Clarke County Historical Museum

 

P.O. Box 388
116 W. Cobb Street
Grove Hill, AL  36451
251-275-2014 Bookstore
251-275-8684 Office
museum@clarkemuseum.com

Operating Hours
Museum and Bookstore:
Monday: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday - Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Office: Monday - Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

The Clarke County Historical Society is a private non-profit organization founded in 1972.

 

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The Clarke County Historical Society has published its Historical Quarterly since 1976. Issues are available on-line through the Museum bookstore.

CONTENTS OF HISTORICAL QUARTERLIES
 

VOLUME 47, NO. 4 – Spring, 2023

Cemetery News

Scrapbook from State Secondary

   Agricultural School, 1928

Whatley Alabama Schools

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 47, NO. 3 – Winter, 2022-2023

Editor’s Notes

History of Clarke County Training School

Clarke County’s First Oil Well

My Whatley Home

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 47, NO. 2 – |Fall, 2022

Museum News

   Airmoumt Grave Shelter Restored

Correction

Editor’s Notes

   1935 Suggsville Election Voter List

Alabama Folk Potters’ Creation

   on Display at the Museum

Early Alabama Governor’s Grave Off the Beaten Path

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 47, NO. 1 – |Summer, 2022

In Memory of Louis Malone Finlay, Jr.

My Time in the Military

Jackson Street Baptist Church

Scrapbook Details: Work of NYA in Clarke County

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 46, NO. 4 – Spring, 2022

U. S. Postal Service, Whatley, AL

The Index: Suggsville

John Coffee: The Man for Whom Coffeeville

   Was Named

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 46, NO. 3 – Winter, 2021-2022

Claiborne Murphy Bridge Dedication

History of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church

Failetown Cemetery

Glimpses of 1925 Thomasville Yearbook

   (Continued from VOL. 46, NO. 2)

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 46, NO. 2 – Fall, 2021

Historical Marker Dedicated

Photos from 20th Annual Pioneer Day

Preservation News

Vanity Fair’s Arrival Brought First

   Manufacturing Jobs to Jackson

Failetown Cemetery

Glimpses of 1925 Thomasville Yearbook

   (Continued from VOL. 46, NO. 1)

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 46, NO. 1 – Summer, 2021

Early Memories of Jackson and Living in the Kimbell House

Heirs of Sarah Loftin

Before Fame, Elvis Played Show in Jackson

Glimpses of 1925 Thomasville Yearbook

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1887

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VOLUME 45, NO. 4 – Spring, 2021

Bob & Josephine Megginson

Peacock Post Office

History of Presbyterian Church of Jackson, AL

Nicknames for Whatley – Calhoun Family Whatley Community

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 45, NO. 3 – Winter, 2020-2021

Historic Marker Erected

What is the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register &

   What Clarke County Cemeteries are Listed

Good Roads Movement in Clarke County

The Craft Highway and Its Namesake,

   John Craft of Mobile

Clarke County Scrapbooks Show Glimpses of

   School days in the 1920’s & 1030’s

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 45, NO. 2 – Fall, 2020

Cemetery News

Diary of William Bodey Coleman, Continued

The Photographs of William Samuel Jones

History of Walker Springs School

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 45, NO. 1 – Summer, 2020

Cemetery News

Spanish Flu Pandemic in Clarke County

Horeb Baptist Church & the Creighton Family

William Bodey Coleman: WWI Diary

Memorial to Mrs. Mary Wanda Coleman Johnson

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 44, NO. 4 – Spring, 2020

Infare in Little Scotland

A. A. Hicks, Clarke’s Assistant County Farm Agent

Coffeeville Hi-Lites

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 44, NO. 3 – Winter, 2019-2020

Museum News

The Great fire, The Echo and John L. Sullivan

A Tale of Two Weddings:

   One Moon-Shiney Night in Old St. Stephens

   A Creek War Wedding

   A Frontier Shivaree in Old St. Stephens - 1819

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 44, NO. 2 – Fall, 2019

Old Photo of Fulton School Group

Memories of Beloved Thomasville Teacher:

   Mr. T. L. Griffin

Barbarians at the Gate or Did Clarke County

   Suffer an Invasion by Union Forces in

   The War Between the States?

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 44, NO. 1 – Summer, 2019

Miss Adele Rivers Homeplace:

   Rivers’ House Oldest in Thomasville

The Pugh & Washington Families of Clarke County

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 43, NO. 4 – Spring, 2019

Harry Harrison Kroll

   Mid-20th Century Writer had Clarke County Connections

Clarke County High School Newspaper from 1925

Clarke County High School Artifacts

   From the Elizabeth Jackson Collection

A Man Named “McGrew”

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 43, NO. 3 – Winter, 2018-2019

Historical Timeline for John White Family

Choctaw Trading House – The Choctaw Chiefs

The Keeper of the Bridge

   Dyer, Farrington, Lide, Keel, Curtis

Profiles of Clarke County World War I Casualties

The Grove Hill Cemetery:

   A Brief History

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

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VOLUME 43, NO. 2 – Fall, 2018

Historical Society Dedicates Marker

Pioneer Day Photos

Museum News

Old Photo

Dramatic Military History of Jackson Native

Establishing the Choctaw Trading House:

Choctaw Trading House – The Waste Book

   & the Arrival of Cherokee Chiefs

Choctaw Trading House, Ft. St. Stephens:

   Goods Purchased for the Cherokee

   Treaty of Tellico

Cemetery Art & Symbolism

 

VOLUME 43, NO. 1 – Summer, 2018

Museum News

Cemetery News

Some Early Families of Clarke County:

   Dyer, Farrington, Lide, Keel, Curtis

Profiles of Clarke County World War I Casualties

The Grove Hill Cemetery:

   A Brief History illHHH

 

VOLUME 42, NO. 4 – Spring, 2018

A Letter from the Great War

Talk of Stock Law Creates Controversy in 1913

Barlow Bend Post Office

Henri Mayton

The Allman Brothers Band

   Jailed in Clarke County in 1971

 

VOLUME 42, NO. 3 – Winter, 2017-2018

A History of Memorable Clarke County Floods

The Counselman Family

Interesting Letter from a Clarke County Boy in France

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 42, NO. 2 – Fall, 2017

Editor’s Notes

Profiles of Clarke County’s WW I Casualties

   Walter Marion Luker

   John Alver Friddle

   James Will Deas

   Private James Gibby

Letter from the Front Lines

Fort White

A Glass Fort

Lillie Mae Fendly Knight:

   An Autobiography

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 42, NO. 1 – Summer, 2017

Queries

The Life and Achiements of

   Joseph Linyer Bedsole

James Caller Family

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 41, NO. 4 – Spring, 2017

Sixteen Clarke County Confederates

Lost Post Offices of Clarke County

The Booster

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 41, NO. 4 – Spring, 2017

Sixteen Clarke County Confederates

Lost Post Offices of Clarke County

The Booster

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 41, NO. 3 – Winter, 2016-2017

Thomas Figures 1787-1863

We are the Storytellers

John Caller’s Deposition:

   1807 Treason Trial of Aaron Burr

Timeline for John Callier

   (Caller), 1756-1816

A Tale of Three Letters:

   The Aaron Burr Affair

Arrest of Aaron Burr in 1807 by Lieut. Edmond

   P. Gaines, U.S. Army, Miss. Territory

Map of Early Forts of Alabama

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 41, NO. 2 – Fall, 2016

Old Man River Conquered By

   Uncle Sam’s Lock & Dam

W. W. Waite Family Bible Records

David Daniel Coleman & John Henry Glenn

   Whatley, AL

News of Early Whatley

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 41, NO. 1 – Summer, 2016

Syrup Making in Clarke County

Historical Society Dedicates

   Mt. Nebo Historic Marker

1855 Clarke County Census

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 40, NO. 4 – Spring, 2016

Cemetery Report

Morvin and the 20th Century

Circa 1905, Morvins’s Finest and the 20th Century

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 40, NO. 3 – Winter, 2015-2016

Interview with Odie Benson

Greasy Spoon Fed the Hungry

History of the Toddtown Community

1926 Train Accident Detailed

Advertisement for Grove Hill School

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 40, NO. 2 – Fall, 2015

The Field is Ripe for Harvest:

   Biship TJ Toolen, Father Frank Giri, and

   the Sacred Heart Mission Field of

   Southwest Alabama in the 1940’s

The McLeods of Clarke County

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 40, NO. 1 – Summer, 2015

Pugh Family Bible

Courting on a Sunday Afternoon

   at “The Rocks”

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 39, NO. 4 – Spring, 2015

Dunn Mercantile Building

Taps to be Sounded for Vet Aged 104

Old Photos of Stave Creek

A Brown House View from the Bull Pen

   (Continued from Vol.39, No. 3)

Pine Chapel Missionary Baptist No. 1

Old Photo of Fulton School

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 39, NO. 3 – Winter, 2014-2015

Return to Woodlands

From Paris to Poverty

A Brown House View from the Bull Pen

   (Continued from Vol.39, No. 2)

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 39, NO. 2 – Fall, 2014

Local Cemeteries in the News

New Marker Dedication

A Million Dollar Trumpet

A Brown House View from the Bull Pen

   (Continued from Vol.39, No. 1)

Old Photo

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 39, NO. 1 – Summer, 2014
Parkertown School Photo

A Brown House View from the Bull Pen

The Bedsole School

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1886

 

VOLUME 38, NO. 4 – Spring, 2014
Museum News

Clarke County Heroes

Scourge of the South:

   Pellagra in the Land of Dixie

Thomasville Public School

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

 

VOLUME 38, NO. 3 – Winter, 2013-2014
Clarke County Warplanes

Orange Hill Missionary Baptist Church

An 1862 Visit to the Clarke County Salt Works

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

 

VOLUME 38, NO. 2 – Fall, 2013
The Jewett House at Gainestown

Jacksons in Early Clarke County

Walker Springs

When Cotton was King

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

 

VOLUME 38, NO. 1 – Summer, 2013
200th Anniversary of

   Ft. Sinquefield Attack

Elizabeth Coker and Reuben Hickson

U.S. Geological Survey No. 43

   Published 1887

John A. Hare

Childhood Memories of Dickinson

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

 

VOLUME 37, NO. 4 – Spring, 2013
Old Photos

A Road to Prosperity: The Choctaw

   Corner-to-Woods Bluff Road

Pine Chapel, #1 Missionary Baptist

   Church History

Memories of Jackson

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

 

VOLUME 37, NO. 3 – Winter, 2012-2013
King Institute & William Allen McLeod

Early Household Journals & Diaries

Salipta – A Brief History 
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

 

VOLUME 37, NO. 2 – Fall, 2012
Gray and Blue

The Clarke County Creighton Family

History of the Union Baptist Church 
Clarke County Salt Works

 

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

VOLUME 37, NO. 2 – Fall, 2012
Gray and Blue

The Clarke County Creighton Family

History of the Union Baptist Church 
Clarke County Salt Works

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

 

VOLUME 37, NO. 1 – Summer, 2012
Old Photos

Tombigbee River Crossings at Jackson

The Grove Hill Cemetery:

   A Brief History

Clarke County’s Largest Slaveholders

   From 1860 Slave Census Schedules &

   Surname Matches for African Americans

   On 1870 Censujs

Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1885

VOLUME 36, NO. 3 – Winter, 2011-2012
The Old Grey Ghost
Wilson Chapel AME Church
Pages from the “KLARKCOUNTIAN” 1916
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1884

VOLUME 36, NO. 2 – Fall, 2011
Wilson Mill Pond School Photo
Jim Folsom Visits Jackson Photo
A Walk Down Glover Road
History of Cedar Point Baptist Church
The Origins of the Clarke County Presnalls
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1884
 

VOLUME 36, NO. 1 – SUMMER, 2011
In Memory of Kathryn Tucker Windham
Mitford M. Mathews’ Education in Clarke County 100 Years Ago
The Woodards Go to War
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1884
 

VOLUME 35, NO. 4 – SPRING, 2011
Clarke County Cemeteries Added to Register
The Steamboat Cotton Plant & The Salt Works in Civil War Times
Do You Know About These Old Photos
Ma & Pa Pugh (Continued)
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1883
 

VOLUME 35, NO. 3 – WINTER, 2010-2011
Clarke-Washington EMC Was First Electric Cooperative Organized in Alabama
Ma & Pa Pugh
Peniel Baptist Church Cemetery Records (Continued)
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1883
 

VOLUME 35, NO. 2 – FALL, 2010
Clarke County Lynchings: Alabama Recorded 347 From 1882-1968
Peniel Baptist Church Cemetery Records (Continued)
Clarke County World War II Hero
James Landing Cemetery at Barlow Bend
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1883
 

VOLUME 35, NO. 1 – SUMMER, 2010
Isaac C. Fuller: Master Builder of Clarke County
Emile Barnes, Grant Gillis & Clarke County High School’s Impact on College Football
My Hero: Clayton Benjamin Baugh
Peniel Baptist Church Cemetery Records
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1882
 

VOLUME 34, NO. 4 – SPRING, 2009
145th Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Chickamauga - September 19-21, 2008
DuBose Cemetery
John Loftin of Clarke County, Alabama
A Louisville Slugger
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1880
 

VOLUME 34, NO. 3 – Winter, 2008-2009
Glover Landmark is Gone: Fire Claims Once-Popular Hub of Forgotten Part of Clarke County
The Story of Caroline (Carrie) Hickson & John Morris McLeod (As Told by the Late Addie Mae Moore)
Memoirs of Captain William J. Lambard, Part II
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1881
 

*VOLUME 34, NO. 2 – FALL, 2009
Dr. McCrary Established South Alabama Infirmary
History of the Church of Christ in Clarke County
Milly Francis: “The Creek Pocahontas”
History of the Clarke County High School Band
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1881
 

*VOLUME 34, NO. 1 – SUMMER, 2009
Old Rockville Cemetery
The Life of Margaret Ervin Eades Austill
Abner James
John Edmund Adams, Sr.
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1881
 

*VOLUME 33, NO. 4 – SPRING, 2009
145th Anniversary Re-enactment of the Battle of Chickamauga
DuBose Cemetery
John Loftin of Clarke County
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1880
 

*VOLUME 33, NO. 3 – WINTER, 2008-2009
Glover Landmark is Gone: Fire Claims Once-Popular Hub of Forgotten Part of Clarke County
The Story of Caroline (Carrie) Hickson & John Morris McLeod (As told by the late Addie Mae Moore)
Memoirs of Captain W.J. Lambard, Part II
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1881
 

*VOLUME 33, NO. 2 – FALL, 2008
John Scarbrough: An Early Clarke County Preacher
Sam Dale Monument, Daleville, Mississippi
E.H. Gordy and Steamboat Belfast v. Boon & Co.
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1880
 

*VOLUME 33, NO. 1 – SUMMER, 2008
Stewart O’Neal “Lefty” Bolen: Professional Baseball Player from Clarke County
Creek War Soldier’s Grave Marked by Daughters of 1812
John Cox, 1764-1842: Revolutionary War Veteran and Early Settler of Clarke Co.
Memoirs of Captain William J. Lambard, Jr.: United States Merchant Marine
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1880
 

*VOLUME 32, NO. 4 – SPRING, 2008
Place Names in Clarke County
Rockville School Photos
Whatley School Photos
Tate Shoals
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1879
 

*VOLUME 32, NO. 3 – WINTER, 2007-2008
A Few Still Carry on Syrup Making Tradition
Aaron Burr and History’s Lingering Questions
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1879
 

*VOLUME 32, NO. 2 – FALL, 2007
History of Nealton & McVay Communities
Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Clarke County
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1879
 

*VOLUME 32, NO. 1 – SUMMER, 2007
Clarke County: A Perspective
1971 Democrat Reports on Last Clarke County Confederate Widow
King Institute
Clarke County Civil War Flag Presentations
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1879
 

*VOLUME 31, NO. 4 – SPRING, 2007
Thomas Bradford and the Daughters of the American Revolution
Mathews Family Reunion
The Canoe Battle by Jeremiah Austill
Robinson Family
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1878
 

VOLUME 31, NO. 3 – WINTER, 2006-2007
T.H. Ball: The Best Alabama Historian You’ve Never Read
Historic Treasures Found in Old Trunk
Clarke County Centennial Celebration
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1878
 

VOLUME 31, NO. 2 – FALL, 2006
Captain Jim Vick
Gainestown: A Brief Look at its Early History, Part II
The Prenuptial Agreement of Eliza Hearin Davis and James A.B. Flinn
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1878
 

VOLUME 31, NO. 1 – SUMMER, 2006
Old Union Cemetery (Methodist)
Tombstone Preservation in Clarke County: A Tompkins Family Cemetery Story
Efforts to Maintain the Pugh Cemetery
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1877
 

*VOLUME 30, NO. 4 – SPRING, 2006
Sawdust in Your Veins: The Legacy of Croatian Stavemakers in Clarke County, Alabama
The Josiah Allen-Lucy Martin Mathews House
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1876
 

*VOLUME 30, NO. 3 – WINTER, 2005-2006
The P.O.W. Camp in Jackson
Memories of Thomasville Normal School
James Pugh: Pre-Revolutionary Soldier
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1876
 

*VOLUME 30, NO. 2 –FALL, 2005
Museum Celebrates 25 Years of Existence
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Clarke County’s Unsung Heroes
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1876
 

*VOLUME 30, NO. 1 –SUMMER, 2005
Southerners at War: The 38th Alabama Infantry Volunteers
Community Schools in Clarke County
Clarkesville: Boomtown that Might Have Been
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1876
 

*VOLUME 29, NO. 4 –SPRING, 2005
Dr. Benjamin Sorsby Davis, Unfortunate Man of Fortune
Gold Found in Rockville
Archeological Investigations at the Rock Wall Site: Early Settler Forts & Summer Homes In Clarke County
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1874
 

*VOLUME 29, NO. 3 –WINTER, 2004-2005
Presnall-Fluewellyn Families
Thomasville, An Air Force Town?
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1874
 

*VOLUME 29, NO. 2—FALL, 2004
Lock One Dedicated
Class of 1927: State Secondary Agricultural College
John Lavender: Clarke County’s First WWI Casualty
Green, Rhoades, Gates Cemetery South of Lower Peach Tree
Packer’s Bend Cemetery
John Ewing
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1874
 

*VOLUME 29, NO. 1 – SUMMER, 2004
State Secondary Agricultural School Program, 1936
Huggins Family Cemetery
Confederate Soldiers from Clarke County Who Died in Union POW Camps
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1874
 

*VOLUME 28, NO. 4 – SPRING, 2004
Captain John C. Kimball’s Company “G” 32nd Alabama Infantry, CSA
George Carleton Recalls Old Jail
Personal Letters of Edwin Orlando Calhoun to Minnie Eunice Palmer Calhoun, 1886-1924
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat
 

*VOLUME 28, NO. 3-WINTER, 2003-2004
The House that Daniel Built (Daniel and Matilda Robinson McLeod)
The Story of Fort Sinquefield
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1873
 

*VOLUME 28, NO. 2-FALL, 2003
Pleasant Hill Methodist Church
Our Grandmother, the Life of Lucretia Jacqueline Davis Rawls
Shugan Ranson Davis Plantation House
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1873
 

*VOLUME 28, NO. 1-SUMMER, 2003
Major Origin Sibley Jewett
Papers of the Mississippi Territory, Register of Appointments
Judge William Crawford
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1873
 

*VOLUME 27, NO. 4-SPRING, 2003
Mississippi Territorial Paper, Petition from the Citizens of Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Mobile and Baldwin in the Alabama Territory – 1817
Flukers of Clarke County
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1873
 

*VOLUME 27, NO. 3-WINTER, 2002-2003
Elijah Pugh, Soldier of the Revolution
Counselman Family History
News from the Creek War/The War of 1812
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1872
 

*VOLUME 27, NO. 2-FALL, 2002
Samuel Thomas, His Life and Times, A Short History of the Man for Whom Thomasville Was Named
1813 Letter, James Caller to F.L. Claiborne
Excerpts from the South Alabamian, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1923
 

*VOLUME 27, NO. 1-SUMMER, 2002
Gainestown, A Brief Look at its Early History:
The Sizemore Family
The Bailey Family
Durant, Bailey and Fisher
The Randon Family
The Fisher Family
Creek Indian War Ends – 1814
Gainestown, the Origin of the Name
Who Were the Earliest Land Owners?
The Staples Club
 

*VOLUME 26, NO. 4-SPRING, 2002
Clarke County Historical Society Stages Living History for its Visitors
The Rock Wall of the Former Flinn Plantation
Robert Hearin Flinn
Jackson, Alias Pine Level
Timeline for John McGrew, II
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1872
 

*VOLUME  26, NO. 3-WINTER, 2001-2002
William Wallace Huggins
The David Taitt Map of Mobile Bay, the Delta, Cut off and North
Alexander – Shackleford House, Choctaw Bluff
The Bashi Skirmish and Timeline for Col. William McGrew
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat
 

*VOLUME 26, NO. 2-FALL, 2001
Country Doctor on the Tombigbee
Gainestown United Methodist Church
Descendants of John McGrew (cont’d)
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1872
 

*VOLUME 26, NO. 1-SUMMER, 2001
Louis Hughes – A Slave at the Upper Salt Works
Patriots in the Tombigbee River Swamp in 1809
A Trip to the Saltworks near Jackson, Alabama, 1863
The McGrew Reserve and McGrew Family (cont’d)
The Clarke County Wildcat Strikes Again
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1871
 

VOLUME 25, NO. 4 –SPRING, 2001
The Daniel Lewis Morgan Family in Clarke County
The McGrew Reserve, Clarke County
McGrew Family
Daniels Family Story
Under Two Flags
Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1871
 

*VOLUME 25, NO. 3-WINTER, 2000-2001
 2nd Alabama Infantry Regiment, CSA, Rather Than Co. 1, 38 AVC
 Fort Lavier
 Dedication of Admiral Semmes Bridge, Tombigbee River, Jackson
 Excerpts From the Clarke County Democrat, 1871
 

*VOLUME 25, NO. 2-FALL, 2000
 The Saltworks of Clarke County, Alabama
 Steamboat River Landings Along the Alabama River – 1851
 Old St. Stephens, Rodney, Franklin and the Tombigbee River Settlers
 Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1870
 

*VOLUME 25, NO. 1-SUMMER, 2000
 The Mitchell Reserve
 Who Are All Those People Buried in Marked Graves in the Darrington-James Cemetery?
 Views of Yesteryear
 Excerpts From the Clarke County Democrat, 1870
 

*VOLUME 24, NO. 4-SPRING, 2000
 Jared E. Groce: Gone to Texas
 Letters From Rock Castle-cont’d from vol. 24, no. 3
 Excerpts from The Clarke County Democrat, 1870
 

*VOLUME 24, NO. 3-WINTER, 1999-2000
 Clarke County Photographic Archive
 Letters from Rock Castle
 Indigent Families of Soldiers of Clarke County
 Extracts from The Clarke County Democrat, 1869
 

