Date of Original
1870/1955

Subject
McCrary family
McCants family
Deeds--Georgia
Indentures--Georgia
Land surveys--Georgia
Land titles--Georgia

People
Cameron, Clara McCants, 1877-1967
Fountain, Andrew Jackson, 1840-1904
Jarrell, Kate Lee "Katie", 1885-1972
McCants, Andrew J., 1811-1862
McCants, Bartley J., 1848-1872
McCants, Henry C. R., 1850-1876
McCants, Jeremiah Andrew "Jerry", 1837-1887
McCants, Jeremiah Crealman, 1808-1866
McCants, Kinian Bartley Napoleon Franklin "Bart", 1849-1893

Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Taylor County, Butler, 32.55709, -84.23825

Medium
family papers
bills of sale
checkbooks
checks (bank checks)
correspondence
deeds
financial records
indentures
land surveys
legal documents
printed materials
receipts (financial records)
tax records
writings (document genre)

Type
Text

Description
Jonathan Jackson "Jack" McCants, Sr. was born to Jeremiah C. and Tabitha (McCrary) McCants in Talbot County (presently Taylor County), Georgia in 1845. After serving in the American Civil War, Jonathan McCants returned to Taylor County where he established the McCants Grist Mill along with a cotton gin and saw mill. He served in the Georgia Senate from 1880 to 1881 and in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1881 to 1885, 1898, and 1899. He and his wife Sarah Jane (McCants) McCants had nine children Clifford McCants Stokes, Bessie McCants, Clara McCants Cameron, Jerre Jackson McCants, Andrew Murray McCants, Lora R. McCants McCants, Kate Lee "Katie" McCants Jarrell, Jonathan Morgan McCants, and Otis Gordon McCants.

This collection contains the papers of the Fountain and McCants families of Georgia. A large portion of the collection is comprised of the correspondence and financial records of Jonathan Jackson "Jack" McCants, Sr. (1845-1920) of Butler, Georgia. Also included are land deeds, titles, surveys, receipts, insurance policies, tax information, and printed material from the Fountain and McCants families, as well as a few letters from the McCrary family.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_4315

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights