(continued) On June 18, (1871) GOV. LINDSAY made another visit to New York, to protect the interests of the State (of Alabama) and to arrange for funds with which to pay the second installment of interest on the Alabama & Chattanooga bonds, due July 1. Upon his return to Montgomery, he commissioned JOHN H. GINDRAT, […]
Florence was a thriving town when Courtview was built. The date is apparently fixed by the following inscription which was found on the trolley of the sliding parlor doors: “John Ballinger, carpenter and builder, August 25, 1855.” Some historians believe Courtview was designed by Adolphus Heiman, an architect from Nashville, Tennessee. He had to build […]
At least this husband had a sense of humor! A SMART WIFE (Detroit Free Press – 1879) The other morning a citizen called at a hardware store on Woodward avenue and said he wanted a key to a certain door in his house, and took up and carried away almost the first key handed to […]
(Extract from Anti-Secession Banner, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama June 24, 1851) TEXAS LANDS – A letter before us from a public officer says that some of the very best land in Texas, recently surveyed, can be procured, in any quantity, at from 20 to 25 cents an acre. (N. Y. Express) The Hon. David G. […]
This is an excerpt from the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records MARTHA HILL BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1802) Bibb County, Alabama Martha Hill, wife of Frederick Monroe James was also from a Bibb County pioneer family. She was born July 26, 1802 in Easter, Pitt […]
More information about Isaac Abercrombie can be found in the books A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES & GENEALOGIES VOLUME I and ISAAC ABERCROMBIE, ALABAMA PIONEER, Six Generations of Descendants ISAAC ABERCROMBIE Isaac Abercrombie was born in Scotland in 1748. He is first found in America in 1769 acquiring land in Laurens County, […]
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