*VOLUME 24, NO. 2-FALL, 1999
 McIntosh Bluff: Alabama’s First County Seat
 Indigent Families of Soldiers of Clarke County
 Slavery in the Clarke County Saltworks, 1861-1865
 Extracts from The Clarke County Democrat, 1869
 

*VOLUME 24, NO. 1, SUMMER, 1999
 National Register Listing: Thomasville Historic District
 The Bixler House, Gosport
 Alabama’s Governors: John Murphy, 1825-1829
 Sarah Darrington Carter Murphy
 38th Alabama Infantry
 Excerpts from the Clarke County Democrat, 1869
 Where is it Now? The William Douglas King Mansion
 

VOLUME 23, NO. 4, SPRING, 1999
The Halcyon and Tombigbee Public Advertisers, St. Stephens, List of Letters in the Post Office
 Burial Spot of One of the Indian Treaty Line Surveyors, Levin Wailes
 Extracts from The Clarke County Democrat, 1869
 

VOLUME 23, NO. 3, WINTER, 1998-99
 The Sample-Williams Clay and Color Company
 The Will and Testament of Robert Darrington
 Fort Madison-From the Thomasville Echo
 Excerpts from The Clarke County Democrat, 1869
 Cemetery Records: Howell (Howle) Cemetery
 Symbolism in the Carvings in Old Gravestones
 

*VOLUME 23, NO. 2, FALL, 1998
 Cemetery Records:
 England Cemetery
 Vaughan Grave
 The Story of the Portraits of Samuel and Martha Jane Forwood
 

*VOLUME 23, NO. 1, SUMMER, 1998
 Memorial Service for Hugh Buchanan Calhoun
 National Register of Historic Places Announcements:
 Grove Hill Courthouse Square
 Whatley Historic District
 Vanity Fair Mill
 The Wilson-Bumpers House
 The Will of Mary Darrington James or “Ruling From the Grave”
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat –1867
 

*VOLUME 22, NO. 4, SPRING 1998
 National Register Announcement
  Jackson Historic District
 The Jackson Mill Company
 Willis Derusha Council, Adventurer, Farmer, Freelance Writer
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat –1867
 

VOLUME 22, NO. 3, WINTER, 1997-98
 Cemetery Records
 The Old Country Stavemakers
  The Croatian Community of Clarke County, Alabama
 Maria Darrington Bracy Matheson
 The White (Wyte, Whyte) Family of England, Scotland, Ireland and America Namely Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina and Alabama
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat -1866
 

VOLUME 22, NO. 2, FALL, 1997
 Clarke County Jails
 Fort White and the Creek War
 The Clarke County Post, Suggsville
 1836 Excerpts
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal, 1865-1866
 Cemetery Records
 Slaughter Cemetery
 Records of Washington County, Alabama
 

VOLUME 22, NO. 1, SUMMER, 1997
 The Great Storm at Lower Peach Tree
 Journal of James Leander Cathcart
 Extracts from the Clarke County Post, Suggsville, Clarke County’s First Newspaper
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal –1865
 

*VOLUME 21, NO. 4, SPRING, 1997
 Colonel James Caller and His Clarke County, Alabama Family
 Aunt Pearl – Memories of the Marks Family
 The Family of John Kelley and Hannah Moon
 Nancy Cox and Lewis Henderson
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal –1864
 

*VOLUME 21, NO. 3, WINTER, 1996-97
 First United States Marshal, District of Alabama, David Jasper Files
 The Griffin Page in History
 Colonel James Caller and His Clarke County, Alabama Family
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

*VOLUME 21, NO. 2, FALL, 1996
 Marshall Greene Candee
 Colonel James Caller and His Clarke County, Alabama Family
 Creagh Family Reunion
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal
 

*VOLUME 21, NO. 1, SUMMER, 1996
 Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson of Greensboro, Alabama, American Naval Hero
 Confederate Fortifications at Oven and Choctaw Bluffs, Clarke County, Alabama, 1862-1865
 Colonel James Darrington, Soldier and Planter
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal –1864
 

VOLUME 20, NO. 4, SPRING, 1996
 Confederate Fortifications at Oven and Choctaw Bluffs, Clarke County, Alabama, 1862-1865
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 Cemetery Records
  Old Rockville Cemetery
  Johnson Cemetery
  Cherry Cemetery
  Creighton Cemetery
  Davis Cemetery
 

VOLUME 20, NO. 3, WINTER, 1995-96
 Confederate Fortifications at Oven and Choctaw Bluffs, Clarke County, Alabama, 1862-1865
 Colonel James Darrington, Soldier and Planter, Part 2
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal –1863
 

VOLUME 20, NO. 2-FALL, 1995
 James Shelton Dickinson and the Dickinson Guards of Clarke County, Alabama
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal –1863- Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

VOLUME 20, NO.1-SUMMER, 1995
 Colonel James Darrington, Soldier and Planter, Part 1
 Tell Me of the Past –Reminiscences of the Darrington and James Families
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal –1863-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

*VOLUME 19, NO. 4-SPRING, 1995
 The First Survey Through Hal’s Lake Swamp in 1809 Under the Treat of Mt. Dexter
 Articles from the Clarke County Journal-1862-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

*VOLUME 19, NO. 3-WINTER, 1994-95
 Cammacks of Clarke County
 David Moniac: The Clarke County Farmer Who Was the First Indian West Point Graduate
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1862-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

*VOLUME 19, NO. 2-FALL, 1994
 The C.C. Coffee Murder Mystery at Hal’s Lake in 1928
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1862-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

*VOLUME 19, NO. 1-SUMMER 1994
 Dr. Memorable Walker Creagh
 Jowers Genealogy
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat –1861- Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 Cemetery Records
  The Goode Cemetery
  The Hamilton Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 18, NO. 4-SPRING, 1994
 Exploring the Tales of Hal’s Lake
 Index-A Working History of Hal’s Lake
 A Working History of Hal’s Lake
 

*VOLUME 18, NO. 3-WINTER 1993-94
 Champion Log Cabin
 Prim-Kimbell Family History
  The Armistead Line
  The Kimbell Line
  The Prim Line
  The Kimbell-James Massacre
  Reminiscences of Isham Kimbell, The Second
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1861-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 The Alabama Historical Association Award
 

*VOLUME 18, NO. 2-FALL, 1993
 The Early Life of Margaret Eades Austill
 John Robbins Williams: Pop’s Stories
 The Meaning of Early Gravestone Art
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1861-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 Cemetery Records
  Duncan McCaskey Family Cemetery
 Duncan McCaskey Family Bible Record
 

*VOLUME 18, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1993
 William Barrett Travis, In Claiborne and Texas Before the Alamo
 Tallahatta Springs
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 Opine, the Old Coate Home, A Clarke County Bed and Breakfast
 

*VOLUME 17, NO. 4-SPRING, 1993
 History of the William C. White Family in Alabama
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrate-1860-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

*VOLUME 17, NO. 3-WINTER , 1992-93
 The Castle Plantation
 Marion DeKalb Mott-1815-1894-An Early Clarke County Pioneer
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1860-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 Cemetery Records
  The Albert J. Wilson Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 17, NO. 2-FALL, 1992
 Judge John Gates Creagh
 Summary of Facts Concerning Thomas Pinkney Kelley
 Memories of Downtown Jackson
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1859-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

VOLUME 17, NO.1-SUMMER, 1992
 The Loranz-McCrary House (The Jackson Chamber of Commerce)
 Old Morvin School
 A Trip to the Saltworks
 An 1855 Democratic Meeting in Clarke
 The Dames and Coates of Old Clarkesville, Clarke County, Alabama
 Euplena Lucinda Batley – One Hundred and One Years Old
 Genealogy of the Dame Family
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat – 1859- Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 

