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Excerpt from The story of coal and iron in Alabama by Ethel Armes, Pub. under auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, 1910
John R. Gamble
John R. Gamble was the son of an Irish soldier of the Revolution, Robert Gamble, who was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. J. R. Gamble, mustered out of Jackson’s army shortly after Weatherford’s surrender, settled later in the wilds of Shelby County near what is Calera today, and married there.
Shelby County, Alabama
When the place began to show signs of settlement, he struck out for more woods. He took his family and household goods in a wagon across country up into what became Walker County.
Walker County, Alabama
His son, Franklin Asbury Gamble, became, in time, county administrator, and later, judge of the Probate Court. He saw war service for the Confederacy and was the originator of the Jasper Land Company and stockholder and director in that concern and he originally owned the coal properties known to-day as the Gamble mines, operated by Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. Mathias Turner’s son, James, became associated a generation later in the coal business of Walker County with Captain F. A. Musgrove.
John Hanby and Joseph Posey
As to those others of Jackson’s fighting crew: Glidden’s record has been detailed in relation to the St. Stephens work. John Hanby and Joseph Posey settled in the hill country near the locality known today (1910) as Blount Springs and Mount Pinson, where they put up blacksmith shops.
Hanby was by birth a Virginian, born in Henry County, 1774, and was brought up to follow the machinist’s trade. Early in the century, he emigrated, as so many Virginians did, to Fayetteville, Tennessee, and on Jackson’s call for men in 1812, enlisted. There was a Gabriel Hanby elected delegate from the county of Blount to the Constitutional Convention at Huntsville in 1819.
Blount County, Alabama
John Hanby following his trade right along, made what the young country needed and called for most at that time: knives, rifles, guns, and pistols, and brought up his sons to the business. He prospected around considerably and found a pocket of brown ore in the neighborhood of Oneonta.
This rich find was years later acquired by Major Tom Peters, and sold by him to Henry F. De Bardeleben and Colonel Sloss, and named Champion, It was worked under contract for several years by J. W. Worthington and Company. It is still owned by the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company and Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. Further operations of the Hanby family in the early coal mining done in the Warrior field are recorded in another chapter. The present (1910) superintendent of the Sloss Mines at Bessemer is Captain John David Hanby, great-grandson of the old machinist of Blount County.
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Excerpt from The story of coal and iron in Alabama by Ethel Armes, Pub. under auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, 1910
Shelby County Alabama Pioneers Volume I
This is Volume I of a series of Shelby County pioneers. Soldiers under General Jackson and after the battle of Horseshoe Bend, were sent up the Cahawba River to search for the remaining “Red Sticks” and traveled through Shelby County, Alabama. When they returned to Tennessee and Kentucky, they decided to bring their families to the newly opened territory, traveling mostly by pack-horse. Several of these soldiers settled in the area around Shelby county, Alabama.
The biographies included in this book are only a few of the settlers who arrived in Shelby County in the early days. Many of the families came to Alabama from North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia in groups and often intermarried. The following biographies and genealogy reports reveal some of the intertwining relationships between the families.
