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Family records stemming from David Williams who moved to Pensacola in 1819; records of the families are tied by the marriage of William Johnson to Margaret A. R. Williams in 1860; includes letters requesting marriage and death dates; references "Coon Hill Cemetery" in Santa Rosa County. [50 pieces]

Interviewed by Herbert Jones. [Working on docks, Clara Frye Hospital, First Black patient in Tampa General, 1953. Ringling Bros. Circus in Miami & elsewhere, 1920s].

Correspondent was the daughter of a Canadian working for the Canadian Pacific Steamship company, and who lived in Japan and China just prior to the war as a young girl (8 years old). Documents are a collection related to both her experiences during the war and her father's work with the British underground. Includes a short memoir of her life in China and then in the US during the war, a paper she wrote outlining her father's work with the U.S. Office of War Information, spreading propaganda to the Japanese about surrender, and translations she made of her father's work.