Tag: GENEALOGY

Patron Past Stories

Blocton Dots – “He was persuaded to do the shooting, as he is not one of the brightest of men”

(Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Bibb County, Alabama, September 24, 1910) BLOCTON DOTS Dear Mr. Editor: Will again try to drop you a…

Patron Past Stories

First White Settlers in River Bend, Bibb County, Alabama – Sons & daughters of Hopkins Pratt–Marshall, Andrew, Mary

The photograph is of Hopkins Pratt's home built ca. 1830 in Centreville, Alabama W. P. Wallace wrote a series of articles in The Centreville…

New Stories

PATRON – Simpson Manuscript – Names & details of the ordinance passed on January 11th to dissolve the union between Alabama and US

Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…