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Jeremiah Austill--born in [[Oconee County, South Carolina]]. Picture on page 240 of Halbert and Ball


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{{short description|American politician, planter and soldier (1794 – 1879)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Jeremiah Austill
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| office2 = Member of the<br />[[Alabama House of Representatives]]<br />from [[Mobile County, Alabama|Mobile County]]
| term2 = 1845—1846<ref>{{cite journal |title=House of Representatives |journal=Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, at the Session Begun and Held in the City of Tuscaloosa, on the First Monday of December, 1845 |date=1846 |page=4 |url=https://archive.org/details/alabama-house-journal-1845-1846/HJ_1845_1846/}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1794|08|10}}
| birth_place = [[Oconee Station State Historic Site|Oconee Station]], [[Pendleton District, South Carolina]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1879|12|08|1794|08|10}}
| death_place = [[Clarke County, Alabama]]
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* {{marriage|Margaret Ervin Eades|1838}}
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**[[Canoe Fight (Creek War)|Canoe Fight]]
**[[Battle of Holy Ground]]
*[[Battle of New Orleans]]
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'''Jeremiah Austill''' (August 10, 1794 – December 8, 1879) was an American politician, planter and military officer who served in the [[Alabama Army National Guard|Alabama Militia]] during the [[Creek War]].

==Early and family life==
[[Oconee Station State Historic Site]].
Lived in [[Bermuda, Alabama]]. Married Martha Hayes on March 9, 1819. She died in [[Claiborne, Alabama]] on November 1, 1820, after falling from a fence post.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brantley |first1=Mary E. |title=Early settlers along the Old Federal Road in Monroe & Conecuh Counties, Alabama |date=1976 |publisher=Gateway Press |location=Baltimore, Maryland |page=185}}</ref>

Married Margaret Ervin Eades on October 10, 1834, daughter of John Eades of Georgia and Jenny Fee of [[County Armagh]] in [[Ireland]]. Her father assisted in constructing [[Fort Carney]]. There was hailed by Austill who brought news of the attack on [[Fort Sinquefield]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Austill |first1=Margaret Ervin |title=Memories of journeying through Creek county and childhood in Clarke County, 1811-1814 |journal=Alabama Historical Quarterly |date=Spring 1944b |volume=6 |issue=1 |url=https://legacy.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/creekwar/lesson1/doc3-1.html |access-date=November 13, 2024}}</ref>

Son of Evan Austill, who was an assistant [[Indian agent]] to the Cherokee. Died in 1818 and buried near site of Fort Madison.{{sfn|Ball|1882|pp=459}} Moved to Georgia to live among Cherokee at age 4, sent back to South Carolina at 6 for school, and then moved to Washington County (now Clarke County) in 1813.{{sfn|Ball|1882|pp=461}} Sent by uncle David Files to New Orleans but contracted [[yellow fever]]. Lost from 180 to 96 lbs, then traveled to [[New York City]] to recover.{{sfn|Ball|1882|pp=463}} Two sons and three daughters. One son, Hurieosco Austill, served as member of the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate and [[Chancellor#Some states in the United States|Chancellor]] of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama]].{{sfn|Ball|1882|pp=464}} In 1848, had a [[Hydraulic ram|water ram]] installed in home instead of hauling water from spring. Died December 8, 1879.{{sfn|Ball|1882|pp=466}}

==Creek War==
After Kimbell-James massacre at Fort Sinquefield, Austill volunteered to relay message from [[Fort Madison (Alabama)|Fort Madison]] to [[Fort Stoddert]]. Austill volunteered for the thirty-seven mile ride to request additional protection for the occupants of Fort Madison from General [[Ferdinand Claiborne]], who was at [[Mount Vernon, Alabama|Mount Vernon Cantonment]].{{sfn|Halbert|Ball|1895|pp=200}} Austill arrived and brought back word to the inhabitants of Fort Madison and Fort Glass. This was a precautionary warning that was interpreted as peremptory to abandon the forts for the safety of St. Stephen's.{{sfn|Halbert|Ball|1895|pp=201}}

Canoe Fight image and article. References from Pickett. ONly 19 at this time.

