Robert S. Gilliam family papers, 1870-1935, bulk 1881-1909, bulk 1881-1909
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Durham, Lucy, Williams, Maude, Gilliam, Sallie Myrt, and Gilliam, Robert S.
- Date:
- 1870-1935, bulk 1881-1909, bulk 1881-1909
- Extent:
- 4.4 Linear Feet (8 document boxes, 1 oversized box)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Robert S. Gilliam family papers. MS 1372. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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Robert S. Gilliam was a merchant who resided and worked in Maxeys in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. He was born in 1852 and died in 1903. He was married to Susan Maxey Gilliam (1856 - 1932). They had one child, a daughter, named Sallie Myrt Gilliam, who was born in 1877 and died in 1960. She married William Gurham (1869-1939), and they had two children, one in 1902 and the second in 1904. Sallie went to La Grange Female College in the 1890s.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged by record type.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Women's colleges -- Georgia.
Women college students -- Georgia.
General stores -- Georgia.
Stores, Retail -- Georgia.
Merchants -- Georgia.
Business records. - Names:
- Agnes Scott College
LaGrange Female College - Places:
- Decatur (Ga.)
Athens (Ga.) -- Social life and customs.
Maxeys (Ga.) -- Social life and customs.
LaGrange (Ga.) -- History.
Oglethorpe County (Ga.) -- History.
Access and use restrictions
- Preferred citation:
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Robert S. Gilliam family papers. MS 1372. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.