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Size | 46.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 23,000 items) |
Abstract | The Craig, Flowers, and Ferris Papers document three white families in Vicksburg and Yazoo City, Miss. Members include William C. Craig; New York cotton and sugar broker William R. Craig (1870-1931); Seraphina Brooks Flowers (1824-1868); Vicksburg businessmen Uriah Grey Flowers (1883-1947) and Edward Gibbs Flowers (1880-1945); Mississippi Council of Garden Clubs president Hester Craig Flowers (1885-1987); Shelby Flowers Ferris; Mississippi state senator Grey Flowers Ferris; and author, filmmaker, folklorist, and professor William R. Ferris Jr. (1942- ) (Bill Ferris). Some family members lived at the Ceres Plantation in Warren County, Miss. The collection consists of business and personal correspondence, including a copybook containing the outgoing letters of Seraphina Brooks Flowers, who successfully petitioned federal officers to allow her to visit her son in the Rock Island, Ill., prison during the Civil War; financial and legal papers; newspaper clippings; scrapbooks; journals; travels diaries; creative writing; and genealogical materials. Topics include family news; the Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency; real estate; farm life; intergenerational relationships; divorce; international travel; garden clubs; the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; family history; the Allen Cooperage Company in Nanachehaw, Miss.; and heritage tourism in Louisiana and Mississippi. Pictures are chiefly portraits and candid photographs of various members of the Craig, Flowers, and Ferris families and their dogs, livestock, houses, gardens, and travel. |
Creator | Craig family.
Flowers family. Ferris family. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Sarah Peterson and Nancy Kaiser, December 2007
Encoded by: Sarah Peterson and Nancy Kaiser, December 2007
Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, April 2019; Patrick Cullom, June 2019; Davia Webb and Laura Smith, August 2023
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In the 1820s, the Flowers family moved from North Carolina to Warren County, Miss., where Uriah Flowers (1761-1845) and his wife, Elizabeth Watson Flowers (1779-1846), settled what came to be known as Ceres Plantation at Oakland. Their son, Ignatius Flowers (1806-1862), married Seraphina Brooks (1824-1868) in 1840, and they also made their home at Ceres. Their sons, Oliver Brooks Flowers (1841-1884) and Uriah Flowers (1846-1890), joined the Confederate Army as members of Harvey's Scouts, composed chiefly of men from Madison County, Miss. In the summer of 1864, Oliver was captured near Rome, Ga., and sent to the Union prison at Rock Island, Ill. In 1877, Uriah Flowers married his second wife, Shelby Gibbs, daughter of Edward and Jane Gibbs of Vicksburg, Miss. They had two daughters, Helen and Jane, both of whom died young, and two sons, Edward Gibbs Flowers (1880-1945) and Uriah Grey Flowers (1883-1947).
Uriah Grey Flowers ("U.G." or "Grey") was a prominent businessman in Vicksburg, Miss. After attending a year at Mississippi College and two years at the Virginia Military Institute, he became involved in the merchandise brokerage business, handling lines bought and sold in the grocery trade. In 1905, he and his brother Edward established the Flowers Bros. Insurance Co. The brothers also were involved with real estate as well as stocks, bonds, and securities trading. In 1915, Grey married Hester Isabel Craig (1885-1987), daughter of William C. and Harriet Rabb Craig ("Hattie"), and with her had three children: Shelby Flowers, Hester Flowers, and Uriah Grey Flowers Jr. In 1935, Grey retired from his business because of ill health and turned his attention to operating the Ceres plantation until his death in 1947. After her husband's death, Hester became one of the founders of the Vicksburg Garden Club and served two years as president of the Mississippi Council of Garden Clubs.
Grey and Hester's daughter Shelby married William R. Ferris and with him had five children: William R. Ferris Jr. ("Bill"), Shelby Ferris, Hester Ferris, Grey Ferris, and Martha Ferris. Bill Ferris (1942- ) is an author, folklorist, filmmaker, professor, photographer, administrator, and scholar. He co-founded the Center for Southern Folklore in Mississippi and was its director from 1972 to 1984. From 1979 to 1997, he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He has recorded blues albums, produced documentary films, authored a number of books, and co-edited The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
Hester Craig Flowers's brother, William R. Craig (1870-1931), was a cotton and sugar broker in New York. Born in Yazoo City, Miss., he graduated from Southwestern Presbyterian University and then entered his father's firm, W. C. Craig & Co., a cotton and general merchandise business. In 1905, he moved to New York and created his own business, W. R. Craig & Co., that brokered commodities in the cotton and sugar trade. He married Margaret Cunningham of Yazoo City, Miss., in 1913. Hester's other brother, Robert E. Craig (1872-1942), also attended Southwestern Presbyterian University and was a cotton broker. He married Margaret Henry, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. W. A. Henry, and lived in Vicksburg, New York, and New Orleans.
