Roy A. Jones Correspondence, MSS.1738

Abstract: Letters to Roy Jones of Newton, Alabama, 1925-1927, most of them concerning the estate of Mittie K. Hayley, of which Jones was executor.Scope and Content Note: This collection consists of nineteen letters or documents addressed to Jones, with copies of several of his replies. Almost all of the correspondence relates to the estate of Mittie K. Hayley, of which Jones was the executor. Included are official documents concerning the probating of the will, and several letters to and from the Home and Foreign Missionary Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention, to which Hayley made a sizeable bequest. The remaining correspondence is to Jones from an Olga or Alga Minshaw, concerning repayment of a debt owed to Jones.Biographical/Historical Note: Resident of Newton, Alabama, and executor of the estate of Mittie K. Hayley, 1925-1926