Chunn/Land family papers, 1828-1925 (bulk 1860-1890)

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Chunn/Land family papers, 1828-1925 (bulk 1860-1890)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145567610

Letters, land deeds, business correspondence, and receipts relating to the Elizabeth Word and Samuel L. Chunn family of Cass (later Bartow) Co., GA, and the Nathan and Mona Arrington Land family. Papers document Civil War conditions, including the destruction of Cassville in 1864, Reconstruction struggles, immigration to Texas, agriculture, small businesses, land investment, family relations, the status of African-Americans, sickness and health care, and death. Although the collection is mostly Georgian, with Bartow, Twiggs, Coweta, and Forsyth Counties being the best represented, there are many letters and records from South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee also.

1 cubic ft. (2 archives boxes and 1 oversized folder)

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6837288

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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Chunn/Land family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61w4jsj (family)

Elizabeth Word Chunn (1820-1894) came from South Carolina and lived with her husband, Samuel L., and son, William Augustus Chunn (1840-1921), in Cassville, GA. The mother of only one child, she apparently served as a beloved authority figure for hundreds of people whose letters comprise much of this collection. Her son continued farming their property after his father died in 1863 and he himself had returned from the Civil War. In 1860 he had married Martha Delilah (Lila) Land, daughter of Natha...

Land family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68146hc (family)

Chunn, William Augustus, 1840-1921.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g4z33 (person)

William Augustus Chunn, Confederate soldier, was born 7 January 1840, near the French Broad River in Tennessee, lived in Cassville, Georgia, and died there in 1921. He served in the Georgia State Troops (1861-1862) as a 2nd Lieutenant (Company I, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade), and as a private in the Georgia Infantry (1862-1865; Co. I, 40th Regiment). He was stationed at Screven Point, near Savannah, Georgia, and in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi, and was involved in the Cumberland Gap and Vi...

Chunn, Elizabeth Word, 1820-1894.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r52j50 (person)