(Did you know that “Pat Garrett” who killed “Billy the Kid” was born in Chambers County, Alabama in 1850?) One of six children, Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was born near Cusseta in Chambers County, Alabama on June 5, 1850, to John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis. The Garrett family moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana […]
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY May 7, 1798- 1801. Winthrop Sargent, commissioned Governor of the Mississippi Territory. He was born May 1, 1753, at Gloucester, Mass.; died June 3, 1820 at New Orleans, La.; and is buried at Natchez, Miss. April 1, 1801— Nov. 23, 1801 – Col. John Steele, the time elapsed from Winthrop Sargent’s expired term, […]
RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Stuffed Eggs from 1875 recipe Cut some hard-boiled eggs in half, mince the yolks with capers, anchovies and truffles in due proportions, and a little tarragon; add pepper and salt. Fill each half egg with this mixture, poor some liquified butter over each egg, warm them in the oven, and serve each half egg […]
During the “Alabama Fever” period of United States history, early settlers migrated to Alabama from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee in search of more land to grow tobacco and/or distance themselves from the Revolutionary War. Many of the early pioneers settled in old Cahaba, Alabama. This county later was divided […]
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