John Green was born Jan 17, 1768, in South Carolina, son of Benjamin Green. The Greens ran a tavern in Chester Co, PA. They were an English Quaker family who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686. By the 1760’s and early 1770’s, they moved to Long Cane Creek in Granville, South Carolina. Descendants of JOHN GREEN […]
No bacon or grease for the beans and cabbage? This was the solution in early days of Alabama CHEROKEE COUNTY, ALABAMA REMINISCENCES OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT By Rev. J. D. Anthony Part V A clipping from the Gadsden Times (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 03, Fall Issue 1946) HARD TIMES IN […]
MAIL ROBBERY AND MURDER Delivering the mail in 1838 required a lot of skill and courage as these news articles reveal. (Transcribed from North Alabamian, Tuscumbia, Alabama Feb. 2, 1838) One of the worst calamities that ever befell the U. S. Mail in Alabama, occurred between Mobile and this place on the night of the […]
(Personal excerpts transcribed from Phenix-Girad Journal (Girard, Alabama) February 6, 1909) “MARIE” WRITES FROM HATCHECHUBBEE, ALA . The Knighterian Club met with the Misses Walker last Friday night. Owing to the cold weather only a few were out. The club held a very interesting business meeting. Mrs. Lucile Long, of Rutherford, is visiting Mrs. Gertrude […]
THE SOUTHERN GIRL (The Guntersville Democrat, Guntersville, Alabama April 20, 1899) In concluding an editorial inspired by a Southern girl’s regret that she cannot go to college, Edward Bok, in the April Ladies’ Home Journal, has this to say of the girls of the Southland: "The Southern girl is surrounded by a life far truer […]
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