Scope and Contents According to Callie B. McGinnis' article in volume 4 of Muscogiana (1993) and also on the website Rootsweb on Ancestry.com, the Hatcher & McGehee Negro Book was part of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Collections in the Columbus State University Archives. It was donated to the Archives by Mrs. Lenora Woodall Nilan. The book is a record of the purchase and sale of slaves from 1858 to 1860 by Hatcher & McGehee, one of three slave trading companies that operated in Columbus,...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of two parts: items donated by his daughter, Mrs. Lenora Woodall Nilan, and material found in an old building in Columbus. Mrs. Nilan donated all of her father's scrapbooks and clippings, primarily his “Our Town” columns, 1963-1971. (An index to these can be found in the T. J. Peddy Collection, MC 36). The earliest Woodall scrapbooks include articles from 1906 and a picture of a lynching in Knoxville,Georgia. Also included is the account book of the Hatcher-McGehee...