Box 1
Container
Contains 435 Results:
Family documents
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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 The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...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
Letter from J. W. Shelton to his wife Sarah Alice Cary re: traveling; and typed transcription, 2/5/1860
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 1
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 The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...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:
2/5/1860
Postcard from Sara Alice Shelton to daughter Mary Flewellen Shelton, 1879
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 2
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 The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...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:
1879
Letter from “Grandma” Sara Alice Cary Shelton to Grandma Landers re: family; and typed transcription, 4/11/1879
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 3
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:
4/11/1879
Letter from Mary Shelton to Mrs. J. H. Landers, 4/26/1884
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 4
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:
4/26/1884
Receipt from J. M. Robins to Sarah Alice Cary Shelton for rent, 5/30/1889
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 5
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:
5/30/1889
Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton to Malcolm and Doug re: family and smallpox, 3/21/1904
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 6
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:
3/21/1904
Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton to Doug and Malcolm Landers re: family, 5/7/1904
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 7
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:
5/7/1904
Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton, 3/9/1905
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 8
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:
3/9/1905
Letter from Sarah Alice Cary Shelton to her grandson Malcolm Landers, 10/22/1905
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, Item: 9
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:
10/22/1905
Rusk County, Texas Deed from M. D. Eaton to James W. Shelton, 9/19/1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 1
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:
9/19/1863
Receipt from the Estate of James W. Shelton to Martin Casey for rent of a house for 5 months, 1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 2
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:
1863
Bill of cotton sale to James W. Shelton, 5/25/1863
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 3
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:
5/25/1863
Note from John James to James W. Shelton, 1/17/1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 4
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:
1/17/1864
Partial Letter from James W. Shelton to John James re: cotton shipments, 3/14/1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 5
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:
3/14/1864
Letter from John James to James W. Shelton re: cotton shipment, 5/13/1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 6
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:
5/13/1864
Memo re: cotton shipment to James W. Shelton, 5/17/1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 7
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:
5/17/1864
Letter from Cotton Office, Austin, to James Shelton, 7/7/1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 8
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:
7/7/1864
Receipt for 20 bales of cotton from Thomas F. McKinney to John James, 8/1/1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 9
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:
8/1/1864
Letter from the Austin Cotton Office to James Shelton, 9/3/1864
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 10
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:
9/3/1864
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