MS 99
Henry W. Kimball Diaries
1881-1908

 

Henry W. Kimball was a student and son of a sharecropper from Marshall County, Mississippi (1881-1884) and later in Obion County, Tennessee (1884-1908). His diaries and ledgers consist of a daily record of the activities of a rural farmer in Northern Mississippi and in Obion River bottoms of Northwest Tennessee.

Box 1 of 2

File No. Title Date

1 Henry W. Kimball Diaries January 1, 1880-April 20, 1883
2 Henry W. Kimball Diaries June 1881-1882
3 Henry W. Kimball Diaries May 1, 1883-April 30, 1888
4 Henry W. Kimball Diaries April 16, 1894-March 26, 1897
5 Henry W. Kimball Diaries March 27, 1897-February 28, 1899
6 Henry W. Kimball Diaries March 1, 1899-November 30, 1900
7 Henry W. Kimball Diaries December 1, 1900-November 30, 1902

Box 2 of 2

File No. Title Date

1 Henry W. Kimball Diaries December 1, 1902-April 19, 1908
2 Loose Papers