The History of Butler County, Alabama, from 1815 to 1885
Some prominent residents of Butler County, Alabama employed John Buckner Little in 1885 to author a history of their county. At this time in American history, book publishing had gotten inexpensive and it was a trend to publish a county history in order to record the events of the county for posterity, and incidentally, the actions those prominent people or their ancestors may have contributed in the process. For Butler County, the author, Little, believed it was probably a decade or two late, as the county had lost quite a few of its founding settlers in the interim, and the … Read more