Alabama soldier rests on Secession Hill in Abbeville, South Carolina [video, music & photographs]...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Alabama soldier rests on Secession Hill in Abbeville, South Carolina [video, music & photographs] Posted by Donna R Causey on 31 August, 2020 There is an unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama buried on Secession Hill. According to the South Carolina League of the South “The grave of an unknown Alabama soldier was located on the property and marked. This soldier had died on a train passing through Abbeville, his remains removed and buried on Secession Hill.” The lyrics […] Read more → PATRON + Captain Thaddeus C. Brewer was an early editor, lawyer, and a legislator in Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 31 August, 2020 (Transcribed excerpt is from The Monroe Journal, Monroe County Alabama, December 5, 1935) PICTURESQUE PERSONALITIES OF MONROE by Miriam Brewer Richardson, Montgomery Advertiser Captain Thaddeus C. Brewer was a delightful figure of old Claiborne where he edited The Monroe Journal and later The Monroe Eagle. He saw brilliant service in the Confederate Army, and after […] Read more → PATRON – Notices for lost slaves were posted like this in early newspapers of Cahaba, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 31 August, 2020  Notices for lost slaves were posted like this in early newspapers of Cahaba, Alabama (Transcribed from Alabama State Gazette, Cahaba, Alabama April 3, 1825) STATE OF ALABAMA} DALLAS COUNTY} Personally appeared before me, John B. Griffin, a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid Hezekiah G. Johnson, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith […] Read more → PATRON + MONDAY MUSINGS: We should teach our children this important fact Posted by Donna R Causey on 31 August, 2020 "It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind."Branch Rickey     FreeHearts: 2nd edition A Novel of Colonial America (Tapestry of Love Series Book 3) Inspired by true events, Col. John Washington (ancestor of President George Washington), Randall Revell, Tom Cottingham, Edmund Beauchamp ward off Indian attacks and […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Mysterious stone dated with the year of 1232 found on the banks of the Warrior River...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Mysterious stone dated with the year of 1232 found on the banks of the Warrior River Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 August, 2020 [Some consider this mysterious stone a hoax while others believe it proves early visitors to Alabama in the year 1232.  The stone even made it all the way to American Antequarian Society in Worcester, Mass. to be studied. What do you believe?] The Alabama Stone (from an Early History of Tuscaloosa by Thomas P. Clinton […] Read more → PATRON + A prodigal son – sad story from Columbia, Alabama in 1892 Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 August, 2020 A PRODIGAL SON (Excerpt transcribed from The Columbia Breeze, Columbia, Alabama August 25, 1892) Perhaps never in its history has Columbia been more startled than it was last Sunday morning when the announcement was made that the safe of Hooten & Co., had been entered and robbed of about $140 the night before and that […] Read more → PATRON – Alabama marriages from 1850 newspaper – August through December Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 August, 2020 This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume IV  SOME ALABAMA MARRIAGE NOTICES FROM 1850 SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST NEWSPAPER 8-21-1850 Married in this place on Thursday evening the 8th inst. By REV. A. W. CHAMBLISS, MR. THOMAS H. EVANS of Greene county to MISS MARY DAVIS of Perry. Married on […] Read more → AUTHOR SUNDAY: A Special Reunion – a family reunited Posted by Fred Harvey Williams on 30 August, 2020 A SPECIAL REUNION by FRED HARVEY WILLIAMS My name is Fred Harvey Williams and my GGGGrandfather George French came to Alabama from Greenville, SC in about 1843.   My parents divorced when I was less than a year old and I never knew my father's family.  I found them in 1997 and discovered that I had six brothers […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Many places in Alabama have Revolutionary historical markers thanks to these ladies...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Many places in Alabama have Revolutionary historical markers thanks to these ladies Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 August, 2020 (Here are some quick facts and names of charter members and early members of the Colonial Dames and DAR of Alabama. Most of the facts come from early 1900’2 when it was written.) The National Society of Colonial Dames of America was organized in Wilmington, Deleware, in 1892, having for its purposes the collection of manuscripts, […] Read more → PATRON + I wonder what happened to these Telegraph Poles Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 August, 2020 PAPER TELEGRAPH POLES (This interesting article was transcribed from the Geneva County Citizen, Geneva, Alabama, January 30, 1895) Parties have introduced a method of making poles from paper material which will not crack in a dry atmosphere, warp when exposed to heat or frost, nor dissolve when subjected to a long rainy or damp spell. […] Read more → PATRON – Poultry show winners from Guntersville, stockholder and teachers' meeting 1903 Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 August, 2020 (Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 15, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) LOCAL AND PERSONAL Our esteemed patron, Wm. Boling, has presented to the DEMOCRAT one of the early receipts given by Mr. Neely for a year’s subscription to the paper, and 75c in payment for a cord of wood. Those were days when Marshall’s products were […] Read more → PATRON + SATURDAY SECRETS – Mixing paste for wallpaper hanging – 1894 recipe Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 August, 2020 PASTE FOR PAPER HANGING (Excerpt from The Courtland Enterprise, Courtland, Alabama, February 15, 1894) First heat water to boiling, then add flour, with constant stirring; to prevent the formation of lumps, the flour may be passed through a sieve so as to insure (sic) its more equable distribution. (continued below) Agitation is continued until the heat […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Can you believe a blind minister preached the first sermon in Conecuh County?...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Can you believe a blind minister preached the first sermon in Conecuh County? Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 August, 2020 (transcribed with misspellings etc.,  from History of Conecuh County, Alabama: Embracing a detailed record of events…pub. by Benjamin Franklin Riley 1881) Early Bellville Settlement Conecuh County, Alabama In 1818 there came to the Bellville settlement (in the future Conecuh County, Alabama) a young man whose name was Robert C. Paine. Location of Conecuh County, Alabama […] Read more → PATRON + A cute turkey hunting story from 1937 Clarke County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 August, 2020 The Mrs. Kills A Turkey (From the Clarke County Democrat 1937 reprinted in The Tuscaloosa News Dec. 8, 1937) When the average man kills a turkey he assumes an air of nonchalance and sophistication intended to convey the impression that he had really expected to do it and belying the fact that he is about […] Read more → PATRON – Names of Doctors who had been examined and permitted to practice in early Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 August, 2020 Click to learn how to Become a Patron! Names of Doctors who had been examined and permitted to practice in early Alabama (Transcribed from Alabama State Gazette, Cahaba, Alabama April 3, 1825) MEDICAL NOTICE The Members of the Medical Board of this place, who were appointed by an act of the Legislature of this State, […] Read more → PATRON – Genealogy notes from JACKSONVILLE REGISTER, ALABAMA January 28, 1837 Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 August, 2020 Patron member story This article and more abstracts are also available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III– Scroll to bottom to see Table of Contents of this book JACKSONVILLE REGISTER, ALABAMA January 28, 1837 The following hit-and-run accident was published in the Jacksonville Republican in 1837. January 18, 1837 MOST EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR A Mrs. […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe