Thursday, January 19, 2023

PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS: Dozing during the day is dangerous according to this health tip...

 
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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS: Dozing during the day is dangerous according to this health tip

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The French sent young girls to marry in Alabama

Read this story and more in: ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) When Alabama was first settled by the French, they faced a big problem. There was a shortage of women so France came up with a solution. They recruited a number of young women to settle in Alabama and sent them […]

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Mahan boys and their comrades – early pioneers to Bibb and Shelby County -a story written in 1910

Mahan boys and comrades (Written in 1910) The three Mahan boys and their comrades, following the good fight at New Orleans, split up into small crowds, “and,” writes Kevin Cunningham Mahan for this record, “rather than tackle the job of running boats on the Mississippi up stream, they decided to follow the not any too […]

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The Great Depression brought migrant workers to Birmingham in 1937 [photographs]

The Great Depression brought migrant workers to Birmingham in 1937 [photographs] Scroll down for this Patron+ member story  In the years 1935-1941 in the United States, the whole country was devastated by the Great Depression. Many families lost their farms and homes and took to the road as migrant workers who followed the crops that needed to […]

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Thomas Lee Bailey born 1773 – was a descendant of a King's Mountain soldier

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

PATRON – Jan. 16, 1890 – Clanton, Chilton County local news, a death, and stray horse

 
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PATRON – Jan. 16, 1890 – Clanton, Chilton County local news, a death, and stray horse

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Monday, January 16, 2023

AUTHOR SUNDAY – The Last Panther in Alabama – or was he?

 
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AUTHOR SUNDAY – The Last Panther in Alabama – or was he?

The Last Panther In Alabama (Written exactly as told) from Gibbons Family News Letter submitted by Dorothy Clark Way back, sometime around 1902 -1908, the last known panther was killed in Alabama near the Jimmy Gibbons farm. A neighbor was coming up through Jimmy’s corn field when he saw some enormous tracks. He ran to […]

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Friday, January 13, 2023

Alabama immigrants from Maryland’s Eastern Shore probably fought with ancestor of President Washington...

 
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Alabama immigrants from Maryland's Eastern Shore probably fought with ancestor of President Washington

Inspired by true events, Col. John Washington (ancestor of President George Washington), Randall Revell, Tom Cottingham, and Edmund Beauchamp ward off Indian attacks and conquer the wilds of Maryland’s Eastern shore in 17th century colonial America in this historical novel, FreeHearts. This is the third book in the Tapestry of Love Series by Donna R. Causey. […]

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PATRON+ RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Old-fashioned, Southern Banana Pudding

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

AUTHOR SUNDAY – Claim on land brought a serendipitous balance against losses for Baker family....

 
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AUTHOR SUNDAY – Claim on land brought a serendipitous balance against losses for Baker family.

Submitted by Patricia Ross Parker I had always known that my grandmother’s maiden name was Baker and that she had lived as a child in Fort Worth, but I knew nothing more about her family. After I retired, three generations of my family ended up living in Dallas, Texas. Together, we went looking for a […]

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The first female football player, a forgotten story from Atmore, Alabama

Traditionally, football has always been considered a boy’s sport, but a young girl at Escambia High in Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama challenged this practice when she became the first female to score in an American football game in 1939 and in 1940. Luverne Wise Albert "Luverne “Toad” Wise became the kicker for the Atmore (now […]

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The State of Alabama has many lost and forgotten stories

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PATRON+ Amazing story of courage of some early settlers of Alabama

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PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Wives sometimes had some curious epitaphs on their tombstone

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Many of these men were early pioneers of Alabama

The biographies of the Alabamians in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. IV  come from many sources. A good deal of the information comes from source books written when the subjects were still living. Additional information and/or documentation on any of the subjects has been included at the end of each biography This is […]

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