Monday, March 30, 2020

Part 2 – Alabama in the Mexican War – personal letter about Wm. T. Sherman and chicken raid...

 
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Part 2 – Alabama in the Mexican War – personal letter about Wm. T. Sherman and chicken raid

ALABAMA IN MEXICO WAR Letter to DR. W. S. WYMAN From S. F. NUNNELEE (Written June 14, 1906) Mexico War Correspondence, Military Records Division Department Archives and History) Part 2 A few days after the Regiment got settled down to work, Maj, Fenner, “Brigade Merchant” arrived with a huge tent and several thousand dollars worth of […]

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PATRON+ Trail of Tears – Congress acts

(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Tom Hendrix, the gr-gr-grandson of a young teenage Yuchi girl who was forced to travel on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, built a memorial for his great-great-grandmother’s journey to Oklahoma in Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tom’s great-great-grandmother was a member of the Yuchi, a small Alabama tribe. […]

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PATRON – Legal notices & robbery in news of 1867 Greenville, Alabama

This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume X Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents of the book Personal genealogy notes transcribed from GREENVILLE ADVOCATE (Greenville, Alabama May 2, 1867 with original spelling errors) TAX COLLECTOR’S SALE The following described land will be sold in front […]

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PATRON + MONDAY MUSINGS: Good health advice from a woman's health book from 1852

ADVICE FOR WOMEN From a Health book 1852 Necessity Of Change Of Air An occasional change of air may be said to be almost necessary to the perfect well-being of every man. The workman must leave his workshop, the student his library, and the lawyer his office, or sooner or later his health will pay […]

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Combat negative news with positive stories. Encourage your children by sharing ancestor stories like this

There seems to be nothing but negative news today about this Pandemic and there is not much we can do to change the news, but it’s not good for us as a nation to focus on the negative. Share some encouraging personal stories We’ll probably never have this much free time on our hands again […]

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