Franklin County, Alabama

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, Ala.

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

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

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 statesman

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 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 & Oscar Lelon Tompkins
     Christopher C. Tompkins - Delegate to the Constitutional Convention
           of 1865, Planter & Surveyor;
     Oscar Tompkins - State Representative for Houston County, Alabama

Dr. N. T. Underwood - Physician and prominent citizen

Richard Sharp Watkins - Lawyer,
- delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861

Charley Ross West - Prominent Educator & former State Senator

Henry C. West - Political advertisement for Secretary of State, cir. 1922
"Seven reasons to vote for Henry C. West"