The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, Bible records, friendship albums, an account book, recipe book, and scrapbooks belonging to the Hardaways and Stones. The James Hicks and Cornelia Hardaway series, ca.1889-1919, consists of a few letters to them and two oversize scrapbooks filled with pictures from cards and advertisements. The Samuel George Hardaway Bible records series, 1844-1907, contains photostats of Bible records from what appears to be his Bible as they record both of his marriages and his children and only a few grandchildren. The Sarah Pickett Terry Hardaway series, 1839-1888, contains a friendship album and an account book. The friendship album has entries dated 1839 and 1841, along with two undated clippings concerning Samuel G. Hardaway, one being his obituary from the 1870s. The account book is dated 1857-1888 and notes various transactions and contains a letter from her brother James Terry. The Judge George W. Stone series, ca.1890s, consists of typescripts of letters to and articles about Judge Stone, a fragment of a letter he wrote, and a scrapbook with his name inside. The scrapbook was originally a book of agricultural reports from the 1870s that someone pasted undated clippings of "instructive and entertaining literature" from unidentified newspapers. The Mary Gillespie Stone friendship album was chiefly utilized in 1833, before her marriage to Judge Stone, when she lived in Fayetteville, Tenn., but it also contains an entry from 1838 and several short notations dated 8 August 1841 referring to death of at least two of the writers. The photograph series contains twenty-three photographs and a photograph album. Eight unidentified cartes-de-visite have been removed from the photograph album. Nine small cabinet cards apparently depict a fair in downtown Montgomery around the turn of the century. Two larger cabinet cards show groups of people. There are two copies of a photograph of Samuel G. Hardaway as a captain in the Montgomery Grays and one of James Hicks Hardaway as an older man. There is a also a print of a tintype of an unknown woman which has been removed to the Cased Photograph Collection, LPP31. The recipe book contains numerous handwritten recipes of an unknown woman from the nineteenth century.