Back to TopPapers documenting the white Craig, Flowers, and Ferris families of Vicksburg, Miss., and Yazoo City, Miss., and New Orleans, La., especially William C. Craig, Harriet Rabb Craig, William R. Craig, Robert E. Craig, Philip S. Craig, Hester Craig Flowers, Uriah Grey Flowers, Seraphina Flowers, Shelby Flowers Ferris, and William R. Ferris Jr. (Bill Ferris). Materials include business and personal correspondence, including a copybook containing the outgoing letters of Seraphina Flowers, who successfully petitioned federal officers to allow her to visit her son imprisoned at Rock Island, Ill., during the Civil War; financial and legal papers; newspaper clippings; scrapbooks; journals; travel diaries and photographs; creative writing; genealogical materials; family correspondence and photographs. Topics include family news; the Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency; real estate; farm life; intergenerational relationships; divorce; international travel; garden clubs; the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; family history; the Allen Cooperage Company in Nanachehaw, Miss.; and heritage tourism in Louisiana andMississippi. Pictures are chiefly portraits and candid photographs of various members of the Craig, Flowers, and Ferris families and their dogs, livestock, houses, gardens, and travel.
Back to TopCorrespondence, legal papers, clippings, obituaries, notebooks, and a ledger related to the Craig family of Yazoo City and Vicksburg, Miss. The materials were chiefly created by William C. Craig; his wife, Harriet Rabb Craig; and their children, William R. Craig, Robert E. Craig, Philip S. Craig, and Hester Craig Flowers. See also Series 4. Genealogical papers.
Folder 1 |
Correspondence, 1858-1941Letters written and received by various members of the Craig family. Includes a number of telegrams sent to Philip S. Craig from C. P. Ellis and Company regarding the weather, crops, and stocks. |
Folder 2 |
Financial and legal papers, 1861-1920Mostly receipts and bills from 1906 for furniture, appliance, and home repair purchases made by Mr. and Mrs. William C. Craig for the family home on Cherry Street in Vicksburg. Papers also include an 1897 partnership agreement between William C. Craig and William R. Craig. |
Folder 3 |
Obituaries and memorials, 1868-1991Newspaper obituaries and other mourning and memorial documents for members of the Craig and Flowers families. |
Folder 4 |
Clippings, 1915-1986Relating to the Craig family and their employee, Willette Fairfax, chiefly documenting weddings, anniversaries, education, and deaths. |
Folder 5 |
Notebooks, 1906 and 1911-1915Two small notebooks of Philip Craig with entries describing his travels. |
Folder 6a |
Ledger, 1904-1907Record of sales made by William C. Craig and Robert E. Craig. |
Folder 6b |
Notebook, 1905Record of cotton sales to J. Meyerkort, 1905 |
Arrangement: by type of material.
Business and personal correspondence of Uriah Grey Flowers, the Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency, and other Flowers family members. Topics include family news; real estate, employment with Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency, and other financial concerns; discussions of cattle, other livestock, and general farm life; and illness. Financial and legal papers relate chiefly to the Flowers family and the Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency. There are a few items relating to Bernard and Elizabeth Conaghan and the Kelley family. Other papers document gardening and creative writing. A copybook contains the outgoing letters of Seraphina Flowers, including her successful petition to federal officers to visit her son in a Rock Island, Ill., prison during the Civil War. Journals and scrapbooks chronicle cruises and other travel taken by Flowers family members, some as older adults.
Arrangement: chronological.
