(Transcribed from The Weekly Advertiser Montgomery, Alabama July 31, 1850) CALL FOR A SOUTHERN MEETING – A VOICE FROM AUTAUGA At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Vernon and vicinity, held on Friday, July 19th, 1850, on motion of Dr. Joseph P. De Jarnette, Col. Joseph B. Wilkinson was called to the […]
DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) PART IV HOMESPUN CLOTHES, FASHIONS, DRESS We could not buy ready-made clothes nor the cloth to make clothes at home. As it was not possible to hire much of this work done, the white women were kept busy sewing, knitting, […]
Patron – Marriage, a fight, lawsuit, and new town were incorporated in early 1887 around Dadeville, Alabama (Excerpt from The Tallapoosa New Era, Dadeville, Alabama, January 6, 1887) MARRIED IN TALBOTTON Yesterday at 12 o’clock, at the residence of Mrs. Brown, in Talbotton, Dr. A. B. Lovejoy, of Dadeville, Alabama, and Mrs. Ola Taylor, were […]
These are some home remedies for common ailments from 1880 cookbook! I’m glad I’m living in this century. Nervous spasms are usually relieved by a little salt taken into the mouth and allowed to dissolve. Sleeplessness, caused by too much blood in the head, may be overcome by applying a cloth wet with cold water to […]
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