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PATRON – News from Lowndes County 1871 lists two deaths in Alabama

ALABAMA NEWS (Transcribed from The Citizen-Examiner (Hayneville, Alabama) May 31, 1871 The boiler in the steam mill of Messrs. G. Lynch & Co., near…

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PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Bennett purchased a large part of Tuscumbia, Alabama from profits by betting on a game of thimbles

Bennett, the Magician (Lawrence County, Alabama) by Col. Edmond Saunders written ca. 1890s There was, however, in early times, a man called Dr. Bennett,…

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PATRON + Anne Newport Royall – in 1818 she was one of America’s 1st newspaperwomen & relied on Masonic connections to fund her travels

Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler and writer and was one of the first newspaperwomen. At the…