Friday, July 17, 2020

Anne Newport Royall – reports in a letter from 1821 of snakes that fly apart and plants that close their leaves...

 
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Anne Newport Royall – reports in a letter from 1821 of snakes that fly apart and plants that close their leaves

In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her husband died, she was left penniless and she toured Alabama for four years as one of the first newspaperwomen in America. She wrote letters to her friends about Alabama and the […]

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PATRON + Imagine walking 14 miles each day for 13 years like this man did!

Oldest Carrier Had 3,000,000 Pieces of Mail (Transcribed from Times Daily, Florence, Alabama December 17, 1929) R. W. Sims, 1223 Wills avenue, North Florence, the city’s oldest mail carrier from a viewpoint of service, according to Postmaster H. A. Cathey, has an enviable record since he began delivering for Uncle Sam, Sept. 1, 1902. Among […]

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PATRON – On October 5, 1853, Autaugaville newspaper suggests the names of new town officers

  On October 5, 1853, Autaugaville citizens were planning to elect Officers for their town (Transcribed extracts from Autauga Mercury, Autaugaville, Alabama, October 5, 1853 – Note: This paper is very faded an hard to read) As an election for Corporation officers will no doubt, soon be ordered, the following….(faded) gentlemen have been suggested as […]

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BIOGRAPHY: W. Lawrence Wild born July 17, 1874

Happy Birthday! W. LAWRENCE WILD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1874-aft. 1940) Conecuh County, Alabama W. Lawrence Wild, of the firm of Wild Brothers, merchants of Evergreen, Ala., was born at Midway, Alabama, July 17, 1874. His parents were Rev. William H. Wild, of Macon, Ga., and Julia A. (Slaughter) Wild of Chambers County, Ala. The former […]

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