Consisting of documents, photographs and letters from Cardington, Morrow County that pertain to the Cook, Coomer and Kerr families in the 19th century. Included are the following items: Partially printed Document Signed James Madison as president and countersigned by Ohio's first governor Edward Tiffin in his post-term capacity as Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D.C., January 25, 1813, one page on vellum, granting Joseph Kerr one hundred acres as the beneficiary of Revolutionary War veteran David Wilson, formerly of the Virginia Line (8 5/8 x 12 in.) (various stains; a 2 in. marginal split in upper left corner; fading to signatures); Partially printed document, being a deed to Leumas Cook and his wife for a lot in Cardington, one page with verso docketing, July 3, 1852, oblong quarto (Stains, minor loss); two mounted salt print photographs depicting James H. Coomer and Albert S. Coomer, two Union Army privates in Co. "C," 96th Ohio Infantry, both of whom died of disease during the war, the images are not identified (10 x 8 in.) (light overall browning with some chipping to mounts; both removed from frames); plus a soldier's postal cover stamped in Louisville, KY with December 10, 1861 cds to Mr. James Coomer in Cardington; plus four war date letters by Albert Coomer from various Southern locations with excerpts in small part as follows: (Newport, Kentucky, September 14, 1862) "...We are still encampt on this hill near Newport waiting very patiently for the Sesh...we are making big preparations for them and I think if they have spunk enough to attack we will give them what they want..."; (Ohio River heading south, November 24, 1862): "...we saw a band of gurilias this morning a croast on the Kentucky shore. They came down to the river and when they saw us struck back into the bushes like a pack of sheep killing dogs. Day before yesterday a man came down to the river while we was passing and hurrah'd for Jeff Davis. Confound him I felt like putting a bullet through him..."; (Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 1862): "...there is a report this morning in camp that the Army of the Potomac has been whipt pretty bad if that is the case...I think if they would only send for the 96th Richmond would be taken without the least trouble. Old General Smith said yesterday the 9th Ohio and the 23rd Wisconsin was the best Regts on review...; plus an 1863 letter, probably penned in Arkansas, to D G Coomer that his son "is aflicted with cronick direah and thinks that he can never be cured.". He is buried in Little Rock.

Good estate condition overall.