*VOLUME 16, NO. 4-SPRING 1992
 Early Drinkard Settlers in Clarke County, Alabama
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1858-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 Cemetery Records
  Davis Cemetery, Whatley
 

*VOLUME 16, NO. 3-WINTER 1991-92
 Wood’s Bluff
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat-1857-Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence
 Pleasant Hill Methodist Church
 The Rocks, Tallahatta Creek
 

*VOLUME 16, NO.2-FALL, 1991
 The Syphrit Coin
 The Hearin-Bush-Mathews House
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence-1857
 

*VOLUME 16, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1991
 Oven Bluff Shipyards
 Brooke Cannon-CSA, S-96
 Articles from the Clarke County Democrat Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture and General Intelligence-1856
 Cemetery Records
  Bassett’s Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 15, NO. 4-SPRING, 1991
 History of the Files Family of Clarke County, Alabama
 Rate of Charges at Murrell’s Ferry
 Sheehan-Minard House
 Allen School Souvenir
 Cemetery Records
  Walker Cemetery-Jackson
  Finley’s Crossing Cemetery-Thomasville
 

*VOLUME 15, NO. 3-WINTER, 1990-91
 The Creagh Law Office
 Macon-Plat of Town
 James William Waldrom and his Descendants
 Settlement of the Estate of Thomas Finley
 

*VOLUME 15, NO. 2-FALL, 1990
 Whatley Centennial, 1890-1990
 Schools at Whatley
 Spiritual Life in the Community
 Families of Whatley
 

VOLUME 15, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1990
 Old Gainestown Schoolhouse
 1911 Cyclone Plays Havoc in Clarke and Monroe
 Doctor Henry George Davis, 1832-1912
 Cedar Creek Falls
 Young Brothers Pearson
 Inventory of all Historic Markers in Clarke County
 

*VOLUME 14, NO. 4-SPRING, 1990
 Mavilla Research, 1986-1990
 The South Alabama Institute
 Rogers Family of Clarke County, Alabama
 Old Round Top School, Bethel Church Community
 

*VOLUME 14, NO. 3-WINTER, 1989-90
 The Pickens Family of Clarke County, Alabama
  Photo of Pickens Home in Campbell
  Photo of Pickens Store in Campbell
 100th Anniversary of Clarke County’s Oldest Law Firm, 1888-1988
 The Trial and Execution of Harbart “O’ Harb” The Slave
 

VOLUME 14, NO. 2-FALL, 1989
 Archeological Investigations of the Soto and Luna Routes-An Update-October, 1989
 Mathews School
 Then and Now-The Adams-Coate-Cauley House
 The Jones Family
 Obituary of James Waldrom, 1854
 Cemetery Records
  Evergreen Baptist Cemetery
  Bethel Cemetery
  Mt. Giliead Cemetery(partial listing)
  Hopewell Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 14, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1989
 The Barefield-Moore House, Gosport
 The Carney Family of North Carolina and Clarke County, Alabama
 

VOLUME 13, NO. 4-SPRING, 1989
 A Texan Returns to Clarke County, 1910
 Wilson Guards of St. Stephens; or the Travail of Company A, 32nd Alabama Infantry, CSA
 The Portis Family of North Carolina and Clarke County, Alabama
 

*VOLUME 13, NO. 3-WINTER, 1988-89
 First District Agricultural School and Experiment Station, 1912-1913
  Photo of School and Farmhosue
  Holidays
  Calendar
  Board of Control
  Faculty and Officers
  General Information
  Special Information
  Course of Study
  Testimonials
  The Watsonians
  The Enrollment, 1911-12
  Graduates
  Photograph of Auditorium
  Program for Oratorical Contest
 Mobley-In Search of the Missing Link
 A Davis Family of Clarke County
 Cemetery Records
  French’s Chapel
  Mt. Zion
 

VOLUME 13, NO. 2-FALL, 1988
 The DeSoto Route Debates: A Presentation for the General Public
 Captain John C. Kimbell’s Company G
 Clarke County Civil War Note Discovered
 Robert Blount Rivers Family
 For My Family-A Gullette-Eades History
 Cemetery Records
  Austill Cemetery, Carney’s Bluff, 7 miles south of Jackson
  Gullett Cemetery, Possum Bend

*VOLUME 13, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1988
 Progress Report No. 3-The Soto Mauvila Project
 Clarke County Masonic Records, Coffeeville
 Robert Stake Armistead
 Dr. Edwin R. Armistead
 Clarke County Buried Treasure
 Rockville Baptist Church, 1879-1979
 Cemetery Records
  Payne Cemetery, Rockville
 

*VOLUME 12, NO. 4-SPRING, 1988
 The Noble-Agee House, Opine
  Noble Family History
 Clarke County Masonic Lodge Records
  Morvin Lodge No. 732
  Morvin Lodge Charter
  Choctaw Corner Lodge No.216
 A Tragic Incident
 Cemetery Records
  Noble Family Cemetery, Opine
  David Packer Cemetery, Packer’s Bend
 

*VOLUME 12, NO. 3-WINTER, 1987-88
 Two Confederate Records
 Clarke County Masonic Lodge Records
  No. 205 –Gainestown Lodge
  No. 791- Daffin Lodge, Walker Springs
 When a Smith Marries a Jones (Or One Branch of the Smith Family of Clarke County, Alabama)
 Bassett Family of Washington County, Alabama
 Cemetery Records
  River Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Salitpa
 

*VOLUME 12, NO. 2-FALL, 1987
 A Progress Report Concerning the Soto/Mauvilla Project in the Forks
 John Clark of Georgia-A Portrait
 A Biography – John Clark
 Muster Roll of the Suggsville Greys
 Report of J.S. Dickinson, Esq.
 Obituary-Lieut. Alonzo B. Cleveland
 Marengo Military Academy – Memorabilia
 Fort Stonewall- Choctaw Bluff
 W.L. Mitchell Store-Grove Hill
 Inquest – Clarke County Commissioner’s Records
 Cemetery Records
  Old Choctaw Corner Cemetery

*VOLUME 12, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1987
 Madame La Baronne, A Daughter of Clarke County, Alabama
  Photo of Woodlands at Gosport
  Additional Photos of Woodlands
  Emily and the Baron
  Photo of the Baronne
  Photo of the Baron
  De Riviere Wedding Announcement
  Photo of Blount Plot, Choctaw Bluff
  Cemetery Records
   Hopemont Cemetery
   Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 11, NO. 4-SPRING, 1987
 Letter About Gov. Murphy
 Portrait of Gov. John Murphy
 Alabama Masonic Lodge No. 3
 Confederate Reunion – 1890s
 John Hill, A Soldier of the Revolution
 A Tribute to Lillian Seale
 Ishmael Sterling Harwell- A Biography
 

*VOLUME 11, NO. 3-WINTER, 1987
 Salt Works of Clarke County
 A Brief History of the Railroad River Bridge and Depot at Jackson
  Photograph of First Bridge
  Photograph of Second Bridge
  Bridge Dedication
  Photograph of Old Depot
 Address by Mr. Vernon Pace of Forrest, Mississippi, to the White Family Reunion of Clarke County, Alabama –1986
 Forgotten Story of Clarke County
 

*VOLUME 11, NO. 2-FALL, 1986
 The Story of King Institute
 DeSoto in Clarke County
  In Search of DeSoto’s Trail
  Cosa
  Ulibahali and Toasi
  The Chroniclers
  Talisi
  Tascalusa
  Mauvilla
  Pafallaya
  Chicaza
  Artifacts in Alabama from 16th Century Expeditions
  About Treasure Hunting
  For Further Reading
 A Story of Jackson’s Schools
 Bible Records of Rosa Elizabeth Rogers Vaughn
 

