The Independence Insurance Company Records document-through annual statements, correspondence and memos, financial records, insurance policies, legal cases, and other reports-some of the business operations the company participated in or practiced over its thirty-one-year lifespan. As stated above, 'the company reinsured the sickness and accident business of The Liberty Life Insurance Company and thereby assumed those lines of insurance.' Some of 'those lines of insurance' pre-date the founding of Independence by several years; one insurance policy in particular may date back to 1890. Other records include accident claims, annual statements, information on Southeastern Life, Liberty Life Insurance Company policies, an ordinary application register, payment and rate books, a policy register, stocks and stockholders information. Financial records and Legal Case files make up the majority of this collection's records. Claimants include: Walter Alexander, Ellen Dingle, Lee Dubose, John Edwards, M.M. Jarrett, John and Ella McKnight, Julia Ann President, and Rosanna Prioleau. Financial records consist of cash books, journals, ledgers (both general and rent), and trail balance books, mostly for the period 1931-1950. Of interest is a 1932 letter from Senator James F. Byrnes concerning WIS Radio.

For more information concerning the legal business and activities of the Independence Insurance Company please refer to Record Group 3.1, Liberty Life Insurance Company Legal Department Records, Series 5, Independence Insurance Company; and Record Group 5, Boyd Calhoun Hipp Papers, Series 4, Independence Insurance Company, which has a folder of balance sheets and operating statements for 1958-1961.