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By Dixie Norwood
Collection Overview
Abstract
In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, the Pruitt family consisted of well known farmers and whiskey makers. Maurice Pruitt was an anesthesiologist in Chattanooga TN in the 1930s. His wife practiced anesthesiology as well. The Pruitt's had family in Lauderdale County, AL and in Virginia.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection includes family history and genealogy of the Pruitt Family in the United States as well as in England. It includes family correspondence, military history and service records of family members, and materials for Bugger Saga, written by Maurice Collins Pruitt.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Notebook: Bugger Saga Notes {Maurice Pruitt] (No Date)
- Folder 2: Notebook: "A History of West Point & Surrounding Territory" {by Paul Welch} (1968)
- Folder 3: Pruitt, Wade, Johnson, and Stutts Box {Correspondence} (1907;1932-1934;1937;1940)
- Folder 4: Pruitt Family {including Thomas David Pruitt} (1919;1933-1934;1939)
- Folder 5: "Bugger Saga" {RE: the published book} (1978)
- Folder 6: Notebook: Census 1850, Lauderdale County, Alabama (No Date)
- Folder 7: Notebook: Double Head/Indian Land/Lauderdale County Early Settlers (1969)
- Folder 8: Pruitt Family Correspondence 91931;1933-1934;1936-1937;1940)
- Folder 9: Pruitt Family Correspondence (1933-1934)
- Folder 10: Pruitt Family Correspondence (1933-1934;1937)
- Box 2
- Item 1: Notebook: Plymouth Rubber Company, Inc. (1969)
- Folder 2: Notebook: Pruitt #1- The Pruitts of Pruitton, Alabama {mentions: Pruitts, Adkissons, Rhodes, Brewer, Powell} (mid-1800s)
- Folder 3: Notebook: Pruitt #2- "Prewit, Prewitt, Pruitt working sheets" {Bertha O. Brockman} (1933)
- Folder 4: Notebook: Pruitt #3-Family Genealogy {contents: Maps, Census, Date, note on Greenwood, Wade, Chisolm, Pruitt} (No Date)
- Folder 5: Notebook: Pruitt #4-"Kentucky Pruitts" (No Date)
- Folder 6: Notebook: Pruitt #5- "John Wade Pruitt's 1933 Notebook South Carolina Pruitts (1933)
- Folder 7: Notebook: Pruitt #6- "General Pruitt records" in England, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (No Date)
- Folder 8: Genealogy: Early Settlers at Muscle Shoals, Stutts, Myers (No Date)
- Folder 9: Notebooks: The Wade Family {mentions: Wades, MacQuiddy, Patterson, Rhodes, Bugger Sage} (mid-1800s)
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Payroll of a Company of Militia Commanded by Capt. John Chism {Red Buck} (January 28-May 10, 1814)
- Item 2: Notebook: Chisolm #3-Tales of Capt. John "Red Buck" Chisolm and Descendants (No Date)
- Item 3: Notebook: Chisolm #2- Maurice Pruitt's Notes (No Date)
- Folder 4: Notebook: Chisolm #4-Census Notes {contents: Lauderdale and Madison counties} (1850)
- Folder 5: Notebook: Chisolm #1- Diary of Capt. John N. Chisolm {Civil War Experiences} (July-September 1864)
- Folder 6: Notebook: Chisolm #7- Chisum/Chisolm Mauscripts (No Date)
- Folder 7: Notebook: Chisolm #5- Journal of Capt. William Rufus Chisolm-C.S.A. (c. 1863-1864)
- Folder 8: Notebook: Chisolm #6- "The 'John Chisolm' Deklemma in/out and About the Muscle Shoals" (1970)
- Folder 9: Chisolm Family: John Chisolm (1963-1965;1967;1969-1970)
- Folder 10: Chisolm Family: John Chisolm (1946-1947;1958;1962-1964;1966)
- Folder 11: Notebook: Chisolm #8- Clan Chisolm Newsletter & Genealogy Notes (1972)
- Folder 12: Notebook: Chisolm #9- Manuscript on Chisolm (No Date)
- Folder 13: Chisolm Family (1816;1894;1932-1934;1963;1965-1966;1968;1970-1971)
- Folder 14: Chisolm Family (1926;1930;1932-1934;1936-1937;1940;1963)
- Folder 15: John Chisolm claim-St. Mark's Parish, South Carolina {Quebec-July 11, 1789} (x2 folders)
- Folder 16: Chisolm Family: Correspondence Records (1910;1933;1942;1965-1973;1976)
- Folder 17: Chisolm Family (1796;1800;1905;1963-1965;1970)
- Folder 18: Chisolm Family: Records Photostats (1965-1966)
- Box 4
- Item 1: {Book} The Pruitts, Pattersons, and Their Rhodes Relatives (1978)
- Item 2: {Book} Prewitt-Light Ringler-Hollowell and Allied Families (1970)
- Item 3: {Book} Some Lauderdale County, Alabama Cemetery Records (1970)
- Item 4: {Manuscript} Registers Number 10-Civil War Collection Confederate and Federal (1966)
- Item 5: {Manuscript} Index to Questionnaires of Civil War Veterans (1962)
- Item 6: {Spiral Book} Index to Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications (1964)
- Item 7: {Booklet} Directory of Civil War Monuments and Memorials in Tennessee (1963)
- Item 8: {Map} Sectional Road Map of Great Britain (1966)
- Folder 9: (16) Invitations: 56th Anuual Public Debate of the Platonic and Hamilton Debating Societies of the Webb School (1931)
- Item 10: {Gospel Tract} Solution of Revelation (1880)
- Folder 11: Funeral Notice--Olivia Pruitt/Pruitt Letter (No Date and 1933)
- Folder 12: National Archives Microfilm Publications {#208; #268; #311 (x2); #234} (1953;1960-1961;1966)
- Item 13: {Magazine} Civil War Times Illustrated: The Common Soldier of the Civil War (July 1973)
- Folder 14: Local History: General Bugger Saga Notes (1971)
- Folder 15: Loose Papers (1931-1933;1939;1955;1963-1965)
- Item 16: {Map} Autocar Half-Inch Road Map of the London Area (No Date)
- Item 17: {Booklet} The Development of Early Emigrant Trails in the United States East of the Mississippi River (1962)
- Folder 18: Related Materials: 1. Federal Archives Guide for Civil War 2. Rec. Gp. #153, Records of the Judge Advocate General 1808-1942 (1945)
- Item 19: {Magazine} Hood's Nashville Campaign (December 1964)
- Folder 20: Invitation: Vanderbilt Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (December 5, 1932)
- Item 21: {Booklet} Tennessee Newspapers: A Cummulative List of Microfilmed Tennessee Newspapers in the Tennessee State Library (1969)
- Folder 22: Personal--Miscellaneous (1926;1929-1930;1932)
- Folder 23: Pruitt--Miscellaneous (1809;1873;1899;1902;1910;1923;1929;1932-1933;1976)
- Folder 24: Maurice Pruitt Correspondence (1925-1929;1931-1932)
- Folder 25: Personal--Miscellaneous (1928;1931-1934;1961;1963-1966;1968-1969)
- Folder 26: Maurice Pruitt--Correspondence (1905;1918;1928;1932)
- Folder 27: Maurice Pruitt Correspondence (1926-1927;1929-1932)
- Folder 28: Thomas Pruitt (1905;1932;1963)
- Folder 29: Pruitt--Miscellaneous (1905;1908;1918;1931;1933)
- Folder 30: Maurice Pruitt Personal Correspondence (1925-1932)
- Folder 31: Personal--Webb School Days (1929-1931)
- Folder 32: Notebook: "Guerillas and Bushwhackers in Middle Tennessee-During the Civil War" (No Date)
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Pruitt, Pruit, Pret, Pruett, Prewet, Prewett Genealogy (1970;1973;1975)
- Folder 2: Genealogy: Chisolm Manuscript-Clark Papers {Excerpts, pgs. 105-186} (1933)
- Folder 3: Local History--Journal of William K.M. Breckenridge Lt. Col. 1st W. Tennessee Cav. USA (1862-1863)
- Folder 4: Local History--Captain Lewis M. Kirk (1970)
- Folder 5: Local History--Lewis Kirk, Sowell Articles (1919;1921;1962;1968)
- Folder 6: Genealogy: Palmer Family Records (1934;1962-1963;1972;1975)
- Folder 7: Genealogy Correspondence with Edgar Byler {RE: Whitten Family} (1970-1971)
- Folder 8: Genealogy Miscellaneous Data (1963;1968)
