(Excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on July 26, 1996. Georgia surrendered to the United States all her claims to land in this part of the world, (present day Jackson County, Alabama) on April 24, 1802. Old Indian stone house on the […]
Revised with direct links to many sources and burial sites! This book includes the genealogy of and biography of William Barrett Travis of Alamo fame and Elisha Cottingham, the Alabama descendants from the Tapestry of Love, Historical Fiction Series by Donna R. Causey –Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume 1 now available in paperback […]
REMINISCENCES OF PEROTE IN BULLOCK By A Native Catharine Elizabeth (Hixon) Rumphi (This transcribed excerpt was written before 1958) Cotton has always been the principal money crop and before the cotton gin was invented the cotton had to be picked from the seed by hand. All cloth was made at home “During the Civil War, […]
Working for the telephone company after college by Clifford Dobyns My first job after college was with a telephone company whose home base was Lexington, Ky. My first assignment was to go to a very rural area of southeast Ky. And determine what level of telephone service the population would be willing to pay for. […]
After the Revolutionary War, free bounty land was offered by the federal government to citizens and soldiers for their service. The practice of awarding bounty land for military forces had been a long-standing practice in the British Empire in North America. The land was a commodity in generous supply. SEE ALL BOOKS BY DONNA R. […]
This biography is included in the book First Families of Lawrence County, Alabama Volume I ARTHUR FRANCIS HOPKINS BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1794-1866) Lawrence County, Alabama Arthur Francis Hopkins was born October 18, 1794 in Virginia to James and Frances (Carter) Hopkins. He came to Alabama in 1814 after growing up in Virginia and attending […]
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