Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This collection includes portions of two account books, 1888-1889 (pp. 25-96) and 1893 (pp. 67-128), probably of store accounts among the residents of Fitzpatrick, Twiggs County, Georgia. Community names such as Fitpatrick, Epps, Jones, and Faulk are listed at the head of each account along with date, purchases, and costs. There is also Bibb County material, including a Macon, Dublin, and Savannah Railroad Company ticket, 1907, and a letter from W.L. Peacock.

Papers include correspondence, financial records, publicity and publications, and committee records.

Consists of two family letters and a piece of wood inscribed with names and birth dates. One letter is by David James Burt, a Baptist minister in the 65th Regt. Georgia Volunteers, to his wife in 1863 from Tennessee. The other is a copy of an 1891 letter from Priscilla Scroggins of Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia, confirming herself to be over 100 and to have over 1000 descendants.

Standard research compiled by the donor while exploring his maternal line. Besides the Formbys, research on the Echols, Meadows, and Whitaker families is also included. Most of the documents were created in the mid-20th century; however, several 19th century publications on British lines were photocopied for the files in Series Four.

Collection includes a family record of the Formbys; estate records of Larkin Formby and Isaac Baker; an 1863 slave sale agreement about ten enslaved people between Permelia Griffin and her mother Hannah Lea and other family members; an 1839 indenture concerning Joseph D. Baker, orphan; and a largely illegible letter written in 1865 by R. E. B. to parents.

Correspondence concerns Dr. Belyeu's dentistry profession, civic responsibilities, and church activities; but the bulk is from Belyeu's theater work: Atlanta Theatre Guild programs, news articles, and publications about the theatre and Fort McPherson shows. Along with personal photographs are pictures of plays, performances, and the Little Theatre. Material on St. Luke's Episcopal Church is also included.

The collection contains an 1815 letter from David Brydie Mitchell, Governor of Georgia, to James Monroe, U.S. Secretary of War; a handwritten list of Mitchell's accomplishments, n.d.; an 1861 letter from Confederate Secretary of War, Leroy Pope Walker, to Georgia Governer Joseph E. Brown; and a note from Brown to Walker.

Records of the proceedings of the Carnesville Lodge. Also includes reports of the lodge's receipts and disbursements. Loose papers were moved to a folder.

This collection consists primarily of correspondence among relatives and friends of the Furlow/Etheridge families, reflecting family relationships and life in early twentieth century Georgia towns. There are also newspaper clippings, postcards and greeting cards, some genealogical information, a scrapbook, and a few business letters.

The diary covers the period of Feb. 1 to May 12, 1895, and describes George Zimmerman's journey from Sherman Heights, Tennessee, to Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, where he stays for most of the volume. Descriptions of businesses, weather, his drawings of people for pay, his boarding house, church and religion, his health, the railway trip South, and many other details. Another diary, not in the possession of the Archives, followed this one.

These books, of this Walton County, Georgia, store, include names of accounts, dates (primarily September 1905 - November 1906), items purchased, and cost. The 1905 volume is indexed.

Records of the Lumpkin County, Georgia, law practices of Milton H. Gathright and Allen E. Matthews and other papers cover debt collection for stores, individuals, and courts; estate settlement; trials; and other legal business such as slave ownership. The records are not complete, and their original filing order is unknown.

Four of the documents are loan agreements made between Beca Henderson, probable sharecropper, and the Reich and Geiger Company. Ms. Henderson borrowed money for supplies to make her crops. The fifth document certifies that L. Geiger has been entered on the Special Pay Member roll of the Albany Guards and holds such privileges as use "of the . . . gymnasium."

The funeral notice is a hand-written single, folded sheet with black ribbon threaded through slits in the paper, announcing the time and place in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Letter from Reynolds, stationed in Griffin, October 1864, to his sister about plans for his regiment, 5th Georgia Reserves. A memorandum book, used in 1867 - 1868 in Jasper, Hamilton County, Florida, where he went to work after the Civil War. An unrelated envelope is addressed to Thomasville, his hometown.

The collection includes George's notes on embalming, kept while he was at school, and his license from the Georgia State Board of Embalming, 1910.

Part of Dr. Flowers' account book (DeKalb County, Georgia) citing names of patients; dates of payment, visits, and medication; and type of illness.

The collection consists of an autobiography by George P. Shingler, Jr., the head of the Naval Stores Station (USDA) at Olustee, Flordia.

A Civil War service letter from George T. C. Grey to his mother, explaining that he is sick but will recover, January 1863, the month before he died; a pass home for W. L. Hall of Company H, 20th Regt. GA Vols., from Appomattox, 1865; and a Richard Wester estate settlement receipt signed by Samuel S. Wester and Alexander Johnson, 1837.

