Hi! So I did a little research on a 1886 book I got out of a 4 story mansion in oswego, kansas. The book is called “strange stories from history for young people”. The author was George cary Eggleston. Jeremiah austill was also known as jere austill also cause that is what hes is called in this book, it has a photo of the “canoe fight”during the creek war of 1813-1814 in Clark county, Alabama. A picture of jere austill is 1 on the canoe the black slave at that time also kept the canoes together. You have to be so proud! War? Yes he is one who fought and succeed through this war wow. I have got into contact with the Alabama museum and a lady name donny causey.
Excellent, really enjoy the “first hand” stories such as this. He is not as colorful as Pickett but this is very informative. Thanks for putting this information out. Is it possible to get a copy of this autobiography in it’s entirety or of the magazine it was printed in? Via online or hard copy. Thank you.
I had Blount relatives in that area at about the same time. Any data regarding our early pioneers named Blount? Specifically, I’m looking for the parents of Solomon Blount, Sr., b 1828 -d 1902,
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Robert Tait Ervin was born in May, 1863, to Dr. Robert Hugh Ervin and Sarah Asbury Tait at Countryside, their home in Camden, AL . Dr. Ervin served in both houses of the Alabama legislature and was elected President Pro Tem of the state senate in 1872. His mother was Mary Ann Eades, sister to Margaret Eades Austill. Sarah Tait was the daughter of James Asbury Tait, a wealthy planter in Wilcox County, and the granddaughter of Charles Tait, the first Federal Court judge in Alabama and the Georgia senator who sponsored the Enabling Act that made Alabama a state.
Robert Tait Ervin was also a Federal Court judge, serving in the Southern District of Alabama from his appointment by Woodrow Wilson in 1917 until his death in 1949. His sister, Aurora Roberta, married Hurieosco Austill, son of Jeremiah Austill and Margaret Eades. In the 1900 Census, Judge Ervin and his wife, Frances Pybas, are shown as living with Judge Austill and his family.
Judge Ervin’s son, Robert Tait Ervin, Jr., was a state court judge in Mobile County from 1954 until 1969, after serving during WWII with the American Army in France, where he received the Bronze Star.
His grandson is my husband.
[…] night our sentinels were hailed by Jere Austill, they came and awoke Father, who went out immediately and let him in. He told Father that the Fort […]
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Hi! So I did a little research on a 1886 book I got out of a 4 story mansion in oswego, kansas. The book is called “strange stories from history for young people”. The author was George cary Eggleston. Jeremiah austill was also known as jere austill also cause that is what hes is called in this book, it has a photo of the “canoe fight”during the creek war of 1813-1814 in Clark county, Alabama. A picture of jere austill is 1 on the canoe the black slave at that time also kept the canoes together. You have to be so proud! War? Yes he is one who fought and succeed through this war wow. I have got into contact with the Alabama museum and a lady name donny causey.
Excellent, really enjoy the “first hand” stories such as this. He is not as colorful as Pickett but this is very informative. Thanks for putting this information out. Is it possible to get a copy of this autobiography in it’s entirety or of the magazine it was printed in? Via online or hard copy. Thank you.
Thanks Frank.
I had Blount relatives in that area at about the same time. Any data regarding our early pioneers named Blount? Specifically, I’m looking for the parents of Solomon Blount, Sr., b 1828 -d 1902,
Robert Tait Ervin was born in May, 1863, to Dr. Robert Hugh Ervin and Sarah Asbury Tait at Countryside, their home in Camden, AL . Dr. Ervin served in both houses of the Alabama legislature and was elected President Pro Tem of the state senate in 1872. His mother was Mary Ann Eades, sister to Margaret Eades Austill. Sarah Tait was the daughter of James Asbury Tait, a wealthy planter in Wilcox County, and the granddaughter of Charles Tait, the first Federal Court judge in Alabama and the Georgia senator who sponsored the Enabling Act that made Alabama a state.
Robert Tait Ervin was also a Federal Court judge, serving in the Southern District of Alabama from his appointment by Woodrow Wilson in 1917 until his death in 1949. His sister, Aurora Roberta, married Hurieosco Austill, son of Jeremiah Austill and Margaret Eades. In the 1900 Census, Judge Ervin and his wife, Frances Pybas, are shown as living with Judge Austill and his family.
Judge Ervin’s son, Robert Tait Ervin, Jr., was a state court judge in Mobile County from 1954 until 1969, after serving during WWII with the American Army in France, where he received the Bronze Star.
His grandson is my husband.
[…] night our sentinels were hailed by Jere Austill, they came and awoke Father, who went out immediately and let him in. He told Father that the Fort […]
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