Marion R. Hemperley papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Marion R. Hemperley papers
Creator: Hemperley, Marion R.
Creator: Goff, John H. (John Hedges), 1899-1967
Inclusive Dates: 1744-1993
Bulk Dates: 1968-1987
Language(s): English
Extent: 4.3 Linear Feet 7 document boxes, 1 half box, 1 oversized box, 1 oversized folder
Collection Number: ms3070
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Marion R. Hemperley was born Sept. 21, 1923 in East Point, Fulton County, Georgia. He was the son of the late George Washington and Francis Lee Luck Hemperley. He was preceded in death by a son, Roy Hemperley. He had served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and was graduated from DeKalb Community College and Georgia State University. He was retired as the Deputy Surveyor General of Georgia at the Georgia Archives and also had served on the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors, State of Georgia. Hemperley was a well known author of a number of books, among them "Placenames of Georgia", "Cities, Towns & Communities of Georgia", "Historical Indian Trails of Georgia", "Georgia's Boundaries" and "Heritage of Georgia Indians". Fayette County Georgia Citizen online, Wednesday, July 22, 1998 http://thecitizennews.com (Retrieved July 15, 2009)

Dr. John H. Goff (1899-1967) was an author and professor emeritus at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to his death in 1967, Dr. Goff gave his collection of historical data to the Georgia Surveyor General Department and a portion of his collection to his friend, Marion Hemperley.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of writings, printed material, maps, clippings, photographs and artifacts. This collection also includes material from Dr. Goff's research including preliminary notes for articles, working copies of Georgia county maps, and the incomplete manuscript for "Off to Alabama ." Dr. Goff asked Hemperley to complete some of his writings and this collection contains research and notes pertaining to this project. Aslo included are stone fragments, pottery fragments, 18th century nails, Civil War bullets, and a 19th century brass spike.

Georgia maps stamped "Dr. John H. Goff Collection" were removed from this collection and added to the county map folders in the Hargrett Library Map Collection.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Marion R. Hemperley papers, ms3070, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2009 June 29.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Photographs and clippings
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1	1	Clippings
1	2	Trentham Spring (Fairburn, GA)

 

2. Subject files
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1	3	Georgia - Brown Springs
1	4	Georgia - Campbell County, 1842-1864
1	5	Georgia - Henry County, 1823
1	6	Georgia - Montgomery County
1	7	Georgia Records Act
1	8	Hemperley
1	9	House Bill #330 re: land use
1	10	Indian names
1	11	Mapping
1	12	Mapping - archives automation
1	13	Mapping -digital cartography
1	14	Mapping - plane coordinate systems
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2	1	Mapping - Barrow County (GA)/Sam Meltz, Land Information System, 1986-1987 February
2	2	Mapping - Barrow County (GA)/Sam Meltz, Land Information System, 1987 April
2	3	Mapping - Barrow County (GA)/Sam Meltz, Land Information System, 1987 May
2	4	Mapping - Barrow County (GA)/Sam Meltz, Land Information System, 1987 June-July
2	5	Mapping - Barrow County (GA)/Sam Meltz, Land Information System, 1987 August-December

 

