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Editor’s Note: Russell County has a long and important history to the State of Alabama and its evolution from an area described in the book “Russell County in Retrospect” by Anne Kendrick Walker as a “barbaric land” to what it is today. Many of the people who set their roots in the county in its early days — including the state’s first Territorial Delegate to the United States Congress, important Native Americans who paid with their lives to cede land that created the county, a family that started a place of higher learning in south Russell County that later led to the establishment of one of the state’s most known institutions of education today, and a formerly enslaved person who placed a monument to honor his former owner — are crucial to the formation of Alabama.