Many places in Alabama have Revolutionary historical markers thanks to these ladies
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[…] [This is Ethel Fowlkes Toner, daughter of Minnie Kent Fowlkes (Mrs. Edward T., Jr.). Minnie was an artist, and founding member of the Alabama Chapter of the Colonial Dames.] […]
Is there a way to get a list of the 224 names? I know in the 1970’s my grandmother was a member of DAR & Daughters of the Confederacy.
You might check with the Alabama Department of Archives and History http://archives.state.al.us/
They probably can advise you how to get a list.
We have the family roots traced to 1759 in Virginia. Two of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution
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Steve Muller
Do not tell folks, they will come and remove…lawd
LOVE your blog, but I wanted to share with you a fact which occurred with regard to one of the honors they paid to a Revolutionary War Veteran who did NOT ever live in Alabama. It has caused worlds of errors too! They erected a monument for a Revolutionary War Veteran named James Morton……..only it was placed in error in Blount County and the Alabama Genealogical Society President, Jerry Jones, filed a complaint about it in the courthouse. The only James Morton who lived and died in Blount County Alabama was James Morton, the son of Marshall Morton of Orange NC. While Jerry Jones successfully proved that they had placed the monument without any genealogical proof and the county was able to prevent any further errors of placement within the boundary of county, they did not EVER remove their error because the cost would have been more than the placement of it. And so there still occurs now and then a Morton researcher or two, normally one from out of state, who will assume that a Revolutionary War Veteran named James Morton was buried in Blount County Alabama. No such documentation exists and Morton descendants have always known this to be the fact.