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Box 1

 Container

Contains 435 Results:

Letter from unsuccessful suitor to Mary Flewellen Shelton, 9/18/1878

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, 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 The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...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: 9/18/1878

Letter from Mary E. Fox to Mary Flewellen Shelton, 1/8/1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, 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 The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...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: 1/8/1879

Invitation from suitor Douglass Ketcham to Fannie Shelton for a dance in Mineola, Texas, 6/10/1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, 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 The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...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: 6/10/1879

Invitation from suitors to Mary Flewellen Shelton, Fannie Shelton and Ms. Thweatt for a dance in Mineola, Texas, 6/18/1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, 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: 6/18/1879

Note from suitor Douglass Ketcham to Fannie Shelton, 6/25/1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, 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: 6/25/1879

Invitation from suitor Douglass Ketcham to Mary Flewellen Shelton, Fannie Shelton and Ms. Thweatt for a dance in Mineola, Texas, c.1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, 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: c.1879

Letter from A. E. Harrington to Mary Flewellen Shelton, 9/14/1879

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, 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: 9/14/1879

Receipt from A. D. Finley to Mrs. Shelton

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 10
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

Calling card of B. H. Hall for Mary Flewellen Shelton

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 11
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

Family correspondence

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 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

John Rhone documents

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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 Matilda G. Rhone to H. G. Landers, 8/2/1843

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13, 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: 8/2/1843

Letter Matilda G. Rhone to H. G. Landers, 10/17/1853

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13, 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: 10/17/1853

Account of John Rhone, Pre-1836

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, 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: Pre-1836

Promissory Note from John Rhone to J. W. Baker (recto); Receipt from J. W. Baker to John Rhone (verso), 11/30/1847 (recto); 5/1/1840 (verso)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, 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: 11/30/1847 (recto); 5/1/1840 (verso)

Receipt from Moses McGuire to John Rhone re: recording the deed from Cooper to Rhone, 8/28/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, 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: 8/28/1838

Legal present of a slave girl Lettie from John Rhone to his daughter Matilda G. Rhone; and typed transcription, 1/23/1843

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, 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: 1/23/1843

Legal document for the purchase of a slave girl Maria from Moses McGuire, Alabama, by John Rhone; and typed transcription, 5/15/1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, 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: 5/15/1854

Receipt from J. F. Thoonze to John Rhone, 11/15/1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, 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: 11/15/1854

Smith County, Texas tax receipt for John Rhone, 2/2/1859

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, 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: 2/2/1859