Tuesday, September 22, 2020

A Tennessee woman was captured by Creek Indians & taken to Black Warrior town in Alabama...

 
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A Tennessee woman was captured by Creek Indians & taken to Black Warrior town in Alabama

(This story was written in 1916. Mr. Clinton was a contributor to the old Alabama Historical Society, reprinted in The Alabama Historical Quarterly 1930) EARLY HISTORY OF TUSCALOOSA MRS. CRAWLEY’S RESCUE By THOMAS P. CLINTON The next white person who came to the place where Tuscaloosa now stands was a Mrs. Crawley of Humphries County, Tennessee. She […]

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PATRON + Autaugaville Methodist Church began in a log structure in 1822

Autaugaville is located 2 miles from the Alabama River and 22 miles west of Montgomery. The first settler was William N. Thompson, Sr. who came in 1820, built a small gristmill, bordering Swift Creek, opened the first store, and afterward erected a flour mill. The families of John McNeel, Nehemiah, and James Howard, were among […]

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PATRON – In Chilton County 1921, bridges were being closed and the women had meetings

(Excerpt from The Central Alabama Independent Advertiser and the Union-Banner, Clanton, Alabama, May 1921) NOTICE The Commissioners Court will meet at what is known as the Dixie Bridge, over Mulberry Creek, Monday May 23, at 10 o’clock A. M. The Court will also meet on the same date, at 2 o’clock P. M. at the […]

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PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Tombstones can be a way of getting even…

Actual Tombstone A brother getting even with widow for poisoning his brother and her husband – Knight’s Corner – Pelham, Massachusetts Warren Gibbs Died by arsenic poison March 23, 1860 Age 36 years 8 months and 23 days   Think my friends when this you see How my wife has dealt with me She in […]

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