Samuel T. B. Morse missed the death of his wife due to a lag in communication and this was the impetus that provided an invention to change the method of communication forever. (Did you know that Samuel F. B. Morse was a member of a corporation that first operated the telegraph in Alabama? It is hard […]
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In this autobiography we hear her actual words of her experiences. The autobiography was published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly in 1944) LIFE OF MARGARET ERVIN AUSTILL Part II Creek Indians […]
(Excerpts transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) NEW HOME Mr. Ed Tillman, of Opp, visited his aunt, Mrs. J. E. Chapman, last Sunday. Judge S. M. Henderson, of Chapman, is the guest of his son, Rev. J. L. Henderson, this week. Also Mr. Robt. Henderson and family, of Chapman, were […]
RECALLS DAYS WHEN ICE CAME DOWN FROM MAINE BY SHIPS Captain John Dorgan has Wealth of Memories after 55 Years Spent on “Old Man River and Mobile Bay” By Benjamin D. Baker Federal Writers’ Project Council Chamber, City Hall Mobile, Alabama November 6, 1939 Fifty-five years of tugging and towing on “Ole Man River” and […]
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