Family life -- Mississippi.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Liberty C. Abbott Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1
Scope and Contents
The Liberty C. Abbott family papers contain the records of the Abbott family, including a large amount of correspondence, much of it with family and friends but there are political and business letters also. In addition, there are records of Liberty Abbott’s business activities, including Clifton Plantation, Abbott and Howard, Holmes County, as well as Thompson and McClure of Schlater, Leflore County. There are also some legal documents, diaries, memorabilia, newspaper clippings,...
Dates:
1859 - 1930; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1926
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Liberty C. Abbott Family Papers
Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS.-537
Scope and Contents
The Hightower, Montgomery, Perkins, Castles, and Stiles families papers contain the papers of the members of five Mississippi families related by marriage. Much of the material concerns three families: the Perkins, Hightower and Montgomery families. The papers include family correspondence, a small number of business and legal documents, and a variety of other documents that record predominantly the lives of the female members of the families. The collection includes a number of...
Dates:
1848 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1881 - 1960
Lenoir Plantation records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-585
Scope and Contents
The Lenoir Plantation Records contain the personal and business records of the extended Lenoir family from Monroe County, Mississippi. The papers span the early 18th century to 2001 and are divided into six series: Personal records, Business records, Legal documents: Land Deeds and related matters, Publications, Photographs, and Artifacts. Personal records include family correspondence that documents daily life on a cotton plantation throughout the 19th century, including several letters...
Dates:
1792 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1930
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Lenoir Plantation records
Mosley-Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-833
Content Description
The Mosley-Jackon Family papers contain extensive correspondence of military training life of young soldiers in World War I and II to their family in Oktibbeha County. The collection includes letters, postcards, holiday cards, family photographs, lace textiles, women’s and children clothing, military and leisure artifacts, Nazi artifacts, ephemera, and other print material concerning the McKnight, Mosley, Crumpton, and Jackson families of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. While most of the...
Dates:
1890 - 2011; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1946
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Mosley-Jackson Family Papers
Pitchlynn Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-572
Scope and Content
Transcriptions of Peter Pitchlynn family letters from the Peter Pitchlynn Papers collections owned by the Gilcrease Museum. All but one of the letters is written from Mississippi; correspondents include John Pitchlynn, Calvin H. Howell, Samuel Garland and Lycurgus P. Pitchlynn. Gift of Jack Elliott.
Dates:
1824 - 1841
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Pitchlynn Letters
Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-574
Scope and Contents
The Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers contain materials that document the lives of members of the three families, which are of significant social historical interest. There is extensive correspondence among members of the Lee family between 1850 and 1910, and a calendar of the correspondence is included as an appendix. A large number of deeds show the acquisitions made by the Lee and Sanders families in Columbus, Mississippi. The scrapbooks and recipe books give an insight into the...
Dates:
1850 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1992
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers
Isaac Smith Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-271
Scope and Contents
Twenty-seven letters, three other papers, one small autograph book, chiefly about family, farming, enslaved persons in Carroll, Holmes, and Lawrence Counties in Mississippi and Alexandria, Louisiana.
Dates:
1821 - 1893
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Isaac Smith Letters
Stone Family Papers
Collection — Box Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-275
Scope and Content
Materials include letters from Sidon and Black Hawk, Mississippi and Goliad, Texas. Other materials include ephemeral items, including souvenir cards from Acy School, Carroll County, Mississippi.
Dates:
1880 - 1918
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Stone Family Papers
Mary Ella White Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-843
Dates:
1913 - 2008
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Mary Ella White Scrapbook