Berrien County (Ga.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n81018206
Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:
The Beaver, 1993-1994, Ray City School Yearbook, 1993 - 1994
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Collection number: ca014-001-003-001
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The Beaver, 1993 - 1994, Ray City School Yearbook. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.
This item is the yearbook from the final year before the Ray City School was shut down for good.
Dates:
1993 - 1994
The Beaver Yearbook, 1949-1951
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Collection number: CA-014-002-001
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The Beaver Yearbook, 1949-1951. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.
School Yearbook for the years 1949 up to 1951.
Dates:
1949-1951
The Beaver Yearbook, 1952
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Collection number: CA-014-002-002
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The Beaver Yearbook, 1952. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.
School Yearbook for the 1952 school year.
Dates:
1952
The Beaver Yearbook, 1953
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Collection number: CA-014-002-003
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The Beaver Yearbook, 1953. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.
School Yearbook for the 1953 school year.
Dates:
1953
The Beaver Yearbook, 1954
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Collection number: CA-014-002-004
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The Beaver Yearbook, 1954. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.
School Yearbook for the 1954 school year.
Dates:
1954
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Special Civil War Edition, May 1993
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Collection number: CA-012-001-002
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Newsletter, Special Civil War Edition, May 1993. From the Berrien County Historical Society Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue of the newsletter recounts the military service of Francis Marion Shaw, who was conscripted into the Confederate Army in 1864 at the age of eighteen. Serving in the Florida Reserves, Shaw was wounded during a skirmish at Cedar Key, Florida, where a minie-ball shattered his...
Dates:
May 1993
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 1, Number 1, January 1993
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Collection number: CA-012-001-001
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Newsletter, Volume 1 Number 1, January 1993. From the Berrien County Historical Society Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.The issue honors the life of Francis Marion Shaw, a Confederate soldier who lost his right arm in the Civil War, and his wife Rachel Moore Allen Shaw, highlighting their resilience, compassion, and legacy. The newsletter includes family group sheets, biographical sketches of descendants,...
Dates:
January 1993
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 1 Number 2, July 1993
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Collection number: CA-012-01-003
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 1 Number 2, May 1993. From the Berrien County Historical Society Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue focuses on the life of Jesse Shelby “Dock” Shaw, the son of Francis Marion and Rachel Moore Shaw. Raised on the family farm in Ray City, Georgia, Dock married Susie Bullard and together they raised eight children while managing a 200-acre farm. Known for his humor, kindness, and dedication,...
Dates:
July 1993
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 2 Number 1, January 1994
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Collection number: CA-012-001-004
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1994. From the Berrien County Historical Society Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue focuses on the life of Francis Arthur Shaw, the eldest son of Francis Marion and Rachel Moore Allen Shaw. Arthur married Martha Victoria Giddens, whose life was marked by the social stigma of her illegitimate birth, and together they had two sons before Victoria's untimely death in 1889....
Dates:
January 1994
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 2 Number 2, April 1994
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Collection number: CA-012-001-005
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 2 Number 2, January 1994. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue centers on the preserved love letters of Chester D. Shaw, the youngest son of Francis Marion and Rachel Moore Allen Shaw. In 1895, Chester left his home in Ray City, Georgia, and traveled to Louisiana, where he wrote heartfelt letters to family and especially to Louannie Webb, the...
Dates:
April 1994
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 3, Number 2, October 1994
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Collection number: CA-012-001-006
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 3 Number 2, October 1994. From the Berrien County Historical Society Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This article describes the first Shaw family reunion held in Ray City, Georgia, on July 24, 1994, which aimed to reunite fragmented family branches. The newsletter emphasizes the joy and importance of these gatherings for sharing memories and strengthening intergenerational bonds, even featuring a...
Dates:
October 1994
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 4 Number 1, January 1995
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Collection number: ca-012-001-007
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 4 Number 1, January 1994. From the Berrien County Historical Society Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue focuses on Ida Jane Shaw, the second child and first daughter of Francis Marion and Rachel Shaw. Born on June 19, 1868, in Ray City, Georgia, Ida Jane married W. Bartow Parrish on June 29, 1884, and they established a farm near Possum Branch. Despite being blessed with seven children, she...
Dates:
January 1995
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 4 Number 2, April 1995
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Collection number: CA-012-001-008
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 2 Number 2, January 1994. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue centers on Effie Cordelia Shaw, the fourth child of Francis Marion and Rachel Shaw. Born April 3, 1871, near Ray's Mill, Georgia, Effie married William D. Clements on December 9, 1888. They established a significant presence in Adel, Georgia, where William founded Clements &...
Dates:
April 1995
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 4 Number 3, July 1995
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Collection number: CA-01-001-009
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 4 Number 3, july 1995. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue primarily addresses a discrepancy in Francis Marion Shaw's death date. While his headstone and Folks Huxford's Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia record his death as January 1, 1922, newly examined estate papers, brought forth by Judge John Pat Webb, reveal conflicting evidence. These...
Dates:
July 1995
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 4 Number 4, November 1995
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Collection number: CA-01-001-010
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 4 Number 4, November 1995. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue primarily celebrates Rachel Moore Allen Shaw, highlighting her as the family's matriarch. She is identified as a ninth-generation granddaughter of Reverend John Robinson, the spiritual leader of the Mayflower Pilgrims, whose followers immigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 and...
Dates:
November 1995
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 5 Number 1, February 1996
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Collection number: CA-01-001-011
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 5 Number 1, February 1996. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This issue primarily details the estate of Jeremiah Shaw, Jr., father of sixteen children, including Francis Marion Shaw. It explains his October 31, 1877 will, which appointed his sons William Jasper and Francis Marion as executors. The article highlights his brief second marriage to Sarah L....
Dates:
February 1996
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 5 Number 2, May 1996
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Collection number: CA-012-001-012
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 5 Number 2, May 1996. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This newsletter focuses on Barzilla Allen and Rachel Moore Allen, highlighting their early family life and the subsequent life of their first son, William Barzilla Allen. Barzilla Allen, born November 29, 1837, in Lowndes County, Georgia, married Rachel Moore around 1856, and they had two sons,...
Dates:
May 1996
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 5 Number 3, November 1996
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Collection number: CA-012-001-013
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 5 Number 3, November 1996. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This newsletter focuses on Family Feuds that caused significant discord within the family. It details three specific instances: Jesse Shelby "Dock" Shaw's financial dispute with his nephew, Bruner Shaw, which angered Dock's wife, Susie, over an unpaid loan that required the sale of a cow; the...
Dates:
November 1996
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw Volume 6 Number 1, April 1997
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Collection number: CA-012-001-014
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 6 Number 1, April 1997. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This newsletter provides a photographic profile of Francis Marion Shaw, noting that only five known photographs depict his entire life journey. These rare images include his earliest portrait taken shortly after the Civil War, showing him gaunt but with his war-caused disfigurement conspicuously...
Dates:
April 1997
The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 6 Number 2, July 1997
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Collection number: CA-012-001-015
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The Family of Francis Marion Shaw, Volume 6 Number 2, July 1997. From the Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections.This newsletter focuses on the life of Francis Marion Shaw, a Confederate veteran who lost his right arm in a skirmish at Cedar Keys, Florida, in 1864. Despite being gaunt from his trauma, he returned home to clear and cultivate land acquired from his father. In 1866, he married Rachel Moore Allen,...
Dates:
July 1997