This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) available at Amazon.com Benjamin Hawkins grew up among the planter elite in North Carolina and was a delegate to the Continental Congress. He learned the Muscogee language and married Lavinia Downs who some believe was a Creek woman. […]
When the U.S. officially entered World War II, the need for food for the American troops increased. Farmers who had received help from the federal government during and after the Great Depression were encouraged to produce more food but with fewer employees. Many farmers did not have the additional funds to buy extra seeds and […]
(Transcribed from the Albany-Decatur Daily, Albany, Alabama, October 9, 1920) Note: Albany, Alabama, also known as New Decatur, Alabama, was a city in Morgan County, Alabama, United States, situated immediately to the southeast of the city of Decatur near the Tennessee River. New Decatur/Albany existed as a city from 1887 until 1927, when it merged with the city of Decatur. The […]
This was evidently not a loving family – Copied from a tombstone in a Massachusetts Churchyard: This to the memory of Ellen Hill, A woman who would always have her will. She snubbed her husband, though she made good bread, And on the whole he’s rather glad she’s dead. She whipped her children (and she […]
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