Scope and Content

The bulk of the Adgent Collection covers the period from 1940 to 1983 and relates to business, farming, education, and political topics in Marshall County, TN.  The collection is approximately three linear feet.  The Adgent Collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, ephemera, maps, blueprints, information booklets, serials, and school lunch recipes collected by the Adgent Family and from both Marshall County and national publications, such as the Marshall Gazette and Lewisburg Tribune.  In order to maintain the donor’s original order, the collection is organized topically and arranged alphabetically in the following series: Business, Clubs, Farming, Horses, Maps, Marshall County, Miscellaneous, Political, Tourism, World Wars.   The collection also contains photographs of Marshall County school children, and school buildings.

Sam Joe Adgent's collection relating to his World War II U.S. Army service is located at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Sadie Adgent's Smyrna Baptist Church collection is deposited in the Sourhtern Baptist Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.

Some family heirlooms are on loan to the Marshall County Historical Museum in Lewisburg, Tennessee.

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