July 25, 1933 – September 18, 2018 Mrs. Etta Jeanette Godwin, age 85 of Evergreen, AL, passed away Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at the Brewton hospital. Mrs. Godwin was a life-long resident of Conecuh County, AL and was a member of the Repton High School Class of 1951. She had worked as a seamstress at …
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April 14, 1912 – August 20, 2010 Mrs. Evie Lee Brantley, age 98, passed away Friday, August 20, 2010 at her home in Repton. Mrs. Brantley had lived in Conecuh County most of her life and was a resident of Repton. She was a member of Oakdale Assembly of God Church in Repton. Mrs. Brantley …
Baggett Chapel Methodist Church; approximately 120 graves; first known interment: Catherine Baggett (1923-1924); Baggett, Ethridge, Hayes, Quinn, Reeves and Whitten are common to this active cemetery.
Antioch Primitive Baptist Church, constituted in 1839; approximately 130 marked and 25 unmarked graves; first known interment: Mason Shell (1809-1893); Adams, Amos, Bolton, Braxton, Hamrac, Johnson, Sanders, Shell, Stewart, Taylor, Tomlinson and Trawick are common to this cemetery still in use.
To understand the Alabama Salt Lists, one must first grasp the significance of Salt as a factor in the Civil War. To do this, the reader must transport himself back in time. Back to the period of the Civil War. Back to a time when life was much simpler and Salt was a definite necessity. To impoverished individuals and families, salt, a basic necessity of life, was extremely difficult to come by cheaply beginning in 1862. Alabama developed a system by which they purchased salt and distributed it to the poor directly, and others who could distribute it to the poor, in order that the people of Alabama would have sufficient salt for their usage. While doing this, Alabama developed lists of people who received the salt. This is such a list.
