Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In this autobiography we hear her actual words of her experiences.
Jeremiah Austill ((1793- 1881) was one of the participants of the famous Canoe Fight that took place in Alabama in 1813. We hear his actual words in this autobiography from him. The autobiography was published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly in 1944 and the fifth part of the article is transcribed here which tells of […]
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) De Soto Was Refused Indian Maidens To Accompany Him The main purpose of De Soto expedition to America was to find gold. At the time, gold was the great object of nearly all the Spanish explorers and conquerors. They had successfully found it in […]
Alabama Descendants of ELISHA COTTINGHAM (ca. 1755-ca. 1820) is the Cottingham family mentioned in the best-selling novel, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II And The family ancestral line inspired two historical fiction series – Tapestry of Love and The Cottinghams. John Cottingham home in Snowhill, Maryland built 1707 […]
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