Tag: Mobile Alabama

Joseph Pryor of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (1767-1851): Notes to Clarify His Pre-Alabama Roots

August 21, 2025

Or, Subtitled: “PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED WITH AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUSLY VERIFIED PAPER” At the start of this month, I posted an article here that had been published by Roots and Branches, a publication of the Tuscaloosa County Alabama Genealogical Society. As I did so, I noted that the Tuscaloosa Genealogical Society had kindly given … More Joseph Pryor of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (1767-1851): Notes to Clarify His Pre-Alabama Roots

Samuel Asbury Lindsey (1826-1865), Son of Dennis Lindsey and Jane Brooks: New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 28, 2024

This is another of those postings in which I’m sharing new information about someone regarding whom I posted information in the past. This new material has to do with Samuel Asbury Lindsey (1826-1865), a son of Dennis Lindsey and Jane Brooks of Lawrence County, Alabama. As the posting I’ve just linked states, on 12 October … More Samuel Asbury Lindsey (1826-1865), Son of Dennis Lindsey and Jane Brooks: New Information Added to Previous Posting

Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (1): John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane

April 9, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “It is needless to enlarge on his professional talent, his urbanity of manners, and unblemished honor and integrity” The first four children of Catherine Calhoun and Alexander Noble were as follows (a subsequent posting will provide information about the couple’s other children):

Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Rebecca (Noble), Catherine (Hunter), and Joseph

March 3, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “Mrs. Hunter seems mortified at the asperity shown by Mr. Hillhouse, in consequence of his furnishing the ball-supper” This posting is the last installment in a series of postings discussing the children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. This series began with a posting about … More Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Rebecca (Noble), Catherine (Hunter), and Joseph

Children of Benjamin S. Green (1794-1860): Benjamin S. Jr., Thomas L., John W., and Lucinda Caroline

October 20, 2023

Or, Subtitled: A Sister and Three Brothers Living and Farming Together Unmarried to the End of Their Lives The children of Benjamin S. Green (1794-1860), son of John Green and Jane Kerr, and wife Margaret M. whose maiden surname I not discovered, were as follows:

John Green (1768-1837): Bibb County, Alabama, Records, 1823-1839

September 19, 2023

Or, Subtitled: “On the Elyton road, the [stagecoach] change, usually considered necessary every fifteen miles, is said to have occurred regularly near Woodstock at the old Green house, called Halfway House” As the previous posting states, when Jane Kerr Green relinquished her dower rights to the 1,345 acres she and husband John Green sold in … More John Green (1768-1837): Bibb County, Alabama, Records, 1823-1839

Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): The Years Working on James Hopkins’ Plantation in New Orleans, Early 1830s

August 4, 2023

Two postings in the past, I brought the story of Samuel Kerr Green up to 1830, as I tracked Samuel after he left Nashville and his Nashville-New Orleans trading firm Young, Green and Co. in 1820 or 1821 and went to south Louisiana. When I wrote that posting, I had thought that Samuel went directly … More Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): The Years Working on James Hopkins’ Plantation in New Orleans, Early 1830s