*VOLUME 11, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1986
 Memories of Old Suggsville
  The Rivers House
  The Goodloe-Moriss House
  Notes and Thoughts on the James E.A. Bishop Family of Clarke County
   Bishop-Rivers Letters
   Bishop Census Records in and Around Clarke County, Alabama in the Early 1800s
 Cemetery Records
  Hoboken Church Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 10, NO. 4-SPRING, 1986
 The Whisenhunt Family Reunion
  Photo of Suggsville Methodist Church, 1925
  Whisenhunt Reunion Photo
  Photo of the Rev. and Mrs. John F. Whisenhunt
  Whisenhunt Home
 The River Plantation of Thomas and Marianne Gaillard
  Photo of Thomas and Marianne Gaillard
  Genealogy of Thomas Gaillard
 Cemetery Records
  Suggsville Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 10, NO. 3-WINTER, 1986
 The Miel Ezell House
  Miel Ezell Biography
  Christopher Pritchett Ezell
  Robert Lenoir Ezell
 Harwell Family Pilgramage
  Map of Harwell, England
 Cemetery Records
  Webb Cemetery
  Barnes Cemetery
  Rivers Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 10, NO. 2-FALL, 1985
 The Cornish House
 Archibad Lonzo McLeod
 Students at the Macon Academy, Grove Hill
 The Hearin, Hill and Related Pioneer Families
 Photo of Nancy Hearin Morris
 Photo of Armistead-Stallard House
 Morriss and Hearin Family Bible Records
 Springtime
 

*VOLUME 10, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1985
 The John French House
  John French Biography
  Jackson Bible Record
  Alston
  Map Showing Location of John French House
  French Family Cemetery
 United States Territorial Census of Monroe County –1816
  Map of Territory-1818
 Megginsons, Clarke County Pioneer Families
 Thomas Bassett Land Grant-1807
 Washington, D.C. –Poem by members Mrs. Steven Anderson, 1985
 In Memorium
  Obituary of Dr. Mitford M. Mathews (The New York Times)
 

*VOLUME 9, NO. 4, SPRING, 1985
 Democrat Finishes 100
 Years Publication on January 31
  Article Gives History of The Clarke County Democrat From its Own
Anniversary Issue of Feb. 2, 1956
 One Hundred Years of Service
  From Same Paper as Above.  Editorial With Personal Reminiscences by
Long-time Editor George Carleton
 Isaac Grant
  Page From Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor Booklet Honoring The
Democrat’s Founding Publisher
 Wales: A Family Pilgrimage
Interesting Account by Dr. David Mathews of his family’s origins in Wales
 

*VOLUME 9, NO. 3, WINTER, 1985
 Brief History of Thomasville
  Written by Mrs. J.W. Tucker for the Diamond Jubilee held in 1963
  Thomasville Newspapers
  Revealing and little known facts about Thomasville’s Earliest Newspapers
 The Clarke County News
Front Page of Vol. 1, No. 1 of Short-Lived Thomasville Paper; Dated March 8, 1894
 Naming Thomasville
Historical Article Relates Discussions Surrounding the Naming of Thomasville
 Tucker’s 3-Day Work Week
Humorous Article About Earl Tucker, Editor of the Thomasville Times. Written by the late Allen Rankin of the Montgomery Advertiser
 

*VOLUME 9, NO. 2, FALL, 1984
 E.T. Hall Column
Reproduced from The Clarke County Democrat; Concerns Museum Project
 Letters to Joseph Henley from His Sons During the Civil War
  Letters Written Home to Clarke County During Civil War
 The Taylor House
History of 1840s Jackson Home; Moved and Restored as the Branch Bank for the Washington County State  Bank in Jackson
 Taylor House Photos, Arwork
  Original Site Photos
  Floor Plan Drawing
  Kitchen, House on New Sites
  1817 Map of Jackson Showing Original Location
 

*VOLUME 9, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1984
 Jacob Stabler Obit
 Livingston Lines
Portion of Genealogical Work on Joe Henry Livingston and Family.  Livingston Lived in Clarke County Before the Civil War; Served in the War; and Afterwards Moved to Texas Where He Died.
 Photo of Early Jackson School
  Submitted by Mrs. Aubrey Moore Along with Lists Below
 Turn of Century Students
  Lists of 1903, 1904 and 1905 Students
 

*VOLUME 8, NO. 4-SPRING, 1984
 Taylor-Hall Family Record, 1864-1965
Contains Family History of Halls of Thomasville, Other Early Families.  Compiled by the Late Janie Hall Jones
 Oak Grove Cemetery
Listing of Old Cemetery in New Prospect/Mitcham Beat Area. Many Old Settlers Buried There.
 

*VOLUME 8, NO. 3-WINTER, 1984
 Uncle Kirk Pugh
Story of Former Slave of the Pugh Family Who Lived to be at Least 100 years old
 James A. Doyle
Clarke County Printer and Newspaperman.  Worked for Papers in the County.  Includes Obituary that Tells Story of His Life
 William McGrew
  Descendant Provides Additional Information on the Early Countian
 Spelling Variations
How Many Ways to Spell Tattilba?  Old Newspaper Article Concerns Spelling of this Indian Name, as well as Others.
 Marks and Brands
Page from Old Record Book Located in Probate Office.  Shows What Mark and Brand Great-Great-Grandpa Registered and Used on His Livestock
 Cemetery Records
 Elam Baptist Church Cemetery.  Over 300 Graves of Many Early Settlers 
Part of the County
 Pictures of Elam Church
 

*VOLUME 8, NO. 2-FALL, 1983
 Zimco, The Town That Was
  History, Photos of Old Logging Community
 1893 Courthouse Fight, Election
Article Recalls Intense Argument that Resulted in an Election to Determine if the County Seat Would Remain in Grove Hill or be Moved to Jackson or Whatley
 Tabulation of Boxes on 1893 Courthouse Question
 1899 Clarke County Courthouse
  Architect’s Description from Clarke County Democrat of the Time
 Poems From the 1893 Courthouse Election Fight
 Newspaper Art Associated With Election Fight
 1847 Letter From J. Austill to A.J. Pickett
 

*VOLUME 8, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1983
 To Coffeeville in Clarke
From the 1933 Issue of Alabama Highways, Written by the Late Peter Brannon
 Newspaper Items Concerning Coffeeville
Columns from South Alabamian Newspapers of the Late 1800s Concerning the Town and its Residents
  1819 Plat of Coffeeville
 Murrell’s Ferry Flyer
  1845 Flyer Gives Rate of Charges of Ferry Located at Coffeeville
 1911 Roster of Students
 Practicing Medicine in Clarke County, 1987-1941
  Story and Photos of Dr. John Talbert Pugh
 Mystery Photo Solved
  Old Newspaper Article Apparently Tells Story Behind Photo
 Obituary of Jas. S. Dickinson
 

*VOLUME 7, NO. 4-SPRING, 1983
 Landmark Falls
Story From 1941 Newspaper About Removal of 1830s County Office Building in Grove Hill
 Sixty-Nine Years in the World
  By the Late Rev. J.H. Fendley; Sketch of His Early Boyhood
 J.H. Fendley Obituary
 Fendley’s Civil War Letter
 

*VOLUME 7, NO. 3-WINTER, 1983
 Marriage Document Recorded 156 Years Late
Armistead-Carney Marriage Document  Among Discarded Courthouse Papers
 Robert Starkey Armistead Family
  Includes Photos
 Old Courthouse Papers Saved by the Late L. R. Tucker
Featuring Polling Lists for Confederate Presidential Election of 1861 for Following Locations: Grove Hill, Choctaw Corner, Indian Ridge, Jackson, Rockville, Gates, Campbell, Gainestown and Walker Springs.  Also Justices of Peace and Constable Election for Coffeeville in 1829
 Tallahatta Springs Once Resort Area
  Report of Marker Dedication, Includes Photos
 

