An Excerpt from DALE COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR (Reminiscences of Mary Love (Edwards) Fleming)1 When the Civil War was going on I was quite a young girl, consequently, my recollections of that period are not as accurate as or complete as those of a person of; more mature age at that […]
Our mothers and grandmothers did not have all the kitchen tools we have today. This is how they made Potato Straws. How to Make Potato Straws (Transcribed from Brewton Banner (Brewton, Alabama June 2, 1883) Wash a pint of potatoes, peel them very thin, slice them about quarter of an inch thick, put them into […]
This biography is also in the book Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable: Alabama Pioneers (Volume 1) COL. JONATHAN NEWTON SMITH BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1814 – d. 1885) Bibb County, Alabama Colonel Jonathan Newton Smith was and early pioneer in Bibb County, Alabama. He was a native of Georgia and moved with his father and […]
(Includes many early residents of Coffee County, Alabama) Residents of Coffee County, Alabama have a ‘can-do’ spirit. Though frequented by fires and floods, each event only made the citizens more resolute as they rebuilt their lives. Coffee County was created by the Legislature, December 29, 1841, out of the western portion of Dale County. […]
Too Many McKnights (submitted by Joe McKnight) My Paternal grandfather, William Charles McKnight, was born in Calhoun County, GA. in 1864 and migrated to Marengo County, Alabama in the 1880s, where he mostly used the name “W. C. McKnight.” It took several years of frustrating search/research before I learned that the courthouse for Calhoun County, […]
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