Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co., Montgomery, Ala,, Printers JUST BEFORE THE WAR From 1852, for several years, there was little of interest in and around the Capitol building, but the agitation of the slavery question […]
Dr. Joseph Dill Alison, the author of this diary was born December 23, 1828, at Charleston, S. C., and died at Carlowville, June 3, 1905. He was the son of Hugh Lee and Mary Catherine (Beekman) Alison, South Carolinians who removed from Charleston to Carlowville, in 1833. The former was educated in Charleston and […]
This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents of the book Bibles of the John W. Butler and Robert W. Butler Families, Winston, Alabama Bibles of the John W. Butler and Robert W. Butler Families, Winston, Alabama JOHN […]
Did you know that before the fifteenth century, surnames were not common? Anglo-Saxon names were used 5.000 years ago and were names like Begga, Agrippa, etc., but after the Norman Conquest in 1066, the English and Europeans starting using names like Richard, Henry, etc but did not have surnames. The Normans only had a small […]
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