General Correspondence and other materials, 1930-1933

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This material details the personal and professional activities of Oscar L. Betts, Jr. and, to a lesser extent, Oscar L. Betts, III (known as Buster), as well as R. H. Taliaferro, the father of Buster's wife, Sue Malone Taliaferro. These papers are arranged in three two series: Series 1 – The Betts Family; Series 2 – The Taliaferro Family and Series 3 – The Crawford Family. Within each series items are generally arranged chronologically, with Betts, Jr. and Betts III materials filed together. Within the Betts series there are three sub-divisions: Association of the United States Army (AUSA); Rotary Club; Spirit of Fort Benning Award.

Among the Betts' areas of interest are such subjects as the Ralston Hotel, the Columbus Airport (also known as the Muscogee County Airport and the Municipal Airport), the Highway 27 Association, Fort Benning, World War II, the Rotary Club, the AUSA (Association of the U.S. Army), the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, The Jordan Company, Tom's Foods, etc.

Among the Taliaferros' areas of interest are Jordan Vocational High School, Taliaferro's retirement in 1967, his fundraising for Brookstone (Trinity) School, other Columbus civic organizations and the genealogies of the Crawford family of R. H Taliaferro's wife, Harriet Crawford.

The scrapbooks kept by both Oscar Betts, Jr. and R. H. Taliaferro are in very poor physical condition.

Dates

Other: 1930-1933

Extent

From the Collection: 2 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

This folder contains loose items removed from between pages 8 and 9 of Oscar Betts III's baby book above. The pages are titled "Newspaper Clippings" and "Notes and Letters of Congratulation". In addition to these, there are also some photographs and medical records from 1931 to 1933. Some of the photographs are probably from his first birthday, spent at the home of his grandmother Britt in Thomaston, Georgia.