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.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.; Williams family.
Dan Williams left a note with this document: "My great grandmother & great grand father gave aid to Civil War soldier trying to find his way home from Vicksburg. This note he left to them."