3. Writings
	Marion Hemperley
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3	1		Atlanta Ferries - Abbott's Ferry
3	2		Atlanta Ferries - Aderhold Ferry
3	3		Atlanta Ferries - Austell Ferry
3	4		Atlanta Ferries - Bakers Ferry
3	5		Atlanta Ferries - Beavers Ferry
3	6		Atlanta Ferries - Blakes Ferry
3	7		Atlanta Ferries - Bomars Ferry
3	8		Atlanta Ferries - Bozemans Ferry
3	9		Atlanta Ferries - Brocks Ferry
3	10		Atlanta Ferries - Brooks Ferry
3	11		Atlanta Ferries - Campbellton Ferry
3	12		Atlanta Ferries - Capps Ferry
3	13		Atlanta Ferries - Carrolls Ferry
3	14		Atlanta Ferries - Collins Ferry
3	15		Atlanta Ferries - Coplin Ferry
3	16		Atlanta Ferries - Cupps Ferry
3	17		Atlanta Ferries - De Foors Ferry
3	18		Atlanta Ferries - Dickens Ferry
3	19		Atlanta Ferries - Dobbs Ferry
3	20		Atlanta Ferries - Foots Ferry
3	21		Atlanta Ferries - Garretts Ferry
3	22		Atlanta Ferries - Gates Ferry
3	23		Atlanta Ferries - Goodwins Ferry
3	24		Atlanta Ferries - Gormans Ferry
3	25		Atlanta Ferries - Green and Howell's Ferry
3	26		Atlanta Ferries - Grogans Ferry
3	27		Atlanta Ferries - Hammonds Ferry
3	28		Atlanta Ferries - Harris Ferry
3	29		Atlanta Ferries - Heards Ferry
3	30		Atlanta Ferries - Henrys Ferry
3	31		Atlanta Ferries - Holcombs Ferry
3	32		Atlanta Ferries - Hoopers Ferry
3	33		Atlanta Ferries - Howells Ferry #1
3	34		Atlanta Ferries - Howells Ferry #2
3	35		Atlanta Ferries - Howells Ferry #3
3	36		Atlanta Ferries - Howells Ferry #4
3	37		Atlanta Ferries - Hutcheson Ferry
3	38		Atlanta Ferries - Islands Ferry
3	39		Atlanta Ferries - Isoms Ferry
3	40		Atlanta Ferries - Jamerson Ferry
3	41		Atlanta Ferries - Jenkins Ferry
3	42		Atlanta Ferries - Jett Ferry
3	43		Atlanta Ferries - Johnsons Ferry
3	44		Atlanta Ferries - Jones Ferry (lower)
3	45		Atlanta Ferries - Jones Ferry (upper)
3	46		Atlanta Ferries - Lathams Ferry
3	47		Atlanta Ferries - Little Ferry
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4	1		Atlanta Ferries - McGinnis Ferry
4	2		Atlanta Ferries - Martins Ferry
4	3		Atlanta Ferries - Mayson and Turners Ferry
4	4		Atlanta Ferries - Medlock Ferry
4	5		Atlanta Ferries - Montgomery Ferry
4	6		Atlanta Ferries - Morris Ferry
4	7		Atlanta Ferries - Neals Ferry
4	8		Atlanta Ferries - Nelsons Ferry
4	9		Atlanta Ferries - Nesbits Ferry
4	10		Atlanta Ferries - Osborne Ferry
4	11		Atlanta Ferries - Paces Ferry
4	12		Atlanta Ferries - Phillips Ferry (lower)
4	13		Atlanta Ferries - Phillips Ferry (upper)
4	14		Atlanta Ferries - Pittman Ferry
4	15		Atlanta Ferries - Powers Ferry (lower)
4	16		Atlanta Ferries - Powers Ferry (upper)
4	17		Atlanta Ferries - Pumpkintown Ferry
4	18		Atlanta Ferries - Randols Ferry
4	19		Atlanta Ferries - Reynolds Ferry
4	20		Atlanta Ferries - Rivertown Ferry
4	21		Atlanta Ferries - Rogers Ferry
4	22		Atlanta Ferries - Johnson Rogers Ferry
4	23		Atlanta Ferries - Sandtown Ferry
4	24		Atlanta Ferries - Smiths Ferry
4	25		Atlanta Ferries - Stills Ferries
4	26		Atlanta Ferries - Turners Ferry
4	27		Atlanta Ferries - Varners Ferry
4	28		Atlanta Ferries - Waits Ferry
4	29		Atlanta Ferries - Wallers Ferry
4	30		Atlanta Ferries - Warsaw Ferry
4	31		Atlanta Ferries - Waters Ferry
4	32		Atlanta Ferries - Watkins Ferry
4	33		Atlanta Ferries - Watsons Ferry
4	34		Atlanta Ferries - Williams Ferry
4	35		Atlanta Ferries - Wilsons Ferry
4	36		Atlanta Ferries - Winns Ferry
4	37		Atlanta Ferries - Woodall and Nesbitt Ferry
4	38		Atlanta Ferries - Words Ferry
4	39		Atlanta Ferries - General material
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5	1		"The Battle of Bloody Marsh"
5	2		"The Creek Indian Seasons and Months"
5	3		Hawkins trip from Etowah to the Hillaubee
5	4		"Legacy of the Cherokee"
5	5		"A New Look at the Cherokee Indian in Georgia"
5	6		"Off to Alabama " - handwritten copy (by Dr. Goff)
5	7		"Off to Alabama " - handwritten copy (by Dr. Goff)
5	8		"Off to Alabama " - typed, Chapter 1
5	9		"Off to Alabama " - typed, Chapters 1-4,6,8-9
5	10		"Off to Alabama " - typed, Chapters 1-6, 8-9
5	11		"Off to Alabama " - correspondence, illustrations, etc.
5	12		Peachtree/pitchtree controversy
	Others
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5	13		Louis DeVorsey
5	14		John H. Goff
5	15		C. T. Trowell

