ROACH AND EGGLESTON FAMILY PAPERS, #2614, 1825-1905
Diaries, correspondence, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, and commonplace books of
the Roach, Gilbert, and Eggleston families of Woodville, Wilkinson County, and Vicksburg,
Mississippi. The bulk of the collection (the 49-volume diary of Mahala P. H. Roach) records
the household chores of slaves, and the diary and plantation journal of Dick H. Eggleston
describes the work of slaves on his Mississippi plantation (1830). Microfilm available.
