Family
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85047009
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Album of quotations
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0058
Overview
Album containing handwritten quotations from the Bible, classical authors, and sources, as well as two handwritten copies of notices from the "Times" and "Tuscaloosa Gazette" (1881).
Dates:
[187?]-1881
Alison family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0062
Abstract
Genealogical information, including typewritten booklets on various families. Individual folders are labeled with family names. The collection includes correspondence, photocopies, and photographs.
Dates:
after 1800
M. E. Allan letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0063
Overview
Letter dated 30 September 1855, to "Dear Cousin," from Bald Hill, Georgia, discussing family news, crops, children, and illnesses and deaths among family and slaves.
Dates:
1855 September 30
Austin family collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0095
Abstract
A collection of genealogical information on the Austin, Hutto, Lambert and Knox families. It also contains family correspondence, photographs, and legal documents.
Dates:
1887-1980
Mamie L. Barnett letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0115
Abstract
A letter dated 7 June 1928 from Barnett to her brother Frank.
Dates:
1928 June 7
Harvey Beeson letters and photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0129
Abstract
Letter and photographs relating to Harvey Beeson’s ancestors in Michigan, August 1939.
Dates:
1939
Henry R. Benagh letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0136
Abstract
A letter containing genealogical information about the Benagh family.
Dates:
1951
Sam Bennett letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0138
Abstract
An 1848 letter written from Chickasaw, Alabama, to his cousin in Tuscumbia, Alabama, discussing the weather of the "sunny South," temperance, sailing to New Orleans, and various family matters.
Dates:
1848 May 7
Winafred Bird letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0158
Abstract
A letter from Bird dated 5 May 1822, from Lower Salem, Sumter District, South Carolina to her son John Goodson Falls of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Bird asked that he visit her and that she might join him in Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1822 May 5
A. M. Blair letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0169
Abstract
A letter dated 30 November 1843, to Blair's brother Edwin in Williamstown, Massachusetts, describing a sea voyage from New York, to Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1843 November 30
Olin Boggess Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2004
Overview
One letter from Olin Boggess, of Lakeland, Florida, to his brother Walter. The letter concerns a trip of Olin's.
Dates:
1929 June 20
Bogy and Smith Families genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract
A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
undated
Amelia Boswell letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0190
Abstract
Letter dated 13 August 1847, from Boswell of El Dorado, Arkansas, to her cousin, Elizabeth A. Boswell of Pike County, Alabama, discussing the health of family members, crops, and weather.
Dates:
1847 August 13
Charles Mitchell Burford letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0231
Overview
Letter written by Burford, dated 20 October 1847, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to his brother in Summerfield [Alabama?]
Dates:
1847 October 20
Rosa Lee Busby papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0240
Overview
Genealogical research and papers compiled by Busby
Dates:
unknown
I. M. Clark letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0308
Overview
Letter dated 28 July 1861, from "Clover Bottom" (near Huntsville) to his sister, giving news of crops and weather, and stating his desire to join the army.
Dates:
1861 July 28
Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr., letter and biographical sketch
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0309
Overview
Letter written from Tuscaloosa in 1834, to his aunt, Mrs. Robert W. Withers of Erie, Greene County, Alabama, and a biographical sketch, author and date unknown, which includes information on Clay's political career, wedding, and friends.
Dates:
circa 1834
Elizabeth Clitherall letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0320
Abstract
Letter dated 30 July 1863, from Mobile, to her cousin Ann Greenough Burgwyn in North Carolina, extending sympathy on death of Burgwyn's son, Henry King Burgwyn, at Gettysburg, and expressing anti-war sentiments
Dates:
1863 July 30
Dall-Tardy Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4157
Overview
Letters from members of the Dall and Tardy families of Baltimore, Maryland, and Mobile, Alabama, written between 1840 and 1908.
Dates:
1840-1908
Jim Edwards papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2936
Overview
Contains correspondence letters of Jim Edwards written to his family and friends, mostly containing information about his daily life. Also contains his grade reports during his time at Miami University, 1934-1938.
Dates:
1934-1947
T. J. Farmer family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0504
Overview
Miscellaneous correspondence, mostly among members of this Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, farm family, and an 1876 grade report from Alabama Central Female College.
Dates:
1853-1898
H. P. and Elisa K. Fleischman Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0521
Overview
Letters of a commission merchant in the Caribbean and on the Mississippi River, and his family.
Dates:
1827-1850
Francis Bugbee papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0228
Overview
Consists principally of personal correspondence from Francis Bugbee's family and close friends concerning family and personal news. as well as genealogical materials relating to the Bugbee family and many other Massachusetts and Connecticut families. There is very little business correspondence or any information concerning his years as trustee, judge, or legislator.
Dates:
1818-1879; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1820
Jefferson Franklin Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0736
Overview
This collection contains the letters of correspondence, financial papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa invitation.
Dates:
1847 - 1921
John Cocke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview
Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates:
1810-1899
Macon and Miles Abernathy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0003
Overview
This collection consists Abernathy family correspondence discussing the outbreak of the Civil War and the return of Macon, a University of Alabama student, to his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama, to enlist in a local company. Also contains an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles W. Abernathy.
Dates:
1861 - 1878
Letter from Maria to Martha
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0462
Overview
Letter dated 25 December 1885, from Maria in Wentworth, New Hampshire, to her cousin Martha in Laconia, New Hampshire.
Dates:
1885 December 25
Earl McGowin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0955
Overview
Contains family papers and business records.
Dates:
Unknown
Pauline Jones Gandrud papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0555
Overview
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.
Dates:
circa 1900-1980
Pettigrew Family Carte de Visite
Collection
Identifier: 2014-026
Abstract
Carte de visite (CDV) of the Pettigrew family, along with an African American woman and a young boy.
Acc # 015-008
Dates:
circa 1866
Laleah G. Pratt letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1162
Abstract
A letter dated 15 September 1840, to a cousin describing the death of Professor Horace S. Pratt of the University of Alabama. The collection also includes other material on Pratt and his family.
Dates:
1840 September 15
Russell F. Trask letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1993
Abstract
Letters written mainly to Russell F. Trask, E.M. 1/c aboard the U.S.S. Apollo (A.S. 25) by his wife, LeElda “Lee” Trask of Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Some of the letters are written to Trask by his mother and other family member. Twenty-eight of the letters are written to Lee by Trask.
Dates:
1945
Tucker family records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1423
Abstract
Contains records of births, marriages, and deaths.
Dates:
circa 1800-1952
William B. Shirdan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1266
Abstract
Letters from this African American soldier who served in the 310th Quartermaster Railhead Company during World War II to his family in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945
Sterling Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1570
Overview
Contains notes, photograph albums, scrapbooks, notebooks, research notes, geneaology notes, family records, wills and letters on the Wood family from the 1860's-1972.
Dates:
1860-1972