Debbie Owen
Location: Silverhill
E-mail: owenpk
hotmail.com
Message:Welcome to the Silverhill History website!
I hope you will find this site informative and interesting. Let me know
if you have anything you can add to this website, such as: photos of
Silverhill places or people, documents, vital records, interesting
stories or facts, or even boring stories and facts! A
genealogist/historian will find any information about their family
interesting.
Also, if you find any information on this site that is incorrect please
contact me and I will correct it.
Please sign the Guestbook before you leave. I hope you enjoyed your
visit!
George Weller
Tue Jan 3 14:25:32 2006
Location:
North Bellmore, New York 11710
E-mail:
dharmadad2003yahoo.com
Message:
You have a very nice website and a keen sense of history...
Anthony Kucera
Thu Jan 5 15:59:53 2006
Location:
Silverhill Alabama & United States of America
Bruce R Swanson
Sat Jan 7 13:14:58 2006
Location:
Prescott, AZ USA
E-mail:
bruceswansonyahoo.com
Message:
What a wonderful afternoon I have spent paging through your fascinating
website. Thank-you for the revisitation of vivid memories of my youth in
the mid-forties. I remember well Papa George, Louise J. Lundberg and
Chandler's Store with the hand-operated gas pump.
Andy Strojny
Sun Jan 8 22:06:04 2006
Location:
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
E-mail:
astrojnyyahoo.com
Message:
What a great site!
My grandmother, Josephine Celer Karasek, and grandfather lived in
Silverhill in the 1920s. Both are buried in the Silverhill Cemetary. As
best I remember from family stories, my grandfather died in complications
of a fall from a hayloft which as I recall was somehow related to a
hurricane in the 20s. From you website, I assume it was the 1926
hurricane.
For many years my grandmother, who ended up back in the Chicago area,
along with the rest of the family visited friends in Silverhill, the
Radas, the Dubroveks (sic). I remember as a kid hanging out with the son
of the owner of the Riverside Inn, now gone.
Anytime we are in the area, which is often, we visit Silverhill.
Thanks for this resource.
Andy Strojny
Jim Coleman
Mon Jan 16 18:03:26 2006
Location:
Silverhill Ala
E-mail:
jimbopakgulftel.com
Message:
What a wonderful site! Congratulations of your fine effort, is SO
impressive! Best JPC
A. Frederick
Wed Jan 18 10:28:25 2006
Location:
Hot Springs, AR
E-mail:
dewfrederickyahoo.com
Message:
Years ago, reading about Ms. Elsie Chandler, 93, Librarian, is still an
inspiration to me in my career.
Bruce Sims
Wed Jan 18 10:49:25 2006
Location:
Magnolia Springs, AL USA
E-mail:
bsimsbcbe.org
Message:
A great site!
Jerry Rezek
Sun Feb 5 08:55:39 2006
Location:
Lexington, Ky.
E-mail:
jrezektiusa.com
Message:
I grew up in silverhill, during the 40's and 50's and am planning on
coming home to live.
David Rockwell
Thu Feb 9 06:16:17 2006
Location:
Silverhill
Brent Dickinson
Sat Mar 18 08:09:06 2006
Location:
Duluth, Ga
E-mail:
edwardbdickinsoncomcast.net
Message:
Great site. I'm looking at mom's collection of old photos of the Forsman
clan right now... It's good to see the history come together.
Ricky Hinote
Sun Mar 26 07:03:54 2006
Location:
Schweinfurt, Germany
E-mail:
ricky.hinoteus.army.mil
Message:
My fathers side of the family all originated out of the Silverhill area.
Keep up the great work!
Ken Zadnichek
Tue Apr 18 2006
Location:
Silverhill
l. luckie
Thu Apr 27 13:19:30 2006
Location:
gautier ms.
E-mail:
lannis.luckienavy.mil
Message:
outstanding
Naomi Verdugo (McCurdy)
Wed May 3 19:10:54 2006
Location:
Tampa, Florida
E-mail:
creekindiannanaverizon.net
Message:
I was born in Robertsdale. My cousin Carol Williams lives in Silverhill.
I found your site very interesting. I have been working on my family's
Geneology for about 10 years.
RANDALL ALLEN
Thu May 11 12:45:23 2006
Location:
FOLEY
E-mail:
tictacgulftel.com
Message:
Great Site!! I am a local originally from Bon Secour and I enjoy reading
local history. My Grandfather, Johnnie Sims was the first Mayor of Gulf
Shores. I am now a Realtor with ERA CLASS.COM, locally.
I wish there were other sites as good as this one on the other local
towns in this area.
brandon hoff
Fri May 12 07:54:25 2006
Location:
silverhill,ala
GARY GATES
Thu Jun 8 14:07:58 2006
Location:
PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA
E-mail:
Garygates7aol.com
Message:
REALLLY ENJOYED SEEING SOME OF MY GRADE SCHOOL FRIENDS PHOTOS! HAVE GIVEN
WEB ADDRESS TO MY DAUGHTER AND SUGGESTED SHE SEE HOW THE OLD FOLKS LIVED!
