ALABAMA
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As
the need for new lands, and possibly new adventures, arose in our family,
the push west began after 1800. As you have seen earlier in the 1800
to 1820 time period many families left the Carolinas and moved to Tennessee,
Kentucky and Georgia.
In the 1820s several groups of families headed south into Alabama, mostly via Tennessee. Better farmlands became available as Indian territories were opened for homesteading. By the 1840s other Putmans from Georgia began to move westward. After that, folks came from further afield and spread across the state. Many others continued the westward movement into Arkansas, then Mississippi and Texas after the Civil War. Our Putman history, as I have said so often before, is a history of movement westward. This section will give more details on some of the families that came into Alabama early in the 1800s. Three sons of Benjamin and Elizabeth Putman of North Carolina went into eastern Tennessee and then down into a northern Alabama. They were Wilson, John and Griggs. John and Griggs appear in the 1820s and Wilson's family came in the 1830s. Also in the 1830s, two sons of the Reverend John Putman and his wife Sarah arrived. They were Hiram Putman and Simeon Putman who came via Kentucky from South Carolina and settled first in Randolph County. Martin and Huldy Putman came from North Carolina in the 1830s. He was a Methodist minister for many years in Alabama. Martin was a son of Thomas Putman, grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth. In the 1840s, Joel and Narcissa Putman came from South Carolina. He was a son of Reuben Putman. They settled a while in St. Clair County, Alabama. This section will cover some of the details of these families. Most were covered under their parents' lives in the NORTH CAROLINA and SOUTH CAROLINA sections found earlier. |