Business and personal correspondence of Uriah Grey Flowers. Topics include real estate, especially the buying and selling of lots, as well as various tax and pricing issues; employment and other concerns at Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency; and stocks and bonds. Personal correspondents include family members Hester Craig Flowers, Edward G. Flowers, Robert E. Craig, William R. Craig, Philip S. Craig, and Olive Edmiston, a cousin of Uriah Grey Flowers. There also is correspondence from William Drake ("Magruder"), a good friend who was involved in the Enochs Lumber and Manufacturing Company with Edward G. Flowers and W. C. Craig & Co. with W. R. Craig. Drake ran Mount Ararat Plantation in Church Hill, Miss., and much of his and Grey's correspondence contains discussions of cattle, other livestock, and general farm life. Correspondence from 1918 with various members of the military concerns Grey's desire to join the Field Artillery Central Officers Training School, though there is no evidence that Grey joined the military at this time, and in an October 1918 letter he mentions being sick from influenza. Correspondence, 1928-1930, focuses on Grey's illness from bronchitis; his travel to Asheville, N.C., to seek treatment and recovery; and the related medical bills. See also folder 44 below.
Folder 7 |
1889-1913 |
Folder 8-9
Folder 8Folder 9 |
1914 |
Folder 10 |
1915 |
Folder 11 |
1917-1918 |
Folder 12 |
1919 |
Folder 13 |
1920 |
Folder 14-15
Folder 14Folder 15 |
1921 |
Folder 16 |
1922 |
Folder 17-19
Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19 |
1923 |
Folder 20-21
Folder 20Folder 21 |
1924 |
Folder 22 |
1925 |
Folder 23 |
1926 |
Folder 24-25
Folder 24Folder 25 |
1927 |
Folder 26-27
Folder 26Folder 27 |
1928 |
Folder 28-29
Folder 28Folder 29 |
1929 |
Folder 30 |
1930 |
Folder 31-32
Folder 31Folder 32 |
1931 |
Folder 33-34
Folder 33Folder 34 |
1932 |
Folder 35-36
Folder 35Folder 36 |
1933 |
Folder 37-38
Folder 37Folder 38 |
1934 |
Folder 39 |
1935 |
Folder 40 |
1936 |
Folder 41 |
1937-1946 |
Folder 42 |
Undated |
Arrangement: by correspondent.
Correspondence of Hester Craig Flowers and other members of the Flowers family, including that of the Flowers Bros. Insurance Company (note that the Uriah Grey Flowers correspondence in Series 2.1. also contains many letters regarding this company). Also included are letters to Uriah Grey Flowers's aunt, Mollie Kelley.
Folder 43 |
Flowers, Hester Craig, 1908-1986Correspondence with her daughters, Shelby Flowers Ferris and Hester Flowers Faser, her niece Harriet, her brothers, and others, including an admirer, Walbridge Taft. Topics chiefly center around home life and daily activities. Note that correspondence between Hester Craig Flowers and her husband is in Series 2.1. Uriah Grey Flowers. |
Folder 44 |
Flowers Bros. Insurance Company, 1913-1935Business correspondence includes employment inquiries, specifics on land purchases, and solicitations from stockholding and credit companies. There are additional insurance letters regarding Uriah Grey Flower's illness in 1929 and several letters concerning the purchase of hunting dogs. |
Folder 45 |
Kelley, Mollie, letters to, 1869-1917 |
Folder 46 |
Other correspondence, 1884-1993Correspondence of other members of the Flowers family, including Olive Kelley, Edwina Enochs Flowers (married to Edward G. Flowers), David Evans, Irene Whitehead, and Grey Flowers Jr. Also contains letters whose author or recipient are unknown or unclear. |
Arrangement: chronological by year.
Financial and legal papers relating to the Flowers family and Flowers Bros. Insurance Agency. The papers chiefly consist of bills, receipts, purchase orders, bank statements, cancelled checks, and prescriptions as well as newsletters for various bond and security businesses. Balance sheets for the insurance agency are included. There are four account books and several deeds under the names of Bernard and Elizabeth Conaghan, whose connection to the Flowers family is unclear.
Folder 47 |
1879-1920 |
Folder 48 |
1921-1929 |
Folder 49 |
1930-1931 |
Folder 50 |
1932 |
Folder 51 |
1933-1938 |
Folder 52-53
Folder 52Folder 53 |
Account books, 1926-1934 |
Arrangement: by type of material.
