabama is steeped in Civil War history
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Col. Saunders built the haunted mansion, Rocky Hill Castle
Rocky Hill Castle was built by James Edmonds Saunders, the author of Early Settlers of Alabama, which was published by his granddaughter after his death. Ancestors Saunders was born May 7, 1806 in Brunswick County, Virginia. His ancestor, Edward Saunders, “Chirurgeon,” was already seated in Northumberland County, Virginia, in 1658; and, in 1669, as one […]
Refugees from Scotland traveled to the American Colonies before the Revolutionary War
(continued transcription from Alabama had a large population of settlers from Scotland in its founding days) THE HIGHLAND SCOTCH (sic) ELEMENT IN THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF ALABAMA By THOMAS CHALMERS McCORVEY, LL.D. (Transcribed from original (including misspellings) The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 01, No. 01, Spring Issue 1930) Refugee Highlanders leave for American Colonies III. The […]
PATRON + B. B. Comer Bridge was the only remaining bridge of original 15 toll bridges
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Some bios. (N-Z) of Alabama White men associated with Indian life
WHITE MEN ASSOCIATED WITH INDIAN LIFE By Thomas M. Owen (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol 13, Nos. 01, 02, 03, & 04, 1951) NICKS, ALVIS Q., lawyer and Creek Indian adviser, was born in Lincoln County, Tenn., and died in Texas. In 1833 he came to Alabama, when a young man, and settled […]