Manuscripts
Joan Harris Trumpauer Civil Rights Scrapbooks (Z/2274)
Dates: 1961-1964.
Biography:
Joan Harris Nelson Trumpauer
Elizabeth Augusta Murdock Sykes Cox (Z/2273)
Dates: 1859-1864.
Biography:
Elizabeth Augusta Murdock, only child of Abram and Grace A. Murdock, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 25, 1841. A year after her birth, the family moved to Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, where Abram Murdock worked as president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and also as a merchant.
Henry Bascom Collins Letters (Z/2272)
Dates: 1923-1958.
Biography:
Henry Bascom Collins, Jr.
David Hunt Letter (Z/2271)
Date: 1831.
Biography:
David Hunt
On October 22, 1779, David Hunt was born at Ringoes, near Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. After the death of his father, Jonathan Hunt, in 1801, David Hunt moved to Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi Territory, to work for his uncle, Abijah Hunt, in the mercantile firm of Hunt and Smith.
Z 2270.000 Ku Klux Klan Kloran
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KU KLUX KLAN KLORAN
Biography/History:
The Original Knights of Louisiana, an independent klan organization, established a klavern (chapter) in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, around October 1962. The Natchez klavern split from the Original Knights of Louisiana and assumed the name of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi in February 1964. The organization elected Samuel Holloway Bowers as imperial wizard in April 1964, and he served for five years.
Confederate Memorial Association (Natchez, Miss.) Minute Book (Z/2269)
Dates: 1887-1923.
Original newsclippings in folder 4 are restricted; reference photocopies in folder 1 must be used instead.
Ferrell Family Papers (Z/2268)
Dates: 1900-1905; ca. 1917-1919; n.d.
Witt Family Papers (Z/2267)
Dates: 1904-1910; 1928; 1951-1954; n.d.
Biography:
Clarence D. Witt and Helen A. Moyse
Clarence D. Witt and Helen A. Moyse were married in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, on April 7, 1904. They resided in Greenville where at various times Clarence Witt worked as a clerk, a cotton factor, and as a salesman for Bloom and Goldstein, Memphis Paper Company, and Southland Paper Company. The Witts had two daughters: Leona Flora and Sadie Louise.
Z 2266.000 Bachman (William Henry) Manuscript
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BACHMAN (WILLIAM HENRY) MANUSCRIPT
Biography/History:
Pine Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church Session Book (Z/2265)
Dates: 1863-1897.
History:
Pine Grove Community and Pine Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church
The community of Pine Grove, Mississippi, was settled in 1852. It is located between Ashland and Hickory Flat, in what was then on the border of Marshall and Tippah counties, and is now Benton County, Mississippi. It may be the community where Pine Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church was located. The church was active as early as 1863.