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Gee’s Bend – vintage pictures of residents and the new health clinic in 1939
tuberculosis. Gee’s Bend, Alabama Juanita Coleman, NYA (National Youth Administration) leader and teacher, helps Sally Titus preserve some eggs. Through this activity the girl has bought some badly needed eyeglasses….
PATRON+ Battle of Horseshoe Bend Part I
Some stores include: Tecumseh Causes Earthquake Terrified Settlers Abandon Farms Survivor Stories From Fort Mims Massacre Hillabee Massacre Threat of Starvation Men Turn To Mutiny Red Eagle After The War…
Clarke County, Alabama girls were encouraged to teach school in 1880 as this interview reveals
had four sisters, Mary, Jessie, Anna, and Telula, four brothers, Sydney, Thomas, Lucius and Henry. (Continued below) Clarke County, Alabama Sometimes only three months of school When she was of…
Patron+ Many Native American Mounds in Counties in Alabama found in 1901
the “Alabama Stone.” (In Thomas Maxwell’s Tuscaloosa, (Alabama Historical Society), 1876, passim. Figures.) Indian graves on H. Wynn’s plantation. (In Transactions Alabama Historical Society, 1899-1900, vol. iv.) Indian camps on…
Biography: Mary Dickerson Pratt born Dec. 1800 Bibb County – photograph
married to Col. Absalom Pratt—whom she survived about thirty seven years. Shortly after her marriage she professed faith in Christ and attached herself to the Baptist Church and therein remained…
Patron+ Down the Alabama River in 1814 – Day five – August 15, 1814
Settlement ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Confrontation From the time of the discovery of America restless, resolute, brave, and adventurous men and women crossed oceans and the wilderness in pursuit…
Biography: Hopkins Pratt born Dec. 18, 1791 – photographs
1816. His brother, Absalom, came about a year later, and within a few years his parents and his brothers and sisters were all settled in Alabama. The family first bought…
Did you know that Native Americans introduced settlers to grits and eggs in the south?
Horseshoe Bend, Alabama Dr. Charles H. Fairbanks, associate professor of anthropology and archaeology said there were indications that the Indians placed the eggs in sofki, a hominy grits used widely…
What really caused the sinking of the Monmouth and killing of over 300 Indians?
such as the Mississippi, passing steamboats might not be able to avoid each other. Island chutes, sandbars, rapids and low water all could hinder navigation, especially when the boats had…
My Relatives are leaving me very fast – Civil War letters
sixty-four years old. Savannah was captured in December in Sherman’s “March to the Sea” and Columbus, Georgia was taken April 16, 1865 by James Wilson’s Cavalry which passed through Russell…
Patron+ Down the Alabama River in 1814 Day one
with the Indians, and only afterwards could there come pioneer white families of settlers. Tatum’s Journal shows the river just at this turning point. He passes future city sites without…
Barbour County – Creek Indian Nation occupied for many years – forced to evacuate after 1832
Hawkins. 1898-9—W. D. Jelks. 1899 (Spec.)—W. D. Jelks. 1900-1—W. D. Jelks. 1903—Elias Perry Thomas. 1907—Elias Perry Thomas. 1907 (Spec.)—Elias Perry Thomas. 1909 (Spec.)—Elias Perry Thomas. 1911 — Robert Moulthrop. 1915…
Do you have an ancestor who served in the War of 1812?
Dumas. SOURCES Manuscripts and clippings in the State department of archives and history; Octagon chapter, Mobile, Yearbooks, 1915-16, 1916-17. Start researching your family genealogy research in minutes…
PATRON+ Autaugaville Methodist Church began in a log structure in 1822
school and the fund lasted for several years.” (Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage Historic district) SOURCES Autauga County Heritage Association Official and Statistical Register, 1920, Msr. Department of Archives…
THROWBACK THURSDAY: The old swimming hole – there is nothing like it on a hot day
SEVIER, JAMES ROBERTSON, HARRISON NICHOLSON, JAMES MCCRORY, DAVID MURRAY, CHARLES LITTLETON, DAVID LINDSAY, EPHRAIM KIRBY, JOHN WADE KEYES, COL. JOSPEH HUGHES, SAMUEL TOWNSEND, JOHN TOWNSEND, HENRY TOWNSEND, and ANDREW TOWNSEND…
Biography: Joel Barton Lowery born March 6,1834
Those who have known him longest say his life was clean and his character blameless. He was a loyal friend to his pastor, and always deeply interested in the welfare…
Biography: Absalom Pratt born June 22, 1793 Bibb County, Alabama
His uniform consisted of a three-cornered blue hat, knee pantaloons, silk stockings and slippers. His sword is still in the possession of his descendants. Just before his death, Absalom Pratt…
Patron – August 4, 1894 – Newspaper Personals and Stories from Hope and Rhodesville, Lauderdale County, Alabama
all books and novels by Donna R. Causey WHERE DO I START? Hints and Tips for Beginning Genealogists with On-line resources includes 81 questions to ask your parents and grandparents…
Washington County…..where the State of Alabama began
to the Historical Society by the Masonic Lodge and has been restored and now serves as the St. Stephens Historical museum and visitors center. Old Courthouse at St. Stephens built…
Patron+ The Coosa River Crossing of British Refugees in 1781
Grierson (whose grandson was George Grayson of the later Indian Territory West of the Mississippi) was a friend of the McGillivrays who were Royalists. Grierson’s children were respected Alabamians as…
Patron+ Result of Yazoo Land Fraud, Swindlers & Alabama Fever
settlers in the face. ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Immigrants: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 5) ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Immigrants includes some lost & forgotten stories of their experiences such as: The Birth of…
First woman race car driver was killed in crash at Alabama State Fairgrounds in Birmingham
car went through the wall. She was injured in 1928 in Jackson, Miss., and last winter in Tampa, Fla. Mississippi.”3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-i1MbdkrvY 1 Kansas Racing History 2 Kansas Racing History…
Patron+ Down the Alabama River – Day Six on August 16, 1814
579. says that De Soto is believed to have crossed to the western side of the river just below Clinton, situated North of the mouth of this Creek. 3Hobb’s Island….
Is there a music muse in Muscle Shoals? Read this and decide for yourself [pictures & video]
series of extensive shoals, the Elk River Shoals, Big Muscle Shoals, Little Muscle Shoals, the Bee Tree and Colbert Shoals. Wilson Dam at Flood Stage with gates open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJT-U6SBUg What…
Patron – Death Notices from the Bibb Blade, Bibb County, Alabama in 1884
a long but pleasant month. His son, who left his bedside last Saturday, went to his home to be clasped in the strong arms of disease himself, and was consequently…
Patron+ Down the Alabama River in 1814 on August 14 – Day four
the Native Americans. Over the years, many of their stories have been lost and/or forgotten. This book (four-books-in-one) reveals the stories published in volumes I-IV of the Alabama Footprints series….
Biography: General Bartlett Smith born Jan. 23, 1792
original Baptists became known as “Primitive Baptists” or “Old School Baptist” (known in slang terms as “hardshell Baptists). The division of the two sects in the old Columbia Baptist Church…
Patron+ Shelby County, Alabama- the house with first glass windows is still standing
Georgia. Early settlers were in constant dread of attacks from marauding bands of Indians who made forays into the area and burned or stole the settlers possessions. Titles not granted…
Patron – Convicts of Alabama – State Penitentiary November 1846
their sheriffs to stage hangings in the public square. These festive spectacles attracted large crowds from miles around, eager for the entertainment atmosphere created by the settlement’s merchants. Floggings, branding,…