During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
Ads provide family research clues - Transcribed advertisements are from Autauga Mercury, Autaugaville, Alabama, October 5, 1853 – Note: This paper is very…
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA CHAPTER FIVE by By HON. E. A. POWELL John C. Kirkland was a farmer of strong native sense, and…
A death and List of Letters remaining in the P. O. at Autaugaville on Tuesday, October 4, 1853 (Transcribed from Autauga Mercury, Autaugaville, Alabama)…
A LETTER FROM AUBURN Correspondence of the Republican Written 1859 Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02, Summer Issue 1956. Mr.…
Yankee holiday Thanksgiving was not observed as a holiday in Alabama until 1858 when the governors of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and North and South…
PEYTON G. BOWMAN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1854 – 1916) Jefferson County, Alabama Peyton G. Bowman was an attorney at law in Birmingham, Alabama. He…
Patron – Personal and local news from around Jones Valley and Elyton April 1, 1854 (Excerpt Transcribed from The Jones Valley Times (Elyton, Alabama)…
"The Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company dates back to 1836, the year the Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance was established." The company…
[This historical letter tells the story of the yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama in 1853 as they tried to determine how it started.…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jan 3, 1855) DAGUERREOTYPE LIKENESSES M. BRAUNE, Daguerreotype Artist, has lately arrived in Carrollton…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) MASONIC CELEBRATION CARROLLTON LODGE NO. 214, celebrated the 27th of December…
Click to learn how to Become a Patron! 1851 ALABAMA DEATH NOTICES FROM SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST NEWSPAPER (These records were recorded in Marion and Perry…
This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume IV SOME ALABAMA MARRIAGE NOTICES FROM 1850 SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST NEWSPAPER…
Happy Birthday! THOMAS CHALMERS McCorvey BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1852 - 1932) Monroe and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Colonel T. C. McCorvey was born in Monroe…
The following article is an excerpt from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 01, Spring Issue 1946 that describes some historic sites and ghost…
(Transcribed extracts from Autauga Mercury, Autaugaville, Alabama, October 5, 1853 – Note: This paper is very faded an hard to read) ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE LETTERS…
On October 5, 1853, Autaugaville citizens were planning to elect Officers for their town (Transcribed extracts from Autauga Mercury, Autaugaville, Alabama, October 5,…
Incidents of the early settlement of Jones Valley, Alabama --- written in 1854 by about Davy Crockett's cousin Williamson Hawkins who settled in Alabama…
HAMPTON HARMON COSPER and his move from Alabama to Texas By Quillie Pugh Caskey Hampton Harmon Cosper married Eliza Caroline Smith. This union was…
Some Divorce, Marriage and Adoption Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Alabama By Alabama 1851-1852 ( transcriptions) [No. 84.] AN ACT…
Alabama Marriage Notices From 1850 Newspaper! This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV- Scroll to bottom…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VIII- Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
This photograph from the Alabama Department of Archives in History states that this is a John Whitfield of the same period of time. It describes…
ALABAMA ITEMS (Local news transcribed from Memphis Daily Appeal., August 08, 1858) The Poslmaster-General has established Post Offices at the following places in Hillaber…
NOTES FOUND ON THE 1850 CENSUS OF PERRY COUNTY, ALABAMA J. Hugh LeBaron 100 South Rosebud Lane Starkville, MS 39759 [email protected] 1 JOHN LOCKHART…
(This was published in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL Fall 1985) BRIERFIELD LETTER The following letter was written by Robert L. McCalley to a Huntsville newspaper…
Alabama Marriage Notices from the 1852 South Western Baptist Newspaper 2-4-1852 Married on the 14th inst., by the REV. A. VANHOOSE of Aberdeen, Mississippi,…
THE AUBURN MALE COLLEGE LAYING THE CORNERSTONE ITS ORGANIZATION Auburn, Ala., August 18, 1857 Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
The Dawson-Vaughan House in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama was the home of Elodie (Todd) Dawson, Abraham Lincoln's half sister-in-law, Elodie Breck Todd was the daughter…
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