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Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Philip H. Burford papers

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0035
Overview This account book spans the years 1817 to 1861 and is a record of payments received for medical services, goods and products, and for the estates of several men, which Philip H. Burford appears to have administered. It also contains several recipes for remedies of ailments such as affected lungs, neuralgia, dropsy and venereal disease. There is no reference to Carroll County in these pages, but the book was found in the attic of the Coleman home on Newnan Street in Carrollton nearly 100...
Dates: bulk 1817-1861

Carroll County Ordinary Court records

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0004
Overview

This collection contains original records from the Court of Ordinary in Carroll County, Georgia, dating from 1868 to 1932. One of the boxes in its entirety contains Highway Department of Georgia proposals and applications for new roads and bridges.

Dates: circa 1868-1932

Confederate States of America Army, Infantry, Cobb's Legion, Company B muster roll

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0025
Overview

The Cobb's Legion Infantry, Company B, of the Confederate States of America, otherwise known as the "Bowdon Volunteers" was formed in 1861 by Charles A. McDaniel, the founder and first president of Bowdon College.

Dates: Approximately 1910

Hargrave Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0014
Overview

This collection consists of original letters and photographs, as well as copies of both, from the Hargrave family of Carroll County, Georgia.

Dates: bulk 1858-1949

Moses Gresham Herrin letter

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0029
Overview

An original letter sent to Mrs. Melindah J. Boyd Groce from Moses Gresham Herrin in Columbus, Mississippi to inform her that her husband, Confederate soldier Lewis Dudley Groce, had died in the Civil War in 1862.

Dates: 1862

Whatley family papers

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0009
Scope and Contents note The collection consists of papers of Vachel Davis Whatley and the Whatley family from ca. 1892-1944. The papers include accounts, sporadic correspondence, daybooks, a diary (1915) of Annice L. Whatley containing clippings and writings, a diary (1933-1937) of Vachel D. Whatley's daily activities, school and attendance records (1908-1912) for Bowdon College (Ga.), and scrapbooks containing clippings and printed material. The materials mainly pertain to Vachel D. Whatley and document his...
Dates: Approximately 1892-1944