Archive Record
Metadata
Accession number |
0000.011 |
Catalog Number |
0000.011.008.005 |
Object Name |
Document |
Creator |
Poole, Louella Mercer |
Title |
Poole Memoir |
Scope & Content |
"Some History and a Few Reminiscences" by Louella May Mercer Poole. Information: Mercer Family; Booker/Booka Family; 2nd La. Cavalry; Col. Vinson; Isaac Edwards and family; Fillmore; Fillmore Methodist Church; architechture of Mercer family home; Steamboats; Red River; furniture; Ash Point, Taylortown; childbirth; Dan Carter; Amos Carter; Mand Carter; Lindy Walker; Nancy Joiner; superstition; Guy Wilson; Jim Walker; Lizzie McDade, Noonan Johnson, schools, education; food; Chaffe & West; New Orleans Centennial; Captain Brinker; Mr. George Russell; Printed photo of Waterloo Plantation (Mercer's Landing) home; description of "new" house; John and Mamie Booth; Hall Nattin; Elizabeth Nattin; Edgar Dortch; Pearl Dortch; Dollie Fort; sunbonnets; culture; Lula Parsons; Emma Norris; Alabel Martin; Mr. Donovan; school discipline; Mrs. Archer; egg knocking; children's games; rafts; Annie Dell Hodges; Rubie Moss; quicksand; Sunday School; circus; Aunt Jessie; peddler; horses; Huey and Smith Magenta store; barbecues; Pearl Dortch; Baby Lee Dortch; toys; dutch oven; cooking; house cleaning; corn shuck mops, homemade soap; levees; Aunt Viney Ware (midwife); childbirth; Mammy Sally; planting cotton; African-Americans; Work; Logie Lea Plantation (in caddo); Waterloo plantation; Swamp Fever (malaria); Death of Edward Lock Mercer; Burns Cemetery; Hayne Burns; calomel; quinine; medicine; blue mass; illness; measles; cow chip tea; cholera infantum; Dr. Paul Lawrence; discipline at home; Big Bend Plantation; Little Bend Plantation; Grappe Place; Mr. Thompson; Northwestern State University (State Normal College); Taylortown; Mr. Will Taylor; Christmas; holidays; Nazareth School (a Convent); Halloween; Death of Lucille Mercer; Ash Point Post Office; Dortch Family; Dr. and Mrs. Robert Moss; George Musser; Will Robson Family; George Rutherford; Boer War; Servants; The Island; Hopewell/Caplis Place; Moon Lake; Fishing; cooking "cooters" (turtles); Shed Smith; Jessie Octavia Mercer; Captain Thatcher's Military Institute; Weddings; Marriage; Buckhorn; |
People |
Booth, John Booth, Mamie Burns, Hayne Carter, Amos Carter, Dan Carter, Mand Colbert, Susan "Pearl" Dortch Connell, Dorothy Berry "Dollie" Fort Dortch, Edgar Johnson, Noonan Joiner, Nancy Lawrence, Paul (Dr.) McDade, Lizzie Mercer, Edward Lock Mercer, Jessie Octavia Mercer, Lucille Moss, Robert (Dr.) Moss, Robert (Mrs.) Moss, Rubie Musser, George Nattin, Elizabeth Nattin, John Hall (Capt.) Norris, Emma Ogden, Alabel Martin Parsons, Lula Poole, Louella May Mercer Robson, William (Capt.) Russell, George Rutherford, George Taylor, Will Walker, Annie Dell Hodges Walker, Jim Walker, Lindy Wilson, Guy |
Search Terms |
African Americans Ash Point Plantation Ash Point Post Office Big Bee Bend Plantation Burns Cemetery Cotton Fillmore Methodist Church Grappe Place Halloween Huey & Smith Magenta Store Little Bee Bend Plantation Logie Lea Plantation Diseases, Malaria Mercer's Landing Moon Lake Northwestern State University Red River Steamboats Taylortown Waterloo Plantation Weddings |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Inventoried date |
2023-11-30 |