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Correspondence and genealogical information concerning the Fyfe family of Lansing, Michigan, including letters from Jennie Fyfe a Civil War nurse and teacher in a Black school in Paducah Kentucky.

This single series collection includes correspondence, March 31, 1864, to June 17, 1866, from Jennie Fyfe to her sister, Mrs. Ellen Mott, and other family members; obituaries of Mary A. Miles; and genealogical notes of Mrs. Della Miles Bertch concerning John Fyfe and other family members. It also includes a photograph of Jennie Fyfe.

This series contains family correspondence, the diary of Elizabeth Parker Robinson (1891-1896), the dairy of DeWitt Parker (1891), as well as genealogical material, a graduating essay from a Bay City, Michigan high school, and photographs, including an ambrotype portrait of Elizabeth L. Parker.