Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS375
Scope and Content
This collection contains organizational records and histories of the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association. Also included are historical items collected by members as well as newspaper clippings, programs, and membership information. There are files pertaining to member genealogy and biographies of Confederate soldiers.
Dates:
1866-1977
Martha Lumpkin Compton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS139
Scope and Content
This collection contains two scrapbooks, a diary, correspondence, newspaper clippings, Atlanta Board of Aldermen resolutions, and a recipe book. The two scrapbooks contain poems, genealogical notes, letters, greeting cards, and notes from family members and friends including “Cousin Naomi,” Augustus Alden, “Sister Anna L. A.,” Danny Boykins, Allie Alden, and Wilson Lumpkin. There are newspaper clippings on topics such as the 1888 Southern Baptist Convention, a 50th anniversary article on...
Dates:
1840-1959, undated
Oakland Cemetery records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS618
Scope and Content
This collection contains burial permits, interment book records, removal lists, and "record of lot owners" books which provide details of persons buried and lot ownership at Oakland Cemetery. Also a part of the collection are sexton and superintendent records of payroll, expense ledgers, annual reports, and correspondence which document the day to day operations of the cemetery. Of special interest are WPA project records that reflect a consolidation of early cemetery records as well as the...
Dates:
1848-2018, undated
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- Subject: Georgia -- Genealogy X
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- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Athens (Ga.) 1
- Burial records -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cemeteries -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Christmas cards 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Confederate States of America -- Registers of dead 1
- Death -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Diaries 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Invitation cards -- Georgia 1
- Locomotives -- Georgia 1
- Mausoleums -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Monuments & memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Obituaries 1
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia 1
- Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers of dead 1
- Women -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions 1 + ∧ less
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