Manuscripts

Z 2117.000 S
ALCORN (WILLIAM ARISTIDES) AND FAMILY PAPERS

Biography:

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.

Z 2115.000 S
ALDRIDGE (FRANCIS MARION) PAPERS, ACCRETION

Z 2114.000 S
LIVESAY (JAMES) AND FAMILY PAPERS

James (Jim) Livesay was born in Virginia around 1919. He was the son of Eugene R. and Miriam B. Livesay. By 1928, the Livesay family was living in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, where Eugene R. Livesay worked as a salesman and later as a special agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Company. Eugene R. Livesay died around 1956.

Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Paul Decell Daughdrill Papers (Z/2113).
Creator/Collector: Paul Decell Daughdrill; and others.
Date(s): 1937; 1942; 1983; n.d.
Size: 1.00 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, Betty Uzman, 2004.
Provenance: Gift of Paul Decell Daughdrill of McComb, MS, on April 19, 1983.

Z 2112.000 S
LAUDERDALE (SAMUEL MORTIMER) PAPERS

Dates: 1864; 1913-1975.

Original materials in boxes 8, 14, 15, and 16 are restricted; reference photocopies and photographic copy prints must be used instead. Oil paintings in box 9 are restricted; permission of manuscripts curator is required for access.

History:

Piney Woods Country Life School

Biography:

Phillips Family

Dates: 1849-1860.

Dates: 1908; 1915; 1939-1946.

Biography:

George Franklin Woodliff