EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL OF MRS. GOVERNOR JOHN GAYLE 1 (Mrs. Gayle, wife of John Gayle, Alabama’s seventh Governor, left a journal which her descendants preserved for more than a century before publishing it. Governor and Mrs. Gayle were the parents of Mrs. Amelia Gayle Gorgas, who was for many years librarian of the University of […]
More details of this massacre can be found in ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation KIMBALL/KIMBELL-JAMES MASSACRE in Clarke County, Alabama A brutal massacre occurred on September 1, 1813, in Clarke County, in which the Creeks under the Prophet Francis cruelly murdered 12 members of the Kimball and James families. In the fall of 1813, the settlers in […]
(Are you looking for your British ancestry? Here are some tips on how to research them.) Tips on British Ancestry….(from British Origins of American Colonists 1629-1775 – William Dollarhide) "Some National sources for surnames in the British Isles —Telephone Books and Directories, available at libraries —International Genealogical Index- Family History Library at Salt Lake City, Utah […]
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 THE QUESTION OF REBUILDING. On the 4th day of January, 1850, Mr. R. H. Baker, of Russell, introduced a bill in the House providing an appropriation to […]
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