Tuesday, September 29, 2020

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

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

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 […]

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PATRON + Amazing glimpse of train travel in 1874 as Dr. Connerly set out to secure items for a Free school

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 […]

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PATRON – March 1861 – Clayton, Some names in legal notices include Hancock, Smith, McDonald, Pipkin, Calhoun, Thomas and more

(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 […]

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PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY – For I have another wife…funny tombstone

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 […]

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