The main Marietta connections of the family are through the following descendants of Alexander S. and Mary Ann Atkinson:
 

a) Their daughter Anne Eliza (1843-1919) married Robert de Treville Lawrence of Marietta.  The    Bentley Rare Book Room already possesses a large collection of Lawrence papers.


b) Their daughter Lilla Caroline (1850-1939) married Col. Thomas Beverley Irwin of Marietta, who was the son of Judge David Irwin, an early settler of Marietta and judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit.  Included in Notebook # 1 is a brief autobiographical account by Lilla and Thomas's son, George Beverly Irwin, written in 1969.


c) Their son Samuel Carter Atkinson I (1864-1942) served as an associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court from 1906-1942.  The Georgia Official Register listed him as a resident of Brunswick.  The court being in Atlanta, however, the judge actually lived much of the year in Cobb County, according to Sarah Blackwell Gober Temple, The First Hundred Years:  A Short History of Cobb County, in Georgia (Atlanta:  Walter W. Brown Publishing Company, 1935), 129.

d) Their son Burwell (1848-1931) became a physician in Camden County.  His eldest daughter, Julia Marion (1880-1971), moved to Marietta after her mother died in 1894, living with her Aunt Anne Eliza Lawrence.  Marion graduated from Marietta High School in 1898, then married Dr. Charles Thomas Nolan.  Together they operated Nolan's Sanitarium in Marietta.

e) Burwell's son, John Franklin Atkinson (1882-1949), also moved to Marietta after his mother died.  He sang in the choir at St. James Episcopal Church.  In 1905 he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, then went into the timber business in Camden Co.  He married Katherine Russell Foster (1886-1974), a descendant of Gen. John Floyd and Gen. Charles R. Floyd of Camden Co.  The children of John Franklin And Katherine Russell Atkinson include Dr. Samuel Carter Atkinson II, who donated these papers to Kennesaw State College.

There is another Marietta connection through William Gibbs McAdoo II (1863-1941), the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson, Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Administration, and later a Senator from California.  McAdoo was born in Cobb County on October 31, 1863, although the family was from Clinton, Tennessee, near Knoxville, from which they had fled after the Union occupation of the area.  The future senator's father, Dr. William Gibbs McAdoo I (1820-1894) was affiliated for many years with the University of Tennessee.  He married Mary Faith Floyd, who was the daughter of General Charles Rinaldo Floyd, the author of the diary contained in Notebook # 2.  Mary Faith's first husband was Randolph Gillis McDonald (1826-1854), then in 1857 she married Dr. McAdoo.  Sarah Temple cites W. G. McAdoo II's autobiography, Crowded Years, as the source for her assertion that the McAdoos refuged in Marietta because they liked the climate and because it was the place where they had first met.  She says that they purchased "a home, at that time called Melora, on the Powder Springs Road several miles from Marietta and in this house William G. McAdoo was born....The house, though in disrepair, is still standing; it is usually known as the Atkinson place, Col. A.S. Atkinson having owned it for some years.  The McAdoo family left Marietta in 1864 when William G. McAdoo was about six months old" (Temple, First Hundred Years, 543-44).  Sixty years after Temple published her book, in 1995 the house is still standing but still in disrepair.

The Atkinson-Floyd Papers are located in one box that holds the following contents:
 

Notebook # 1 Atkinson History.  Contains the following typed manuscript:  Thompson, Shirley Joiner, compiler.  Atkinson:  Being Mostly the Descendents of Burwell Atkinson and Nathan Atkinson Who Settled in Camden County, Georgia in the Late 1790s, 3 April 1991.  Copyright 1988 by Burwell Alexander Atkinson Estate Heirs.

Notebook # 2 General Floyd's Diary.  Typed manuscript by James B. Floyd, Savannah, Georgia, 1957.  Contents include the following:  "Extracts from the Letters of Charles Rinaldo Floyd to Genl. John Floyd and Others"; "The Complete Journal of Charles Rinaldo Floyd during His Visit to Europe in 1821"; "Some Typical Weeks from the Diary of Charles Rinaldo Floyd, 1822-1845"; "Poems Written by Charles R. Floyd"; and "A Fable" by Charles R. Floyd; General John Floyd's Will; articles about the Floyds in the New York Sun.

Files:

1.01   Copies of Obituaries:  Alexander S. Atkinson; Mary Ann Atkinson; John L. de Treville; and Mrs.         Samuel Carter Atkinson, wife of Judge Atkinson.

1.02   Burwell A. Atkinson, compiler.  Atkinson Family History, 1968.

1.03   McAdoo materials:  Copy of letter from W.G. McAdoo, Knoxville, Tennessee, to Dr. Burwell Atkinson, Tarboro, Georgia, 3 June 1883, regarding a land transaction in Camden Co.; McAdoo-Floyd genealogical chart; transcript of letter, "Sue" Susan (Mary Rose) Floyd Graves, Matanzas, Florida, to Mary Faith Floyd McAdoo, 12 March 1891.

1.04   Floyd Family Reunion, St. Mary's, Georgia, 9 April 1994.

1.05   Legal description of tract of land from estate of John E. Atkinson, Inc., to Samuel C. Atkinson.

1.06   Lang family records of Camden Co.

1.07   Invitation to John F. Atkinson's annual chitterling supper at Black Hammock, 1942.

1.08   Alexander A. Lawrence recommended for federal judgeship, 1968 newspaper clipping.

1.09   Genealogy prepared by Gene Brewster on first family member from Italy (Richard family); William King Boston, Confederate service record.

1.10   Atkinson genealogical material (unnamed source); letter (containing Atkinson genealogical information), from John H. Christian, librarian, Bryan-Lang Historical Library, Woodbine, Georgia, to Dr. Samuel C. Atkinson, Jacksonville, Florida, 15 June 1994.

1.11   Dedication of memorial for Col. Edmund N. Atkinson (1835-1879).  He was a graduate of the Georgia Military Institute in Marietta, 1856.

1.12   Mary Floyd Hamilton, A Little Family History (Savannah: The Morning News Print, 1908).  2 copies.

1.13   Sons of the Revolution application, George Fawcett II; DAR application, Miss Georgia Foster; First Families of South Carolina work sheet, Georgia Foster Fawcett.

1.14   Floyd family crest; Jacksonville Journal article, 1977; obituary of Picot Floyd; Floyd-Lang grave readings; letter from Georgia Secretary of State to Mrs. Francis P. Floyd, Savannah, 1912.

1.15   Eloise Y. Bailey, article on Floyd plantations, 1977.

1.16   History of Woodbine, Georgia.

1.17   Copy of 1802 deed conveying Camden Co. land from Charles and Mary Floyd to John Floyd.

1.18   Copy of family Bible genealogical record, John Foster, b. 1816; copy of marriage certificate, John A. Foster and Augusta Russell, 1896.

1.19   Direct lineage of Katherine Foster Atkinson Adams and Edwin Briggs Jelks.

1.20   Genealogical charts, Georgia Estelle Floyd Foster; Henry Hamilton Floyd, Sr.; Isabella Maria Hazzard; Hazzard-Wigg-Floyd; Magdalen Fraser descendants; descendants of Joseph Guerard and Elizabeth Martha DeVeaux.

1.21   Miscellaneous.

1.22  "Alexander Smith Atkinson, 1815-1894, An Appreciation."

1.23  Samuel Carter Atkinson, 1864-1942.

1.24  Correspondence, Robert de Treville Lawrence III and Dr. Sam C. Atkinson; Atkinson genealogy.