Agriculture.

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Daily account of farming operations and farming operations and frequent church attendance. Stone was a Meridian planter, one-time justice of the peace, Presbyterian elder.

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Business ledgers of the general store belonging to J. A. Thomas of Maben, Webster and Oktibbeha Counties, Mississippi. The business, later known as J.A. Thomas and Son, was the longest operating business in Maben at the time of the death of J.W. Thomas, son of J.A. Thomas, in 1961.

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Plantation records of Egypt Plantation near Kruger, Holmes County, Mississippi, which has been successively owned by James Talbert Thomas II, James Talbert Thomas III and other family members. Includes deeds, abstracts of title and other land records, ledgers and other business records, wills and legal records. Originals and some photocopies. See also Howard Langfitt collection for script and photos of farm.

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Files concerning the work of Francis G. Thomason with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, especially programs dealing with tung nuts, cotton seed oil, and caster beans. Preliminary folder list available.

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Documents related to the Duckhill trainwreck, biographical material about C.P. Thrailkill, autobiography, genealogical materials, yearbooks, sermons, and church records.

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Hand drawn maps including parts of Attala, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Leflore, and Montgomery counties.

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Scrapbook of 1926 MSU alumnus and vocational agriculture teacher Brunner Miles Trapp (1902-1987). Includes a variety of materials documenting the Trapp family, the Future Farmers of America, including the Binford (School) Chapter, Binford High School (Duck Hill, Montgomery County, Mississippi), and Trapp's awards and honors as a vocational agriculture Master Teacher. Bound photocopy.

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Account book No. 199 of the Midway Grange 1881-1884; later used for farm records, 1887-1890. Farm ledger of W.G. Stone, 1888-1894. See also University Archives: William I. Stone Collection.

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Photographs (2), recipe for taming horses, receipt, eulogy, and ledger, concerning Turner, a resident of Montgomery County, Mississippi. Photocopies.

Scope and Content Farm and estate records of the Wallace family of Noxubee and Winston Counties, Mississippi include a journal which was kept by Isaiah Wallace in the 1830s. The balance of the collection includes account statements, promissory notes and other financial records, and modern history writings. In addition, an 1859 agreement mentions slave Harriet and an 1861 promissory note documents the hire of slave Barthuney. A cased tintype and photographic copy of same depicts James R. Wallace in April 1862...