Z 2171.000 White (Jack Hammons II) and Family Papers

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WHITE (JACK HAMMONS II) AND FAMILY PAPERS

William Henry and Mary Ann Nail Hammons of Ain, Grant County, Arkansas, and Shelby, Bolivar County, Mississippi, had several children, including Lula Hammons Gilmer and Lucy Hammons White, who was married to Frank J. White. The Whites settled in Boyle, Bolivar County, where they had at least four children, including Herman, Jack Hammons, and Mary White and Lucille Hammons White Ryle.

Jack Hammons and Lucille L. White settled in Drew, Sunflower County, Mississippi. The couple had a son, Jack Hammons White II, who was born in April of 1942. He was an associate professor of English and director of the Mississippi State University honors program between 1994 and 2002.

The family-oriented files are typically organized by city and thereunder by folder contents. The files include correspondence, booklets, newsclippings, newsletters, photographs, a ration book, receipts, a social calendar, and a yearbook. The correspondence primarily consists of letters from various Hammons and White family members or their friends between 1885 and 1944. The correspondents wrote from such places as Ain, Arkansas, and Shelby, Bolivar County, and Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, and their letters mainly discuss family news. There are transcriptions of some letters, presumably made by Jack Hammons White II, which contain annotations on family members mentioned in each letter. There is a membership letter of Mrs. Frank J. White from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Shaw, Bolivar County. The financial records include a bankbook of Frank J. White; two receipts and a bill of lading of William Henry Hammons; and two receipts from the Greenwood LeFlore Hospital, Greenwood, Mississippi, regarding infant Jack Hammons White II of Drew, Sunflower County, Mississippi. There are identified and unidentified photographs of members of the Hammons and White families of Bolivar and Sunflower counties, as well as photographs of the community of Boyle. Included are booklets about engagement and wedding etiquette, instructions for expectant mothers, a ration book from World War II, and a social calendar. There are newsclippings concerning Boyle, a yearbook of the Culture Club of Drew, and newsletters from the Mississippi Poetry Society.

The tourism-oriented files are also typically organized by city and thereunder chronologically. Files dating between 1937 and 1956 include postcards and other items relating to Biloxi, Greenville, Greenwood, Jackson, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Places of interest include Beauvoir and the Friendship House Restaurant in Biloxi and the National Military Park in Vicksburg.

1. Files. 1881-1963; n.d. 27 folders.

Box 1, folders 1-24
Box 2, folders 1-3

• Box 1, folders 1-20: family-related files, 1881-1963; n.d.

             folders 21-24: tourism-related files, 1937-1956; n.d.

• Box 2, folder 1: tourism-related files, 1931-1956; n.d.

             folders 2-3: family-related files, n.d.