The day the Birmingham police helped the University of Alabama football mascot retrieve his paws...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward The day the Birmingham police helped the University of Alabama football mascot retrieve his paws Posted by Jean Butterworth on 27 February, 2020 Big Al at football stadium   Big Al (Mascot of University of Alabama) and the Lost Paws It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the South. The Alabama and LSU game at Legion Field Stadium in Birmingham was about to begin. This was 1985 or 1986. The usual fanfare was expected. Big Al and the […] Read more → PATRON + The south is known for front porches, but Brantley, Alabama has been dubbed "the front porch capital of the south" Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 February, 2020 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; […] Read more → PATRON – June 10, 1875 – Legal Notices from Cherokee Advertiser, Centre, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 February, 2020 Transcribed from the Cherokee Advertiser, Centre, Alabama, June 10, 1875 FREDERICK KAISER vs. Cornwall Iron Works Company, H. D. Cothran, Thomas McCulloch, Robert Marsahll et als – In Chancery at Centre, Ala., Tenth District, Eastern Chancery Division. In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of Thomas Bradford, one […] Read more → PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS Drones of 1937 were much larger and you could ride in them Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 February, 2020 Occasionally, I run across a vintage film or picture that is not about Alabama, but is just too good not to share. This is one. I guess you could call this a drone from the past.  Here is an amazing view of Paris from above that I ran across and thought I’d share. Dirigibles were […] Read more → Biography: Rev. John Wesley Starr August 7, 1809 Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 February, 2020 This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1)   REV. JOHN WESLEY STARR BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY(1808 – 1870) EARLY BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEER The history of John Wesley Starr was recorded in the Green County Democrat in 1956. Sadly, his gravesite had been abandoned until my gr-uncle […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Photographs from the past -Photographs of Auburn University students in 1956 Parade...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Photographs from the past -Photographs of Auburn University students in 1956 Parade Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 February, 2020 Old Auburn photographs found at Alabama Department of Archives and History. . . Photographs made by Bill Wood. of the 1956 Wreck Tech Pajama Parade at Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, Alabama.The parade was held before the annual football game between API and Georgia Tech. Auburn University was called the Polytechnic Institute at the time. The […] Read more → PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 23 – The days leading to War Between the States Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 February, 2020 PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXIII The South Carolina state convention met at Charleston on Dec. 17, 1860, and after three days of fiery discussion passed a resolution that the union heretofore existing between that state and the other state under the name of the United States of America, […] Read more → PATRON – Street taxes due & Tuscaloosa officers indicted on liquor law violations on February 26 Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 February, 2020 Street taxes due & Tuscaloosa officers indicted on liquor law violations on February 26   ON FEBRUARY 26, 1930 FROM THE TUSCALOOSA NEWS TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA Street Taxes Due City tax collectors, R. H. Thompson and C. M. Thorsen have started their work in collecting city street taxes. There are more than 2,000 persons in the […] Read more → PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY- Lemon Crumb Pie recipe from 1908 Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 February, 2020 LEMON CRUMB PIE Put half a cup of bread crumbs into a bowl, add enough milk to cover and let soak until soft and the milk absorbed. Cream four tablespoons of sugar with two tablespoons of butter, add two beaten eggs and the juice and grated rind of one large lemon; Beat well, Add the […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama shipped cotton goods to China in 1883...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama shipped cotton goods to China in 1883 Posted by Donna R Causey on 25 February, 2020 Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama shipped cotton goods to China in 1883 (Transcribed from Anniston Hot Blast, Anniston, Alabama, October 20, 1883) ANNISTON AND CHINA Some important facts about our Cotton Factory What Anniston is Doing in the Way of Cotton Manufacturing and Where our Goods are sold An Interesting Account Anniston and China – The […] Read more → PATRON + Fort Claiborne history published 1818 Posted by Donna R Causey on 25 February, 2020   TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO Transcribed from The Long-Island Star (Brooklyn, New York) October 21, 1818 From the National Intelligencer of Oct. 13. Private letters from Alabama state, that a court was at that time sitting (17th September) at Fort Claiborne in Monroe county, a spot which, until the late Indian war, was scarcely known […] Read more → PATRON – Members of Fraternal Organizations before 1908 – Greensboro, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 25 February, 2020  This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume III CHARTER MEMBERS FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS before 1908 Greensboro, Alabama SOME MEMBERS OF FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS OF GREENSBORO, ALABAMA (published 1908) ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER Phoenix Royal Arch Chapter No. 11, under dispensation, was organized April 16, 1838, at Greensboro, Ala., with the following […] Read more → PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: The circumstances of these deaths were quite explosive Posted by Donna R Causey on 25 February, 2020 This was written by the widow of a pyrotechnics manufacturer, Erected by his spouse to the memory of A—– B—– Manufacturer of Fireworks He has gone to the only place Where his own works are excelled. The widow of a man who was blown to pieces by gunpowder, insisted that the following be written above […] Read more → Looking for Trott ancestors? This may help. . . Posted by Donna R Causey on 25 February, 2020 Don’t waste time and money completing genealogy research others have done! Take advantage of what other genealogy researchers have discovered and download this E-book in minutes to your computer or E-reader today.  Some Descendants of BENJAMIN TROTT (1774- 1835) Check to see if this is your family line by downloading the FREE Sample on Amazon […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Alabama land was being sold in Milledgeville, Georgia...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Alabama land was being sold in Milledgeville, Georgia Posted by Donna R Causey on 22 February, 2020 Sale of Alabama land in Georgia in 1818 as we move toward statehood on December 14, 1818. Clipping from Natchez Gazette, Natchez, Mississippi, September 19, 1818 Clipping from  Mississippi Free Trader, November 6, 1818. ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: A Collection of Lost & Forgotten Stories   ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: A Collection of Lost & Forgotten Stories […] Read more → PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 22– Sketches of attorneys in later years Posted by Donna R Causey on 22 February, 2020 PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXII In the decade following the Civil war there grew up a number of bright young lawyers, sons of those who had battled for the lost cause. These attorneys studied and practiced Corporation law, Municipal law and Commercial law; their methods and court room […] Read more → PATRON – August 2, 1917 – Some personal abstracts about people from Tuscaloosa News Posted by Donna R Causey on 22 February, 2020 This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VI– Scroll to bottom to see the Table of Contents of this book August 2, 1917 – Some personal abstracts about people from Tuscaloosa News   PERSONAL ABSTRACTS FROM TUSCALOOSA NEWS August 2, 1917 NORTHPORT NEWS- Mr. and Mrs. W. B. […] Read more → PATRON + SATURDAY SECRETS – How to whiten walls that have been whitewashed Posted by Donna R Causey on 22 February, 2020   Repainting walls today is fairly simple and a room can be painted in a matter of hours. This was not the case in the 1890s when wall were whitewashed. I imagine walls were not whitened like this very often because of the time it took. How To Whiten Walls That Have Been Whitewashed To whiten […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe