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People from Monroeville, Alabama (16 P) Pages in category "People from Monroe County, Alabama" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
In 1832, the legislature relocated the county seat to Monroeville from Claiborne on the Alabama River. The settlement was briefly renamed "Centerville" due to its location in the center of the county, and then was formally changed to Monroeville. The town was not formally incorporated until April 15, 1899. [4]
Collins was born in Monroeville, Alabama, to father, Henry Knight, a businessman who owned a funeral home and worked with cattle, and to mother, Bessie Knight (née Nettles). She grew up in Atmore, Alabama , a small town near Mobile, Alabama , during the time of segregation in the American South. [ 2 ]
The Monroe Journal is the oldest and the longest-running newspaper in Monroe County, Alabama. [1] The paper was founded in 1866 in Clairborne. It moved to Monroeville sometime after its 1867 sale by L. M. Brewer. [2] [3] It was purchased by Q. Salter in 1887, when he was just 20 years old. [4] It would remain in the Salter Family for 64 years. [5]
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Walter "Johnny D." McMillian (October 27, 1941 – September 11, 2013) [1] was a pulpwood worker from Monroeville, Alabama, who was wrongfully convicted of murder . His conviction was wrongfully obtained, based on police coercion and perjury.
Though he had few years of formal education (and none at a college), Lee passed the Alabama teacher's exam, and moved to Monroe County, Alabama to teach. [2] On 22 June 1910, Lee married Frances Cunningham Finch (1888-1951), the daughter of a local postmaster in Monroe County, the unincorporated community of Finchburg being named after an ancestor.