Pauline Jones Gandrud papers
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Scope and Contents
The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other materials. The collection also contains a list of military pension and bounty land applications. In addition to her research materials and other items relating to genealogy, the collection includes her personal and family correspondence and family photographs.
Dates
- Creation: 1900 - 1980
Creator
- Gandrud, Pauline Myra Jones (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
none
Conditions Governing Use
none
Biographical / Historical
Pauline Jones was born May 9, 1904, in Huntsville, Alabama. Her parents were George Walter and Evalena (Moore) Jones. She married Bennie William Gandrud on November 29, 1930. She had one son, William Bentley Gardner. She studied at Peabody Conservatory from 1922-1924. A well-known genealogist, she sold copies of her Alabama records to libraries and other institutions; bound copies of her findings were also published.
Mrs. Gandrud had lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for fifty years when she died in September 1980.
She was the younger sister of Walter Bryan Jones, Alabama State Geologist and head of the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
Source: http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/
Extent
109 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other information created and gathered by this Alabama genealogist. The collection also contains a list of military pension and bounty land applications.
Provenance
Gift of Gandrud family, 1981; new deed of gift in 2012 transfers copyright to the University of Alabama
Porcessed by
Processed by Richard Owens; updated by Donnelly Walton, March 2013; updated by Martha Bace, April 2013
Subject
- Gandrud, Bennie William (Person)
- Gardner, William Bentley (Person)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Pauline Jones Gandrud Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2012
- 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