Vicki's Close Cousins, Long Lost Cousins, Kissing Cousins, Distant Cousins, Great-Great and more Great Grandparents, In-laws, Out-laws, and Allied Lines. That's a cameo of great great Grandpa Simon Prince to the left, born in 1850.
Laws and record sources have changed, but FamilySearch has provided what they can. Alabama only has transcripts of the death certificate, while Texas has an image of the actual certificate.
For many states, the site also provides probate records, birth records, and marriages online.
*****Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870
compiled by the Historical Activities Committee
Mrs. Orville Lay, State Chairman for the
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama
pg 282
Mrs. Julius Poellnitz (Elizabeth Rogers) 1790-1865, of Cheraw Dist, SC; Rembert Hill, Marengo Co, AL, dau of Colonel Benjamin Rogers, who joined Francis Marion’s Raiders at age of 16. Mother of Charles Augustus Poellnitz.
*****Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration
Series A, Part 1: Alabama and South Carolina Plantations
microfilm at Birmingham Public library: F215 R423 2000, 23 reels
there is a small book that goes with this set of microfilm that contains the index and some background on the items copied.
Reel 1, item 2
Henry Watson Jr. Papers, 1765-1938 [1861-1938], Greensboro, Alabama, [and Massachusetts]
Henry Watson a native of Connecticut, moved to AL 1833, practiced law in Greensboro 20 years, moved to Northampton, Mass when the civil war broke out. Came back after the war, divided his time between Mass and Ala, relied on overseers to manage plantation. Son Frederick Watson b.1846 had correspondence with his sister Julia about happenings around Briarfield Iron Works, and his brother Arthur. Frederick remained in Selma until his father died in 1891.
Reel 2
Henry Watson Jr. Papers, cont.
Reel 3
Henry Watson Jr. Papers, cont.
Reel 4, item 1
Henry Watson Jr. Papers, cont.
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History provides an online search of records that have been loaded into their databases. Numerous records, including will books, have been scanned and are online.
