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Burnside Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-277
Scope and Contents

Materials of the Burnside family of Lake Burnside, Neshoba County, Mississippi, including: memorandum book, 1886 and undated; family business papers, 1839-1904; letters, 1861-1918, including letter to A.W. Burnside from unnamed brother, Harper's Ferry, Virginia, June 12, 1861; publications, including Confederate Annals (June 1883), Neshoba County Democrat (May 23, 1895) article on double primary, and Southern Cultivator (April 1896); photograph, 1918; and genealogy, undated. Photocopies.

Dates: 1839 - 1918
Found in: Manuscripts

Burnside Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-154
Scope and Contents

Four receipts: Receipt for Wm. Burnside’s taxes on two enslaved persons for 1841, paid by T.J. Burnside; John Ward sells to Jane Burnside a 17 year old named Henry, 1845; R. B. Vernon sells to William A. Burnside a 9-10 year old boy named Gabrel, 1845; Note from William Robertson for monies due to James G. Burnside or bearer, 1850.

Dates: 1841 - 1850
Found in: Manuscripts

John C. Bush Book of Travels

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-326
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript of diary describing journeys made by steamboat up the Missouri River. The latter portion is by Edward S. Bush.

Dates: 1819 - 1820
Found in: Manuscripts

Carl Butler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-436
Scope and Contents

Letters, legal notes, and other papers exchanged by the Thomas Harris family, who lived in Georgia prior to settling in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

Dates: 1819 - 1857
Found in: Manuscripts

Eugene Butler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-389
Scope and Contents The Eugene Butler papers contain the personal and business correspondence of Progressive Farmer editor-in-chief Eugene Butler. There is also a small amount of correspondence related to his father, Dr. Tait Butler, particularly in regard to a memorial plaque for the Tennessee Agricultural Hall of Fame. The largest proportion of the collection materials is concerned with Eugene Butler’s position as editor and senior executive of the Progressive Farmer Company....
Dates: 1883 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1980
Found in: Manuscripts

Alfred Benjamin Butts papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-163
Scope and Contents

Agreement with freedmen, Sept. 14, 1865, concerning work on the Caldwell Plantation, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi; 2 bonds issued by Oktibbeha County "in payment of stock of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company," 1 note concerning interest paid, 1892; and 1 typescript of A.B. Butts work, " Civil Service in American Cities".

Dates: 1865 - 1892
Found in: Manuscripts

Charles L. Butts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-629
Scope and Contents

Small group of papers documenting Charles Butts, editor of the Mississippi Free Press, a newspaper advocating for civil and human rights. Includes typewritten pages written for the paper and for publicity, articles about Charles Butts, copies of the Missisippi Free Press (1962-1963), copies of The Reporter (1962, 1963) containing civil rights articles, and "Justice", a civil rights brochure.

Dates: 1962 - 1963
Found in: Manuscripts

A Military Life (Col. Johnnie P. Byrd Collection)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-710
Scope and Contents note

This collection covers nine cubic feet and ranges from 1916-2013 with the bulk the material dating from 1957-1986. It consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, certificates, insignia, patches, medals, awards, books, film reels, DVDs, uniforms, and an ammunition shell. The collection contains six standard cubic foot boxes and three small oversize boxes.

Dates: 1916 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1957 - 1986
Found in: Manuscripts

Elvira Byrd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-371
Scope and Contents

Papers consist of the family correspondence of Elvira Rea Byrd, (1843-1930), who founded the newspaper the Brookhaven News in 1887. In addition to Brookhaven, places represented include Oakley and Parchman penitentiaries, where Stanley Byrd was a pharmacist; and Santa Ana and Brownwood, Texas. Also included are 3 letters from Congressman Ethelbert Barksdale.

