The Alabama Territory Through An 1819 Visitor's Eyes Justus Wyman, the author of this description of Alabama, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, September 16,…
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MAJOR SAMUEL M. TATE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1817 – 1892) Jefferson County, Alabama Major Samuel M. Tate was born in Middle Tennessee in 1817.…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! LOUIS WEISS WYETH BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1812-1889) By…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Confrontation: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 4) Tecumseh Causes Earthquake The Native American Chief Tecumseh arrived in Alabama in 1811…
(Imagine what it was like traversing Alabama alone when it was a wilderness. You can hear the tension in Richard Breckenridge's words as he…
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…
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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…
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