[[155th Infantry Regiment (United States)|1st Regiment, Mississippi Territorial Volunteers]] (private) (p 175), Carson's Regiment of Mississippi Militia (sergeant) (p 213)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Rowland |editor1-first=Dunbar |editor1-link=Dunbar Rowland |title=Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society |date=1921 |publisher=State of Mississippi |location=Jackson, Mississippi | volume=IV |url=https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DZJ-488/page/n7/mode/2up}}</ref>

At Battle of Holy Ground, crossed river with Pushmataha and six warriors and captured REd Stick supplies.{{sfn|Halbert|Ball|1895|pp=259}}

Known as "Major". After Creek War became clerk in uncle's store in St. Stephen's. Uncle was David Files, who was a quartermaster in the US Army. After his uncle's death in 1820 he became deputy Marshal. Then moved to Mobile and became clerk of Court of Mobile and also city weigher.{{sfn|Halbert|Ball|1895|pp=237}} Represented Mobile in Alabama Legislature. Became a commission merchant in 1824. During the [[Panic of 1837]], lost $170,000. Bought plantation on the [[Tombigbee River]] in 1840 (which included the site of Fort Carney) and built a home there in 1844. Raised cotton and sugar cane.{{sfn|Halbert|Ball|1895|pp=238}}

As cotton merchant, handled accounts of [[Charles Tait (politician)|Charles Tait]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Moffat |first1=Charles H. |title=Charles Tait, Planter, Politician, and Scientist of the Old South |journal=The Journal of Southern History |date=May 1948 |volume=14 |issue=2 |page=231 |doi=10.2307/2198424}}</ref>

1832 served as Port Warden for Mobile.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alabama Legislature |url=https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/us/alabama/tuscaloosa/tuscaloosa-alabama-state-intelligencer/1831/12-22/page-6 |work=Alabama State Intelligencer |date=December 22, 1831 |location=Tuscaloosa, Alabama |page=5}}</ref>

Democratic nomination for Alabama House of Representatives in 1845.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mobile |url=https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/us/alabama/mobile/mobile-register-and-journal/1845/07-22/page-5 |work=Register and Journal |date=July 22, 1845 |location=Mobile, Alabama |page=5}}</ref>

At beginning of Creek War was sick with malaria. Prior to Canoe Fight, apprenticed under Dr. Lorry while in fort. Helped men who fought Creeks with surgery and repairing wounds.{{sfn|Austill|1944a|pp=83}} Assisted in constructing [[Fort Claiborne]] and then participated in Battle of Holy Ground. Transporting Pushmataha and five warriors.{{sfn|Austill|1944a|pp=86}} Claimed to found town at site of Montgomery in 1815 with 8 other men after end of Creek War.{{sfn|Austill|1944a|pp=87}} In 1819, married Martha Hayes (he spells it Hayse) in [[Burnt Corn, Alabama]]. She died on November 1.{{sfn|Austill|1944a|pp=89}} After wife's death, sold farm at Burnt Corn and returned two slaves to his father in law. After uncle died, who was Marshal for South Alabama, Tolliver Livingston was made Marshal. He was crippled, so Austill was made deputy marshal to carry out the duties of marshal. Deputy marshal from 1818 until fall of 1823. 1827 to 1829 was the foreman of the first hook and ladder company in Mobile. In 1829, he and Thomas Rhodes contracted with the US Government to deliver mail to New Orleans from MObile. Land to Pascagoula then boat to New Orleans.{{sfn|Austill|1944a|pp=90}}

During the cession of Creek lands in 1832, served as Deputy Marshal of the Creek and based at Fort Mitchell. Austill's role was to keep illegal squatters off Creek land. One squatter, Hardemann Owens, was county commissioner of roads and revenue for newly-created Russell County. Owens killed by soldiers while being asked to remove himself from Creek lands. Angry squatters appealed to the Russell County Court, which issued an arrest warrant for Austill.{{sfn|Green|1982|pp=180}}

==Political career==
In 1851, known as "colonel".{{sfn|Pickett|1878|pp=567}}

In July 1833, settler Hardeman Owens was shot by soldiers in Russell County. Settlers was illegally on Creek land after the [[Treaty of Cusseta]]. Austill was deputy marshal and stationed at Fort Mitchell and ordered arrest of Owens.{{sfn|Pickett|1878|pp=687}}

