Gignilliat Family Records

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Box 1

Family Information
- genealogical information re: Gignilliat family

Lila's Letters
- letters to "Aunt Lila and Uncle Rayburn" (Webb) and "Aunt Tip and Uncle Walter" (Sewell) from "Lila" [1951]

Robert D. Gignilliat
- miscellaneous correspondence to and from Robert D. Gignilliat [1891-1908]

General Leigh R. Gignilliat
- poem - "General L. R. Gignilliat" by Edgar A. Guest
- article re: Gen. Gignilliat from Culver Alumnus, Culver Military Academy, Culver, Indiana

Clifford Gignilliat Sewell - Correspondence (1)
- correspondence between Clifford Gignilliat Sewell and various others [1928-1934]

Clifford Gignilliat Sewell - Correspondence (2)
- correspondence between Clifford Gignilliat Sewell and W. L. Sewell [1928-1932]

Clifford Gignilliat Sewell - Manuscripts (1)
- manuscripts of works by Cliff Sewell, source materials for her works, photocopies of newspaper articles

Clifford Gignilliat Sewell - Manuscripts (2)
- manuscripts of works by Cliff Sewell, source materials for her works, photocopies of newspaper articles

Roses - God's Autograph
- book - Roses . . . God's Autograph, but Anne Douglas Leitch with Cliff Sewell [copyright 1976]
- articles about book

Filler for Candle
- copy of The Candle, publication of St. Andrew's Independent Episcopal Church [9/78]
- miscellaneous manuscripts

Photographs
- miscellaneous photographs of the Gignilliat family, mostly unidentified

Miscellaneous
- ration books from World War Two
- booklet - Calvary Catechism
- letter to "Mother" from William Robert Gignilliat, with form of contract for employment of freed slave attached [undated, but sounds like from just after Civil War]
- handwritten story - "The lost son," by Hattie H. Gignilliat [1/1907]
- plat of part of Tybee Island
- Economy Purchase Plan from Georgia Power, signed by W. L. Sewell [3-9-39]



Not in Folders

1) notebook - "Clifford Gignilliat, Man 101"

2) composition book - "Clifford Gignilliat, English I, Rm. 27"

3) Articles of Marriage Settlement, Adeline S. Graham, James A. Probhart to [illegible] Jacob Probhart [9/1830]



Gignilliat Family Records

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Box 2

1) autograph book, with binding falling apart - barely written in, but there is a name and date written on the first page - "Miss A. G. [illegible], January 9, 1877"

2) Georgia Magazine, Volume 11, Number 3 [October-November 1967], with story by Cliff Sewell on p. 25 - "When Somebody Cares - A Short Georgia Story"

3) Savannah News-Press Sunday Magazine [4-14-74], with story by Cliff Sewell on first page - "Monterey Square: Honors Count Pulaski"

4) Georgia's Coastal Illustrated, bi-monthly newspaper, Volume 8, Number 170 [no date given] - Cliff Sewell is listed as a feature writer, but her by-line does not appear on any of the stories

5) Savannah News-Press Sunday Magazine [5-4-75], with story by Cliff Sewell on first page - "Ghostly Tales Freeze the Blood and Other Savannah Memories"

6) Savannah News-Press Sunday Magazine [6-16-74], with story by Cliff Sewell on first page - "Savannah Dolls"

7) Savannah News-Press Sunday Magazine [6-2-74], with story re: Cliff Sewell on first page - "'Savannah, Now and Then': Sunday Magazine Writer Authors Book on Savannah"

8) bound scrapbook, labelled "Volume II: 1968-1969"

9) unbound scrapbook (held together by paper fasteners) [1966-67]



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Box 3

1) 7 issues of Savannah magazine [November 1969, December 1969, January 1970, February-March 1970, April 1970, July 1970, September 1972]

2) Scrapbook kept by Clifford Gignilliat Sewell

3) unbound scrapbook (held together by paper fasteners) - copies of Savannah Morning News-Evening Press Magazine for 1970