Descendants of these pioneers traveled further west into Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and even as far as California seeking more land and opportunities. This Volume reveals the relationships between the ACTONS, BAILEYS, CLOWER, CROWSON, LEES, NABORS, NELSON, ROBERTSON, and WILSON families. Notes, and sources are included. Genealogy reports with all supporting evidence, wills, and deeds when available are included. Many of these families descendants moved to Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas
The family GEDCOM reports can be found in the Alabama Pioneers Library on the website www.alabamapioneers.com. Surnames found in this book include the following: ACTON, ALEXANDER, ALLEN, ALLGOOD, ASHMORE, AVERY, AYETTOTT, AYLETT, BAILEY, BAINS, BAKER, BALCH, BANDY, BARHAM, BARNETT, BARRONS, BASS, BEALER, BEARDEN, BELL, BEMAN, BENGE, BENTON, BEVILL, BILLINGSLEA, BISHOP, BLANTON, BLEDSOE, BLEVINS, BLOUNT, BOOTHE, BOYD, BOYLE, BRAGG, BRASHER, BRIELAND, BRINKER, BRATTON, BRITTON, BROWN, BRYAN, BULLOCK, BURNETT, BURROW, BUTLER, BYARS, BYNUM, BYRUM, CAHILL, CALDWELL, CARPENTER, CARTER, CASEY, CLAYTON, CLEVELAND, CLIETT, CLOWAR, CLOWER, COHEN, CORLEY, CRAIG, CRAWFORD, CROCKETT, CROSS, CROWSON, DANIEL, DAVIS, DEAN, DESHAZO, DICKENSON, DILBANE, DOLLAR, DUKE, ELLIOTT, ELLIS, EDGE, ESSMAN, ESTILL, FANNIN, FARLEY, FARR, FAVRE, FERRELL, FINNEY, FLOURNOY, FOUST, FRASER, FREEZE, FROST, FULTON, GAILEY, GARRETT, GIBSON, GLIDEWELL, GODDEN, GODWIN, GOODGAME, GOODSON, GREEN, GRIFFIN, GRIFFITH, GRIGGS, GRIMMETT, GULLAHORE, GULLEHORN, HAFNER, HAGIN, HAIL, HALE, HAMILTON, HANNAH, HANEY, HANSARD, HARDIN, HARKINS, HARLESS, HARRIS, HARRISON, HAYES, HAZARD, HEARNE, HESTER, HICKS, HILL, HODGES, HOLBROOK, HOLLINGSWORTH, HORTON, HOWARD, HUDSON, HUTCHINSON, JOHNSON, JONES, KIDD, KIERDON, KNOWLES, LALADY, LANIER, LAVINSKY, LAWLER, LEATHERWOOD, LEE, LEEPER, LEONARD, LINDSAY, LINDSEY, LOFTIN,LOONEY, LOVELADY, MAHAN, MARDIS, MARLOW, MARONEY, MASKE, MASON, MATHEWS, MATTHEWS, MAXWELL, MCCAIN, MCCLINTON, MCCRAFT, MCGOWAN, MCLANAHAN, MCLEOD, MCLEROY, MCMAHON, MCNAIR, MCNEAR, MCNEELY, MCNEER, MCPHERSON, MEREDITH, MERONEY, MERRELL, MILES, MILLER, MILLS, MILSTEAD, MITCHELL, MOORE, MORGAN, MORRIS, MOSTELLER, MOWDEY, MUNDINE, MURPHY, MURRY, MUSE, MYRICK, NABORS, NAISH, NEAL, NELSON, NEWMAN, NIVENS, NORTH, NUNNALLY, OLDHAM, ORR, OZLEY, PARKER, PARKS, PATTON, PAYNE, PEARSON, PERRY, PERSON, PETERS, PITNER, POINTER, POWERS, PRENTICE, QUINN, RANDALL, RASBERRY, REED, REEVES, REID, ROBERTS, ROBERTSON, ROGERS, ROY, RUSHING, SAWYER, SAUNDERS, SEALE, SEARS, SHACKELFORD, SHAW, SHERROD, SHULER, SIMS, SKELTON, SLATON, SMITH, SPARROW, ST. JOHN, STARRS, STERRETT, STEWART, STONECYPHER, STORRS, STREET, STRIPLING, STROUD, SWIFT, TAYLOR, TEAGUE, THOMPSON, TOWNLEY, TRUELL, TUCKER, TURNER, VANDERBILT, WALDROP, WALLACE, WALKER, WARD, WARE, WASHINGTON, WATKINS, WATSON, WATROUS, WEAR, WEEKS, WELLS, WEST, WHARTON, WHITE, WIGGINS, WILLIAMS, WILLINGHAM, WILSON, WISEMAN, WOOLLEY, WRAGG, WRIGHT, YERBY, YONGUE, YOUNG
Thanks for this article – Joseph H. Posey was my 4xGG Grandfather. His ca 1840 home still stands in Village Springs. I am grateful to find this book which mentions him a few times. His grandson Montezuma Posey, my GG Grandfather, would later become the Blount County Surveyor. I have often wonder where he learned this trade. I’d love to learn more – if you ever run across anything!