Materials include the financial and legal papers of the Kelley family; a copybook containing the outgoing letters of Seraphina Flowers, including her successful petition to federal officers to visit her son imprisoned at Rock Island, Ill., during the Civil War; papers documenting Hester Craig Flowers's involvement in local garden clubs; newspaper clippings; and creative writing by members of the Flowers family. Diaries and scrapbooks chronicle cruises and other travel taken by Hester Craig Flowers and her daughters, Shelby Flowers Ferris and Hester Flowers Faser, some documenting travel as older adults.
Folder 54 |
Kelley family legal and financial papers, 1878-1930Legal and financial papers of the Kelley family, related to the Flowers through two marriages. Contains a land survey from 1878 as well as several deeds and records of loans. |
Folder 55 |
Clippings, 1915-2007Newspaper clippings concerning Hester Craig Flowers, gardening, dogs, and trapshooting. |
Folder 56 |
Seraphina Flowers copybook, 1841-1865Composition book with copies of outgoing letters to family and friends of Seraphina Flowers. Topics include the death of her young son Neville, illnesses, school openings, family news, and local activities. Of particular note are letters that Seraphina wrote to federal officers, asking for leniency for her son Oliver and petitioning to see him in prison, and the letters she wrote to home while visiting Oliver at the Rock Island, Ill., prison. A letter written to her cousin in Boston toward the end of the Civil War describes her thoughts on how federal officers view southern women. The back of the composition book contains poems, thoughts, and short essays written in the same hand as the letters. Newspaper obituaries for various members of the Flowers family, including Seraphina, are pasted in the front of the book. |
Folder 57 |
Garden club papers, 1947-1977Includes notes from Shelby Flowers's talk on the Vicksburg Gardening Club, articles on gardening written by Hester Craig Flowers, pamphlets and programs for gardening club events, and a copy of the constitution of the garden clubs of Mississippi. |
Folder 58 |
Flowers family creative writing, late 20th centuryCreative writing projects of members of the Flowers family, mostly non-fiction recollections and mostly by Shelby Flowers Ferris. |
Folder 59 |
Notebook of quotes, undated |
Scrapbook SV-5323/1 |
Scrapbook, South America |
Folder 60 |
Travel journal, Europe, 1950 |
Folder 61 |
Travel journal, Europe, 1954 |
Scrapbook SV-5323/2 |
Scrapbook, Scandinavia, 1954 |
Folder 62 |
Travel journal, Europe, 1959 |
Folder 63 |
Travel journal, Europe, 1961 |
Folder 64 |
Travel journal, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Philippines, 1964 |
Folder 65 |
Travel journal, Europe, 1972 |
Folder 66 |
Travel journal, Europe and Mediterranean, 1977 |
Folder 67 |
Scrapbook, Europe, 1983 |
Folder 68 |
Scrapbook, China, 1987 |
Folder 69 |
Travel journal, Europe, 1997 |
Folder 70 |
Scrapbook, Eastern Europe, 2004 |
Folder 71a |
MiscellaneousTravel receipts, notes on books, school materials, wedding announcements and calling cards. |
Folder 71b |
MiscellaneousTravel receipts, notes on books, school materials, wedding announcements and calling cards. |
Papers include the correspondence of Shelby Flowers Ferris, especially letters from her son William R. Ferris Jr. (Bill Ferris), documenting life events, including births, deaths, weddings, and divorces; programs, flyers, and newsletters relating to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; correspondence regarding family history; and copies of published writings by and about Bill Ferris.
Arrangement: chronological.
Letters received by Shelby Flowers Ferris from family members, especially her son William R. Ferris Jr. while he was attending Brooks School, Davidson College, and Northwestern University; while traveling abroad in Ireland and France; and while teaching at Yale University. Family letters chronicle life events, including births, deaths, weddings, and divorces.
