Manuscripts

Dates: 1956-1969 (bulk 1964-1965)
Size: 0.17 cubic feet

Biography:

Joseph Ruble Griffin

Dates: ca. 1919-1926; 1988; n.d.

Biography:

Florence Latimer Mars

Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Florence Mars Papers (Z/2326).
Creator/Collector: Florence Mars.
Date(s): 1893-2001; n.d.
Size: 1.25 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, Tyson Koenig, 2014.
Provenance: Gift of William Montgomery Mars of Philadelphia, MS, on April 14, 2013; Z/U/2013.032.

Date: 1964.

Dates: 1918-1919; n.d.

Biography:

Edward Allen Harwell

Edward Allen Harwell, who was known by his middle name, was born on March 3, 1894, in Selma, Alabama. He was the son of Thomas E. Harwell, a railroad foreman and machinist, and Mattie E. Allen Harwell. He had one younger sister, Hazel, and one younger brother, Thomas, Jr. The family moved to Mississippi when Allen Harwell was young; in 1900, they were living in Okolona, Chickasaw County, and by 1910 had moved to Jackson, Hinds County.

Dates: 1917-1963; n.d.

Biography:

James Gooden

Biography/History:

Dates: 1950-1951; 1996.

Biography:

Reverend Dwyn M. Mounger

Dates: 1991-2007; n.d.

Biography:

Alice Rae Varnado Harden

Dates: 1860-1864; 1918; n.d.

Biography:

William Gilliam was born on September 14, 1837, the third of six children and oldest son of Henry Gilliam and Elizabeth Wilson Gilliam. His older sisters were Mary Caroline and Susan E. Gilliam. The Gilliams lived near Emory, Mississippi, on the border of Holmes and Carroll Counties. Henry Gilliam was a farmer with $5,500 worth of real estate in 1860.