Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers, 1816-1984
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Green, Mary Blount, 1896-1978
- Date:
- 1816-1984
- Extent:
- 8 Linear Feet 7 boxes, 1 oversized box, 1 oversized folder
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers, ms4047, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains teaching materials, artifacts, records, and correspondence regarding Mary Blount Green, her husband John B. Green, and their son Ronald. It also contains correspondence and records of her parents, Charles and Alice Andrews, and other relatives in the Bowen and Lamar families. Also contains the "Bowen Bible," featuring birth dates of enslaved people
- Biographical / historical:
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Mary Blount Green (1896-1978) was an Atlanta Public Schools elementary school teacher from Clinton, Georgia. Her husband John Benjamin Green, Jr. (1893-1961) was a landowner and farmer. They had a son, Ronald Green. Mary Green's parents were Charles Thomas Andrews and Alice Bowen Andrews, both from Clinton, Georgia.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Family records.
Genealogy.
Teachers -- Georgia -- Correspondence.
Farmers -- Correspondence.
Enslaved persons -- Georgia
Slavery -- Georgia -- History.
Correspondence - Names:
- Bowen family
Lamar family
Andrews family
Green, John Benjamin, Jr.
Green, Mary Blount, 1896-1978 - Places:
- Jones County (Ga.) -- Records and correspondence.
Georgia -- Agriculture -- Farms and farming.
Access and use restrictions
- Preferred citation:
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Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers, ms4047, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.