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North Mississippi Probate and Chancery Court Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-352
Scope and Content

Probate and Chancery Court records, tax receipts, estate expense reports, and other legal documents, most from Itawamba County, 1836-1911, as well as miscellaneous other material dating from 1911-1971. Pontotoc, Calhoun, and Tishomingo counties are also represented, and there is some material concerning Limestone County, Alabama. Finally, there is one photocopy of Civil War letter from Thomas Whitesides to James Bullard, 4/27/1861. Donated by Randy Sparks, 1980-81.

Dates: 1836 - 1971
Found in: Manuscripts

Oktibbeha County Postal Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-61
Scope and Content

The records, dated 1873-1922, consist of 62 volumes of postmasters' account and record books, money order records, route books, a war tax stamp book, and others. Records include names of African-American people.

Dates: 1873 - 1922
Found in: Manuscripts

Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-550
Scope and Content

Oral histories of extension agents, politicians and local citizens. Topics include African-American history, women's history, the Vietnam War, agriculture, and Mississippi State University, Starkville and West Point history.

Dates: 1950 - 2001
Found in: Manuscripts

Partial Emmitt Till Trial Transcript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-802
Scope and Content

Fully legible copy of the typescript transcript of the second half of the trial for the murder of Emmitt Till. This material was collected by Bryan Maxwell Newman, who obtained the copy shortly after the trial concluded in 1955. Mr. Newman was employed near Greenwood, Mississippi where the trial took place.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Manuscripts

Wilbur B. Pearson Architectural Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-513
Scope and Content

Papers of architectural engineer and retired MSU faculty member Wilbur B. Pearson bulk with drawings for completed architectural projects, primarily in Lowndes, Oktibbeha and Clay Counties, Mississippi. Included are drawings and project files for 219 projects, including schools, churches, banks, fire stations, private residences and other public and private buildings. Database of projects and inventory of project files available.

Dates: 1948 - 1985
Found in: Manuscripts

Peyton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-115
Scope and Content

Photocopies of list of accounts and 11 letters (1768-1818) written by Thomas Jefferson, mostly to Craven Peyton (d. 1837), lawyer and landowner, of Albemarle County, Virginia; and correspondence and documents of the Peyton family of Virginia and Mississippi. Includes offer to sell a slave, Nov 27, 1818.

Dates: 1768 - 1916
Found in: Manuscripts

Craig Piper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-497
Scope and Content

Research materials for Piper's M.A. thesis, "The Civil Rights Movement in Starkville, Mississippi: A Local Struggle for Equality, 1968-1973". Materials include audiotapes of the Civil Rights Forum, oral interviews and note cards.

Dates: 1992
Found in: Manuscripts

Zenas Preston Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-252
Scope and Contents

Plantation on Lake St. Peter across river from Natchez, Mississippi. Refers to plantation life of the period: enslaved persons, crops, levees and floods, diseases, prescriptions, taxes, road work, weather.

Dates: 1850 - 1853
Found in: Manuscripts

Mrs. Mary C. Rambo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-256
Scope and Contents

Bill of sale for enslaved persons, 1 Civil War letter, permit for supplies and statement of purchases, 2 letters from Texas, 1 contract for share-cropping, letters concerning a War of 1812 pension which was cancelled because of sympathy with the Confederacy. Chiefly Tennessee.

Dates: 1843 - 1866
Found in: Manuscripts

Lee H. Reiff Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-382
Scope and Content

Minutes, bylaws, memoranda, reports, grant proposals, and printed matter concerning the Board of Directors of the Child Development Group of Mississippi and its successor organization, the Inter-Area Council of the Community Education Extension of Mary Holmes College. The organizations administered Head Start Programs funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Dates: 1966 - 1972
Found in: Manuscripts

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Carthan , Eddie J. 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Cox, A. Eugene (Allen Eugene) 1
Cunningham, Lena B. (Lena Bardwell) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
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Eastland, James O. (James Oliver) 1
Eddy, Sherwood 1
Farmers' Alliance (Miss.) 1
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Franklin, Sam H. 1
Griffin United Methodist Church (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Hogan family. 1
Hogan, Elijah 1
Jackson, Jesse 1
Joiner, Marcella Rose 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan 1
Knox, James 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ). Mississippi 1
Lampkin, Robert Allison 1
Martin, Dabney A. 1
Memphis (Tenn). Police Dept 1
Merchants and Farmers Bank (Vaiden, Miss.) 1
Minter, David R. 1
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Mississippi AFL-CIO 1
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission 1
Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland) 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America 1
Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.) 1
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Presley , Elvis 1
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S. Gumbel and Company (New Orleans, La.) 1
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Trulight Baptist Church (Dockery, Miss.) 1
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Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1
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