Scroll down to read story COLUMBIAN INSTITUTE By Levin Vinson Rosser1 of Carrollton (Transcribed article from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) The founder and principal of this Academy, (Ed.) Columbus Tarrant is supposed to have named it in honor of the great (faded) for whom he himself was named. Columbian Institute […]
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Forty-fourth Alabama Regiment – history written by a member in 1898
History of the 44th Alabama Regiment written by a member of the regiment in 1898. SCROLL DOWN TO READ STORY FORTY-FOURTH ALABAMA REGIMENT By James Jackson Garrett,1 of Birmingham Written in 1898 (Transcription from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) This regiment was organized at Selma, Ala., in March, 1862. Its field […]
PATRON – Bishop Divorce, new doctor and tax collector’s sales – Clarke County 1845
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PATRON – Local news from Town Creek, Alabama February 9, 1894
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PATRON – July 7, 1943 – Personals, events and stories about residents in Tuscaloosa News from 1943
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Confederate veterans – photographs of Admirals and Generals photographs found
While completing research for stories, I run across many photographs of people, (identified and unidentified) including the Confederate veterans below which may be of interest to descendants and researchers and post them on the website with any information recorded and links to the source. Sign up for our Daily Email of recent posts at the bottom of this page […]
PATRON – Two murders and personal matters were reported in news on June 30, 1930
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Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part V
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part V 1 John Cochran Barbour County Son of a farmer in Cocke County, Tennessee, John Cochran was born in the early part of the nineteenth century. After graduating from Greenville College, where he studied law, Cochran came to Jacksonville, Alabama, in 1835 to practice. Cochran […]
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention -Part II
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part II – 1 William Hodges Barnes Chambers County Upper left corner, William H. Barnes, Composite photograph at Alabama Department of Archives and History Son of Isaac and Ruth Barnes, William Hodges was born in Monroe County, Georgia, April 21, 1824, and died July 29, 1887, […]
Do you know which school [click to see films & pics] in Alabama still exists after four moves, two fires, the Civil War, and a name change?
Founded in 1833, on a farm near Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama. The College was first opened in 1833 as a manual labor institution as a result of the feeling of the Baptists that they needed an institution for the training of indigent young men who felt called to the ministry. Hale County, Alabama Six dormitories were […]
PATRON – A death and fight took place at the Battle House, in Mobile, Alabama in 1856
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Simpson Manuscript – It took 16 ballots before Montgomery, Alabama was declared the capital
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co., Montgomery, Ala,, Printers THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR REMOVAL At the election in the fall of 1845 the people voted on these propositions and they were carried. The total popular vote for […]
PATR0N – These genealogy queries from the 1930s may provide links for researchers
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PATRON – Native Americans, The McGillivrays, Weatherford, David Tate and Sam Moniac stories about them written in 1874
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PATRON + Amazing! Jeremiah Austill describes Andrew Jackson’s inauguration from personally being there
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PATRON – Here are the Governors of Alabama – the first hundred years
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PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Col. Jonathan Newton Smith (1814 – 1885) Bibb County, Alabama
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PATRON – Genealogy notes on DUNAWAY FAMILY of Perry, Marengo, Dallas & Wilcox Counties
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PATRON – Marengo County, Alabama – Some marriage records from 1818-1851
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PATRON – Carpenter killed, Auto mishap, Alabama football fans head to California
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PATRON – Alabama Marriage Notices from the 1852 South Western Baptist Newspaper
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PATRON – Genealogy queries published in 1940 might help with your family research
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PATRON + History of the Church of the Nativity, Episcopal, Huntsville, Alabama
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PATRON + This woman broke a glass ceiling in Alabama on December 5, 1919!
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PATRON + Presbyterian Church moved south to Alabama {old pics of the church built in 1853}
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Do you have Crawford ancestors in Alabama?
James Crawford, son of George Crawford was born March 10, 1789 in South Carolina. He married Nancy McCarter, the daughter of James and Nancy Davy McCarter. Nancy (1793-1872) was the daughter of James and Nancy Davy McCarter. James and Nancy left South Carolina sometime after their son James L. Crawford was born in 1813. They […]
PATRON – BIOGRAPHY: Thomas Carson McDonald born November 2, 1854 – photograph
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BIOGRAPHY: William E. W. Yerby born October 10, 1864 – photograph
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! WILLIAM E. W. YERBY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1864-1940) HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA William E. W. Yerby was born Oct. 10, 1864, at Greensboro, Hale county, Ala. His father was Miles Hassell Yerby, (1828 -1900) born at Tuscaloosa, Ala., who was engaged in teaching for fifty years at Greensboro. He was a fine scholar, a […]
Personal info from vintage Alabama newspapers
ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III As I conducted research for interesting stories to publish and/or post on my www.alabamapioneers.com website, I continually found buried genealogy information, such as marriages, deaths, etc. that I knew would be of great benefit to family researchers, but it was hidden so well that most search engines would not find […]
PATRON + BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Nathan Hubert Abernethy was born September 29, 1882
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