As the tribe has a matrilineal system, children are considered born into their mother's clan and take their status from her family.

Located in the coastal plain, 19th century Conecuh County was an area of plantations and cotton cultivation, and it is still quite rural today.

Thousands of African American residents left in the 1940s, during the Second Great Migration, mostly for industrial regions in the major cities.

In September 1979, the county was declared a disaster area, due to damage caused by Hurricane Frederic.

Conecuh County was mentioned as the birthplace of Theodore Bagwell in the television series Prison Break.

In the days before most had freezers, a man named Henry Sessions formulated his recipe for hickory smoked pork sausage.

After returning from World War II, Sessions worked as a salesman for a meatpacking plant in Montgomery, Alabama.

He started Sessions Quick Freeze in Evergreen in 1947 so that people could bring their pigs and cattle, have them slaughtered, and store them and their vegetables in his rentable meat locker.