CARROLL HENDERSON FLOREY, A. B. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1860-1932) Shelby County, Alabama Professor Carroll Henderson Florey, A. B., was born June 2, 1860, in…
JOHN T. ADAMS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1833- 1906) Talladega County, Alabama John T. Adams, was a senior member of the firm of John T.…
This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume I BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM FLANK PERRY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY(1823 -…
This biography can be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume V REV. ISAAC WASHINGTON WILKES Biography and Genealogy (1822-1894) Dale,…
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,…
ELISHA DAVID ACKER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1861-1949) Talladega, Cherokee County, Alabama Elisha David Acker, a lawyer, was born February 14, 1861, at Lincoln, Talladega…
GEORGE WASHINGTON WALLIS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1841-1921) Shelby and Talladega county, Alabama George Washington Wallis was a leading agriculturist, residing on his farm in…
Happy Birthday! ROBERT BLATCHER CAUDLE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1842-1913) Jefferson and Talladega County, Alabama Robert Blatcher Caudle was an agriculturist in the southern part…
Photograph Mardis-House-U.S.-Highway-231-Talladega Alex-Bush-Photographer-February-4-1937 (Library of Congress) PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XIII Probably it will be a matter…
On November 30, 1954, a historic event occurred in Alabama when a meteor appeared in the Alabama sky in the morning and was seen…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
[Many people in the Sylacauga area around the time of WWII can probably relate to this story.] As told to Donna R. Causey by Pearl…
(Transcribed and unedited WPA Life story) SCROLL DOWN TO CONTINUE . . . CHARLES H. GREER 9012 CHURCH STREET VETERAN NEWSPAPER MAN Sylacauga, Talladega…
ONE MORE DEAD DESPERADO - News from Talladega 1890 (Transcribed from The Weekly Advertiser Montgomery, Alabama Nov. 6, 1890) ONE MORE DEAD DESPERADO Talladega…
Leroy the Rooster Made his escape in Talladega by Johnny Ponder Back in the late '50s we lived on South Street in Talladega. Momma…
(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…
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…
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