PATRON – Survivors of the Mary Frances steamship – last trip down the Warrior River

1910's Alabama Alabama history Tuscaloosa TUSCALOOSA COUNTY

Donna R. Causey, resident of Alabama, was a teacher in the public school system for twenty years. When she retired, Donna found time to focus on her lifetime passion for historical writing. She developed the websites www.alabamapioneers and www.daysgoneby.me All her books can be purchased at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. She has authored numerous genealogy books. RIBBON OF LOVE: A Novel Of Colonial America (TAPESTRY OF LOVE) is her first novel in the Tapestry of Love about her family where she uses actual characters, facts, dates and places to create a story about life as it might have happened in colonial Virginia. Faith and Courage: Tapestry of Love (Volume 2) is the second book and the third FreeHearts: A Novel of Colonial America (Book 3 in the Tapestry of Love Series) Discordance: The Cottinghams (Volume 1) is the continuation of the story. . For a complete list of books, visit Donna R Causey

Veronica Hill June 15, 2017

Thank you for this story. My great aunt Kathleen Bartee Bishop and her 4 children were lost in this accident. They are all interned in one grave in Evergreen. I have recently started working on the advances in genealogy…digital form and have looked and looked for this story.
I appreciate this. As a history teacher your daily dose of Alabama goes a long way in helping me include Alabama in my American History 10th grade lesson plans. Thanks again.
1. Donna R Causey June 17, 2017
  
  I’m glad the stories are helpful.
Dorothy GAst June 15, 2017

My husband O. J. Gast, was an infant. His mother had in in line waiting to go aboard, but missed the trip. She often reminded su ha they been aboard they might have drowned.