Manuscripts

Dates: 1890-1926.

Biography/History:

Date: 1846.
Original land grant is restricted; reference photocopy must be used instead.

Z 2058.000
CLAIBORNE (WILLIAM CHARLES COLE) LETTER

Dates: 1944; 1946; 1948-1957; 1969.

Biography:

Lester E. Wills

Dates: 1856-1859; 1861; 1865-1922.

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. His father was a War of 1812 veteran and a Mississippi River boatman and boat captain. James Alcorn was later sheriff of Pope County, Illinois, and Livingston County, Kentucky.

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CAMERON (DANIEL C.) LETTER

Daniel C. Cameron, a native of North Carolina, moved from Alabama to Mississippi in the early 1830s with his wife, Elizabeth J. Donald Cameron, who was originally from South Carolina. Camerons brothers still living in Alabama included Hugh and John, while his brother, Allan, had also moved to Mississippi.

Dates: 1857; 1870; 1874; 1878-1882; 1885.
Original letterpress copybook is restricted; reference photocopy must be used instead.

Biography:

William Van Davis

Z 2052.000
BLUNDELLPUGH FAMILY PAPERS

Z 2051.000
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY (MISSISSIPPI DIVISION) RECORDS

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, on September 10, 1894. Its purpose was to be a womens benevolent, historical, literary, monument, and social organization. Members included the wives, widows, mothers, daughters, sisters, and other lineal female descendants of men who rendered military, civil, or other personal service to the Confederacy.