Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

A letter from the Treasury Dept., C.S.A., that accompanied {dollar}48.03, "which is for the payment of your deceased husband, Thomas Adkins, for his service as a private in Capt. Hill's Co. M, 1st GA Regulars."

Primarily photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, and ephemera concerning the work of Vollmer, an Atlanta playwright, formerly of North Carolina and later New York, whose plays concerning North Carolina mountain life were performed nationally and internationally beginning in 1923. Most well-known were SUNUP and THE SHAME WOMAN. Vollmer also wrote a radio series produced from 1930-1937. There is one 1955 letter from Elizabeth Brown (Brownie), who she lived with for 25 years.

Letters on courting, family relations, health, fashion, death, and crops by all three families and their relatives, who lived in Taliaferro, Emanuel, and Treutlen Counties, Georgia. Most of the letters are by Alex Lunceford, Leila Lunceford Chapman, and Leo F. Chapman. One letter (1909) from Soperton, Georgia, contains an account of a lynching. Also included are picture post cards of Georgia towns, two photographs, handwritten poems, and pages from an autograph album (1900).

This collection includes a record book containing minutes and other records; an autobiography of W. W. Willingham; the M. A. Chandler church book; and some Tocoa Methodist Church membership lists.

The note was written in Savannah, November 1, 1783.

Includes material on Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College and the Georgia Normal and Industrial College (Milledgeville); many legal cases, business papers, and a variety of pamphlets on legal practice, churches, and schools in Baldwin, Sumter, Bibb, and other Georgia counties; and Charles Peter Crawford family material. The account books have been cataloged separately under the titles that appear on the last page of the inventory.

This collection includes vouchers written at Macon office for personnel boarding, rail repairs, and livestock killed by the railroad.

Record of general merchandise sold in this Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, store, citing date, name of account, goods purchased, and cost. Following these entries are lists of some Crawford County Inferior and Superior Court cases, 1836 - 1842.

A certificate of competency to teach issued to Miss M. E. Anderson by the Walton County Board of Education, 1863. A description of support given by Madison women during the Civil War. G. M. Dexter's letter (1900) of thanks for a painting of the Confederate flag presented to him by the Madison Garden Club. And an 1832 letter by Sara Dixon to Mrs. Anderson who is writing a history of Morgan County, Georgia.

A record of boarding, lodging, livery services, and accounts at this Morgan County, Georgia, hotel, citing name, date, and cost.

Georgia State Board of Pharmacy license, 1943. Two photographs of Mae, one (1933) with her son.

Contains genealogical research of Lula Mahan (Mrs. Robert E.) Adair. Collection includes typescripts of Virginia county records by Mrs. N. E. Clement, genealogist, and others, letters from the United States Bureau of Pensions, compositions by Mrs. Adair, an autobiographical piece by Dr. Robert E. Adair, letters from other family members, and photographs of Lulu's trip to see Virginia relatives, ca. 1925.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, programs, and broadsides concerning the elocutionary recitals of Mamie Hurst, later Mrs. Mayme Dingelhoef and then Mrs. E. A. Craddock, in Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee, Cedartown, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama.

Daily accounting records of the Buffington store, citing general merchandise sold, cost, shipments received, and employee records. Gin company records cover 1921 - 1933 and include pay records. Present in many volumes are tax sheets and Currahee Mining Company records, ca. 1899 - 1900.

Civil War letters and papers of Barrington as he served in the 39th Regiment Alabama Volunteers, Company K. Also included are letters and news clippings of relatives who lived in other states.

Collection contains letters and publications that document Ms. Huntley's career in mental hospital librarianship.

Church record books contain membership rolls, financial records, minutes of meetings, rules of order, lists of officers, schedules, and accounts of women missionaries. A folder of miscellaneous items contains information about church history, activities, and members.

Although neither owner or location is given, the store account book, listing a variety of goods sold, was probably in Marshallville, Macon County, Georgia, because of its provenance and the names of some of the purchasers. The index is a separate (second) volume.

The register is in roughly alphabetical order by parents's surname, followed by the child's name and birth date. There is also a photograph of Martha.

Wright writes to her son, describing life in "Camp Seco," a California mining camp where she was the only "American" woman. In the course of the letter she relates a trip she took with "Major Wright" and "Thomas" to see some "big trees" (possibly redwoods) 35 miles away.

The first few pages of the diary concern Georgia and Cherokee Indian territory. Also included are a letter from Martha to her future second husband, Alfred Shorter, and news articles about this diary and the Shorters.

