Finding Aid for the Deavours Family Collection

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Document Type

Finding Aid

Publication Date

2026

Collection Date

1833-2008

Identifier

MUM00956

General Physical Description Note

5 boxes (6 linear feet)

Description

The Deavours Family Collection contains genealogical information about the Deavours and related families.  It also holds material related to Stone Deavours, a lawyer, who served as University of Mississippi Law School Dean from 1930 to 1932.  The collection also includes two nineteenth-century ledgers regarding Garlandsville, Mississippi and the journal of an unidentified Alabama dating from 1860 to 1874.

Recommended Citation

Deavours Family Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.

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