Author: Donna R Causey

Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey
Patron Past Stories

PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Preserving pickles from scum from 1868

Transcribed from The Shelby Guide, Columbiana, Alabama May 7, 1868 PRESERVING PICKLES FROM SCUM A Correspondent of the Rural New Yorker gives the following:…

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PATRON – December 14, 1901 – Tuscaloosa elephant piano Montevallo murder, Bank runner missing, and Lawrence Co. murder, and more

(Transcribed extracts from The Silent Eye, Avondale, Jefferson County, Alabama December 14, 1901) MONTEVALLO MURDER Walter S. Cary, attorney, was shot and killed Friday…

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PATRON + In 1918, Surgeon General said flu epidemic over, while statistics reported increase death rate

(Transcribed from The Weekly Herald (Wetumpka, Alabama, December12, 1918) STATISTICS SHOW INCREASED MORTALITY FROM INFLUENZA Notwithstanding the newspaper quotations from Surgeon General Blue to…

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PATRON – These Evergreen Cemetery Inscriptions Before 1942 included many famous people in early Alabama

 These inscriptions and more can be found in the book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IV Evergreen Cemetery Inscriptions Before 1942 HISTORIC EVERGREEN CEMETERY, TUSCALOOSA,…

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PATRON – Crouch-Walker wedding, former residents and Bible class were in the news on February 6, 1909

(Excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) APPROACHING MARRIAGE The following invitations have been received by the many friends of Miss…