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Benton Bell Seat memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: W-0013

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a typed copy of Benton Bell Seat's autobiography, which is 192 pages long (actually marked as 191 1/4). Seat wrote the manuscript in 1916, but it was typed and produced in 1936 by the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Dates

  • 1916, 1939

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

None

Biographical / Historical

Benton Bell Seat was born in Trenton, Tennessee, in 1830. He moved to California in 1849 to take part in the gold rush. He then relocated to Texas, becoming a member of Sibley's Texas Brigade. After the Civil War, Seat relocated again, moving to Nicaragua. In 1901, he returned to the United States, moving to Arkansas where he lived with his daughter until his death in 1955.

Source: Seat-Cypert-Hardy-Spore Family Papers Finding Aid, University of Arkansas.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

This collection contains a typed copy of Benton Bell Seat's autobiography, which is approximately 200 pages long. Seat wrote the manuscript in 1916, and it was typed and produced in 1939 by the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Physical Location

The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, The University of Alabama.

Provenance

Gift of A. S. Williams III, 2010

Related Materials

A family collection at the University of Arkansas contains Benton Bell Seat's diaries, correspondence, and additional copies of the memoir. See The Seat-Cypert-Hardy-Spore Family Papers, University of Arkansas Library, Special Collections.

General

Title on the phase box spine: Memoirs of Benton Bell Seat

Processed by

Haley Aaron and Martha Bace, 2013

Subjects

Related Names

Creator

Source

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to Benton Bell Seat memoirs
Status
Completed
Date
September 2013
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository

https://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/
Contact:
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0266
205.348.0513