This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Pioneers: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 3) First Edition Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron/Patreon and unlock even more stories! https://www.alabamapioneers.com/unlock-the-secrets-to-alabamas-past/ Spanish Difficulties Develop In 1805, Congress established the District of Washington in the Mississippi Territory into a revenue precinct, known as the District of Mobile and Fort Stoddart. […]
PATRON + Thanks to the untiring efforts of these men the telegraph and telephone finally came to Greensboro, Alabama Communication with the outside world was slow coming in Greensboro, Alabama1 Telegraph Lines In 1869, the citizens of Greensboro donated a thousand dollars to induce the Western Union Telegraph Company to extend its line from Marion to […]
PATRON – Mrs. Graham’s obituary, a dreadful accident, and Administrators’ sales in Greenville in 1878. (Transcribed from THE GREENVILLE ADVOCATE, Greenville, Alabama, Jan 3, 1878) OBITUARY On the evening of the 2nd of Nov. 1877, 7 o’clock, after a long and tedious illness, Mrs. E. C. W. Graham, wife of Maj. J. A. Graham, calmly […]
These epitaphs for wives reveal the state of the marriage Here lies the body of James Robinson and Ruth, his wife; Their warfare is accomplished. ————– This spot is the sweetest I’ve seen in my life, For it raises the flowers and covers my wife. ————— Cynthy Ann is berried here Be easy with her, Lord, […]
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