Moved out west looking for gold? [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Files-215]

In 1825 was serving as clerk for the Southern District of Alabama.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 1 |date=1835 |publisher=United States Congress |location=Washington, D.C. |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqQFAAAAQAAJ}}</ref>

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SERIALSET-00872_00_00-003-0028-0000/pdf/SERIALSET-00872_00_00-003-0028-0000.pdf

== Death and legacy ==
June 30, 1929, marker unveiled.[https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LHTH-YYS/jeremiah-austill-1794-1879]

Tombstone has separate date of death from news articles.

Historical marker has date of death as December 9.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gravesite of Major Jeremiah Austill |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=101588 |website=HMdb.org |access-date=November 16, 2024}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite journal |last1=Austill |first1=Jeremiah |title=Autobiography of Jeremiah Austill |editor=Marie Bankhead Owen |editor-link=Marie Bankhead Owen |journal=Alabama Historical Quarterly |date=1944a |volume=6 |issue=1}}
* {{cite book |last1=Ball |first1=Timothy |authorlink1=Timothy H. Ball |title=A Glance Into The Great South-East; Or, Clarke County, Alabama, And Its Surroundings, From 1540 To 1877 |date=1882 |publisher=Knight & Leonard |location=Chicago, Illinois |isbn= |page= |url=https://archive.org/details/ball-t.-h.-a-glance-into-the-great-south-east-or-clarke-county-alabama-1882/mode/2up?q=austill&view=theater}}
* {{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Michael D. |title=The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in Crisis |date=1982 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |isbn=0-8032-2109-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/politicsofindian0000gree/mode/2up?q=austill}}
* {{cite book |last1=Halbert |first1=Henry |authorlink1=Henry S. Halbert |last2=Ball |first2=Timothy |title=The Creek War of 1813 and 1814 |date=1895 |publisher=Donohue & Henneberry |location=Chicago, Illinois |isbn=9781375702775 |page= |url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/georgiabooks/do-pdf:gb0105}}
* {{cite book |last1=Pickett |first1=Albert James |authorlink=Albert J. Pickett |title=History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period |date=1878 |publisher=Willo Publishing Company |location=Tuscaloosa, Alabama |page= |isbn=978-1363310845}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM109564 Daguerreotype of Jeremiah Austill]

