Vintage Vignettes
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Vintage Vignettes
by John P. Rankin
This is an index to the Vintage Vignettes, a series of short stories by John P. Rankin about the people and history of Madison and Madison County, originally published in The Huntsville Times.
These Vintage Vignettes were prepared within constraints of limited word count restrictions for publication in the Huntsville Times newspaper over a period of five years, 2007 - 2011. Accordingly, few source references were included, in order to stay within the word count limits. The sources covered a wide variety of collections from many other researchers and historical publications, in addition to personal research as needed on occasion by John Rankin. The information provided by other researchers and historical publications may or may not always be proven to acceptable genealogical research standards and may in fact be found later to conflict with more recently known information. This collection of Vintage Vignettes is simply an attempt to provide material previously published in the newspaper as a basis for additional research by interested parties, with perhaps hints of where to look for what in their own quests for family historical data. No guarantee of accuracy is implied.
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- 13th Illinois Infantry at Madison Station, Alabama, May 17, 1864, Colonel Adam B. Gorgas
- 19 Front Street
- 1915, Rules for Schoolteachers
- 1928 Bank Robbery
- 1942, Class of, Perspectives
A
- A Tale of Two Caves
- A Voluntary Douglass "Slave for Life"
- Adair, William Irvine
- Adam B. Gorgas, Colonel, 13th Illinois Infantry at Madison Station, Alabama, May 17, 1864
- Adam Hall
- Affair At Madison Station: May 17, 1864
- Alexander M. Wynn
- Allen, Enoch B.
- Alma Lee Rice
- Amanda Carnes Camper
- Anderson, Annie Hertzler
- Anderson, Matthew Harvey
- Andrew Jackson Hardin
- Annie Elizabeth Nance
- Annie Hertzler Anderson
- Annie Viola Styles Keel
- Apperson, Jr., Charles Ford
- Arthur Holding Lewis
- Ashford, Undertaker, James P.
- Austin Groves
- Aviation History Connection, Madison’s
B
- Bailey Bonds
- Bailey, James F.
- Balch Connections
- Balch Families, Madison
- Balch, Hezekiah J.
- Bank Robbery, 1928
- Bartholemew Jordan
- Beadle, Daniel W.
- Beadle, Joshua and Thomas
- Beadles, The
- Bendall, Jesse
- Benjamin Franklin Harper
- Benjamin Neighbors Word
- Benjamin P. McCrary
- Benjamin Peete
- Betts, Edward C.
- Bibb, James Henry
- Bibb, John
- Bibb, Thomas
- Binford Hill School, Bishops and
- Bishops and Binford Hill School
- Blackwell Family
- Blevins, Dillon
- Boardman Mills
- Boardman, Elijah
- Bolden Awarded Medal of Honor, Paul L.
- Bolden, Part 2, Paul
- Bonds, Bailey
- Bowers, David
- Boyle Phillips Humphrey
- Bradford, Fannie East Burton
- Bronaugh, James Bruce
- Brown's Ferry
- Burgreen, Johon Victor
- Burton, John Mullins
C
- Cain Paternity Suit, The
- Cain, Thomas Jefferson
- Camper Clan Contribution
- Camper, Amanda Carnes
- Capshaw, Dr. Preston
- Captain Eli Hammond
- Captain James Bennington Irvine
- Captain John Buchanan Floyd - 1
- Captain John Buchanan Floyd - 2
- Captain Ollie Wikle
- Carl Heinz Mandel
- Carter, Thomas W.
- Cartwright Connections
- Caves, A Tale of Two
- Chadick, Colonel William Davidson
- Charles Ford Apperson, Jr.
- Charles Lee Palmer
- Chennault, General Claire Lee
- Christopher C. Gewin
- Clark, Lucy Lanier Ives
- Clark, The Hundley Role in the Last Will and Testament of Lucy Lanier Ives
- Class of 1942, Perspectives
- Clay, Governor Clement Comer
- Clay, Jr., Clement C.
- Clay, Sarah
- Clay, Thomas Jefferson
- Clemens, Founder of Huntsville, James
- Clemens, Jeremiah
- Clement C. Clay, Jr.
- Clift, John H.
