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Ross-Clayton Funeral Home was the largest Black funeral chapel in the city and has a long history of community service, particularly during the civil rights movement. [12] [13] The funeral home supported the movement by providing transportation for black voters and participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, [14] [15] conduct class for colored wardens, with E. P. Wallace, serving as the ...
Green Hill is an unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Alabama. [ 1 ] Green Hill is the hometown of Iron Horse Bluegrass , [ 2 ] Secret Sisters , [ citation needed ] and Jason Isbell , a singer-songwriter and former member of the Drive-By Truckers .
"A frame residence of eight rooms, one of the first homes of so pretentious forms in that country," [9] built by H. A. Tayloe, who co-owned it and was later bought out by brother George P Tayloe, who then passed it on to his son John William Tayloe, who designed Hawthorne (Prairieville, Alabama) and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh ...
Lauderdale County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. At the 2020 census the population was 93,564. [2] Its county seat is Florence. [3] Its name is in honor of Colonel James Lauderdale, of Tennessee. Lauderdale is part of the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area, also known as "The ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Maple Hill Cemetery is the oldest and largest cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.Founded on two acres (8,000 m 2) in about the year 1822, it now encompasses nearly 100 acres (400,000 m 2) and contains over 80,000 burials.
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Notable interments include: John Abercrombie, U.S. Congressman [1] Bibb Graves, 38th Governor of Alabama [2] Dixie Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator and First Lady of Alabama [3] J. Lister Hill, U.S. Congressman and Senator [4] Reuben Kolb, Alabama's commissioner of agriculture [5]
The house was built for Jacob Ross Green (1810–c. 1875) from South Carolina. [3] Around 1820, his family moved to St. Clair County, Alabama. [3] In 1831, Jacob Ross Green married Elizabeth Boyd, the daughter of Judge Samuel Boyd, and soon began acquiring land in the newly established county of Benton (later renamed Calhoun County). [3]