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| {{dts|format=mdy|1996|11|13}}
| [[Hope Hull, Alabama|Hope Hull]]
| 1827–1935
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| Alabama War Memorial
| {{dts|format=mdy|1977|10|28}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1968
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| [[Alabama State University Historic District]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1994|8|25}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1916–45
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 4
| Aurelia Eliscera Shines Browder House
| {{dts|format=mdy|2010|8|5}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1920
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| J. M. Barnes House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1991|12|19}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1898
|
|--
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| Belser-Marshall House (demolished 2006)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1997|3|12}}
| [[Mt. Meigs, Alabama|Mt. Meigs]]
| c. 1840
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|--
!{{USAL color}}| 7
| Bethel Cemetery
| {{dts|format=mdy|1999|9|30}}
| [[Pintlala, Alabama|Pintlala]]
| 1843–1962
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 8
| Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church & Cemetery
| {{dts|format=mdy|2011|5|19}}
| [[Lapine, Alabama|Lapine]]
| c. 1932
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|--
!{{USAL color}}| 9
| Bethelonia Missionary Baptist Church
| {{dts|format=mdy|2022|8|18}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1900-1915
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 10
| Black Bricklayers Hall
| {{dts|format=mdy|2019|2|21}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1912
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 11
| [[Sayre Street School|Margaret Booth School for Girls]] (Montgomery Fellowship House for Men)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1984|4|11}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1880s
| NRHP
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 12
| [[Brame House|Brame-Cody-Neal House]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1980|1|29}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1836
| NRHP
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!{{USAL color}}| 13
| Brantwood Children's Home
| {{dts|format=mdy|2017|11|9}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1928
|
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| [[Aurelia Eliscera Shines Browder|Aurelia Browder]] House
| {{dts|format=mdy|2010|8|5}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1920
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| Cecil Rosenwald School
| {{dts|format=mdy|2010|4|1}}
| [[Cecil, Alabama|Cecil]] vicinity
| c. 1923
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| Centennial Hill Historic District
| {{dts|format=mdy|1992|4|14}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
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!{{USAL color}}| 17
| Church of The Good Shepherd
| {{dts|format=mdy|1980|1|29}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1900-1901
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!{{USAL color}}| 18
| Clay Street Baptist Church
| {{dts|format=mdy|2006|9|20}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1956
|
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!{{NRHP color}}| 19
| [[Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1989|3|30}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1943
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 20
| Cole-Samford House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1977|2|15}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1915
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 21
| Claudette Colvin House
| {{dts|format=mdy|2010|8|5}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1940
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 22
| [[Jefferson Franklin Jackson House|Community House]] (Jackson-Community House)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1978|7|21}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1853
| NRHP
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 23
| [[Cottage Hill Historic District]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1975|4|16}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| Late&nbsp;19th– Early&nbsp;20th&nbsp;century
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 24
| Cradle of the Confederacy Railroad Museum (Louisville & Nashville Baggage Car No. 1456 at [[Union Station (Montgomery, Alabama)|Montgomery Union Station]])
| {{dts|format=mdy|1980|1|29}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1926–74
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 25
| Davis Theater for the Performing Arts
| {{dts|format=mdy|1984|4|11}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1929
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 26
| Tony Davis Jr. House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1992|12|4}}
| [[Hope Hull, Alabama|Hope Hull]]
| c. 1871
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 27
| Day Street Baptist Church
| {{dts|format=mdy|1978|6|20}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1882
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 28
| Department of Public Safety Headquarters and Museum
| {{dts|format=mdy|1978|4|14}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1937
|
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!{{USAL color}}| 29
| Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery
| {{dts|format=mdy|2008|1|24}}
| [[Ramer, Alabama|Ramer]]
| c. 1836
|
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!{{USAL color}}| 30
| Electric Street Car at [[Union Station (Montgomery, Alabama)|Montgomery Union Station]] (current location unknown)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1978|5|9}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1886
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 31
| Executive House (Charles S. Conley Law Office)
| {{dts|format=mdy|2013|10|31}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1945
|
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| [[First Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama)|First Baptist Church]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|2000|5|10}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1910–15
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 33
| [[First White House of the Confederacy]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|2012|8|14}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1832–35
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 34
| '''Frazier Hill'''
| {{dts|format=mdy|2002|6|25}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1830
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 31
| General Richard Montgomery Riverboat
| {{dts|format=mdy|1976|7|21}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1974–76
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 32
| Georgia Washington School
| {{dts|format=mdy|2017|11|10}}
| [[Mt. Meigs, Alabama|Mt. Meigs]]
| 1950s
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 33
| [[Grace Episcopal Church (Mount Meigs, Alabama)|Grace Episcopal Church]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1980|1|29}}
| [[Mt. Meigs, Alabama|Mt. Meigs]]
| 1892–93
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 34
| Grady School (South Montgomery County Academy)
| {{dts|format=mdy|2012|11|15}}
