Scope and Contents Accession 11-066 contains financial ledgers and cattle herd record books from the Caley farm, dating from the 1910s to the 1940s. Also included are various essays, poems, and songs written by Albert Caley from the 1930s to the 1970s. There are also various newsclippings and letters relating to the history of the Caley and Scoville families, records of the Marion Junction Homemakers Club, and bulletins from Marion Junction United Methodist Church, and well as a booklet on the Sheldon and...

Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of twenty-one journals (1840-1891), nine account books (1856-1887) descriptive of 19th century agricultural and rural life in Alabama and Georgia, and the October 3, 1836 Conveyance and Trust Agreement that transferred control of the land and slaves inherited by Mary E. Harrison, wife of John Dent, to John Horry...

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This accession contains research materials, notes, journals, correspondence, circuit court records, genealogy, Confederate documents,newspaper clippings, family documents, artifacts, and photographs.

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...

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence (1860-1891) and financial records (1836-1891) of John Horry Dent; plantation journals (1876-1891) in which Dent recorded weather conditions and daily activities; biographical information on Wellborn's maternal great-grandfather, Commodore John Herbert Dent, who served aboard the U.S.S. Constitution. Correspondence...