Alabama -- Social life and customs

This collection contains a typescript (and copy) of a record book (1832-1855) of Antioch Baptist Church conference meetings, discussing church business such as membership, preachers, and association membership.

This collection includes letters to Elizabeth Boswell Horne and Susan Boswell from relatives and friends in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas. Included are Civil War-era descriptions of dyeing cloth and weaving dimity and letters from a nephew, W. Emory Horne, attending East Alabama Male College, now Auburn University, who later emigrated to Texas.

Photocopies of Robert Corry's family correspondence (1857-1865), including letters between Corry and his wife, Eliza Harris Corry (1863-1865) during his military service; copies of Robert Corry's obituary (1913), miscellaneous documents (1849-1865) concerning the estate of James Harris and Robert Corry's military service.

Contains sixty-three pages of reminiscences of Julius C. Greene (photocopy of typescript), including a history of Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama, and focusing on local folklore, superstitions, and southern humor. Greene includes a brief history and muster roll of the 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment compiled in 1904.

Contains two licenses to sell liquor issued in Limestone County, Alabama in 1873; one certificate appointing an agent to go to Tennessee to receive two fugitives from justice and bring them back to Alabama in 1878; one bill of sale to George S. Houston for the purchase of a slave in 1839; one bill to Mrs. G. S. Houston from Athens Female College for tuition and books in 1881 and one receipt for merchandise from Adams Express Company, Athens, Alabama in 1869.