Tensas Parish (La.)--History.; Natchez (Miss.)--History.; Waterproof (La.)--History.; Saint Joseph (La.)--History.; Plantation life--Louisiana--History--19th century.; Slavery--United States--History--19th century.; Levees--Louisiana.;...
Diary kept by plantation owner Zenas Preston from 1850-1853. Preston's plantation, Leftwich, was situated on Lake St. Peter in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, and Preston describes frequent trips to Waterproof, Saint Joseph, and Natchez via the...
Darden, John P.; Laughman, Samuel.; Carradine & Newman (Firm: Jefferson County, Miss.); Darden, David M.; Darden, Samuel W.; Slaves--Mississippi--Jefferson County--Bills of sale.
Bill of sale from Jefferson County sheriff Sam Laughman to John P. Darden for 8 slaves sold at legal auction: Jake, wife Esther, and children Henry and Alexander; and Brister, wife Ann, and children Green and Margaret.
Darden, John P.; Laughman, Samuel.; Maunsel White & Co. (Firm: Jefferson County, Miss.); Darden, David M.; Slaves--Mississippi--Jefferson County--Bills of sale.
Bill of sale from Jefferson County sheriff Sam Laughman to John P. Darden for 3 slaves sold at legal auction: Henry, Sarah, and Caroline.
Nash, Ira Marion, 1843-1862; Nash, John Jasper Newton, 1829-1911; Nash, James H., 1844-1890; Nash, Wiley Norris, 1846-1906; Nash, Stephen Evans, 1807-1863; Nash, Ira Norris, 1805-1863; Nash family; Civil war; United States; Confederate States of...
Letter, E. J. (Elvira Jane) Nash, probably from the home of her uncle Ira Norris Nash in Neshoba County, Mississippi, to cousin Carrie concerning her desire for news of her brother Jimmy serving in Wirt Adams Cavalry Regiment, news of the Battle of...
Sykes family; Winona (Miss.); Civil war; United States; Slavery; African-Americans; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Confederate States of America; Sykes, James William, 1810-1885
Letter from William Sykes in Winona, Mississippi, to James Sykes, bemoaning the reelection of Abraham Lincoln, the end of his hopes for peace, and the impoverished and demoralized state of the Confederacy. He mentions the murder of a Captain...
Cotton trade--Mississippi--Holmes County.; Cotton trade--Louisiana--New Orleans.; Nathan, A. M. (Asher M.)
10 October 1846 letter from C. E. Mount to A. Spell seeking information about the next cotton shipment and his plans for paying off his debt to A.M. Nathan.
Britt Simmons family farm; multiple views. Farm of 80 acres owned and 40 rented about a mile off highway 48 in the Woodrow Community. Pike Co. Agricultural Extension staff assisted with selection of family.
Sunflower Co. (Miss.) ; Baird, George E., Jr.--Family. ; African-Americans--Mississippi--Sunflower County--Photographs.;farm life--Mississippi.
George E. Baird, Jr. family farm; multiple views. Farm of 820 acres two and a half miles northwest of Inverness, MS just off highway 49 west. Sunflower Co. Agricultural agent Cecil Black and Assistant county agent Carl Robinson assisted with...
Sunflower Co. (Miss.) ; Baird, George E., Jr.--Family. ; African-Americans--Mississippi--Sunflower County--Photographs.;farm life--Mississippi.
George E. Baird, Jr. family farm; multiple views. Farm of 820 acres two and a half miles northwest of Inverness, MS just off highway 49 west. Sunflower Co. Agricultural agent Cecil Black and Assistant county agent Carl Robinson assisted with...
Britt Simmons family farm; multiple views. Farm of 80 acres owned and 40 rented about a mile off highway 48 in the Woodrow Community. Pike Co. Agricultural Extension staff assisted with selection of family.
Lincoln Co. (Miss.) ; Taylor, W. L.--Family. ; African-Americans--Lincoln County, Miss.--Photographs.;farm life--Mississippi.
W. L. Taylor family farm; multiple views. Farm of 200 acres located just off old highway 51 about a mile south of Brookhaven, MS. W. L. Taylor is MSU alumnus. Lincoln Co. agent Travis Tadlock assisted with selection of farm family.
Reinhold Artman family; multiple views. Farm of 87 acres off highway 24, west of McComb. Pike Co. agent George Mullendore assisted with selection of farm family.
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...
Attala Co. (Miss.) ; Aldy, Henry W.--Family.;farm life--Mississippi.
Henry W. Aldy family farm; multiple views. Farm of 162 and one half owned acres and 808 rented acres in Harmonia Community five miles south of Sallis in Attala Co. The Attala County Extension Service staff assisted with selection of farm family.