Continued stories from Rev. R. W. Brooks of Escambia, County, Alabama written in 1939 – WARNING: This story discusses voting in the 1870s after the Civil War and disturbing language and opinions may be used. Please remember the time that this story was written and do not read if it offends you. First vote cast […]
In my personal genealogy research, I often spent days in courthouses, libraries and cemeteries, as well as considerable expense copying records only to discover that I was following in another researcher’s footsteps. I could have saved myself time, effort and a lot of money if I’d only known of this research earlier. Some Alabama Pioneer […]
ALABAMA NEWS (Transcribed from The Citizen-Examiner (Hayneville, Alabama) May 31, 1871 The boiler in the steam mill of Messrs. G. Lynch & Co., near Clifton, Wilcox county, exploded May 20, killing 5 negroes and seriously wounding 2 others. A fragment of the boiler struck a wagon which was some distance off, breaking it and throwing […]
(Transcribed from The Citizen-Examiner (Hayneville, Alabama) May 31, 1871 LOCAL AND COUNTY INTELLIGENCE Retrospective – The Lowndes county of 36 years ago differed somewhat from its aspect today. Few are now here who figured in those times, for the population has been singularly transient to a great extent. Death of course tolls fearfully upon the […]
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