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Box 1

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Letter from Enos R. Flewellen to Frances F. Cary; and typed transcription, 7/19/1857

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 7/19/1857

Partial letter (pages 2-5) from unknown to Mollie (Mary Martha “Molly” Flewellen??) re: family, black servants, 5/25/1890

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 5/25/1890

Letter from J. J. Cary to Frances Cary; and typed transcription, 10/23/1856

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 10/23/1856

Partial Letter from J. J. Cary re: Presidential politics and democracy; and typed transcription, 1856

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1856

Bill from Moss to Mrs. Cary; and Sponge Cake Recipe, 7/12/1878

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 7/12/1878

Letter from J. H. Hickey (Husband of Mary Cary Flewellen) to Frances Flewellen Cary, 3/1891

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the File:

Note: See Bundle 1 for 5/14/1906 Newspaper Obituary of Frances Caroline Flewellen Cary written by J. H. Landers; and an Obituary (handwritten copy) of George Cary

Dates: 3/1891

10-page recipes booklet (Ellen Landers thought it was possibly of Cary or Shelton origin), 1800s

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1800s

Funeral Notice of J. W. Shelton, 2/7/1865

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the File:

Note: See Bundle 1 for 6/20/1863 Rusk County, Texas Deed from M. D. Eaton to James W. Shelton; and 7/2/1864 Letter from John James (cotton agent) to James W. Shelton

Dates: 2/7/1865

Letter from James H. Landers to his sons, Doug and Malcolm Landers, 5/25/1904

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 5/25/1904

Letter from June Dowdy to Ellen Landers re: family history

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Receipt from the First National Bank of Mineola to 3 individuals. Signed by M. H. Landers, City Attorney, 6/8/1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 6/8/1900

Letter from John Calvin Drake to J. W. Shelton, 2/2/1862

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 2/2/1862