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Woodville (Miss.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Drake Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-933
Scope and Content

Contains two bibles (Perry Drake and E. Steele Drake) and one folder containing letters, a photograph, embroidered cross, and ephemeral items.

Dates: 1891 - 1913

James Stewart McGehee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-119
Scope and Contents

Autobiography of McGehee, who was born in 1860 in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, moved to Louisiana in 1865, was educated in Virginia, and worked with the West Feliciana Railroad and with W.L. Green Commission Company (grain dealers) in St. Louis. Among the subjects are family and friends in Mississippi and Louisiana, Reconstruction, race relations, and importation of labor into the South. McGehee's family home was in Woodville, Mississippi. Also photograph.

Dates: circa 1903-1904