Tag: ELMORE COUNTY

PATRON + Schools closed in December 1918 when the Spanish flu was raging in Elmore Co., Alabama

December 12, 2020 November 22, 2020by Donna R Causey

INFLUENZA SITUATION GRAVE (Transcribed from The Weekly Herald (Wetumpka, Alabama, December 12, 1918) The spread of Influenza in our town and county is becoming…

Alabama Pioneers Honored

BIOGRAPHY: Rev. George Evans Brewer October 31, 1832 – photograph

October 31, 2020 November 12, 2021by Donna R Causey

REV. GEORGE EVANS BREWER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1832-1922) Elmore, Coosa County, Alabama Rev. George Evans Brewer was born near Covington, Newton County, Ga., October…

Patron Past Stories

PATRON + A relic of DeSoto’s visit in 1540 was found on the riverbank in Elmore County, Alabama

October 10, 2020 July 22, 2020by Donna R Causey

(Transcribed from The Wetumpka Herald, Wetumpka, Alabama, May 1, 1947) HISTORY OF WETUMPKA DeSoto and his followers were the first white men of whom…