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Baptists -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Mallary Family Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0181
Scope and Contents

The Mallary Scrapbook Collection consists of about 25 unbound pages of clippings related to the Mallary family, five photographs of paintings by Jeanie Dagg (Mrs. Rollin Daniel) Mallary, one Christmas card containing on the cover a photograph of a painting by Mrs. Mallary, and one photograph of Charles Dutton Mallary.

Dates: 1903 - 1918

Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0072
Scope and Contents

The Manuscript Collection contains correspondence, essays, journals, notes, receipts, and other documents from multiple creators, arranged in alphabetical order. Some of the letters have transcriptions; a few are photocopies.

Dates: 1800-2000

Melvin Thomas Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0124
Scope and Contents

This collection includes personal files from Smith, files from the churches he pastored, and miscellaneous files. The miscellaneous files include a variety of topics, including evangelism, marriage, and writings by different artists.

Dates: 1930-1990

Orville W. Taylor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0125
Scope and Contents

The collection contains Taylor’s research about Southern Baptist Missionary Thomas J. Bowen and his family, as well as Taylor’s own personal papers and writings.

Dates: 1853-1990s

Rufus W. Weaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0134
Scope and Contents The Rufus Washington Weaver Collection contains reports, correspondence, and other university-related documents from his time at Mercer University. The folders of the Weaver Papers are not in alphabetical order throughout the collection as a whole, but rather are generally alphabetized in groups of folders. Some groups stretch over several boxes, some groups span only one box or a portion of a box. Additionally, groups of records are not necessarily in chronological order. Items in box 6 are...
Dates: 1841-1932

Sylvan Hills Baptist Church Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GB-CH-171
Scope and Contents

The Sylvan Hills Baptist Church collection contains 8 boxes of church conference minutes, notes, and reports. The collection also contains information documenting deacons, memberships, activities, and the church fire.

Dates: 1931-2003

Thomas E. Langley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0069
Scope and Contents The Langley collection contains one item, the journal of Thomas E. Langley, written from January 1, 1859-December 29, 1860 in Fort Valley, Georgia. The journal contains accounts of routine, daily life, including Langley’s travels in middle Georgia to preach or visit family. Accounts are general, with few details, although he does mention names of churches, Baptist preachers he meets, etc. Three family members donated Langley’s 282-page journal to the Georgia Baptist History Depository in...
Dates: 1859 - 1860

William Isaac Patrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0101
Scope and Contents

This diary documents Patrick’s activities from April 1894 to September 29, 1895. In addition, an unknown person has added a page of genealogical information, probably from either 1922 or 1925.

Dates: 1894-1895, 1922 (or 1925)