Photographs of the historic Franklin King Beck home in 1936, 1937 and today Alex Bush, Photographer, January 7, 1937 FRONT (SOUTH) - Franklin King…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART IV By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth This community had an open range. Everybody turning…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) SUNNY SOUTH Sunny South is an unincorporated community…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI Table of Contents…
JUDGE JULIUS EUGENE ALFORD BIOGRAHY and GENEALOGY (1872 – 1910) Wilcox County, Alabama Julius Eugene Alford was born at Canton Bend, Wilcox County, Ala.,…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume XI Table of ContentsIntroductionCORDOVA…
(Copied exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 3 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK! JUDGE…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) The Progressive Era commences this week, the publication…
FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980) PART…
Happy Birthday! DAVID LEONIDAS WILKINSON, M. D. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1872-1962) Autauga, Butler and Wilcox County, Alabama Dr. David Leonidas Wilkinson was physician…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) The Progressive Era commences this week, the publication…
(Extract from Anti-Secession Banner, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama June 24, 1851) TEXAS LANDS – A letter before us from a public officer says that…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) Miss Pauline White visited Selma the past week.…
During 1937, the Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt's New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) The Progressive Era commences this week, the publication…
The Pettway family held the land of Gee's Bend until 1895 when they sold to it Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff, an attorney from…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume II- Scroll to bottom to see Table of Contents of…
MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part I By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April 1897, and were…
- This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume II DUNAWAY FAMILY of Perry, Marengo, Dallas & Wilcox…
Happy Birthday! Marvin Malley Champion Biography and Genealogy (1909- 1992) Wilcox County, Alabama Marvin Malley Champion was born August 9, 1909 in Sunny South…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT Wilcox County, Alabama PART I by Marvin Malley Champion (submitted by his Jean Champion Butterworth) Many years have gone…
Click to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! LEON G. JONES BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1865-aft. 1904)…
THOMAS BIVIN CREAGH BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1788-Feb. 1842) Ireland, Virginia, Wilcox County, Alabama (Copyrighted excerpt from The Grand Masters of Free & Accepted Masons of…
Ordered to meet on the Cahaba In February 1814, Colonel Russell marched his regiment and two companies of volunteers, from Fort Claiborne to the…
GEE'S BEND, (BOYKIN), WILCOX COUNTY, ALABAMA Gee's Bend was originally named for Joseph Gee, an early large land owner from Halifax County, North Carolina…
REV. MAURICE M. ARCHER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1858- aft. 1896) Wilcox and Lee County, Alabama Rev. Maurice M. Archer, son of Mr. A. and Mrs.…
Gee's Bend in Wilcox County, Alabama was originally a Plantation. "The plantation was started by Joseph Gee and passed to his nephews Sterling and Charles…
In 1937, the Van de Graaff family sold their land in Wilcox County, Alabama to the federal government, and the Farm Security Administration (FSA)…
In 1937, the United States Government Resettlement Program purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in Wilcox County, Alabama and divided the land, then…
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