Sunday, January 31, 2021

Fire at library broke up a domino game in Eutaw, Greene County, Alabama...

 
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Fire at library broke up a domino game in Eutaw, Greene County, Alabama

THE HISTORY OF THE GREENE COUNTY LIBRARY By Emory Peebles Hildreth (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 05, No. 04, Winter Issue 1943) As librarian of the Greene County Library during its thirteen and a half years of existence, I think maybe I should write a brief history of the library, before my memory […]

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PATRON + Amazing – Some letters from John Hunt and his brother William from 1835

JOHN HUNT By Robert C. Hunt, Chattanooga, Tenn. The first white man known to have settled in the Huntsville area was an Indian trader by the name of John Ditto and usually referred to as “Old Man Ditto”.1 Ditto’s Landing was located at the present site of Whitesburg on the Tennessee River about ten miles […]

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PATRON – Bible record includes surnames of Greene, Pate, Ingram, Gaulding, Easterly and many more

This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume IX Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents of the book WILLIAM H. GREENE BIBLE Wilmore’s New Analytical Reference Bible, Published New York, Henry F. Giere, 1904. Original entries apparently made by William H. Greene, who was born in […]

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Are you a geneaholic? Here is how to find out.

Here are the Top Ten Indicators you’ve become a Geneaholic….. 10. You introduce your daughter as your descendant 9. You’ve never met any of the people you send e-mail to, even though you’re related 8. You can recite your lineage back eight generations, but can’t remember your nephew’s name 7. You have more photographs of […]

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Saturday, January 30, 2021

Marquis de Lafayette said Mobile, Alabama girl was prettiest in the United States...

 
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Marquis de Lafayette said Mobile, Alabama girl was prettiest in the United States

MOBILE GIRL SAID PRETTIEST IN UNITED STATES By Benjamin D. Baker Federal Writers’ Progressing Council Chamber, City Hall Mobile, Alabama November 21, 1939 Marquis de Lafayette was feted Royally When a Guest in Mobile Homes A Mobile girl, Miss Josephine Marie Jusan, was pronounced by the Marquis de Lafayette, to be the most beautiful girl […]

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PATRON + A former slave from Birmingham Alabama became the first millionaire of color in Jefferson County, Alabama

Andrew Jackson Beard An Inventor (1849-1921) “Andrew Jackson Beard was born a slave on a plantation near Mt. Pinson in Jefferson County, Alabama about 1849. On this farm, he spent his early life and youth working for his master, from whom his family took the name “Beard.” Milton Beard and Creasey Tatum, his parents, were […]

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PATRON – Names of the first settlers of Limestone County, Alabama and where they lived

“SCRAPS” RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY By Thomas Smith Malone The Athens Post, March 14, 1867. Page 2, Column 3. Part II In 1805 the United States Government succeeded in making a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians, by the terms of which the Indians ceded most of their possessions to the Mississippi […]

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AUTHOR SUNDAY – In this corner…Jiujitsu Joey from Gatlinburg Tennessee – Watch out for Kangaroo's at the zoo!

In this corner…Jiujitsu Joey from Gatlinburg Tennessee by Shannon Hollon A few years ago we traveled to Gatlinburg Tennessee for a little family getaway and on our way home we made one last stop at a mountain side petting zoo, this zoo had your typical goats, sheep and donkeys but the one animal that I […]

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Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa was built at the beginning of the Civil War

“The Alabama Insane Hospital was established by the legislature on February 6, 1952.  Built in Tuscaloosa, it received its first patient in 1861, with Dr. Peter Bryce as director. Applying modern methods, Bryce became renowned for humane treatment of his patients. Today, the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation oversees multiple facilities and […]

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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Old St. Stephens Part III – The Lawyers, Physicians & Merchants...

 
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Old St. Stephens Part III – The Lawyers, Physicians & Merchants

Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens  PART III (This transcription was read at the Centennial Celebration, May 6, 1899. It was published in four installments in the Washington County News, St. Stephens, May 25, and June 1, 8, and 15, 1899.) by Miss Mary Welsh, of Shuqualak, Missi LAWYERS. Well, there is no living without the […]

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PATRON + Abraham Mordecai lost his ear and almost his life in early Montgomery County, Alabama

Abraham Mordecai was an early settler who lived his last days in Dudleyville, Alabama in a log cabin.Below is a sketch of him written by Alabama Historian, Albert J. Pickett, in 1847. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF “OLD MORDACAI” Living at Dudleyville, Tallapoosa County, Ala. He settled in Montgomery County in 1789. He was […]

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PATRON – Local people in news from Lower Peach Tree & Fatama, Alabama 1910

(Copied exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Alabama Footprints – Exploration is a collection of lost and forgotten stories about the people who discovered and initially settled in Alabama. Some stories include: The true story of the first […]

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Friday, January 15, 2021

Francis Scott Key who wrote, The Star-Spangled Banner, came to Alabama to help solve problems...

 
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Francis Scott Key who wrote, The Star-Spangled Banner, came to Alabama to help solve problems

 (CONTINUED from Part I) (This was transcribed by the Alabama Historical Society and printed in 1901 in their magazine as follows) THE MISSION OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY TO ALABAMA IN 1833 PART II By Thomas Chalmers McCorvey Tuscaloosa. The State of Alabama was not slow in asserting its sovereignty over the ceded territory. (Indian Lands) […]

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PATRON + A gun duel took place in Montgomery, Alabama in 1839 that is hard to believe

(The story of this duel was included in many historical books, but it is still hard to believe.) Hot words were passed and a challenge was given There has been but one duel fought in Montgomery County. About the year 1839 Bush W. Bell (Bushrod W. Bell)  and John S. Bailey, two very prominent and […]

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PATRON – Political candidates in Henry County, Alabama 1920

(All Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA 1908 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS Find your southeast Alabama ancestor in this great KINDLE Book. Immediate download! Dothan was a railroad hub for Southeast Florida and the editor of this newspaper mentions each visitor and their relation to local citizens. Some […]

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PATRON + FUNNY FRIDAY: A GENEALOGY NIGHTMARE

A Genealogy Nightmare My daughter never married but she’s lived with Joe, so long,And they and the kids are so happy that somehow, it doesn’t seem wrong. My son, he was legally married but his wife kept her own name.We don’t know the name of our grand-kids but, we love everyone, just the same. But, […]

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