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The collections consists of papers from sixty years of genealogy research by James Dabbs. The papers include entries from the International Genealogical Index, pedigree charts, descendent charts, individual summaries, family historical narratives, correpsondence, wills. and miscellaneous documents such as deeds and obituaries.

Scope and Contents This collection includes the papers of various family members stemming from the Duncan and Blackwell family line. This includes materials from the Bias, Beane, Fontaine, Mitchell, and Tardy families as well as other connections. Materials include correspondence, diaries, family bibles, business papers (e.g., sale of cotton receipts), ledgers, estate records, bills of sale for enslaved persons, photographs, and other miscellaneous objects. The bulk of these materials come from the middle- to...

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Newspaper clippings, books, publications and maps.

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Minutes, clippings, correspondence, publications, program materials, genealogical charts, family histories and other records of the Oktibbeha County Historical and Genealogy Society.

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Deeds, military correspondence, general correspondence, death certificates, and birth certificates.

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Genealogical materials relating to the Parris, Bullen and Manon families in Barbados.

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Family notebooks containing genealogical information comprised of Family Search findings, cemetery records, Starkville Presbyterian Church history, deeds, maps, photographs, correspondence, war service records and a family Bible.

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Civil war letters, grave marker dedicatory services program, and family reunion materials.

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

Scope and Content Genealogical notebooks concerning the Sessums family (1942, 1949); photographs of I. D. Sessums, Henrietta Kirksey Sessums and others; portrait of Henrietta Kirksey Sessums; funeral broadside (1896), and yearbooks of the Greenwood Leflore Chapter, DAR, Columbus, Mississippi (1967-1968, 1976-1977); DAR certificate of Carrie Battle Palmer Maddux Howard. Also includes collected materials: newspapers concerning the Kennedy assassination and a scrapbook of clippings and other materials concerning...