Second Lieutenant Mullenix or Mullinax, of the 1st Georgia State Troops or Militia, requested Captain Kelly to intercede with Colonel Young for him and the following members of the State Militia who wanted to join Young's command: H. F. Arrendale, W. T. Narrel or Norrell, G. W. Roberts, A. I. Mullenix, Elijah V. Mullenix, and himself.

About 17 letters from George to Martha J., documenting his brief service in the 10th Regiment Georgia Militia, Company K, from July - November 1864, mostly about camp life and ending with his illness. Papers include his early account book and some later correspondence by his wife and daughters. Typescripts were made of George's penciled letters because they are so faded.

Records includes minutes, financial reports, membership lists, memorandums, and newsletters.

Administrative records of the Georgia Coalition on Consultation, Education, and Prevention from 1979 to 1988, including meeting minutes, correspondence, conference schedules, financial reports, newsletters, membership information, bylaws, and specialty committee records.

Association records include: constitution and bylaws, directories, correspondence, minutes, treasurer's reports, committee records, and publications.

The collection contains business records of the Federation as well as individual clubs; 38 scrapbooks, including 26 scrapbooks of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, 5 from the Fifth District of the Georgia Federation, and 1 from the Atlanta Woman's Club; and 27 volumes of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs Yearbook and reflects the organization's concern for community service.

Organizational and membership records, correspondence, minutes, and publications.

Records concerning the organization of the Georgia Historical Association, which recognized the need for an archives and history department for Georgia. Includes the petition for the incorporation of the Association, membership lists, incoming letters to Lucian Lamar Knight concerning membership and support for the Association, and proceedings of the first annual meeting.

Compiled by A. Louise Irwin, this bound scrapbook documents the project of the Transylvania Club to create and market the 12 Georgia Historical Plates that depict state history. Ms. Irwin's prose illuminates the newspaper clippings, letters, and visuals.

This collection includes the organization's constitution, correspondence, membership lists, minutes, newsletters, programs, and treasurer's reports.

"Soldier's Memorial" poster honoring the World War I [WWI] service of the Georgia Hussars (Troop A, Georgia Cavalry; Headquarters Troop, 31st Division, U.S. Army). This poster lists members of the Georgia Hussars who served in the "War of 1917." Donor's grandfather, George L.A. Davis, is listed as a Private First Class.

The records include correspondence, financial reports, histories of the Forum, memoranda and programs, minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and officer and member groups lists.

The collection contains two unbound histories: one, covering 1935 - 1972, has 151 pages. The other, covering 1935 - 1976, has 264 pages.

The collection contains minutes and reports for 1940-1960, lists of officers and members, programs, an executive committee handbook for 1962, and teenage nutrition.

Collection of 402 photographs showing interior/exterior lighting of stores, offices, shops, and outdoor facilities. Included are oversized blueprints, rate and cost charts, business correspondence and reports, and the newsletter Bright Spots.

The Association records include minutes, publications, programs, and photographs.

Included are minutes, membership lists, photographs, programs, newsletters, and one audio tape. Between 1971 and 1977, members' names were often written into the minutes, as were the financial reports. History and by-laws describe the formation of the Georgia Callers Association, how the Georgia State Square Dance Association, Inc. (GSSDA) helped Georgia 4-H'ers and promoted western square dancing.

A certificate from W. E. Ward's Seminary, Nashville, TN, 1880, awarding the Mistress of Liberal Arts degree to Georgia Brewster; two certificates, 1908 and n.d., from the D.A.R. and the U.D.C. Atlanta chapters, awarded to Georgia (sometimes Georgiana) B. Wilkes.

These programs, newspaper clippings, and photographs document the transfer of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation from private to state hands. Governor Jimmy Carter and Franklin D. Roosevelt's son, James Roosevelt, were among the participants in this ceremony.

Primarily correspondence created by or about Marsh, as he was called. Includes typescripts of his own 1950-1952 Korean War letters, some family letters, news stories, and school reports.

Copybook of John Gilliam, 1815; letter to him from his cousin, John Harris, 1817; various tax and business papers, 1833 - 1857, belonging to Martha, James, and Gilliam (or Gillum) Harris.

Correspondence, military and agency commissions, a report from the Athens First Baptist Church, and other documents, most from Clarke County, Georgia.

This collection includes family letters and business records from Hatcher's Station, Quitman County, Georgia. Series One contains the letters of: the Cook family of Mullville and Eelbeck, Georgia; Lucy E. Gorsuch, daughter of Parshamia L. Cook (Mrs. Charles A.) Gorsuch; and Gussie Campbell, New Orleans school friend of Mrs. Gorsuch and Lucy A. Hickey. Series Two are the dry good business records of W. H. and J. E. Gorsuch.