Wiley Albert Cash papers
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Wiley A. Cash’s finances, state records, legal contracts, and family correspondence. Financial records include household and business expenses, especially with Evens Implement Company, Wofford Oil Company, and C.P. Suber General Merchandise; legal records include documentation about a family dispute about estate inheritance and a land contract with neighbor George McIntosh. The collection also contains a genealogy of the Cash family and a 1928 Emory University pamphlet. Of particular note are letters exchanged between Cash and his wife during their courtship.
Dates
- 1899-1978, undated
Creator
- Brickell, Cora, 1873-1961 (Person)
- Cash, Wiley, 1877-1967 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.
Biographical / Historical
Wiley Albert Cash (1877-1967) was born in Fulton County, Georgia, to John H. Cash (1837-1923) and Mary C. Eidson (1856-1933). He married Cora L. Brickell (1873-1961) in 1902, and they had two children, Francis K. Cash (1909-2003), and Wiley M. Cash (1908-1924). Cash owned a dairy farm in Fulton County and Cora worked as a dressmaker.
Extent
0.52 linear ft. (one document case)
Language
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by titles supplied by staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 2005
Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2021
- Agriculture -- Georgia -- Fulton County
- C.P. Suber General Merchandise
- Cash family
- County courts -- Georgia -- Fulton County
- Dairy farm -- Georgia -- Fulton County
- Emory University
- Evans Implement Company
- Farm equipment -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Farm supplies -- Georgia -- Fulton County
- Farmers -- Georgia -- Fulton County
- Fulton County (Ga.) -- Rural conditions
- Love-letters -- Georgia
- Wofford Oil Company
- Title
- Wiley Albert Cash papers
- Subtitle
- ahc.MSS1216
- Author
- Corinne Roth
- Date
- November 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository