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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Geneva County, Alabama. Official Website Geneva County was established on December 26, 1868. The county was named after its county seat, which in turn was named after Geneva, New York which was named after Geneva, Switzerland, by Walter H. Yonge, an early town resident and Swiss native. On March 10, 2009, a gunman, identified as Mi...
This project is for those buried in Brantley Cemetery, Brantley, Crenshaw County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This cemetery, established in 1947, is located on County Road 43, Weed Crossroad, Crenshaw County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Austin Farm Cemetery, Alabama, Genesee County, New York. Find a Grave
The Franklin–Nashville campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood drove north from Atlanta, threatening Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's lines of com...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Alabama. Official Website Franklin County was established on February 6, 1818 and named after Benjamin Franklin. Many musicians and songwriters are from Franklin County including Billy Sherrill, Ricky Pierce, Eddie Martin and many others. Adjacent Counties Colbert County Itawamba County, Mississippi Lawr...
Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, was a United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million troops. After the war it became the home of the Military Police Corps, the Chemical Corps and the Women's Army Corps. From 1975 and until it was closed in 1999, Fort ...
This project is for those buried in Liberty Cemetery, Theba, Crenshaw County, Alabama. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on the Marengo County Side of the Marengo County/Clarke County line. Forest Springs Cemetery was part of the Forest Springs Baptist Church but the church appears as if it no longer holds services. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 5730 Highway 78 East, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in Mount Zion Baptist Cemetery, Glenwood, Crenshaw County, Alabama. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Alabama. Fayette County was established on December 20, 1824, during Marquis de Lafayette's historic tour of the 24 United States. Adjacent Counties Marion County Walker County Tuscaloosa County Pickens County Lamar County Cities, Towns & Communities Belk Berry Bankston Bazemore Bluff ...
The Baleine Brides were a group of 88 French women that were sent to French Louisiana (la Louisiane), arriving 8 Jan 1721 in Biloxi, the then capital of la Louisiane. These women purportedly volunteered to travel to la Louisiane to marry eligible bachelors who were settling the colony. They arrived on the French cargo ship Baleine , which is how they got their nickname. These women came from Ma...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Walker County, Alabama. Official Website Walker County was established on December 26, 1823. It was named after Senator John Walker, who represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate from 1819 to 1822. Adjacent Counties Jefferson County Blount County Tuscaloosa County Fayette County Marion County Winston County Cullman ...
Wikipedia This area was inhabited for thousands of years by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. The historic Cherokee and Choctaw lived here at the time of European encounter, with the Cherokee moving in after the American Revolutionary War and in response to pressures from northern areas. Their settlements in Alabama were known as the Lower Towns. People claiming descent from Cherokee w...
This project is for those buried in Fairview United Methodist Church Cemetery, Fairview, Cullman County, Alabama. It's also known as Fairview Cemetery . Find a Grave
Located in Cullman, Alabama. The Benedictine monks came to north Alabama in 1891 to minister to German Catholics. They immediately built an abbey and started a school. St. Bernard College opened in 1892 for 59 boys in grades 6-12 and was chartered by the state a year later. As the 1902 ad (above) shows, St. Bernard College offered three programs—elementary, commercial and classical. Graduates ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Etowah County, Alabama. Official Website The territory of Etowah County was originally split among the neighboring counties. It was separated and established as Baine County on December 7, 1866, by the first postwar legislature, and was named for General David W. Baine of the Confederate Army. Because of postwar tensions and actio...
Wikipedia =The county is named for George Colbert - Chickasaw Nation Chief and his brother Maj. Levi "Itawamba Minco" Colbert .Colbert County is the home to the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound . and the birthplace of Helen Keller. From Wiki: Residents in Muscle Shoals created two studios that have worked with numerous artists to record many hit songs from the 1960s to today. These are FAME Studio...
To reach cemetery from Fort Payne, in DeKalb County, Alabama, go 1 3/4 miles E. on Hwy 35, then 2 1/2 miles N. E. on Hwy 89 (same as Lookout Mountain Parkway) to Fischer Crossroads, then 1/4 mile S. on Fisher Road NE, then 1/4 mile E. on Hawthorne Dr. NE (behind Fischer School) This might have started as a family cemetery, but it appears to be a community cemetery. The cemetery came into being...
Midway Baptist Church Organized July 28, 1852 Main Street, Midway, Bullock County, Alabama Midway, a part of Barbour County in the mid-19th century, was also known as Five Points, a small community of a handful of dwellings, two stores, and a Methodist church of logs. In this Methodist church, Joel Willis, J.M. Thornton, Robert G. Hall, M.B. Johnston, W.J. Coleman, and Lorenzo Faulk met in the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilcox County, Alabama. Wilcox County was established on December 13, 1819. The county was named after Joseph M. Wilcox, a US Army lieutenant who was killed in Alabama during the Creek War. Adjacent Counties Dallas County Lowndes County Butler County Monroe County Clarke County Marengo County Cities, Towns & Comm...
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Crenshaw County was established after the American Civil War on November 30, 1866, by the Reconstruction era legislature. It was formed from parts of Butler, Coffee, Covington, Pike and Lowndes counties. It's named for Hon. Anderson Crenshaw . While part of the coastal area, this county had relatively infertile soils, limiting cotton and other agriculture. Its planters used slaves for all neede...
This project is for those buried in Fairhope Cemetery, Chatom, Washington County, Alabama. Find a Grave