Tuesday, July 21, 2020

TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – Descriptions of St. Stephens and Fort Claiborne from 1817!...

 
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TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – Descriptions of St. Stephens and Fort Claiborne from 1817!

Continued TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY (The following story is the third section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of early towns in Alabama. It was published in 1817 when Alabama was still a Territory and first printed in the New York Herald, then copied in the Alabama Republican, and finally […]

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PATRON + A 2nd letter written in 1874 from Professor Connerly, the Principal of Birmingham's first FREE School

This letter from Professor Connerly to the editors of the Birmingham Iron Age newspaper has been transcribed from the Birmingham Iron Age April 23, 1874. Prof. Connerly was the Principal of the new Free school in Birmingham, Alabama and was on a trip to acquire desks, books etc. for the new school set to open […]

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PATRON – December 14, 1901 – Tuscaloosa elephant piano Montevallo murder, Bank runner missing, and Lawrence Co. murder, and more

(Transcribed extracts from The Silent Eye, Avondale, Jefferson County, Alabama December 14, 1901) MONTEVALLO MURDER Walter S. Cary, attorney, was shot and killed Friday evening by Frank Kroell, liveryman. An altercation arose over a lawsuit against one Garner by the Kroell’s, Cary defending Garner. Upon their return from Calera, where the case was tried, Kroell […]

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PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Married again after death?

The following Epitaph, from the Churchyard at North Shields, England, has been the subject of much laughter on account of its absurdity: In memory of James Bell, of North Shields, who died 16th Jan., 1763, aged 42 years. Margaret, widow of the above said James Bell, died Dec. 30, aged 49 years. She was wife, after, to Wm. […]

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BIOGRAPHY: Samuel Davies Weakley born July 16, 1860

SAMUEL DAVIES WEAKLEY (1860 – 1921) Jefferson County, Alabama BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY SAMUEL DAVIES WEAKLEY, of the Birmingham bar, has gained an eminence in his profession second to no lawyer in Alabama. Several outstanding achievements would serve to justify his high place in the profession, but his prominence is really based on the long, diligent, […]

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