UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Bennett purchased a large part of Tuscumbia, Alabama from profits by betting on a game of thimbles...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Bennett purchased a large part of Tuscumbia, Alabama from profits by betting on a game of thimbles Posted by Donna R Causey on 19 April, 2021 Bennett, the Magician (Lawrence County, Alabama) by Col. Edmond Saunders written ca. 1890s There was, however, in early times, a man called Dr. Bennett, who had a wonderful run with a simple game with three thimbles, placed on his knee, and a small paper ball. He was dexterous in handling the ball, and would bet […] Read more → Some Alabama Transcribed Wills and Abstracts written prior to 1925 Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 April, 2021 All the wills in this book were written prior to 1925 from very old hand-written documents. ALABAMA PIONEERS Transcribed Wills and Abstracts of Wills Book I includes transcriptions of Alabama pioneer wills and abstracts of wills compiled from submissions by readers to the Alabama Pioneers website. They are searchable in the E-book format. All were written […] Read more → Three men from Alabama observed the weather in Greensboro for the Smithsonian from 1855 to 1888 Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 April, 2021 According to the article below published in 1908, three men in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama volunteered to be climate observers and weather recorders for the Smithsonian from January 1855 to 1888. They recorded their observations and sent them to Washington, DC and should be available from the US National archives. It would be interesting to […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

PATRON + Limestone County Scraps VII – Population grew so fast in Alabama – One year later it became a state...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward PATRON + Limestone County Scraps VII – Population grew so fast in Alabama – One year later it became a state Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 April, 2021 “SCRAPS” RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY By Thomas Smith Malone This excerpt has been transcribed from The Athens Post, April 18, 1867. Page 2, Column 2. Part VII During the year 1818, the population increased so rapidly that Congress authorized the people to take steps to form a State Constitution The election […] Read more → Patron – Randolph County, Alabama (A) – Civil War Soldiers with some links to gravesites Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 April, 2021 All the names of the Civil War Soldiers buried in Randolph County can be found in Alabama Genealogy Notes Volume XI CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, ALABAMA (Surname starting with A – some links to graves) Abbott, James H. member of the 13th Alabama Infantry Company I, still in Randolph County in 1925, filed for […] Read more → The STAR CHAMBER had a huge impact on immigration to America – Do you know why? Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 April, 2021 Have you ever heard of the STAR CHAMBER? Read about how and why it drove many of our founders to America in the "page-turning", action-packed, historical fiction novel, Ribbon of Love. Many early settlers (including the Cottingham family of Bibb County) of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware immigrated to Alabama at a later date. TAPESTRY OF […] Read more → PATRON + A Civil War romance in Ensley, Alabama has two heroines – which is correct Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 April, 2021 During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people and write stories about life in the United States. The program was named the U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project and it gave employment to historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. This is one of the unedited legends about the […] Read more → Touring Alabama in 1820, 1821 – Part II Letters written home by Adam Hodgson Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 April, 2021 Touring Alabama in 1820, 18211 Written ca. 1820 by Adam Hodgson Left Fort Hawkins, Alabama Part II We left Fort Hawkins at seven o’clock, on the 22nd, having taken care to secure our breakfast, as we knew that we should not see a habitation till we arrived at our evening quarters. About a mile from […] Read more → Four Ebooks combined into one paperback! Posted by Donna R Causey on 17 April, 2021 Four Volumes combined into ONE! As I conducted research for interesting stories to publish and/or post on my Alabama Pioneers website, I continually found buried genealogy information, such as marriages, deaths, etc. that I knew would be of great benefit to family researchers, but it was hidden so well that most search engines would not […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

The inauguration of Governor Bagby was dignified and proper in 1837...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward The inauguration of Governor Bagby was dignified and proper in 1837 Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 April, 2021 The Inauguration of Governor Bagby in 1837 written by William Garrett1 At the general election, this year, Mr. Arthur P. Bagby of Monroe, was elected Governor, over Mr. Samuel W. Oliver, of Conecuh (County). Both of these gentlemen had presided over the House of Representatives as Speaker, with ability, and either, it was conceded, would […] Read more → PATRON + Only photo of 1836 Chambers County Courthouse was found in the cornerstone when opened in 2003 Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 April, 2021 REMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY DAYS IN CHAMBERS COUNTY By E. G. Richards1 VI The first family that ever lived in what is now the town of LaFayette was that of John Atkins. Mr. Atkins was a resident of West Point, Ga., at the time the selection of the county site for Chambers County was made. […] Read more → Many of these men were early pioneers of Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 April, 2021 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 […] Read more → PATRON – Oxen disappeared, overmatched marshall in Warrior, twelve houses burn Posted by Donna R Causey on 16 April, 2021 Some News From The Weekly Iron Age, Birmingham, Alabama 5/21/1885 Nineteen Oxen Lost Mr. W. J. Morgan, of Walker county, was in the city last Friday, and said that a singular thing had happened to a party of country men on Mulberry river. It seems that five men were coming to the city bringing produce, […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

PATRON + John Pierce opened the first school in Alabama...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward PATRON + John Pierce opened the first school in Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 10 April, 2021 In the spring of 1798, the Congress of the United States formed into a territory a part of what had been West Florida. By an act passed the seventh of April the new division which was called Mississippi Territory, was bounded thus: On the west by the Mississippi River, on the north by a line […] Read more → PATRON – Family connections to the Native Americans of some early white traders in Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 10 April, 2021 Alexander McGillivray1 A noted descendant of one of these traders having spent most of the winter in the settlement on Little River went to Pensacola, and there died in February 1793, the year when commenced in France those terrible times known as the Reign of Terror." This was Alexander McGillivray, son of that Scotchman already […] Read more → UPDATE: Found – a Picture of Cottingham house built ca. 1707 in Maryland – an ancestor of Bibb County, Alabama Cottinghams Posted by Donna R Causey on 10 April, 2021 During my research for my historical fiction novel in this series, I was excited to discover a photograph (below) of a Cottingham house built ca. 1707 in Worcester County, Maryland. This Cottingham family is related to my Cottingham family of Bibb County, Alabama. I am not sure the house still exists as the photograph was […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe