Wilcox County (Ala.)

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Paper titled Enoch Hooper Cook, Sr., of Wilcox County, Alabama, presented to the Alabama Historical Association by Mrs. Ralph Draughon.

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Ledgers and daybooks of this Catherine, Wilcox County, Alabama, country store, reflecting the economic and social conditions of this rural community from 1911 to 1936

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Typescript copy of an article on General Lafayette's visit to Alabama, subsequently published in the Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 1955), pp. 33-77. The collection also contains carbon copies of the author's transcripts of original documents relating to Lafayette's visit.

Scope and Contents This small collection consists of two manuscript documents concerning the estate of Enoch Burson of Wilcox County, Alabama. The first document, dated 1851, is an inventory listing Burson’s personal property following his death in 1850. Among the items recorded are six enslaved individuals identified by age and/or gender and assigned to various heirs, along with their appraised values. These listings appear alongside other property such as livestock and farming implements. The second...

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This collection consists of an estate inventory and appraisal dated July 21, 1862, documenting the personal property of Elizabeth Vaughn of Wilcox County, Alabama. The central component of the inventory is a detailed listing of twenty-two enslaved individuals, recorded by name, age (from one to fifty-five), and monetary value. The inventory was compiled and sworn to by the estate’s administrator, Hardaway Young, and before Justice of the Peace T.W. Price.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a manuscript estate inventory for Thomas Coker, a deceased resident of Wilcox County, Alabama, dated August 4 and August 11, 1848. The inventory, compiled by court-appointed appraisers, lists over 120 items of personal and real property including livestock, agricultural products, household furnishings, tools, and notably, twenty-five enslaved individuals. Each enslaved person is listed by name and assigned a monetary value ranging from $200 to $800, reflecting...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a rare original broadside charter and one membership certificate for Alabama chapters of the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association of America, dated 1899. The document, printed on a folio broadside (20 x 13.75 inches) with ornate border and varied typography, includes the formal charter text, completed with the names of local chapter officers and signed by three national officers: Rev. D.D. McNairy (President), I.H. Dickerson (General Manager),...

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One ledger from an early 20th century general store in Neenah, Wilcox County, Alabama.

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Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.

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This collection consists of a bound volume, containing a listing of cases, judgements, commissions, and fees for the county, circuit, and chancery courts in Monroe, Montgomery, Mobile, and Wilcox counties, with the bulk of entries relating to Wilcox Count. Also contains entries from the Wilcox County Circuit Court execution docket, 1840-1844.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a single manuscript writ of guardianship dated August 8, 1847, issued in Wilcox County, Alabama. The document appoints Joshua Betts as the legal guardian of his grandson, William Wingate Boggan, following the deaths of William's father, Robert Lowey Boggan, and paternal grandfather, Solomon Boggan. It further specifies that William Wingate Boggan is to inherit an unnamed enslaved African male, referred to in the text as a "negro boy," from Solomon Boggan’s estate....