This collection consists of only a small portion of the records created by Martha Lou Houston, genealogist, in the course of her work. After her death, her niece disbursed the collection among institutions thought to be most appropriate. Families researched are: Bradford, Bradley, Dickson, Gay, Marshall, Murphy, Wells, and Wooten, mostly in the Southeast. A portion of the notes concerns the Land family of Iowa and Missouri and was once in the possession of Estelle Land Cobb.

Receipts for purchases of a wagon, a cart, and a pair of mares, all from New York City, NY, in June 1884.

The collection contains correspondence, diaries, legal documents, and genealogical material relating to the Ozburn, Mangum, Connally, and Spalding families. Included are slave records and references to children, medical services, amusements and holidays, Radford J. Crockett's execution, the liquor and medicine businesses, and African Americans after the war.

This collection includes family letters from daughters, Annie and Minnie, in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, home to Atlanta. Also included are letters from Fisher and Drew, relatives in Cave Spring, Georgia, and Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Additional included is a dry goods bill and two calling cards.

These are papers from organizations of which Mary B. Connally was treasurer: the Industrial Educational Loan Association, Fulton County, Georgia, and the Grady Hospital Aid Association. Correspondence includes letters from some of the girls, particularly Rosa B. Holmes, who received loans to attend the Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville.

Letters from Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, to in-laws in the North, describing conditions of Georgia family members.

Primarily letters from John Silas Mason, United States Army in the Philippines, to his sister, Esta Mason McCallum in Atlanta and his parents in Canton, Georgia, concerning the American occupation during the 1907 - 1909 insurrection of the native Moslem Moros. Also includes an 1895 letter from Esta, a broadside announcing a play by Willie McCallum Tuggle, and a brief history of the Holly Springs Baptist Church.

This collection includes estate papers, land records, incoming correspondence, and genealogical information, including a family history on the McAfee family of Washington County, Georgia, and Alabama.

Included in this collection are the Civil War diary (1864-1865) of Minerva Rowles McClatchey during Sherman's advance on Atlanta, correspondence among family members (1861-1864) when two of her sons were in the army, and later reminiscences of the war and the Reconstruction period. Papers also include Rowles family genealogy.

Recollections, letters, photographs, and other papers generated by the family of Taylor McKee, who grew up southeast of Atlanta in what is now DeKalb County, Georgia, before and during the Civil War. His older brothers, Samuel Payne, William Martin, and Madison Church McKee, served in the 18th and 22nd Georgia Regiments of the Confederacy.

This collection includes four letters from G. O. Megarity to his family while he was serving in Phillips' Legion GA Vols., Co. C, during the latter half of 1864. The 1870 letter is from his brother, J. A. Megarity, in Arkansas, whose friend Lee shot a African American and it was thought that Lee would be executed by hanging. Also included is an 1846 Milledgeville letter that mentions Archibald Magarity's land grant in Cobb County, Georgia.

"Recollections of My Boyhood: the Picnic at Pittman's Mill," occurring around 1895 in Clarke County, Georgia.

This vivid typescript memoir, covering 1840-1865, was compiled by the general's daughter from his diaries and letters. Disasters continually struck the young Gardner on his travels north to West Point Military Academy, then southwest to serve in the Mexican War and California, and finally as a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War. Among the interesting people he met and described were Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Mary E. Walker, M.D.

The collection primarily contains family correspondence and receipts for goods and payments. Business papers include the purchase agreement of a mule, 1883, by Merrick. There are numerous letters to Marietta W. Austin from an old love named C.J. Johnson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939 - 1941. Also included are a land deed (Murray County, 1848), marriage application and license (1929), and war ration books from World War II.

The collection contains school papers, college notes, postcards, journals, letters, photographs, publications, teaching notes, and financial records.

Record of general merchandise sold by Miles A. Fowler of Milledgeville, Baldwin County, GA, citing date, name of account, type of goods, and cost. Included are a journal, two cash books, and a ledger.

Advertisement for a celebration of the 23rd anniversary of the "1st Battalion Infantry, G.S.T., Colored," featuring a parade and picnic in Savannah for companies from Alabama and South Carolina as well as Georgia.

Records of the Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, to Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, line for the entire year and about five pages of records for the Augusta to Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, line (August 12 - December 27). The book lists surname of passenger, number and type of parcels carried, amount of fare, and totals per day and month. William Fuller signed as receiving receipts each month.

Record of general merchandise, citing date, items sold, and payment.

Collection includes newspaper clippings, speeches, and other records documenting Daniel's struggle to become a lawyer and practice law in Georgia.