Saturday, May 24, 2025

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: I love funny tombstones – these are for animals

 
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TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: I love funny tombstones – these are for animals

Some Funny Tombstones for Animals Epitaph on the wooden cross over the grave of a cow in North Carolina “Here lies Bossy, a cow who gave milk for many a year. She made only one mistake in her lifetime. She tried to kick her master When he was holding an axe in his hands.” VINEGAR […]

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Thursday, May 22, 2025

MONDAY MUSINGS: Things I learned with age [vintage pictures]...

 
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MONDAY MUSINGS: Things I learned with age [vintage pictures]

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On November 29, 1845 – Charter members of Concord Baptist signed this constitution

"As long as you speak my name, I shall live forever JOIN US FOR FREE CANCEL ANYTIME Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron Concord Baptist Church, Choctaw County, Alabama (Transcription Written by  Mr. S. W. Wilson, of Butler, Alabama, 1946) The following is a copy of the constitution of the church as signed by the charter […]

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The Butler County News – 1914 – Visitors, Thanks and Mail Carrier Convention...

 
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The Butler County News – 1914 – Visitors, Thanks and Mail Carrier Convention

"As long as you speak my name, I shall live forever JOIN US FOR FREE CANCEL ANYTIME Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron ( News Transcribed from The Butler County News, Georgiana, Alabama, September 10, 1914) Brooks Lawrence delivered a sermon to a large audience at the Methodist church last Sunday morning. Butter, cheese, sausage, ham, […]

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The Surrender of the Creek Nation

"As long as you speak my name, I shall live forever JOIN US FOR FREE CANCEL ANYTIME Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) The power of the Creek Nation was crushed at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Before leaving the Tallapoosa country, entirely which had […]

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Choctaw & Treaty Of Dancing Rabbit Creek...

 
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Choctaw & Treaty Of Dancing Rabbit Creek

"As long as you speak my name, I shall live forever JOIN US FOR FREE CANCEL ANYTIME Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron (Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) On the road leading from St. Stephens in Washington County, Alabama, lived the renowned Choctaw Chief Pushmataha. In 1812, a mound, Nunih Waiyah1 stood nearby. It […]

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Bowie Letters – 4th letter from Jackson's wife describing Pensacola, Blakeley and West Florida in 1821

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Monday, May 19, 2025

The Butler County News – Local and Personal in 1914 from Garland and Providence...

 
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The Butler County News – Local and Personal in 1914 from Garland and Providence

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BIOGRAPHY: John A. Goodson born 1790

This biography is included in the Book Biographies of Notable and Not-so-Notable  Alabama Pioneers Volume II "As long as you speak my name, I shall live forever JOIN US FOR FREE CANCEL ANYTIME JOHN A. GOODSON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY ( b. 1790 SC, d. 1873 Bibb Co., AL) BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA John A. Goodson was […]

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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Original Montgomery County, Mississippi Territory Marriage Licenses...

 
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Original Montgomery County, Mississippi Territory Marriage Licenses

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Mary worked in the mines in Belgium -PART II

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Mary worked in the mines in Belgium -PART I

During the Great Depression in America, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935. Over its eight years of existence, the WPA put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work. The Federal agency employed tens of thousands of actors, musicians, writers, and other artists to capture the essence of […]

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On April 16, 1874 – Barnett Plantation was under water, Montgomery had streetcars and more…

This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume I:  News of people and events transcribed from the Birmingham Iron Age, April 16, 1874 ENTERPRISE – The streetcars in Montgomery were put on the track for the first time last Tuesday. LeGrand & Co. had opened that morning their splendid […]

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Biography: James B. Simpson born November 23, 1857

JAMES B. SIMPSON Biography and Genealogy (Nov. 23, 1857 – Jan. 1898) Greenville and Montgomery County, Alabama James B. Simpson or “Jim Simpson,” as he was known to all, was an estimable character. He was a man of modest worldly estate, but employed in a marked degree the confidence, the regard, and the intimate friendship […]

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