Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer THOMAS ADAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1810 SC – d. ?) Talladega…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer BOLLING HALL, JR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1813-1897) Autauga and Elmore County, Alabama…
The fifth volume of our popular Alabama Footprints series IMMIGRANTS covers the Great Migration into Alabama. Dramatic stories of the challenges and struggles people faced…
NEIL S. GRAHAM BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818 – 1886) Coosa County, Alabama. (Excerpt from History of Coosa County: by the Rev. George Evans Brewer,…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband, was an early pioneer of Alabama. In…
Patron+ Edwin D. King, founder of Howard College, kept a small country tavern on side of the road Patron+ Member Story THE HISTORY OF…
Happy Birthday! EDMUND ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1816-1885) Dallas County, Alabama Edmund Anderson was a Presbyterian minister. He was born on Feb. 20, 1816,…
Happy Birthday! DR. JOSEPH RILEY SMITH BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1905) Jefferson County, Alabama Dr. Joseph Riley Smith, Sr., of Elyton, Alabama, was born Feb.…
Relationship with the Indians The relations of the settlers of Cherokee County with the Cherokees in the country were very friendly. Many of the…
Happy Birthday! JOSEPH GLOVER BALDWIN GENEALOGY and BIOGRAPHY (1815 – 1864) Sumter County, Alabama Joseph Baldwin was a Virginian, born January 21, 1815 in…
Happy Birthday! ANDREW BARNWELL MILEY, SR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1896) Covington County, Alabama Andrew Barnwell Miley was born January 20, 1818, in Barnwell, Barnwell…
Ghost town of Blakeley, Alabama On April 9, 1865, at 5:30 p.m, following an eight-day siege, the Battle of Blakeley was fought near Mobile,…
Clarke County is a very early county in Alabama, existing since 1812. The Mathews Cabin was built in the 1830s by pioneers Josiah and Lucy…
This Patron+ -member story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants The War of 1812 confirmed the separate existence of the…
Excerpts from the History of Coosa County, Alabama Chapter One By Rev. George E. Brewer (transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No.…
Happy Birthday! JAMES ROBERT POWELL "DUKE OF BIRMINGHAM" BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814 -1883) by John Witherspoon DuBose The year 1818, before Alabama had been…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM SWEARINGEN MUDD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1816 – 1884) Jefferson County, Alabama William Swearingen Mudd was a lawyer, legislator, and circuit judge…
Patron+ member story – Click …/ Join our Alabama Patron community to unlock this story and support the creation of a living and true history of Alabama! SAMUEL…
Happy Birthday! BENJAMIN PINCKNEY WORTHINGTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814 – 1884) Jefferson County, Alabama Benjamin Pinckney "Pink" Worthington was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on…
(Alabama's Daniel Boone settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at…
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Have you ever noticed this marker near Wetumpka, Alabama? It was the originally the seat of justice for Montgomery County, Alabama. The County seat…
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO: Gov. William Wyatt Bibb wrote this message to the Legislature of the Alabama Territory. Scroll down for this Patron+ member…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (Richard Breckenridge wrote a diary when he made a trip to survey his future home site in Alabama in 1816. Excerpts from…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! HENLEY GRAHAM SNEAD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1814-1906) BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA Captain Henley Graham Snead was born October 27, 1814, Richmond County, North…
Big Spring Park in Huntsville, Alabama is named after a large, underground karst spring, referred to by the indigenous Cherokee and Chickasaw as "the…
[This transcription is from a book written ca. 1870 and includes many places of "Indian towns in Coosa County" and names of people who…
Patron+ member story - Click …/ to see how to Become a Patron and unlock this story now. CONECUH COUNTY, ALABAMA EARLY DIFFICULTIES By Benjamin Franklin Riley…
Indians were to be removed voluntarily By the terms of the treaty (Fort Jackson 1814 - Creek Indian War) the Indians were not to…
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