From "A Dream Come True" by James R. Record: "It would be in 1815 when the Green Bottom Inn would be built by John Connally near what is now Normal. Here (Andrew) Jackson and (John) Coffee and other early sportsmen came to witness horse races and practice their own skill at horsemanship." Page 49.
From "Early History of Huntsville Alabama" by Ed C. Betts: "A narrator of the times records that Gen. Jackson's visits to the hostelry of one Connally -- the "Old Green Bottom Inn" -- were oft repeated. Thereas legend has it -- Gen. Jackson raced his horses and fought his cocks. ... The proprietor of the tavern was a race horse breeder of no mean renown, for here at the "Old Green Bottom Race Track," which was operated in connection with the Inn, he raised and trained "Gray Gander," the fastest horse then known to the racing world."
Court records in Madison County indicate John Connally died about 1845, leaving an estate that included 2,073 acres. He left a wife Rachel O. Beal Connally who served as administrator of his estate along with John R.B. Eldridge.
It took 15 years for the estate to reach a final settlement (Nov. 1860).
From "Early History of Huntsville Alabama" by Ed C. Betts: "A narrator of the times records that Gen. Jackson's visits to the hostelry of one Connally -- the "Old Green Bottom Inn" -- were oft repeated. Thereas legend has it -- Gen. Jackson raced his horses and fought his cocks. ... The proprietor of the tavern was a race horse breeder of no mean renown, for here at the "Old Green Bottom Race Track," which was operated in connection with the Inn, he raised and trained "Gray Gander," the fastest horse then known to the racing world."
Court records in Madison County indicate John Connally died about 1845, leaving an estate that included 2,073 acres. He left a wife Rachel O. Beal Connally who served as administrator of his estate along with John R.B. Eldridge.
It took 15 years for the estate to reach a final settlement (Nov. 1860).
From "A Dream Come True" by James R. Record: "It would be in 1815 when the Green Bottom Inn would be built by John Connally near what is now Normal. Here (Andrew) Jackson and (John) Coffee and other early sportsmen came to witness horse races and practice their own skill at horsemanship." Page 49.
From "Early History of Huntsville Alabama" by Ed C. Betts: "A narrator of the times records that Gen. Jackson's visits to the hostelry of one Connally -- the "Old Green Bottom Inn" -- were oft repeated. Thereas legend has it -- Gen. Jackson raced his horses and fought his cocks. ... The proprietor of the tavern was a race horse breeder of no mean renown, for here at the "Old Green Bottom Race Track," which was operated in connection with the Inn, he raised and trained "Gray Gander," the fastest horse then known to the racing world."
Court records in Madison County indicate John Connally died about 1845, leaving an estate that included 2,073 acres. He left a wife Rachel O. Beal Connally who served as administrator of his estate along with John R.B. Eldridge.
It took 15 years for the estate to reach a final settlement (Nov. 1860).
From "Early History of Huntsville Alabama" by Ed C. Betts: "A narrator of the times records that Gen. Jackson's visits to the hostelry of one Connally -- the "Old Green Bottom Inn" -- were oft repeated. Thereas legend has it -- Gen. Jackson raced his horses and fought his cocks. ... The proprietor of the tavern was a race horse breeder of no mean renown, for here at the "Old Green Bottom Race Track," which was operated in connection with the Inn, he raised and trained "Gray Gander," the fastest horse then known to the racing world."
Court records in Madison County indicate John Connally died about 1845, leaving an estate that included 2,073 acres. He left a wife Rachel O. Beal Connally who served as administrator of his estate along with John R.B. Eldridge.
It took 15 years for the estate to reach a final settlement (Nov. 1860).
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