Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Letter from Harris to his son stating that he cannot go to Abbeville to do his business because a relative is not well. He also states that William J. Buford cannot pay his son.

Both items were sent to Louisa by Joseph in April 1863 from where he was stationed in Quincy, Florida.

This collection contains manuscripts by brothers Joseph and Elijah Brown, plus biographical information and news clippings, a Western and Atlantic Railroad cars consolidated statement, books and pamphlets, photographs, and the law docket and family Bible of another brother, Julius L. Brown.

Collection contains wills, land deeds, promissary notes, and receipts, mostly of the Joseph P. Greene family in Cobb, Henry, and Walton Counties, Georgia. Mary's Henry County, Georgia, 1820 will was possibly not recorded. Also included are letters of dismissal from the Marietta Primitive Baptist Church.

The letter, written March 4, 1863, from Pike County, Georgia, is to his son Thomas, who was serving in the 2nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and whom Joseph had just visited. He gave his son advice on behavior as a soldier, commented on his officers, and gave detailed information about the family and neighbors back home with individual messages for other soldiers in the regiment.

Work agreement between Render and about twenty freedmen, formerly enslaved by him, in Meriwether County, Georgia.

The papers of Nunnally; his wife Sarah (Sallie) Hardman; her nephew Thomas Wray; and his wife and her brother, Jessie and Charles L. Harris. Includes correspondence, legal documents, and business papers, mostly from Walton County, Georgia, but also from Clarke County, Crisp County, Greene County, and Atlanta, Georgia, and Florida.

The collection is composed primarily of incoming correspondence to Judge Thomas of Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, and some legal and business papers. Some letters of Alexander H. and Linton Stephens are included.

Six letters written to Julia's brother Eugene in Texas telling news of the brothers she is living with and giving a history of the Ansley family.

"Presentation of the Banner for the Putnam Rifles," April 21, 1887.

Ten volumes, most of them originally account books kept by unknown persons in Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia. As was common then, the books were reused as scrapbooks and diaries by Julia McConnell. There are three diaries, the first two (1882 - ca. 1890) kept in old account books during the period when Julia lived with her husband in Calhoun. The last diary (1927 - 1928) was written on a notepad in Augusta, Georgia, where Julia lived with her daughter's family until she died.

Announces "Kisses" by Mrs. Westmoreland. The date is handwritten on the back.

Accounts are divided into departments, such as Sales, Shipping, and Wholesale Auto, and by branches, such as Whitehall Street, Decatur, Peters Street, Marietta Street, West End, Moreland, and Buckhead. The oldest records for the main hardware store appear to be at the back of the volume.

Record of receipts and disbursements of the Sparta Lodge, Hancock County, Georgia. Most of the receipts are from membership dues. Funds are listed under the categories L.F. (Lodge Funds) or W.O.B.F. (Women's and Orphans' Benevolent Fund).

Two minute books covering 1901 - 1906 and 1906 - 1909. Additional loose papers found in the books have been foldered separately.

Records name of account, description of services rendered, date, and cost for this Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, shoe repair business.

The poem was written from Vicksburg, Mississippi, where Otwell was serving the Confederacy, to his wife and family back in Roswell, Georgia.

Record of medical services of Dr. Harwell in Morgan County, Georgia, citing name of patient account, date, type of service, and cost. The back of the volume contains three entries concerning payments from patients. The inside book cover contains several entries recording deaths of slaves.

The volumes record legal cases handled by an unnamed attorney in Troup Co., GA, primarily on behalf of veterans of the War of 1812 and the 1830s Indian wars seeking bounty land compensation. Brief military information on clients is recorded. Other entries concern promissory notes and land titles.

Naturalization papers of Francis H. Lantznester, 1841, and Civil War papers of Edward M. Sheram (or Shuam), Company D, 45th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.

The papers consist mainly of Pulaski County, Georgia land and financial records; included also are Lawrence's life insurance policy, his will, his license to practice law, and various commissions. Some of the real estate papers are in the name of his wife, Eleanor.

This collection includes records of bills receivable and payable, relating to various business interests including a drugstore and bookstore.

Included in the collection are: incorporation petition, bylaws, annual reports, reports of annual meetings, minutes of official meetings, committee records including the Education Fund Records, local league administrative records, presidential correspondence, publications, workshop descriptions, membership records, daily office logs, and litigation files.

License granted by the Georgia State Board for the Examination and Registration of Architects.

The collection is composed of correspondence, research notes, and family compilations amassed by Mr. Hollingsworth during his career. Saxon, Nicholson, Anderson, Rogers, Barnett, Brown, McKeithen, Harrell, and Harman families are some of the more important out of hundreds researched. The Leon S. Hollingsworth Card File (now on microfilm) grew out of this research.

This collection includes marriage licenses obtained from county clerks and given to Reverend Rush. Most are from Talbot County, Georgia with others from Columbia, Marion, and Meriwether Counties, Georgia, and some Alabama marriage licenses. Most give no indication that a marriage ever took place. Few appear in official county records. An alphabetical list of grooms is filed with the volume.

This collection includes an account of cash received for stage fare from Augusta (Richmond County) Georgia, to Savannah (Chatham County, Georgia) and Savannah to Augusta. Lists date, by whom recieved, and amount. John B. Wilkinson served as Calffrey and Gaffney's mediator when business conflicts arose.

The collection contains scrapbooks about: the Atlanta Opera House; the DeGive family, owners of the opera house; and the opening of Gone with the Wind in Loews Grand Theatre, formerly the opera house. Photographs, newspaper clippings, and greeting cards are included. Some material is related to James R. Bramlett, stage manager at the building for forty years.

An 8 x 10 inch photograph of Lila Kennedy, President of Atlanta's First Theatre Group of Atlanta Civic Theatre. Photographed by Helen Burke, 1 Brookhaven Drive, NE, Atlanta

Speech given by Smith at the University of Florida. A humorous "letter" by one of Smith's campers at Laurel Falls Camp in Rabun County, Georgia. A six-page biography of Smith by her friend and life companion, Paula Snelling.

The item is apparently a draft of a report to the editor of the Mobile, Alabama, NEWS from a committee of judges for a contest of verses that commend Northerners for the contributions they had sent South during the epidemic of 1878. Lizzie, a poet herself and living in Burke County, Georgia, included a copy of the prize-winning poem by Maria L Eve of Augusta, Georgia, called "Conquered at Last. On the back at a later date is copied her own poem, "The Gypsy's Warning."

Courtship letters between Lois and Monroe before their marriage in 1929. One letter is from Lois' father, Clarence Hollis in Newnan, Georgia, to his future wife, Miss Tommie Jones in 1885.

The private journal (1857-1883) reflects Louisa's activities as hotel landlady and mother of three daughters. She also wrote about her husband's farm, her reading, the occupation of Marietta by Sherman's troops (1864), and travels to visit northern relatives (1865). A list of characters and an index are included.

The newspaper reported local people's activities in this Clayton County, Georgia, community and carried some serialized publications.

Grants and deeds for a part of Lowndes County, Georgia, that was originally Irwin County, Georgia. Names on the documents include: Wisenbaker, Solomon Newsom, Boyd, Delamar Clayton, John Hughes, Charles Latimer, Robert Stafford, and William Trescott. Many are connected to the Wisenbaker family.