Happy Birthday! JOSEPH OSWALT THOMPSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1869-1933) Macon and Jefferson County, Alabama Joseph Oswalt Thompson was a planter, colonizer, and federal office…
These old epitaphs reveal much about how the victim died This death appears to have occurred by a tragic accident Smith ran to catch…
Happy Birthday! JOHN W. TOMLINSON BIOGRAPHY and GENELAOGY (1859-1940) Jefferson County, Alabama John W. Tomlinson of Birmingham, Alabama, was born Feb. 1, 1859, at…
Happy Birthday! EDWARD BUIST ANDERSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1868-aft. 1940) Madison and Marion County, Alabama Edward Buist Anderson was born February 1, 1868, the…
JOHN HUNT By Robert C. Hunt, Chattanooga, Tenn. The first white man known to have settled in the Huntsville area was an Indian trader…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
Here are the Top Ten Indicators you've become a Geneaholic..... 10. You introduce your daughter as your descendant 9. You've never met any of…
MOBILE GIRL SAID PRETTIEST IN UNITED STATES By Benjamin D. Baker Federal Writers' Progressing Council Chamber, City Hall Mobile, Alabama November 21, 1939 Marquis…
"SCRAPS" RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY By Thomas Smith Malone The Athens Post, March 14, 1867. Page 2, Column 3. Part…
PERSONAL AND GENERAL (Transcribed from the Geneva County Citizen, Geneva, Alabama, January 30, 1895) Prof. W. D. Jeter of Clintonville is in our city.…
During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could…
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MACON COUNTY.*1 By H. M. King Written in 1881 NUMBER VI. Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02,…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) SUNNY SOUTH Sunny South is an unincorporated community…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 2 - NOW IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK AND HARDBACK!
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LaPLACE METHODIST CHURCH*1 By Mary DeBardeleben Published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 02, Summer Issue 1956 (Mary…
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents…
Below is the monument about Lafayette's visit at Claiborne, Alabama in 1825 (Carol Highsmith 2010 Library of Congress) Words on the monument state: Piache, an Indian…
Epitaphs in cemeteries are sometimes funny like this one obviously written on the tombstone of a miser His heirs, that he might safely rest, Have…
PROXY TALKERS Use of the Phonograph for Political Orators is Popular (Excerpt transcribed from The New Era, Double Springs, Alabama, Jan. 4, 1901) The…
(Excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) LETTER FROM SEALE G. W. Willis, a prominent planter of Loflin, was in town…
BOLLING HALL BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1767-1836) Autauga and Elmore County, Alabama Bolling HALL was born on 25th of January 1767 in Dinwiddle County, Virginia…
Old newspapers are good sources of information about family history Did you know on May 23, 1811.... The first newspaper in Alabama, The Mobile…
(Personal excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) OUR USUAL WELCOME LETTER FROM "SARY GARY" HURTSBORO, FEB. 3, 1909 DEAR JOURNAL:…
EXTRA HELP by Nadine Nabors Back in 1983 for my birthday present "to me" was going to the LDS library in Los Angeles Calif.…
GENERAL BARTLETT SMITH BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1792-1843) Henry County, Alabama General Bartlett Smith was born January 23, 1792, and was one of the earliest…
(Transcribed from Evergreen Star, Evergreen, Conecuh County, Alabama, September 11, 1879) POLLARD September 9th, 1879 FRIEND MONROE – Our little town was alarmingly shocked…
The Black Sheep The children of a prominent family chose to give the patriarch a book of their family's history. The biographer they hired…
(Transcribed exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI Table of Contents…
WILLIAM H. COX BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1846 - aft. 1904) MACON, BULLOCK COUNTIES, ALABAMA William H. Cox was born in Bullock county, Ala., Jan.…
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 2 ANDREW BARNWELL MILEY, SR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1818-1896)…
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