Photograph of Gordon's School in 1897 - "Eight teachers employed. Average attendance of pupils - 400." Names of school children in Gordon School that…
Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. The…
PATRON + Tuscumbia, Alabama – History of the Town – Part V (Transcribed from Sheffield Daily Enterprise, Sheffield, Alabama November 23, 1890 TUSCUMBIA A…
May 17, 1836, Sumter County, Alabama PERSONALS Newspaper extracts from Voice of Sumter, Livingston, Alabama We are authorized to announce John Rains Esquire of…
Multiple wives burial presented problems A man had two wives buried in one grave in England; and after recording their several virtues, the Epitaph…
Note: I discovered this article in a newspaper but could not find any more about this tragic death. Please comment below if you can…
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This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. III along with several other Abercrombie families in…
(1930s Photograph of the Bandstand(Alabama Writers Project, ADAH) News clippings from the Sumter County Journal, York, Alabama January 5, 1923) Whitfield was once a…
Continued from Part III (Albert James Pickett has been given the title of the first historian in the State of Alabama. Col. Michael Leonard…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII GEORGE GRANBERRY MILES BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1853-1912) Birmingham…
PATRON + Tuscumbia, Alabama – History of the Town – Part IV (Transcribed from Sheffield Daily Enterprise, Sheffield, Alabama November 23, 1890 (Photograph Mules…
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable & Some Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol VII in EBook, Paperback & Hardcover format CHARLES…
PERSONAL NEWS CLIPPINGS FROM SHORTS & EMELLE SUMTER COUNTY JOURNAL, YORK, ALABAMA JANUARY 23, 1923 ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume I - IV Paperback Get the…
(Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMAby John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996 DOCTORS…
Continued from Part II (Albert James Pickett has been given the title of the first historian in the State of Alabama. Col. Michael Leonard…
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II AND More on Samuel Wright Mardis and his family…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII JOHN 'JACK' GADDIS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1796-1868) Coosa…
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE STORY HOUSEHOLD HINTS FROM 1887 A stiff paste of glycerine and red lead will be found useful in making a…
This article should be interesting to deer hunters, but others, sensitive to hunting, should be aware that it is quite graphic. HOW TO SAVE…
Personals in the Sumter County Journal, York County, Alabama from Jan. 5, 1923 reveal much about the people and "motor trips." Get the Daily…
NEWSPAPERS IN EARLY GREENSBORO, ALABAMA1 (Story Published in 1908) The Halcyon As early as 1824, and presumably earlier, there was a newspaper published in…
THE SINKING OF THE ALABAMA By ALFRED IVERSON BRANHAM (Interview was conducted about 1885 in Sunny Side, Georgia and printed in the Atlanta Constitution…
PATRON + Tuscumbia, Alabama – History of the Town – Part III (Transcribed from Sheffield Daily Enterprise, Sheffield, Alabama November 23, 1890 TUSCUMBIA A…
Taking the Census (Excerpt from Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs: Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches (Library…
THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE by Inez McCollum My husband was quite an athlete; who enjoyed all sports. He grew up in the hills of…
(From The Evening Post (New York, New York) August 21, 1817) Much valuable information to emigrants and others, is contained in the following letter…
"In 1822, Mr. Edward Davis purchased Job and brought him to old Jonesboro, in Jefferson County, Alabama, to be his slave. Mr. Davis lived…
EARLY LOWNDES COUNTY, ALABAMA Lowndes County was inhabited by the Alibamo Indians, whose chief town was Ikanatchaka, or Holy Ground. It was at that…
(Albert James Pickett has been given the title of the first historian in the State of Alabama. Col. Michael Leonard Woods was his son-in-law.…
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