- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-127 Dorothy Hopkins McClendon Collection
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dorothy Hopkins McClendon estate
- Date of Original:
- 1994-03
- Subject:
- Troup County (Ga.)
Education--Georgia--Troup County
Archives--Collection management--Georgia--Troup County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- finding aids
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This is primarily a genealogical collection. Correspondence, research notes and pedigree charts trace the lineage of Dorothy Elizabeth Hopkins (1920-1993) and her husband, Oran Harvard McClendon (1913-1975). Dorothy McClendon was Troup County's "Cemetery Lady", a title acquired through fifteen years of locating and charting abandoned graveyards. In 1990, she published Family, Church and Community Cemeteries of Troup County, Georgia. The manuscript and some of her field notes are part of this collection. Mrs. McClendon was largely responsible for founding the West Central Georgia Genealogical Society in 1979. Newsletters, correspondence with researchers and a few items of memorabilia document her work in the genealogical society as well as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of the American Revolution. Twenty photographs, dating from about 1885 to 1992, show several generations of Mrs. McClendon's ancestors, and also document some of her cemetery charting activities. Her files, as indicated in the container list, are arranged alphabetically by surname or topic. Some minor deviation from alphabetical order occurs to accommodate boxing the larger groups of records.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/559
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:559/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
