Search Term Record
Metadata
Name |
World War II |
Related Records
-
40_37_001-003 - Newspaper Article
Two newspaper artilcles about the Beiser family in Fairhope, Alabama. "Beiser Englewood Villa part of 'forgotten Fairhope'" by Louis Zadnicheck published c. 2006 in the Fairhope Courier newspaper. This history of the Felix and Rosamond Beiser family with photographs of the family home, called "Englewood Villa." The house was located where the Fairhope First Baptist Church stands today. Another article, "Beiser's contributions honored in ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
5.1.1-213 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1927-1953, (I, J and K). Most correspondence is of general FSTC business (rents in arrears, inquiries about single tax, tax returns). In 5.1.80 C. A. Gaston writes about Fairhope's early residents, saying those who came to Fairhope were "advanced thinkers and their various eccentricities made them stand out as distrinct from the common run of citizen." He called early Fairhope a "crank...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
7.1.105-112 - Letter
Correspondence between Craig T. Sheldon and C. A. Gaston, 1944-1946. Sheldon is in the United States Marine Corps in WWII and is writing Gaston about returning to Fairhope to lease land and live there after the war. There are letters in Box 7 from others with the "Sheldon" surname who could be related to Craig T. Sheldon.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
Beiser-0014 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated 1942 of Theodore Ralph Beiser (aka Buddy Beiser) and his mother Rosamond Jung Beiser on the grounds of Englewood Villa, the family home in Fairhope, Alabama. U. S. Army Air Corps Lt. Beiser served as a B-17 bomber pilot flying 37 missions in the European Theater during World War II. From the Beiser Photograph Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives
Record Type: Photo
-
FSTC-0599 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of LT. E.B. Gaston II (1924-1944). "Barney" Gaston was the son of Arthur Fairhope "Spider" Gaston and Mary Price Gaston, and the grandson of E.B. and Clara Mershon Gaston. E.B. Gaston led the founding party of new Fairhopers to Baldwin County in Novermber, 1894 Barney Gaston was P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber pilot who died on August 26, 1944 when his plane crashed as he liberated the French village of Sivry-Courtry. The City o...
Record Type: Photo
-
FSTC-V0023 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 11, 1996 with Rae Bernhardt Jackson, a Fairhope native and resident who owned The Picture Show, a gift shop in downtown Fairhope near the movie theater on Fairhope Avenue. Mrs. Jackson is the person who suggested the idea of making video interviews of Fairhopers for the centennial celebration. She was interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider. Mrs. Jackson tells about the life of her grandparents, Lawrence and Victoria B...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
FSTC-V0024 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated March 12, 1996 with Flo Coleman Schneider. Mrs. Schneider is the granddaughter of Clement L. Coleman, one of Fairhope's town founders. She is the daughter-in-law of Fairhope Mayor Joe Schneider. Her grandparents Clement "Clem" Lefevre Coleman and Sarah Louise Wood Coleman and her great grandfather George Warren Wood were charter members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Clement Coleman also served as President of ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
FSTC-V0027 - Video, Digital
Video interview of Maxine Jowers Frederick on March 24, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Maxine Jowers Frederick, was the daughter of Robert V. Jowers and his wife. (Mrs. Robert Jowers later remarried to William Funk, who worked at Fairhope Hardware.) Maxine moved to Fairhope in 1920 when she was less than a year old. She lived on de la Mare Avenue, also known as Pig Alley. She discussed growing up in Fairhope, life duri...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
FSTC-V0029 - Video, Digital
Video interview with Jeanette Bonner on March 7, 1997 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Mrs. Bonner is the great granddaughter of John and Nancy Lewis, the freed-slave couple who raised their family in this area. Nancy Lewis, then a widow, sold the improvements on the land to the Fairhope Industrial Associaton in 1895. Ms. Bonner is the daughter of Louise Lewis. She discussed living in the same house on McDonald Lane her enti...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
FSTC-V0039 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated August 10, 1994 with 97-year old Lucille Edna Edgerton Tuveson (1897-1996). Interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Growing up, Mrs. Tuveson had moved with her parents from New Mexico, where her father worked on a cattle ranch, and then on to Florida, where she remembered the terrible poverty in the Jacksonville area. Mrs. Tuveson came to Fairhope in 1918 from Florida because her uncle knew of Quake...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
PMG-4152-4175 - Correspondence
Correspondece dated mostly 1974 and 1984 regarding the 30th and 40th anniversaries of the death of Lt. Ernest B. Gaston II. Barney Gaston was the grandson of Fairhope founder E. B. Gaston, and the son of Arthur Fairhope Gaston and Mary Price Gaston. He died on August 26, 1944 when his P-38 fighter crashed after he attacked a line of tanks nearing the village of Sivry-Courtry France during World War II. Information in this file includes cor...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
PMG_8620_8621 - Flyer
Flyer for exhibit at the Fairhope Historical Museum titled "'Barney' Fairhope's Hometown Hero: A Tribute to World War Two Veterans." The exhibit highlighted E. B. Gaston II (known as Barney and grandson of Fairhope founder E. B. Gaston) and his contributions during WWII and the Battle of Sivry, France. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
