CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH Oldest Church in Jefferson County By Bess Stout Lambert [Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 02, No. 04, Winter Issue 1940] Old Canaan Baptist church, founded September 5, 1818, may well be called the mother church of the Baptist denomination in Jefferson County. This church was located near old Jonesboro when […]
Governor Israel Pickens appointed General Thomas Farrar to accompany General LaFayette on his visit to Alabama in 1825. General Farrar wrote interesting letters about Lafayette’s trip back to the Governor of Alabama as he traveled with him. This is one of them. Augusta 20th. March 1825. Sir I arrived here last night in the stage […]
(Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 15, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) LOCAL AND PERSONAL W. A. Mitchell is quite ill at his home David Jordan is clerking for E. D. Moss & Co. D. Isbell attended court at Boaz last Saturday. Burney Hunter of Boaz was in town last week. W. S. Avera of Albertville was […]
Our parents came up with some unusual ideas to save time and energy around the house. Here are a few: “A button sewed to the corner of the dish cloth comes in handy to scrape sticky particles from the dishes.” “Put zipper on ironing board cover.” “When mending a large hole in a sweater, reinforce […]
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