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Johnston, Forney, 1879-1965. Papers, 1876-1982.

Title: Papers, 1876-1982.

This collection of correspondence and business records documents the various stages of Forney Johnston's private and public life. The genealogy series contains different variations of the Johnston family tree, including the Hooper and Pollard families. The personal and general correspondence, 1901-1977, contains the courtship and marriage letters between Forney and Clara Vernon Cocke, later correspondence with their children Joseph Forney, Paul, Virginia and other Cocke and Johnston relatives. The letters illustrate Ala. and Va. social life, schooling for the children, and family life in general. The general correspondence covers a broad range of legal and political issues, including the "Scottsboro case" and the civil rights movement; the letters from U.S. Representative Frank W. Boykin are of special interest. The business records document legal cases, financial investments, and tax records. Also included are the estate records of Avon Park (Fla.) the Cocke estate of Bremo (Va.) and Lockerbie (Ala.). The series of photographs, printed materials, and scrapbooks contain family photographs, speeches, poetry, school announcements and projects, historical, literary, and patriotic ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 18 cubic ft. (53 archives boxes, four oversized boxes and one oversized folder)

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