Howard, Comer, and Randolph families papers

Descriptive Summary
Repository:	Hargrett Manuscripts
Creator:	Comer family -- Photographs
Creator:	Howard family -- Photographs
Creator:	Randolph family -- Photographs
Title:	Howard, Comer, and Randolph families papers
Dates:	circa 1850-1950
Quantity:	3.75 Linear feet (7 boxes)
Coll. Number:	ms3418

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Biographical/Historical Note

The Comer family lived in several counties in Georgia. Most were descendants of William Jenkins Comer, born March 15, 1847 in Jackson County, Georgia. He married Martha Deadwyler in 1867.

The Randolph family lived in several counties in Georgia and Florida. Mary Arline Randolph was born May 18, 1833 in Jackson County, Georgia and married Augustus Columbus Thompson in 1850.

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Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of nineteen cased images of various family members, one leather-bound, clasped album of photographs, 24 letters relating to the Howard - Comer - Randolph families, loose photographs of the Howard family, Comer family, Randolph family, and the Lyon - Devore - Boland and Whitehead families.

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Arrangement

Arranged roughly by topic or name; consult folder listing.

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Index Terms

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Howard, Comer, and Randolph families papers, ms3418. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Photographs
Box	Folder
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1	1	Bell, Wiley
	2	Howard, Annie Randolph
	3	Howard, Asa Jefferson
	4	Howard, Frank Sr., Howard, Frank Jr.
	5	Howard, Ida Pauline
	6	Howard, Jimmie
	7	Howard, Lucy
	8	Howard, Mary Dale
	9	Howard, Nettie
	10	Howard, Wiley C.
	11	Howard, Wiley Hinton
	12	Identified
	13	Unidentified
	14	Places
Box	Folder
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2	1	Comer, Frances
	2	Comer, Joseph Fletcher
	3	Comer, Martha
	4	Comer, Martha Hannah Johnson
	5	Comer, Reuben Tally, Comer, Sarah Fulcher
	6	Comer, Thomas Fletcher
	7	Places
	8	Miscellaneous photographs
Box	Folder
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3	1	Dominick, Mary Lyon
	2	Howard, Frances Elizabeth Randolph
	3	Randolph
	4	Roberts, Clyde & Herbert
	5	Whitehead
	10	Whitehead, Tommy?
	11	Assorted photographs

 

2. Letters and Ephemera

Box

Item

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3

1

CD - To UGA Library, From R. C. Whitehead

6

Letters to the Howard Family, 1860s

7

Frances Comer Memory Book (Athens High School), 1920s

8

Martin Institute brochures

9

Mary Virginia Peacock school materials

12

"Reaching Back: A Brief History of the Comer, Howard, and Randolph Families of Clarke, Jackson, and Oglethorpe Counties in Georgia" by Robert Whitehead, 1990

13

University of Georgia school graduation program and "In Memoriam" by Wiley C. Howard about Julius Foster Daniel, 1880s

Box

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6

Unsorted Family Letters

 

3. Photograph album and daguerreotype in cases
Box	Item
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4	1	Assorted photograph album
	2	Picture, Robert E. Lee
	3	Nettie Howard
	4	Robert Johnson
	5	Daguerrotype, Untitled
	6	Lucy Henry Howard
	7	Great Grandmother
	8	Daguerrotype, Untitled
	9	Lucy Frances Howard
	10	Ann Bennett
	11	Asa Jefferson Howard
	12	Lucy Henry Howard
	13	Asa Jefferson Howard
	14	Wiley C. Howard
	15	Wiley C. Howard
	16	Fanny Randolph Howard in "Second Day" Dress
	17	James Elijah Randolph, Sr.
	18	Elizabeth Gilmer Glenn, Great Grandmother
	19	Elizabeth Gilmer Glenn
	20	One of Grandmother's Brothers
	21	Joshua Hammond Randolph
	22	Daguerrotype, Untitled
	23	Daguerrotype, Untitled

 

4. Purchased Items (unrelated to families)
Box	Folder
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5	1	Camp Family Papers and Correspondence
	2	Scrapbook Pages complied by William Gaston of Cobb's Legion, 1860s-1880s
	3	Civil War letters written by Foreman bought by Whitehead, 1860s
	4	Assorted Civil War letters from soldiers, 1860s
	5	Unidentified Daguerrotypes
	6	Civil War soldier correspondence and Georgia indenture, 1850s-1860s
	7	Printed Material about Georgia

 

5. Oversized Materials
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7		Rolled item- Certificate from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution - Thomas Fletcher Johnson Comer, 1936 July 28
	7	Rolled item- Certificate from Martin Insitute - Ida Pauline Howard, 1891 June 24
	7	Rolled item- Certificate from The National Society for the Daughters of the American Revolution - Pauline Howard Comer, 1930 November 7
	7	Rolled item- Certificate from The United Daughters of the Confederacy - Pauline Howard Comer, 1919 August 26
	7	Family photograph in brown portfolio
	7	Correspondence, 1860s