 

4. Printed material
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6		The Atlanta Historical Bulletin. Volume 6, No. 25, 1941 July
6		Basso, Keith H. The Gift of Changing Woman. Anthropological Papers No. 76, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 196, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1966
6		Boyd, Mark F. Historic Sites in and Around the Jim Woodruff Reservoir Area Florida-Georgia. River Basin Survey Papers No. 13, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 169, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1958
6		Bullen, Ripley P. Six Sites Near the Chattahoochee River in the Jim Woodruff Reservoir Area, Florida. River Basin Survey Papers No. 14, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 169, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1958
6		Capron, Louis. The Medicine Bundles of the Florida Seminole and the Green Corn Dance. Anthropological Papers No. 35, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 151, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1953
6		Coker, William S. Historical Sketches of Panton, Leslie and Company. Pensacola: University of West Florida, 1976
6		Davis, Robert Scott, Jr. "A guide to Native American (Indian) research sources at the Georgia Department of Archives and History", 1985
6		Deluxe Small Homes. Topeka: L. F. Garlinghouse Company
6		Edwards, Everett. Agriculture of the American Indians. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1933
6		Edwards, Everett. References on the Significance of the Frontier in American History. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1935
6		Fenton, William N. and John Gulick (ed.) Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois Culture. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 180, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1961
6		Gilbert, William H. Jr. The Cherokees of North Carolina: Living Memorials of the Past. Smithsonian Report for 1956, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1957
6		"A guide to the genealogy/local history section of the state library of Pennsylvania" Pennsylvania Department of Education, 1985
6		Hawkins, Col. Benjamin. The Creek Country. Americus:Americus Book Company, 1938
6		Hewitt, J. N. B. Notes on the Creek Indians. Anthropological Papers No. 10, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 123, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1939
6		Kelly, A. R. A Preliminary Report on Archeological Explorations at Macon, Georgia. Anthropological Papers No. 1, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 119, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1938
6		Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts and Jack Frederick Kilpatrick. Chronicles of Wolftown: Social Documents of the North Carolina Cherokees, 1850-1862. Anthropological Papers No. 75, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 196, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1966
6		Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick (ed.) The Wahnenauhi Manuscript: Historical Sketches of the Cherokee. Anthropological Papers No. 77, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 196, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1966
6		Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick, Eastern Cherokee Folktales: Reconstructed from the Field Notes of Frans M. Olbrechts. Anthropological Papers No. 80, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 196, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1966
6		Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick and Anna Gritts Frederick. Muskogean Charm Songs Among The Oklahoma Cherokees. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1967
6		Kolomoki Indian Mounds
6		Kupferer, Harriet Jane. The "Principal People," 1960: A Study of Cultural and Social Groups of the Eastern Cherokee. Anthropological Papers No. 78, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 196, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1966
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7		Mauelshagen, Carl and Gerald H. Davis (ed.) Partners in the Lord's Work. Atlanta: Georgia State College, 1969
7		The New Yankee Collection, 1993. New Yankee Workshop brochure
7		Ocmulgee National Monument. United State Department of the Interior. National Park Service, 1961
7		Pope, G. D. Jr. Ocmulgee. Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1961
7		Sears, William H. The Wilbanks Site (9CK-5) Georgia. River Basin Survey Papers No. 12, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 169, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1958
7		Stewart, T. D. A Reexamination of the Fossil Human Skeletal Remains from Melbourne, Florida. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, Volume 106, No. 10. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1946
7		The Story [of Mullins] Salem, Ohio: Mullins Manufacturing Company, 1947
7		Swanton, John R. Modern Square Ground of the Creek Indians. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 85, No. 8, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1931
7		Tresp, Lothar L. "Pastor Bolzius Reports". The American-German Review (photocopy), 1963 April-May
7		Winn, Bill. The First Georgians. Columbus: Education Department of Columbus Junior Woman's Club, 1968
7		Woodworker's Handbook (pages 9-126 only)
7		Loose picture pages of historic Georgia published by the Department of Archives and History and the Georgia Historical Society, n.d.
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8		"The Battle of Bloody Marsh" by Marion R. Hemperley, Atlanta Journal, 5/9/71
8		Georgia Calendar 1988-1989 by C&S Bank featuring Georgia scenes
8		Calendar 1959, Currier and Ives prints
8		Calendar 1986, old maps, te Neues Publishers
8		Atlanta scenes by Ben Shute, from First National Bank of Atlanta
8		Atlanta scenes, from 100th anniversary of First National Bank of Atlanta
8		Georgia's Maps Through the Years 1733-1983, Department of Transportation
8		Decorative Old Maps of the 16th,17th and 18th Centuries
8		Georgia's Boundaries - poster, 1993
8		Chart of heraldry symbols

