Cook-Maddrey family papers, 1843-1914, (bulk 1851-1914).

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Wise, Mary Jane (Mollie) Cook, 1838-1870. Cook-Maddrey family papers, 1843-1914, (bulk 1851-1914).

Cook-Maddrey family papers, 1843-1914, (bulk 1851-1914).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46956011

Correspondence, financial documents, legal documents, printed materials, photographs, an autograph album and a personal journal were collected and preserved by Sarah Adaline Cook Maddrey. The correspondence of family members Robert Watkins Cook, Mary Jane (Mollie) Cook, Harvey Wise, P.B. Madrey, and Peter B. Maddrey, Sr., comprises the bulk of the Cook-Maddrey Papers and documents the connections between Sumner County, Tennessee, and Fannin County, Texas, between 1843 and 1895. Of particular interest are the letters written by Jimmie S. Boon to Mollie 1861-1863 posted from Memphis, Murfreesboro, Shelbyville, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Big Black River, Iuka, Meridian, and Yazoo City, Mississippi, and Bridgeport, Alabama, while Boon served in the Confederate Army. Subjects covered include slavery, illness and hospitalization, states rights, soldier's life, and military deployments. The personal correspondence between family and friends include discussions of family life, farming, illness and death, a Negro insurrection in 1856, emigration, slavery, Reconstruction, the Klu Klux Klan, and economic hardships. Other correspondents are Lydia Hearne, Tennie Talyor Rawlins, E.V. Martin, Albert J. Duggen, W.J. Thomas and Elizabeth Wise. Financial documents include tax receipts and personal receipts of P.B. Maddrey. Of interest are Robert W. Cook's military commission in the Fannin Cavaliers, his Masonic demit, and the By-laws of King Solomon's Lodge. Alma Maddrey Clendenen's autograph album (1883) records the names of school friends from the Maple Hill Seminnary. Kate Maddrey's journal, 1901-1952 includes the minutes of the Art League in Bonham, genealogical notes of the Cook family, and poetry.

1 box (.4 linear ft.)

San Jacinto Museum of History