Folder 72a |
1921-1947 |
Folder 72b |
1953-1959 |
Folder 73 |
1960-1964 |
Folder 74 |
1966 |
Folder 75 |
1967 |
Folder 76 |
1968 |
Folder 77 |
1969 |
Folder 78 |
1970 |
Folder 79 |
1971 |
Folder 80 |
1972 |
Folder 81-82
Folder 81Folder 82 |
1973 |
Folder 83 |
1974 |
Folder 84 |
1975 |
Folder 85 |
1976 |
Folder 86 |
1977 |
Folder 87-88
Folder 87Folder 88 |
1978 |
Folder 89-91
Folder 89Folder 90Folder 91 |
1979 |
Folder 92-93
Folder 92Folder 93 |
1980 |
Folder 94 |
1981-1982 |
Folder 95 |
1983 |
Folder 96-97
Folder 96Folder 97 |
1984 |
Folder 98-99
Folder 98Folder 99 |
1985 |
Folder 100-101
Folder 100Folder 101 |
1986 |
Folder 102-103
Folder 102Folder 103 |
1987 |
Folder 104 |
1988-1989 |
Folder 105 |
1990-1994 |
Folder 106 |
1995 |
Folder 107 |
1996 |
Folder 108-109
Folder 108Folder 109 |
1997 |
Folder 110 |
1998 |
Folder 111 |
1999 |
Folder 112 |
2000 |
Folder 113-114
Folder 113Folder 114 |
2001 |
Folder 115-116
Folder 115Folder 116 |
2002 |
Folder 117 |
2003 |
Folder 118-119
Folder 118Folder 119 |
2004 |
Folder 120 |
2005 |
Folder 121-129
Folder 121Folder 122Folder 123Folder 124Folder 125Folder 126Folder 127Folder 128Folder 129 |
Undated |
Correspondence of Ferris family members, including letters to Mrs. E. B. Ferris, many from her daughter-in-law Shelby Flowers Ferris and her grandchildren.
Folder 130-131
Folder 130Folder 131 |
Mrs. E. B. Ferris, 1932-1991 |
Folder 132-134
Folder 132Folder 133Folder 134 |
Ferris family, 1961-1991 |
Papers include programs, flyers, and newsletters relating to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; correspondence regarding family history; and copies of published writings by and about William R. Ferris Jr. (Bill Ferris), including essays, chapters in books, reviews, and book covers.
Folder 135 |
Newsletters, 1979-1991 |
Folder 136 |
Writings |
Folder 137 |
Programs and flyers, 1977-1992 |
Folder 138 |
Correspondence, 1980-2005 |
Folder 139-140
Folder 139Folder 140 |
Clippings about the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
Folder 141 |
Clippings about Elvis Presley |
Folder 142-143
Folder 142Folder 143 |
Miscellaneous clippings |
Papers collected by various members of the Flowers, Craig, and Ferris family while researching history of Brooks, Kelley, Nicholson, Michie, Watson, Gibbs, Jefferies, Edmiston, Biggs, Rabb, Luce (Luse), Swayze (Swazey), and Horton families. Papers chiefly consist of correspondence between interested family members and copies of the correspondence of their ancestors. Included are transcriptions of letters of Seraphina Flowers and letters from Hester and William Rabb to their daughter Matilda in the 1850s.
About 150 pages of a photocopied journal contain genealogical information for the Luse and Rabb families as well as records of daily activities. The dates in the journal range from 1837 to 1860. There are a few photocopied pages of recipes, some from printed books and some from handwritten notes.
Photocopies of correspondence written between 1919 and 1938 detail the relationship between the Craig family and Reverend Charles Diehl, D.D., president of Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tenn., from 1920 to 1935. Included with the correspondence are copies of obituaries for Robert E. Craig and William R. Craig and for Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Craig's infant son.
Other materials include family trees for the Flowers and Michie families; birth, death, and marriage records; information pulled from tombstones, land grants, and deeds; and obituaries. There is also information on Melville Weston Fuller, an orphan who was found and adopted by Uriah Goldsborough Flowers, and about Joseph Henry Bush, who painted portraits of Uriah and Elizabeth Watson Flowers.
Folder 144-146
Folder 144Folder 145Folder 146 |
Genealogical papers |
Folder 147 |
Photocopies of journal and recipes |
Folder 148-149
Folder 148Folder 149 |
Craig and Diehl families |
Arrangement: by family name.
Pictures of the members of the Flowers family, including Uriah Flowers (1846-1890); Hester Craig Flowers; Hester Flowers Faser; Uriah Grey Flowers; Edward G. Flowers; Margaret Craig; Mollie Kelley; and Milton Jones, an employee of the Flowers family. There are photographs of portraits of Elizabeth Watson and Uriah Flowers, painted by Joseph Henry Bush. Other photographs document cruises and other travel; horses, cows, and other livestock; and Hester Craig Flower's garden and homes, including the Cherry Street house.
