Lavender R. Ray family collection 1867-1900 1877-1892 Ray, Lavender R. family collection

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Lavender R. Ray family collection 1867-1900 1877-1892 Ray, Lavender R. family collection

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This collection contains personal letters between Lavender Ray, his wife Annie, and their daughter Ruby. Most of their correspondence concerns family news and life in Newnan and Americus, Georgia; and at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia.

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Ray, Lavender R., 1842-1916.

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Lavender R. Ray, lawyer, businessman, and legislator, was born 15 December 1842, in Newnan, Georgia, and died there 27 May 1916. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Ray joined the Newnan Guards (Company A, Georgia Infantry), was then with the 1st Georgia Cavalry, and served as ordinance officer in General Alfred Iverson's Division of Cavalry. He was accompanied by a family slave, Dick, and was in various camps in Virginia and Tennessee. Ray was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1866; was a Georgia le...

Ray, Annie Felder.

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Ray, Ruby

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Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.)

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The Georgia Female College opened in Macon, Georgia in 1839 as the first college chartered to grant degrees to women. In 1843, the name changed to Wesleyan Female College and by 1917 to Wesleyan College. From the description of Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.) matriculation books, 1846-1961. (Wesleyan College, Willet Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 38727759 From the description of Wesleyan Collecge faculty meeting minutes, 1861-[ongoing]. (Wesleyan College, Willet Memori...

Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)

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The Lucy Cobb Institute, a secondary school for young women in Athens, was founded in 1859 by Thomas R.R. Cobb, a prominent lawyer and proslavery writer. Between 1880 and 1928 Cobb's niece Mildred Lewis Rutherford, a Lucy Cobb graduate, taught at the school. She served as principal for twenty-two of those years... Despite its success, the institute struggled to maintain high enrollment and keep its bills paid. The school faced acute financial difficulties in the 1920s, mostly because of the agri...

Felder, Calvin W.

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Ray family

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Lavender R. Ray was born in Newnan, Georgia, on December 15, 1842, the son of John Ray (1794-1868), an Irish immigrant, and Bethenia Gilliam Lavender (1803-1867), a native of Virginia. In 1861, he was a student at the University of North Carolina; he left to join the Confederate Army. He served in an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment throughout the war and returned to Newnan in 1865, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and practiced law in Newnan; he also...