- Folder 9: Local History--C.S.A. Unit Rosters, Lauderdale County, Alabama (1968)
- Folder 10: Local History--Henry Clay Pruitt, Elias Thrasher {Military Records C.W.} (1886;1898;1901;1968)
- Folder 11: Genealogy: Lester Prewitt's Young Record {Vinyl Copy} (No Date)
- Folder 12: Local History--Frank James Trial (1884)
- Folder 13: Local History--Guerillas and Thieves in Lauderdale County (1865;1872;1893;1897;1900;1907;1957;1969)
- Folder 14: Local History--Unknown Soldier Buried in Tennessee (1969)
- Folder 15: Local History--Civil War Prisoners and Lt. Col. William O. Bowen 10th Mo. Cav. (1863;1883;1922)
- Folder 16: {Empty Folder} Reports Made to V.M. Benham Judge of Probate of Indigent Families of Soldiers of Lauderdale County in the Service of the Confederate States {pm the 1st of July, 1863}
- Folder 17: Local History--Capt. Risen D. Deford, U.S.A. (1863-1865;1887;1898;1915;1930;1961;1968)
- Folder 18: Genealogy: Heraldry-Bogus Pruitt Coats of Arms (No Date)
- Folder 19: Local History--Price Parker Column Clippings (1969)
- Folder 20: Maurice Pruitt's Latin Notebook-Chisolm Notes (No Date)
- Folder 21: Genealogy: Pruitts in Virginia, South Carolina, and Maryland & 1812 Pensions (1970)
- Folder 22: Personal House Plans (1960)
- Folder 23: Genealogy: Virginia Records (1969-1971)
- Folder 24: Local History--Tom Clark and Guerillas (1860;1865;1872;1967)
- Folder 25: Personal: Maurice Pruitt Clippings (1971-1972)
- Folder 26: Personal Correspondence with Dr. Fiji Pruitt (1976)
- Folder 27: Personal: John W. Wade {Architect} (1971;1976)
- Folder 28: Genealogy: John Dickie Wade (1849)
- Folder 29: Personal: Maurice Pruitt in Japan (1946)
- Folder 30: Genealogy: Thomas Pruitt Records {Amelia & Halifax County, Virginia} (1745;1747;1760;1797)
- Folder 31: Genealogy: Manakintown, Virgina-Families of Sublett {Soblet, Subley} and Chastain (1963)
- Folder 32: Personal--Letter from Sgt. Thomas D. Pruitt (April 22, 1919)
- Folder 33: Personal--Clippings {RE: Maurice Pruitt} (1958;1965-1966;1973)
- Folder 34: Genealogy: Stutts Family (No Date)
- Folder 35: Genealogy--Correspondence {RE: "Doc" Mangum} (1971)
- Folder 36: Local History: Clark-Stewart Agreements (1837;1860)
- Folder 37: Local History: Confederate Army Rosters {four companies from Tennessee} (1861-1863)
- Folder 38: Genealogy: "Sum Jum" Cartoons (1933)
- Folder 39: Genealogy: Chisolm Family Dates (No Date)
- Folder 40: Local History: Slave Census, Wayne County, Tennessee (1860)
- Folder 41: Local History: Slave Census of Lauderdale County, Alabama {Roll 31} (1860)
- Folder 42: Genealogy: Correspondence with Edgar Byler {RE: Whitten Family} (1971)
- Folder 43: Local History: Correspondence from H.F. Koonce (1968)
- Folder 44: Local History: "Lawrenceburg Gaol" {from Bugger Saga} (No Date)
- Folder 45: Local History: Capt. S.P. Emerson (1900-1901)
- Folder 46: Notebook: References for Bugger Saga (No Date)
- Folder 47: Genealogy: Pruette Faerie Tales-Pruette Huguenot Hoax (No Date)
- Folder 48: {Empty Folder} Genealogy (No Date)
- Folder 49: Maurice Pruitt: Family tree Correspondence (1975)
- Folder 50: Ledgers (1861-1862)
- Folder 51: Civil War Related Newspaper Clippings (1969-1970)
- Folder 52: Genealogy--Correspondence {RE: Maurice Pruitt} (1965;1967-1976)
- Box 6
- Folder 1: General Services Administration-Beville, David R.; Gist, James (1968)
- Folder 2: General Services Administration-Blackburn, Daniel; Blackburn, Stephen; Kirkan, William (1968)
- Folder 3: General Services Administration-Brewer, Jane (1968)
- Folder 4: General Services Administration-Brewer, John R.; Brewer, James H. (1968)
