Early Settlers of Alabama with Notes and Genealogies by His Granddaughter Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs

This is really two books in one. The first part originally published by Col. Saunders in a series of newspaper articles between 1880 and 1899 is a compendium of genealogical and biographical sketches of the early settlers of Lawrence County Alabama and of Alabama itself. Based on first-hand accounts as well as the author's encyclopedic recollections it offers glimpses of people and events that are otherwise beyond the reach of our present-day resources. Avowedly popular in approach it is nonetheless a unique and invaluable record of Alabama's earliest settlers. The second part of the work compiled by Col. Saunders' granddaughter contains detailed genealogies of nearly 100 Alabama families. Compiled from a multitude of original records as well as approved secondary sources these genealogies usually commence with the immigrant ancestor and progress through a chain of descents down to representatives of the line in the mid-nineteenth century. They are replete with biographical detail and are often preceded by a list of everyone of the surname mentioned in early court records. The following is a list of some of the families treated in this section: Baldwin Bankhead Banks Bibb Billups Blair Cantzon Clark Clay Coleman Cox Donohoe Dubose Dudley Dunn Elliott Flint Fountaine Foster Fry Gholson Goode Gray Harris Hill Hopkins Hubbard Kennedy Lanier Ligon Lowe McCarthy McGehee Maclin McMillan Manning Maury Moore Mumford Oliver Ormond Poellnitz Ray Richardson Saunders Shelton Sherrod Shorter Speed Swoope Tait Taliaferro Thompson Tillman Urquhart Walthall Watkins Webb Weeden Wells White Withers Wyatt Tates and Young.