Martha Compton Lumpkin scrapbooks, 1832-1919.

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Martha Compton Lumpkin scrapbooks, 1832-1919.

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The collection consists of nine scrapbooks kept by Martha Lumpkin Compton. The scrapbooks mostly consist of newspaper clippings. One scrapbook contains autograph signatures and some handwritten correspondence, including that of her father Wilson Lumpkin. Other scrapbooks contain some writings by Compton in addition to newspaper clippings. The writings are handwritten recipes, personal musings, comments on the clippings in the scrapbook, and poetry and prose. Compton comments on national events, literary figures, family members, books, and family history. The collection also contains an account book listing various expenditures and includes pasted receipts from 1866-1877. The collection also includes four folders of loose newspaper clippings, recipes, financial records, legal documents, and family correspondence from 1832-1919. The legal documents include a carbon copy of Martha Lumpkin Compton's will, in addition to an indenture, dated 1866, between Compton and her father in which he deeded to her 160 acres of land in Athens.

.25 linear ft. (1 box, 5 bound v. (BV), and 1 oversized bound v. (OBV))

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Lumpkin family.

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Compton, Martha Lumpkin, 1827-1917

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Martha Lumpkin Compton (1827-1917) was born in Athens, Georgia, and was the youngest daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin and Annis Hopson Lumpkin. The site of Atlanta was named Marthasville in her honor from 1843-1845. She married Thomas M. Compton in 1878. She is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, in a plot donated by the city in 1907. Additional biographical information about Martha Lumpkin Compton has not been determined. From the description of Martha Lumpkin Compton...

Lumpkin, Wilson, 1783-1870

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Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870) was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on January 14, 1783 to John Lumpkin and Lucy Hopson Lumpkin. While he was still a young child, Lumpkin's family moved to Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Lumpkin married twice, first to Elizabeth Walker, with whom he had six surviving children, and second to Annis Hopkins, with whom he had three children. He served on the Georgia State Legislature and was a member of Congress, 1815-187 and 1827-1831. Lumpkin served two terms as Gov...