The collection contains the papers of the Menefee, Timmons, and Mitchell families of Georgia. Included are correspondence, application materials to the Daughters of the American Revolution (D. A. R.) and Daughters of the War of 1812, printed materials, legal records, scrapbooks, and other ephemera.

Correspondence includes letters between F. N. Menefee, Maggie (Menefee) Dean Warden, Josephine Menefee, and Aline Timmons regarding their family genealogy. Application materials for the D. A. R. and Daughters of the War of 1812 were compiled by Aline Mitchell Timmons and Willis Menefee Timmons, Jr. to document the families. Also included are materials about George Menefee's (1760-1840) grave marker from the D. A. R. as well as Franklin Garrett's research on Willis Pentecost Menefee (1814-1855) for the Old Campbell County Historical Society in 1980.

Legal papers include land grants, contracts, deeds, blueprints and maps, and wills. The collection contains land grants from 1827, 1828, and 1834; a number of indentures, and deeds (1828-1898); blueprints and maps of the property in Palmetto, Georgia; wills and deeds (1898-1918); inheritance tax information (1900-1917); and two slave bills of sale.

Included in the papers are photocopies of portions of History of Collinsworth Chapel; Virginia Carolorum; There was a Land: A Story of Talbot County, 1971; Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution; and Henry County, Georgia: The Mother of Counties that document the family. Also included are histories of Palmetto, Georgia and the Methodist Church of Palmetto, both of which Major Willis Pentecost Menefee (1814-1855) helped found. Miscellaneous materials include Confederate money issued by the Bank of Chattanooga, a Military Oath of Allegiance from 1865, and a ticket to the 1896 Republican National Convention as well as an autograph book from 1889.

Aline Timmons' scrapbooks (1929-1953) and Ora Sue Mitchell's scrapbook (1899-1929) contain letters, newspaper clippings, name cards, and photographs. Willis M. Timmons, Jr. also compiled four scrapbooks, titled "Plants, Places, and Things" comprised of clippings from Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin from the Georgia Department of Agriculture. Included with these notebooks is an index for each volume.