VOLUME 7, NO. 2-FALL, 1982
 CSA Army Deaths
  As Reported in Clarke County Democrats of 1860s
 Col. John Wesley Portis and Family
 Photos of Portis Family and Suggsville Scenes
 Suggsville Collegiate Institute
 Report Card for John Portis
 The Senator From Clarke
  Newspaper Account of Civil War Period State Senator, John Y. Kilpatrick
 Death of James Magoffin
  1867 Newspaper Obituary
 

VOLUME 7, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1982
 A.B. Cooper’s Letter Concerning Isaac Hayden
 Joseph Cowan’s Letter Concerning Civil War Days
 Clarke Records
  Name of Macon Changed to Smithville
 Tallahatta Creek Rock Formations, Includes Photos
 Col. Robert Brodnax
  Interesting Sketch of Former Suggsville Resident and Some of His Family
 Pictures of Brodnax, Son and Daughter-In-Law
 Southerners In Brazil
Information on Ex-Confederates Like Col. Brodnax Who Fled to South America After Civil War
 “Old Tubbs”-Dr. T.B. Savage
Newspaper Account of Correspondent Concerning Early Days in Jackson; Also Obituary of Author
 Murder in Alabama
  Newspaper Account Relates 1849 Murder in Grove Hill
 

*VOLUME 6, NO. 4-SPRING, 1982
 The Baptist Who “Held Up” the Tower of London
  Story About Clarke, Marengo County Timber Used to Repair Famous England Landmark
 Pictures Concerning Above
 Clarke Records: Continuing Transcripts of Clarke’s Earliest Commission Court Records
 Suggsville Masonic Lodge Records, 1822-1875
 Photo of Restored Suggsville Methodist Church
 Sketch of B.G. Shields
 Death of A.B. Cooper
 Index of Cemetery Listings in Volumes 1-5
 

*VOLUME 6, NO. 3-WINTER, 1982
 Clarke Records: Commissioner’s Minutes, Book Proceedings Book A Continued
From the Fall Quarterly
 Obituaries: Caleb Moncrief and Enoch S. Cobb Death Notices, From Old Clarke
County Democrats
 Pleasant Hill Church History
 Newspaper Articles Concerning Early Courthouses, Courts
  Interesting Tidbits Gleaned From Old Clarke County Democrats
 The F. B. Whatley Family
 Civil War Letters of S.P. Chapman
 Case of the Missing Kimbell Child Revisited
 Cemetery Listings
  Chance, Alabama Cemetery
 

VOLUME 6, NO. 2-FALL, 1981
 Old Clarke County Letterheads
 Clarke County Records: Earliest Commissioner’s Court Records
 Historical Sketch of Salem Baptist Church, Scyrene
 Background on Ball’s Map
 The Map Itself
 The Map: Text From Ball’s Clarke County History
 Cemetery Records
  Gates Cemetery
  Cobb-Wilson Cemetery
 Bashi History
 War, War, to Arms!: Text of the Clarke County Democrat’s Announcement, April
25, 1861
 

*VOLUME 6, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1981
 Suggsville Loses Landmark
 Williams of Coffeeville
 Picture of Williams Home and Information
 History of The South Alabamian: Includes Illustrations
 Sketches of the Two Earliest Publishers of The South Alabamian
 Early Paper in Jackson?
 Surname Index to Volume 5
 Cemetery Records
  Bradord Cemetery
  Coleman Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 5, NO. 4-SPRING, 1981
 Gone With the Wind: The Wm. Morris Gordon Home
 T.H. Ball Dead: Newspaper Obituary of Historian’s Death
 Clarke County Records: Overseers of the Roads Appointed in February 1835
 Early Methodism in Clarke County and the History of the Grove Hill Methodist
Church
 Samuel Forwood: Autobiography of Early Gosport Settler
 Descendents of Forwood
 S. Forwood Letter Concerning Old Claiborne
 Cemetery Records
  Forwood Family Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 5, NO. 3-WINTER 1981
 Clarke County Featured in History Publication
 Clarke County Records
  Appointments of Election Managers for 1832 Election
 Jesse P. Pugh Home
 History of Bassett’s Creek Church
 Captain Luck Wainwright
  Short Sketch on the Life of a Noted Riverman
 Obituaries from the Clarke County Democrat
 Cemetery Records
  Witch Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
  Josiah White Family Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 5, NO. 2-FALL, 1980
 Application of West Bend Church to Prohibit Sale of Liquor in Vicinity Of
 Application of Tallahatta Church to Prohibit Sale of Liquor in Vicinity Of
 Items from Territorial Papers
 Search of Descendants of First University of Alabama Class
 Mathews Resolution
 Questions and Answers on Scruggs-White Families
 Books of Interest
 Surname Index to Volume 4
 

*VOLUME 5, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1980
 Descendant of Turner’s Fort
 Old Lock One
  Construction Photos
  Other Early Photos
 History of Hopewell Baptist Church
  Sketch of Log Church
  Sketch of Frame Church
 Cemetery Records
  Coate-Newman
  Shewmake Place
  Tompkins
 

VOLUME 4, NO. 4-SPRING, 1980
 Timothy H. Ball
 Photograph of Timothy H. Ball
 Alabama River Landings
 Eanes Records
 Photograph of Edwin Eanes
 White-Lambard House
 Photograph of White-Lambard House
 Photograph of White-Norris House
 Photograph of Original Lambard House
 Gainestown Mystery Grave Revisited
 Photograph of General William T. Rossell
 Photograph of Thomas Eastin
 Cemetery Records
  Eanes Cemetery, Barlow Bend
  James Landing Cemetery, Barlow Bend
  Gainestown Methodist Church Cemetery, Gainestown
  Norris Family Cemetery, Gainestown
 

VOLUME 4, NO. 3-WINTER, 1980
 Aerial Photograph –Clarke County During the Great Flood of 1979
 Roll of Members of Company E, 11th Alabama Infantry – Yancy Rifles – Clarke
and Washington Counties, Alabama
 Sarah Ann Haynesworth of Clarke County
 Portrait of Governor John Gayle
 Petition to the President and Congress by the Inhabitants of Washington County
 Major Origin Sibley Jewett
 Portrait of Mrs. Thomas James
 Photograph of Foundation of the Jewett Mansion
 Mt. Nebo Baptist Church
 Photograph of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church
 Photographs of Mt. Nebo Cemetery Tombstones
 Cemetery Records
  Cunningham Cemetery
  Putnam Cemetery
 

VOLUME 4, NO. 2-FALL, 1979
 Old Bassett’s Creek Baptist Church
 Genealogy of John James Family of Clarke County, Ala.
 Reminiscences of My Early Life and Relatives (James)
 The Warner Place
 Photograph of the Warner Place
 Petition to Congress by Inhabitants of the Tombigbee and Tensaw
 Cemetery Records
  Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery
  Photograph of Friendship Baptist Church
 

VOLUME 4, NO. 1, SUMMER, 1979
 The Hearin-Armistead House
 Familes Connected with the Hearin-Armstead House
  The Hearin Family
  The Armistead Family
 Revolutionary service Record of Captain William Armistead
 Lost Clarke County- The Westwood Armistead House
 Reminiscences of the old Westwood Armistead Home in Clarke County, AL
 A Register of the Officers and Students at the University of Alabama from Clarke
County, 1831-1901
 Steamboat Days
 More Lost Clarke County – History of Hickory Hall
 Sketch of Hickory Hall
 Cemetery Records
  Forest Springs Baptist Church Cemetery
 