- Clutts, David
- Collier, James
- Colonel Frances Marion Windes
- Colonel William Davidson Chadick
- Connections of Grant & Longstreet
- Cooper – Lea – Harris House
- Crutcher, Henry Ellen
- Crutcher, Reuben
- Cullen Earp
D
- Daniel Hertzler
- Daniel W. Beadle
- Daniel Wallace
- David Bowers
- David Clutts
- David M. McElhaney
- David Maxwell
- Dedman Family
- Deloney, Dr. Isaac Fox
- Dickson, James
- Dillon Blevins
- Doc Hughes
- Doolittle, Seymour
- Douglass "Slave for Life", A Voluntary
- Dr. Algernon Sydney Harris
- Dr. George Richard Sullivan
- Dr. Isaac Fox Deloney
- Dr. James A. Flanagan
- Dr. James Cofelt Mitchell Rankin
- Dr. Jessie Ollie Wikle
- Dr. John Hertzler, Host
- Dr. John Huber Hertzler
- Dr. John Robert Slaughter
- Dr. John Slaughter
- Dr. Preston Capshaw
- Dr. Richard Matthew Fletcher
- Dr. Richard Matthew Fletcher - A
- Dr. Richard Matthew Fletcher - B
- Dr. Richard Matthew Fletcher - C
- Dr. Richard Matthew Fletcher - D
- Dr. William Simpson
- Dudley Sale, Sr.
- Dunn - Williams House
- Dunn, William B.
E
- Earp, Cullen
- East, Susanna Withers
- Edward C. Betts
- Edward E. Word
- Edward Frost
- Eldred Rawlins
- Electrification of Madison, The Early
- Elijah Boardman
- Elijah Hussey
- Elijah Thomas Martin
- Elisha K. French
- Elisha Rainbolt
- Elizabeth Mae Klish
- Enoch B. Allen
- Ephraim Lemley
F
- Fannie East Burton Bradford
- Farley Connections, Harper-Prichard-Lyle-
- Farley Family, The
- Farrald, John W.
- Fennell, Isham
- Ferdinand M. Trotman
- Flanagan, Dr. James A.
- Fletcher - A, Dr. Richard Matthew
- Fletcher - B, Dr. Richard Matthew
- Fletcher - C, Dr. Richard Matthew
- Fletcher - D, Dr. Richard Matthew
- Fletcher, Dr. Richard Matthew
- Floyd - 1, Captain John Buchanan
- Floyd - 2, Captain John Buchanan
- Fowlkes, Ransom
- Frank G. Hertzler
- Freeman, Grocer Nathaniel R., Murder in Madison - 1884
- French, Elisha K.
- Front Street, 19
- Frost, Edward
G
- Garner, Sr., William T.
- Garner, William Thomas
- General Claire Lee Chennault
- George Washington Martin
- George Washington Wise
- Gewin, Christopher C.
- Gillespie, Miss Hessie
- Gillespies of Madison
- Glady True - Slower Times
- Gladys True
- Glover, Nathaniel
- Gooch Connections
- Gooch, Roland
- Gorgas, Colonel Adam B., 13th Illinois Infantry at Madison Station, Alabama, May 17, 1864
- Governor Clement Comer Clay
- Graham – 1 of 2, Nancy Tyree Dickson
- Graham – 2 of 2, Nancy Tyree Dickson
- Graham, James B.
- Graham, Julia Alabama
- Grant & Longstreet, Connections of
- Grantland, Henry W.
- Gray, William
- Gross Scruggs
- Groves, Austin
H
- Halsey Family
- Hall, Adam
- Hammond, Captain Eli
- Hardage, Monroe L.
- Hardin, Andrew Jackson
- Harpe, Big and Little, Natchez Trace Bandits
- Harpe, Little - Natchez Trace Bandits: Little Harpe & Sam Mason
- Harper, Benjamin Franklin
- Harper-Prichard-Lyle-Farley Connections
- Harris House, Cooper – Lea –
- Harris, Dr. Algernon Sydney
- Henry & Cornelia Seay
- Henry Ellen Crutcher
- Henry Minor
- Henry W. Grantland
- Hertzler, Daniel
- Hertzler, Dr. John Huber
- Hertzler, Frank G.
