Yazoo City (Miss.)

Scope and Contents The Joab Mobley family papers include two letters, three muster rolls and one historic roll from Company K of the First Mississippi Cavalry, an 1886 leaflet titled “Predestination: A Light in Dark Places,” and a booklet, Drake’s American Receipt Book: A Calendar Almanac for 1867-1868. The letters, dated the 25th and 28th of June 1851, are correspondence between Joab Mobley in Artesia, Mississippi, and his brother, C. Cox Mobley, in Yazoo City, regarding the state of crops and the question of...