*VOLUME 3, NO. 4-SPRING, 1979
 Fort Landrum
 1816 Census, Clarke County (Miss. Territory), now Alabama
 Membership List – Old St. Stephens Historical Society (1899)
 Miss Mary J. Welch’s Reminiscences of Old St. Stephens of More Than 60 Years Ago
 Photograph of U.S. Revenue Cutter “Wynona” at St. Stephens in 1899
 Photograph of Grave of Caroline Medora Crawford Brown
 Photograph of Old Courthouse, St. Stephens
 Map of Old St. Stephens
 The Bumpers Family With Some of the Families Who Are Related to Them and the Lineage of U.S. Senator Dale Leon Bumpers of Arkansas
 Photograph of First Courthouse, Grove Hill
 Photograph of Second Courthouse, Grove Hill
 Early Explorers – Joseph Stephen Noble Family
 

VOLUME 3, NO. 3-WINTER, 1979
 Old Waite House
 Photographs of Old Waite House
 Families Connected with the Old Waite House
 Homemade Medicine
 The Smoke Stacks of the Blees
 Photograph of the Mary S. Blees
 Alphabetical List of Company 1, 38th AVC
 The Grant-Carleton House
 Photographs of the Grant-Carleton House
 Axiom Lewis, Clarke County Revolutionary War Soldier
 Advertisement – Bevill Mercantile Company (1921)
 Cemetery Records
  Scruggs Old Plantation Cemetery, 1827-1864
  Photograph – Scruggs Chimney
 Addendum
  The Jabez York Family (Vol. 2, No. 4)
 

VOLUME 3, NO. 2-FALL, 1978
 Fort Madison
 Marker and Map of Fort Madison
 The Night Courier
 The Austill Family
 Portrait of Major Jeremiah Austill
 Photograph of Jeremiah Austill Grave and Homesite
 The Austill Cemetery
 U.S. Pension Records – Jeremiah Austill
 Historical Sites –Early History – North Clarke County – Indian Choctaw Corner –
And Thomasville Area
 Photographs of Choctaw Corner Markers
 Photograph of Early Thomasville SchoolHouse
 Photograph of Early Thomasville Street Scene
 The Lambert Family
 Cemetery Records
  White Swamp Cemetery
  Tallahatta Springs Cemetery
 

VOLUME 3, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1978
 The Alston-Bettis-Cobb-Bumpers-Postma House
 Families Connected With the Old Alston-Bettis-Cobb-Bumpers-Postma House
 Original Purchase of Town Lots-Jackson
 Plat of Jackson – 1817
 The Face in the Well
 1873 Obituary of Mrs. Chaste Ester Love Turner
 Cemetery Records
 Coffeeville Cemetery, Coffeeville
 

VOLUME 2, NO. 4-SPRING, 1978
 The Alabama Catalogue Project of the Historic American Buildings Survey
 The Figures-York-Cox Mansion
 Familes Connected with the Figures-York-Cox Mansion
 Albert Wilson House
 The Wilson-Campbell Family
 A Recipe for Making Wine
 Gypsies and Pack Peddlers in Clarke County
 Church Records of the Suggsville Circuit Methodist Church, Clarke County
  Suggsville Church
  Gosport Church
  Whatley Church
  Marvin Chapel
  Puryear Chapel
  Gainestown Church
  Bethel Church
  Lucas Chapel
  Hopewell Church
  Perry Chapel
  Fort Madison Church
  Register of Pastors
 Varnadoe Log Cabin
 Cemetery Records
  Cammack Cemetery, Allen
  The Unusual Burial of David Cammack
  Portis Cemetery, Suggsville
 

VOLUME 2, NO. 3-WINTER, 1978
 The Wilson-Finch-Mason Log House
 The Wilson-Finch Families
 Map of the Town of Claiborne
 History of the Baptist Church of Ulcanush, Clarke County, Alabama
 New Prospect – “A Photographic Glimpse Backward into 19th c. Clarke County”
 Old Clarkesville
 An Authentical Account of the Willis Bishop Hicks Family
 1830 Census of Clarke County – Heads of Families
 Cemetery Records
  Wilson-Frank Cemetery, Gainestown
  Caller Cemetery, Barlow Bend
  Turner Cemetery, West Bend
  Powers Cemetery, Manila
 

VOLUME 2, NO. 2-FALL, 1977
 The Dickinson House
 Colonel James Shelton Dickinson
 Act for the Relief of John Randon
 The Descendants of Peter Randon
 An Authentical Account of the Lineage of Josiah Allen Mathews(1803-1859) of
Edgefield District (later Saluda County), South Carolina -  Georgia – Clarke County, Alabama
 List of Members of Company E, 32nd Regiment of Alabama Volunteers, CSA
 Cemetery Records
  White-York Cemetery
  West Bend Cemetery
 

VOLUME 2, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1977
 Marriage Records-Clarke County, Alabama
  1814-1834, Vol. A (cont’d)
 Wing-Hundley House
 The Wing Family
 The DuBose Family of Clarke County
 Governor John Murphy
 The William and Mary Allen Family and the Lineage of Bishop and Caty Hicks
 Sarah Merrill’s Miracle
 Gainestown Methodist Church
 Cemetery Records
  Old Clarkesville Cemetery
  Gainestown Mystery Grave
  Mathews Cemetery
  King Cemetery
 Addenda
  J.W. Estis Cemetery
  Brewer Cemetery
 Isham Kimbell House
 

VOLUME 1, NO. 4-SPRING, 1977
 The Lodge
 Marriage Records, Clarke County, Alabama
  1814-1834, Volume 1
 The Clarke County Sea Serpent
  The Basilosaurus
 Joel Rivers of Claiborne, Alabama and Some of His Descendants
 Ruffin’s Dragoons
 Suggsville Methodist Church Centennial
 Macon Male and Female Academies, Advertisement
 Cemetery Records
  Haden-Rivers Cemetery
  Shamburger Family Cemetery
  Cox Cemetery
  Deas Cemetery
  Wiggins Cemetery
  Friddle Cemetery
  Estis Cemetery
  Brewer Cemetery
  Tarleton Cemetery
  Old Salem Cemetery
  Mitchell Field Cemetery
  Bettis Cemetery
  Elijah Pugh Chapman Cemetery
 

VOLUME 1, NO. 3-WINTER, 1977
 Wilson’s Mill
 The Explosion of the James T. Staples
 Colonel David Love
 Clarke County Descendants of Col. David Love
 Amity Schoolhouse Programme
 The Clarke County Tragedy
  Death of Mrs. Files---Recovery of Her Daughter Hoped For
 Clarke County’s Disappearing Architectural Heritage
 Sabe’s Well
 Clarke County Indian Villages
 News Items of Clarke County from Neighboring Newspapers
 Cemetery Records
  French Family Cemetery
  Gainestown River Grave
  Boroughs Family Cemetery
  Jones Cemetery
  Hearin Hill Cemetery
  Portis Cemetery
  Carleton Cemetery
 

VOLUME 1, NO. 2-FALL, 1976
 Timothy H. Ball’s Letter
 The Wilson-Finlay House
 Old St. Stephens
 Neal Smith, MD
 Smith Bible Records
 Kimbell-Rivers-Woodson House
 Isham Kimbell Autobiographical Letter
 History of the Coffeeville Masonic Lodge
 West Bend Academy Advertisement
 The Franklin Academy Advertisement
 1818 Letter from Joseph Noble
 Cemetery Records
  Spinks Cemetery
  New Creighton Cemetery
  Hill Cemetery
  Old Union Cemetery
  Murrell Family Cemetery
 

VOLUME 1, NO. 1-SUMMER, 1976
 “Woodlands” at Gosport
 Petition to Congress by Inhabitants of the Counties of Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Mobile and Baldwin in the Alabama Territory – October, 1817
 Christian Ministers Descended from a Branch of the Calhoun and McLeod Families in Alabama
 Bladon Springs
 My Recollections by Vera Coate Stringer
 William Bartram and the Spirit of ’76
 The Salt Works of Clarke County, Alabama
 Cemetery Records
  Pugh Family Cemetery
  Carney Cemetery
  Darrington-James Cemetery
 

 

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