PATRON + What happened to the Alabama State Treasury funds during Wilson’s Raid...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward PATRON + What happened to the Alabama State Treasury funds during Wilson's Raid Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 July, 2021 WILSON’S RAID AND OTHER RECITAL 1 Recording A Persistent, But Unavailing Attempt To Capture At Montgomery In 1865, Mr. Duncan Blue Graham, Treasurer, And To Seize Funds Of The Confederate State Of Alabama By Samuel Walker Catts (*As related by Florence Leonora Graham, daughter of Duncan B. Graham (Mrs. John T. Northington, deceased) to her […] Read more → PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Preserving foods in colonial days Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 July, 2021 PATRON + In colonial days, "preserving meat for the winter or for use during travel was a major concern before canning and usually kept for years, not months. (Continued below) Preserving foods in colonial days Food was preserved by drying or parching in several ways. Meats were cut thin and usually salted, then placed over […] Read more → BIOGRAPHY: J. M. Truitt – Clay County, Alabama died July 28, 1921 Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 July, 2021 OBITUARY OF J. M. TRUITT Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers Read more → PATRON – The food menu was very plain in the South during the Civil War Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 July, 2021 Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming) WAR TIME FARMING, FOOD SUPPLIES Like the other farmers, Mother made some few changes in the crops raised during the war. The farmers in our section had always produced most of the food crops needed to supply their […] Read more → Julia Tutwiler, born August 15, 1841, was a woman with progressive ideas for the time Posted by Donna R Causey on 28 July, 2021 On March 31, 1916, Julia Strudwick Tutwiler’s death was reported in the Florence Times. Julia Sturdwick Tutwiler died on March 24, 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama. She was a woman with progressive ideas who contributed much to the education and penal system in Alabama. Julia Tutwiler (Alabama Department of Archives and History) Women were the intellectual […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

PATRON + The mysterious Great Seal of the Confederate States was missing...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward PATRON + The mysterious Great Seal of the Confederate States was missing Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 July, 2021 THE GREAT OR BROAD SEAL of the THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA A BRIEF. HISTORY1 Presented by Field and Fireside, Inc. Twenty-six Thirteenth Street, Columbus, Georgia For many years there has been considerable mystery regarding the existence and history of the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, Much has been written and many […] Read more → PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: A brother advertises on his sister's grave Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 July, 2021 The brother of a girl who made a living by selling eggs thus pays loving tribute to her memory and advertises his own business: Here lies the body of Mary McGrayn Who was so very pure within She broke the outward shell of sin, And hatched herself a cherubim. N. B. Her brother made of […] Read more → For less than a cup of coffee once a month, you can . . . Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 July, 2021 Did you know that for less than the cost of a cup of coffee once a month you can help Alabama Pioneers and earn REWARDS? Through the Alabama Pioneers website, books, Alabama Grist Mill Podcast, and Social Media, we have attempted to capture the true spirit and lives of the State of Alabama’s ancestors in […] Read more → BIOGRAPHY: Maud Bell Lewis, Clay County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 July, 2021 OBITUARY OF Mrs. Maud Bell Lewis (April 26, 1884 – July 27, 1921) Read more → PATRON – Reflections of a Bachelor in 1900 Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 July, 2021 REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Transcribed From Our Mountain Home (Talladega, Alabama) March 21, 1900 Lots of women save all their classic music for other people and love their husbands in rag-time. The average man has an idea that being kind to his wife only means not being unkind to her. Every woman has two or […] Read more → John T. Milner Bridge – dedication of bridge in 1929 Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 July, 2021 DEDICATION OF THE JOHN T. MILNER BRIDGE December 12, 1929 Address by General R. E. Steiner As a boy, I lived in Greenville, Alabama, where Colonel John T. Milner then lived, and as a boy, I first knew him, and until his death, my admiration and respect continued and increased. When I learned that the […] Read more → BIOGRAPHY: William Raiford Pickett born 1777 – photograph Posted by Donna R Causey on 27 July, 2021 This biography is included in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable  Alabama Pioneers Volume I WILLIAM RAIFORD PICKETT BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1777-1850) Autauga County, Alabama William Raiford Pickett was born 1777 in Anson County, North Carolina, upon the Peedee river to James Pickett and Martha Terry His parents moved sometime before the Revolutionary war, from Bolling […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

How Panther Creek got its name and other stories of Dale County, Alabama...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward How Panther Creek got its name and other stories of Dale County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 July, 2021 A second part of the transcribed serial article published in the Southern Star, Ozark, Ala., beginning May 10, 1899. EARLY HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA By W. L. Andrewsi THE SOUTHERN STAR, MAY 17, 1899 To overcome and to conquer the many obstacles in the way of civilization in the settlement of an untamed forest inhabited […] Read more → Lost & Forgotten stories of Alabama's Explorers Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 July, 2021 The stories in Alabama Footprints – Exploration – A collection of lost & forgotten stories of Alabama, concerns the discovery of Alabama and the initial settlement era. Table of Contents Spanish Explorers De Soto’s Interpreter Was Almost Roasted By The Indians De Soto Was Refused Indian Maidens To Accompany Him The People Of Maubilla – Exterminated French Explorers […] Read more → There were many doctors in the early days of the town of Perote in Bullock County Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 July, 2021 REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi Foreword (This transcribed excerpt was written before 1958) Nestled among the rolling hills of Bullock County, five miles from the Pike County line, fifteen miles south of the country seat, Union Springs, lies the community of Perote, Alabama. The well-traveled U.S. Highway 29, […] Read more → MONDAY MUSINGS: The one who dies with the most ancestors wins and other thoughts about history and genealogy. Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 July, 2021 Some fun thoughts about genealogy and history. I like the first and last one best. The one who dies with the most ancestors wins!   Everybody’s ancestor could not have fit on Columbus’ ships Sure a real job would be nice, but it would interfere with my genealogy After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be […] Read more → We have a new policy on Alabama Pioneers. Don't miss out! Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 July, 2021 Subscribe to the FREE DAILY NEWSLETTER IMMEDIATELY so you can keep up-to-date on all NEW posts We now have thousands of stories about Alabama on our website, www.alabamapioneers.com and we post more stories each day. We are making a change in the access to the stories starting soon! On August 1st, 2021, each NEW daily […] Read more → Excerpt from journal of seventh governor of Alabama's wife reveals her literary talents Posted by Donna R Causey on 26 July, 2021 EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL OF MRS. GOVERNOR JOHN GAYLE 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama’s seventh Governor, left a journal which her descendants preserved for more than a century before publishing it. Governor and Mrs. Gayle were the parents of Mrs. Amelia Gayle Gorgas, who was for many years librarian of the University of […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe