Excerpt from ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, Brochure by JAMES B. SIMPSON, Late Recording Secretary to the Governor JANUARY 1898 Roemer Printing Co., Montgomery, Ala,, Printers. TEMPORARY CAPITAL IN HUNTSVILLE Before the time fixed for the assembling of the next session of the territorial Legislature, Congress took a hand in Alabama affairs, and on […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! WILLIAM E. W. YERBY BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1864-1940) HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA William E. W. Yerby was born Oct. 10, 1864, at Greensboro, Hale county, Ala. His father was Miles Hassell Yerby, (1828 -1900) born at Tuscaloosa, Ala., who was engaged in teaching for fifty years at Greensboro. He was a fine scholar, a […]
SOME TERRY FAMILIES OF ALABAMA is a 378 page e-book that includes a compilation of documented genealogy records, notes and brief biographies of JAMES TERRY (1727- 1799) Alabama descendants, DAVID TERRY (1771- 1846) of Bibb County, Alabama and WILLIAM TERRY (1715-1775) Alabama descendants. Browse the FREE SAMPLE pages (which includes a brief descendant outline in the first […]
Did you know that the Confederate soldier who was the bearer of Robert E. Lee’s flag of truce to Grant was from Alabama? He later became a governor of Alabama. His photograph as a Confederate soldier is at the bottom of this page. Herndon, Hon. T. H. Herndon (1828-1883)– Thomas Heard Herndon, first a major […]
There was nothing artificial in his smile and it certainly was spontaneous, so it was natural. He looked and acted the same in carrying a Bible as in living what it taught. People carry their Bible in various ways, but Morris carried his up high, with elbow bent, which placed the Bible close to his […]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! JUDGE MITCHELL THOMAS PORTER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1825 AL – d. 1916) Jefferson, County, Alabama Judge Mitchell T. Porter of Birmingham, Ala., was born at Montevallo, Alabama on Oct. 10, 1825 to Dr. Mitchell A. and Mary (Wade) Porter both natives of Virginia. his father died when he was about three months […]
FIRST FAMILIES OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, ALABAMA VOLUME I is now in paperback and makes a great gift! Lawrence County, Alabama was created by the act of the Territorial Legislature of February 4, 1818. Formed from territory acquired by the Cherokee and Chicasa cession of 1816. The early settlers of the county came from Virginia, Tennessee, […]
Happy Birthday! ROBERT J. WARE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1759-1827) Montgomery, Alabama Robert J. Ware (b. 1759) and his wife Judith came from Lincoln County, Georgia to settle in the Fork (the juncture of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers) in Montgomery about the year 1825. He was a Revolutionary War Soldier who fought in the Battle […]
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