Monday, October 24, 2022

Have you ever heard of the strange story of Hazel the Mummy?...

 
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Have you ever heard of the strange story of Hazel the Mummy?

Hazel Farris b.1880 in Louisville Ky is one of the  most notorious female outlaws of the early 1900s and Alabama history. After a night of drinking and a argument over a new hat she shot her husband dead and also killed the police officers that responded after hearing the gun play. With a $500 bounty […]

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AUTHOR SUNDAY: Do you believe ghosts roam the halls of the old State Bank of Decatur? [see vintage photographs]

Few buildings in America can claim to have the kind of storied history as the Old State Bank in Decatur, Alabama. Standing for 183 years now, it has suffered through a civil war and two depressions. Being used first as bank, then a field hospital storehouse, and base of operations for Union soldiers, becoming a […]

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AUTHOR SUNDAY – I reeled about like a cow with the blind staggers or a feller who had taken too many horns

I reeled about like a cow with the blind staggers or a feller who had taken too many horns by Shannon Hollon David Crockett (1786~1836) 200 years ago this fall(1815), David Crockett on one of his hunting adventures came through Roupes Valley Alabama and stayed 2 weeks while he recuperated from a fever, here is […]

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PATRON+ RECIPE WEDNESDAY – Gingerbread Lollipops – great recipe for Halloween from the past

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

First Protestant Minister and Early settlers of Washington County, Alabama...

 
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First Protestant Minister and Early settlers of Washington County, Alabama

First Protestant Minister and Early settlers of Washington County, Alabama (Excerpt from: The Great Southeast or Clarke County and its Surroundings, pub. 1882 by Rev. T. H. Ball) In 1803, the noted LORENZO DOW came to proclaim, as the first Protestant minister in the area of the Tensaw Boat Yard to the Tensaw settlers. A […]

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PATRON + Bowie letters – Letter written in 1819 at the start of Alabama!

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PATRON + Bowie letters – George Bowie was anxious for news from Alabama in Septemeber of 1819

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PATRON – The Act and Names of Civil War soldiers by County (All counties) of residence furnished artificial limbs in 1868

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

PATRON + Stealing the Yankee corn...

 
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PATRON + Stealing the Yankee corn

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White women were rare in early South Alabama

This story is also an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) available at Amazon.com  On Little River, at this time, were living ‘many intelligent and wealthy people,’ who were of mixed blood, Indian and white; who for some years had been raising large herds of cattle. Of the […]

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PATRON + Would you travel 1000 miles on horseback to attend the University of Alabama? This 14-year-old boy did

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Sunday, October 16, 2022

Have you ever heard of the Know-Nothing Political party?...

 
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Have you ever heard of the Know-Nothing Political party?

The rise of a new political party took place called the Know Nothing Party in 1855.  This political party was an anti-establishment party – here are the details about its short existence in Alabama. THE KNOW NOTHING POLITICAL PARTY CHAPTER XXXVII (Transcribed from FIFTY-FIVE YEARS IN WEST ALABAMA printed in the Tuscaloosa Gazette August 12, […]

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PATRON – 180 names of voters in an election – Notasulga, AL 1849

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PATRONS – Don't forget — PATREON NEWS! FREE PDF book for $5+ PATRONS is now ready for downloading!

The post with the monthly(FREE) download of PDF attachment of the book, Alabama Genealogy Notes paperbacks vol I by Donna R. Causey has now been published on the Patreon website and unlocked for $5+ Patrons. This FREE BOOK post only unlocks for $5+, $10+, $25+ Patrons on the Alabama Pioneers Patreon/Patron website. Next month’s FREE […]

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UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Alabama threw parties for Lafayette [photographs] and Selma played a prank on the citizens of their town

General Lafayette General Lafayette, on his visit to America in 1824-25, spent the early days of April, 1825, in what is the State of Alabama. He entered the Creek Nation, at Fort Mitchell, on the Chattahoochee, in Russell County, traversed the Old Federal Road as far as Mount Meigs, detoured to include the village of […]

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