Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) William Weatherford – Red Eagle Among the Native Americans, Tecumseh found a bold, gifted, and eloquent leader named William Weatherford (also known as Lamochattee, Red Eagle, Hoponida Fulsahi, and Billy Larney1). His parents were Charles Weatherford, a thrifty Scottish peddler and Sehoy Marchand, daughter of the Tookabatcha […]
OLD CLAYTON, BARBOUR COUNTY, ALABAMA (Transcribed From Smartt, Eugenia Persons…History of Eufaula, Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, printers, 1930, c1933.) The town of Clayton had its beginning about the time the county seat was located there. Barbour County, so named in honor of Governor James Barbour, of Virginia, was established by an act of […]
Patron – On February 15, 1894 News about the Methodist church, a marriage, visitors, and a serenade PERSONALS (Excerpts from The Courtland Enterprise, Courtland, Alabama, February 15, 1894) Mr. J. W. Doss, of Decatur, was here visiting his parents this week. Mr. Dick Pruitt, of Leighton, (the horse dealer) was circulating among his friends in […]
The Stay-Aways (Transcribed from Choctaw Advocate, Butler, Alabama, June 11, 1890) Plenty of them everywhere, little and big, old and young. Here are some of their reasons: "I don’t like the preacher." Well my friend, if you were a preacher somebody wouldn’t like you. Strange to say, some don’t like Christ. Read 2 Thess, iii, […]
This is an excerpt from the book Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME I: Biographies Genealogy Reports, Notes & Records ADAM JAMES BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1800-1884) Bibb County, Alabama Adam James was born 1800 in North Carolina to Daniel Milton and Rebecca (Mossle) James. He was the brother of Frederick Monroe James and […]
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