Image Folder PF-5323/1-4
PF-5323/1PF-5323/2PF-5323/3PF-5323/4 |
Craig: FamilyPhotographs of various members of the Craig family, including Philip Craig, Hugh Craig, Hester Craig Flowers, Margaret Cunningham Craig, Margaret Henry Craig, Shelby Ferris, William R. Ferris, and the Maynards. |
Image Folder PF-5323/5 |
Craig: DogsPhotographs of the Craig family hunting dogs. |
Image Folder PF-5323/6 |
HousesPhotographs of various homes of the Craig family, including Robert E. Craig's home in New Orleans and the house on Cherry Street in Vicksburg, Miss. |
Image Folder PF-5323/7 |
Craig: Vacation prints and postcards |
Image Folder PF-5323/8 |
Craig: OtherPhotographs of unidentified homes, vacations, Craig cotton business. |
Image Folder PF-5323/9 |
Craig: Negatives |
Image Folder PF-5323/10-14
PF-5323/10PF-5323/11PF-5323/12PF-5323/13PF-5323/14 |
Flowers: Family |
Image Folder PF-5323/15 |
Flowers: Cruises and other travel |
Image Folder PF-5323/16 |
Flowers: Dogs, horses, and livestock |
Image Folder PF-5323/17-18
PF-5323/17PF-5323/18 |
Flowers: Homes and gardens |
Image Folder PF-5323/19 |
Flowers: OtherPhotographs of scouts, buildings, monuments and historic sites |
Image Folder PF-5323/20 |
Flowers: Negatives |
Image Folder PF-5323/21 |
Ferris: Family |
Image Folder PF-5323/22 |
MiscellaneousPhotographs of damage to a cabin after a storm |
Special Format Image SF-5323/1 |
Glass plate negativeFlorence and Hester in front of Craig home in Yazoo City, Miss. |
Special Format Image SF-5323/2 |
Glass covered photograph"Nelson's ship 'Victory'" |
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 100774, 100888, 101345, 101800, 102571, 103531
Photographs collected by Hester Flowers Ferris depicting members of the Craig, Ferris, and Flowers families. Images chiefly depict members of all three families, with many depicting family members traveling to different locations both within and outside of the United States.
Image Box IB-5323/3 |
Family photographs: Craig, Ferris, and Flowers families, circa 1940s-2000sBlack-and-White and Color Photographic Prints and Negatives |
Image Box IB-5323/4 |
Family photographs: Craig, Ferris, and Flowers families, circa 1940s-2000sBlack-and-White and Color Photographic Prints and Negatives |
Image Box IB-5323/5 |
Family photographs: Craig, Ferris, and Flowers families, circa 1940s-2000sBlack-and-White and Color Photographic Prints and Negatives Oversized Photographs |
Image Box IB-5323/6 |
Family photographs: Ferris family, circa 1960s-2000sBlack-and-White and Color Photographic Prints and Negatives |
Photograph Album PA-5323/1 |
Travel photograph album: Flowers family, circa 1935Black-and-White Photographic Prints Title page reads "Pictures taken on our Mexican trip in 1935, Shelby Flowers." |
Photograph Album PA-5323/2 |
Family photograph album: Flowers family, circa 1910s-1920sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints |
Photograph Album PA-5323/3 |
Family photograph album: Ferris family, circa 1920s-1940sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints |
Image Box IB-5323/7 |
Travel photographs: Craig, Ferris, and Flowers families, circa 1930s-2000sBlack-and-White and Color Photographic Prints and Negatives |
Image Box IB-5323/8 |
Travel photographs: Ferris Craig, Ferris, and Flowers families, circa 1930s-2000sBlack-and-White and Color Photographic Prints and Negatives |
Photograph Album PA-5323/4 |
Family photograph album: Craig family, circa 1910s-1920sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints Cover has label that reads: "Photos of Philip Craig at Morristown School." |
Oversize Image Folder OP-P-5323/1 |
Family photographs: Craig, Ferris, and Flowers familes, circa 1940s-2000sBlack-and-White Photographic Prints |
Papers include receipts from the Allen Cooperage Company in Nanachehaw, Miss., and booklets and pamphlets, chiefly relating to historic sites in Louisiana and Mississippi and gardening clubs.
