A wonderful memory from the past! AND THEY CALLED IT INDEPENDENT PART II By Marvin Malley Champion submitted by Jean Champion Butterworth We went to a 3-month’s school, had to walk through the wooded trails around a mile distance from home. We had one teacher and a pot bellied stove The community used the church […]
(Transcribed excerpt is from The Monroe Journal, Monroe County Alabama, December 5, 1935) PICTURESQUE PERSONALITIES OF MONROE by Miriam Brewer Richardson, Montgomery Advertiser Monroe has given Alabama several of her ablest governors, Gov. John Murphy, the red-headed, high-powered Scotchman, was a noted citizen. He was born in Robson County, North Carolina, in 1785, the son […]
(Transcribed from December 27, 1923, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama) MRS. GRIDER AND SISTERS ENTERTAIN AT JANUARY TEA Mrs. Frank Grider and her sisters, Miss Le May Caldwell and Mrs. Charles P. Marks have extended invitations to a tea which they are giving at the Country Club on Monday afternoon, Jan. 7, in compliment to […]
Happy Birthday! ALFRED PELHAM AGEE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1862-1937) Dallas, Monroe, and Calhoun county, Alabama Alfred Pelham Agee, a lawyer, was born on August 6, 1862. at Claiborne, Monroe County; son of Noah Alfred Agee and Annie Caroline (Hunley) Agee, of Selma, the former represented Monroe County in the legislature, 1853-54, and was State senator […]
WOMAN AND HOME (Excerpt from The Courtland Enterprise, Courtland, Alabama, February 15, 1894) PRETTY SLEEP WOOERS Useful Novelty Pillows for Couch or Divans – When Filled with Clover, Sweet Lavender or Bits of Thyme – They Are More Attractive Than if Stuffed with Feathers or Hair. Present-day luxury, so it would seem, begins and ends […]
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