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.
Alabama
Prince Vaughn Reunion
The annual Prince/ Vaughn reunion will be held Saturday, September 10, 2011 at Palasades Park, near Oneonta, Alabama. This reunion started out many years ago as the Prince Reunion, when the descendants of Simon Peter Prince decided to get together to have fun each year. There were so many intermarriages with the Vaughn family, over time it morphed into the Prince/ Vaughn Reunion. Then some of us started working on our genealogy, and wanted to meet some of our more distant relatives who might be able to fill in some giant holes in our research. Most of the attendees c
Birmingham-Jefferson History Museum
The Birmingham-Jefferson History Museum is now located in downtown Birmingham, in the Young & Vann Building. More specifically it is at 1731 First Avenue North, across the street from Birmingham Police Headquarters. There is plenty of parking in a lot on the west side of the building. It is a work in progress, and it will take time to set up artifacts and displays.
High Cotton: The Antebellum Alabama Plantation Mistress and the Cotton Culture
This document describes the life of the wives of plantation owners, with their constant need to help in the fields, make clothes for both blacks and whites, keep everyone fed, and run the plantation with the help of overseers and slaves when their husbands were traveling. There is mention of Williamson Hawkins and his wife Betsy on page 98, with footnotes indicating manuscripts available at Samford and the Birmingham Public Library, Clement Comer Clay, Sr (served as governor of Alabama) and his wife Susanna on page 99, and Henry Watson of Greensboro and his wife Sophia on page 99.
AL Jefferson - Deeds - Wills - Administrations 1833-1844
The Birmingham Public Library has made available online a document of abstracts prepared by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1937. It includes deeds, wills, and administrations from the years 1833-1844. It contains literally hundreds, if not thousands, of surnames, which can be searched using Adobe Reader.
Click here to download the pdf - Deeds - Wills - Administrations of Jefferson Co, Alabama
The Sacking of Athens, Alabama
The Sacking of Athens, Alabama
St. Clair Co, Alabama events in 1870
Some may have noticed that many families are missing in the St. Clair county census of 1870. Apparently, there were some problems relating to the aftermath of the Civil War,
August 20, 1887 - Saturday
Mr. Leonard Fullbright of Buchanan, GA - died
Willie, son of Dr. Alek Hobson of Russellville, KY - snake bite
Mr. Gordon Frank - lost horse
Wyly Harrison, son of Mr Thomas Harrison - died
Mr. Alex. T. London - stopped by
Dr. Burk, Gen. Joseph W. Burke - visiting
Mr. J. E. Dozier - install telephone line
Thos R. Wentworth - advertising
Mr. Vincent, State Treasurer - guilty
J. O. Duke, negro editor Montgomery
court - letting of poor house
Margaret Gary vs. Julius Gary - chancery court
Jacksonville Republican
The Jacksonville Republican was one of the oldest newspapers in Northeast Alabama.
Jacksonville State University has placed many issues of the Jacksonville Republican online, and available to read for free. There is an index, but not an every-name index. The site has newspapers from January 1837 to December 1895.
Name abstracts will be posted here on DescendantsOf as time permits.
Gardendale Historical Society Meeting July 17, 2010
We are honored to have Stanley Moss, author, who will present a picture history of Pinson.
Meeting Date: July 17, 2010, 10:00-11:00 am
Gardendale Historical Society
Meets 3rd Saturday of each month at the Gardendale Martha Moore Public Library.