 

5. Drawings

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Drawings by Roy Hemperley (2), 1964-1967

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Architectural drawings of the Capitol Building, Atlanta, Georgia (2)

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Unidentified diagram

 

6. Newspapers

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Augusta Herald , 1819 (4 pages)

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Bahama Gazette , 1813 (4 pages)

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The Chronicle & Constitutionalist , 1877 (4 pages)

 

7. Documents

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Genealogical table of the Washington family

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James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (5)

 

8. Maps
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8		Survey of Mrs. G. W. Hemperley property, Fulton County, GA, 1946
8		Tracing of subdivision of Hemperley Estate, 1939
8		Land lot plats, District 9, Fayette County, now Fulton County GA, fragments
8		Key to county map rolls
8		Fayette County, GA
8		Barrow County, GA, Saddlebrook Farms survey, 1986
8		Fulton County, GA (3)
8		Douglas County, GA
8		Campbell County, GA
8		Coastal Georgia - land plat, 1773
8		Georgia and Alabama  post offices and post roads, 1835 (4 parts)
8		Part of Cobb and Fulton Counties, GA, 1864
8		Civil War Georgia - Atlanta Campaign (2 pages)
8		Georgia Early Road and Trails, 1730-1850 (3)
8		Georgia, 1887
8		Neueste Karte von Georgia, 1845
8		Georgia - original and 1895 counties and land lot districts (12)
8		Creek Territory - Alabama , 1833 (2 parts)
8		Creek Nation 1757 by William Bonar
8		Cherokee Country 1831 by John Bethune (2 parts)
8		Cherokee Nation and Traders' Path to Charlestown 1730 by George Hunter
8		Carolina. Western. 1751 by George Haig (4 parts)
8		Alabama  (southern portion)1820 (2 parts)
8		Alabama  1819 by John Melish
8		South Carolina 1744 by John Herbert and George Hunter (2 parts)
8		Carte Generale Des Estats Unis
8		Early Roads and Trails (negative)
8		Colonial Georgia (negative)
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1C		Map of portion of North Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee / Geological survey map of Georgia by A. F. Hassan, 1932

 

9. Artifacts
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9	1	Pottery fragments, Banks County (Ga.)
9	2	Brass spike from C.S.S. Nashville ("Rattlesnake") sunk on February 28, 1863 in the Ogeechee River
9	3	Civil War bullets (2)
9	4	Nails from Fort Lamar, Madison County (Ga.), 1792
9	5	Unidentified stone fragments