Z 0542.000 Morris (Mrs. Jane T.) Papers

Business papers of Mrs. Jane T. Morris, who operated a boarding house in Jackson and who was the widow of John Morris, who was born in Durham County, England, on March 5, 1826, who was an engineer with the Southern Railroad, and who died at Lake on October 13, 1865. The papers include:

• a contract dated December 27, 1865, by which Mrs. Morris rented a house on the east side of State Street below Tombigbee Street from Edward Dawkins
• a contract dated February 8, 1867, by which Mrs. Morris rented a house in Square 8 South from Harrison Taylor
• obituaries of John Morris from the Jackson News & Mississippian of March 16, 1866
• advertising in the Clarion on April 14, 1867, announcing that Mrs. Morris had moved to a new house on the corner of President and Tombigbee streets
• receipt dated October 16, 1866, and signed by Mayor D. N. Barrows for a lot in the City Cemetery where John Morris was buried
• receipts from the Mississippian office dated March 16 and September 15, 1866
• receipt of S. G. Newcomer and Co. (S. G. Newcomer, Thomas Helm, and Joseph C. Kittrell) dated November 1, 1866
• eight receipts from the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad dated November 9, 1866, to September 16, 1869
• two receipts from the Southern Railroad dated March 15 and 31, 1867
• six receipts of the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad dated from August 27, 1867, to August 17, 1869
• receipts from Robinson, Stevens and Co. (J. W. Robinson, J. P. Stevens, and C. L. Robinson) dated February 16 and June 2, 1869
• receipt from T. C. Newcomer, dated March 20, 1867
• receipt from S. Lemly and Son dated June 1, 1868
• deposit receipts from Green's Banking Office dated June 1 and July 1, 1870
• various receipts for licenses and taxes