I NOTICED THE ROBERTSDALE CLASS OF 1959 WAS MISSING FROM YOUR SITE WOULD
LIKE TO SEE IT INCLUDED AT A LATER DATE. AGAIN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
chris reyes
Sun Jun 25 12:19:10 2006
Location:
foley baldwin
Deborah Waddell
Sat Jul 1 18:43:04 2006
Location:
Oxford, USA
E-mail:
boderahgmail.com
Message:
Originally, I checked out the site b/c my mother, Ruth McCawley West
Tucker spoke of visiting there as a child, but I was in awe of the info
and quality of your website. Other site owners should be both jealous and
take lessons from your site. Quite impressive, I must say.
Perseia Cline-Hutchinson
Sun Jul 9 11:15:17 2006
Location:
Providence, Rhode Island
Message:
Hi, my name is Perseia and I was born December 2,2005. I am the great-
great-great grand-daughter of Oscar Johnson, the great-great grand-
daughter of Elvera Johnson Armstrong, great grand-daughter of Elvera
Armstrong Cline and Milton J. Cline, grand-daughter of Sandra Cline
Hutchinson, daughter of Damien Cline-Hutchinson and Natacha Dorsaint. I
wish that I could have known my grandparents because I'm sure they would
have loved me as much as I would have loved them. I also would like to
mention my great-granny Lois and hope to meet her someday. This is a
wonderful site and someday I'll know what a wonderful family history I
have. Thank you, Debbie!
Rose Mary Mattingly
Wed Jul 19 15:48:49 2006
Location:
Penscola, Florida
E-mail:
Rbrown50bellsouth.net
Message:
Laura Nix
Wed Jul 19 17:39:36 2006
Location:
Laurel, Ms
E-mail:
laswimmegagate.com
Message:
Great website. My father is from Silverhill and my grandmother still
lives there. I had no idea about all the history of the town. I'm very
impressed with the information. It will really help me with my genealogy
research.
Christina Williams
Mon Jul 24 15:54:53 2006
Location:
Bay Minette, AL
E-mail:
Message:
Awesome site.
Aimee
Tue Aug 8 11:57:38 2006
Location:
Fulton, Missouri
E-mail:
sshsearchingyahoo.com
Message:
This is such a wonderful website and has inspired me to continue
genealogy research on a particular line. Now I just need to find more
information on Charles Gustafson and his wife to see if he is the Charles
Gustafson I am looking for!
Carol Ann Henderson Young
Sat Nov 18 16:32:07 2006
Location:
Houston, Fort Bend Cnty, Texas
E-mail:
acy_cayyahoo.com
Message:
We have visted your beautiful area on two occasions this year (2006) for
two week periods. I especially love the town of Silverhill. I am
originally from Pensacola, Fla. My mother was born in Baldwin County and
lived her young unmarried life there.
Barb Knapp Hall
Sun Nov 19 11:48:46 2006
Location:
Wheaton, Illinois
E-mail:
baypinebarbearthlink.net
Message:
Gorgeous website. Great info. My grandmother's parents farmed here and we
have been here a few times. As I find out more and get organized, I hope
I can volunteer to help you out and share info, files and scans of some
family photos from the 1920s.
Sabrina
Tue Dec 5 15:11:25 2006
Location:
Silverhill
E-mail:
Missbhh06yahoo.com
Message:
intrestin wasn't really lookin for this but it is really cool
Janice Carlson Rice
Fri Dec 22 20:12:51 2006
Location:
Edgewater, FL
E-mail:
glenjan5yahoo.com
Message:
My father was born in Silverhill 1914, son of Oscar R. Carlson and Hulda
Forsman Carlson. The Forsman family moved to Silverhill in 1903. I am
so happy to be able to share this website with my grandchildren so they
are aware of the history involving great and great-great and even great-
great-great grandparents, and can actually see photos of these ancestors.
What a thrill for all of our family. Thank you so much for sharing this
website.
Tammy Davis
Thu Feb 8 19:00:33 2007
Location:
Silverhill
E-mail:
tammybishopgulftel.com
Max Ard (President, Baldwin County Express Group)
Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:36:04
Location:
Summerdale, AL
E-mail:
gpawgulftel.com
Message:
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You have a wonderful website and have done a fantastic job with the history of Silverhill. Thanks again for your contributions. I (we) invite you to become a member of our non-profit organization which is dedicated to preserving Baldwin Counties history. You may find our website at http://www.baldwinexpress.org . We hope you will assist us in our efforts. We are using some of the photos you donated in our online museum. We have so many images that it has been hard to keep track of where they came from. We need your help to organize and give the credits to the proper source. Thanks again....
Jana Alarid
Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:16:13
Location:
Lillian, AL
E-mail:
janasellshomescox.net
Message:
I have enjoyed your web site. I am Czech, live in Lillian, AL and if you needed to translate any Czech document,� I can do that.
Anne-Marie Persson
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:19 PM
Location:
Olserum 1
594 92 Gamleby
SWEDEN
E-mail:
049366019telia.com
Message:
My mother's father was Alfred Soderberg, my grandfather.
He was borned in Sarvkullen, and I think his relatives are still living there. His mother's name was Brita Lisa Olsdotter and his father's name was Sven Peter Nilsson. Alfred was born
1860 and died 1938. He was marrried to Hulda, a girl from Kristdala, and they had 12 children: Thure, Mimmi, David, Otto, John, Astrid, Elsa, Karl, Lisa and Dagny, my mother and she is now 95 years.
