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Harden-Pruitt family papers
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Harden family |
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Dates: |
1814-1960 |
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The collection consists of genealogy including photocopies of Bible records and a compilation of Harden descendants of William
Harden (1720-1760). Letters are written by various people, including Marion Antoinette Harden, and are addressed to Dr. R.
R. Harden, William Preston Harden, Willis N. Harden, and Mrs. Ada Harden. The collection also contains accounts, deeds, and
photographs of family members.
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ms3573 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Douglas R. Davis collection
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Davis, Douglas R., 1944-2011 |
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Dates: |
1815-2007 |
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The collection consists of genealogy, correspondence, financial ledgers and papers, photographs, and printed material. Most
of the material involves Cobb County, Georgia and the families who lived there. Roy Davis, father of Douglas, owned the Roy
Davis Funeral Home in Austell and records of the business are included. The Glore family of Mableton, who developed a subdivision
in Mableton called Whispering Pines, is featured in the collection. Homer Alonzo Glore (1874-1944) was a doctor, and his son
Louis Harold Glore (1909-1991) worked at Pullman Company 1926-1946 and then had a law practice with his brother Homer A. Glore
(1901-1976). The correspondence and genealogy research of Grover Eugene Barber is included. There is information about the
history of the Cobb County Post Office, the Cobb County Justice of the Peace office, legal cases of the Glore & Glore law
firm, Austell School Board records, and much information about the Pullman Company. Some items collected or purchased by Davis
are unrelated to the families or to Georgia, such as the Charles Gordon estate ledger (1875-1884) from Edinburgh, Scotland
and an 1882 diary of George S. Paine of Lexington, Massachusetts.
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ms3629 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Joseph Emerson Brown Family papers
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Brown family |
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Dates: |
1829-1980 |
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This collection consists of materials documenting the family relations of noted Civil War Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson
Brown. It includes genealogy materials that cover the 18th and 19th centuries, correspondence between family members of different
generations, which discuss typical family business for the time, including typed transcripts of Joseph E. Brown's 1865 letter
to Andrew Johnson requesting release from prison, as well as his sworn agreement not to bear arms against the United States
government. also included are women's diaries, the bulk being the European travel journals of Sally Eugenia Brown, as well
as family financial material such as account books and land documents, as well as stock certificates for a company named posthumously
for Joseph E. Brown. The collectioin also contains printed matter, including clippings and a speech to the Georgia Assembly
that son Joseph M. Brown gave as governor in 1912, and photographs of a few later relatives of the family.
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ms3630 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Crawford Taylor Burgess family papers
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Creator: |
Abbott, Blondine Burgess, 1906-1993 |
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Dates: |
1890s-1993 |
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This collection consists of genealogy and family research beginning with Crawford Taylor Burgess and his descendants. The
papers are primarily genealogical research, correspondence, and photographs of the family gathered together by Blondine Burgess
Abbott and Patsy Burgess Webb.
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ms3883 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Kramer family papers
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Kramer, Lorr Lawrence Washington |
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Dates: |
1919-2005 |
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Consists of materials mostly from the 1960s through the 1990s pertaining to the Kramer family from Atlanta, Georgia. Contains
documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the history of the Atlanta Zen Center. Includes correspondence from
Lorr Kramer's travels around the world in the 1970s. Also includes some of the writings of the Kramer family, as well as genealogy
research.
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ms4053 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Tift family research files
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Creator: |
Fair, John D. |
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Dates: |
20th Century |
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This collection contains notes, correspondence, and copies of documents relating to the Tift family in Georgia, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, and Georgia.
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ms4075 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Title: |
William Gaston Deloney papers
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Creator: |
Deloney, Rosa Huguenin |
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Dates: |
1830s-2017 |
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This collection contains correspondence, genealogical research, photographs, and assorted papers from the Deloney and Huguenin
families.
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ms4082 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Title: |
James M. Adams family history scrapbook
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Creator: |
Adams, James Monroe, 1849-1931 |
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Dates: |
1911-1931 |
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This collection contains a scrapbook of the Adams family history written by James M. Adams of Monroe, Georgia in 1911. The
scrapbook includes a lengthy and detailed autobiographical manuscript describing his life, transcriptions of family letters,
newspaper clippings, a genealogical chart, and detailed biographies of numerous individual family members that include births,
deaths, marriages, and anecdotes.
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ms4267 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Connally family papers
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Creator: |
Connally, Evelyn A. |
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Dates: |
1930-2015 |
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This collection contains Lindsay Allen Connally's address book; Evelyn (Lyn) Connally's autograph book which includes the
autographs of Joe DiMaggio, Bing Crosby, Robert Frost, Dwight Eisenhower, and others; correspondence; newspaper clippings,
photographs from the 51st reunion of the University of Georgia's class of 1927; A. A. Sells' and W. L. Connally's United Daughters
of the Confederacy Southern Cross of Honor medals; printed material; and information on the Connally and MacKenzie families.
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ms4313 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Jessie Anderson Branyon collection of the Long and Swain families papers
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Creator: |
Unknown |
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Dates: |
1808-1934 |
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Collection includes twenty letters from the Long and Swain families discussing family affairs and everyday life. Also included
are documents tracking the genealogical history of these familes, as well as a newspaper clipping, photograph, bank certificate,
proof of burial plot purchase, radio scripts, loose envelopes and Winterville, Georgia hand signs.
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ms4364 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Title: |
Craig and DeRenne family research collection
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Creator: |
Bragg, William Harris |
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Dates: |
2020 |
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This research collection contains photocopies of articles, publications, photographs, and correspondence related to William
Harris Bragg's research and book entitled, An Officer of the Old Guard.
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ms4563 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Title: |
Promised Land collection
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Creator: |
Livsey, Chad |
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Dates: |
1936-2023 |
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This collection contains written and researched history of the Livsey families and the family property know as The Promised
Land in Gwinnett County, Georgia. It also includes photographs and family photo albums.
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ms4567 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Crawford W. Long family papers
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Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878 |
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Dates: |
1842-1939 |
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The collection consists of the papers of Dr. Crawford W. Long and the Long family of Athens, Clarke County, Georgia from 1842-1939.
Includes correspondence, bills, receipts, notes, scrapbooks, and clippings. Early correspondence (1842-1879) is between Long,
his wife Caroline, and daughter Frances. From 1897-1929, the correspondence details efforts of Frances Long Taylor to establish
her father's claim to the first successful use of ether as an anesthetic, including correspondence with Irish physician George
Foy and Allen Smith of the University of Pennsylvania; and memorials to Long. The scrapbooks contain copies of affidavits,
letters, and notes copied by Florence Long Bartow concerning her father's use of ether; genealogical material on the Long,
Swain, and allied families; photographs; and clippings on Long's career and memorials. The collection also contains bills,
receipts, and legal documents for Emma M. Long and the estate of Frances Long Taylor.
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ms49 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Edna Ferguson Tate family papers
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Tate family |
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Dates: |
1758-1958, 1965-1969 |
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The collection consists of items concerning the Tate, Ferguson, and Byrd family history in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia
(Pickens and Gordon counties). Items include: manuscript and typescript chronologies of Edna Ferguson Tate's education,
children's births and family activities (dating 1873-1929); Family history typescript (of Tate, Ferguson, and Byrd); Tate
family in North Carolina by William Tate, Dean of Men.
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ms568 |
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Hargrett Library |
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David Mikel (Michael) family papers
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Unknown |
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Dates: |
1812-1972 |
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The collection consists of a Bible with Mikel family records (1835-1927), Clarke County land deeds (photocopies), correspondence
(photocopies) and genealogies (photocopies) related to the Mikel family. The collection also includes minutes of the Oconee
Baptist Association dated 1867, 1869, 1871, 1873-1880, and 1884.
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Identifier: |
ms827 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Title: |
Stewart family genealogy
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Stuart family |
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Dates: |
18th century |
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The collection consists of a four-page handwritten document that records births, deaths, and marriages of the Stewart family
of Georgia, descendants of John and Susannah Stewart. Much of the information recorded is of the family during the eighteenth
century.
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ms1408 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Luna Holcomb genealogical files
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Creator: |
Holcomb, Luna Thomason, 1891- |
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Dates: |
1925-1950 |
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The collection consists of genealogical materials gathered by Luna Holcomb and sorted through by her distant relative Griffin
Chesser with the help of the genealogist Watson Dyer. The major part of the collection concerns the family names Ingram, Thomason,
and Holcomb. Each family name includes any related correspondence, clippings, maps, names and addresses of researchers, and
research reference sources.
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ms2366 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Howard - Comer genealogical collection
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Creator: |
Howard, Lucy |
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Dates: |
1890-1980 |
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The collection consists of material on the Howard and Randolph family lines of Virginia and Georgia and contains photographs,
correspondence and several copies of other genealogies and several bound volumes. A post card collection has items sent to
Lucy Howard and purchased items, business and legal papers, a copy of a sketch of Cobb Legion Cavalry, photographs of Lucy
Howard, and family bibles. Two oversized folders contain a Callaway Family diagram and a large, framed photograph.
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ms2647 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Rebecca Foy diaries
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Creator: |
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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Identifier: |
ms2787 |
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Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
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