Creator	Partin, Sidnah S., creator
Title	Sidnah S. Partin Papers
Description	Partin was born Sidnah McDonald Sherard in 1902 to parents William Crawford Sherard and Mae Roddy Sherard of Tennessee. She attended Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee in the early 1920s. In 1930 she married Robert Partin. The couple settled in Auburn, Alabama in 1937 when her husband took a job as a professor at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). She worked as a clerk for the War Department at Camp Opelika from 1943 to 1944. She died in Auburn, Alabama in 1978. This accession contains material about Camp Opelika, a Prisoner of War Camp in Opelika, Alabama, that operated during World War II. Sidnah S. Partin, who worked at the camp, acquired this material. Items include Partin's journal, official and unofficial correspondence, camp memorabilia, a book review and corresponding letter discussing the diary of a German soldier who did some work in Alabama, and a recording of Partin discussing her experience working at Camp Opelika on cassette tape and CD.
Date	1943-1969
Time Period	1943-1969
LC Subject Headings	Partin, Sidnah S. Camp Opelika Prisoner-of-war camps--Alabama--Opelika Prisoners of war--Germany Prisoners of war--Alabama--Opelika World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons
EOA Categories	Government & Politics -- Military Peoples -- Military Life History -- 1929-1945: The Great Depression and World War II History -- 1946-1987: Post-World War II and the Era of Civil Rights
Type	Text
Format	PDF
Record Group	RG 1194
File Name	1194-13-0021mc.pdf
Link to catalog	http://aubiecat.auburn.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=4646743
Repository	Auburn University. Special Collections and Archives
Digital Publisher	Auburn University Libraries
Language	eng
Rights	This finding aid is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information and questions about the collection described in this finding aid, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.
Submitted by	Coates, Midge