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Biography: William ‘Bill’ Traylor born April 1, 1854

Is this your ancestor? If you are an Alabama Pioneers Patron, you can Update and/or correct info in the Comments. JOIN US Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron – then share,connect with cousins, correct info and and preserve your ancestry through the comments!       WILLIAM “BILL” TRAYLOR Biography and Genealogy (1854-1949) Lowndes County, Alabama […]

Query: Eason family of Sand Mountain, Alabama

EASON FAMILY SAND MOUNTAIN by Dale Henson My great-grandmother, Celia Delwoth Eason (born 1848) moved to Sand Mountain, Alabama from Newton County, Georgia with her parents, Abraham Eason, Jr and Mary Granville, in 1857. They settled on a farm in the old “Sockfoot” area, now Hustleville near Short Creek. Her future husband, James Leonard Henson, […]

UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Madame Wooster cared for the sick in Birmingham & had a romance with John Wilkes Booth is honored at UAB

[The Lou Wooster Public Health Award at the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Public Health is presented annually by the University of Alabama School of Public Health to recognize individuals, groups, or organizations who are unconventional public health heroes. – This is who it is named after] LOUISE CATHERINE WOOSTER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY […]

Some Early Towns In The Territory of Alabama

Some Early Towns In Alabama This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) available at Amazon.com Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama Though, not a part of the United States until 1813, Mobile began as the first capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702. During its first 100 […]

The south is known for front porches, but Brantley, Alabama has been dubbed “the front porch capital of the south”

Brantley was established on 40 acres of property purchased from Thomas H. Wyatt by the Brantley Land Company. It was first called Sasserville, then Marcus and finally renamed Brantley after T. K. Brantley. Brantley, Alabama is 25 miles southwest of Troy, and about 10 miles south of Luvern in Crenshaw County, Alabama. Population in 1910—-803; […]

The Early Alabama Railroad Scandal Part I

“Willis Valley Railroad was charted in February 3, 1852 as a company to build a railroad from the point on the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad, at or near the farm of JAMES HAMPTON through the county of Dekalb and the Georgia line to intersect the Georgia and Tennessee Railroad at some convenient point in […]

BIOGRAPHY: Isaac Abercrombie born 1748

More information about Isaac Abercrombie can be found in the books A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES & GENEALOGIES VOLUME I and ISAAC ABERCROMBIE, ALABAMA PIONEER, Six Generations of Descendants ISAAC ABERCROMBIE Isaac Abercrombie was born in Scotland in 1748. He is first found in America in 1769 acquiring land in Laurens County, […]