(Transcribed from Fairhope Courier, August 1, 1919) OLD SETTLER TELLS ABOUT OLD TIMES One of the old-time settlers of Fairhope who arrived here when the land was simply a wilderness and really knows what pioneering is, dropped into the Courier office the first of the week and gave the writer a few illustrations of what […]
WALTER HARRISON COTTINGHAM BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY September 7, 1869 – October 17, 1942 Bibb County, Alabama Walter Harrison Cottingham was born September 7, 1869 in Bibb County, Alabama. His father, Oliver Jackson Cottingham, was 21 and his mother, Louisa Georgia "Lou” Langston, was 19. Walter’s father died when he was 16. Since he was the […]
GRANDMA’S KNIT STOCKING How much love went into each stitch (Transcribed from Brewton Banner (Brewton, Alabama June 2, 1883) THE OLD CUSTOM OF WINDING THE YARN A Few of the Memories that Cling Around it The stocking grandma knit; how much love went into every stitch; how many prayers were wrought into every round. […]
(Continued – from Alabama Folklore Part IV) Unemployed authors were employed through the Works Project Administration WPA to record the life and culture of Americans during the Great Depression era. Many were employed in Alabama. In 1937, this excerpt was part of an essay written about Alabama Folklore. The author stated this purpose in writing […]
DR. ORLANDO E. BLACK BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1875- 1917) Clay and Shelby County, Alabama Dr. Orlando E. Black was a young physician of merit and promise located at Wilsonville. He was born April 16, 1875, at Harlan, Clay county, Ala. He was reared on a farm and attended the common schools of his county when […]
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