(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jane 3, 1855) GOLD MINES OF ALABAMA (From the Tuscaloosa Monitor ca. 1855)…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXIX The location of the buildings used by the Confederate States during the…
Rotten Potatoes by Johnny Ponder My Momma said that she spent her entire childhood eating rotten potatoes. I’m not kidding. In East Texas everybody…
Happy Birthday! WILLIAM HARRISON BARNARD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1864-1949) Cherokee, Jefferson, and Talladega County, Alabama William Harrison Barnard, by reason of his connection with…
Happy Birthday! THOMAS VERDINE KNIGHT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1856-1948) Coosa & Talladega County, Alabama Thomas Verdine Knight, of Sylacauga, was a farmer and general…
Happy Birthday! GEORGE SHEPHERD HAM BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1839-1913) Talladega County, Alabama George Shepherd Ham was a respected and well-to-do farmer living near…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V GEORGE MARCUS CRUIKSHANK BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1852 Kentucky,…
Happy Birthday! JAMES CHESLEY HENDRICK BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1842-1914) Talladega County, Alabama James Chesley Hendrick, farmer, and justice of the peace of Oxford, Alabama,…
Happy Birthday! DR. GEORGE ARMSTRONG HILL, M. D. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1849-1911) Talladega County, Alabama One of the most prominent citizens of Talladega County,…
LEVI WELBOURNE LAWLER BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1816-1892) Madison, Shelby, Talladega Counties Levi Welbourne Lawler, business man, was born Oct. 4, 1816, in Madison County;…
ALABAMA MARBLE Giuseppe Moretti in 1901 with his model of Vulcan Alabama marble is among the highest quality stone in the world. The state's…
CHILDERSBURG, ALABAMA Childersburg, Alabama is an incorporated town, and was a station at junction of Central of Georgia Railroad and the Southern Railway, in…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Wellington Vandiver Chapter 3 Seventy-six years since Law came to the wilderness, and the county started merrily…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER V The place where court should be held was rather a problem for…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER IV The first volume of the minutes of the commissioners' court, Talladega county,…
Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 04 Winter Issue 1960 ALABAMA NOTES Made in 1883-1884 (During 1883 and 1884, Dr. Palmer,…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver Chapter 2 Much history is entombed in court house records. After these official legal…
A Simple Lesson to Learn by Johnny Ponder When I was a small kid I spent many weekends and summers at my Grandparent’s small…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! JOHN JAMES HUNTER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1857-aft. 1904) Dallas, Clarke, Elmore and Talladega County, Alabama and Florida John James Hunter, of Sylacauga,…
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) and FIRST FAMILIES OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, ALABAMA VOLUME…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer REV. J. P. BARTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1844 - aft. 1896) Talladega…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! NATHANIEL BROWN LINDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1822-1908) Talladega County, Alabama…
Click …/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer (biography continued below) Happy Birthday! WARREN RANDOLPH BELL BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1839-1908)…
Continued from Part III (This has been transcribed from The Alabama Historical QuarterlyThe Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, Nos. 03 & 04, Fall and…
JOHN WESLEY ALSTORK, D. D., LL. D. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1852-1920) Talladega and Montgomery County, Alabama John Wesley Alstork was a bishop…
THORNHILL OLD HOMES OF TALLADEGA COUNTY1 (KINGSTON, MT. IDA, SELWOOD, THORNHILL, ALPINE) BY MARY WELCH LEE (MRS. SCEARS LEE) "Thornhill, the last of the…
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Transcribed From Our Mountain Home (Talladega, Alabama) March 21, 1900 Lots of women save all their classic music for other…
MOUNT IDA County Road 11, Sylacauga, Talladega County, AL OLD HOMES OF TALLADEGA COUNTY1 (KINGSTON, MT. IDA, SELWOOD, THORNHILL, ALPINE) BY MARY WELCH LEE…
ORANGE VALE OLD HOMES OF TALLADEGA COUNTY1 (KINGSTON, MT. IDA, SELWOOD, THORNHILL, ALPINE) BY MARY WELCH LEE (MRS. SCEARS LEE) A few miles on…
Warning: This excerpt includes some vocabulary and harsh words that would not be used today. Please remember the times in which it was written.…
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