Roosters; Poultry; Clay County (Miss.); Young, William L., Captain
Letter from Ben R. Rhett to 'Captain Billy' (William L. Young) at Waverley Plantation in Clay County, Mississippi, regarding a rooster that had been promised to Rhett by Young. Document found at Waverley Plantation in 1936.
Owen family; Brown family; Plantations; Maps; Agriculture; Phillips County (Ark.); Religion
Letter from Richardson Owen, who had moved from Lowndes County, Mississippi, to Helena, Arkansas, to his newly married daughter and son-in-law, Stephen A. and Mary Owen Brown, 1851. Includes a description and hand-drawn map of Owen's plantation in...
African-Americans; Wier, Letha (d. 1923); Wier, Robert K.; Mississippi Extension Service; Blumenfeld and Fried (Starkville, Miss.)
African-Americans waiting near Lampkin Street in Starkville, Mississippi for the train that will take the body of Letha Gilliam Wier, second wife of Robert Wier, to her home town of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Letha G. Wier was a home demonstration...
Knox, James, 1786-1864; Pickens County (Ala.); Presbyterians; Agriculture; Slavery; African-Americans; Somerville, James, 1827-1868; Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.); Sons of Temperance of North America; Cotton; Presbyterian Church...
Diary kept from March 1848 to February 1851 by James Knox (1786-1864), a planter and Presbyterian church elder in Pickens County, Alabama. The diary records planting, harvesting, and other agricultural work, as well as Presbytery meetings and...