Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Collection includes scrapbooks, their publication FLASHLIGHTS, minutes, committee reports, correspondence, and financial and membership records. About five boxes contain their national publication and its successor, INDEPENDENT WOMAN and NATIONAL BUSINESS WOMAN, 1929-1972.

Minutes; correspondence; officers, committees, and local chapter reports; fiscal records; their publication, GEORGIANA; and organizational records.

The records document club activities.

The scrapbooks document club activities.

The records document club activities.

The majority of letters in this collection are authored by John C. Butner to his father while he was in service, with two letters by his brothers. Earlier documents relate to relatives and business in Stokes County, North Carolina, and Cobb County, Georgia. There is one 1887 letter from John's son, William E., who was attending school in Atlanta and mentioned DeGive's Opera House, the Kimball House, and an operation on a two-headed man.

This series is composed of a bound volume that documents the criminal and civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed and the subsequent subpoenas that were issued. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of parties involved; (2) names of plaintiff's and defendant's witnesses; (3) date subpoena was issued; (4) term of court, and (5) name of officer to whom subpoena was delivered.

This series consists of a bound volume that documents the civil complaints filed in the City Court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) names of attorneys; (2) case number; (3) names of parties involved; (4) type of case, and (5) remarks concerning disposition of case.

This series consists of a bound volume that documents the criminal charges filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of defendant; (2) names of plaintiff's witnesses; (3) date subpoena was issued; (4) name of officer subpoena was delivered to (always the Sheriff); (5) date and term of court; (6) names of defendant's witnesses, and (7) date subpoena was issued to them.

This series consists of a bound volume which documents the criminal charges filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed below and the subpoenas issued by the court as a result of such charges. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of defendant; (2) name of court; (3) names of witnesses; (4) designation of either plaintiff or defendant requesting subpoena; (5) date subpoena was received; (6) date subpoena was served, and (7) name of person serving subpoena.

This series consists of a bound volume which contains documentation of the common law complaints filed in the two courts for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of attorneys involved; (3) names of litigants; (4) type of charge complained of; (5) disposition of case and, (6) case number. Some of the civil complaints filed include those concerning debt, divorce and assumpsit.

This series is composed of miscellaneous correspondence, depositions, promissory notes and similar material found in the bound volumes that is a part of this Record Group. These records have been placed in this temporary series until the proper series to which they belong have been created. At that time each record will be interfiled into its proper series.

This series consists of a bound volume which documents the court costs involved in civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of attorneys involved; (3) case number; (4) names of litigants; (5) an enumeration of court costs, and (6) date of disposition of case (not always given).

This series consists of a bound volume which provides documentation of the names of the registrants of posted lands for the inclusive dates listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of registrant; (2) name of person witnessing such registration; (3) a brief description of such registered land (especially names of neighbors); (4) date of registration; (5) Georgia Militia District number in which land is located, and (6) land lot number.

This series consists of a bound volume which documents the fees the Sheriff received for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) parties to action; (2) term and date of court, and (3) an enumeration of fees received by the Sheriff (only a few listed).

This series consists of bound volumes which contain documentation of the common law complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of attorneys involved; (3) names of litigants; (4) type of charge complained of; (5) disposition of case, and (6) case number. Some of the civil complaints filed includes those concerning promissory notes, rents and mortgages.

This series consists of bound volumes that document the criminal complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in them includes: (1) name of attorneys; (2) name of defendant; (3) charges made against the defendant; (4) remarks; (5) date and term of court, and (6) case number. The charges made against these defendants include simple larceny, carrying concealed weapons, and assault and battery.

This series consists of a bound volume that documents the criminal complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of defendant; (2) names of plaintiff's and defendant's witnesses; (3) date subpoena was issued; (4) name of person to whom the subpoena was delivered; (5) Sheriff's returns and remarks (not often listed), and (6) term of court (not usually listed).

This volume is used to document the appeals the litigants filed in the court and the judgments resulting from such claims. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of parties in action; (3) names of attorneys involved; (4) case number; (5) name of complaint charged, and (6) disposition of case. Some of the charges complained of include those involving debt, assumpit, divorce and trepass.

This series is composed of a bound volume that documents the civil and criminal complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed and the subsequent subpoenas that were issued. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) names of parties involved in case; (2) date and term of court; (3) type of charge involved (usually not given); (4) disposition of case, and (5) names of witnesses. Some of the charges complained of include those of bastardy, assumpsit and murder.

This series is composed of a bound volume that documents the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed below and the subsequent subpoenas that were issued. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) name of plaintiff and defendant; (3) names of plaintiff's and defendant's witnesses; (4) date subpoena was issued to each witness; (5) name of the officer (Sheriff) who delivered subpoena and, (6) Sheriff's return and remarks.

A claim docket contains information which documents the claims of individuals against the property of other litigants. These dockets are similar to other civil cases except they are limited to claims cases. The bound volumes comprising this series contain information which includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of litigants; (3) case number, and (4) disposition of case.

The bound volumes comprising this series document the criminal cases filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. The information presented in these volumes includes: (1) the date and term of court; (2) name of attorneys; (3) case number; (4) name of defendant; (5) type of complaint charged against the defendant, and (6) disposition of case. The charges filed against the defendants includes larceny, arson, attempted rape and assault and battery.

This series is composed of bound volumes that document the criminal charges filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these dockets includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) name of defendant; (3) names of witnesses; (4) date subpoena was issued and, (5) name of person subpoena was delivered to summon defendant (usually the sheriff).

Execution dockets are used by the court to document the execution of judgments in civil cases. This series is composed of bound volumes which provide documentation for the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of attorneys involved; 3) case number; (4) names of litigants; (5) an enumeration of court costs, and (6) date of disposition of case.

This series is composed of bound volumes which document the names of the mortgagors and mortgagees recorded in the court for the inclusive dates listed below and is very similar to Series 2 of this Record Group. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) name of grantor; (2) name of grantee; (3) type of instrument used in transaction, that is, deed, lien or mortgage, and (4) date and hour the transaction was recorded by the court.