Yellow fever--Mississippi.; Diaries.; Dry Grove (Miss.)--History.; Williams family.
Small journal kept by John Calvin Williams during the yellow fever epidemic in Dry Grove, Mississippi, in 1878. According to the note pasted later into the front of the journal, Williams himself died of the fever on October 31, 1878.
(l to r) Dr. Robert West, Dr. Nancy Hargrove, and MSU First Lady Rhonda Keenum pose for a photograph during the reception and book signing for Dr. Nancy Hargrove.