| [[Grady, Alabama|Grady]]
| c. 1927
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 35
| Gunter House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1981|6|2}}
| [[Ramer, Alabama|Ramer]]
| c. 1830s
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 36
| Highland Avenue School
| {{dts|format=mdy|1993|10|22}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1903
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 37
| [[Holt Street Baptist Church]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1986|5|26}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
|
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 38
| Kilby Hall at [[Alabama State University]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1994|8|25}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1922
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 39
| Lincoln Cemetery
| {{dts|format=mdy|1999|9|30}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1907
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 40
| Little House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1979|1|31}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1890
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 41
| Brake and Edna Lucas House
| {{dts|format=mdy|2007|9|27}}
| [[Mt. Meigs, Alabama|Mt. Meigs]] vicinity
| c. 1900
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 42
| Lucas House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1986|2|20}}
| [[Mt. Meigs, Alabama|Mt. Meigs]]
| 1826
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 43
| Madison Park School
| {{dts|format=mdy|2012|3|29}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1955
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 44
| Marks House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1976|11|23}}
| [[Pike Road, Alabama|Pike Road]]
| 1825–30
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 45
| McIntyre-Napier House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1996|3|13}}
| [[Ramer, Alabama|Ramer]]
| 1941–56
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 46
| Metcalf-Crommelin-Wood House (World Heritage Museum)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1981|10|14}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1890s
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 47
| Marshall J. Moore House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1999|2|25}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1900
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 48
| [[Mount Zion AME Zion Church (Montgomery, Alabama)|Mount Zion AME Zion Church]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1995|6|30}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1899
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 49
| Noble-Adair-Roper House (Noble Hill)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1979|1|31}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1881
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 50
| Old Selma Farm
| {{dts|format=mdy|2010|4|1}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1942
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 51
| [[Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1976|3|3}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1834
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 52
| Pintlala School
| {{dts|format=mdy|1992|4|14}}
| [[Pintlala, Alabama|Pintlala]]
|
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 53
| Providence Presbyterian Church
| {{dts|format=mdy|1983|3|25}}
| [[Le Grand, Alabama|Le Grand]]
| 1854, 1895
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 54
| Ramer Baptist Church (Old Ramer Baptist Church/Ramer Masonic Lodge #243)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1996|11|13}}
| [[Ramer, Alabama|Ramer]]
|
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 55
| Red's Little School House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1998|10|7}}
| [[Grady, Alabama|Grady]]
| 1910, 1985
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 56
| Riverview
| {{dts|format=mdy|1991|12|19}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]] vicinity
| 1870s–1880s
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 57
| Rose Hill
| {{dts|format=mdy|1989|7|18}}
| [[Mt. Meigs, Alabama|Mt. Meigs]]
| 1918
|
|-
!{{USAL color}}| 58
| [[Sidney Lanier High School]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|2013|10|31}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1928–29
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 59
| [[Stone Plantation|Stone-Young Plantation]] (Magnolia)
| {{dts|format=mdy|2000|9|28}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1852
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 60
| Tabernacle Methodist Church
| {{dts|format=mdy|1978|7|6}}
| [[Pintlala, Alabama|Pintlala]]
| c. 1893
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 61
| [[Tankersley Rosenwald School]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|2003|6|26}}
| [[Hope Hull, Alabama|Hope Hull]]
| c. 1922
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 62
| Tharin Hall
| {{dts|format=mdy|1998|10|7}}
| [[Snowdoun, Alabama|Snowdoun]]
| c. 1880
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 63
| Thorington-Arrington-Campbell House
| {{dts|format=mdy|1983|2|2}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1914
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 64
| F. J. Tillison House (The Teacher's Home)
| {{dts|format=mdy|1992|12|4}}
| [[Ramer, Alabama|Ramer]]
| 1900
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 65
| Charlie and [[Lucille Times]] House
| {{dts|format=mdy|2007|9|27}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1939
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 66
| Tulane-Simmons House
| {{dts|format=mdy|2006|4|19}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1921
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 67
| Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
| {{dts|format=mdy|2017|8|10}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1962
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 68
| West Boylston Manufacturing Company Textile Mill and Mill Village
| {{dts|format=mdy|2002|9|24}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1927–28
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 69
| Western Railway of Alabama Car Shops and Engine Terminal Historic District
| {{dts|format=mdy|1998|5|19}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1898–1920s
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 69
| Bertha P. Williams Library
| {{dts|format=mdy|2018|10|25}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1960
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 70
| [[Hank Williams#Death|Hank Williams Grave]] at Oakwood Cemetery Annex
| {{dts|format=mdy|1977|1|25}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1954
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 71
| Willow Glen
| {{dts|format=mdy|1984|4|11}}
| [[Grady, Alabama|Grady]]
| 1872
|
|--
!{{NRHP color}}| 72
| [[Winter Place]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|2005|9|29}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| c. 1850, c. 1870
| NRHP
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 73
| [[Wright Brothers Flying School]] Site (Wright Brothers Hangar) at [[Maxwell Air Force Base]]
| {{dts|format=mdy|1976|11|5}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1910
|
|--
!{{USAL color}}| 74
| 647 Clinton Street
| {{dts|format=mdy|1986|5|26}}
| [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
| 1946–48
|
|}

