Date processed: 04-07-2003
Processed By: MTO
Repository Information
Archives of Wiregrass History & Culture
Troy University--Dothan Campus
P.O. Box 8368
Dothan, AL 36304Website: http://dothan.troy.edu/archives
Ph: 334-983-6556 x-327
E-mail: Archivist Dr. Martin T. Olliff <molliff@troy.edu>
Administrative Information
Accession: 023-03-0417
Date Span: 1941, 1954
Permanent Physical Description: 2 TIF images
Historical Sketch:
Ms. Dorothy Lindsay Brown is the Administrative Assistant for the Greater Beulah Family Life Center and Church. Her maternal extended family is the Weems of Columbia, AL. The Weems consisted of up to 7 families who owned, collectively or via adjacent plots, a farm of ca. 200 acres in Columbia.
Scope / Content Note:
Accession contains 2 scanned images of Weems in ca. 1941 and ca. 1953-54. Image 001 shows six members of the family arrived in a mule-drawn wagon at Smith Grocery in Columbia (ca. 1953-54); Image 002 is of Mabel and Euffie Weems in ca. 1941, first two graduates of the Columbia Colored School (in background). Mabel Weems Teague is Dorothy L. Brown’s mother.
CALENDAR OF IMAGES
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Ref. No. PH 023-03-0405-001 Six members of the Weems Family of Columbia at Smith Grocery, ca. 1953-54. |
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Ref. No. PH 023-03-0405-002 Mabel Weems and Euffie Weems, the first graduates of Columbia Colored School, ca. 1941. |