Marquis de Lafayette said Mobile, Alabama girl was prettiest in the United States...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Marquis de Lafayette said Mobile, Alabama girl was prettiest in the United States Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 January, 2021 MOBILE GIRL SAID PRETTIEST IN UNITED STATES By Benjamin D. Baker Federal Writers’ Progressing Council Chamber, City Hall Mobile, Alabama November 21, 1939 Marquis de Lafayette was feted Royally When a Guest in Mobile Homes A Mobile girl, Miss Josephine Marie Jusan, was pronounced by the Marquis de Lafayette, to be the most beautiful girl […] Read more → PATRON + A former slave from Birmingham Alabama became the first millionaire of color in Jefferson County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 January, 2021 Andrew Jackson Beard An Inventor (1849-1921) “Andrew Jackson Beard was born a slave on a plantation near Mt. Pinson in Jefferson County, Alabama about 1849. On this farm, he spent his early life and youth working for his master, from whom his family took the name “Beard.” Milton Beard and Creasey Tatum, his parents, were […] Read more → PATRON – Names of the first settlers of Limestone County, Alabama and where they lived Posted by Donna R Causey on 30 January, 2021 “SCRAPS” RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY By Thomas Smith Malone The Athens Post, March 14, 1867. Page 2, Column 3. Part II In 1805 the United States Government succeeded in making a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians, by the terms of which the Indians ceded most of their possessions to the Mississippi […] Read more → AUTHOR SUNDAY – In this corner…Jiujitsu Joey from Gatlinburg Tennessee – Watch out for Kangaroo's at the zoo! Posted by Shannon Hollon on 30 January, 2021 In this corner…Jiujitsu Joey from Gatlinburg Tennessee by Shannon Hollon A few years ago we traveled to Gatlinburg Tennessee for a little family getaway and on our way home we made one last stop at a mountain side petting zoo, this zoo had your typical goats, sheep and donkeys but the one animal that I […] Read more → Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa was built at the beginning of the Civil War Posted by Jean Butterworth on 29 January, 2021 “The Alabama Insane Hospital was established by the legislature on February 6, 1952.  Built in Tuscaloosa, it received its first patient in 1861, with Dr. Peter Bryce as director. Applying modern methods, Bryce became renowned for humane treatment of his patients. Today, the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation oversees multiple facilities and […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Old St. Stephens Part III – The Lawyers, Physicians & Merchants...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Old St. Stephens Part III – The Lawyers, Physicians & Merchants Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 January, 2021 Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens  PART III (This transcription was read at the Centennial Celebration, May 6, 1899. It was published in four installments in the Washington County News, St. Stephens, May 25, and June 1, 8, and 15, 1899.) by Miss Mary Welsh, of Shuqualak, Missi LAWYERS. Well, there is no living without the […] Read more → PATRON + Abraham Mordecai lost his ear and almost his life in early Montgomery County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 January, 2021 Abraham Mordecai was an early settler who lived his last days in Dudleyville, Alabama in a log cabin.Below is a sketch of him written by Alabama Historian, Albert J. Pickett, in 1847. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF “OLD MORDACAI” Living at Dudleyville, Tallapoosa County, Ala. He settled in Montgomery County in 1789. He was […] Read more → PATRON – Local people in news from Lower Peach Tree & Fatama, Alabama 1910 Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 January, 2021 (Copied exactly as published from the Wilcox Progressive Era, Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, June 2, 1910) ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Alabama Footprints – Exploration is a collection of lost and forgotten stories about the people who discovered and initially settled in Alabama. Some stories include: The true story of the first […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Francis Scott Key who wrote, The Star-Spangled Banner, came to Alabama to help solve problems...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Francis Scott Key who wrote, The Star-Spangled Banner, came to Alabama to help solve problems Posted by Donna R Causey on 15 January, 2021  (CONTINUED from Part I) (This was transcribed by the Alabama Historical Society and printed in 1901 in their magazine as follows) THE MISSION OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY TO ALABAMA IN 1833 PART II By Thomas Chalmers McCorvey Tuscaloosa. The State of Alabama was not slow in asserting its sovereignty over the ceded territory. (Indian Lands) […] Read more → PATRON + A gun duel took place in Montgomery, Alabama in 1839 that is hard to believe Posted by Donna R Causey on 15 January, 2021 (The story of this duel was included in many historical books, but it is still hard to believe.) Hot words were passed and a challenge was given There has been but one duel fought in Montgomery County. About the year 1839 Bush W. Bell (Bushrod W. Bell)  and John S. Bailey, two very prominent and […] Read more → PATRON – Political candidates in Henry County, Alabama 1920 Posted by Donna R Causey on 15 January, 2021 (All Transcribed from Abbeville Herald, Abbeville, Alabama April 1, 1920) THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA 1908 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS Find your southeast Alabama ancestor in this great KINDLE Book. Immediate download! Dothan was a railroad hub for Southeast Florida and the editor of this newspaper mentions each visitor and their relation to local citizens. Some […] Read more → PATRON + FUNNY FRIDAY: A GENEALOGY NIGHTMARE Posted by Donna R Causey on 15 January, 2021 A Genealogy Nightmare My daughter never married but she’s lived with Joe, so long,And they and the kids are so happy that somehow, it doesn’t seem wrong. My son, he was legally married but his wife kept her own name.We don’t know the name of our grand-kids but, we love everyone, just the same. But, […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

Inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse, who invented the Morse code has a connection to the state of Alabama?...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse, who invented the Morse code has a connection to the state of Alabama? Posted by Donna R Causey on 14 January, 2021 Samuel T. B. Morse missed the death of his wife due to a lag in communication and this was the impetus that provided an invention to change the method of communication forever.  (Did you know that Samuel F. B. Morse was a member of a corporation that first operated the telegraph in Alabama? It is hard […] Read more → PATRON + "Where shall I fly to, in God's name?" – story of Indian attack in Alabama [photographs, video] Posted by Donna R Causey on 14 January, 2021 (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. The autobiography was published in The Alabama Historical Quarterly in 1944)   LIFE OF MARGARET ERVIN AUSTILL Part II Creek Indians […] Read more → PATRON – The Butler County News – 1914 includes personal news from the community of New Home about visits from relatives. Posted by Donna R Causey on 14 January, 2021 (Excerpts transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama September 10, 1914) NEW HOME Mr. Ed Tillman, of Opp, visited his aunt, Mrs. J. E. Chapman, last Sunday. Judge S. M. Henderson, of Chapman, is the guest of his son, Rev. J. L. Henderson, this week. Also Mr. Robt. Henderson and family, of Chapman, were […] Read more → PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS Ice once came down to Mobile, Alabama all the way from Kennebec, Maine Posted by Donna R Causey on 14 January, 2021 RECALLS DAYS WHEN ICE CAME DOWN FROM MAINE BY SHIPS Captain John Dorgan has Wealth of Memories after 55 Years Spent on “Old Man River and Mobile Bay” By Benjamin D. Baker Federal Writers’ Project Council Chamber, City Hall Mobile, Alabama November 6, 1939 Fifty-five years of tugging and towing on “Ole Man River” and […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe