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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	N2005- 11
	Creator:	Raney, Sarah B.
	Title, Dates:	Raney family papers, 1885-1971, bulk 1910-1966.
	Amount:	.50 cubic ft.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Organized by subject. Chronological.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Sarah B. Raney was the daughter of George Pettus Raney and the granddaughter of David Greenway Raney. David Greenway Raney (1799-1881) and his wife moved to Apalachicola, Florida in 1834. Raney served two terms as mayor of Apalachicola during the time that the city adopted its first ordinances. Three of his sons served with the Confederacy in the Civil War. His youngest son, George Pettus Raney (1845-1911), won election to the state legislature in 1868 and served as the minority leader in the House. He also served as Attorney General and in 1888, Governor Edward A. Perry appointed him as Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Virginia Raney Porter was one of David Greenway Raney's daughters. She married into the Oven family and gave birth to William Oven. Virginia's husband, a priest, moved to Apalachicola in the 1850s. He was the town's first Episcopal priest. They both died from consumption and William Oven's aunt raised him in the Raney family home on Market Street in Apalachicola, Florida.
	Summary:	This collection contains correspondence, photographs, legal documents, and newspaper clippings of the Raney and Oven families of Apalachicola and Tallahassee, Florida. The collection consists primarily of correspondence to Sarah B. Raney from other Raney and Oven family members and of photographs, many unidentified, of several generations of Raney and Oven family members. The letters to Sarah Raney from the 1950s and 1960s are addressed to her in California where she moved from her native Florida.
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	Associated Materials:	For more materials related to the Raney family, see Collection N2004-11, Oven and Raney Family Papers, 1863-1989 (bulk 1863-1911) (1 cubic foot), and Collection N2013-12, Raney Family Papers, ca. 1860-2013 (1.5 cubic feet).
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	Subject Access Fields:	Raney, Sarah B. Raney family. Oven family. Raney, George P. 1845-1911. (George Pettus), Oven, William. Family Florida Clippings. aat Greeting cards. aat Legal instruments. aat Letters. aat Photographs. aat Apalachicola (Fla.) Tallahassee (Fla.)
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