Finding Aid for the Ligon Collection (MUM00269)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Collection Date

1942-1945

Identifier

MUM00269

General Physical Description Note

1 box.

Description

The Ligon Collection contains approximately 82 letters written to Herschel Ligon, a soldier during the Second World War. The letters are largely from Herschel's wife, Susan Wydell (Lott) Ligon, her mother "Mama" Lott and her sister, Dorothy Lott. The Lott family owned a café in Columbia, Mississippi, in Marion County. The collection also contains a photograph album of WWI era shots of Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and San Juan, Puerto Rico .

Recommended Citation

Ligon Collection (MUM00269). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

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