Manuscripts

Dates: 1856-1862.

Biography:

Joseph Douglas Eads and Margaret Jane Treadwell

Biography:

Alonzo Gustavus Mayers

Alonzo Gustavus Mayers was born in Winchester, Wayne County, Mississippi, on March 6, 1821. He was the son of James Mayers (1797-1834) of Richmond, Virginia, and Jane Cole Mayers. James Mayers was judge advocate of the Eleventh Regiment, Mississippi Militia, in 1831, and he was sheriff of Wayne County in 1832.

Dates: 1888-1963; n.d..

Biography:

William Davis Fisher

Dates: ca. 1887-1899.

Biography:

John Ruthven Cameron

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CUSH (JOSEPH M.) PAPERS

Little is known about Joseph M. Cush, the author of the letter in this collection. At the time the letter was written, Cush was apparently living at "Campus, Miss." It is also possible that Cush was originally from, or later lived in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana, as indicated by an annotation in pencil on the verso of the letter.

Dates: ca. 1723-1944.

Biography:

Downs Family

Henry Douglas Downs settled with his wife, Mary Napier Downs, on a plantation belonging to his father, William Downs, in Claiborne and Warren counties in Mississippi in 1798. Their son, Alfred Claiborne Downs, was born on May 16, 1802.

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COMLY (MARY DORIS) CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCRAPBOOK

Date: 1951.

Biography:

William Cuthbert Falkner

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WILLIAMS (HOWARD S.) AND FAMILY PAPERS

Dates: 1873-1995 (scattered); n.d..

Biography/History:

James Lusk Alcorn

James Lusk Alcorn was born at Lusks Ferry, near Golconda, Illinois, on November 4, 1816. He grew up in Kentucky, the eldest of eight children of James and Louisa Lusk Alcorn. The elder James Alcorn was a veteran of the War of 1812, a Mississippi River boatman and boat captain, and eventually sheriff of Pope County, Illinois, and Livingston County, Kentucky.