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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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