A quarter century has passed since Murray Holliday wrote "A History of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, 1916-1980." The Board of Governors authorized a Society History Committee to embark upon updating this work, since much has been done by many people to document the growth and development of the Society since 1980. The Committee felt that is should preserve the integrity of the Murray Holliday manuscript. Thus, they left his work in its original...

This work provides genealogical data on about 1000 families who lived in the hill country of west central Alabama prior to the Civil War. Most were squatters who came primarily from Virginia and the Carolinas, often after having stopped in Tennessee or Georgia long enough to renew food supplies, rest livestock, await the birth of a child or the death of an elderly parent. Ethnically most of the pioneers were of Celtic stock, descendants of early Virginia...