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Adger family. Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Title: Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Chiefly family correspondence of Clara W. Adger Bowen and Orasmus Allan Bowen, and of her parents, Robert Adger and Jane Eliza Fleming, and genealogical information re the Adger, Bowen, Hard, Fleming, Taylor and Whilden families. Topics include family and community life in Pendleton and Charleston, S.C., the annexation of Texas, the Civil War, travels in London and Italy, and South Carolina hurricanes of 1854 and 1874. Includes manuscripts, 1775, British colonial post office seal for South Carolina; broadside, 1858, of Zion Presbyterian Church; printed manuscript, 7 Nov. 1876, certifying that the bearer voted for Gen. Wade Hampton"; and undated broadside, "Lee, The Hambletonian Stallion," a horse owned by Orasmus Allan Bowen. Also including letter, 29 Jan. 1862, re complaints by [James] Chesnut and [States Rights] Gist regarding [Nathan G.] Evans' mismanagement of their regiment. Photographs in Photograph Collection include Rivoli plantation, Eighteen Mile Creek at Rivoli, Janie E.A. Bowen, and Robert Adger by Charleston photographer, George S. Cook. Bound volumes include the journal of Clara Walton Adger (later Mrs. Orasmus Allan Bowen) re travels between Charleston and Woodburn plantation near Anderson and including an account of her visit on 26 Mar. 1854 to Fort Hill, the plantation home of John C. Calhoun; her diary, 1862 and 1 May 1865 - 6 Oct. 1870, chiefly at Ashtabula, Rivoli, and Charleston, re Federal troops in Pendleton area and life in Charleston during Reconstruction; "Guest Book," 1872-1901, for Rivoli and summerhome on Sullivan's Island, with an account of the "Gale of September 1874." Also including typescript, 1938, "Memories of Mountain View" by Frank E. Taylor, recalling his boyhood in the 1880s and the Charleston earthquake of 1886; genealogy, 1960, "The Adger Family in the Pendleton District, South Carolina"; genealogy, 1978, "The Taylor-Bowen-Adger-Hard-Ancestors."

ArchivalResource: 232 items + 10 v.

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Bowen, Clara Adger, 1837-1915. Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Title: Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Chiefly family correspondence of Clara W. Adger Bowen and Orasmus Allan Bowen, and of her parents, Robert Adger and Jane Eliza Fleming Adger, and genealogical information re the Adger, Bowen, Hard, Fleming, Taylor and Whilden families. Topics include family and community life in Pendleton and Charleston, S.C., the annexation of Texas, the Civil War, travels in London and Italy, and South Carolina Hurricanes of 1854 and 1874. Includes manuscripts, 1775, British colonial post office seal for the state of South Carolina; broadside, 1858, "Zion's [Zion Presbyterian Church] Welcome"; letter, 29 Jan. 1862, in reference to complaints by [James] Chesnut and [States Rights] Gist regarding General [Nathan G.] Evans' mismanagement of their regiment; printed manuscript, 7 Nov. 1876, certifying that the bearer, a member of "The Honest Man's Party," voted for "Gen. Wade Hampton, and the Redemption of South Carolina"; and undated broadside, "Lee, The Hambletonian Stallion, " a horse owned by Orasmus Allan Bowen. Also includes photographs of Rivoli plantation, Eighteen Mile Creek at Rivoli, Janie E.A. Bowen, and Robert Adger by Charleston photographer George Cook. Bound volumes include the journal of Clara Walton Adger (later Mrs. Orasmus Allan Bowen) detailing her early travels between Charleston and Woodburn plantation near Anderson and including an account of her visit on 26 Mar. 1854 to Fort Hill, tha plantation home of John C. Calhoun; her diary, 1862, 1 May 1865 - 6 Oct. 1870, chiefly at Ashtabula, Rivoli, and Charleston, recording activities of Federal troops in the Pendleton area and life in Charleston during Reconstruction; "Geust Book," 1872-1901, for Rivoli and summer home on Sullivan's Island, with an account of the "Gale of September 1874"; typescript, 1938, "Memories of Mountain View" by Frank E. Taylor, recalling his boyhood in the 1880s and the Charleston earthquake of 1886; genealogy, 1960, "The Adger Family in the Pendleton District, South Carolina"; genealogy, 1978, "The Taylor-Bowen-Adger-Hard ancestors."

ArchivalResource: 237 items + 8 v.

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