Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) A Warning Saves Many Lives In 1812, the long-threatened war between the United States and Great Britain was formally declared. At the beginning of the war, the Americans had asserted their title to the town and harbor of Mobile, which, although a part of the territory ceded […]
(Transcribed handwritten, unedited story by WPA writer in the 1930s – please remember the time-period in which it was written) Mr. and Mrs. John Prewitt and their slaves WPA Writer’s Project Written in the 1930s By Lillian Finnell Mr. John W. Prewitt and his wife lived 13 miles north of Tuscaloosa on the Byler, U. […]
More information on Hopkins Lee is included in the Books Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II and Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records HOPKINS LEE (b. 1765 d. 1834) BIOGRAPHY of EARLY BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA Hopkins Lee was born in Johnston, North Carolina […]
Patron – Notice to some Delinquent Tax Payers May 23, 1901 in Elba, Alabama (Transcribed excerpts from The Elba Clipper, Elba, Alabama, May 23, 1901) NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS The State of Alabama, Coffee County. To owners unknown and parties below stated: The Tax Collector of said State and County has filed in my […]
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