I am trying to locate information on mercantiles that were operating in Blakely, Ft. Gaines, and Cuthbert,GA, and in Daleville, AL, in the second half of the 1850s. The stores may have been in surrounding towns, possibly even Thomasville. I have receipts for bills that my great uncle Wesley B. Mills paid from 1856 through 1860 for my great grandmother Catherine Elizabeth Mills, her sister Leonora A Mills, and their brother Thomas S. Mills for the following merchantiles:
Buchannon and McCullock
Amoss & Callier (Cuthbert)
Key & Preston
B. M. Fryer's (Blakely, named in Early County History)
S. N. Hurd, Staple and Fancy Dry Good ...
John L. Swann's
Beall Stewart & Presley
Mrs. Gibson's in Ft. Gaines, GA
Bernhard & Ryder
G. L. Holland's (I believe, Daleville, AL)
B. F. Price (I believe Daleville, AL)
Booth [& or T] Mills (I believe this may have been in Daleville, AL