This story is an excerpt from A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES & GENEALOGIES VOLUME I JOHN and WILLIAM T. FORD BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY 1773, 1777 Perry County, Alabama John Ford was born about 1777 in Georgia or Carolina and migrated with his brother Capt. William Thomas Ford, born about 1773, from Oglethorpe […]
FRONTIER EVANGELIST THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BRYSON (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, Nos. 01 & 02, Spring and Summer 1980) PART II Extracted Alabama Travels of Henry Bryson 1826 SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA This day I came on down to John Seely’s and here spent the night 5 miles below Willson Hill. Willson’s […]
(Transcribed from The Wetumpka Herald, Wetumpka, Alabama, May 1, 1947) HISTORY OF WETUMPKA DeSoto and his followers were the first white men of whom there is any record of having visited what is now Elmore County. It is recorded that DeSoto entered on September 1, 1540. A relic of 140, a breech block of one […]
Patron – Woman’s Civic League was the first Health Department in Birmingham, Alabama (Excerpts from The Decaturs Daily, Decatur, Alabama February 26, 1912) SANITARY BAKERIES The Woman’s Civic League of Birmingham, Mrs. C. P. Orr, president, will visit all the bakeries of that city to ascertain their cleanliness, or lack of it. Shops or employees […]
This is an excerpt from the book Vinegar of the Four Thieves REPELLING ANTS Stop ants in your house by plugging the hole where ants are coming from with petroleum jelly or soft soap. Troublesome ants: A heavy chalk mark laid a finger’s distance from your sugar box and all-around (there must be no space […]
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