Personal / Biographical

This series consists of correspondence, family documents, writings, photographs, and memoirs relating to Bascom Lunsford, and his family. Materials relating to Lunsford’s life are found mainly in Loyal Jones' correspondence with Lunsford's children and acquaintances (1971-1978). Among the acquaintances are Amos Abrams, Scott Wiseman, Jim Wayne Miller, Pete Seeger and Kenneth Goldstein.

Genealogical materials date mainly from 1971-1978, but some are from the 1890s. Included is a family tree, copies of family correspondence and documents, various writings and diaries. The diaries are those of Jennie and Isabell Lunsford, two of Bascom’s sisters, and ancestor, Squire Osborne Deaver. There are also history writings by Bascom’s father, James Bassett Lunsford.