PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER IV The first volume of the minutes of the commissioners’ court, Talladega county, is a small book, eight by 12 inches, without index or numbered pages, and it recites that the acts therein recorded began on the “sixth day of May, in the year […]
This biography can also be found in Biographies of Notable and Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers VOL VIII GEORGE WILLOUGHBY HAILS, JR. BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1847-aft. 1910) MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA George Willoughby Hails was born January 10, 1847 near Montgomery, Alabama. His father, George Willoughby Hails was born in Columbia, SC in 1811 and his mother was Sarah […]
This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II JOHN GRAHAM BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1792 – 1864) (from Franklin, Tennessee to Lawrence Co., Alabama) The father of Judge William C. Graham of the county court of Lawrence County, Alabama was named John Graham. He served in the […]
After the Revolutionary War, free bounty land was offered by the federal government to citizens and soldiers for their service. Bounty land on western frontier No bounty land was available in many of the Original Thirteen colonies because the states lacked enough vacant land to support the policy so the government looked to the frontier […]
The highest natural point in the State of Alabama, Cheaha Mountain, lies within the bounds of Cleburne County. Cleburne County was created by the legislature December 6, 1866, from the territory of Benton (now Calhoun), Randolph and Talladega Counties. Lake base of Cheaha Mountain, highest point in Alabama (posted by Amann09, public domain, Wikipedia) Wine […]
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