Maurice Pruitt Papers, 1745-1978

By Dixie Norwood

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Box and Folder Listing

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)