Friday, September 17, 2021

BIOGRAPHY: John Johnston Webster born 1743 Revolutionary War Soldier...

 
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BIOGRAPHY: John Johnston Webster born 1743 Revolutionary War Soldier

BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY Revolutionary War Soldier (1743 Virginia d. 1839 Alabama) Tuscaloosa, Alabama John Webster was born in Caroline county, Virginia., in 1743. Early in the struggle for independence he enlisted in the Continental army and served under General Washington He was with the American army at Yorktown, and witnessed the surrender, of Cornwallis. In […]

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Nicholas Baggett was born in NC in 1721 & has descendants in Alabama

Nicholas Baggett was born in North Carolina May, 1721 in North Carolina to Nicholas Baggett, Sr. and his wife Mary Hardy died in January, 1762 in North Carolina. The book, SOME DESCENDANTS OF NICHOLAS BAGGETT, Jr. (1721-1762) follows Nicholas and Martha’s (Wood) Baggett’s son Joel Baggett to early Alabama. Don’t waste time by repeating research […]

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A community in Greene County, Alabama was first known as "Mesopotamia." Do you know which one?

A community in Greene County, Alabama was first known as “Mesopotamia.” This name is perpetuated in the title of “The Mesopotamia Female Academy.” In 1838 the county seat was moved from Erie, on the river, to the high ground near “Mesopotamia,” the land being donated by the citizens. Eutaw Female Academy, also known as the […]

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Biography: John Felix McLaughlin born September 16, 1842

Click http://www.alabamapioneers.com/honor-your-ancestor-on-alab…/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! JOHN FELIX McLAUGHLIN BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (b. 1842 d. aft. 1900) Jefferson County, Alabama John F. McLaughlin, of Birmingham, Alabama was a veteran of the Civil war and tax assessor of Jefferson County. He was a native of Jefferson County, Alabama, […]

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Thursday, September 16, 2021

BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! Four Alabama Footprints books have been combined into one book...

 
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BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! Four Alabama Footprints books have been combined into one book

BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! Four Alabama Footprints books have been combined into one book Alabama Footprints Volumes V-VIII: Four Books in One – ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Immigrants ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Banished Interesting History retold as real life. Many pioneers traveled to what would become the State of Alabama at an […]

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The old county of Cahawba became Bibb County – here are some pioneers

With the removal of the Indians in 1814 by Andrew Jackson and his men, settlers began to migrate to the fertile Cahawba land that later became Bibb County, Alabama, even before the Federal survey of the land was completed. Compiled records of BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME II Farm clearings named after rivers and creeks […]

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Biography: John Davidson Alexander born September 15, 1829

Click http://www.alabamapioneers.com/honor-your-ancestor-on-alab…/to see how to honor your ancestor as a Notable Alabama Pioneer Happy Birthday! JOHN DAVIDSON ALEXANDER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1829-1901) Marengo County, Alabama John Davidson Alexander was born September 15, 1829, in Mecklenburg County, N. C, and died February 24, 1901, at Faunsdale, Alabama. He was the son of Joseph McKnitt Alexander and Nancy […]

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Power of the internet solves a family's 20-year-old mystery in 15 minutes

On the site Metafilter, a user posted a photo of a card that their grandmother had filled with the random letters once she became unable to speak in the final days of battling brain cancer. Within 15 minutes the code was deciphered, solving a 20-year mystery. My grandmother passed away in 1996 of a fast-spreading […]

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RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Two old recipes from the past – old-fashioned apple sauce and Molasses Pudding

A simple recipe for Old-fashioned applesauce Pare and chop a dozen medium-sized apples, put them in a deep pudding-dish; sprinkle over them a heaping coffee-cupful of sugar and one of water. Place them in the oven and bake slowly two hours or more, or until they are a deep red-brown; quite as nice as preserves. […]

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Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II has now been updated with many direct links to burial sites.

Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable Alabama Pioneers Volume II has now been updated with many direct links to burial sites.  Did you know that all Alabama Pioneer E-books can be downloaded immediately from Amazon.com – Read eBooks using the FREE Kindle Reading App on Most Devices? Click below to see how.   Pioneers included in Biographies of Notable […]

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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

A personal story about life in 1866 Opp, Alabama...

 
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A personal story about life in 1866 Opp, Alabama

FOURTH LETTER WRITTEN FOR THE OPP MESSENGER by J. E. Hughes (Transcribed from The Opp Messenger (Opp, Alabama) September 2, 1921 published by Mrs. J. C. Foster, editor) I married my first wife two miles on the south side of Lake Jackson on the 26th day of April, 1866. She tucked up her apron and […]

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TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Some people believed in engraving their trades on their tombstones.

These people must have been proud of their trades Epitaph to blind woodsawyer in Georgia: “While none ever saw him see thousands have seen him saw.” Elkhart, Indiana, epitaph on tombstone of teacher: “School is out Teacher has gone home.” Epitaph to fireman in Wilmington, North Carolina “William P. Monroe Died 1878, Aged 38 He […]

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Biography: Dr. Franklin Davis DuBose born September 1845 – photograph

DR. FRANKLIN DAVIS DuBOSE BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (1845-1905) Lowndes, Autauga and Shelby County, Alabama Dr. Franklin Davis DuBose was a prominent physician with a successful practice at Shelby, Alabama. He was the grandson of Elisha DuBose and Susanna (Leonard) DuBose, who were both natives of Georgia, where they resided until death. Their son, the father […]

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Do you have an ancestor who resided in Southeast Alabama in 1908?

Find your southeast Alabama ancestor in THE DOTHAN EAGLE, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA 1908 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS Dothan was a railroad hub for Southeast Florida and the editor of this newspaper mentions each visitor and their relation to local citizens. Farmhouse old Dothan – by Carol Highsmith 2010 (Library of Congress) Download and read THE DOTHAN EAGLE, […]

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Eufaula, phoenix-like, rose again with renewed vigor from the ruins of a tornado in March 1919...

 
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Eufaula, phoenix-like, rose again with renewed vigor from the ruins of a tornado in March 1919

Eufaula, phoenix like, rose again with renewed vigor from the ruins of a tornado in March 1919 (CONTINUED BELOW) (Transcribed from The Clayton Record (Clayton, Alabama March 14, 19191) FORMED NEAR POLLARD, ESCAMBIA COUNTY, ENTERS BARBOUR COUNTY, SOUTH OF ELAMVILLE; Goes Through At Eufaula And Spends Its Fury Before Reaching Middle Georgia (By Wm. A. […]

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Missing woman, marriages, parties and visitors in Tallapoosa County January 6, 1887

PERSONALS (Excerpt from The Tallapoosa New Era, Dadeville, Alabama, January 6, 1887) Judge J. M. Chilton, of Opelika, was in Dadeville Monday. Messrs. William and Chess Brown left on Wednesday for Texas Mr. J. M. Wilson has been quite ill for the past few days. Mr. Johnny Alworth is again in our little town. All […]

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MONDAY MUSINGS: Then something fell out of the Bible . . .

Sometimes it is funny seeing life through the eyes of a child.  A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, he looked at the old pages as he turned them. Then something fell out of the Bible and he picked up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf […]

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