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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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