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"Pick" Cowden, as he was called, was a farmer-merchant in north Tuscaloosa County, Ala.. He was married on December 17, 1868 to Elizabeth Samantha Dodson ( December 11, 1852 - October 12, 1930), the daughter of William Rufus and Annie Palmer…

Inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame, Crawford was a mentor and cared about women's welfare including issues of mind, body, and spirit. She was born in Georgia but her family moved to Alabama and from age three, she lived on the family…

John E. Curry became the second generation to run the John Curry Furniture Store in Tuscaloosa. The store was established by his father, John H. Curry, in 1965 when he was 63 years old. John E. Curry and his sister, Carol Curry Robertson, joined…

John Hill Curry was selling furniture in Tuscaloosa before all the streets were paved and founded John Curry Furniture Company in downtown Tuscaloosa at the retirement age of 65.

Curry was a descendant of an early pioneer family in Pickens County.…

C.D. Davenport, (b. 1907) was named executive vice-president of the Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce in 1963, succeeding P.B. Raiford who resigned earlier in the year. Davenport later became executive director of the organization. After ten years in…

A photograph of Mrs. Dee Davis, Tuscaloosa civic leader and camellia expert. Davis was married to the late Dr. Jack Davis, who started two camellias in the couple's greenhouse that were named after his wife. Davis is well-known across the southeast…

Dr. Sam Davis Jr. retired from the medical field in 1989. He practiced medicine in Northport since 1955.
He was AMI West Alabama Hospital, Chief of Staff in 1976-77 and remained on the hospital’s board until the early 1980’s.

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.

Claude W. Dent, Jr. was president and general manager of Rigg Stephenson Motors before owning his own auto dealership, Claude Dent Motors.

A certificate of appreciation from Governor George Wallace to long time Fayette County, Alabama Game Warden Captain Rufus Dodd Jr. for his 35 years of service to the State of Alabama as an officer with the Department of Conservation and Natural…