Z 1235.000 Jones (Archibald K.) and Family Papers

Papers of Archibald K. Jones and members of his immediate family of Port Gibson, Claiborne County. A. K. Jones graduated from the University of Mississippi in the spring of 1860. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jones became an officer with the Claiborne Guards, Company K, Twelfth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, CSA. After the war, Jones became chancery court clerk of Claiborne County. The antebellum home, Collina, was the residence of the A. K. Jones family. Also contained in the collection is the correspondence of Meredith D. Jones, brother of A. K. Jones, who was a doctor in the U. S. Navy. Folder 6 contains the correspondence and papers of Samuel C. Green who died in 1860.