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==

Jeremiah Austill
Member of the
Alabama House of Representatives
from Mobile County
In office
1845—1846[5]
Personal details
Born(1794-08-10)August 10, 1794
Oconee Station, Pendleton District, South Carolina
DiedDecember 8, 1879(1879-12-08) (aged 85)
Clarke County, Alabama
Resting placeAustill Cemetery
31°24′55″N 87°52′12″W / 31.41528°N 87.87000°W / 31.41528; -87.87000
Spouses
Martha Hayes
​
​
(m. 1819; died 1820)​
Margaret Ervin Eades
​
​
(m. 1838)​
Children5
OccupationClerk, merchant, Planter
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/service1st Regiment, Mississippi Territorial Volunteers
Years of service1813 – 1815
RankMajor
Battles/wars

Jeremiah Austill (August 10, 1794 – December 8, 1879) was an American politician, planter and military officer who served in the Alabama Militia during the Creek War.

Early and family life

Oconee Station State Historic Site. Lived in Bermuda, Alabama. Married Martha Hayes on March 9, 1819. She died in Claiborne, Alabama on November 1, 1820, after falling from a fence post.[6]

Married Margaret Ervin Eades on October 10, 1834, daughter of John Eades of Georgia and Jenny Fee of County Armagh in Ireland. Her father assisted in constructing Fort Carney. There was hailed by Austill who brought news of the attack on Fort Sinquefield.[7]

Son of Evan Austill, who was an assistant Indian agent to the Cherokee. Died in 1818 and buried near site of Fort Madison.[8] Moved to Georgia to live among Cherokee at age 4, sent back to South Carolina at 6 for school, and then moved to Washington County (now Clarke County) in 1813.[9] Sent by uncle David Files to New Orleans but contracted yellow fever. Lost from 180 to 96 lbs, then traveled to New York City to recover.[10] Two sons and three daughters. One son, Hurieosco Austill, served as member of the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate and Chancellor of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.[11] In 1848, had a water ram installed in home instead of hauling water from spring. Died December 8, 1879.[12]

Creek War

After Kimbell-James massacre at Fort Sinquefield, Austill volunteered to relay message from Fort Madison to Fort Stoddert. Austill volunteered for the thirty-seven mile ride to request additional protection for the occupants of Fort Madison from General Ferdinand Claiborne, who was at Mount Vernon Cantonment.[13] Austill arrived and brought back word to the inhabitants of Fort Madison and Fort Glass. This was a precautionary warning that was interpreted as peremptory to abandon the forts for the safety of St. Stephen's.[14]

Canoe Fight image and article. References from Pickett. ONly 19 at this time.

1st Regiment, Mississippi Territorial Volunteers (private) (p 175), Carson's Regiment of Mississippi Militia (sergeant) (p 213)[15]

At Battle of Holy Ground, crossed river with Pushmataha and six warriors and captured REd Stick supplies.[16]

Known as "Major". After Creek War became clerk in uncle's store in St. Stephen's. Uncle was David Files, who was a quartermaster in the US Army. After his uncle's death in 1820 he became deputy Marshal. Then moved to Mobile and became clerk of Court of Mobile and also city weigher.[17] Represented Mobile in Alabama Legislature. Became a commission merchant in 1824. During the Panic of 1837, lost $170,000. Bought plantation on the Tombigbee River in 1840 (which included the site of Fort Carney) and built a home there in 1844. Raised cotton and sugar cane.[18]

As cotton merchant, handled accounts of Charles Tait.[19]

1832 served as Port Warden for Mobile.[20]

Democratic nomination for Alabama House of Representatives in 1845.[21]

