Kilgore-Snell Papers

Records created and collected by the related families of Kilgore, Snell and Cockrell, reflecting their farming and business activities in the Kilgore Hills area of Chickasaw, now Clay County, Mississippi. Included is an accounts ledger kept by Jesse Landrum Kilgore, 1866-1889, containing records of J. L. Kilgore and freedmen operating as a firm "on shares" and later as tenant farmers, producing and selling cotton, corn, oats, wheat and livestock. Also included are receipts for cotton ginned for and sold by the Kilgore, Snell and Cockrell families, 1854-1918; receipts for purchases and promissory notes of the Kilgore, Snell and Cockrell families, 1852-1909; and tax receipts for the Kilgore, Snell and Cockrell families in Mississippi and Jefferson County, Arkansas, 1867-1903. Many of the receipts were collected as a part of the estate settlement of Dr. Benjamin Kilgore (1792-1864), which estate was administrated by his son B.M. (Benjamin Moon) Kilgore. Miscellaneous items include a political ticket for the Democrat-Conservative Party candidacy of H.L. Muldrow for Congress (1875), showing the electors for all Mississippi districts; a fragment of a book entitled Horse Owner's Friend and Guide; and miscellaneous clipping fragments.