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Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
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PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVIII The story of the desperate struggle of the people of this county…
Local news about people from around Sumter County, August 3, 1923 (Transcribed from Sumter County Journal, York, Alabama, August 31, 1923) Only Patrons can…
Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co.,…
Dr. Joseph Dill Alison, the author of this diary was born December 23, 1828, at Charleston, S. C., and died at Carlowville, June 3,…
The first substantial white settlement in what is now Gadsden was a village called "Double Springs".This was begun by a mixed American Indian and…
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Did you know that before the fifteenth century, surnames were not common? Anglo-Saxon names were used 5.000 years ago and were names like Begga,…
BENJAMIN TURNER GIBBONS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1786) Autauga County, Alabama Benjamin Turner Gibbons was born in 1786 in Maryland. He was probably born…
WILLIAM BOYD, JR. BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY (1783-1855) Madison County, Alabama By Lavone Johnson Anglen William Boyd was a Junior he was born March 22,…
Personal news from some towns in Sumter County, August 31, 1923 (Transcribed from Sumter County Journal, York, Alabama, August 31, 1923) WARD NEWS Mr.…
HISTORY OF JEFF DAVIS HOUSE (Montgomery Advertiser, October 7th, 1900) The Alabama Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy will convene in the city…
CONVICTS OF ALABAMA STATE PENITENTIARY, November 1846 (from Ancestry.com -transcribed by Steven Jackson) As a general rule of the early Alabama frontiersmen, the administration…
Part II of the sensational event that took place in Bibb County 1900. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, June 21, 1900) PRELIMINARY…
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This is the final story of what happened to Lilly Gardner and Festus Caddell. (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama, April 25, 1901)…
SAMUEL BAINS LETTER Fort Deposit* November 25th 1813 Dear Christiana I wrote to you about the 12th Since, then I have heard that all…
JOHN CRAWFORD GRAHAM BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1877 – 1962) Missouri and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama by Dorothy Graham Gast John Crawford Graham was born in…
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(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The following story is an excerpt from Reminiscences of the Early Days in Chambers County, by E.…
Some Divorce, Marriage and Adoption Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Alabama By Alabama 1851-1852 ( transcriptions) [No. 84.] AN ACT…
WILLIAM ALFRED ALTMAN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1846 -1923) Elmore and Sumter Counties, Alabama William Alfred Altman, a planter and merchant, was born March 9,…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVI continued - Civil War When the drum's first beat called out our…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume XI- Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVI By the seventh of October, 1861, Alabama had furnished fully twenty-seven thousand…
(From a Brief History of Montgomery, by M, P. Blue, Esq., 1878) TICKNOR'S COMPANY, FIRST REGIMENT, ALABAMA VOLUNTEERS FOR TEXAS REVOLUTION (From a Brief…
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