History of Clarke County
History of Clarke County

Author: John Simpson Graham

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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A written history devoted almost exclusively to Clarke County Alabama and its people. Quoting from books published before this (1923) and recording his own personal accounts, the author, a resident of Clarke County since 1875, gives his personal observation of Clarke County places and events.In the introduction, the author states, " This book will doubtless be read with much interest by the present generation living in Clarke, as well as by the generations to follow. If it should be preserved and handed down through the coming years, it may, in the far distant future, fall under the eye of some descendent of some Clarke countian and enable him or her to look back through the avenue of time and get a mental picture of Clarke County in the nineteenth and twentieh centuries."

Soldiers of the Cross
Soldiers of the Cross

Author: Kent T. Dollar

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780865549265

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Extremely well researched and unique in its approach, citing nine individual Confederate soldiers and the impact of the Civil War on their Christianity. These case studies, largely drawn from their own words in letters and diaries, give a personal and individual perspective that has largely been overlooked in other similar works.

Tracing Your Alabama Past
Tracing Your Alabama Past

Author: Robert Scott Davis

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781617035241

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Searching for your Alabama ancestors? Looking for historical facts? Dates? Events? This book will lead you to the places where you'll find answers. Here are hundreds of direct sources--governmental, archival, agency, online--that will help you access information vital to your investigation. Tracing Your Alabama Past sets out to identify the means and the methods for finding information on people, places, subjects, and events in the long and colorful history of this state known as the crossroads of Dixie. It takes researchers directly to the sources that deliver answers and information. This comprehensive reference book leads to the wide array of essential facts and data--public records, census figures, military statistics, geography, studies of African American and Native American communities, local and biographical history, internet sites, archives, and more. For the first time Alabama researchers are offered a how-to book that is not just a bibliography. Such complex sources as Alabama's biographical/genealogical materials, federal land records, Civil WarÂ-era resources, and Native American sources are discussed in detail, along with many other topics of interest to researchers seeking information on this diverse Deep South state. Much of the book focuses on national sources that are covered elsewhere only in passing, if at all. Other books only touch on one subject area, but here, for the first time, are directions to the Who, What, When, Where, and Why.

My New Life
My New Life

Author: Jack Ray Griffin

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1600344801

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Infrequently, a compelling, heart-warming human interest story such as this one surfaces. This unique story contains a rich panorama of genealogy and history with a close-up perspective of an individual conversion to Christianity and subsequent evangelistic ministry.

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?
Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?

Author: David Mathews

Publisher: NewSouth Books

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1603062602

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One of the most compelling issues in public education involves what it means for schools to be public. Are they public in funding or public in oversight and control? Are they public in the values they convey or in the standards they set? Are they public in deciding curriculum or only in access to space? David Matthews probes these issues in 19th century Alabama in ways that no one else has attempted. And he provides lessons from the past that can inform the present and future.

Clarke County
Clarke County

Author: Joyce White Burrage

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738568713

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Clarke County is a beautifully wooded and peaceful spot in west Alabama with a long and rich history. Bounded on the east by the Alabama River and on the west by the Tombigbee River, Clarke County's rich timberlands serve as the source for pine timber markets throughout the world. The fantastic hunting and fishing in the county are known throughout the South. Clarke County's history includes the story of the Mitcham War, a period of unrest in 1893 that reached state-wide proportions in notoriety. The county's history is one largely comprised of the working men and women who have contributed to the cultural tapestry of the area. This visual journey begins around the time of the earliest woodcut of the courthouse in Grove Hill, built in 1832, and continues through the 1940s. Many of the images in this collection have never before been published. These fascinating glimpses into Clarke County's past are combined with a well-researched text to uncover many long-forgotten stories and a colorful cast of characters.