Thursday, December 24, 2020

Merry Christmas to all Alabama Pioneers readers – This video should bring back memories...

 
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Merry Christmas to all Alabama Pioneers readers – This video should bring back memories

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you are having a great one! This video should bring back memories -enjoy!     Check out our latest book over the Holidays! ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories includes the following stories Plan for Indian Removal Started With President Thomas Jefferson Intrigue and Murder After Treaty At Indian Springs […]

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama was not united in the War Between the States

Tuscaloosa was not united (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the managing editor of The Tuscaloosa News July 31, 1949, about early Tuscaloosa) Rumblings of the Civil War were quite apparent in 1860 and Tuscaloosa with much-divided sentiment and forebodings cast anxious […]

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PATRON + The Big Gully and The Ravine threatened Tuscaloosa, Alabama

THE BIG GULLY AND THE RAVINE (Partial transcription of a history of Tuscaloosa written by an older resident, Ben A. Green, in 1931 who was the managing editor of The Tuscaloosa News July 31, 1949) On the night of June 6, 1866, Tuscaloosa was deluged with the heaviest rainfall in the (130 years) history of […]

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PATRON – Malaria, pneumonia, and accidents were in the news in Union, Alabama in 1915

UNION CHURCH NEWS (Transcribed from The Grand Bay News, Grand Bay, Alabama, October 1, 1915) Fred Freeland is suffering an attack of marelia (malaria?). This is pretty tough on Fred as he has just gotten over a severe case of pneumonia. C. H. Dees has under construction a large barn capable of housing about forty […]

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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS – A Breezy Elopement and a Hilarious Grass Widow on June 20, 1890 in Mobile

MATRIMONIAL MUSSES AT MOBILE A Breezy Elopement and a Hilarious Grass Widow. (Transcribed from The Montgomery Advertiser June 21, 1890) Mr. Ulmer and Mrs. Hill Leave for New Orleans, Where It Is Supposed They Were Wed on Thursday – Mrs. William’s Husband Leaves and She Celebrates the Event by a Big Spree. Mobile, June 20 […]

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BIOGRAPHY: Henry Watkins Collier and the Scotts of Lawrence County, Alabama

HENRY WATKINS COLLIER and SCOTTS of Lawrence County, Alabama The Wyatts and Scotts and Colliers were related to each other in several ways. Cornelius Collier (the grandfather of the distinguished Alabamian, Henry Watkins Collier, who was judge of the Supreme Court and Governor of the State) married Elizabeth Wyatt. He was a wealthy planter of Lunenburg County, […]

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