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Box 1578

 Container

Contains 8 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook

 File — Box: 1578, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a notebook of law cases.
Dates: 1859

Record book

 File — Box: 1578, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a record book listing deeds made, executed, and delivered in Montgomery County, Alabama, between 1863 and 1878. One interesting entry is a deed to the United States "for a burying ground for United States Soldiers" dated July 14, 1866. The book was originally to be used for recording registration oaths.
Dates: 1863-1878

Papers, 1764 - 1864

 File — Box: 1578
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A family bible containing birth and death entries for members of the Jones and Matheson families, plus clippings of obituaries and of poems published by Sallie Jones.
Dates: 1764 - 1864

Papers, 1955 - 1967

 File — Box: 1578
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A 1955 letter written to T. H. Bethea, furnishing information about Smith's family, and a newspaper clipping reporting his death.
Dates: 1955 - 1967

Papers, 1843 - 1855

 File — Box: 1578
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Ledger sheets of accounts recording the sale of lumber, flour, corn, and other commodities. The collection also contains poems written by and arithmetic exercises done by Frances Johnson Keene.
Dates: 1843 - 1855

Records

 Item — Box: 1578
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a miscellany of materials pertaining to the 38th Virginia Infantry Regiment, including muster rolls of Company A, a special order naming hospital stewards, a certificate of disability, and a list of payment and clothing issued.
Dates: 1862-1864

Policy

 File — Box: 1578, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a Central City Fire Insurance Company policy dated 22 December 1881, taken out by Mary M. Foster of Clayton, Alabama, on her "frame dwelling house part one & half story & part one story, & dining room & kitchen attached, occupied by her..."
Dates: 1881 December 22

Monroe F. Cockrell research notes

 File — Box: 1578
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.
Dates: 1949-1956