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The collection consists of papers of the Murrell family of Oxford (Newton County, Ga.) and Winterville (Clarke County, Ga.)
and includes correspondence, business papers, receipts, and account books. The correspondence consists of seven Civil War
era letters (1863-1865) to and from George Washington Harlan Murrell, but the majority consists of letters to Ermine and Elizabeth
Murrell in Winterville (Ga.) from family and friends. The business papers contain receipts and indentures pertaining mostly
to George Washington Harlan Murrell and George T. Murrell. The collection also contains reminiscences of George T. Murrell
regarding his imprisonment at Point Lookout Prison (Md.) during the Civil War, receipts, individual photographs of the Emory
University graduating class of 1900, and numerous account books relating to various businesses owned by the Murrell family
in Walton and Newton Counties.
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