Burge family papers, 1832-1952.

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Burge family papers, 1832-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83613627

The collection consists of correspondence, diaries and journals, account books, notebooks, record books and sermons, photographs, clippings, wills, and photographs produced or collected by the Burge and related families from 1832-1952. Correspondence is of the Lewis/Burge/Parks and Gray families and describes life in middle Georgia for much of the nineteenth century. Most correspondents outside the immediate family are persons related to Emory College. Diaries (1847-1879) of Dolly Burge Parks and her daughter, Sadai [Sarah Cornelia] B. Gray (1874), describe life in Georgia during the Civil War and Reconstruction; that of Dolly's step-daughter Louisiana Burge (1860-1862) recounts life at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia; that of William H. Graham (1865; no relation) describes the retreat of the Confederate Army from Petersburg, Virginia. Sermons and a pocket record book (1837; 1839) were compiled by Samuel H.B. Lewis. There is also a marriage contract between William J. Parks and Dolly Burge (1866), wills of W.J. Parks (1872) and of Sadai B. Gray (1892), some unidentified journals, and a history of Mt. Gilead Church.

1.50 linear ft. (3 boxes, 20 BV and 1 MF)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8304519

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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