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Ward Wharton McFarland was honored in the United States House of Representatives by Alabama Representative Spencer Bachus.

McFarland was a lawyer and real estate developer in Tuscaloosa and was State Highway Commissioner under Gov. Jim…

The photo is of the grave of Nimrod Hendrick, a Tuscaloosa pioneer who served in the War of 1812, and received a land warrant for his service near present day Duncanville, south of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.   He deeded land to the Sand Mountain Methodist…

This document from the War Department certifies that Morris Friedman completed a course of instruction at the Military Instruction Camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. in 1916.

Coleman Hargrove "Hog" Van de Graaff was the second son born to Circuit Judge Adrian Sebastain "Bass" Van de Graaff Sr. and Minnie Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff.

Like his older brother, Adrian, Hargrove attended the University of Alabama and…

Born in 1935 in Sumter County, Alabama, Theophilus Yelverton Rogers, Jr., better known as T.Y. Rogers, Jr., came to Tuscaloosa in 1964, and he is credited with providing key leadership for the civil rights movement in Tuscaloosa.

Reverend Martin…

Gordon D. Palmer became the fourth president of the First National Bank of Tuskaloosa in 1941 and was the first person to serve in that position who was not a Moody. The bank was founded by Judge Washington Moody in 1871. Palmer was named Citizen of…

Marie Ellen "Nellie" Clarkson was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Thomas Boston Clarkson and Sarah Caroline Heriot.

On November 28, 1860, at the age of 19, she married Peter Bryce, a 26-year-old native in Columbia, South Carolina. This was…

Eudora McEachin Otts, Joseph McLester, Naneita McEachin Leach, Anna Somerville McLester, Bernard A. Wood, Maebelle McEachin Wood are shown in the photo. Note the attire of this 1890's group who seem to be ready for a gala event.

William Davenport Latner (abt 1815 - 1900) and his wife Katherine "Kattie" Richardson Latner (1810-?) were both born in South Carolina. (Her name may be spelled with a "C." )

The couple moved to Hale County, Alabama, where he worked as a…

Ryan deGraffenried, Sr., a Tuscaloosa attorney and politican, ran for Governor of Alabama twice. During his campaign trail for the second and more promising race, he died in a plane crash in February 1966.