Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British?...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British? Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 September, 2020 Did you know that some early settlers & speculators of Alabama land conspired with the British? (Text continued below) Speculation in Muscle Shoals “In 1783, six North Carolinians formed a company for the purpose of establishing a colony at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. The company was composed of both easterners and frontiersmen, the […] Read more → PATRON + University of Alabama graduates 1937 – + vintage film Bama Theater Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 September, 2020 (Transcribed from the Tuscaloosa News May 26, 1937) U. OF A. DEGREES AWARDED 468 IN FINAL EXERCISES 328 Men and 140 Women Are In Graduating Class for 106th Commencement OVATION GIVEN DENNY Honorary Degrees Conferred – Many Prizes Presented As Session Ends Deserted today, the University of Alabama campus showed little sign of the impressive […] Read more → PATRON – Names of men who were involved and delegates to an 1875 Constitutional Convention Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 September, 2020 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION HELD AT CENTRE, ALA. SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH, 1875. (News Extract Transcribed from Cherokee Advertiser, Centre, Alabama, June 10, 1875) Pursuant to the call of the Executive Committee of Cherokee county, the Convention to select delegates to the Cross Plains Convention assembled in the court house at Centre and was called to […] Read more → PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Have you ever made homemade cottage cheese – see 1924 recipe Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 September, 2020 HOMEMADE COTTAGE CHEESE FROM 1924 RECIPE Alabama Extension service Filling cartons with cottage cheese 1939 (Library of Congress) SETTING – Place clean sweet milk in pan or bucket and let stand until it is good firm clabber, temperature 75 degrees F.  (one gallon milk makes about 1 1/2 lbs. cheese) HEATING – When milk has clabbered place […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

On June 1, 1819, President Monroe surprised Huntsville, Alabama citizens with a visit...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward On June 1, 1819, President Monroe surprised Huntsville, Alabama citizens with a visit Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 September, 2020 This story can also be found in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants President Monroe’s Surprise Visit To Huntsville "Flurry and excitement" greeted President Monroe and two of his cabinet officers as they rode on horse-back, and unannounced, into the small town of Huntsville, Alabama on Tuesday, June 1, 1819. Huntsville was designated by Congress as […] Read more → PATRON + Amazing glimpse of train travel in 1874 as Dr. Connerly set out to secure items for a Free school Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 September, 2020 This letter from Professor Connerly to the editors of the Birmingham Iron Age newspaper has been transcribed from the Birmingham Iron Age April 16, 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 […] Read more → PATRON – March 1861 – Clayton, Some names in legal notices include Hancock, Smith, McDonald, Pipkin, Calhoun, Thomas and more Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 September, 2020 (Excerpts transcribed from Clayton Banner, Clayton, Barbour County, Alabama, March 21, 1861) NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS LETTERS of Administration having been granted to the undersigned by the Probate Court of Barbour county on the 8th day of January 1861 on the Estate of ISHAM HANCOCK, dec’d, notice is hereby given to all persons indebted […] Read more → PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY – For I have another wife…funny tombstone Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 September, 2020 More funny tombstones Epitaph over wife in Sunbury Churchyard, England: "Oh! Do not weep, my husband dear; I am not dead, but sleeping here; Then mend your ways, prepare to die, For you are soon to come to I. Chiseled in the tombstone beneath the above; "I do not weep, my dearest life For I […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Did you know that the Legislature branch was superior in Alabama’s first constitution?...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Did you know that the Legislature branch was superior in Alabama's first constitution? Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 September, 2020 This story and more can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood: Lost & Forgotten Stories Forty-four delegates gathered in a vacant cabinet shop on July 5, 1819, to organize the Territory of Alabama into the 22nd state. A print shop owned by John Boardman, Clement Comer Clay’s law office, the Federal Land Surveyor’s office, a post […] Read more → PATRON + There were many people against the Civil War in Alabama including these Unionists in Montgomery, Alabama in 1861 [films] Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 September, 2020 Thirty Unionists in Montgomery In the small city of Montgomery, Alabama of some ten thousand people, around 1861,  there were approximately thirty who were Unionists during the Civil War. They maintained loyalties under adverse circumstances and ardently opposed the Confederate States of America. (Read story and see film below) Montgomery was selected as the capital […] Read more → PATRON – Alabama Bible Records: Charles Pickney Jones family Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 September, 2020 This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VIII- Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents of the book   Charles Pickney Jones Charles Pickney Jones Family Bible (all spellings as they appear in the Bible) (New Testament “stereotyped by A. Chandler for the American Bible Society […] Read more → PATRON + MONDAY MUSINGS: Random thoughts about stress [vintage pictures] Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 September, 2020 RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT STRESS If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you are old. Laughing girl  from Childersburg, Alabama. Coosa Court defense housing project -1942 (photographer, John Collier, Library of Congress)   The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes. The […] Read more → BIOGRAPHY: Frederick Monroe James (1793 – 1863) Bibb County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 September, 2020 This is an excerpt from the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records FREDERICK MONROE JAMES BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1793-1863) Frederick Monroe James, an early pioneer to Alabama was born March 31, 1793 in Pitt, North Carolina, the son of Daniel Milton James and Rebecca (Mossle) […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Location of Chiaha, and Cherokees – Part I – Excerpt from Hugh Cardon’s 1936...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Location of Chiaha, and Cherokees – Part I – Excerpt from Hugh Cardon's 1936 Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 September, 2020 Cherokee County, Alabama – DeSoto and Chiaha where DeSoto visited HUGH CARDON’S HISTORY OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA  Part I Mr. Hugh Cardon wrote the following history of Cherokee County on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the county in 1936. This history was published in the COOSA RIVER NEWS on Friday, August 7, 1936. […] Read more → PATRON + Marine Hospital of Mobile Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 September, 2020 MARINE HOSPITAL (U. S.) AT MOBILE The Marine Hospital at Mobile, Alabama was the oldest building used as a Marine Hospital in 1914. It was occupied as a marine hospital since about 1837. It was designed by Frederick Bunnell and construction was commenced as early as 1834 and finished at the end of 1837. Records […] Read more → PATRON – On March 21, 1861 – citizens in Clayton County took of legal matters in preparation for war Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 September, 2020 (Excerpts transcribed from Clayton Banner, Clayton, Barbour County, Alabama, March 21, 1861) ANNOUNCEMENTS WE are authorized to announce the name of JOHN COX as a candidate for Sheriff at the ensuing August election. WE are authorized to announce the name of B. WILLIAMS as a candidate for Sheriff at the ensuing August election. Provided said […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe