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Jessie Messenger Hart Thomas was the cook for the Arthur H. Keller family of Tuscumbia, in Colbert County, Alabama; her 1939 obituary notes that…
A Thursday, July 11, 1895 Florence Gazette report that an unnamed Negro boy had been killed a few miles west of Florence "a few days ago" when a wagon…
A Thursday, June 26, 1890 Florence Gazette biographical sketch of Jim Cross, a former slave of Benjamin Cross. Jim was 81 years old in 1890 and still…
A Wednesday, October 2, 1889 Florence Herald article reporting on how an African-American brakeman on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad named Oscar…
A Friday, June 28, 1935 Muscle Shoals Labor Advocate report that African-American resident of Florence Willis Reeder, a TVA employee, had a leg…
A Friday, July 27, 1945 Florence Herald accident report, reporting that 10 year-old LB Lambert, Jr, riding his bicycle down Waterloo Road toward…
This is a newspaper article that describes the murder of Moses Hanser, a "free negro" living in Florence. According to the article, Hanser was in…
The February 24, 1905 Florence Times death of notice of Florence painter Aleck Foster and December 12, 1912 Alabama death certificate of his wife…
The Florence Herald and Florence Times obituary and death notice of African-American resident of St. Florian (approximately 5 miles NE of Florence),…
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Della Watkins Donley--Belle Mont Mansion Seamstress
"Aunt" Jessie Thomas, Cook of the Capt. Arthur H. Keller Family
Negro Boy Killed by Being Run Over by a Wagon
Uncle Jim Cross
A Narrow Escape
Negro Loses Leg
Negro Boy is Hit by Ice Truck Sunday
The Murder of Moses Hanser
Death Records of Florence Painter Aleck Foster and Wife Callie Handy
Obituary and Death Notice of Oscar Casey