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Family -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

A.G. Wineman & Sons Records, and Wineman, Williams, Guice, and Stockwell et al Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-690
Content Description This collection consists of various materials belonging to the Wineman, Guice, Stockwell and Rayner families from 1803-2012 with the bulk of material dating from 1930-1970. This collection was separated into eight different sub-series: Financial Records, Printed Materials, Photographic Materials, Correspondence, Oversized Materials, and Newspapers. These papers include genealogical notes, correspondence, abstracts of title for Whiskey Island/ Ship-Fox Island in Tunica county in Mississippi...
Dates: 1803 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970

Tacitus T. Clay Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-176
Dates: 1836 - 1968

Critz Family Genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-183
Scope and Contents

15 items concerning the Critz family genealogy.

Dates: 1955 - 1962

James Dabbs Genealogy Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-852
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1990 - 2019

Grant Family collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-Fam
Scope and Content Note This collection contains the correspondence, ephemera, photoalbums, and family Bible of various members of the Grant family and extended friends and acquaintances. It includes correspondence from Jesse Root Grant, father of President Ulysess S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., Ulysses S. Grant III, his wife Edith Root Grant, her father Secretary of State Elihu Root, General Horace Porter, W. O. Stoddard, George Sharpe, and a variety of other correspondents.This collection also...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1864 - 1926

Jesse R. Grant and Elizabeth Chapman Grant papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JRGECG
Scope and Content Note The Jesse R. Grant (JRG) and Elizabeth Chapman Grant (ECG) papers consists of correspondence from the son and daughter-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant. The correspondence covers the period from 1880-1910 and focuses on the loss of President Grant's fortune in the Ferdinand Ward scandal, President Grant's death, the publication of Grant's memoirs, the sculpting of his death mask, and Jesse and Elizabeth’s (Lizzie or Babs) correspondence with their family members on both the Grant and...
Dates: 1880 - 1910

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

G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery papers, Mrs. J. W. "Emily" Tims Series

 Series
Identifier: CPRC-GVM-JWET
Scope and Content Note

The Mrs. J. W. "Emily" Tims series of the G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery papers contains correspondence, news clippings, family keepsakes, and photographs belonging to Emily Tims, the mother of Sonny Montgomery. These materials range in date from the 1890s to the 1980s.

Dates: 1890 - 1983

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

T. G. Sellers Family Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-571
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a scrapbook of writings, photographs and obituaries concerning the family of Thomas George Sellers, minister of First Baptist Church (1857-1899) and founder of the Starkville Female Institute (later the Maxwell home). Includes writings by Sallie Graves Sellers, Thomas Freeman Sellers and Suzanne Sellers Jones, and concerns the Sellers extended family, and Starkville, Mississippi, history.

Dates: 1886-1976 and undated