Some Alabama Pioneers


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This is a collection of genealogies of some of the very earliest Alabama settlers, many of whom arrived before Alabama attained statehood in 1819, and lived among the Indians until their removal in 1836. Most of the pioneers settled in the central Alabama







Biographies of Notable & Some Not-So-Notable Alabama Pioneers Vol VII


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The biographies of the Alabamians in this book are from many sources. A good deal of the information comes from source books written when the subjects were still living. Additional information and/or documentation on any of the subjects has been included at the end of each biography. The biographies included in Volume VII in order of their appearance includes: William R. Gunn (1864-1910) Jefferson John Jasper Altman (1851-1905) Jefferson & Sumter Richard Powell McNally (1871-1928) Jefferson Dr. Charles Whelan (1841 - 1898) Jefferson Henry Adolph Stockmar ( 1861-1935) Jefferson Julia Zitella Cocke (1840-1929) Perry county General George Keyes ( 1792- 1833) Limestone County, Alabama Major George Presley Keyes ( 1829 - 1906) Limestone Co. Alabama Hon. Olin C. Maner (1873-1958) Judge Juliius Ceasar Richardson (1852- 1910) Butler County, Alabama John B. Fuller(1841-1927)Montgomery David Taliaferro Blakey(1832-1902) Montgomery David Johnston (1847-1908) Macon, Montgomery John McElderry Chilton (1848-1915)Macon, Montgomery, Lee Ray Rushton (1868-1940) Montgomery William Hardwick Ruth (1868-1958) Montgomery Charles A. Griffith (1865-1950) Montgomery William Hayne Parks (1834-aft. 1910) Pike and Montgomery Dr. Thomas Duncan (1866-1938) Montgomery James Toole ( 1867-1925) Montgomery Charles Pollard Jones ( 1858-1907) Montgomery Edmund Richardson McDavid (1870-1948) Madison William N. Cox (1849-1915) Montgomery Asher Graham Edwards (1863-1938)Jefferson County, Alabama Frank Ogden Walsh (1873-1958) Montgomery







Early Settlers of Alabama


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Early Settlers of Alabama by Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs, first published in 1899, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.







Early Settlers of Alabama


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By: James E. Saunders, Pub. 1899, Reprinted 2015, 556 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-061-6. This excellent book on the history of northern Alabama and most especially of Lawrence County is a MUST. The volume is in two parts, part one being "Recollections of the Early Settlers of North Alabama ", written by Col. Saunders. This part contains a brief history of Lawrence County, AL. and the Tennessee River Valley, sketches of many early families and personalities of the area and their origins as well as Col. Saunders writings on the Civil War. Part two, "Notes and Genealogies", was compilied by Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs, a granddaughter of Col. Saunders. The genealogies cover not only families in Northern Alabama but in other areas of the state, and also other states as well, giving much detail and family origins in this country and abroud. Among the families covered are: Banks, Bankhead, Bibbs, Billups, Blair, Cantzon, Clark, Clay, Coleman, Cox, DuBose, Dudley, Dunn, Eliott, Flint, Foster, Fry, Gholson, Goode, Gray, Harris, Hill, Hopkins, Kennedy, Lanier, Ligon, Lowe, Maclin, Manning, Maury, McCarthy, McGehee, Moore, Oliver, O'Neal, Phelan, Poellnitz, Ray, Richardson, Saunders, Shelton, Sherrod, Shorter, Speed, Swoope, Tait, Taliaferro, Thompson, Tillman, Urquhart, Walthall, Waykins, Webb, Weeden, Wells, White, Withers, Yates, and Young




Alabama Footprints Pioneers


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They felt the lure of the frontier and struck out for unknown territory that would become Alabama, bringing with them only very few implements to survive. From Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and many other states they came to settle in the newly opened Mississippi Territory. Alabama Footprints Pioneers continues the series with lost and forgotten stories of the earliest Alabama pioneers. Stories include; The Yazoo land fraud; daily life as an Alabama pioneer; the capture and arrest of Vice-president Aaron Burr; the early life of William Barrett Travis, hero of the Alamo; Description of Native Americans of early Alabama including the visit by Tecumseh; Treaties and building the first roads in Alabama.




A Collection of PERRY COUNTY ALABAMA PIONEERS VOLUME III Biographies & Genealogies


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Many Revolutionary War Soldiers received land grants in Alabama. Perry County, Alabama was settled by many of these old soldiers and their families. Pioneers included in this volume include: JAMES CRAWFORD; JOHN T. BOYD; JOHN WASHINGTON MACKEY; MALCOM DEMUS CANNON; ELIAS ENOS TRAMIL.Some descendant surnames include: AGNEW, ALLEN, ALEXANDER, AVERY, BAKER, BARNES, BELL, BENSON, BLACKBURN, BLACKWELL, BOYD, BOYLES, BROADNAX, BROWN, CANNON, CHRISTENBERRY, COLE, COLLINS, COOKSEY, CRAIG, CRAWFORD, CURB, DENSON, DOMINICK, DONAVAN, DORMAN, EDWARD, ELLIS, FINDLAY, FOWLER, GRIFFIN, HALL, HANNAH, HARPER, HOLLEY, HOPKINS, HOWARD, HUNT, HURLEY, KNOX, JOHNSON, JONES, LACEY, LANE, LATHAM, LEWIS, LYLES, MACKEY, MADISON, MARTIN, MCCARTER, MCCURDY, MOORE, MORELAND, MORLAND, MURPH, NIXON, OLDHAM, OLIVER, PAYNE, POOL, POPE, RAY, RAYFIELD, RHODES, SANFORD, SINGLY, SLAUGHTER, SMITH, SNEAD, SPENCER, STOKES, THIGPEN, THOMAS, TRAMIL, TRAMMEL, TUBB, TURK, TURNER, VAUGHN, WESTBROOK, WILBURN, WILLIAMS, WOODALL, WOODS, WYATTThis is the third volume of some early Perry County, Alabama pioneers. Be sure to check the other volumes on Perry County, Alabama.