Abner Jerome Sundell: 1913-2001

Abner Sundell was the father of Eric Sundell. He was a multitalented man from New York. Among other things he was a artist, writer, editor, and publisher of comics and magazines in the 1930’s and 1940’s. He used a pen name of Cliff Campbell. That pseudonym was used as a “house name” by others in […]

Clare Walsh

This biographical information and additional backstory about Aileen’s mother, Clare, comes from one of our Irish cousins, Linda McCann. Linda is a granddaughter of Briege Walsh (a sister of Nan and Clare). You will notice some varying spelling of names. This is something common in genealogy. Linda is a member of this website, so leave […]

Consecration of Earth by Robert Gibbons

In a letter dated April 8, 1981, Bob explains to his siblings that this is the first chapter of a potential autobiography. Also see the Encyclopedia of Alabama entry for Robert Faucett Gibbons.

Henry Harrison Hunt, 1802-1873

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J. Whitfield Gibbons

J. Whitfield Gibbons There are a number of resources on the Internet with biographical information about Whitfield as well as bibliographies of his writing. Whit Gibbons website Whit Gibbons at Amazon Whit Gibbons at Wikipedia BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF J. WHITFIELD GIBBONS, SMITHSONIAN HERPETOLOGICAL INFORMATION SERVIC, NO. 156, 2019

Joseph Burt, 1770

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Matt Clinton: Me & My Family

Matthew W. Clinton

Robert F Gibbons Autobiographical Sketch

This information was published in The Alabama Librarian, January, 1952. Downloaded February 2, 2023 from The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/sim_alabama-librarian_1952-01_3_1/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Robert+Faucett+Gibbons%22. This is the only reference I have seen noting the short story, Season of Loss, presumably published in Diameter Magazine. Also notable is the list of towns lived in while attending school.

Sarah Burt

From Ancestry.com.

Sketch of Life of Thomas Clinton

Tuscaloosa News: Thursday, July 7, 1927 Moore’s Alabama History Includes Sketch of Life of Thomas ClintonTuscaloosa NewsThursday, July 7, 1927 Dr. A. B. Moore. dean of the graduate school of the University of Alabama, is spending the entire summer at work on the history of Alabama which he is writing for use at the University. […]

The Gibbons/Walshe Stems

James Booth Gibbons, 1889-1966 When James Booth Gibbons was born on September 14, 1889, his father, James Edward, was 32 and his mother, Harriett Ophelia Ward, was 27. He was born in Prattville, Alabama. He married Anne Genevive Walsh on December 21, 1913, in Birmingham, Alabama. They had eight children in 10 years. He died […]

The Walshes

This biographical information and additional backstory about several of the Walshes comes from one of our Irish cousins, Linda McCann. Linda is a granddaughter of Briege Walsh (a sister of Nan and Clare). You will notice some varying spelling of names. This is something common in genealogy. Linda is a member of this website, so […]