Dates: 1866 - 1964
Found in: Manuscripts

Cyril Edward and Annie Gray Cain Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-467
Scope and Contents The Cyril Edward and Annie Gray Cain Papers contain materials relating to the education, career, organizational, research, and publication activities, and to the personal affairs of high school teacher, principal, and Mississippi State University faculty member Cyril Edward Cain (1883-1963), and his wife Annie Rebecca Gray Cain (1889-1970), who taught in schools around Mississippi, including the Starkville Municipal Separate School District. Material types contained in the collection...
Dates: 1908 - 1965
Found in: Manuscripts

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 66
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World War, 1939-1945 15
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Churches -- Mississippi. 12
Starkville (Miss.) 12
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Poetry. 9
World War II. 9
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Family life -- Mississippi. 8
Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 8
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Winston County (Miss.) 4
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Yellow fever -- Mississippi. 4
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Attala County (Miss.) 3
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Bills of sale -- United States -- Forms. 3
Carroll County (Miss.) 3
Choctaw Indians -- Mississippi -- History. 3
Confederate States of America. 3
Correspondence 3
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Cotton growing -- Southern States. 3
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Welty, Eudora 3
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Chickasaw Female College 2
Cobb family. 2
Cobb, Cully Alton 2
Cobb, Lois D. (Lois Dowdle) 2
Cole, Hunter. 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 1st 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 2
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 2
Franklin, Sam H. 2
Harris, Corra 2
Jackson, Jesse 2
Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill) 2
Mississippi State College 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849 2
Republican Party (Miss.) 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 2
United Confederate Veterans 2
University of Mississippi 2
White, William Parker 2
11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H 1
17th Virginia Infantry 1
1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Company G 1
27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A 1
Abbott and Howard (Holmes County, Miss.) 1
Abbott family. 1
Abbott, F. Marion 1
Abbott, Gertrude 1
Abbott, Harry 1
Abbott, Liberty C. 1
Abbott, Maria 1
Aberdeen Creamery (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
Adams family. 1
Adams, Everett L. (Everett Louis) 1
Adams, Everett L., Jr. (Everett Louis) 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adams, Mary Augusta 1
Adams, Ruth. 1
Adams, William D. 1
Aetna Insurance Company 1
Agnew, E. 1
Agnew, Samuel Andrew 1
Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company (Miss.) 1
Alcorn University 1
Almond, Edward M. (Edward Mallory) 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Amberson, William Ruthrauff 1
American Association of Retired Persons . Chapter 165 1
American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor 1
American Ex-Prisoners of War, Inc 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American Institute of Home-Grown Fats and Oils 1
Ames family. 1
Ames, Albion 1
Ames, Madison Fisk 1
Ames, Sarah J. 1
Ancient York Masons 1
Andersonville Prison 1
Andrews, M.W. 1
Armey, Richard K. 1
Armstrong, J. Trooper 1
Arnez, Desi 1
Arnold, Ed. 1
Ashe, Winifred 1
Ashley Family 1
Association of Southern Agricultural Workers 1
Astor, John Jacob 1
Augustus, William Baldwin 1
Austin, Barbara. 1
Babbit, C.W. 1
Ball, Louis 1
Ballard, Chris (Christopher) 1
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Ballard, Mike (Michael), 11/24/1946-10/11/2016 1
Ballard, Ottis B., 1/11/1916-11/26/1989 1
Bank of Mississippi 1
Baptist Female Seminary (Pontotoc, Miss.) 1
Baptist family 1
Bardwell family. 1
Barney, Eliakim 1
Barry, B. F. 1
Baskin family. 1
Baskin, Maud 1
Baskin, Rebecca Jane 1
Baskin, Robert N. 1
Baskin, Robert R. 1
Baskin, Sallie A. 1
Bates, William Stowt, 1830-1928 1
Beachum, James M., 1842-1912 1
Beaty, Thomas Newton, 1826-1867 1
Beauvoir plantation. 1
Beiderlinden, William A. (William Arthur) 1
Bell, Arthur. 1
Bell, Della Billington 1
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