Z 0844.000 Walton-Purdom Family Papers

These papers contain complete genealogical data concerning the Walton and Purdom families from the earliest days in this county. Other families mentioned and connected by marriage are the Gilliams and Newtons.

Included are extracts from the 1850 census of Green County, Alabama, and Holmes County, along with extracts from the 1880 census of Robertson County, Texas, and Copiah County. The Revolutionary War record of Newell Walton is part of the file.

The correspondence is made up of some excerpts and some complete letters written from Jackson immediately after the fall of Vicksburg, when the Union troops were marching to Jackson.