- Hertzler, Host, Dr. John
- Hertzler, John
- Hezekiah J. Balch
- Hilliard, Wilzie
- Holding, Richard and Amelia
- Hugh Nichols
- Hughes, Doc
- Hughes, Father of "Doc", John A.
- Humphrey Families of Madison
- Humphrey, Boyle Phillips
- Hundley Role in the Last Will and Testament of Lucy Lanier Ives Clark, The
- Hundley, John Henderson
- Huntsville's Privy Wars
- Hussey, Elijah
I
- Indian Creek Engagement
- Inman Cemetery
- Inman, Isaac
- Irvine, Captain James Bennington
- Isaac Inman
- Isham Fennell
- Israel Standifer
J
- Jacobs Family
- Jamar, Richard
- James Albert Watkins
- James B. Graham
- James Bruce Bronaugh
- James Clemens, Founder of Huntsville
- James Collier
- James Dickson
- James E. Tribble
- James F. Bailey
- James Harvey Pride and Son Dr. William T.
- James Henry Bibb
- James Manning
- James Norwood
- James P. Ashford, Undertaker
- James Wiggins
- Jeff and the Kellys
- Jeremiah Clemens
- Jesse Bendall
- Jesse Washington
- Jim Williams
- John A. Hughes, Father of "Doc"
- John Bibb
- John David Whitworth
- John Graham Zierdt
- John H. Clift
- John Henderson Hundley
- John Hertzler
- John Lemley
- John Mullins Burton
- John T. Lipscomb
- John Thomas Tanner
- John W. Farrald
- John W. Woodward
- John Withers
- John Wright Withers
- Johnston, William R.
- Johon Victor Burgreen
- Jordan, Bartholemew
- Jordan’s Chapel, The Search for
- Joshua and Thomas Beadle
- Julia Alabama Graham
K
- Katie S. Stewart
- Keel, Annie Viola Styles
- Keel, Telephone Memories of Percy
- Kellys, Jeff and the
- Kennedy, William J.
- Klish, Elizabeth Mae
- Knox, Willis
L
- Landers, Luke
- Lea – Harris House, Cooper –
- Lemley, Ephraim
- Lemley, John
- Lewis, Arthur Holding
- Lipscomb, John T.
- Longstreet, Connections of Grant &
- Looney Family
- Lucy Ann Spotswood Matthews
- Lucy Lanier Ives Clark
- Luke Landers
- Luke Matthews
- Lyle-Farley Connections, Harper-Prichard-
M
- Madison Balch Families
- Madison County's First Murder Trial
- Madison in the Early 1900s
- Madison Station: May 17, 1865, Affair At
- Madison Telephone Book of 1944
- Madison Telephone Company
- Madison Telephone Company History
- Madison’s Aviation History Connection
- Madison's Early Water Tanks
- Mandel, Carl Heinz
- Manning, James
- Map of 1890 Madison
- Martin McCalley
- Martin, Elijah Thomas
- Martin, George Washington
- Martin, Simple Early Justice - The Practices of Judge E. T.
- Mason, Sam - Natchez Trace Bandits: Little Harpe & Sam Mason
- Matthew Harvey Anderson
- Matthews, Lucy Ann Spotswood
- Matthews, Luke
- Maxwell, David
- McCalley, Martin
- McCrary, Benjamin P.
- McElhaney, David M.
- Medal of Honor, Paul L., Bolden Awarded
- Minor, Henry
- Miss Hessie
- Monroe L. Hardage
- Moses Smith
- Murder in Madision - 1914
- Murder in Madison - 1884: Grocer Nathaniel R. Freeman
- Murder of Constable Russell, The 1903
- Murder Trial, Madison County's First
- Murrell, John A., Natchez Trace Bandits
N
- Nails of Madison, The
- Nance, Annie Elizabeth
- Nancy Tyree Dickson Graham – 1 of 2
- Nancy Tyree Dickson Graham – 2 of 2
- Natchez Trace Bandits: Big and Little Harpe
- Natchez Trace Bandits: John A. Murrell
- Natchez Trace Bandits: Little Harpe & Sam Mason
- Nathaniel Glover
- Nichols, Hugh
- Norwood, James
O
P
- Palmer Pioneers of Madison
- Palmer, Charles Lee
- Parvin Pioneers
- Paternity Suit, The Cain
- Paul Bolden, Part 2
- Paul L. Bolden Awarded Medal of Honor
- Pauper, Rachael A.