- Folder 5: General Services Administration-Brewer, Richard M. (1969)
- Folder 6: General Services Administration-Brewer, Thomas (1968)
- Folder 7: General Services Administration-Clark, Thomas; Gist, William; Jones, James (1968)
- Folder 8: General Services Administration-Clark, Dennis; Clark, James; Fall, Robt; Clark, Carroll (1969)
- Folder 9: General Services Administration-Clark, William H. (1969)
- Folder 10: General Services Administration-Deffy, John (1968)
- Folder 11: General Services Administration-Gallion, Green (1968)
- Folder 12: General Services Administration-Gibson, William (1968)
- Folder 13: General Services Administration-Gist, Levi (1968)
- Folder 14: General Services Administration-Hayes, W.B. (1968)
- Folder 15: General Services Administration-Heathcoat Military Record (1971)
- Folder 16: General Services Administration-Hensley, Presley W. (1968)
- Folder 17: General Services Administration-Hill, Lewis (1968)
- Folder 18: General Services Administration-Kiddy, Paul W. (1968)
- Folder 19: General Services Administration-Kiddy, Thomas (1968)
- Folder 20: General Services Administration-Kirk, L.M. (1971)
- Folder 21: General Services Administration-Kirk, L.M. (1971)
- Folder 22: General Services Administration-Lancaster, William J. (1968)
- Folder 23: General Services Administration-Lancaster, William J. (1968)
- Folder 24: General Services Administration-Lancaster, H.L.M. (1968)
- Folder 25: General Services Administration-Luker, Clayton (1968)
- Folder 26: General Services Administration-McDonald, Henry C. (1968)
- Folder 27: General Services Administration-Murphy, John (Col.) (1968)
- Folder 28: General Services Administration-Lee Richard (1968)
- Folder 29: General Services Administration-Skillern, William A. (1971)
- Folder 30: General Services Administration-Smuthers, Thomas (1968)
- Folder 31: General Services Administration-Stinnett {Stenet}, james (Capt.) (1968)
- Folder 32: General Services Administration-Stutts, Walter {Walts} F. (1968)
- Folder 33: General Services Administration-Turman, Elijah V. (1969)
- Folder 34: General Services Administration-Wesson, John R.; Gallion, Albert (1968)
- Folder 35: General Services Administration-Prewitt, T.L. (1968)
- Folder 36: General Services Administration-Moore, John & Eliza (1971)
- Folder 37: General Services Administration-Hays Family (1971)
- Folder 38: General Services Administration-Pruitt, Thomas W. (1968)
- Folder 39: General Services Administration-Bromley, james W.; Kirk, & Hollis (1971)
- Folder 40: General Information-Kirk, Lewis {Bugger Saga} (1971)
- Folder 41: General Services Administration-Wade, Andrew J. (1968)
- Box 7
- Folder 1: General Services Administration-Chisham, John L. (1966)
- Folder 2: General Services Administration-Chism, Elijah (1966)
- Folder 3: General Services Administration-Chisholm {Chisum}, John (1966)
- Folder 4: General Services Administration-Chism, Nathaniel (1966)
- Folder 5: General Services Administration-Prewett, Dudley (1972)
- Folder 6: General Services Administration-Chisam, James (1966)
- Folder 7: General Services Administration-Chism, John; Chisham, James; Chisholm, Joseph McHenry; Chisam, Absolom (1963)
- Folder 8: General Services Administration-Chisum {Chism}, John (1966)
- Folder 9: General Services Administration-Chism, James (1966)
- Folder 10: General Services Administration-Chisholm, John (1971)
- Folder 11: General Services Administration-Chism, Dempsey; Chism, William; Chism, John (1966)
- Folder 12: General Services Administration-Pruet, Soloman; Pruet, Henry (1972)
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