Realities by Dorothy Graham Gast...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Realities by Dorothy Graham Gast Posted by Dorothy Graham Gast on 21 February, 2020 REALITIES by Dorothy Graham Gast Click to read more of Dorothy Gast’s stories   When I read Proverbs 31 as a teenager, I decided to try to be that kind of woman. I bought cloth to make clothes; tried to plan and prepare good meals and planted fruit trees. It appears the rules have changed. […] Read more → UPDATED WITH PODCAST PATRON + Did you know Birmingham was almost named Muddtown? Posted by Donna R Causey on 21 February, 2020 Did you know? Names suggested for Birmingham, Alabama were Powellton after Colonel Powell of Elyton Land Company, Milnerville, or Morrisville afterh Josiah Morris or Muddtown after Judge Mudd. Birmingham was decided on because Birmingham, England was the seat of iron manufacture in England and that is what everyone hoped Birmingham would become. December 14 was […] Read more → PATRON – Names of Insurance agents, Lawyers and Court Notice in Mobile in 1840 Posted by Donna R Causey on 21 February, 2020 (Transcribed from the Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) CHARLESTON INSURANCE & TRUST CO. Capital 1,000,000 of Dollars all — ca The subscriber continues to take Fire, Marine and Inland navigation risks for the above named Company. From the following Certificate it will be seen, that he is authorized to settle and pay […] Read more → PATRON + FUNNY FRIDAY: This is what dressing like a woman meant in 1875 Posted by Donna R Causey on 21 February, 2020 It was evidently quite uncomfortable for women to be fashionably dressed according to this article from 1875. (Transcribed from The Athens Post – Athens, Alabama – April 2, 1875) Take a man and pin three or four large tablecloths about him, fastened back with elastic and looped up with ribbons; drag all his own hair […] Read more → Are any of these men in volume II in your ancestral tree? Posted by Donna R Causey on 20 February, 2020 The biographies of the Alabamians in Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol. 2 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 Volume […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

I can’t believe Sophia McGillivray delivered twins two weeks later. This woman was amazing...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward I can't believe Sophia McGillivray delivered twins two weeks later. This woman was amazing Posted by Donna R Causey on 20 February, 2020 I can’t believe Sophia McGillivray delivered twins two weeks later. This woman was amazing! -This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) available at Amazon.com  St. Stephens was an eastern city of the Mississippi Territory that was still in Alabama and a very important site in the […] Read more → PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 21 – More sketches of early bar members (continued) Posted by Donna R Causey on 20 February, 2020 PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXI (Continued) J. T. MAY J. T. MAY was a Methodist preacher who studied law and was admitted to practice late in life. He removed from a county south of here to Talladega in the sixties. He was tall, with a deep, sonorous voice, […] Read more → PATRON – Probate Judge of Lauderdale County was assassinated Posted by Donna R Causey on 20 February, 2020 Probate Judge of Lauderdale County was assassinated PROBATE JUDGE KILLED (Transcribed from The Centreville Press, Centreville, Alabama January 11, 1900, exactly as written) Judge W. B. McClure, probate judge of Lauderdale county was foully assassinated last week while on his way home. He was riding along the principal residence street of Florence when some one […] Read more → PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS -Football As You Have Never Seen Before (vintage film 1925) Posted by Donna R Causey on 20 February, 2020 This was the beginning of replays in football on film.  We’ve come a long way since this time. The title reads – Football as you have never seen before. More unique pictures with the famous “forwards” “backwards” “slow-motion” “stop” camera. America, USA (U.S.A.). The Greatest Alabama Crimson Tide Football and Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant Quotes […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

James Willing and his Band Left a Trail of Devastation Seldom Equaled...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward James Willing and his Band Left a Trail of Devastation Seldom Equaled Posted by Donna R Causey on 19 February, 2020 This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1)  By the time of the American Revolution, white men loyal to the Crown lived in two small settlements of the British Province of West Florida. The settlements were on the Gulf Coast and Natchez, Mississippi. Being situated so […] Read more → PATRON + Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories Chapter 21 – More sketches of early bar members Posted by Donna R Causey on 19 February, 2020 Photograph of Old School House at Mardis house in Talladega 1939 (Library of Congress) (2) PIONEER TALLADEGA, ITS MINUTES AND MEMORIES By Jehu Wellington Vandiver CHAPTER XXI During the mid-years of the century, the professional man dressed the part. The silk hat, and the Prince Albert coat were as much a portion of the lawyers […] Read more → PATRON – Greene County, Alabama – Some marriages in the 1800s in Greene County, Alabama Posted by Donna R Causey on 19 February, 2020 This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume VII– Scroll to the bottom to see Table of Contents of the book SOME GREENE COUNTY, ALABAMA MARRIAGES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Location of Greene County, Alabama License for JOHN M. BATES to marry ELIZABETH PATTON issued 11 Aug. 1824.  There is […] Read more → PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY- Gingerbread secrets – recipe from 1908 Posted by Donna R Causey on 19 February, 2020 GINGERBREAD One-half cup butter, one-half cup sugar, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup sour milk or cold water, one and one-half cups flour, two eggs, not beaten; One tablespoon ginger, one teaspoon soda. Bake The secret of having it light and tender is in beating the soda and molasses together thoroughly and in not beating the […] Read more → Don't go alone when transcribing cemeteries!!! This is a reason why Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 February, 2020 Be careful when you start looking for cemeteries in the deep woods. This is one reason why. A woman in KY, an avid cemetery hunter did what no gal should do. She had heard about a cemetery in the woods long sought after and went by herself. It was way off the beaten path. She […] Read more → Do you have POOL as a surname in your ancestry? Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 February, 2020 John Pool was a Revolutionary War Soldier and early pioneer from South Carolina who first settled in Shelby County, Alabama then later moved to the Brush Creek area of Perry County, Alabama early in the history of the state. Many of the families intermingled through marriages. For more information about family connections see A Collection […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe

The First Territorial Governor Lived In A Log Cabin like this...

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward The First Territorial Governor Lived In A Log Cabin like this Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 February, 2020 This Patron+ story is also in the book Alabama Footprints: Immigrants – A Collection of Lost and Forgotten Stories   First Territorial Governor Lived In A Log Cabin “Few people of extensive wealth moved into the Alabama region during the period of early settlement. Only the man who needed to better his fortune had an […] Read more → PATRON + A Printer named Whitfield wins thirty-seven thousand dollars in 1859 Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 February, 2020 This photograph from the Alabama Department of Archives in History states that this is a John Whitfield of the same period of time. It describes him as a captain of Co. K., 1st Al infantry, editor of Montgomery Daily mail, agent L&N railroad, lawyer and was taken by photographer F. A. Garrish ca. 1860.  Perhaps it […] Read more → PATRON – Information on Manning, Rogers, Reid, Calvert, Posey, Roberts families and others Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 February, 2020 This article and more abstracts are available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III– Scroll to see Table of Contents of book These old genealogical queries from the past may help researchers today. GENEALOGICAL INQUIRIES From 1946 GENEALOGICAL INQUIRIES The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 08, No. 01, Spring Issue 1946 MANNING—Ancestry of Hillary Manning […] Read more → PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Two curious tombstones from the North Posted by Donna R Causey on 18 February, 2020 From New Jersey Julia Adams Died of thin shoes, April 17th, 1839 aged 19 years In Plymouth churchyard Here lies the body of Thomas Vernon The only surviving son of Admiral Vernon ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Confrontation:: Lost & Forgotten Stories Prior to statehood, Alabama was a vast wilderness with a large Native American population. It is […] Read more → You're receiving this because you subscribed via our website. Thanks for reading! Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe