TERRIBLE TORNADO (From the Talladega Mountain, Home) Transcribed from The Shelby Guide, Columbiana, Alabama May 14, 1868 GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY On Wednesday night last between 10 and 12 o’clock a terrible tornado swept a portion of our county, its course being nearly East. The first we have been able to hear of its terrible […]
JOHN MURRAY FORBES’S HORSEBACK TRIP TO ALABAMA IN 1831. By Thomas Semmes Forbes, Birmingham Originally written ca 1904 (Transcribed from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society volume 4, 1904) So much occupied are we in the activities of the present and plans for the future that the past is apt to be neglected, especially the […]
Patron – A tax sale took place in Elba, Coffee County, Alabama in 1901 (Transcribed excerpts from The Elba Clipper, Elba, Alabama, May 23, 1901) NOTICE, TAX SALE Whereas, by a decree of the Probate Court of Coffee County, Ala., held on the 29th and 30th days of April 1901, it was ordered that the […]
ON THE USE OF MULES (From an old newspaper abstract) Mules, on a general average, live more than twice as long as horses. They are fit for service from three years old to thirty. At twelve, a horse has seen his best days and is going downhill, but a mule at that age has scarcely risen […]
This story is an excerpt from A Collection of PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES & GENEALOGIES VOLUME I PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA JOHN EDWARDS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1752) Perry County, Alabama Rev. War soldier, John Edwards was born in Culpepper County, Virginia on August 12, 1752 and died in 1834. He is buried in Martin Cemetery. In the Fall […]
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