Biographies
Dr. Thomas Benton Barnes - Physician - Copy of Dr. Barnes' original Surgery License
Lemuel Cook Bendall - Confederate Soldier, Rural Letter Carrier, Historian
Edward Tarpley "E. T." Bolding - Educator, Farmer, Gentleman
Jesse Amos Bolton - "The burning of the Court House in Belgreen, Alabama"
Historical article by Betty (Bolton) Starnes.
William Drewey Bowen - Gallant hero of the 1860's
William Burgess - prominent farmer and delegate to the Constitutional
Convention of 1875 from Franklin County
Ellis Madison Duncan - Biologist
Prof. Luther Noble Duncan - Teacher in the Agricultural World
Dr. James A. Glasgow - Educator foremost and also a Banker, Farmer and served as a Franklin County Commissioner
Kemper T. Glasgow Jr. - Tribute Paid for Job Well Done as Principal, Phillips High School, Bear Creek, Alabama
Maxine (Glasgow) Tidwell Martin - Accomplishments in Teaching
Alpha W. Hargett - former Sheriff and Probate Judge of Franklin County
Deputy Prohibition Administrator for the Southern District of Alabama
Benjamin Harris - Wealthy Planter and Land Surveyor
Foy Benton Hester - Served on the USS Nautilus during WW II.
Foy Benton Hester - "The War Crashed Down on Us"
Foy's account of Pearl Harbor
Lee James - A Former Franklin County Boy Who is Making Good in The Business World
Luther L. James - Prominent Educator
Henry Cox Jones - Lawyer and Judge
James Washington "Wash" Jones -
Prominent Franklin County Native who settled in New Mexico after the Civil War
Dr. Thomas S. Jones - Physician, prominent educator and statesmam
James Allen Kimbrough - A Man Renowned For His Morality
James Kirk - one of the Leading Planters in the County
Jesse L. Kirk - Planter and Saddle Maker
Enoch Harvey McNatt - well-known Teacher after the Civil War
James Malone - Prominent Planter, sired 27 children
Vincent Tanner Malone - Writings
Laura Bertha Massey King - as told to Carl Elliott, February 10, 1959
John E. Orman - Community Builder and Business Man
William H. Quillin - Lawyer and Representative
Robert L. Reaves - Successful Teacher after the Civil War
Robert Wiley Richardson -
First person account of early Franklin County during the beginning of the Civil War
Dr. Harvey Owen Sargent - Educator
Dr. Samuel Sevier -
Well known physician in Franklin County in pre-Civil War days and State Senator
William Skinner - Lawyer, Planter and Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1867
Riley Sparks - a Progressive Farmer for his day
John A. Steele - Farmer, Judge of Probate, Lawyer and Delegate to the Secession Convention
Rev. John Taylor - "The Famous Backwood’s Preacher."
Arvel Woodfin "A. W." Todd - Alabama State Farm Commissioner
Christopher C. Tompkins and Oscar Lelon Tompkins
Dr. N. T. Underwood - Physician and prominent citizen
Richard Sharp Watkins -
Lawyer and Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861
Charley Ross West - Prominent Educator and former State Senator
Henry C. West - Political advertisement for Secretary of State, cir. 1922
"Seven reasons to vote for Henry C. West"