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Abbie M. Brooks diaries and church invitation
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS39f
Scope and Content
This collection contains two diaries of Abigail M. Brooks, which date from 1865 and 1870 along with typed transcriptions of both. In addition, there is an invitation to attend church which dates from 1858. In the 1865 diary, Brooks describes life in rural Tennessee, near Nashville, where she teaches in a one room school house. Later in the year, Abigail moves to Edgefield, Tennessee, also near Nashville, and starts her own school. She describes life in Edgefield, trials with her students,...
Dates:
1858-1870
Eliza and Waldo Jones family and genealogical papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1107
Scope and Content
Eliza Jones accumulated this collection to document the genealogy of her extended families as well that of her husband, Waldo Jones. Materials include correspondence that documents her daily life and views, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and diaries. The collection also contains papers from her and Waldo Jones's extended family. Families represented include the Woolford, Grant, Slaton, Harris, Fitz-Randolph, Martin, Waldo, Winslow, Felder, and Jackson families.
Dates:
1789-1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1970
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- Grant, John Thomas, 1813-1887 1
- Grant, Sallie Fannie (Sarah Frances Reid), 1839-1920 1
- Grant, William Daniel, 1837-1901 1
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- Jones, A. Waldo (Albigence Waldo), 1912-1983 1
- Jones, Eliza Woolford, 1916-1992 1
- Martin family 1
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- Slaton, John M. 1
- Slaton, Martha Lee 1
- Slaton, Sarah Frances Grant, 1870-1945 1
- Slaton, William Franklin 1
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