“SCRAPS” RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY By Thomas Smith Malone This excerpt has been transcribed from The Athens Post, April 18, 1867. Page 2, Column 2. Part VII During the year 1818, the population increased so rapidly that Congress authorized the people to take steps to form a State Constitution The election […]
All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA (Surname starting with A – some links to graves) Abbott, James H. member of the 13th Alabama Infantry Company I, still in Randolph County in 1925, filed for […]
Have you ever heard of the STAR CHAMBER? Read about how and why it drove many of our founders to America in the "page-turning", action-packed, historical fiction novel, Ribbon of Love. Many early settlers (including the Cottingham family of Bibb County) of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware immigrated to Alabama at a later date. TAPESTRY OF […]
During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write stories about life in the United States. The program was named the U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project and it gave employment to historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. This is one of the unedited legends about the […]
Touring Alabama in 1820, 18211 Written ca. 1820 by Adam Hodgson Left Fort Hawkins, Alabama Part II We left Fort Hawkins at seven o’clock, on the 22nd, having taken care to secure our breakfast, as we knew that we should not see a habitation till we arrived at our evening quarters. About a mile from […]
Four Volumes combined into ONE! As I conducted research for interesting stories to publish and/or post on my Alabama Pioneers website, I continually found buried genealogy information, such as marriages, deaths, etc. that I knew would be of great benefit to family researchers, but it was hidden so well that most search engines would not […]
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