Benton Bell Seat memoirs
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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
- Creation: 1916, 1939
Creator
- Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
- Seat, Benton Bell (Author, Person)
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
Abstract
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
General
Title on the phase box spine: Memoirs of Benton Bell Seat
Processed by
Haley Aaron and Martha Bace, 2013
Source
- Williams, A. S., III (Donor, Person)
- 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
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository