Minnie Robertson (Mrs. Harvey M.) Smith collection, 1782-1917 (bulk 1782-1900).

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Minnie Robertson (Mrs. Harvey M.) Smith collection, 1782-1917 (bulk 1782-1900).

The Smith Collection contains papers of the Strickland, Steele, Dickson, Truitt, Owens, Jackson, and Jeter families, notably business and legal records, account books, letters, personal narratives, and compositions covering the settlement of north and west Georgia and several other states during the entire 19th Century. Emigration and the Civil War are particularly well-documented.

1.75 cubic ft.

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Smith, Minnie Olga Robertson, 1872-1963.

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The Steele family papers include account books and diaries for several generations who lived in Pendleton, SC, and moved to Cherokee Co., GA, around 1860. James Steele was the uncle of Governor Joseph E. Brown and related to other figures in this collection. His son, James Thomas Steele, was married briefly to Sarah Antoinette Dickson (1836-1858) before she died in childbirth. Sarah Antoinette had grown up in the Pendleton District, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Young Scott Dickson. Thomas's fath...