Clements family. Papers, 1855-1862.
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Papers, 1855-1862.
Papers, 1855-1862, including a series of letters, 1855-1863, arranged chronologically; and the series clippings and genealogical notes, arranged chronologically. In the letters numerous subjects are discussed among the several correspondents, including family matters, especially illnesses and deaths, the purchasing of real estate in Ala. and the use of power-of-attorney, business matters, crops, especially corn and wheat, in King William's Co., Va.; local events, such as the weather, marriages, deaths, and other events in Va. and in Haynesville and Hickory Grove, Lowndes Co., Ala.; local Ala. politics, settling in Kansas and the trouble there, in the 1856 Aug. 8 letter; the corn mill in Va.; a slave insurrection, in the 1856 Dec. 22 letter; the scarcity of specie in Va., in the 1858 Jan. 19 letter; the mercantile business of Byrd G. Pollard in Ayletts, Va.; the raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, Va., in the 1859 Nov. 13 letter; the reaction in Va. to Abraham Lincoln's election, in the 1860 Nov. 12 letter; the secession movement in the South, in the 1861 Mar. 22 letter; the military experiences, not in detail, of William Martin Clements, George N. Powell, L. Cottnell, Leroy Y. Clements; the death of Claudius Clements, in the letter of 1861 May 10; and the death of Leroy Clements, in the letter of 1862 Apr. 15. The primary correspondents, in order of the letters they sent or received, included Thomas Wilson Clements, George Clements, William M. Clements, Young J. Clements, Byrd G. Pollard, C. Washington Powell, Eugene V. Clements, Leroy V. Clements, L. Cottnell, George N. Powell, and Eliza R. Clements. There are several other correspondents. In addition, the papers contain some genealogical information on the Clements family, the Timberlake family, and the Powell family, primarily in Va., a clipping, undated, on Eliza R. Clements, and a power-of-attorney, 1862 Jan., in which Young J. Clements appointed Boyd G. Pollard as his attorney.
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