Merchant's Grocer Company (Lafayette, Louisiana) Records
Collection 4
Merchant's Grocer Company (Lafayette, Louisiana). Records, 1903–1909, 1937–1977
10 inches, 8 volumes
This collection contains account books, ledgers, other financial records, documents, and correspondence of a Lafayette wholesale grocery company. Officers were J. R. Jeanmard, president; S. R. Parkerson, vice president; Laurent Pellerin, secretary-treasurer; C. Billeaud, assistant secretary-treasurer.
Dr. Michael Martin and the Center for Louisiana Studies donated some of the materials.
Series:
| A. | Financial Records | 1-01 through 2-04 |
| B. | General Records | 2-05 through 2-08 |
| C. | Correspondence | 2-09 |
| D. | Documents | 3-01 through 3-06 |
| E. | Miscellaneous | 3-07 |
| F. | Oversize | Boxes 4 through 11 |
Inventory:
| Box 1 | ||||||
| A. | Financial Records | |||||
| 1-01 | Account Books: 1937: December 1 - December 2 | |||||
| 1-02 | Account Books: 1937: December 3 - December 16 | |||||
| 1-03 | Account Books: 1937: December 17 - December 30 | |||||
| Box 2 | ||||||
| 2-01 | Certificate Book, Stocks, 1965-1974 | |||||
| 2-02 | Ledger, 1928-1932 | |||||
| 2-03 | Ledger, 1905-1969 | |||||
| 2-04 | Appraisal from Home Building and Loan Association, Lafayette, n.d. | |||||
| B. | General Records | |||||
| 2-05 | Minutes of Meetings, Board of Directors, 1920-1932 (handwritten) | |||||
| 2-06 | Nomination forms “Proxy”, 1968-1969 | |||||
| 2-07 | List of Stockholders, n.d. | |||||
| 2-08 | Notebook, list of goods sold, n.d. (handwritten) | |||||
| C. | Correspondence | |||||
| 2-09 | 1963-1969 | |||||
| Box 3 | ||||||
| D. | Documents | |||||
| 3-01 | Dissolution (Judgements), 1952-1970 | |||||
| 3-02 | Certificate of Liquidator, “The Merchants Grocer Company, Ltd.” Lafayette, Louisiana. March 30, 1977, date dissolution became effective | |||||
| 3-03 | Fire Insurance Policy, Merchants Grocer Company, Ltd., 1972-1975 | |||||
| 3-04 | Certificate of Completion of Liquidation, 1977 | |||||
| 3-05 | Mortgage, 1967 | |||||
| 3-06 | Stock certificate, Beatrice Brown’s stock to transferred to Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Louis, Missouri | |||||
| E. | Miscellaneous | |||||
| 3-07 | Miscellaneous: Democracy, the Ku Klux Klan and the Will of the People in the 1924 Election of East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Dudora S. Day (or “Don’t Stamp the Rooster”). By Melissa Eastin | |||||
| F. | Oversize | |||||
| Ledgers | |||||
| Box 4 | Volume 1: | 1903: August 13 - 1905: September 29 | |||
| Box 5 | Volume 2: | 1904: January 1 1909: June 30 | |||
| Box 6 | Volume 3: | 1907: November 7 1909: June 30 | |||
| Box 7 | Volume 4: | 1906: May 3 - 1909: June 8 | |||
| Cash Books | |||||
| Box 8 | Volume 5: | 1903: May 28 1905: March 10 | |||
| Box 9 | Volume 6: | 1905: March 11 - 1906: July 30 | |||
| Box 10 | Volume 7: | 1906: September 1 - 1908: April 23 | |||
| Box 11 | Volume 8: | 1908: April 23 - 1909: June 30 | |||