Subseries P8d

John James Tigert Papers.
 Tigert/McTyeire Family records and memorabilia, 1840-1948.
 .8  linear ft. (2 boxes, 2 envelopes, and 2 vols.)

Forms part of Series P8, John James Tigert Papers, 1840-1965.

 Subseries P8d contains correspondence, documents, clippings, and memorabilia related to the Tigert and McTyeire families.  The letters are largely typescripts and photocopies of correspondence between Tigert's maternal grandparents, Amelia Townsend McTyeire and Holland McTyeire.

The subseries also contains letters and other documents from Tigert's  father.   Included in the documents are publications related to claims against the U. S. government by the publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church , South, for properties expropriated during the Civil War.  These are annotated by his father.

Box 1

Correspondence.
    Typescripts, John and Elizabeth McTyeire, 1840-1846.
    Typescripts, Correspondence to Amelia Townsend
    McTyeire, primarily from her husband Holland
    McTyeire, 1847-1889.  (Originals at Vanderbilt
     University)
    Letters to Bishop John James Tigert, 1878-1906, including
    letters from Senator John T. Morgan.
    Photocopies of correspondence with Bishop John JamesTigert, 1898-1900.
    Van Veghten letters, 1876
    Letters of John J. Tigert to John J. Tigert, 1876-1899
Memorabilia
Marriage certificates and wills
Publisher's copy of Hand-book of logic:  A concise body of logical doctine,  1889, by Bishop John
  James Tigert, with corrections and changes.

Box 2  Memorial scrapbook to Bishop Tigert, 1906

Vol.1   A scrapbook of clippings related to Tigert/McTyeire families

Vol. 2  Diary of Amelia McTyeire Tigert, 1889-1912

Envelope 1 

Documents related to the claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for materials expropiated during the Civil War.

    Our claim against the government, 1897

    Second Speech on the law of the Southern Methodist Church Claim, 1898

    Debate to investigate the payment of money appropriated by bill for relief of the book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1898

    Publishing House Claim, nd

    Debate on bill for relief of the book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1898

    Methodist book concern, 1898

    The titles listed above were compiled in a single volume.

Envelope 2

    Minority report of Committee on Publishing Interests on "war claim", 1898

    Unanimous action of the United States Senate replying to letter of the bishops of the M.E.Church South, 1898

    "A saint before his fall", cartoon clipping from Nashiville Daily News, August 9, 1901