Interesting newspaper article from Rome News Tribune January 13, 1976, Rome, Georgia Elba, Alabama – Charlie Porter, born a slave 121 years ago and perhaps the oldest man in Alabama, has died in the tin shack where he lived for decades without electricity or a telephone. Uncle Charlie with Clive Collier, John Collier and Will […]
The Lost Mills of Alabama Rikard's Mill Near Beatrice, Alabama, one can find a beautiful and truly historic site: the old Rikard's Mill. The Rikard's Mill near Beatrice, AL. (Photographer Carol Highsmith -Picture courtesy of the Library of Congress.) This gristmill, built along the gorgeous Flat Creek by Jacob Rikard in 1845, is functional to this […]
LOCAL PEOPLE AND ITEMS (Transcribed from Brewton Banner, Brewton, Alabama, June 2, 1883) S. J. Foshee, of north Escambia, was the first cash subscriber to the BANNER J. B. Rankin, of this place, presented us with half a dozen luscious peaches on Wednesday, the first of the season with us. Farmer read this, then go […]
The following is in the Necropolis, Glasgow Here lyes Bessy Bell But whereabouts I cannot tell. From Montrose churchyard Here lies the bodeys of George Young and Isbel Guthrie, and all their posterity for fifty years backwards. November, 1757 From Nettlebed churchyard, Oxfordshire Here lies father, and mother, and sister, and I: We all died […]
Happy Birthday! THOMAS CHALMERS McCorvey BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1852 – 1932) Monroe and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Colonel T. C. McCorvey was born in Monroe County on August 18, 1852, near the spot where his grandfather had settled nearly a half-century before, and his boyhood was spent in that county. Thomas Chalmers McCorvey, A. M. LL.B. […]
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