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Typescript of record book (1832-1855) of Antioch Baptist Church conference meetings, discussing church business such as membership, preachers, and association membership.

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Letters (1844-1874) 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 (1871-1874) from a nephew, W. Emory Horne, attending East Alabama Male College, now Auburn University, who later emigrated to Texas.

Scope and Contents This collection contains news clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, broadsides, and pamphlets. Half of the material concerns William Bismarck Bowling and his interest in Alabama politics, mainly Alabama's prohibition campaign of 1909 and the ratification of the 1901 State Constitution. The other half of the collection concerns George R. Bowling, Sr.'s time as a...

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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.

Scope and Contents Letters (1855-64) from Crittenden to his family, including his parents, his brother, William D. Crittenden, and his wife, Bettie Browning Crittenden; letters (1862-68) of William D. Crittenden, William H. Browning and John K. Browning to family; letters ...

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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.

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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.

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This diary was written in a Birmingham School composition notebook. In her diary Nix discusses the weather, letters she received, activities of friends and family, and her health.

Scope and Contents The James Benson Sellers collection consists primarily of the research data Sellers, a noted Alabama historian and teacher, accumulated in order to write his books and articles. Research topics include Alabama history, slavery, First Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa, history of the University of Alabama, and history of Wilcox County, Alabama.The research...

Abstract Also known as the James A. Tait Collection. Includes diaries, letters received, financial papers, tax records, and slave records of Charles and James Asbury Tait. Papers of the children of James Asbury include letters received as well as freedman contracts, wills, deeds, clippings, maps, and speeches. The Tait Family were plantation owners in Wilcox County, Alabama; active in politics in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. Family members include Charles Tait (1768-1835), politician and...