See: Lt. David Moniac, a Creek Native American, was the first minority graduate of West Point DAVID TATE TO CADET DAVID MONIAC LETTER OF 1822* April 23rd 1822 Dear Nephew Your letter came safe to hand, & the contents was particularly attended to. You will excuse my not writing you earlyer as I was waiting to […]
News from the Times Daily, Florence, Alabama November 17, 1931 In the midst of the Great Depression, with unemployment everywhere, the hope of any kind of job was on everyone’s mind. Birmingham, Alabama was constructing sewers so this article appeared in the paper. Jobs like these would require far fewer men today because they […]
All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA (Surname starting with C – some with links to gravesites) Caldwell, Leonard F. born 1845, died 1873, member of the 46th Alabama Infantry Company K, buried Concord […]
EXCERPT FROM REFLECTIONS OF AN ALABAMA TEACHER, 1875-1950 by Julia L. Willard (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol 38, No. 04, Winter 1976) Orlena Harper McCleskey, daughter of William Harper W. Harper taught school on Sand Mountain in Marshall County, Alabama beginning around 1883. Her father had also been a teacher. She married Robert […]
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