History of Conecuh, County Alabama

This excellent history of this early county begins with its earliest times and settlers, the Creek Indians. This is followed by the early settlement of Conecuh by the whites in 1815 at a place called Bellville. Early in 1817 more people moved in from North Carolina and Chester District, S.C. Great difficulty befell those early emigrants especially in 1816 as they attempted to obtain food from long distances, with their lives always endangered through perilous travels in Indian territory. This was followed by more Indian hostilities from scattered Indian bands whose main body had been defeated at the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend by Andrew Jackson. Finally in January 1818, Conecuh became an organized county bounded on the north by Monroe and Montgomery Counties, on the west by Clarke and Mobile Counties, on the east by Georgia and on the south by Florida. The book continues with the continual growth of the county in the areas of transportation, mail service, formation of towns and communities and growth in general until the book ends in 1881 at its time of publication. The author gives much biography of early families and citizens, namely: Amos Ashley, Autrey, Bell, Bolling, Burnett, Cary, Crosby, Crosley, Cunningham, Donald, Ethridge, Forbes, Gray, Greene, Groce, Hawthorne, Hunter, Jay, Jernigan, Jones, King, Lee, Martin, McCreary, Morrow, Oliver, Perryman, Rabb, Sampey, Shaw, Simpson, Stallworth, Stearns, Straughn, Travis, Warren, and Watkins. Other surnames mentioned profusely throughout the book are those such as: Allen, Betts, Bowles, Boykin, Brantley, Burson, Cook, Copsey, Dean, Farnham, Feagin, Folks, Halstead, Hart, Hodge, Horton, Johnston, Keyser, Manning, McCaskill, Meeks, Mendenhall, Robinson, Roebuck, Slaughter, Starke, Turk, Walls, and many, many others.Riley, Benjamin Franklin is the author of 'History of Conecuh, County Alabama' with ISBN 9780893086923 and ISBN 0893086924.