Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) When Little Warrior was killed, the letter he was carrying from the British at Malden to…
Legend states that during the year 1862 when the Civil War was being fought, many people buried their gold for safekeeping in Shipp's Pond. …
Happy Birthday! COL. WILLIAM BARRETT TRAVIS (Hero of the Alamo) BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1809-1836) Claiborne and Conecuh County, Alabama & Texas William Barrett…
Happy Birthday! DR. ANDREW JAY, Jr. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1851-1903) Conecuh County, Alabama Dr. Andrew Jay, Jr. of Evergreen, Alabama was born at Jay…
Wilson Ashley Biography and Genealogy (1796 – 1866) Conecuh County, Alabama Captain Wilson Ashley, planter, was among the most useful of Conecuh's sons. He…
DR. JOHN WATKINS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1775-1854) (transcribed from History of Conecuh County, Alabama: Embracing a detailed record of events...pub. 1881) By Benjamin Franklin…
BROOKLYN, CONECUH COUNTY, ALABAMA Brooklyn is a town that was large enough to have a post office and in 2010 was one of only 2…
First highways in Alabama were only beaten trails and sometimes travelers became entangled in vegetation as the two men did. Conecuh County was initially…
Our Alabama pioneers had to struggle to put a meal on the table in the early days. (The following transcription is from History of…
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…
Conecuh County Early Days by Rev. B. F. Riley In the latter part of 1815, the first permanent settlement, by the whites, was made…
Conecuh Country was originally a part of the Creek Indian lands, ceded by the treaty of August 9, 1814. Its territory was later reduced…
(transcribed (with misspellings etc., from History of Conecuh County, Alabama: Embracing a detailed record of events...pub. by Benjamin Franklin Rilery 1881) Early Bellville Settlement…
OLD BIGGS SETTLEMENT CEMETERY by Sherry S. Johnston As I walked among the gravestones in the old Biggs Settlement Cemetery, there were many names…
Happy Birthday! W. LAWRENCE WILD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1874-aft. 1940) Conecuh County, Alabama W. Lawrence Wild, of the firm of Wild Brothers, merchants of…
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