So this is why Santa’s reindeer have good directions & manage to find all the houses on Christmas Eve! [photographs]...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward So this is why Santa's reindeer have good directions & manage to find all the houses on Christmas Eve! [photographs] Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 November, 2022 THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA’S REINDEER IS REVEALED According to the Alaskan Department of Fish and game, Both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year. Reindeer herd ca. 1900 Alaska (from Library of Congress) Reindeer which recently dropped its horns at a Reindeer Fair ca. 1900 (Library of Congress) Female reindeer retain […] Read more → Autauga County, Alabama – Was this the 1st camp meeting in the new state? Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 November, 2022 An excerpt of a transcription of a history of Autauga County, Alabama written around 1886 by Shadrack Mims. It has been transcribed exactly as written with misspelled words etc and includes names and descriptions of many early settlers. Settled by two poor men named Bailey and Hathcock  Now, reader, I am ready to move slowly in […] Read more → PATRON – Alabama Bible Records: Sarah Ann Mason Griffith – Autauga County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 29 November, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

UPDATED WITH PODCAST Tuscumbia was destroyed by a tornado in 1874 when the town was debt-free.

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward UPDATED WITH PODCAST Tuscumbia was destroyed by a tornado in 1874 when the town was debt-free. Posted by Donna R Causey on 24 November, 2022 (This story is even more interesting considering the fact that Tuscumbia had been congratulated in April 30, 1874 for being debt-free in the Birmingham Iron Age Newspaper.  This must have been devastating for a city that had accomplished so much.) Continued below Tuscumbia: Destroyed by a tornado New York Times — Alabama THE DESTRUCTION OF […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Which county is named for an Alabama Daniel Boone? (Transcribed from Newspaper Nov. 18, 1885...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Which county is named for an Alabama Daniel Boone? (Transcribed from Newspaper Nov. 18, 1885 Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 November, 2022 (Alabama’s Daniel Boone settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at the battle of Burnt Corn, in which he commanded a company. – Do you know his name?) BATTLE OF BURNT CORN     (The following has been transcribed from The Southern Star […] Read more → PATRON + The War reaches Randolph County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 November, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → PATRON – The Greensboro Guards, Hale County, Alabama Guards – names of those who served the Confederacy Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 November, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Autauga County, Alabama – where the Cokers and the Millers had a brawl...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Autauga County, Alabama – where the Cokers and the Millers had a brawl Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 November, 2022 Below is an excerpt of a transcription of a  history of Autauga County, Alabama written around 1886 by Shadrack Mims. It has been transcribed exactly as written with misspelled words etc and includes names and descriptions of many early settlers.  Start of the Mims Family But to go back to where we were before I began […] Read more → PATRON + Dr. Palmer's notes (1883-1884) about Alabama – Fort Jackson, Lowndes County and mound Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 November, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → Iron Bowl events in 1957 brought the rivalry to a new level that lasted for years Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 November, 2022 The Iron Bowl rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Alabama “has long been reckoned as one of the most heated, if not the most heated, of collegiate rivalries in the country.”1 Since Alabama and Auburn played their first football game at Lakeview Park in Birmingham, Alabama on February 22, 1893, the matchup has […] Read more → PATRON – Alabama Bible Records: Noel Pitts, Barbour & Pike, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 November, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Gerrard Hansford, a free-colored person was the first barber in Wetumpka, Alabama in 1825...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Gerrard Hansford, a free-colored person was the first barber in Wetumpka, Alabama in 1825 Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 November, 2022 Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 01, Spring Issue 1956 GERRARD HANSFORD, BARBER Montgomery, Alabama 1825 Gerrard Hansford, a free colored person, well remembered in Montgomery, was married on the 15th of December, 1825, by William Maxey, Esqr., to Maria George, daughter of Buckner and Elizabeth George, of Montgomery County. General Marquis […] Read more → PATRON – The Iron Bowl – Did you know that the Alabama & Auburn game was suspended for 41 years? Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 November, 2022 [Here’s an interesting news article from 1910 pleading for the football rivalry between Alabama and Auburn to continue in Birmingham after being suspended.] Alabama and Auburn have met in the Iron Bowl for so many years that we may not realize that the two colleges refused to meet on the gridiron for a number of […] Read more → William Christopher Handy born November 16, 1873! Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 November, 2022 UPDATED WITH NEWSREEL! William Christopher Handy was born November 16, 1873 in Florence, Alabama to parents Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy. His father was the pastor of a small church in Guntersville, in northeast central Alabama. W. C. Handy was born in a log cabin that was built by his grandfather William Wise Handy […] Read more → PATRON + Indian Roundup Took Over Three Weeks Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 November, 2022 To view this content, you must be a member of Alabama Pioneers Patrons's Patreon at $2 or more - Click "Read more" to unlock this content at the source Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe