This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) (Indian trading houses were established by the American government shortly after the Revolutionary War to create a more satisfied and friendly feeling among the Indians toward the government. The trading house in Alabama was at Fort St. Stephens.) By […]
PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXVII The winter months of 1863 were not passed before the South began to feel more men were needed to carry on the fight. Deaths in hospitals, in battle, and desertions thinned the grey lines to an alarming extent. The law permitting substitutes was […]
Patron Member story Personal news from around Sumter County, August 31, 1923 (Transcribed from Sumter County Journal, York, Alabama, August 31, 1923) Sheriff J. A. Shelby of Livingston was a visitor here Wednesday. Mr. Robert Green made a business trip to New Orleans this week. Miss Cecile Richards of Demopolis spent the week-end with her […]
In 1838, Arkansas couples married quickly according to this humorous article MARRYING IN ARKANSAS (Transcribed from Lexington union., Lexington, Mississippi, November 24, 1838) We like the way they do in Arkansas. There is no simpering, nor fainting, nor no such sort of frippery doings about their belles. When they are courted, they either marry or […]
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