Scope and Content Journals, financial records, correspondence, photographs, family history, and miscellany, mostly pertaining to James C. Neilson, a Lowndes County, Mississippi, farmer, Mississippi state legislator, and Grange member. Among the topics in his journals are freedmen's accounts, race relations, church, the Grange, the legislature, an arson trial, and his family. Also included are the 1962 journal of Sarah Neilson, which mentions the riots at the University of Mississippi; a history of the Boykin...

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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.

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Recipes, photographs, books and publications, financial material, correspondence, scrapbook, and newspaper clippings.

Scope and Content Papers of Thompson B. Shaw (1796-1854), plantation owner of Jefferson County, collected by the McKell and McCallum families.The Shaw family papers document the history of Jefferson County, Mississippi, planter Thompson Breckenridge Shaw (1796-1854) and his family. The collection includes Civil War letters, bills of sale for enslaved people, records of the cotton trade and the family plantation, a scrapbook, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, autograph books, daguerreotypes,...

Scope and Content This collection centers around Artesia, Mississippi, a small town in Lowndes County that is best known as the junction point for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Throughout its history, the town has had several historical points of interest, including Civil War hospitals, political uprisings, hay festivals, and famous restaurants. The collection contains history of the town and genealogical materials regarding local families, as well as Civil War service documents and reconstruction...

Scope and Content Papers of William Starling (1839-1900), Union soldier and engineer for Mississippi River levee systems. Content includes: diaries containing descriptions of Starling's activities as a planter and engineer and of a tour of Holland; manuscript of a chapter of a novel, draft of a book on the U.S. Government, and index to literature and literary and historic figures; notebooks pertaining to Starling's student days at New York University and presenting observations on the Mississippi River and a...