At beginning of Creek War was sick with malaria. Prior to Canoe Fight, apprenticed under Dr. Lorry while in fort. Helped men who fought Creeks with surgery and repairing wounds.[22] Assisted in constructing Fort Claiborne and then participated in Battle of Holy Ground. Transporting Pushmataha and five warriors.[23] Claimed to found town at site of Montgomery in 1815 with 8 other men after end of Creek War.[24] In 1819, married Martha Hayes (he spells it Hayse) in Burnt Corn, Alabama. She died on November 1.[25] After wife's death, sold farm at Burnt Corn and returned two slaves to his father in law. After uncle died, who was Marshal for South Alabama, Tolliver Livingston was made Marshal. He was crippled, so Austill was made deputy marshal to carry out the duties of marshal. Deputy marshal from 1818 until fall of 1823. 1827 to 1829 was the foreman of the first hook and ladder company in Mobile. In 1829, he and Thomas Rhodes contracted with the US Government to deliver mail to New Orleans from MObile. Land to Pascagoula then boat to New Orleans.[26]

During the cession of Creek lands in 1832, served as Deputy Marshal of the Creek and based at Fort Mitchell. Austill's role was to keep illegal squatters off Creek land. One squatter, Hardemann Owens, was county commissioner of roads and revenue for newly-created Russell County. Owens killed by soldiers while being asked to remove himself from Creek lands. Angry squatters appealed to the Russell County Court, which issued an arrest warrant for Austill.[27]

Political career

In 1851, known as "colonel".[28]

In July 1833, settler Hardeman Owens was shot by soldiers in Russell County. Settlers was illegally on Creek land after the Treaty of Cusseta. Austill was deputy marshal and stationed at Fort Mitchell and ordered arrest of Owens.[29]

Moved out west looking for gold? [1]

In 1825 was serving as clerk for the Southern District of Alabama.[30]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SERIALSET-00872_00_00-003-0028-0000/pdf/SERIALSET-00872_00_00-003-0028-0000.pdf

Death and legacy

June 30, 1929, marker unveiled.[2]

Tombstone has separate date of death from news articles.

Historical marker has date of death as December 9.[31]

References

  1. ^ Foscue, Virginia (989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. **. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  2. ^ Read, William A. (1984). Indian Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. **. ISBN 0-8173-0231-X.
  3. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 40.
  4. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (PDF). Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 933.
  5. ^ "House of Representatives". Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, at the Session Begun and Held in the City of Tuscaloosa, on the First Monday of December, 1845: 4. 1846.
  6. ^ Brantley, Mary E. (1976). Early settlers along the Old Federal Road in Monroe & Conecuh Counties, Alabama. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press. p. 185.
  7. ^ Austill, Margaret Ervin (Spring 1944b). "Memories of journeying through Creek county and childhood in Clarke County, 1811-1814". Alabama Historical Quarterly. 6 (1). Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  8. ^ Ball 1882, pp. 459.
  9. ^ Ball 1882, pp. 461.
  10. ^ Ball 1882, pp. 463.
  11. ^ Ball 1882, pp. 464.
  12. ^ Ball 1882, pp. 466.
  13. ^ Halbert & Ball 1895, pp. 200.
  14. ^ Halbert & Ball 1895, pp. 201.
  15. ^ Rowland, Dunbar, ed. (1921). Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. Vol. IV. Jackson, Mississippi: State of Mississippi.
  16. ^ Halbert & Ball 1895, pp. 259.
  17. ^ Halbert & Ball 1895, pp. 237.
  18. ^ Halbert & Ball 1895, pp. 238.
  19. ^ Moffat, Charles H. (May 1948). "Charles Tait, Planter, Politician, and Scientist of the Old South". The Journal of Southern History. 14 (2): 231. doi:10.2307/2198424.
  20. ^ "Alabama Legislature". Alabama State Intelligencer. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. December 22, 1831. p. 5.
  21. ^ "Mobile". Register and Journal. Mobile, Alabama. July 22, 1845. p. 5.
  22. ^ Austill 1944a, pp. 83.
  23. ^ Austill 1944a, pp. 86.
  24. ^ Austill 1944a, pp. 87.
  25. ^ Austill 1944a, pp. 89.
  26. ^ Austill 1944a, pp. 90.
  27. ^ Green 1982, pp. 180.
  28. ^ Pickett 1878, pp. 567.
  29. ^ Pickett 1878, pp. 687.
  30. ^ Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress. 1835. p. 24.
  31. ^ "Gravesite of Major Jeremiah Austill". HMdb.org. Retrieved November 16, 2024.

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