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Greene County (Ala.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n80083658

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0055
Abstract

A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.

Dates: 1815-1835

Baltzell and Bullock families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0105
Abstract

The papers of two Greene County, Alabama families involved in post-Civil War Alabama politics, including correspondence, a diary, essays, deeds, and financial documents.

Dates: 1839-1921

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

Broadnax, Cleavland, and McKerrill account ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0213
Abstract

Ledger recording purchases by customers at this general store in Eutaw, Green County, Alabama.

Dates: 1866

Cowin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0364
Abstract Photocopies of the diary and essays written by John H. Cowin of Green County, Alabama covering events from 22 April through 13 November 1861 as well as a smaller diary for the month of January 1863. There is also a presidential pardon and oaths of allegiance certificates for Samuel Cowin, as well as photocopies of miscellaneous documents including Alabama tax statements from 1875 and 1877 and newspaper clippings, and a Civil War era Smith and Wesson Model 2 Army revolver. Also in the...
Dates: 1861–1921

Elizabeth Herndon Inge Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0727
Abstract

A letter dated 1 February 1864, written from Inge's home near Forkland, Greene County, Alabama to her sister, A. Tremlet Herndon, in Mobile, asking her to purchase cloth, discussing the paucity of salt, and giving news of family and friends.

Dates: 1864-02-01

Emory Peebles Hildreth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0669
Abstract

Newspaper clippings and a manuscript written by Hildreth

Dates: unknown

Foster Mark Kirksey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0827
Abstract

An extensive collection of business and personal papers and correspondence of this Greene County, Alabama planter, commission merchant, sheriff, and Confederate commissary agent, and his extended family.

Dates: 1795 - 1953

Greene County Union Female Institute, Minutes of the meeting of Citizens of Daniel's Prairie, to... establish the female institute at Burton's Hill

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0394
Abstract

Typescript copy of the minutes of a meeting to establish a female academy at Burton's Hill, Alabama, and the school's constitution and amendments.

Dates: 1836

Patton and Steele Families genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1113
Abstract

Record of Patton and Steele families. Photocopy of a book titled the "John Bunyan Book." Records of Dr. William Patton. Ancestors and descendants of Dr. William Patton, Green County, Alabama. Patton family letters (photocopies) and the will of Alexander Steele. Documents dealing with the genealogy of the Spencer and Nicholls families.

Dates: 1759 - 1890

Samuel Pickens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1148
Abstract

This collection contains Pickens' school notebook, 1858; his friendship book, 1858-59; war letters to his mother; and a typed transcript of his diary, 1862-1865.

Dates: 1858 - 1865