Biography:

Smith Coffee Daniell IV was born at Windsor Plantation, Claiborne County, Mississippi, on March 11, 1885. He was the last person born at Windsor before the mansion was destroyed by fire. Daniell was educated at Chamberlain-Hunt Academy, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, University of Virginia, and Auburn University. During World Wars I and II, he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, finally attaining the rank of major. In civilian life, Daniell was a civil engineer and land surveyor. He was a descendant of some of the oldest families in Claiborne County.

Scope and Content:

This accretion contains a copy of the birth records of blacks on Prospect Hill Place, 1825–1867; a Port Gibson cemetery record; and miscellaneous correspondence, 1809–1858.