- Payne, Robert
- Peete, Benjamin
- Perspectives, Class of 1943
- Pettus Pioneers
- Petty Pioneers
- Pickett, Sarah Orrick Chilton
- Pickett, Steptoe
- Pike Pioneers
- Powhaton Toney
- Prichard-Lyle-Farley Connections, Harper-
- Pride and Son Dr. William T., James Harvey
- Privy Wars, Huntsville's
R
- Rachael A Pauper
- Ragland, William
- Rainbolt, Elisha
- Rankin, Dr. James Cofelt Mitchell
- Ranson Fowlkes
- Rawlins, Eldred
- Reconstruction Mortgages
- Reuben Crutcher
- Rice, Alma Lee
- Richard and Amelia Holding
- Richard Jamar
- Riddle, Thomas G.
- Robert Payne
- Roland Gooch
- Rules for Schoolteachers - 1915
- Russell, The 1903 Murder of Constable
S
- Sale, Sr., Dudley
- Samuel Trotman
- Sara Landman Whitworth
- Sarah Clay
- Sarah Orrick Chilton Pickett
- Schoolteachers, Rules for - 1915
- Scruggs, Gross
- Seay, Henry & Cornelia
- Seymour Doolittle
- Simple Early Justice - The Practices of Judge E. T. Martin
- Simpson, Dr. William
- Sims Settlement, The
- Slaughter, Dr. John
- Slaughter, Dr. John Robert
- Slave for Life", A Voluntary Douglass
- Smith, Moses
- Standifer, Israel
- Steptoe Pickett
- Stewart, Katie S.
- Sturdivants of Madison
- Sugars Turner
- Sullivan, Dr. George Richard
- Susanna Withers East
T
- Tanner, John Thomas
- Tate, Waddy
- Telephone Book of 1945, Madison
- Telephone Company History, Madison
- Telephone Company, Madison
- Telephone Memories of Percy Keel
- The 1903 Murder of Constable Russell
- The Beadles
- The Cain Paternity Suit
- The Early Electrification of Madison
- The Farley Family
- The Hundley Role in the Last Will and Testament of Lucy Lanier Ives Clark
- The Nails of Madison
- The Search for Jordan’s Chapel
- The Sims Settlement
- The Wanns of Madison
- Thomas Bibb
- Thomas G. Riddle
- Thomas J. Owen
- Thomas Jefferson Cain
- Thomas Jefferson Clay
- Thomas W. Carter
- Thompson, Ol' Blue, Robert
- Toney, Powhaton
- Toneys of Triana
- Triana, Toneys of
- Tribble, James E.
- Trotman, Ferdinand M.
- Trotman, Samuel
- True - Slower Times, Glady
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 10, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 11, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 3
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 4, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 5, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 6, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 7, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 8, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales of Life In the Old Days - Part 9, Recollections of Gladys True
- True Tales: Life Long Ago
- True, Gladys
- Turner, Sugars
- Two Caves, A Tale of
U
V
W
- Waddy Tate
- Wallace, Daniel
- Wanns of Madison, The
- Washington, Jesse
- Water Tanks, Madison's Early
- Watkins, James Albert
- Where's My Acre?
- Whitworth, John David
- Whitworth, Sara Landman
- Wiggins, James
- Wikle, Captain Ollie
- Wikle, Dr. Jessie Ollie
- Wilkerson, William Horace
- William B. Dunn
- William Gray
- William Horace Wilkerson
- William Irvine Adair
- William J. Kennedy
- William R. Johnston
- William Ragland
- William T. Garner, Sr.
- William Thomas Garner
- Williams House, Dunn -
- Williams, Jim
- Willis Knox
- Wilzie Hilliard
- Windes, Colonel Frances Marion
- Wise, George Washington
- Withers Family
- Withers, John
- Withers, John Wright
- Woodward, John W.
- Word, Benjamin Neighbors
- Word, Edward E.
- Wynn, Alexander M.