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Johanna Harriet Monnish, known as Honor, was born to F.W. and Lillian Olmstead Monnish. She married W. H. Nicol in 1909. A description of the marriage was published in the Birmingham News on April 24, 1909 and is reprinted below.TUSKALOOSASpecial to…

Betty Bailey Shirley avidly volunteered her service to the Tuscaloosa (AL) community. She was an out-spoken advocate for mental health in a time when mental health was greatly misunderstood. She championed support for children with disabilities…

Henderson Middleton Somerville was a professor and an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was instrumental in the formation of the University of Alabama School of Law, becoming the school's first dean.

Somerville held the post as…

A monument for Captain William Dollar, said to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War (undocumented) stands in the cemetery of Fellowship Baptist Church on Gordo-Reform Road. It Is said that the monument stands on land where Dollar had his…

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…

A photograph of J. H.(James Harris) Fitts from the book, Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America by J. H. Fitts, 1897.Fitts was born in 1830 in Jackson, Alabama.  He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1852 with a M.A. degree.  He…

Johnny Mack Brown is shown with his daughter Cynthia and horse Rebel in this photo that was sent to Dayton Hale Jr. of Tuscaloosa, a cousin to Brown's wife Connie

Johnny Mack Brown was born on September 1, 1904, in Dothan. His expertise on the…

Johnny Mack Brown is shown having tea with his wife Connie at the home of Snow Hinton on Queen City Avenue in Tuscaloosa.

Johnny Mack Brown was born on September 1, 1904, in Dothan. His expertise on the footfall field earned him a football…

Jackson Riggs "Warhorse" Stephenson (January 5, 1898 – November 15, 1985) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed Old Hoss, Stephenson played for the Cleveland Indians from 1921 to 1925 and the rest of his career from 1926 to…

This photo of Dr. Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins was taken at the induction of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame in 2016.  Wiggins, the University of Alabama, Department of History’s pioneering first female professor, earned her…