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Lauderdale County, Alabama Marriages, 1820-1857

Author : W. E. McClain

Publisher : Legare Street Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,56 MB

Release : 2022-10-27

Category : History

ISBN : 9781016044714

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.





LAUDERDALE COUNTY ALABAMA MARR

Author : W. E. Mrs McClain

Publisher : Wentworth Press

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 11,38 MB

Release : 2016-08-28

Category : History

ISBN : 9781372894794

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.





Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama

Author : Frazine Taylor

Publisher : NewSouth Books

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 42,34 MB

Release : 2008-05-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1603060944

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Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists looking for the family tree in Alabama sooner or later come across Frazine. And now they have her book, Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide. In the book, she provides the information and guidance to help locate the resources available for researching African American records in archives, libraries, and county courthouses throughout the state. The idea for this guidebook rose out of her lecturing throughout the country and having noticed that reference guides on African American family history resources seemed to exist for every state except Alabama. This was regrettable not merely for researchers on African American history in Alabama. In fact, Alabama’s records play an especially important role in U.S. family history research because of the migration patterns of Alabama’s freedmen, first to urban areas of Alabama and then to northern cities, a trend that continued throughout the first part of the twentieth century.



Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery

Author : Henry Goings

Publisher : University of Virginia Press

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 17,34 MB

Release : 2012-03-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0813932408

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Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.



Stephenson--Jones and Other Ancestors

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Page : 356 pages

File Size : 49,88 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Genealogy

ISBN :

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The Stephensons arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, from Scotland in 1773. Both William and James Stephenson and their two married sisters settled near Great Faols, South Carolina, in Chester County. .



Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941

Author : Kate Sayen Kirkland

Publisher : Texas A&M University Press

Page : 458 pages

File Size : 43,78 MB

Release : 2012-09-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1603448004

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Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate. Working tirelessly with local authorities, Baker saved Rice’s fortune from more than one hundred claimants; he championed the wishes of his deceased client and founded Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art—today’s internationally acclaimed Rice University. For fifty years Captain Baker nurtured Rice’s dream. He partnered with leading lawyers to create Houston’s first nationally recognized law firm: Baker, Botts, Lovett & Parker, now the worldwide legal practice of Baker Botts L.L.P. He chartered several Houston businesses and utility companies, developed two major regional banks, promoted real estate projects, and led an active civic life. To expand the Institute’s endowment, Baker invested William Marsh Rice’s fortune with local entrepreneurs, who were building homes, office towers, commercial enterprises, and institutions that transformed Houston from a small town in the nineteenth century to an international powerhouse in the twenty-first century. Author Kate Sayen Kirkland explored the archival records of Baker and his family and firm and carefully mined the archives of Baker’s contemporaries. Published as part of Rice University’s centennial celebration, Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941 weaves together the history of Houston and the story of an influential man who labored all his life to make Houston a world-class city.





Higdon-Whitaker (various Spellings) and Allied Families

Author : Bettina Pearson Higdon

Publisher :

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 50,51 MB

Release : 1982

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Leonard Higdon (b.1795) was born in Burke County, North Carolina, served in Florida and Louisiana in the War of 1812, married Eva Hoffman after the war, and moved to Jackson County, North Carolina in 1828. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Maryland and elsewhere.