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)…
FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980) PART…
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…
Patron – Murderer captured in Shelby County in 1851 (Extract from Anti-Secession Banner, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama June 24, 1851) TEXAS LANDS – A…
Patron+ member story MEXICAN WAR REMINISCENCES Part I By Judge Zo. S. Cook (These several contributions cover the period of February to April 1897,…
Happy Birthday! JUDGE HEUSTIS BARNETT ABERNETHY Biography and Genealogy (1872-1944) Wilcox and Jefferson County, Alabama Judge Heustis Barnett Abernethy was born December 11, 1872,…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART IV By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth This community had an open range. Everybody turning…
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, (BOYKIN), WILCOX COUNTY, ALABAMA Gee's Bend was originally named for Joseph Gee, an early large land owner from Halifax County, North Carolina…
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…
The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the…
Happy Birthday! DAVID LEONIDAS WILKINSON, M. D. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1872-1962) Autauga, Butler and Wilcox County, Alabama Dr. David Leonidas Wilkinson was physician…
Patron Member story This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume II or click Become a Patron and learn how to…
There are many historic houses and buildings in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama. Camden is an incorporated town and county seat of Wilcox County, situated…
AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART III By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth We had Sunday School one Sunday a month…
Patron member story - This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume II If this story is not…
Photographs of the historic Franklin King Beck home in 1936, 1937 and today Alex Bush, Photographer, January 7, 1937 FRONT (SOUTH) - Franklin King…
Ordered to meet on the Cahaba In February 1814, Colonel Russell marched his regiment and two companies of volunteers, from Fort Claiborne to the…
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…
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…
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