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**{{search result |note="Robert Scott Davis collection. The collection consists of mostly xeroxed articles from various historical agencies, some original correspondence, maps, photographs, and newspaper articles relating to subjects Mr. Davis has written about. Included are materials about Georgia's participation in the Texas Revolution; Charles Cole Hind and Aetna Insurance; and miscellaneous Georgia material (especially historic Georgia houses). The first deposit relates to Georgia's participation in the Texas Revolution. There is general soldier information, rosters, maps, flags, and photographs, plus specific information on James W. Fannin and William A. Ward. The Charles Cole Hind and Aetna Insurance material concerns Georgia and Alabama. Mrs. Hind, as the insurance representative, made pre-Civil War building insurance surveys in the two states; xeroxes of the surveys are in this collection. There is also a copy of the book of instruction for agents & a bound copy of The 100 Years of Fire Insurance..., the history of Aetna from 1819-1919. Finally, selections from the miscellaneous Georgia material include: information about the Harris-Pearson-Walker House in Augusta, Carter's Quarters (National Register house) in Murray County, gold mining in Georgia, and materials gathered on the history of Clinton and other places in Georgia. |page=Box 10, folder 6. http://hmfa.libs.uga.edu/hmfa/view?docId=ead/ms2549-ead.xml;query=sikes;brand=default |name=Thomas Sikes}}
 
**{{search result |note="Robert Scott Davis collection. The collection consists of mostly xeroxed articles from various historical agencies, some original correspondence, maps, photographs, and newspaper articles relating to subjects Mr. Davis has written about. Included are materials about Georgia's participation in the Texas Revolution; Charles Cole Hind and Aetna Insurance; and miscellaneous Georgia material (especially historic Georgia houses). The first deposit relates to Georgia's participation in the Texas Revolution. There is general soldier information, rosters, maps, flags, and photographs, plus specific information on James W. Fannin and William A. Ward. The Charles Cole Hind and Aetna Insurance material concerns Georgia and Alabama. Mrs. Hind, as the insurance representative, made pre-Civil War building insurance surveys in the two states; xeroxes of the surveys are in this collection. There is also a copy of the book of instruction for agents & a bound copy of The 100 Years of Fire Insurance..., the history of Aetna from 1819-1919. Finally, selections from the miscellaneous Georgia material include: information about the Harris-Pearson-Walker House in Augusta, Carter's Quarters (National Register house) in Murray County, gold mining in Georgia, and materials gathered on the history of Clinton and other places in Georgia. |page=Box 10, folder 6. http://hmfa.libs.uga.edu/hmfa/view?docId=ead/ms2549-ead.xml;query=sikes;brand=default |name=Thomas Sikes}}
 
**{{search result |note=Frances West Reid genealogical collection. Chiefly genealogical information on families of the Athens and Clarke County, Ga., region, including lineage charts, correspondence to and from family members, and government documents relating to each family; together with documents relating to other Georgia counties and a few counties in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia including deed records, marriage records, wills, and census records. Includes extensive collection of church and cemetery records from the region. Sikes (Sykes) - Sims. |page=Box 9, folder 4 http://hmfa.libs.uga.edu/hmfa/view?docId=ead/ms2451-ead.xml;query=sikes;brand=default}}
 
**{{search result |note=Frances West Reid genealogical collection. Chiefly genealogical information on families of the Athens and Clarke County, Ga., region, including lineage charts, correspondence to and from family members, and government documents relating to each family; together with documents relating to other Georgia counties and a few counties in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia including deed records, marriage records, wills, and census records. Includes extensive collection of church and cemetery records from the region. Sikes (Sykes) - Sims. |page=Box 9, folder 4 http://hmfa.libs.uga.edu/hmfa/view?docId=ead/ms2451-ead.xml;query=sikes;brand=default}}
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