Guide to the

Scope / Content: Ledgers (1841-72) used for various purposes, including accounts and tenants' agreements, and records (1853) of New Prospect School, Calhoun County, Alabama; correspondence (1841-1903) between Johnston family members and their friends, discussing family news, including letters (1861-65) to and from family members and friends serving in the Confederate army.

Biographical Sketch: The Johnston family farmed in Calhoun County, Alabama.

SERIES I: Accounts

• Two ledgers

• Cooper, E.J. [Lizzie Johnston, apparently sister of Evie, Carrie, Josie Johnston], April 18, 1852-1903
• Cooper Family Letters [seven letters], February 26, 1868-May 20, 1869
• Edwards Family Letters [five letters], October 22, 1899-May 18, 1903
• Edwards Letters
• Haltiwanger, Bettie E. [three letters], November 15, 1868-April 18, 1869
• Johnston Family Letters [twenty letters], April 1, 1861-February 1865
• D.B. Davis Letters [seven letters], May 1862-October 1863
• Merritt Family Letters [three letters], 1864, 1869, 1899
• Moreland Letters [two letters], May 1886, October 1, 1888
• Morgan Letters (T.J.) [four letters], May 1861-September 1861
• Morgan Family Miscellaneous [three letters], 1886-1875
• Smith Letters [seven letters], 1860-1863, 1872
• Correspondence of Miscellaneous Persons, 1843-1900
• Unidentified Authors' Letters [eight items], 1864-1869 of those bearing dates

• Five promissory notes
• William Johnston Taxables in 1864
• One account statement (Morgan and Co.)
• One record of labor

• Form of an attachment on an estate
• Labor record
• Account statement--C.C. Spraggins
• Agreement for farm management between Wm. Johnston and Samuel J. Darby
• Fragment of a deed of Daniel White for tract of land in Carroll County (Georgia), February 28, 1844

• One copy of The Rising Star, October 29, 1870, published by Moseley Brothers, Oxford, AL
• One essay on grammar, author unknown
• One copy of The Southern Farmer, Vol. 3, No. 8. Memphis, Tennessee, August 1869, pp. 169-192
• One newspaper clipping of want-ad section (name and date of the newspaper is unknown)
• Prospectus announcing the issuance of The Southern Argus in Selma, AL on June 10, 1869 (weekly paper, Robert McKee, publisher)
• Form letter and pamphlet from the Bon Sante Remedy Company
• One Bible Union Quarterly, November 1858
• Minutes of the 29^th Session Coosa River Baptist Association, September 20, 21, [1862]
• Advertisement for The Peoples Journal
• Four advertisements:
a) Wilson and Company of New York
b) Quarter-Dime Soap
c) R.C. Johnston & Sons Store, Anniston, Ala.
d) Allen's Nonpareil Washing Compound
• Twenty-six covers

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