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William Humphrey Foy III papers
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Creator: |
Mitchell, David Yoakley |
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Dates: |
1880-2015 |
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This collection contains family history and photographs, scrapbooks and photo albums, land records, and ephemera collected
by William H. Foy III.
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ms4068 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Rebecca Foy diaries
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Foy, Rebecca |
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Dates: |
1778-1864, 1933, 1936 |
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The collection consists of two diaries kept by Rebecca Foy consisting of handwritten accounts of marriages, births, deaths,
illnesses, and remedies for illnesses and nosebleeds. The earliest birth recorded is "Anne Dasher, born Sept. 21, 1778."
The final entry ("My ducks began to lay"), dated 1864. The collection also includes Book I – Vol. I, dated 1936, titled Fay
Family of Effingham County, Georgia. Assorted family papers include: Biography of Edward Edwin Foy (1842-1907), written by
Eloise Eugenia Foy Ward; one letter dated Jan. 31, 1933, addressed to Mrs. Ella Cordona, regarding a letter she had written
attempting to locate George Foy, who had enslaved Cordona; and miscellaneous handwritten accounts of births and deaths of
Foy family descendants.
The diaries mention the purchase of the following enslaved people: Reuben, 1853, age 9; Jake, 1853; Lawrence, 1855; Elbert,
1855, age 12; Monroe and Sam, 1856; Stephen, 1856, age 10; Sam, 1857; Lewis, 1857, age 12. There is also mention of a few
incidents of 'runaways' between 1858 and 1861.
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ms2787 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Cadle family papers
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Cadle family |
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Dates: |
1880-1970 |
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The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photos, UGA class notebooks, clippings and printed materials relating
to the Cadle family of Emanuel County, Georgia. Genealogical information is included on the Everett, Burke, Brinson, Foy,
Dasher, and Anderson families of Effingham, Screven, Richmond, Jefferson, Emanuel, and Houston counties. Varied papers and
pictures are included concerning the Overstreet and Scott families of Emanuel County, and the Braun family of Cleveland, Ohio
and Daytona Beach, Florida. Included are a letter and telegram from Ernest Neal, poet laureate of Georgia in the 1920s and
1930s. The collection also contains several metric survey plats, a metric deed and correspondence relating to them.
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ms2354 |
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Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
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