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Lawrence County was founded on February 6, 1818, the year before Alabama became a state, from lands ceded by the Cherokee and Chickasaw. It is a rural county bordered to the north by the Tennessee River and to the south by the waterfall-rich Bankhead National Forest and filled with small vibrant communities. Moulton, the county seat, features a picturesque square. Courtland, an antebellum town, was once a bustling railroad port. Featured topics include Southern architecture, leaving for war, the railroad boom, cotton agriculture, and industry. Notable individuals highlighted include Jesse Owens, Gen. Joseph Wheeler, and Annie Wheeler.
Volume 1 also contains 57 chapters of Col. James E. Saunder's "Early Settlers of Lawrence County" which begins with the Indian days and guides the reader through the early history of Lawrence County up through the description of the men and actions of the 9th and 16th Alabama Infantry Regiments.
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
Volume 1 also contains 57 chapters of Col. James E. Saunder's "Early Settlers of Lawrence County" which begins with the Indian days and guides the reader through the early history of Lawrence County up through the description of the men and actions of the 9th and 16th Alabama Infantry Regiments.
Lawrence County, Alabama was created by the act of the Territorial Legislature of February 4, 1818. Formed from territory acquired by the Cherokee and Chicasa cession of 1816. The early settlers of the county came from Virginia, Tennessee and the Carolinas. Many of the early settlers of Lawrence County were veterans or children of veterans of the Revolutionary War. The Biographies of the following settlers are included in this book: JOHN WHITE ESQ. (1778-1842) EDMUND PIERCE ANDERSON (1800-1827)DAVID HUNTER (b. ca. 1800) & AMBROSE HUNTER(b. ca. 1800) - brothers JOHN GRUGETT (ca. 1774- ca. 1826)JONATHAN BURFORD (ca. 1793- 1849)DANIEL WASHINGTON BURFORD (1782 - 1837)JOHN GALLAGHER (ca. 1796 - 1839) JAMES GALLAGHER (ca. 1800 - ca. 1843) DAVID JOHNSON GOODLETT (1804 - 1878) JUDGE HENRY ANDERSON MCGHEE (1808-1901) RUEL MARSHALL EARP (1828 - 1908) DR. JAMES HIRAM EARP (1863 - aft. 1910) CROCKETT MCDONALD (1801 - 1857) JAMES H. MCDONALD (1826 - 1884) JOHN GRAHAM (ca. 1792 - 1864) PETER W. TAYLOR 91794 - 1836) HANCE McWHORTER CUNINGHAM (ca. 1790 - ca. 1828) JOHN HARRIS RENO/RENEAU (1764 -1848) WILLIAM RENEAU (1788-1852) HUGH M. WARREN (b. ca. 1800) BOLLING CLARK BURNETT (1797 - 1862) CALEB OWEN (ca. 1759 - 1842) HENRY WATKINS COLLIER (B. 1801) and SCOTTS FAMILY; ARTHUR FRANCIS HOPKINS (1794 - 1866)CHRISTOPHER C. GEWIN (1810 - 1891) CAPTAIN DANIEL W. WRIGHT (1759 - 1838) JOHN GREGG (ca. 1800 - 1850) WILEY GALLAWAY ESQ (1793 - 1864) JOHN MCDOWELL (1758 - 1841) JOHN BURRSS SALE (1818 - 1876) BENJAMIN SYKES (b. ca. 1745) THE HODGES PIONEERS - Brothers COL. FLEMING HODGES (1792 - 1827) & COL WILLIAM MASON HODGES (ca. 1793 - 1835) MATTHEW CLAY, JR. (1795-1827) DAVID HUBBARD (1792 -1874) THOMAS BENTON COOPWOOD (1793 -1862)
Lawrence County is fortunate to have newspapers which survived the years of the late 1800s, while other county newspapers of the era didn't exist or have been lost to time. This book represents clippings from 1913 through 1927. The White family of Moulton established a newspaper dynasty with the Advertiser that lasted until the early 1920s. Interesting articles are presented describing the rich history of Lawrence County and the Tennessee Valley as a whole. Particular attention is given to recording births, marriages, and obituary notices. This book will prove useful to any serious student of the history and genealogy of the people inhabiting Lawrence County, Alabama.