Guide to the Mary Lucy and William Floyd Papers
Record Group 021
Date Span: 1906-2004
Extent: 42 items
Biographical Sketch: Mary Lucy and William (Bill) Floyd are life-long Dothan residents, very actively involved in community affairs. Mrs. Floyd was a charter member of the Dothan Landmarks Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors. AWHC has these images because the Floyds responded to the Community Photo Day of AWHC and Landmark Park, 2-15-03.
Scope / Content: Photographs, memoirs, audiotaped interviews, and ephemera documenting the mid-twentieth-century lives of Mary Lucy Floyd, her husband William Jefferson Floyd, and her brother William Campbell. Most of the materials concern their lives during World War 2, though some photographs are later and some ephemera earlier.
Organization: Organized into 2 subgroups and multiple series under each.
Access: Open for research and limited copying. For profit use requires approval by the Floyd executors.
Inventory
Subgroup 1: Mary Lucy Floyd Papers
Series 1.1: Mary Lucy Floyd Photographs, 1902 - 1999, 25 images.
021 03-0217 001: Headland Avenue Baptist Church, Dothan, AL, late 1950s
021 03-0217 002: Headland Avenue Baptist Church, Dothan, AL, Easter Service, 1968
021 03-0217 003: Senior Citizens at Southside Baptist Church, Dothan, AL, late 1970s
021 03-0217 004: Sunday School Class, Southside Baptist Church, Dothan, AL, 1960s
021 03-0217 005: First Baptist Church, Dothan, Al. Wedding of Ruby Nell Campbell to Joseph Pinkney Gwyn, Sept 1, 1950.
021 03-0217 006: Dothan High School Class of 1939 reunion. This was the last class at the Burdeshaw St. location of the school.
Names listed on reverse: L-R: Front Row--Evelyn Mathison Rountree; Nellie Peacock; Mildred Wilkerson Crawford; Mavis Williams Gwaltney; Nettie Jean Lewis McDaniel; Mary Lucy Campbell Floyd; Mary Francis Buntin Thompson; Jimmie Woods.
Middle Row--Lolan Granger; Betty Hornsby King; Carolyn Bates Wells; Fay Griffin Evans; Paul Pate; J. Edward Rogerss
Back Row--Robert Rush; Joe Garner; Jane Driver Matheny; Roy Hill; Jack Whistnant; Bob Thompson; Arthur Bolin Lane; Earl BarberBack Row--Robert Rush; Joe Garner; Jane Driver Matheny; Roy Hill; Jack Whistnant; Bob Thompson; Arthur Bolin Lane; Earl Barber
021 03-0217 007: 308 W. Washington St., Dothan, AL, 1999
Home of Joseph and Maggie Campbell, parents of Mary Lucy Floyd. See image 021-03-0217-019
021 03-0217 008: 408 N. Oates St, Dothan, AL [possibly Dr. Moody's home, n.d.]
021 03-0217 009: Mary Lucy Floyd and her son, Joseph Langford Floyd, 1962
021 03-0217 010: “The Webs,” w/ singer Bobby Goldsboro (center), ca. 1960s
021 03-0217 011: Coca-Cola Softball Team, Dothan, AL, ca. 1937-38 city league.
Names on reverse: L-R: Front Row--Bill Floyd; Harry Council; Hillard Brackin (Boosom); Alfred Reynolds; Earnest Cox. Back Row--Robert Mock; Ralph Kirby; Charles Harmon; Marvin Lewis.
021 03-0217 012: Dothan Dixie League Baseball Team, ca. 1957.
Five identified on reverse: Standing, L-R--1. Dr. William Lies, coach; 2. Ted Hall; 3. Unidentified; 4. Jeff Floyd; 5. Johnny Stalling; 6/7. Unidentified; 8. Dwight McInish.
021 03-0217 013: L-R: Johncey Floyd, Mason Floyd, Page Floyd, ca. 1906
021 03-0217 014: Ca. 1962 AUSA Meeting, Ft. Rucker.
L-R: Cong. Bill Dickinson, Bill Floyd, Marvin Lewis, Jr., Jimmy Grant
021 03-0217 015: L-R: Bill Floyd, Jimmy Grant receive trophy for AUSA membership Drive, ca. 1962
021 03-0217 016: Worrell Home, Webb, AL, ca. 1934-35
021 03-0217 017: Gertrude Worrell White, foreground, with her mother, Eliza Brackin Worrell on porch. Eliza Worrell is Bill Floyd's grandmother.
021 03-0217 018: Dothan, AL, Service League awards check to Crippled Children's Clinic.
L-R: Carlos Flowers, Ann Varnum, Bill Floyd, Mrs. John (Nagel) Byrd.
021 03-0217 019: 1970. Fiftieth wedding anniversary of Maggie and Joseph Hurst Campbell, parents of Mary Lucy Floyd.
The Campbells lived at 308 West Washington St., Dothan. See image 021-03-0217-007
021 03-0217 020: Headland Avenue Baptist Church, Dothan, AL. Bill and Mary Lucy Floyd wedding, Nov. 30, 1939.
021 03-0217 021: 1966. Bill Floyd as Dothan Man of the Year. Sons Jeff (L) and Land ride in the back seat.
021 03-0217 022: 1967. Mary Lucy Floyd, Dothan Woman of the Year
021 03-0217 023: Lions International Convention, ca. 1960, Dothan delegates.
Left side, F-R: Dr. James Wells, Martha Jean Wells, Mary Lucy Floyd, Bill Floyd, unidentified.
Right side, F-R: Henry Kennedy, Homer Watkins, Horace Birch, Tommy Creel, Laurie Battle
021 03-0217 024: HQ Co., 1st Bn, 200 Infantry Reg., 1950. Bill Floyd is in this photo.
Photographer: Daniel Firestone, Columbus, OH
021 03-0217 025: Retirement dinner for J. H. Campbell, Life of Georgia Insurance Co., late 1950s.
Series 1.2: Mary Lucy Floyd Documents, 1935, 1960s, 2 items.
021-05-0420-Item-001 Photocopy of poster announcing a Beauty Pageant on July 19, [1935], reproduced on 11x17" sheet
021-05-0420-Item-002 Typed copy of "Constitution of Woman's Missionary and Willing Workers Society" of First Baptist Church, Dothan AL. [ca. 1960s]. Single side, 8.5x14"
Series 1.3: Mary Lucy Floyd Audiotaped Interview for Veterans History Project, 2004,
1 item.
021-03-0911-Tape-001 Mary Lucy Floyd, ca. 90-minute interview, taped on Sept. 9, 2004, by WA Archivist Martin T. Olliff.
Subgroup 2: William Floyd Papers
Series 1: William Floyd Photographs, 1942, 8 items.
021 03-1014 001: US Army 820th Hospital Unit Center Gate, London, England, ca. 1942.
021 03-1014 002: William J. Floyd, US Army portrait, ca. 1942
021 03-1014 003: William Campbell (Mary Lucy Floyd's brother, William Floyd's brother-in-law), US Army portrait, ca. 1942.
021 03-1014 004: William Floyd standing outside Barracks 1901, location unknown, US Army snapshot in "Elko" paper frame, ca. 1942.
021 03-1014 005: William Campbell, snapshot adjacent to fenced field with hills in background, US Army, location unknown, ca. 1942.
021 03-1014 006: William Campbell, US Army service portrait, ca. 1942.
021 03-1014 007: William Floyd, informal service portrait, US Army, ca. 1942.
021 03-1014 008: Sgt. William Campbell, standing with older woman (possibly his mother) before home (possibly in Dothan, AL), ca. 1942.
Series 2.2: William Floyd Documents, 2001, 2 items.
021-03-1014-001-001 William Campbell (Mary Lucy Floyd brother) short memoir of service in US Army, European Theater, WW2, written April 12, 2001
021-03-1014-001-002 Bill Floyd, short memoir of service in US Army, European Theater, WW2, written approximately 2001.
Series 2.3: William Floyd Audiotaped Interview for Veterans History Project, 2003,
1 item.
021-03-1014-Tape-001 William Floyd, ca. 90-minute interview, taped on Oct. 17, 2003, by AWHC Archivist Martin T. Olliff.
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