Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Clarence L. Sivley Papers (Z/0039).
Creator/Collector: Clarence L. Sivley
Date(s): 1892-1943.
Size: 3.00 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, 1954.
Provenance: Gift of Clarence S. Hamilton, of Jackson, MS, on November 14, 1953.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: Clarence L. Sivley Papers (Z/0039), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Clarence L. Sivley

Business and legal papers and correspondence of Clarence L. Sivley, Oxford, and of members of his family. Sivley was the son of William R. Sivley, Rose Hill Plantation, Hinds County, and was born on March 14, 1871, and died on March 13, 1936. He was a member of the legal departments of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company and a member of a law firm in Memphis, Tennessee, known as Sivley, Evans and McCadden, and as Sivley, Evans, and Evans. He was also interested in several plantations in the Mississippi Delta.

 

Scope and Content Note:

Some of the papers pertain to Dr. John Henry Rhodes, Mrs. Ella Sivley Rhodes, John Sivley Rhodes, S. D. Rhodes, Lena Sivley, L. J. Sivley, John S. Hamilton, George S. Hamilton, Dr. William S. Hamilton, Jr., and Dr. William S. Hamilton, Sr. Most of the papers are business and household accounts, and these illustrate conditions during the period of financial distress after 1930.

The papers are distributed by date as follows:
n.d., 100 pieces.
1892–1899, 10 pieces.
1900–1909, 84 pieces.
1910–1919, 85 pieces.
1920–1929, 82 pieces.
1930–1939, 3,098 pieces.
1940–1943, 78 pieces.

The three volumes are:
1. Account book of S. D. Rhodes, Pelahatchie, 1898–1911, pp. 108, 13 x 29.5 cm.
2. Account book of S. D. Rhodes, Pelahatchie (principally records of cotton brought from 1901 to 1906 for W. E. Haynie, Jackson, and Rogers and Wills, Newton), November 20, 1901 – January 31, 1912.
3. Abstract of title of property of Mrs. Minnie C. Sivley in Oxford, dated July 18, 1939 (typewritten), pp. 78.

The following is a list of some of the persons whose correspondence is contained in this collection, together with the number of letters and their inclusive dates:
Percy Bell, Greenville, Mississippi, October 24 and November 9, 1933 (2 letters).
E. C. Craig, Chicago, Illinois, February 5, 1934 – January 9, 1940 (5 letters).
Stone Deavours, Laurel, Mississippi, September 30, 1932 (1 letter).
L. A. Downs, Chicago, Illinois, June 1, 1932 (1 letter).
Marion G. Evans, Memphis, Tennessee, May 21, 1932 – January 15, 1940 (6 letters).
Thomas A. Evans, Memphis, Tennessee, July 26, 1928 – January 18, 1940 (210 letters).
Robert V. Fletcher, Washington, D.C., January 9, 1932, and May 2, 1933 (2 letters).
Charles H. Markham, Chicago, Illinois, November 26, 1929 (1 letter).
A. T. Stovall, Columbus, Mississippi, April 12 and June 30, 1932 (2 letters).
J. T. Thomas, Grenada, Mississippi, October 2, 1935 (1 letter).
William S. Vardaman, Greenwood, Mississippi, November 11, 1928 – November 22, 1939 (15 letters).

 

Series Identification:

Series Description to be completed at a later date.