Box 23 |
Allen Cooperage Company receipts, 1920 |
Box 24 |
Booklets and pamphlets, 1960s-1990s |
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 100888
The addition includes a photograph album, 1940s-1950s, of Bill Ferris and Shelby Flowers Ferris, their honeymoon, farm, and children; a funeral book for Hester Flowers Faser (1916-1993); and a sketchbook, 1960s, of Vicksburg scenes.
Box 27 |
Sketchbook, 1960s |
Hester Flowers Ferris funeral book, 1993 |
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 101345
The addition includes Shelby Flowers Ferris's date books, 1970-2005, with scrapbook elements, such as invitations, menus, appointments, books read, newspaper clippings.
Box 27-29
Box 27Box 28Box 29 |
Date books, 1970-2005 |
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 101800
The addition includes articles and print material related to William R. Ferris's career, some loose ephemera related to Mississippi, and a few family items such as family photographs, genealogical information, and printed emails and other correspondence.
Box 29-30
Box 29Box 30 |
Papers, 1980s-2010s |
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 102571
The addition includes correspondence, family history research, family photography, scrapbooks, and professional work and records from th 20th century. Of note are letters received by Shelby Flowers Ferris from family and friends, especially from William R. Ferris, Sr., before and after their marriage. During their courtship Shelby Flowers Ferris attended Newcomb College in New Orleans, La. The letters cover her time in college, her wedding, and the birth of at least one of her children. There are also letters from Shelby Flowers Ferris and her sister Hester to their father, and Shelby Flowers Ferris's school notes. Other materials include letters to Hester Craig from Walldridge Taft, 1914-1916; Shelby Flowers Ferris's personal files, with family history research materials (one box arranged by Virginia Ferris) and correspondence, 2000-2014, as well as her unsorted papers; Grey Ferris scrapbooks and files, 1991-1998, documenting his political career in the Mississippi Senate and his campaigns for state senator and lieutenant governor; condolence letters regarding Grey Ferris's death, 2008; a scrapbook of Mary Shelby Gibbs Flowers, 1868-1892, in Vicksburg, and a 1936 scrapbook of Shelby Flowers at Newcomb College.
Acquisitions Information: Acc. 103531
Travel diaries and a few guidebooks from members of the Craig and Flowers families, early and mid-twentieth century. There are diaries from 1903 (to England, Scotland, and Ireland) and 1908, and the rest span the 1940s through 1960s. The diarists traveled widely. Places noted include locations in Europe, South America, and the Middle East, and a few locations in the United States and South Pacific. Also included are slide suitcases of travel photos, loose photographs from travel, notes and itineraries, print ephemera (menus, tickets, maps, brochures) from cruises, and postcards sent by Shelby Flowers Ferris to home
Box 40 |
Travel diaries and guidebooks, 1903, 1908, 1940s-1960s |
Box 42 |
Travel diaries and guidebooks, 1903, 1908, 1940s-1960s |
Box 41 |
Papers, 1960s-1980s |
Acquisition Information: Acc. 20230630.1.
Includes letters written by members of the Ferris family. Many of the letters were written by William Ferris’s paternal grandmother, Martha Reynolds Ferris, to her sister, Mrs. C.R. Stark (Annie), about life on their Mississippi farm during the time when her husband, Eugene Beverly Ferris, was director of the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station. In one letter, Martha describes her grief over losing her newborn baby. Additionally, in a letter to Mrs. C. R. Stark, Ferris’s mother, Shelby Flowers Ferris, writes about life on the Ferris family farm.
Box 43 |
Martha Reynolds and Eugene Beverly Ferris wedding invitation, 1902 |
Letter from Martha Ferris to Eliza Jane Reynolds, 1913 |
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Letters from Holly Springs Branch Experiment Station, 1944 |
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Letters from James Logan Butin and Myrl Butin to Stark Family, 1954Letter contains a clipping of a tribute to Eugene Beverly Ferris and his agricultural career from the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn., 3 July 1954. |
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Letters from Marth Ferris to Annie Reynolds Stark, 1952-1968 |
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Letters from Shelby Ferris, 1967Includes class photos of Shelby Ferris and William Ferris' children William, Martha, and Grey, 1956-1957. |
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Letters to Annie Reynolds Stark, undatedIncludes a postcard from Shelby Ferris and William Ferris from Italy and letter concerning the death of Martha Ferris' newborn child. |
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Letter from James Reynolds Stark to Bill Ferris, Jr., 2022 |